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small but loving reminder that i run aregames.art which is a devlog-focused indie games forum
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Outside these walls, the Children say, the grown-ups are monsters, and nowhere is safe.
Our bittersweet fairy tale RPG #StrayChildren is now available worldwide!
Buy it now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3649490/...
Buy it now on Nintendo Switch: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
Our bittersweet fairy tale RPG #StrayChildren is now available worldwide!
Buy it now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3649490/...
Buy it now on Nintendo Switch: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
October 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Outside these walls, the Children say, the grown-ups are monsters, and nowhere is safe.
Our bittersweet fairy tale RPG #StrayChildren is now available worldwide!
Buy it now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3649490/...
Buy it now on Nintendo Switch: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
Our bittersweet fairy tale RPG #StrayChildren is now available worldwide!
Buy it now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3649490/...
Buy it now on Nintendo Switch: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
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It's time to get your brain back.
Mark your calendars for September 17th!
⚔️Try Blanksword's free Demo on Steam⚔
⚔️Preorder the game on Kickstarter⚔️
👇Official trailer below, links in comments👇
Mark your calendars for September 17th!
⚔️Try Blanksword's free Demo on Steam⚔
⚔️Preorder the game on Kickstarter⚔️
👇Official trailer below, links in comments👇
September 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It's time to get your brain back.
Mark your calendars for September 17th!
⚔️Try Blanksword's free Demo on Steam⚔
⚔️Preorder the game on Kickstarter⚔️
👇Official trailer below, links in comments👇
Mark your calendars for September 17th!
⚔️Try Blanksword's free Demo on Steam⚔
⚔️Preorder the game on Kickstarter⚔️
👇Official trailer below, links in comments👇
still do have faith in itch, but it is starting to show w/ the # of fires the site has had to put out since ~2022 that the boots are too big, its very much the single faultpoint for indies
hopeful this highlights a need for collective organization to take place, upping oversight and communication
hopeful this highlights a need for collective organization to take place, upping oversight and communication
July 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
still do have faith in itch, but it is starting to show w/ the # of fires the site has had to put out since ~2022 that the boots are too big, its very much the single faultpoint for indies
hopeful this highlights a need for collective organization to take place, upping oversight and communication
hopeful this highlights a need for collective organization to take place, upping oversight and communication
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Today is two years since my book THE VIDEOGAME INDUSTRY DOES NOT EXIST was released! I'm still really proud of it as, I think, one of my best academic works. And I'm really thrilled with how much game researchers and especially developers have engaged with it. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
April 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Today is two years since my book THE VIDEOGAME INDUSTRY DOES NOT EXIST was released! I'm still really proud of it as, I think, one of my best academic works. And I'm really thrilled with how much game researchers and especially developers have engaged with it. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
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- nintendo (of "all indies secretly want to make nintendo games" fame :eyeroll:) no longer has a dedicated handheld. their spinoff titles are on the same console as their mainlines and had to scale up.
similarly, indies can "fill in" but also, on that platform have to weigh up against Zelda so..
similarly, indies can "fill in" but also, on that platform have to weigh up against Zelda so..
November 13, 2024 at 7:24 PM
- nintendo (of "all indies secretly want to make nintendo games" fame :eyeroll:) no longer has a dedicated handheld. their spinoff titles are on the same console as their mainlines and had to scale up.
similarly, indies can "fill in" but also, on that platform have to weigh up against Zelda so..
similarly, indies can "fill in" but also, on that platform have to weigh up against Zelda so..
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The Steam Page for our angelic brain-shuffling Roguelike RPG is now live!
To celebrate, we're holding an AMA in the replies to this post, and on our public Discord at the same time :]
Wishlist Blanksword on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3484670/...
To celebrate, we're holding an AMA in the replies to this post, and on our public Discord at the same time :]
Wishlist Blanksword on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3484670/...
April 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The Steam Page for our angelic brain-shuffling Roguelike RPG is now live!
To celebrate, we're holding an AMA in the replies to this post, and on our public Discord at the same time :]
Wishlist Blanksword on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3484670/...
To celebrate, we're holding an AMA in the replies to this post, and on our public Discord at the same time :]
Wishlist Blanksword on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3484670/...
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"Folks, we have climbed the mountain." www.patreon.com/posts/sdl3-i...
SDL3 is officially released! | Ryan C. Gordon
Get more from Ryan C. Gordon on Patreon
www.patreon.com
January 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"Folks, we have climbed the mountain." www.patreon.com/posts/sdl3-i...
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A terrifying noise echoes forth from the earth. And with it, a set of stories... Vextro's latest video game anthology, Tunnels of Vextro, is now public!
Like our first, Gardens of Vextro, each game is inspired by those before it. Please try them out!
itch.io/c/5260212/tu...
Like our first, Gardens of Vextro, each game is inspired by those before it. Please try them out!
itch.io/c/5260212/tu...
