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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Went outside to touch grass and accidentally had an emotion. Now I’m rethinking my entire NPC behavior system. Blog about it if you want to suffer with me: www.beccabear.com/touching-gra... #gamedev #indiedev

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Too many indie games look like they were stitched together from five asset packs and a dream. The soul is in the seams. Make weird choices. Leave fingerprints. #GameDev #IndieDev #Worldbuilding #GameDesign www.beccabear.com/the-human-fi...

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Etienne Pouvreau @smolware.dev · 19/06/2025

snake+rope: snope I'm not saying it's a good game i'm saying i'm making it. #gamedev #indiedev #raylib

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Gaming as an adult is 10% combat, 90% deciphering ancient runes I scrawled in a notebook six weeks ago: “Need key. Don’t trust Greg.” Who the hell is Greg. #VideoGames #Gaming #GirlGamer

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Game dev is spending 100 hours making a game and 0 hours playing any then wondering why your design feels like it was made by a sleep-deprived robot who’s never felt joy. #GameDev #IndieDev #DevHumor www.beccabear.com/just-pick-up...

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Solo game dev is amazing: full creative control, no compromises, you get to build exactly what you want. But it also sucks—no external feedback loop, no one to check your decisions, and the echo chamber gets loud. Pure freedom, pure isolation. #IndieDev #GameDev www.beccabear.com/the-echo-cha...

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Been thinking a lot about how solo game dev is equal parts exhaustion and quiet triumph. No one warns you how long it really takes. Or how good it feels when you push through anyway. #GameDev #IndieDev www.beccabear.com/the-long-lon...

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Working on a sim game is great because you start with “let's model a simple ecosystem” and end up three weeks deep in a spreadsheet arguing with yourself about how fast fictional grass should grow. #GameDev #IndieDev #SimulationGames #VideoGames www.beccabear.com/control-chao...

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Control, Chaos, and Clean Lines - Becca Bear

There’s a particular satisfaction in simulation games that’s hard to articulate but…

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I love starting new assets because it means I can quietly pretend the old ones don’t exist. Growth is real, but so is denial. It’s called balance. #IndieDev #GameDev #VideoGames #IndieGameDev www.beccabear.com/the-art-of-l...

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The Art of Letting Bad Assets Stay - Becca Bear

Making your own game assets is a special kind of emotional rollercoaster.

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The real final boss of game dev isn’t scope creep, it’s getting halfway through your project and suddenly deciding you need to make three other completely different games instead. #IndieDev #GameDev #VideoGames #IndieGameDev

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Turns out “Game Dev” mostly means drawing plants in Procreate, yelling at a Kanban board, and using Final Cut like it’s an animatic tool. Unity is just where everything goes to break. #IndieDev #GameDev #VideoGames www.beccabear.com/this-isnt-in...

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This Isn’t in the Tutorials - Becca Bear

I think a lot about the weird collection of tools I use…

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Game dev is just repeatedly rebuilding the universe because one pixel looked wrong. I’ve forgotten what fun is, but at least my procedural trees die of loneliness realistically now. #IndieGameDev #IndieDev #GameDev #VideoGames

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Finally hit the part of solo dev where my brain isn’t a good enough project management tool. Turns out "I’ll remember that" is a lie. #IndieGameDev #GameDev #IndieDev #VideoGames #Gamer www.beccabear.com/when-the-duc...

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When The Duct Tape Fails - Becca Bear

There’s a phase in solo game development where the duct tape starts…

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

AAA pricing going up and everyone’s acting like gaming is dying. Buddy, you’ve just been ignoring the Steam indie tab. #VideoGames #IndieDev #GameDev #Gaming #Steam

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Game dev is slow bc it’s basically like building a house while the blueprints are still being sketched, the foundation keeps asking for redesigns, and the plumbing insists it’s a dragon now. And one guy added “just a little water ripple” and now the engine is on fire. #IndieDev #GameDev #DevHumor

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Just had a genius idea for a new game mechanic. Dropped everything to prototype it. Now I have three half-finished systems, zero gameplay, and a folder named “Final_Final_Prototype_v6” that crashes on load. Game dev’s going great. #GameDev #IndieDev #VideoGames #DevHumor

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Trying to make an indie game in 2025 is like trying to build a treehouse during a hurricane. With no ladder. And the tree’s on fire. But like… the vibes are immaculate #IndieDev #GameDev #VideoGames www.beccabear.com/its-all-a-be...

