Is there any animator out there who will deny this?
January 17, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Is there any animator out there who will deny this?
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Clair Obscur was great but it wasn't the only incredible game last year https://kotaku.com/baby-steps-awards-gdc-igf-2025-goty-2000660694
Baby Steps Finally Gets Some Love After Clair Obscure Sweeps
Baby Steps deserves its flowers
kotaku.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Clair Obscur was great but it wasn't the only incredible game last year https://kotaku.com/baby-steps-awards-gdc-igf-2025-goty-2000660694
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Now that I have published this interview with @foddy.net and @gcuzzillo.bsky.social about Baby Steps, maybe I can finally move on with my life and stop thinking about it?? who knows
www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...
‘It’s a loving mockery, because it’s also who I am’: the making of gaming’s most pathetic character
The team behind Baby Steps discuss why they made a whiny, unprepared manbaby the protagonist – and how players have grown to love Nate as he struggles up a mountain
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Now that I have published this interview with @foddy.net and @gcuzzillo.bsky.social about Baby Steps, maybe I can finally move on with my life and stop thinking about it?? who knows
www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...
post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers, and which also rules
January 15, 2026 at 4:56 AM
post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers, and which also rules
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Prepping this week's episode on autobiographical games, and it really is criminal that Despelote hasn't reached more people. Not just because it's important. But because it's ridiculously fun and moving.
DESPELOTE: FIFTH TRAILER (now on nintendo switch)
YouTube video by Panic
www.youtube.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Prepping this week's episode on autobiographical games, and it really is criminal that Despelote hasn't reached more people. Not just because it's important. But because it's ridiculously fun and moving.
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hey my fave game from IGF judging is announced at last! AP Thomson is a d(er)anged genius and inspires me to make more of my own, more personal work. everyone even vaguely interested in roguelikes or fae should play: store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/...
Titanium Court on Steam
A surreal strategy game for clowns and criminals.
store.steampowered.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:37 PM
hey my fave game from IGF judging is announced at last! AP Thomson is a d(er)anged genius and inspires me to make more of my own, more personal work. everyone even vaguely interested in roguelikes or fae should play: store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/...
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Baby Steps leads 28th annual IGF Awards nominations
Baby Steps leads 28th annual IGF Awards nominations
Blippo+, Titanium Court, and Horses have also received multiple nods.
www.gamedeveloper.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Baby Steps leads 28th annual IGF Awards nominations
Baby Steps is nominated for a DICE award for Outstanding Achievement for an Independent Game! Lots of great games on the list
We're excited to announce the nominees for the 29th Annual #DICEAwards!
64 games are nominated this year, led by
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Ghost of Yōtei with 8,
Arc Raiders, Dispatch with 6,
Blue Prince with 5.
Check out our full list of nominees here: www.interactive.org/awards/29th_...
64 games are nominated this year, led by
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Ghost of Yōtei with 8,
Arc Raiders, Dispatch with 6,
Blue Prince with 5.
Check out our full list of nominees here: www.interactive.org/awards/29th_...
January 8, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Baby Steps is nominated for a DICE award for Outstanding Achievement for an Independent Game! Lots of great games on the list
They really could have made some money on those Avatar movies if they’d given the blue people butts
January 6, 2026 at 11:51 PM
They really could have made some money on those Avatar movies if they’d given the blue people butts
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"Old Skies is, fundamentally, a survey of love... It's gorgeous and refuses to leave you once you've finished."
willarowe.bearblog.dev/top-10-games...
willarowe.bearblog.dev/top-10-games...
Willa's top 10 games of 2025
My personal top ten list for 2025.
willarowe.bearblog.dev
January 6, 2026 at 11:18 AM
"Old Skies is, fundamentally, a survey of love... It's gorgeous and refuses to leave you once you've finished."
willarowe.bearblog.dev/top-10-games...
willarowe.bearblog.dev/top-10-games...
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New Baby Steps Multiplayer Mod update with lots of fixes and new features! Mainly water wheels are now synced up and servers can use webhooks now to let others know someone is online. Various proximity chat network performance tweaks too.
github.com/caleborchard...
github.com/caleborchard...
