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Lya Mgtt ✧ Indie Game Dev @lyamgtt.bsky.social · 13d

The secret to keep consistency through all my games?? I use the SAME color palette ✨🎨🌸
#IndieGameDev #indiegames #cozygames #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

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Celia @celia-14.bsky.social · 3d

This #LudumDare 's narrative deduction game: stuck at home while your friends go catch monsters and battle trainers, can you complete your Monster Tracker with deduction alone? Follow the story and search for tricky clues in your friends' letters.

celia14.itch.io/my-friends-t...

#ld58 #gamedev

My Friends the Monster Trainers by Celia, jamwitch

Gotta deduce 'em all!

celia14.itch.io

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jamwitch @jamwitch-games.bsky.social · 18d

For #GBJam 13, we made an idle card game where your deck of cute familiars goes head-to-head against enemy monsters!

To fit with the theme, "unlucky", you start with no luck opening packs, but can increase your luck to discover and merge more powerful creatures. 🐈‍⬛

jamwitch.itch.io/familiar-flip

A pixel card game showing a unicorn card up against a goblin card

A pixel card game showing a grid of different cards

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splendidland🌱 @splendid.land · May 16

Formless Star is out now!

Travel to a mysterious ever-changing planet and gather data on the animals that live there.

There's 60 different creatures to find, all with unique behaviours and descriptions!

Get the game for free (or pay what you want) here!
splendidland.itch.io/formless-star

"formless star", clay models of characters with various propellers on their heads are stood in a row in front of a starry background.

Anemo, a red character with a big orange nose and a green anemometer on their head is stood in front of their spaceship.

Finding the animal "Lighthorse", which looks like a lighthouse with legs, and a head made out of transparent cones of light.
"Stands at the coastline to act as a beacon, however it has difficulty discerning a puddle from an ocean. said to be proud of its red stripes."

Inside the spaceship, the character Turbine, who is green and has buck teeth, is saying "They say if you love your job, you'll never work a day in your life. Seems I may be the only worker here."

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Celia @celia-14.bsky.social · Aug 15

Some Jamwitch Games highlights from me and @rosekeller.bsky.social:

💙Nothing to Say is a sweet letter-unlocking dating sim
💜The Case of the Dungeon Descent is a non-linear mystery like Her Story
🩷Interstellar Connection is a puzzle game with an unfolding story

jamwitch.itch.io

#gamedev #indiedev

jamwitch

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coco @cocoglez.bsky.social · Aug 14

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The Roottrees are Dead @roottrees.com · Jun 16

Our next game is The Incident at Galley House, a remake of the text game Type Help.

If you liked The Roottrees are Dead please wishlist it on Steam!

store.steampowered.com/app/3641000/...

The Incident at Galley House on Steam

In 1936, something terrible happened at Galley House. Decades later, with a strange contraption that reveals echoes of the past, you must uncover the truth behind this grisly mystery.

store.steampowered.com

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meyo 🌸 @meyoco.bsky.social · Nov 7

the lion, the witch and the wardrobe

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Rose Keller @rosekeller.bsky.social · Apr 8

Just submitted our #LDJam entry! The Case of the Dungeon Descent was inspired by investigation games like Her Story, The Roottrees are Dead, and Type Help. #indiedev

jamwitch.itch.io/the-case-of-...

The Case of the Dungeon Descent by jamwitch, Celia, Rose

Scry to investigate the princess's fate

jamwitch.itch.io

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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · Apr 4

Curious about the intersection between Metroidbrainias and conlangs? Check out our latest article!
thinkygames.com/feat...

How fictional languages are perfect for the Metroidbrainia formula · Thinky Games

Traditional metroidvanias aren’t the conlang’s ideal pairing. Rather, it’s their thinky cousins, the metroidbrainia.

thinkygames.com

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localthunk @localthunk.com · Mar 7

I've had parts of this written down for a while - but I thought it was about time to document the detailed version of what happened during Balatro development

localthunk.com/blog/balatro...

The Balatro Timeline — LocalThunk

It’s been approximately 3 years since I began work on Balatro - and in that time I have personally documented almost nothing about the journey. This is something that has bothered me since the game la...

