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Oh No! Oh Dear! Oh My! Games...person? Would love you to play Key Fairy: keyfairy.com.au Other games/art/blog-posts? yes: neighbourhoodsnake.com she/they

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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 12h
Hey, psst, you can now get the Key Fairy OST on Steam! Our amazing musician @janeweimusic.bsky.social really blew us away with every track she worked on! Truly one of the best things to come out of the game, everyone should buy two copies, one for each ear. store.steampowered.com/app/4980210/...
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Save 10% on Key Fairy OST (Occult Sonic Tapestry) on Steam
Original soundtrack for pacifist bullet-hell game Key Fairy, crafted in Meanjin, Australia.
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Piers 💫 🔜 MIGW @piers.zip · 15h
freeline on tomorrow btw 🍦🐈
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Key Fairy is on Sale for MIGW! Get it now, while the getting is good!!! store.steampowered.com/app/2878580/...
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Save 35% on Key Fairy on Steam
Deep in an ancient forest bound by a bitter spell, a tiny fairy wanders. Wielding a spool of thread and a bladeless sword, weave through twisting paths to unearth enchanted trinkets, evading monsters ...
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i do think it’s funny that your games stand to have a longer life span if you make them in “dead” technologies, rather than using modern tools. like DOS games, Flash, gameboy, snes… all have emulation and continue on indefinitely. the lates UE games likely won’t.
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Jordan Wood @thecrossoverappeal.com · 23/09/2026
It’s the five year anniversary of Sable, one of my favorite games of the decade so far. Gentle, meditative, and clever in equal parts - it’s a fantastic example of how being brave about player agency can produce surprising narrative results. www.thecrossoverappeal.com/sable-to-gli...
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Sable: To glide, and perchance, to vibe
Sable doesn’t care if you feel the need to push. Instead, Sable invites you to linger, to feel things out, maybe, perchance, to vibe.
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Making Soggy Beans 🐋 | Out Now! @ratmode.games · 21/09/2026
Soggy Beans is out!! Come relax with the fish at last: store.steampowered.com/app/2636430/... 🐳 Meet friends 🌻 Decorate 📸 Take photos 📖 Fill your scrapbook And watch your friends swim by :-) #indiegame #cozygame #fishgame
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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"I am not complicit" I'm gonna say this all day
Ed Sheeran I am not complicit shirt
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Bedrot Doomscroll da Silva @dbastoli.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Here's a better one, Gmaps is tricky:
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Incredibly excited to be nominated for three awards at the @agdas.bsky.social!!!! It's been a long and wiggly journey, but it's amazing to be included alongside such wonderful developers!
Key Fairy - above AGDAs laurels for Excellence in: Accessibility, Visual Art, and Debut
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Qualbert.com 🔜 MIGW @qualbert.com · 07/09/2026
Are things kind of weird between you and your dad? Well, @junebugrocks.bsky.social has got a game for you. Set out on a nature walk that morphs into a spiralling decent of the mind in this experimental and wonderfully unsettling solo-developed indie game. www.qualbert.com/reviews/the-...
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The Walks We Used to Take Review (PC) | Qualbert
Are things kind of weird between you and your dad? Well, have we got a game for you. Walk with us and find out in our The Walks We Used to Take Review!
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Damn, I used to be a fan of thermometer, but I just can't stand their new stuff
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
How I got into game dev
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Can I interest you in Key Fairy
A screen shot from Key Fairy, where the dialogue choices are "Oh my!", "Oh dear!", and "Oh no!"
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Game Feel? Ummm... Sure it does...
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What video game changed your life?
Undertale - the bit where you pet the dog knight and it's neck keeps getting longer until it goes off screen
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Every time I go to a local game Dev event I'm introduced to a new person I've never met like, "hey, this is Grimbus Nimbus, She's been here the whole time"
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ben ✶ @bf.wtf · 23/08/2026
computah, make the snails boogie #gamedev
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The only game
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Chipockalips Now! @fragboner.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Perfection
Fixed bug where cat was too round (He is rounder now) pictured chubby computer cat
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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2026 🎉 The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans. Deadline: September 27th More info 👇
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Them crows best watch themselves!
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Every indie dev
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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
one million dollars to evil transgender women
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Why do I have so many weird tech experiments on my computer?? What was this game even going to be? What?
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Splosh
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Yobonnie @yobonnie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
As the saying goes never ever make games
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Marcus Carter @marcuscarter.com · 22/07/2026
Had a chance to play Key Fairy today, which is available now on Ludolio! Owl Machine's ink-illustrated, pacifist bullet-hell about a tiny fairy untangling a cursed forest, one of the best-reviewed indies of the year, now available for classroom and library licensing.
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What Plato will NEVER understand is that I just like caves
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Pete from Fuzzy Ghost @ MIGW @fuzzyg.host · 15/07/2026
Happy four year anniversary to our beloved Queer Man Peering. A game that completely changed the trajectory of our lives. 😘😘 It was such a difficult development, but after four years of working on Janet I’m starting to think that maybe that’s an ‘us thing’. store.steampowered.com/app/1711420/...
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Queer Man Peering Into A Rock Pool.jpg on Steam
A joyful, strange experience in which a middle-aged queer man toddles around a strange island attempting to re-furnish his empty house.
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Go play some lovely queer games!
A banner for the nonbinary coded games steam event, showing a screenshot of key fairy
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Nathan Hoad 🐱 Bravest Coconut out NOW @nathanhoad.net · 10/07/2026
After 4+ years spent tinkering, Bravest Coconut is available on Steam. It's a Point & Click Adventure with no pointing and clicking, taking the quirky puzzles from games like Monkey Island and mixing with the exploration and action of retro Zeldas: s.team/a/2913190 #Godot #PixelArt #IndieGame
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Bravest Coconut is a Point & Click Adventure game without pointing and clicking. Help Coco the cat as her quest to return a library book becomes much more complicated than she thought. Solve story...
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I saw something...
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Almost all game genres need better names, and here are my suggestions: "Friendslop" - "Gaggle-Core" Modern "Roguelikes" - "Synergy Builders" "Walking Sims" - "Ramblers" "Soulslikes" - "Sad-Zone" "Cozy Games" - "Cottage Industrial" "Vampire Survivors-type" - "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh"
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Key Fairy officially has a 100% "Very Positive" rating on Steam! People have been saying such lovely things about the game, and we appreciate every review! The game is still on sale for the next week, so now's the perfect time to get in on this game that 100% of people like!
A screenshot of the Key Fairy Steam Page, showing a very positive rating, with 100% of reviews being positive!A positive Key Fairy review, which reads:

