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Caleb Draper - Slash-Out out now! @caleb-draper-games.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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ITS OUT! ⚔️ Slash-Out: Fantasy Dueling ⚔ OUT NOW ⚔️ Battle 10 Unique Bosses KICK THEIR ASS, OR THEYLL KICK YOURS 🛡️ Journey across a diverse landscape on a quest to defeat an ancient evil Fight a DJ Wizard, get eaten by a whale, all this and more! 🥩 FUCK AI, THIS IS MADE BY FLESH AND BLOOD

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Gordon Little @gord.games · 12/09/2026

Look who's got a new ✨STEAM PAGE✨ Seriously if you like my #gamedev please check out the new Moving Pieces page, slap that Wishlist button, and share this with your friends! It's hard being a little indie making weird stuff for jigsaw sickos but I love it. store.steampowered.com/app/5139220/...

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Moving Pieces on Steam

Moving Pieces is a first-person psychological horror puzzle adventure game. Explore a convoluted mansion, collect key items, and solve physical puzzles without combat or death. Assemble tactile jigsaw...

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Tom Voros @tom.voros.ca · 07/09/2026

Sorry to say this but if you're using AI don't be surprised if people don't want to play your games, buy your art, listen to your music, or use your apps. It's unfortunate but this is inevitable. It's already happening. Get on board with rejecting AI now or get ready to be left behind.

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 05/09/2026

In our big 10th Anniversary update for Alone With You, we revamped the entire control system on PC so you can play the whole game as a point-and-click adventure. (Did we mention the game is free right now on the Epic Games Store?) #ScreenshotSaturday #indiegame

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THRESHOLD ANOMALY | 🎮 GRIDHACK @thresholdanomaly.com · 02/09/2026

GRIDHACK ❎ A sci-fi puzzle battler where solving nonograms = hacking. We're hard at work on a new game mode, so please share, repost and of course wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3053870/... #Nonogram #SciFi #LowPoly #IndieGame #NoAI

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Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz · 06/09/2026

So I heard you like… 🎥 Full-motion video 🏔️ 🏔️ David Lynch-inspired storytelling 🕵️‍♀️ Tactile detective mechanics and a mass vanishing 🔴🧵 A mystery board! Who doesn’t love red string? 👵 A story about a flawed mother searching for her estranged daughter store.steampowered.com/app/4094890?...

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The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham on Steam

Regret has chased Lilith across the years… but a chance to escape is within reach. Drawn in by a message from your estranged daughter, you must reshape reality with a mystical Film Reel to solve a mas...

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WISHLIST SKRUB SQUAD @devonwiersma.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My games are on sale for OVER 50-60% OFF! That's cheaper than they've EVER been! There's never been a better time to buy my games AND ESPECIALLY to leave a review to help support my current and future work!! 🙏 Check them out and tell your friends! 👇👇👇 store.steampowered.com/developer/de...

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Steam Developer: Dev's Games

Devon is a solo game developer who makes cool games of a wide variety of genres. I'll make anything from paint-anywhere graffiti games to action-packed bullet hell titles. 😎

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Holy shit, man... Stay safe!

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Accessibility Settings - Combat Accessories - Final Fantasy XVI Guide - IGN

I'm reminded of the "Timely Rings" in FF16 which are presented as a sort of accessibility feature. You can equip these rings to make combat easier, but you're simultaneously sacrificing ring slots that more experienced players would use to for other valuable abilities. www.ign.com/wikis/final-...

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Final Fantasy XVI is the first mainline title of the series to shift away from its turn-based roots in favor of becoming a fully real-time Action RPG.

Remap Radio 150 — Grand Theft Podcast - Remap Radio | iHeart

I really like @gameonysus.bsky.social's perspective in this episode on the subjectivity of game difficulty (starting around the 1:18:00 mark). You can implement systems that give the player balancing options but even those will be subjective. www.iheart.com/podcast/1300...

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<p>So far as we know, nobody is leaking clips from this podcast, but the same can’t be said for Grand Theft Auto VI. Join Patrick, Chia, and Janet as they reminisce about how their parents treat...

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more flexibility in how they use and extend the engine. Later on when foundation has more resources, or priorities have shifted, the core project could merge some of these forks or individual changes back in. Just a thought! Either way, I appreciate the dialogue. Another awesome thing about Godot!

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Brad Shankar @bradshankar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

That's what I'm trying to get at. If modules were factored out it would be easier to see where the foundation is lacking resources, and other devs could choose to fork those modules for external development. These forks may not be up to the standards of the core project but it would give devs

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Given the U.S.’ abhorrent and completely unjustified attacks on Canada that are hurting so many Canadians *and* Americans while destroying many, many years of friendship, I thought I’d reshare some cool Canadian games that deserve support. 🧵 🍁

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Canada rarely gets to play itself -- these games are changing that

From showcasing stunning landscapes to telling diverse stories, here's how developers are representing Canada in their games.