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🐟🐟🐟 @ aniyeg oct 11th @miyaulait.bsky.social · Feb 7

🌻🌸(2020-2021)

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Evil Trout @eviltrout.com · Jan 29

I wrote up a long technical blog post about how I built The Roottrees are Dead: eviltrout.com/2025/01/27/b... - it was a super fun project to work on and #Godot was a big part of it.

Building The Roottrees are Dead

The Roottrees are Dead was released on January 15, 2025 and it did much better than I ever expected. The reception has been amazing. In just over a week, the game hit the magic mark of 500 reviews on ...

eviltrout.com

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Stefscribbles @stefscribbles.bsky.social · Nov 24

good morning neighbour ☕

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bunny 🍎🐛 @oakfrogs.bsky.social · Nov 11

the mystic milkshake 🍒✨
#art

digital painting of four cats (a purple cat, pink cat, ginger cat and white cat) sat around a diner table, staring hungrily at a milkshake that is glowing magically. the illustration is bordered by drawings tiny drawings of little cats and stars and fish and more

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laura @lauraillustrates.bsky.social · Nov 12

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illustration of a small brown bear in a large flower field with bunnies and bees

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Nina 🌱 @ninapekoe.bsky.social · Oct 25

🐰 #art

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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · Nov 12

Wooo, 1k followers! Thank you all for following. 🎉

For those who found us in a starter pack and might not know what we're about: we share, discuss, stream, write about, and celebrate puzzly problem-solving games!

Please check out our recently launched thinky database: thinkygames.com/games/

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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · Oct 31

Some illustrations from our game!! Juliana did the sketches for these and I colored. A very purple year. 💜🧡

The win screen end card for Magic Cat Academy. Momo throws her graduation cap up with her friends and the ghosts. Everyone is smiling, the colors are warm. Dog student didn't throw his cap, he is chewing on it.

Lose end card for the game. Momo falling back to earth, looking at a smug ghost. Many purple ghosts are flying back down around Momo, among shooting stars. One star has a bite taken out of it. The bg clouds and sky are purple and orange.

Momo and Marshmallow in the middle of a duel in space. Momo casts a spell that has yellow beams of light and sparkles shooting from her wand. Marshmallow's face has a purple glow and he grubs maniacally.A loose paper with an hourglass symbol is in the corner.

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Skelesse 💀✿ @celesse.bsky.social · Oct 31

It's spooky out there tonight, let me light the way 🐈‍⬛✨ #art #cuteart #cats #witch

A photo of a watercolor painting of a fluffy black kitten witch wearing a dark brown hat, a simple beige floral dress and a green cloak with a big brown bow at the neck. She holds a broom in one paw and a lantern in the other. Two paintbrushes and a paint pallet are on either side.

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jamwitch @jamwitch-games.bsky.social · Oct 31

Happy Halloween! 🎃 To celebrate, we updated Hilda's Familiars with a few improvements we didn't have time for during #GBJAM.

jamwitch.itch.io/hildas-famil...

#gamedev #indiedev #gamejam

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · Oct 29

You are what you eat! 🍬🎃

Illustration of a happy looking cute kitty character eating a big piece of candy corn while surrounded by more candy corn. The kitty's colors and markings are orange, yellow, and white like the candy corn itself.

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jamwitch @jamwitch-games.bsky.social · Oct 27

Creative Types got 1st place for Innovation in #LD56!

During the jam, we couldn't agree on the design: #interactivefiction where you type preset responses, or "Mad Libs" where you invent silly entries? The compromise - some of both - worked great!

jamwitch.itch.io/creative-types
#LDJam #gamejam

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torcado @torcado.com · Oct 24

I made a pixel art upscaling/rotation algorithm called cleanEdge! It makes rotating pixel art as clean as possible

torcado.com/cleanEdge

I made a tool for it too! drop your sprites in and get some nice rotated or upscaled versions :)

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Rose Keller @rosekeller.bsky.social · Oct 23

My latest game jam!

I wanted to make some cute tiny creatures like the Picori from The Minish Cap, but I'm totally new to 3D modeling and texturing, so they came out pretty rough.

#GodotEngine was great as usual and I was able to bring the characters to life with tweens.

#gamedev #gamejam

jamwitch @jamwitch-games.bsky.social · Oct 23

Our entry to #LudumDare 56 is "Creative Types", a short story about two tiny creatures trying to use a human-sized keyboard.

jamwitch.itch.io/creative-types

#gamedev #gamejam

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