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I find it rather bizarre to purposefully design your game around a very narrow FOV, and not figure out how to provide this basic accessibility option way earlier in the development. Narrow FOV can quite literally cause vertigo and vomiting. Is that the challenge that you envision for your game?

Experimental FOV setting
You can now adjust your field of view from 75 (default) up to 90 in Settings → Graphics.

Guns of Eschaton was designed and balanced around the default FOV: level layouts, encounters, enemy placement, and visuals all rely on it. Changing it affects many of these systems at once, so at higher values you will likely notice visual issues and changes to how the game plays, including difficulty.

We know how important FOV is to many of you, so we're giving you the option to try it now. Meanwhile, we're studying how it affects the experience.

This is a test, not a final feature: whether FOV options stay in the full game and in what form will depend on what we learn.

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A big day in the Steam Next Fest journey! Today games media can start looking for participating games to cover. Will be exciting if FOLLOW THESE STEPS gets some eyes on it 👀 store.steampowered.com/app/4002220/ It's a puzzle 🧩, it's chill 🧘, it's preeetty 😍 #indiegame #gamedev #puzzle #nextfest

In the mood for a bit of puzzle building? Put on relaxing tunes, open the box, and start putting together things out of colorful pieces — step-by-step instructions included!

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Sloppy Forgeries ✨ Wishlist on Steam! @sloppyforgeries.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Microsoft bringing back XP in 2026 was not on my bingo card.

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I MOVED THE RELEASE DATE UP 😬 Sloppy Forgeries is coming to Steam on Fri, Nov 13th (ack, Fri 13th)! Demo out Oct 19th. PLS SHARE! ❤️ Local multiplayer w/2 mice, online w/8 people, 50 masterpieces, leaderboards, painting archives, tablet support… #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #art #drawing

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I'm impressed! Impressed by how boring and unfun they manage to present making video games while tooting "game of your dreams" in the subtitle. If that's what occupies your dreams, you might be burnt out or overstressed. Please do a check-up!

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In the mood for a bit of puzzle building? Put on relaxing tunes, open the box, and start putting together things out of colorful pieces — step-by-step instructions included!

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Kate Killick (Glowfrog Games) @katekillick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Here's a little bit more of a preview of Dreamshore so far! We'll mostly be sharing behind-the-scenes stuff in Discord though so do join there if you want to follow our progress :) #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame

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Yuri @yurisizov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🐞 Ladybugs 🐞 were bugging out, but thanks to quick debugging that bugger is no more! If that puzzle proved more frustrating than needed, I'm sorry! Fresh patch for FOLLOW THESE STEPS is now live on Steam and itch!

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Yuri @yurisizov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love my wife more when she finds game breaking bugs which were thought to be completely impossible at this point.

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Yuri @yurisizov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don’t have plans for a mobile release, but I’m very grateful that the game engine that I use allows me to see how that would look like very quickly. There are some quirks here, but it works much better than I expected! Meanwhile, go play the demo on any desktop platform! #gamedev #indiegame

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Hello! Do you like building stuff from plastic bricks? Well, maybe you'll also like to know that... 🧩 FOLLOW THESE STEPS demo is now available! 🧩 It's a chill, relaxing puzzle game with no stakes, just putting things together. Available on Windows, Linux, macOS. #indiegame #gamedev #puzzle

A screenshot from FOLLOW THESE STEPS, an upcoming puzzle video game by Yuri Sizov. It showcases the playable area with a bunch of objects on a dark background. On the left there foil packages with colorful pictures. In the middle there is a blue tray with buttons and a pink box in the middle, full of colorful pieces. On the right there is a teal area with various pieces stuck together, and one of the resulting stacks being grabbed by the hand-shaped cursor.

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Have you played the demo for FOLLOW THESE STEPS today? Got stuck and unsure what to do? 😬 I've quickly added a quick start guide for you! Escape to the pause menu and find the new thing with steps to follow. 😎 Update is already live on Steam and itch! #indiegame #gamedev #puzzle

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Wife confirms that a) putting balls in holes is very satisfying, and b) the game is totally playable with a laptop touchpad (plus keyboard)! 😎 Meanwhile I'm contemplating adding a quick start guide (in-game). Also a couple of friends managed to break some stuff, but I'm not sure how yet 😬🫠

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Yuri @yurisizov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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The green button will be pressed tomorrow!

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Yuri @yurisizov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Already ignored you last time, and you still sent me a follow-up, mate.

Cheers,
Piotr

PS. Not your thing? Just ignore this one, I won't write again.

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Yuri @yurisizov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

77 out of 108 sounds are roughly in, with only a tiny bit of crucial ones missing. Yes, the demo is still coming out in just a few days. I was prepared to launch it with the few sounds that I had, but decided to add a few more, given that I had time. And when I started adding them, I couldn't stop!

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Yuri @yurisizov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I want more GPs in Sepang in my life. 3.5 hours of an absolutely mad 1.5-hours-long race. Brilliant!

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Yuri @yurisizov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hear me out: the Linkin Park: Unshatter documentary in a 4DX theatre! At first I didn't think they'd actually utilize the 4DX features, that it was just the hall given to the screening. But then the screening started with a whole demo of what 4DX is, and I almost flew out of my seat!

A photo of a large stand titled "Wall of Memories. Linkin Park: Unshatter", which invites bystanders to answer personal questions about the role of Linkin Park in their lives. Multiple hand-written notes cover it.