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Tom Voros @tom.voros.ca · 22/08/2026

Pinball Spire is 40% off on #Steam! Grab it on its own or in a bundle with Yoku's Island Express to maximize your savings! Two different takes on a #pinball adventure, both currently on sale. 🎉✨🔮 ▶️ store.steampowered.com/bundle/84293... #indiegame #indiegames #gamedev #indiegamedev #gaming #games

Pinball Spire screenshot showing the ball rolling across a flipper with a blue line pointing up diagonally to show the ball's projected path.

Yoku's Island Express key art showing the adorable dung beetle Yoku over a lush tropical background.

Yoku's Island Express screenshot showing Yoku, tethered to a white ball, flying through a verdant green pinball space and collecting fruit.

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I wonder how many devs even bother handling an unlikely case like that! Your implementation is probably better than you think. 😆

Ah yeah, that makes sense!

That's awesome! I'm sure it's easier than some of the other stuff you've done (like dynamic audio processing). 😛

Ok yeah, I was just thinking that too. Hourly validation is still useful for the periods the user is not actively interacting with Twitch.

The doc mentions that Twitch conducts periodic audits to ensure devs are implementing validation correctly, which again seems to imply that there's a gap in their API and they really need everyone to do this hourly validation.

The requirement for hourly token validation seems to imply that there's some kind of gap in their API's authentication checks otherwise. That seems a bit strange, but not impossible.

np! I hope I'm not way off base. 🙂 What I'm wondering is what happens when you make an API call with a token that has expired or been revoked. Would it still succeed? Or would it fail with a 401 error (or similar)?

I'm definitely reading between the lines a bit but I think they would've mentioned these things if they were required.

My read on this is that no, you don't need to revoke the token. The direction of communication here seems to be Twitch --> Game. I assume you're good to save the token for reuse on future sessions.

If the game is relaunched it must validate the token again and, at that point, it will pick up any updates that happened between game sessions. So basically, from what I can tell, all you need to do is make sure you're validating the token every hour when the game is running.

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Tom Voros @tom.voros.ca · 22/08/2026

Based on the docs the reason they ask you validate the token every hour is so the game can terminate Twitch integration if the token is revoked elsewhere (by the user or by Twitch themselves). If the game is not running there's nothing to do.

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Nice! Maybe that was less of a naive question and more of an ignorant one. 😅 The next question is have you considered factoring out those modules to separate GitHub repos? That way different communities can develop around each module. Might help make dev processes more manageable.

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Tom Voros @tom.voros.ca · 22/08/2026

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If they really do scrap BPs we might see some third parties rush in to fill the void with plugins. But Epic might still backtrack... I can't see this going well for them with their current roadmap.

This may be a naive question but would it be possible to modularize the various systems in the engine (like rendering, networking, source control, specific editor tools, etc.) to allow external teams to help more easily in some of these areas?

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You can really feel the technical debt! 👌

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When I hear that nearly everything in a game like Expedition 33 was implemented in BPs my head explodes. That sounds like an absolute nightmare to work on. And yet, it clearly worked for them.

I agree with you from a personal perspective but I hesitate to call it a failed concept because it really HAS clicked for a lot of people. However, I do think there are ways to improve BPs that would benefit everyone (both people who love it and hate it). It's a shame Epic is scrapping it instead.

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Great brief overview! My ears perked up when you mentioned coroutines (I love them!). I also love that scene files are human readable. The ability to do project-wide text searches is super valuable. (Thanks, I appreciate it! I didn't realize you were ex-Ubi as well. 😄)

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The puppet episode of Strange New Worlds was actually really fun! It tells an existential story in a way that somehow still feels like #startrek, even if it's very silly. I especially liked Pelia's wiggly hair! I still wish SNW was the return-to-form they originally pitched but what can you do.

Frame from the episode showing puppet Pelia standing on a glossy black floor. She's wearing a puppet-sized version of her red uniform and her curly blond hair is wildly poofy, sticking it out in all directions.

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Nice! I don't know if I'm prepared to give up C#, but yeah. 😄 Both Unity and Unreal are solid engines (my Blueprint gripes aside) but the companies behind them seem untrustworthy. On the other hand Godot seems be maturing really quickly and has the benefit of being open source.

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Gimmick! is a real hidden gem! It's a shame it's not more well-known.

I haven't used Construct but what you described is pretty much what I'd hope to see. Someone also pointed out that you can already copy/paste Blueprint snippets as JSON (e.g. to a text editor) so they're halfway there!

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Personally, for my own projects, I don't see myself moving to Unreal anytime soon. I think I'll be looking at Godot.

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I know there's been discussion about UE6 removing Blueprints. This is not meant as an argument in favour of that. What I would've liked is for Epic to improve the implementation of Blueprints to support more external workflows like merging (i.e. move to a text-based data format).

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I've been learning Unreal for almost a year and I feel like Blueprints are crushing me. I get that they're extremely valuable to a lot of devs but there are so many points of frustration. Most of them stem from the binary format and inability to diff/merge changes. Goes against my entire workflow. 😩

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Not sure if he's active on Bluesky these days but you can email him.

I've worked with @praiamo.bsky.social who pulled together a team to cover 11 languages. He's awesome!