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My first ever video game, Pluto: Cave Mission Prologue is available RIGHT NOW! Enjoy a short and fun metroidvania entirely for free.
Link: thatjoshoverthere.itch.io/pluto-cmp
#indiegame #indiedev #metroidvania
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Had a great time making this for Boss Rush Jam :)
💿 SPYYN 💿
5 bosses, 6 great tracks to unlock, some upgrades and much love put into it! 💜
Go take a look and tell us what you think!
🔗 sidralgames.itch.io/spyyn
#indiegame #gamedev #GameMaker #pixelart #aseprite #BossRushJam2025
Disco Elysium is one of the best games ever made, and I do not make that declaration lightly. Please do yourself a favor and play it.
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Turns out I haven't updated my profile pic in 2.5 years, whoops.
Maybe this is petty(?) of me, but whenever I see the "I want a game with worse graphics yadda yadda I'm not kidding" meme, I get a little annoyed. As someone who's made two short games with worse graphics, no, people don't actually seem to want that. Which is fine, but I wish people would be honest.
If you're gonna champion yourself as being against AAA out of principle or whatever, that means taking a chance on the maybe mediocre games of indie devs, not just the 1 in a million smash hits after they're already popular and you know they're good.
Will some people this is a bad look for an aspiring dev? Probably. But I think I have an amount of right to be frustrated given how hard it is to get people to give anything you make the time of day.
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Video Game History Museum Library Digital Archive is now available to the public archive.gamehistory.org
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This is how easy (and ) has made it to integrate version checking in your game. (Thanks guys!) Took me only a few minutes to add this in right before I released the game.
Let me show you! (🧵)
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #tips #tricks #gamemaker #itchio #api
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Crewmate from Among Us is now available as paid character DLC for Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2km...
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I've designed a new "Do not upload, not for AI training" stamp making improvements based on your feedback. Thank you! Download for free:
Hice un nuevo sello de "No resubir, no usar en entrenamiento de IA", haciendo mejoras basadas en sus opiniones. Gracias! Descarga gratis:
ko-fi.com/i/IH2H219B6YQ
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If I do the "canon Pokémon team" thing no one is allowed to judge me for using a picture from 2-3 years ago, I'm very seldom captured on film
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idk why my brain is melting today this is my third time remaking the background. 💀
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over on Thanks Ken Penders I wrote about two specific areas of the writing that fascinated me in Sonic X Shadow Generations: the subtle revisions made to the script in Sonic Generations, and Gerald Robotnik's journal in Shadow Generations! thankskenpenders.tumblr.com/post/7735021...
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Sonic Rumble has reached 400k pre-registrations, which has unlocked the Happy Chao sticker!
Next reward is Crystal Chao Buddy at 600k
Pre-reg here!: bit.ly/3E6ucX3
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This is incredible work by 👏
Here is the link to the Figma file:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/cvkwb...
Yes, that is the official link 😑, which can be found on this page
partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/as...
#GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #SoloDev #Steam
BREAKING: Game devs!
Steam now has a new FREE tool to preview how your game assets will actually look on the store!
Made by a dev, bought by Steam & given away free!
✅ Accurate Mockups
✅ Easy drag-and-drop in Figma
✅ See all your assets
#gamedev #steam #indiegamedev
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A web developer has created and released an infinitely generating "tar pit" designed to trap AI training bots in an endless maze: "Just me unleashing shear unadulterated rage at how things are going"
www.404media.co/developer-cr...
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These days, 'indie’ either means solo hobbyist or multimillion dollar companies using the word 'indie' to market themselves, but there are SO many developers in-between: professional, long-term devs who haven't grown into a huge studio – perhaps due to funding or simply because they don't want to.
yet another issue with the “indies will save us” narrative outlined (and debunked) on the latest you are error
aftermath.site/you-are-erro...
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Draw what you're wearing meme! I am not fashionable when I'm at home.
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Over on the Discord we've been showing off and playing with our work-in-progress digital library (soon!), this is going to be such a great resource. I just asked it to show me every video game magazine in our collection in chronological order that says "Metroidvania."
I try not to share too much stuff concerning Trump/Elon/etc because I don't want to accidentally overwhelm people with negative posts and such, but to be abundantly clear: Those guys are the worst kind of scum, I hate them, and I hope all of you at home can find some joy today.
Alright internet, another Monday another soundtrack added to Nintendo Music. What do YOU think is getting added tonight?
I hadn't thought about amiibo's place with the Switch 2 yet, but this is a good point. In my opinion, amiibo have a very thin tightrope to walk in needing some kind of function to justify themselves but not so big a function it seems rude to lock it behind an amiibo, and it can be hit or miss.
It happened - I got to write about #amiibos. Holding out hope there's a push to keep these wonderful toys going. #switch2
www.gamesradar.com/hardware/my-...