Release 1.2.1 | Wheel Sync and Major Bug Fixes · caleborchard/Baby-Steps-Multiplayer-Mod-Client
Changelog:
Fixed longstanding RemotePlayer twitching bug
Fixed overly dark foot shadows
Fixed GUI not scaling with resolution
Fixed suit colors not properly updating
Fixed player eye and glasses op...
github.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:28 PM
New Baby Steps Multiplayer Mod update with lots of fixes and new features! Mainly water wheels are now synced up and servers can use webhooks now to let others know someone is online. Various proximity chat network performance tweaks too.
github.com/caleborchard...
github.com/caleborchard...
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Here are Eurogamer's picks for the 50 best games of 2025 - narrowing it down to just that was as difficult as ever. (1/3)
December 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Here are Eurogamer's picks for the 50 best games of 2025 - narrowing it down to just that was as difficult as ever. (1/3)
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Here it is: The final debate for MinnMax's Game of the Year 2025.
If you enjoy this format, any help sharing the grand finale for The Two Tens is appreciated! youtu.be/lIQd-zokVnQ
If you enjoy this format, any help sharing the grand finale for The Two Tens is appreciated! youtu.be/lIQd-zokVnQ
January 2, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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Here it is: The final debate for MinnMax's Game of the Year 2025.
If you enjoy this format, any help sharing the grand finale for The Two Tens is appreciated! youtu.be/lIQd-zokVnQ
If you enjoy this format, any help sharing the grand finale for The Two Tens is appreciated! youtu.be/lIQd-zokVnQ
January 1, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Here it is: The final debate for MinnMax's Game of the Year 2025.
If you enjoy this format, any help sharing the grand finale for The Two Tens is appreciated! youtu.be/lIQd-zokVnQ
If you enjoy this format, any help sharing the grand finale for The Two Tens is appreciated! youtu.be/lIQd-zokVnQ
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Congratulations @gcuzzillo.bsky.social, @maxiboch.bsky.social and @foddy.net, Baby Steps is our 2025 Game of the Year!
Listen to episode 483 of The Computer Game Show to hear how it won
🎧 Podcast: plinkhq.com/i/1100170036...
📺 YouTube: youtu.be/e7usEG5xXPc
@devolverdigital.com @ultrabrilliant.xyz
Listen to episode 483 of The Computer Game Show to hear how it won
🎧 Podcast: plinkhq.com/i/1100170036...
📺 YouTube: youtu.be/e7usEG5xXPc
@devolverdigital.com @ultrabrilliant.xyz
January 1, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Congratulations @gcuzzillo.bsky.social, @maxiboch.bsky.social and @foddy.net, Baby Steps is our 2025 Game of the Year!
Listen to episode 483 of The Computer Game Show to hear how it won
🎧 Podcast: plinkhq.com/i/1100170036...
📺 YouTube: youtu.be/e7usEG5xXPc
@devolverdigital.com @ultrabrilliant.xyz
Listen to episode 483 of The Computer Game Show to hear how it won
🎧 Podcast: plinkhq.com/i/1100170036...
📺 YouTube: youtu.be/e7usEG5xXPc
@devolverdigital.com @ultrabrilliant.xyz
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IM FREE IM FREE IM FREE
December 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
IM FREE IM FREE IM FREE
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The idea that independent games - the sprawling expanse of them! The beautiful diversity! - has a 'father' is clearly absurd, and suggesting alternatives doesn't make it any less so.
(sorry for engaging with the discourse)
(sorry for engaging with the discourse)
December 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The idea that independent games - the sprawling expanse of them! The beautiful diversity! - has a 'father' is clearly absurd, and suggesting alternatives doesn't make it any less so.
