Greg Lobanov

Greg Lobanov

@greg.style

silly game maker making @beastieball.bsky.social blog: http://wishesgames.com profile banner is a fanart by wendi/trebuchet/闻笛

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Hard at work on development for Party House: the Deckbuilding game & getting very excited about all the fun new characters I'm adding! Our joint Kickstarter campaign with the Baba is You Board Game has less than 3 days left. Go check it out now & back 1 or both games!

kickstarter.comBaba Is You: The Board Game & Party House: Deckbuilding GameTwo sensational award-winning video games — Baba is You and Party House (UFO 50) — leap off the screen and onto your table!

I miss the twitter feature where people’s profile would include their location. I’m going to Toronto soon and I don’t have a way to stalk my friends and check if they live there….

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MONOMOON, my non-linear game about exploration and discovery launches on Steam November 11th! With no proper instructions, you must deduce and achieve your goals as you solve puzzles, find mysterious items, and uncover secrets hiding right under your nose.

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It's TIME! TO! GET! HYPE! Today, I get to proudly unveil Steam Hype, the project I've been working on with the help of @hookshot.media for the past two and a half months. A new PC gaming site which aims to demystify PC gaming, cut through the 100+ daily releases and spotlight indies as much as AAA

steamhype.comSteam HypeSteam Hype is your go-to destination for discovering the latest, greatest, and most talked-about games on Steam.

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I’m going to be on the couch for this Chicory speedrun! At pax west!!!

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hey what if i went to seattle for no particular reason

When a menu has a neat little tween. Or a character has a funny little animation. Somebody out there spent days making that little detail perfect. And when you’re playing a game you’re blasted with like 50 of these little things per minute. Games are so rich with human life! It’s awesome!!!

I’m going to be on the couch for this Chicory speedrun! At pax west!!!

Hallow@erin-hallow.bsky.social

hey what if i went to seattle for no particular reason

Had the privilege of being a tester for big walk and I can corroborate that it’s an amazing, special game. A “play together with your friends” game made with tremendous thought and care and authenticity, so well crafted it ruined other co-op games for me. Get a group together, you won’t regret it!

Seeing it put under the “friendslop” umbrella feels tragic because the game has been in the works since long before the genre became trendy. The reason it’s coming out later is because a huge amount of effort went into it. Big walk is doing its own thing… it’s the real deal

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Boreal Tenebrae Act 0 is finally here! A indie narrative adventure, set in a forgotten Canadian town. It's available now on Steam. #indiegame #horrorgame #analoghorror #psxstyle #lowpoly #indiedev #gamedev #steamwishlist #indiehorror #weirdcore

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🪸The Mermaid Mask🪸 is OUT NOW on Steam, Switch 1 and Switch 2 - and hopefully very soon on PS5! A murder-mystery detective adventure aboard the world's strangest submarine...

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Today we have something special: a newly translated interview from July 1996 between Shigeru Miyamoto and Kenji Eno! Conducted just weeks after the launch of Mario 64, Eno takes Miyamoto to task (in a friendly way) with several fascinating critiques of its design. shmuplations.com/miyamotoxeno/

shmuplations.comShigeru Miyamoto x Kenji Eno (1996) - shmuplations.comIn July 1996, Kenji Eno visited Nintendo HQ to speak with Shigeru Miyamoto as the first of his "cross-talk" series.

congrats deltarune team on another fabulous chapter, i binged it today so that i couldn't be spoiled. 🫡 funny, resonant and surprising as always... inspires me to keep working hard too.

played Yoshi and the mysterious book yesterday with the boys and it is great! so playful and fun! the kiddie aesthetic definitely made me doubt it. never played anything like it though and it got my gears turning with inspiration.

What particularly interests me is how it uses generic skinner box/ progression systems but to motivate the type of game activity I find most exciting (trying stuff, messing around, discovering hidden interactions). It’s very thoughtfully designed. Nintendo magic…

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Announcing the Beastieball Grassroots League! We've created a limited supply of special merchandise which will never be available for sale. Instead, these items will be shipped only to players who place in certified competitive Beastieball events 🤯

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It’s the last day of Vancouver Game Garden 2026!! Come check out local indie games, art, dev talks, and get (or win!) some exclusive merch! In case you haven’t heard, the event is totally free and open to all ages, so be sure to stop by the Roundhouse today before 5pm, gamers! 👾🌱

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GAME GARDEN 2026 STARTS NOW!! 🎮🌻 Come today and tomorrow (June 13+14) from 11am-5pm at the Roundhouse Community Centre to check out local indie video games, art, developer talks, AND get some exclusive merch while you’re at it!! The event is free and open to all ages, so bring family & friends! 💚

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Beastieball Milestone Update 5 is out now!! To celebrate, the game is 15% off for the next 2 weeks! 😄 This update adds Steam Workshop support! Now you can create, play and share custom Beasties, music, and more! We also added a ton of new animations, a new area, and many top-requested features!

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Our next milestone update is coming… in a week! June 11th, the Mythwood update! Expect new animations, a new area, and new music! Plus a couple more surprises … stay tuned!

“I wonder how come the best-reviewed game of 2026 is not the fastest-selling”… i once wondered the same (chicory is about equal to mina’s metacritic and minuscule compared to mina’s sales). Turns out there’s many ways to be “good” that don’t equal “top selling” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.comIndie Video Game ‘Mina the Hollower’ Sells 300,000 Copies in Three DaysThe new action-platformer is the best-reviewed video game of 2026 so far

Mina is great, but definitely a bit niche. To me it seems to be doing really well! it’s interesting to see other teams whose expectations are set galaxies apart from what is reality to me (…and by all accounts I’m also a top-tier indie success! But there is a huge range even at that tier).

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The Crane Rider's Tale is a queer Chinese fantasy game where you fly passengers around a medieval town... but there's a serial killer among them! Our campaign ends on May 28th, which means there's less than 72 hours left to back it!!

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Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.

Only a couple days left to get Coin Crypt for 90%(!) off It is the very first roguelike deck builder ever published (that I can find). It has a lot of weird choices, from an alternate reality where slay the spire never existed. Still proud of it :) store.steampowered.com/app/264690/C...

store.steampowered.comSave 90% on Coin Crypt on SteamA roguelite deckbuilding adventure game about magical coins. You play as a lootmancer, who can unlock the hidden power inside of coins and use them in magical duels. The loots you take from chests and...

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📢 Join us for a big ol' GameMaker Update blog as we detail what's coming in 2026 and beyond! LTS updates, GMRT languages, source available, upcoming extensions, GM CLI, and a whole new dimension... 👀 🔗 gamemaker.io/en/blog/upda...