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I can't say I'm surprised. I'm sure a lot of this is due to convenience because of how long Steam has been around and how big of a library it is for long-term users. Plus people like achievements and automatic updates.
We ran a poll on twitter yesterday and curious to see what people over here think. (More in the replies 🧵)
I've definitely wondered if biting the bullet and paying to get Pluto CMP on Steam would help get eyes on it. As much as I love it, itchio and similar platforms are really there for hardcore gamers, because most casual players don't know about it. Having my game on a more known platform might help.
There may also be a psychological aspect of "Oh it's on itchio? Anyone can publish there. But what's this, it's on Steam? Now THAT'S a major platform!" that could give games more of a feeling of legitimacy, even if it's not really true.
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the bouncy animations and the squash and stretch in the new Mario Kart look wonderful. even the puffy wheels have squash and stretch. ❤️
Had the incredible experience last night in Rivals where someone was being a huge piece of shit in chat and me and my friend just kept mocking them the whole game, and when we eventually won they put "ez" in chat. Motherfucker was so dumb they didn't even know they'd lost, it was incredible.
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Easily the best DK I've ever drawn. (He has OK KO eyes now and I love him for it.)
#art #fanart #drawing #NintendoSwitch2
Reading this made me realize that accessory manufacturers are going to have to have their third party Joy-Con be magnetic, and I'm imagining the inevitable disappointment when cheaper companies don't use powerful enough magnets and their accessories just. Fall off for no reason.
Third party companies are going to make an adapter accessory for the Switch 2's Joy-Con rail so you can attach Switch 1 Joy-Cons to it and I can't wait to see what that abomination looks like
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Second, we released a new pixel font called CI GameDev 16px. We aim to make it one of our most comprehensive fonts in terms of language support as we update it moving forward... and it's 100% FREE for commercial use! #GameDev ci.itch.io/ci-gamedev-1...
I've seen a lot of people with this sentiment, and while I think "Switch 2 isn't as unique and intriguing as a whole new concept" is a fair opinion, it's a HUGE leap to "Nintendo is the new Apple and creativity is dead"
Also, the article glosses right over the likely mouse functionality, which we haven't even seen in practice yet. If it's real, controllers that can double as a mouse for a variety of games is HUGELY innovative! They just didn't choose to show it off right away for whatever reason.
I don't have an end point to this. People can be disappointed or bored by the trailer, whatever, I'm not gonna scream and tell anyone to fuck off, but I do think this article is a bit sensational, and not in a good way.
Oh yeah, I beat Balan Wonderworld last night. Easily one of the most baffling and infuriating games I've ever played. I genuinely think everyone should play it for at least 30 minutes.
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I wrote a new tutorial! This one's about radial health/progress bars in GameMaker.
yal.cc/gamemaker-ra...
SWITCH 2!!! I'm so glad it's been officially revealed. I wish we were given a BIT more info than just "MK9 is a thing", but I guess we'll find out more in 2.5 months.
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"Live and Learn" – My new Sonic Adventure 2 Map is finished. Trying out a new map size for this one!
This is what I'm expecting, yeah. There's gonna be a period of overlap, especially with the new console being backwards compatible. Although with how delayed this console has supposedly been and how many ports/remasters we're already seeing, I'm guessing it'll be closer to 1 year than 2-3.
Grubb claims games shown in next Pokemon Direct will be for original Switch
Journalist Jeff Grubb has spoken about the next Pokemon Direct presentation, which has yet to be announced by the folks at The Pokemon Company. Grubb claims that the new Pokemon games which will be showcased, including…
Definitely more of a 3DS to Switch situation (some games will come out that have been cooking, but for the most part people will be moving on) than a PS4 to PS5 "the PS5 exists but like 92% of games launch on PS4 anyway" situation.
Okay yeah nevermind, I'm not gonna do this particular jam considering his recent stances.
But the offer stands in general: if you're working on any kind of project and want some help on stuff, I'm available!
Very much considering trying this one! If anyone on here is looking for help with art / GML programming / music, let me know!
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howdy again #portfolioday!!!
I'm Quay and I make funny lil creechurs move around ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
✉️ chrisquayart@gmail.com
🖼️ chrisquay.com
🎨 vgen.co/WayOfTheQuay
If Nintendo DOES announce their next console on Thursday, surely they'll have some kind of preceding post in the next 36 hours or so, and I'm really curious WHEN that'll actually happen.
Polls aren't a thing here yet, but imagine there's a poll between
"Usual Direct time in the morning",
"Random time in the evening", and
"Middle of the night"
(With the caveat that some of these times make more/less sense regionally)
WOOOOOOOOO
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker OST added to Nintendo Music share.m.nintendo.com/en-US/US/off...
WAIT I CAN POST ONE OF MY FAVORITE DRAWINGS AGAIN BECAUSE OF THE NINTENDO CONSOLE RUMORS