January 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A terrifying noise echoes forth from the earth. And with it, a set of stories... Vextro's latest video game anthology, Tunnels of Vextro, is now public!
Like our first, Gardens of Vextro, each game is inspired by those before it. Please try them out!
itch.io/c/5260212/tu...
Like our first, Gardens of Vextro, each game is inspired by those before it. Please try them out!
itch.io/c/5260212/tu...
playing Stray Children would own so hard right now
December 26, 2024 at 2:58 AM
playing Stray Children would own so hard right now
incredibly sobering at the 50min point on
ive got whiplash from just revisiting the two mid-2010s indie games docs last week. its crudely funny because the critique around the 2010s docs was that they were too 'celebratory'. now its simply impossible to talk about/demonstrate success...
ive got whiplash from just revisiting the two mid-2010s indie games docs last week. its crudely funny because the critique around the 2010s docs was that they were too 'celebratory'. now its simply impossible to talk about/demonstrate success...
I want to see the way we tell the stories of games—and game developers—go beyond advertisements. So, we worked with @NoodleVEVO to do just that.
This is the story of Bass Reeves Can’t Die, the latest game from Strange Scaffold.
You’ll want to watch this.
youtu.be/69Ukg2BqIk0
This is the story of Bass Reeves Can’t Die, the latest game from Strange Scaffold.
You’ll want to watch this.
youtu.be/69Ukg2BqIk0
this game developer basically let me wiretap them
YouTube video by Noodle
youtu.be
December 23, 2024 at 1:54 AM
incredibly sobering at the 50min point on
ive got whiplash from just revisiting the two mid-2010s indie games docs last week. its crudely funny because the critique around the 2010s docs was that they were too 'celebratory'. now its simply impossible to talk about/demonstrate success...
ive got whiplash from just revisiting the two mid-2010s indie games docs last week. its crudely funny because the critique around the 2010s docs was that they were too 'celebratory'. now its simply impossible to talk about/demonstrate success...
December 20, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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people could slag off this entire current era of indie games for the clones of 90's games or the endless metroidvania/deckbuilder stuff. but it's reductive! there's a lot of other stuff going on. so i don't know why people don't seem to want to extend that to late 2000's/early 2010's indie at all.
December 20, 2024 at 7:48 PM
people could slag off this entire current era of indie games for the clones of 90's games or the endless metroidvania/deckbuilder stuff. but it's reductive! there's a lot of other stuff going on. so i don't know why people don't seem to want to extend that to late 2000's/early 2010's indie at all.
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everyone say happy birthday indie games right now
December 20, 2004 saw the release of Doukutsu Monogatari, AKA Cave Story, a free game that was quickly translated into English and became the talk of the Internet. It's hard to estimate the impact it had on the indie scene and on the resurgence of 2D outside handheld consoles.
December 20, 2024 at 4:36 PM
everyone say happy birthday indie games right now
reverting back to calling tilesets chip sets in order to prove my allegiance to god
December 20, 2024 at 1:52 AM
reverting back to calling tilesets chip sets in order to prove my allegiance to god
heartwarming: this studio made a bsky starter pack to help the 300 roles they just let go of
November 27, 2024 at 7:40 PM
heartwarming: this studio made a bsky starter pack to help the 300 roles they just let go of
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for #indieanimationday here is a teaser for my short film and the acronym of the title
#animation #indieanimation
#art
#animation #indieanimation
#art
November 17, 2024 at 4:04 AM
for #indieanimationday here is a teaser for my short film and the acronym of the title
#animation #indieanimation
#art
#animation #indieanimation
#art
.. . .look mom... .. . im on mobygames....
did a little work making the dialogue/cutscene editor for this, so cool to see it fully together :">
did a little work making the dialogue/cutscene editor for this, so cool to see it fully together :">
SUCK UP SPEECH BUBBLES!!! MEET BIZARRE GODS!! …watch puppets cook?
🚨 GREAT GOD GROVE is OUT NOW on STEAM, NINTENDO SWITCH, and XBOX X|S 🚨
Can you use your words to save us from apocky-lips??
youtu.be/0QOe1ukeixw?...
store.steampowered.com/app/2840190/Great_God_Grove/
🚨 GREAT GOD GROVE is OUT NOW on STEAM, NINTENDO SWITCH, and XBOX X|S 🚨
Can you use your words to save us from apocky-lips??
youtu.be/0QOe1ukeixw?...
store.steampowered.com/app/2840190/Great_God_Grove/
GREAT GOD GROVE - TRAILER - OUT NOW
YouTube video by Yugo Limbo
youtu.be
November 15, 2024 at 5:26 PM
.. . .look mom... .. . im on mobygames....
did a little work making the dialogue/cutscene editor for this, so cool to see it fully together :">
did a little work making the dialogue/cutscene editor for this, so cool to see it fully together :">
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SUCK UP SPEECH BUBBLES!!! MEET BIZARRE GODS!! …watch puppets cook?