"Yumy meal.. for my eyes to crunch
many details to consume
I've been here in a dream"A positive Key Fairy review, which reads:

"This gorgeous game brought me so much joy. The art is so beautiful, the writing note-perfect and the movement is a dream. The main grappling mechanic is fantastic! It’s a game that foregrounds kindness and compassion, both in its writing and its gameplay systems (you dodge and save ‘enemies’ instead of hitting and killing them). I love this game, and I’m certain it will be among my favourites of 2026. By the way, it runs beautifully on Steam Deck (I played it docked to a TV)."A review of Key Fairy which reads:

"Simply a miracle. A living, breathing, dancing game. Key Fairy is thrumming with life in every detail, from the art to the sounds to the very feel of the movement. Many difficult games are spoken of as A Dance between player and game, and Key Fairy offers you a twist on the dance all at once new and familiar. If you feel the pull as I do, I would recommend you play this game. I suspect this game will stay with me for a very, very long time. Plays like a dream on Steam Deck, in case anyone was wondering.

There is something strange and beautiful in this world, and in you and I as well.

Take a deep breath and close your eyes."
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Ok, I think what I'm trying to say is that: YOU CAN'T "WASTE" A GAME IDEA! If you make the game, and it's shitty, and dysfunctional, and fails to achieve your goals, then there's actually nothing stopping you from making it again. You don't use up your idea, you get a better understanding of it.
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laura @bloomurder.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Another year, another awesome @qldgamesfestival.bsky.social ! Already wishlisted my faves and wrote about them on BabyGamer! 💜
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Queensland Games Festival 2026
a free, public exhibition of locally made games
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Alex ✨ @alexbestie.com.au · 28/06/2026
In case you couldn't make it to @qldgamesfestival.bsky.social like me there's a Steam Event featuring all the games as well as past years' selections! 👀 store.steampowered.com/curator/4563... #indiegames #gamedev
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Queensland Games Festival 2026
Celebrating games and developers from Queensland, Australia
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Rockalot @rockalot.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Bumper Bout won People's Choice Award at the Queensland Games Festival ❤️ very grateful
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Morgan Park @morganpark.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I played a bodycam shooter, a genre that I've avoided. Being an FPS guy means always wearing a shirt that says "I don't actually want to do this in real life!" When I play a bodycam shooter, I feel like I need more shirts. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/th...
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The problem with bodycam shooters
When guns aren't fun anymore.
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
When people suggest AI has a place in game development:
A Tom Scott video titled "We can't invent a robot better than these ferrets".

The thumbnail is a picture of a serious looking ferret, with the words "better than robots"
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Oh hey, I've heard that Key Fairy is on sale again. They tell me this truth, and I pass it on to you. Game Newel came down to my cave, and he told it to me, "Key Fairy on sale!" And I said, "woaw" store.steampowered.com/app/2878580/...
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Save 40% on Key Fairy on Steam
Deep in an ancient forest bound by a bitter spell, a tiny fairy wanders. Wielding a spool of thread and a bladeless sword, weave through twisting paths to unearth enchanted trinkets, evading monsters ...
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I think I got lost...
A foggy mountain, with a castle-shape emerging from the mist, in a wiggly game that you don't see
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Hey! Do you know the way to the fish market?
A large Herron, watching a gnome approach, in a secret wiggly game
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Going for a walk
A screenshot from a secret project, showing a large and wiggly hill disappearing into fog
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I've been following this game for ages! It's so freaky!
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Good game design is a cowboy, shooting at the player's feet to make them dance. Good design is a context for performance.
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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I do think there could be more public debate and dialogue, more spirited exchanges of ideas about what it is we’re all doing here when we review games. Tevis Thompson made IMO a very stirring argument 13 years ago and really, not that much has changed since then. tevisthompson.com/on-videogame...
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tevis thompson
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Jordan Starkweather ✨ @jackal27.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I know this week is heavy. I know you’ve lost hope in the medium of video games. I know those brighter days where technology wowed you feel far away. but open this in your browser and bask in the enduring spirit of human ingenuity and connection messenger.abeto.co
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Messenger
It's a small planet, but someone's gotta make the deliveries.
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Y'all ain't even ready for the sort of *GamE FeEl* I'm working with!
A bit of code from a secret game I'm making, which reads:
[Header("Wiggling")]
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