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Yuri @yurisizov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In my absence I missed this announcement, so a belated shoutout to Justin and this amazing development! Bosca Ceoil is a purposefully simple, retro-sounding music box for you to make some awesome tunes in, and its simplicity is a perfect fit for what RPG in a Box is doing for game making 😍

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Verbante @verbante.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Initial Mockup vs. Final Game It's almost been a week since MURDER TETRIS is released. It's one of my most popular and also most fun games so far. Thanks for all the investigations DETECTIVES 😎 You can play the final? update here: verbante.itch.io/murder-tetris #gamedev #pico8 #fallingblockjam

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Elle 🍄 Flowerbud @pxpetals.com · 02/10/2026

THIS. Ever since I started embracing my identity, and acknowledging my own creative process, game dev has been going a lot smoother. It’s freeing.

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Yuri @yurisizov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cool 😎: Valve lets you preview discoverability of your game in the upcoming Next Fest, so you can adjust tags and stuff. Cooked 🍗: I narrowed it down with filters to a list of ~260 games and found mine 5th from the bottom.

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Yuri @yurisizov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

By my calculations I need about 100 different sound effects, and I have around half that. 🤔 Foley sounds make a world of difference for my skeuomorphic, diegetic game though. When the sound hits just right, these stupid pixels transcend into almost-real things!

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Yuri @yurisizov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I pick the best controller colors

A photo of two game controllers: a neon green Xbox controller and a grape purple Playstation controller; against a dark background.

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Yuri @yurisizov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have an ongoing task at @gdquest.bsky.social: update every image and video in Learn 2D/3D courses, so that they are consistent and representative of the current state of the Godot editor. This kind of task involves a lot of moving parts, and I like straightforwardness. So I made the Kinographer:

A close-up screen capture of a floating blue toolbar with various labeled sets of buttons and indicators. It has sections called "Capture", "Image", "Video", as well as "Target", "Build", "Server", and "Docker". There are also extra buttons on the right of the toolbar, for closing and moving it around. The version label says "v1.2.0".

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Yuri @yurisizov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I really like how semi-transparent pieces look in my puzzle game. It's all just a color/shader effect on top of an opaque sprite, and yet in practice it just looks so dimensional! #gamedev #indiedev

A screenshot of a skeuomorphic 2D game featuring a sandy yellow panel with a large dark gray area on the left and a column of small dark areas on the right, with "BACK" and "FRONT" written around the latter. In the large dark gray area there are rows of colorful objects, arranged as blue, pink, white, white, pink, and blue again. Parts of the objects look somewhat translucent and pale.

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Yuri @yurisizov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One interesting side-effect of not hanging out here for 3 months is that I've forgotten names and faces of everyone I didn't like (while remembering every name and face of people I did like). Apparently grudges and beefs are temporary if you step away from the computer every now and then!

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Yuri @yurisizov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am not dead! I was just disappointed. So I took a break from socials, had a pleasant summer, fixed my laptop, got a new phone, did good work for GDQuest... Oh, and completed the DEMO for my chill puzzle game, 🧩 FOLLOW THESE STEPS 🧩. It's coming very soon! store.steampowered.com/app/4002220/

In the mood for a bit of puzzle building? Put on relaxing tunes, open the box, and start putting together things out of colorful pieces — step-by-step instructions included!

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Yuri @yurisizov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In the mood for a bit of puzzle building? Put on relaxing tunes, open the box, and start putting together things out of colorful pieces — step-by-step instructions included!

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itch.io @itch.io · 02/07/2026

The Sale Explorer is now live during the @itch.io Summer Sale!! 🌞🌊 * Exclusion filters * Max price filtering * Dynamic drill down * Staff picks * Similar and recommended filters Try it out right now! itch.io/sales

Description of the itch.io Sale Explorer

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Yuri @yurisizov.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The dilemma of recreation. After a few days of not touching any of my work I feel the urge to start doing things again. A part of me wants to capitalize on this boost of motivation, while another feels like I’m cheating myself out of the rest. Ugh, I miss being younger when the energy was infinite.

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Erin Catto @erincatto.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I’m happy to announce the release of a new open source 3D physics engine called Box3D. I’ve been working on this project for a few years now, but it represents over 20 years of experience writing physics engines for games. Read more here: box2d.org/posts/2026/0...

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Announcing Box3D

I’m happy to announce the release of Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine. It is now available on GitHub. Box3D repository You can think of Box3D as a fork of Box2D, extended with many features nee...

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Cozy Cube Games | Penguin Festival @cozycubegames.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The Penguin Festival team have not, do not, and will never use generative AI in any aspect of our work. We'll continue to tackle everything as creatives who care about the world outside of just making games. Thank you for your support so far. We hope to see you at the festival soon! 🎉🐧

Cartoon penguin points a wrench towards viewer while winking. Text encircles the penguin. It reads: No gen AI; no cut corners.

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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

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What if… Instead of a disk or an activation key, by purchasing a physical copy of a game you enter sweepstakes for a chance to download that game?

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What would be the implication here, given this is a license for fonts? Rasterize every possible size and store it as images on export? Does converting to MSDF data count as enough obfuscation? Because I don't think it's possible to fully prevent resource extraction from games.

An extract of provisions from some document with the provision (c.i.) and portions of the provision (d.) highlighted in yellow. They read:

c. You may use the Product in digital documents and software applications provided that:
i. The Product is protected from extraction by the end user so that they may not access the Product on its own outside of your application.
ii. Your digital document or application is not designed to serve the same function as the Product, i.e. the document must not allow end-users to use glyphs from the Product for use in their own designs.
d. You may use the product in graphics, videos, video games, broadcasts and other visual media as long as they meet the criteria defined above for digital documents and software applications.

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No more physical games media in 1.5 years, eh? 15 years ago I was ordering physical disks for my 360 by mail from game.co.uk (I was not in the UK) just so I could have an international version of the games I wanted. Literally impossible in the digital age.

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