Drew Genel

fastest steam purchase of my life

Monuments To Guilt (@louisthings.bsky.social) "Take a first-person wander through Monuments to Guilt, a short exhibition exploring exclusionary design." Free - Windows, Mac: warpdoor.com/2026/10/23/m...

Speaking of great student projects, this is a really fun game by some alum of RIT who we saw a lot of at festivals and cons last year. Special s/o to @drewg8.itch.io!

i missed seeing roguelike celebration live, but i got to hear a version of this talk earlier this year in NYC, and it’s really incredible

For those who know Steam marketing timelines, this puts a little bit of a scary deadline over our heads, but I'm also really excited!

Ladder Lad Demo is up on Steam! Check out the game I've been working on the the last couple years... for $0.00 (100% off)!!!! Act now and be one of the first chosen few who leave a positive review. store.steampowered.com/app/4815010/...

Here's my next game, ROTETRA, a tetromino stacker where you spin the whole board and juggle multiple pieces at once! It's a little bit cursed, but I've been having fun making it! Play the demo (and wishlist 👉👈): store.steampowered.com/app/4306820/... also, on web: sharkwithlasers.itch.io/rotetra

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

🟥 Virtue and a Sledgehammer is coming. 🟥 27 October 2026. Just one month until you confront your past. 🔨 store.steampowered.com/app/3743260/...

Hey! Since our demo launched on Steam this summer, we've been taking a break. But now we're back to work and focusing on fixing a thorny problem: motion sickness with the truck.

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In the Valley of the Underground Mountain, within the compartment nation of Lyptch... 🛤️🏛️🎨The Zium Railway🎨🏛️🛤️ an open world gallery, a new exhibition, now available! Free admission. Be welcomed and enjoy. thezium.art/theziumrailway

I want to make things that feel like Cosmo Sheldrake’s music sounds

Extremely heartbroken to say that I'm one of the affected members. Working at KO_OP for four and a half years has been one of the best things to ever happen to me and I really hope that my teammates can land a pitch that can bring us all back together again.

I’ve gotten used to the kind of emails you get after you put something on Steam, but wow, these two are particularly egregious

I'm glad this #FriendsAtTheTable Partizan title sequence fan video by @drewg8.itch.io popped back up in my YouTube feed for the first time in a while. It really conjures up such a perfect atmosphere. Partizan rules, listen to Partizan, never be not listening to Partizan, watch this video.

We’re so excited to be part of this year’s Future Games Show! 🧑🏼‍🚀 🪐 Be sure to check out the showcase to catch all the great games you missed! 📽️ Future Games Show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfJj... 🎮 Play on XBOX: hi.youngsuns.com/XBOX ✨ Wishlist on Steam: hi.youngsuns.com/Steam

The demo for MUTAGEN is out NOW! 👾 Explore a lush, interconnected alien ecosystem that reshapes itself each time you die. Absorb mutations from your fallen kin to reach new areas and adapt to your surroundings. Find your own solutions, and unearth the planet's many secrets. #gamedev #indiegame

it's a close race between Titanium Court and Cairn for me. Big Walk and Marathon would probably have chance, but I need to play more of them

I haven't stopped thinking about this game for two years. Go play it

as far as i'm concerned, there is no difference between a "controller" and a "manager" in programming and it's just all about what will make the class name sound coolest

In the Valley of the Underground Mountain... Announcing... 🛤️🏛️🎨The Zium Railway🎨🏛️🛤️ an open world galley, and a new exhibition from The Zium Society will be released on September 13th 2026 Here's a trailer: youtu.be/9yf-lTRRRjc

Gonna be blunt, the reason I complain about AI so much is because it's made so much extra work for me, as I'm inundated with AI slopware games that I have to sort through and filter out, if this garbage tech ceased to exist tomorrow, it would be an immediate ease of that workload.

Hey! Long time no see! We're really excited to announce that we'll be in this year's Wholesome Games Celebration on Steam! We'll be back with some news about what's happening in the world of Pelican Post very soon...

TOMORROW.

🎉Excited to announce I've adapted Party House from UFO 50 into a physical card game! 🎉 Teaser trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHNF... Kickstarter prelaunch page (shared w/ a Baba is You game!): www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit... Brought to you by @bitewinggames.bsky.social More details soon! 🥳

Pretty happy with these results

Falling asleep and hoping I wake up in the alternate reality where Sufjan Stevens did write an album for each of the 50 states. At the very least, one for New York.

All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...

This rules: @adriansandoval.net has been building a wiki about local Philadelphia game dev history. AND, recognizing that he is a single point of failure, he's seeking local government funding to support the site and partner with local groups for its stewardship

Made a game with some friends for GMTK Jam this year. It's a game about organizing people in a photo before the shutter timer goes off, and I think it's pretty fun :) jeremykdev.itch.io/get-my-good-...

500 STABS. 20 MINUTES. Do you have what it takes to survive? A horror roguelite about stabbing yourself in the hand 500 times to escape a deadly trap. Can you make it out with all your fingers? Or will you bleed out on the table? Demo coming soon: store.steampowered.com/app/4602120/...

This Saturday, Indiepocalypse Radio returns at 2PM ET with guests @nathanleigh.bsky.social & @nicoleorabona.bsky.social, @beewertheimer.com, and samira herber (samiraherber.itch.io)! Tune in it at www.indiepocalypse.com/radio Send questions to www.indiepocalypse.com/questions

This is probably the biggest moment of my life 😭 After 4 years, the Game UI Bible has finally launched for all the world to see. A 400+ page tome of Game UI/UX goodness, celebrating all the weird and wonderful intricacies of this field. I'm SO proud of this book, and for you all to read it!

one of the things about working in a creative field is that you sometimes end up watching stuff that you might not personally love but which is doing something interesting / important / useful to your project over and over and over again

vamos españa

SEVEN-PART PACT, my fantastical ornate TTRPG about powerful wizards, asymmetrical board games, and the pressures of masculinity is now launching on kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

small handheld. big ben.