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Paaaaaatrick
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itty bitty brissy game dev. a real smol bean type. (he/him)
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magpiebusiness.bsky.social
✨YOU GET A SURVEY! AND YOU GET A SURVEY! ✨
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BackerKit Pledge Manager surveys for 'Isle of Feathers' are live!! If you backed the project on Kickstarter, check your email inbox for the link to the survey, and see the post below for more info. Exciting times!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mag...
Update 21: Post-Campaign Update 002: ✨Surveys Are Live! ✨ · Isle of Feathers: A Love Letter To Strange Birds
Post-Campaign Update 002: ✨Surveys Are Live! ✨YOU GET A SURVEY! AND YOU GET A SURVEY! 🫸📋📋📋📋📋Hello folks! As you may be able to tell from the title of this update, THE BACKERKIT SURVEYS HAVE (finally) ...
www.kickstarter.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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jesawyer.bsky.social
Morpheus in pain / despair in the Matrix
December 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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tempolab.games
BITS & BOPS IS OUT NOW! 🎶

🎮 Over 20 original rhythm mini-games!
🎵 Catchy music!
⚡ Snappy gameplay!
✨ Gorgeous 2D animation!

PLAY IT NOW ON STEAM! 💕
December 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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dcellgames.com
SURPRISE BITS & BOPS is out now too!?! and there's a launch bundle with both of our games. december tbito remember christmas is rhythmas 2025 babey store.steampowered.com/bundle/62735...

unbittable. unboppable
bits & bops and unbeatable!
December 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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riley.sbug.games
🪱🪱🪱Wirm is out right now!!!🪱🪱🪱
Please enjoy this new trailer voiced by my 2-year-old son, then go buy the game on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/1934870/...
December 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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dungeonpizza.bsky.social
Oh snap, catch us in the Steam event associated with TOMORROW'S FROSTY MINI!!!!
Tune in to see tons of sick new trailers and announcements from our friends!!!
@frostygamesfest.com #gamedev #steamnews #indiesgames
December 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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jesawyer.bsky.social
I play Pentiment while working and it makes my brain do the Bradley Cooper LIMITLESS thing, +10% total brain power for each separately licensed copy I watch concurrently.
techmeme.com Techmeme @techmeme.com · 23d
Anthropic's employees self-report using Claude in 60% of work and achieving a 50% productivity boost, often using it for debugging and code understanding, more (Anthropic)

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December 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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santaragione.com
Yesterday, the Epic Games Store decided at the last minute not to distribute the game, after having previously approved a release build. HORSES is otherwise now available on GOG, Itch, and Humble for $4.99. www.horses.wtf
December 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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tonyalbrecht.bsky.social
League of Legends has been around for over 15 years. It's changed and evolved constantly, releasing new versions nearly every 2 weeks. This is a talk on the start of the refactoring process for our Particle System - how do we refactor something that is constantly shipping? Why would we even do that?
Refactoring League's Particle System: Part 1
YouTube video by GCAP
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December 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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dungeonpizza.bsky.social
🗣️📢 Dungeon Pizza Newsletter Update!!

Wishlist count, our trip to Melbourne, and a sneak peek of 🍄 MUSHROOMS 🍄

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#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #animation
Dungeon Pizza 🍕 November Newsletter
MIGW, Supanova, mushroom minigame sneak peek
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November 21, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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soyoudontneedto.bsky.social
Our game's weirdest feature explained in 5 words or less:

- hand-drawn, pacifist, bullet-hell!

#indiegames? #indiedev?? #keyfairy!
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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writnelson.bsky.social
We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.

Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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qualbert.com
In the middle of the sweltering Aussie summer, nothing beats an ice-cold indie game showcase. 🍻
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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free-play.bsky.social
The Parallels 2025 recording is live! Whether you want to revisit a favourite talk or see the show for the first time, it's available on our channel now:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD2a...

🎩🏈💀🃏⬜💐🧚🏠
Freeplay Parallels 2025
YouTube video by Freeplay
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November 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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dungeonpizza.bsky.social
Dungeon Pizza is at Supanova all weekend!!! Come say hi!!!
#gamedev #indiedev #supanova #indiegames
November 7, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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qualbert.com
In Brisbane and in need of some #indiegame goodness? Come along to the Indie Dev Night tonight, thanks to @zedgames.bsky.social and Netherworld!