🚨 GREAT GOD GROVE is OUT NOW on STEAM, NINTENDO SWITCH, and XBOX X|S 🚨
Can you use your words to save us from apocky-lips??
youtu.be/0QOe1ukeixw?...
store.steampowered.com/app/2840190/Great_God_Grove/
🚨 GREAT GOD GROVE is OUT NOW on STEAM, NINTENDO SWITCH, and XBOX X|S 🚨
Can you use your words to save us from apocky-lips??
youtu.be/0QOe1ukeixw?...
store.steampowered.com/app/2840190/Great_God_Grove/
GREAT GOD GROVE - TRAILER - OUT NOW
YouTube video by Yugo Limbo
youtu.be
November 15, 2024 at 5:07 PM
SUCK UP SPEECH BUBBLES!!! MEET BIZARRE GODS!! …watch puppets cook?
🚨 GREAT GOD GROVE is OUT NOW on STEAM, NINTENDO SWITCH, and XBOX X|S 🚨
Can you use your words to save us from apocky-lips??
youtu.be/0QOe1ukeixw?...
store.steampowered.com/app/2840190/Great_God_Grove/
🚨 GREAT GOD GROVE is OUT NOW on STEAM, NINTENDO SWITCH, and XBOX X|S 🚨
Can you use your words to save us from apocky-lips??
youtu.be/0QOe1ukeixw?...
store.steampowered.com/app/2840190/Great_God_Grove/
feel like "AA" is kind of trite at this point. but i'm thinking about where the gap is forming/widening between indie titles that are broadly appealing on storefronts/vid. streaming vs the ones still very self-indulgently experimental
November 13, 2024 at 7:24 PM
feel like "AA" is kind of trite at this point. but i'm thinking about where the gap is forming/widening between indie titles that are broadly appealing on storefronts/vid. streaming vs the ones still very self-indulgently experimental
small but loving reminder that i run aregames.art which is a devlog-focused indie games forum
November 9, 2024 at 1:24 AM
small but loving reminder that i run aregames.art which is a devlog-focused indie games forum
i mean i know i cant be alone for falling into that stuff. outside of literal sales twitter became the de-facto "metric" most games had to track with.
but treating that stuff like the unwritten rules is probably tearing apart more small communities than anything
but treating that stuff like the unwritten rules is probably tearing apart more small communities than anything
disliking resurfacing the internal emotions of 'are my last 3 posts the Exact Content that will impress people so they follow back.'
+ the follower count echelon math about who 'gets' into what circles.
i wanna try being more candid but all this is what eventually got me to shut up on twitter ~2019
+ the follower count echelon math about who 'gets' into what circles.
i wanna try being more candid but all this is what eventually got me to shut up on twitter ~2019
November 8, 2024 at 12:19 AM
i mean i know i cant be alone for falling into that stuff. outside of literal sales twitter became the de-facto "metric" most games had to track with.
but treating that stuff like the unwritten rules is probably tearing apart more small communities than anything
but treating that stuff like the unwritten rules is probably tearing apart more small communities than anything
disliking resurfacing the internal emotions of 'are my last 3 posts the Exact Content that will impress people so they follow back.'
+ the follower count echelon math about who 'gets' into what circles.
i wanna try being more candid but all this is what eventually got me to shut up on twitter ~2019
+ the follower count echelon math about who 'gets' into what circles.
i wanna try being more candid but all this is what eventually got me to shut up on twitter ~2019
November 7, 2024 at 11:31 AM
disliking resurfacing the internal emotions of 'are my last 3 posts the Exact Content that will impress people so they follow back.'
+ the follower count echelon math about who 'gets' into what circles.
i wanna try being more candid but all this is what eventually got me to shut up on twitter ~2019
+ the follower count echelon math about who 'gets' into what circles.
i wanna try being more candid but all this is what eventually got me to shut up on twitter ~2019
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games world needs to finally grow beyond the enthusiast press sort of language defining everything and anything of how people approach games and a grow a fucking spine
November 6, 2024 at 10:08 PM
games world needs to finally grow beyond the enthusiast press sort of language defining everything and anything of how people approach games and a grow a fucking spine
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this is why i harp so much on big youtubers who push ahistorical narratives about games. it all comes back to feeding the big machine of gamer culture to people who are already isolated - thus reinforcing it. it's also about pushing stuff that is already marginal further to the margins
we in video games have an even greater obligation to make noise and not yield in the face of the right because our industry's complacency and cowardice is a significant catalyst for how we arrived at this outcome. angry gamers are cowards. call their bluff, every time.
November 6, 2024 at 10:05 PM
this is why i harp so much on big youtubers who push ahistorical narratives about games. it all comes back to feeding the big machine of gamer culture to people who are already isolated - thus reinforcing it. it's also about pushing stuff that is already marginal further to the margins