(sorry for engaging with the discourse)
(sorry for engaging with the discourse)
I really love that you can still play Garnet Hertz’s browser game ‘The Simulator’ in its original location almost 30 years later. It just gets smaller and smaller as our screens get sharper and sharper, until one day it’ll be microscopic. www.conceptlab.com/simulator/
Ps self-hosting makes you cool
Ps self-hosting makes you cool
The Simulator (1997) - Garnet Hertz
www.conceptlab.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I really love that you can still play Garnet Hertz’s browser game ‘The Simulator’ in its original location almost 30 years later. It just gets smaller and smaller as our screens get sharper and sharper, until one day it’ll be microscopic. www.conceptlab.com/simulator/
Ps self-hosting makes you cool
Ps self-hosting makes you cool
Some good contenders for ‘father of indie games’ (‘indie’ as we understand it today, in its various senses)
- Cly5m (seiklus)
- Derek Yu (eternal daughter)
- Charles Tumino (destruction carnival)
- Kenta Cho (gunroar)
- Jeff Minter (space giraffe)
- Mark Overmars (game maker)
- Jun’ya Ōta (touhou)
- Cly5m (seiklus)
- Derek Yu (eternal daughter)
- Charles Tumino (destruction carnival)
- Kenta Cho (gunroar)
- Jeff Minter (space giraffe)
- Mark Overmars (game maker)
- Jun’ya Ōta (touhou)
December 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Some good contenders for ‘father of indie games’ (‘indie’ as we understand it today, in its various senses)
- Cly5m (seiklus)
- Derek Yu (eternal daughter)
- Charles Tumino (destruction carnival)
- Kenta Cho (gunroar)
- Jeff Minter (space giraffe)
- Mark Overmars (game maker)
- Jun’ya Ōta (touhou)
- Cly5m (seiklus)
- Derek Yu (eternal daughter)
- Charles Tumino (destruction carnival)
- Kenta Cho (gunroar)
- Jeff Minter (space giraffe)
- Mark Overmars (game maker)
- Jun’ya Ōta (touhou)
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Our Discorders answered the question, 'what if the games of 2025 were Simpsons stills?' Judge the results for yourself.
December 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Our Discorders answered the question, 'what if the games of 2025 were Simpsons stills?' Judge the results for yourself.
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HEY if you have ever wanted to make a whole working #PICO8 ROM from absolute scratch, but weren't sure where to start...
just head over to www.pico-8-edu.com and i'll take you on a lil 15 minute tour that will have you up and running in no time! well, in 15 minutes 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWsj...
just head over to www.pico-8-edu.com and i'll take you on a lil 15 minute tour that will have you up and running in no time! well, in 15 minutes 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWsj...
How to make a game using PICO-8 | CorgiJam
YouTube video by Finji
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
HEY if you have ever wanted to make a whole working #PICO8 ROM from absolute scratch, but weren't sure where to start...
just head over to www.pico-8-edu.com and i'll take you on a lil 15 minute tour that will have you up and running in no time! well, in 15 minutes 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWsj...
just head over to www.pico-8-edu.com and i'll take you on a lil 15 minute tour that will have you up and running in no time! well, in 15 minutes 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWsj...
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Quite the list! NYC not dodging the accusations of making good games
The #NewYorkGameAwards nominees for Best New York Game are:
🔵 Despelote
🔵 Baby Steps
🔵 Consume Me
🔵 Old Skies
🔵 Ball x Pit
🔵 Skate Story
🔵 Despelote
🔵 Baby Steps
🔵 Consume Me
🔵 Old Skies
🔵 Ball x Pit
🔵 Skate Story
December 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Quite the list! NYC not dodging the accusations of making good games
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Boshi’s, NYC nonprofit games space, is hosting an end of year fundraiser!! Your generous support is greatly appreciated. For more about how, what, when, where, and why, see the link in our bio. We love you!
#game #nyc #donate #videogames #boardgames #giveback
#game #nyc #donate #videogames #boardgames #giveback
December 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Boshi’s, NYC nonprofit games space, is hosting an end of year fundraiser!! Your generous support is greatly appreciated. For more about how, what, when, where, and why, see the link in our bio. We love you!
#game #nyc #donate #videogames #boardgames #giveback
#game #nyc #donate #videogames #boardgames #giveback
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Despelote's fifth trailer a) is great and b) made me sad: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MXK...
DESPELOTE: FIFTH TRAILER (now on nintendo switch)
YouTube video by Panic
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Despelote's fifth trailer a) is great and b) made me sad: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MXK...
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For all the talk of game websites failing to cover smaller games recently (true!), I gotta give huge props to NPR www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n... and Vulture www.vulture.com/article/best... for their end-of-year lists. So many fascinating hidden gems mentioned, no preference arbitrarily tied to budget.
The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff
From indies like Blue Prince to big console exclusives like Donkey Kong Bananza, NPR staff members and contributors round up their favorite games of 2025.
www.npr.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
For all the talk of game websites failing to cover smaller games recently (true!), I gotta give huge props to NPR www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n... and Vulture www.vulture.com/article/best... for their end-of-year lists. So many fascinating hidden gems mentioned, no preference arbitrarily tied to budget.