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Gianfranco Berardi is an indie game developer ( #GameDev #IndieGameDev #SoloDev ), #Agile Software enthusiast, blogger, Gnu/Linux user, amateur gardener ( #GardeningFeed 🌱 ), and OJ drinker. he/him/his https://www.gbgames.com

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GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · Nov 13

Hi! I encourage curiosity and support creativity through my #IndieGameDev company GBGames.

- a very part-time #SoloDev
- was full-time briefly before running out of money and going back on "corporate welfare"
- slowly trying to get back to full-time
- been blogging about the adventure since 2005.

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GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 22h

Meet Gogo, an example of the many clowns you can make in Clown Alley Creator, available for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Make your own clowns today: www.gbgames.com/freshly-sque...

#Game #IndieGame #CozyGame

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GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 1d

Meet Dreary, an example of the many clowns you can make in Clown Alley Creator, available for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Make your own clowns today: www.gbgames.com/freshly-sque...

#Game #IndieGame #CozyGame

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GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 2d

Meet Lampy, an example of the many clowns you can make in Clown Alley Creator, available for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Make your own clowns today: www.gbgames.com/freshly-sque...

#Game #IndieGame #CozyGame

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GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 2d

Freshly Squeezed Progress Report: Asking the Big Questions www.gbgames.com/2025/10/06/f...

#GameDev #IndieGameDev #SoloDev #PixelArt

Freshly Squeezed Progress Report: Asking the Big Questions | GBGames

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GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 4d

I also told him about how if you waited on the title screen long enough, it would change a bit, and then it would play one of the songs. When I heard the song on the radio, I thought, "Oh, that sounds a lot like this one Atari game I once played."

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

Journey Escape Atari 2600 Complete Game Gameplay - The No Swear Gamer

YouTube video by The No Swear Gamer

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GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 4d

I hope he is as blown away as I was seeing the album in the wild, but more likely he thought I was a weirdo.

GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 4d

At a craft festival, I see vintage vinyl for sale, and on top? Journey's Escape album.

I tell him that when I was younger, I used to play the Atari game (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey...) & didn't know about the band or album until years later.

He had never heard of the game.

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GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 5d

Oh, it's an #LDJam weekend?

Good luck to all who are participating!

Ludum Dare @ludumdare.com · 5d

The Theme for Ludum Dare 58 is ...

Collector

ldjam.com #LDJam

GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 7d

I've been chided every so often for still having a Yahoo email address, and my excuse has always been that, you know, it has been my email address for most of my online life. Changing would be disruptive.

But maybe now is the time I finally use something else as my main personal email provider.

Yahoo! Mail saying that I can "set things up so my inbox works exactly how I want with the help of AI."

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GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 7d

Meet Kiddo, an example of the many clowns you can make in Clown Alley Creator, available for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Make your own clowns today: www.gbgames.com/freshly-sque...

#Game #IndieGame #CozyGame

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GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 8d

Meet Magic, an example of the many clowns you can make in Clown Alley Creator, available for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Make your own clowns today: www.gbgames.com/freshly-sque...

#Game #IndieGame #CozyGame

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GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 9d

Well, that was pretty.

GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 9d

A blog post in which I talk about preparing for a major update to an old strategy game I made: www.gbgames.com/2025/09/29/f...

#GameDev #IndieGameDev #SoloDev #PixelArt

Freshly Squeezed Progress Report: Getting Expansive with Ideas | GBGames

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GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 11d

Oh, and #ScreenshotSaturday.

GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 11d

I spent the week playing my #game Toytles: Leaf Raking and writing down ideas for improving it in terms of game play and enhanced audio/visuals, then started planning the Major Update(tm). Sign up for the GBGames Curiosities Newsletter to learn more about it: www.gbgames.com/get-the-gbga... #SoloDev

GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 11d

GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 12d

Meet Huey, an example of the many clowns you can make in Clown Alley Creator, available for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Make your own clowns today: www.gbgames.com/freshly-sque...

#Game #IndieGame #CozyGame

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13d

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.

It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.

heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

heated.world

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GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 13d

Meet Swirls, an example of the many clowns you can make in Clown Alley Creator, available for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Make your own clowns today: www.gbgames.com/freshly-sque...

#Game #IndieGame #CozyGame

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GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 14d

Meet Reggie, an example of the many clowns you can make in Clown Alley Creator, available for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Make your own clowns today: www.gbgames.com/freshly-sque...

#Game #IndieGame #CozyGame

GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 15d

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GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 15d

I hope I never piss you off.

GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 15d

Somehow I missed that the first day of autumn is here in this hemisphere, and I should probably remind people that my leaf-raking business game Toytles: Leaf Raking exists.

www.gbgames.com/toytles-leaf...

Toytles: Leaf Raking - map of one of the downtown neighborhoods featuring a few different sized yards and one house with two trees, which means it gets twice as much leaf cover on windy days

Toytles: Leaf Raking - Purchasing yard bags at Mr. Matt's Store. They are needed to rake up leaves. Don't run out!

Toytles: Leaf Raking - Amy's Yard, which has two trees and currently 9 leaves. Amy isn't a client yet, so the player will probably want to visit first and see if she's looking to hire someone to rake those leaves.

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Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 16d

Happy one year anniversary to this banger tweet that got so ridiculously blown out of proportion that it got us 70k wishlists in like a day

screenshot of a twitter exchange, dated Sept 23 2024:

@MaliceDaFirenze: We're making a game where you play a courier rier in 13th century Mongolia. No combat, just you, the horse(s) you've tamed, bred and trained and the vast wilderness. Would you play this? (10k replies, 11k reposts, 131k likes)

@doodlewhale: I would love to, as long as it can avoid woke DEI nonsense which appears unlikely as you have pronouns in your bio (shrug emoji) (337 replies, 124 reposts, 10k likes)

@MaliceDaFirenze: For every comment like this, I will add one extra pronoun to the game. (2k replies, 700 reposts, 19k likes)

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GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 15d

Meet Bonkers, an example of the many clowns you can make in Clown Alley Creator, available for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Make your own clowns today: www.gbgames.com/freshly-sque...

#Game #IndieGame #CozyGame

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GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com · 16d

Meet Chippy, an example of the many clowns you can make in Clown Alley Creator, available for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Make your own clowns today: www.gbgames.com/freshly-sque...

#Game #IndieGame #CozyGame