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It's All A Beautiful Wreck - Becca Bear

There’s this weird moment that keeps happening lately. I’ll be mid-scroll, doom-looping…

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Game dev is just a long series of "I'll figure that part out later" coming back to haunt you. This week’s lesson in design, workflow, and not dodging the tricky parts: #GameDev #IndieDev #VideoGames #GamerGirl www.beccabear.com/the-problem-...

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The Problem With Later - Becca Bear

Hello friends. I hope the week has treated you well. Mine has…

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Game dev is basically arguing with yourself for months over problems you invented, just to impress people who’ll complain about the font size. #IndieDev #GameDev #VideoGames #IndieGameDev #Gamer

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The classic Game Dev Face™ when your console throws 102847573838486 errors. #GameDev #IndieDev #VideoGames #DevHumor www.beccabear.com/the-blank-st...

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Pitching my indie game to myself every morning like: “trust me, it’s going to work.” #IndieDev #GameDev #VideoGames #Gaming #DevHumor

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Video games are the only art form where the audience can break the piece mid-performance— and somehow, it still has to hold together. New post: www.beccabear.com/its-just-a-g... #VideoGames #GameDev #IndieGameDev #Gaming

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It's Just A Game, Until You Try To Build One - Becca Bear

It’s hard to overstate how absurdly difficult video game development is. People…

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Just spent 3 hours fixing a bug caused by a typo in a variable name I made 3 weeks ago. I am both the arsonist and the firefighter in this game dev journey. #IndieGameDev #GameDev #IndieDev #VideoGames

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Indie game dev is just toggling between “this is genius” and “why did I think I could do this” 37 times a day, powered solely by coffee and delusion. #IndieGameDev #GameDev #DevHumor #VideoGames

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Game dev is humbling. Wrecked myself trying to get ingredient dragging to work. Spent days messing with colliders, physics layers, raycasts. Deleted everything. Started over. Now it works perfectly because I did… almost none of that. #IndieDev #GameDev #VideoGames www.beccabear.com/drag-drop-di...

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Drag, Drop, Disaster - Becca Bear

Hello friends! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week. Apologies for missing…

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Being a solo indie dev is great because you get to be the programmer, artist, designer, marketer, community manager, and QA tester all at once. It’s also terrible because you get to be the programmer, artist, designer, marketer, community manager, and QA tester all at once. #GameDev #IndieGameDev

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Game development is just repeatedly replacing “temporary” assets until they ship with the game. #GameDev #IndieDev #VideoGames #Gamer

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Game dev is just carefully crafting a bug, then spending months pretending it was a feature. #DevHumor #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #VideoGames

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Our many thoughts and prayers go out to the code we wrote at 3 AM that is somehow the only thing keeping the game from crashing. #GameDev #IndieGaming #IndieDev #VideoGames #DevHumor

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Game dev is just repeatedly thinking, “This should be easy,” and then spending three days debugging why it isn’t. #DevHumor #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Game ideas are like fireworks—bright, exciting, and gone in seconds. Dream too much, you burn out. Jump too fast, you crash. Execution is everything. Read more: www.beccabear.com/the-hangover... #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #VideoGames #Gaming

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The Hangover of a Brilliant Idea - Becca Bear

Hello friends! I’ve been mulling over a thought lately—one that has been…

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Game dev is wild. One minute you’re implementing a simple feature, the next you’re deep in a rabbit hole debugging physics that shouldn’t even be possible. Indie devs, you feel me? #GameDev #IndieDev #VideoGames #Gaming #IndieGameDev

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 03/03/2025

My only thought on naming games is that if "Balatro", "Disco Elysium", "LUFTRAUSERS", "Planetenverteitigungskanonenkommandant", "What Remains of Edith Finch", "Journey", and "Kingdom Hearts 2.8 something" can all be successful, it just doesn't matter. If it is successful it'll stick, not vice versa.