Tonight's games include Key Fairy by @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social and @niosis.bsky.social, Wirm by @sbug.games, Hyper Router by @piers.zip + heaps more!
November 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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letitmelo.bsky.social
I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.
Ethan Evans, former Amazon VP As VP of Prime Gaming at Amazon, we failed multiple times to disrupt the game platform Steam. We were at least 250x bigger, and we tried everything. But ultimately, Goliath lost. Here's why: The 15+ year long attempt to challenge Steam started before I was VP of Prime Gaming, but we never cracked the code. Not under my leadership or anyone else's. The first way we tried to enter the online-game-store market was through acquisition. We acquired Reflexive Entertainment (a small PC game store) and tried to scale it. It went nowhere. Then, after buying Twitch, we created our own PC games store. Our assumption was that gamers would naturally buy from us because they were already using Twitch. Wrong. Finally, we built "Luna," a game streaming service that let people play without a high-end PC. Around the same time, Google tried the same thing with their product "Stadia." Neither gained significant traction. The whole time, Steam dominated despite being a relatively small company (compared to Amazon and Google). The mistake was that we underestimated what made consumers use Steam It was a store, a social network, a library, and a trophy case all in one. And it worked well. At Amazon, we assumed that size and visibility would be enough to attract customers, but we underestimated the power of existing user habits We never validated our core assumptions before investing heavily in solutions. The truth is that gamers already had the solution to their problems and they weren't going to switch platforms just because a new one was available We needed to build something dramatically better, but we failed to do so. And we needed to validate our assumptions about our customers before starting to build. But we never really did that either. Just because you are big enough to build something doesn't mean people will use it
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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qualbert.com
"The more we let companies use GenAI in development, the more we all stand to lose."

As scope increases and budgets shrink, The Alters is a cautionary tale of gaps plugged up by AI, and the backlash that follows.

@riorobayo.bsky.social examines #GenAI in games: www.qualbert.com/ai-use-in-th...
I’m Still Not Done Talking About AI Use in The Alters | Qualbert
The more we let companies use GenAI in development, the more we all stand to lose. We examine the ripple effects of AI use in games, beginning with The Alters.
www.qualbert.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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cinnadev.bsky.social
Grow new connections in the middle of nowhere with this bittersweet cozy story. Delphinium is now LIVE on Kickstarter 💙🌿
October 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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beabravo.bsky.social
Still struggling with finding a job. If you know anyone that’s needs some 2D art or retail help or admin tasks please let me know.

My commissions are also open.
October 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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riley.sbug.games
It's fixed! Isopod is now out! Please go buy it! store.steampowered.com/app/2053910/...
October 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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sbug.games
Still a few hours before we press the big scary release button on Isopod, but you can already get the OST on bandcamp thanks to our amazing composer @stijnvanwakeren.bsky.social
stijnvanwakeren.bandcamp.com/album/isopod...
Isopod: A Webbed Spin-off (Original Game Soundtrack), by Stijn van Wakeren
28 track album
stijnvanwakeren.bandcamp.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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cinnadev.bsky.social
After five years in development, Delphinium is coming to Kickstarter to raise finishing funds for the last few months of the project! Consider checking out the campaign if you're a fan of narrative or farming games ✨
👇 www.kickstarter.com/projects/cin...
Coming soon: Delphinium by CINNADEV
A farming sim in which cultivating connections with those around you matters just as much as growing crops- sometimes even more so.
www.kickstarter.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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richtaur.bsky.social
Happy 2nd anniversary to the Steam Dev Cheat Sheet 🥂

LMK if any info is out of date! Good luck with your game 🎮

#indiegamedev
STEAM DEV CHEAT SHEET Quick access to a collection of best practices & magic formulas: STEAM CAPSULE (Your Game) The single most IMPORTANT element since it's seen the most Clear Readable Game name Genre Hook(s) Hire on artist! THE DISCOVERY ALGORITHM Get 7,000+ wishlists before launch Get 10+ reviews ASAP (positive or negative, just need 10) The only punishing review status is OVERWHELMINGLY NEGATIVE (the rest are neutral for traffic) WISHLISTS About 15% of wishlists convert in the first week. ALL wishlisters are emailed at launch. Discount 20%+ to email wishlisters after launch. SALES ESTIMATES FROM REVIEWS One review represents about 20-55 soles. It's the New Boxleiter Number! ~30 is good So 100 reviews = about 3,000 copies sold. TRAILER (Viewers skip through trailers) Start strong Omit intro logos Direct to gameplay 60 seconds or less End with ONE CTA: Wishlist it or buy it Made in October 2023 From the author of How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself valadria.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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crewtapes.bsky.social
my new game is called Blood Being and you can download it at crewtapes.itch.io/blood-being - it's a horror walking and reading game about working in Aotearoa New Zealand
Blood Being by crewtapes
A walk-and-read game about precarity in Aotearoa New Zealand.
crewtapes.itch.io
December 29, 2024 at 1:03 PM