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

“Make sure your hook is glowingly radioactively good. Don't overbalance. Leave in some jank. Scope down and finish quickly. And avoid tropes. Stand out.” Excellent advice for all game devs but esp. us indies. If you’re an indie dev, read 👇 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4318... #GameDev #IndieDev

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Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam | Hacker News

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Getting back into an old project after a break is a mix of “Wow, past me was smart” and “What the hell was I thinking?” Refactoring, cleaning up, and prepping for some shader magic in Martian Alchemist. #GameDev #IndieGameDev #VideoGames #GamerGirl #Gamer www.beccabear.com/cleaning-the...

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Cleaning the Cobwebs - Becca Bear

Hello friends! I hope you've had a good week. This past week…

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Game dev in a nutshell: Spends weeks building a feature, breaks everything, blames engine. (It was me. I was the bug.) #GameDev #IndieGameDev #DevHumor #VideoGames

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Game devs know exactly what they’re doing when they put an important-looking door in the background that you absolutely cannot open. Congrats, you’ve just unlocked the secret level of “staring at it for 10 minutes before giving up.” #DevHumor #IndieGameDev #GameDev #Gaming #VideoGames

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 17/02/2025

Impressive sunset tonight.

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Still working on that indie game and feeling “behind”? You’re not. Game dev isn’t a race, and taking your time doesn’t mean you’re failing. The best games get finished—not rushed. #IndieGameDev #IndieDev #GameDev #VideoGames www.beccabear.com/youre-not-be...

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You're Not "Behind" - Becca Bear

If you’ve been making games, writing stories, painting, or doing literally any…

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Roses are red, my budget is tight, this Valentine’s Day, it’s just me and my sprite. #DevHumor #IndieGameDev #GameDev #VideoGames #Gaming #GamerGirl #ValentinesDay

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Game dev is just saying “I’ll add one small feature” until you’re six months behind schedule, your game is now an open-world RPG with farming and crafting mechanics, and you’ve forgotten what the original idea even was. #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGameDev #VideoGames #Gaming

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Being an indie dev is like the Chiefs last night—you come in with a plan, get completely steamrolled, and now you’re just standing there wondering how it all went so wrong. Back to the drawing board. #IndieDev #GameDev #VideoGames #SuperBowl #DevHumor #Gaming #Chiefs

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Games do more than entertain—they can be a lifeline for mental health. This article dives into how. What’s a game that helped you through tough times? #VideoGames #Gaming #IndieGameDev #GameDev #CozyGamer #CozyGames www.reuters.com/graphics/VID...

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Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety.

Explore a charming town, meet quirky villagers, and take in the cozy vibes!

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Game development is just an endless cycle of: 1. “This is a simple feature.” 2. “Why is it broken?” 3. “Why is everything broken?” 4. “Well, at least it works.” 5. Player finds a bug in five seconds. #GameDev #IndieGameDev #VideoGames #GirlGamer #DevHumor #Gaming

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Been having a blast working on my Martian Alchemist map—turns out, topographic maps of Mars make for some pretty great hazard zones. One of my favorite things about making indie games is sneaking in little personal touches ☺️ #GameDev #IndieGameDev #VideoGames www.beccabear.com/mapping-mars/

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Mapping Mars - Becca Bear

Growing up in Colorado meant summers spent hiking the Rockies. Elbert, Yale,…

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I’m so chronically online that when I opened a book and saw a paragraph start in all caps, my first thought was, “Why is it yelling at me?”

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Take me back to when a deep breath and a quick blow into an N64 cartridge could fix everything. Simpler times. #Gaming #VideoGames #Nintendo #GamerGirl #GirlGamer #Nostalgia

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Just finished Blood, Sweat, and Pixels and can’t stop thinking about crunch culture. Is it inevitable in game dev, or can studios break the cycle without breaking the games? Lmk your thoughts. #GameDev #IndieDev #VideoGames #Gaming #GamingCulture #IndieGameDev

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Making games is like casting spells: a mix of art, science, and madness. But now, it feels like the industry is demanding wizards to conjure miracles with no resources or support. Shoutout to all the devs pushing through—your magic matters. #GameDev #Gaming #IndieGameDev #Gamer #VideoGames #IndieDev

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