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Moonlit Dreams is a sokoban game with overlapping levels, taking place inside your dreamscape! I've been working on it for a solid 3 months now, and it's shaping up to be very special... You can wishlist it on Steam! :D store.steampowered.com/app/4482070/... #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

McSpaghetti is a game about cooking pasta with dubious ingredients, performing well under time pressure, and feeling underappreciated in the workplace. Made for #FallingBlockJam! Always a joy to get to do something with my friends lol :) Check it out here! ➡️ f4b1.itch.io/mcspaghetti

I just had a glitch where every single notification I've ever gotten here became unread and re-notified me. Scared the hell out of me, I thought something happened lmao

New #devlog alert!!! My sokoban game had an issue. What if a player is stuck? How do I let them keep progressing, without just letting them skip levels all willy-nilly? We're probably thinking the same thing: add a city, a commune and a small town guarding a mysterious door! youtu.be/hdhL141paIE

Endacopia

Somebody asked me on Reddit why people who use AI to generate Recomp projects are currently being rejected from the communities and what they can do to fix this. I might tweak parts of this to be a more general blog post at some point, but this should be of help to anyone in a similar situation.

Wanted to try out Godot on my Android tablet. Not only does it run well, it runs my project (aimed at PCs) perfectly. Besides some mysterious errors that don't show on PC but also don't seem to affect anything. I'm in awe @godotengine.org, amazing job to all the contributors that made this possible.

:) #gamedev #indiedev #madeingodot

I felt the current logo was a little too Comic Sans-y, so I went back and made a whole dang new one from scratch. So here's a little before and after! #gamedev #indiedev

One that even gamedevs don't always realize about other games is that a lot of the time that thing you don't like is that way on purpose. Players usually think of games only as software, not art. Often, missing "quality of life" features or "inefficient" systems are affirmative creative choices.

After the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase and the Steam Next Fest, I'm back on that #devlog biz. I'm talking cold hard numbers here, cuz the power of showcases is a lil crazy for marketing lol You can check that out here :) youtu.be/XEuxmZG00rs #gamedev #indiedev #madewithgodot

60% drop in reviews if people even smell AI on your game - full supports the investors, developers, and publishers that took a hard "no gen-AI" stance, despite grifters' proclamations that they were "going to be left behind".

Truly inspiring to see large corporations like Unity and Epic openly learn from each other and create true interoperability, in that both engines now equally and seamlessly support "moving to Godot". www.unrealengine.com/news/the-roa...

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The Moonlit Dreams demo will be available during Next Fest! (And, don't tell anyone, but it's also available right now...) Check out a sokoban game with overlapping levels! store.steampowered.com/app/4482070/... #gamedev #puzzlegames #madewithgodot

im about to print this and frame it

gamedev problem: my placeholder asset is too perfect to replace

Moonlit Dreams has a demo available at the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase, alongside many other fantastic games! You can check out the first few levels of my sokoban game with overlapping levels at this link: store.steampowered.com/app/4482070/... Hope you enjoy! 🙌 #gamedev #indiedev

Moonlit Dreams has a demo available at the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase, alongside many other fantastic games! You can check out the first few levels of my sokoban game with overlapping levels at this link: store.steampowered.com/app/4482070/... Hope you enjoy! 🙌 #gamedev #indiedev

We're excited to announce that the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase will begin TOMORROW and run from May 28 - June 4! Featuring discounts on a selection of excellent puzzle games, streams from our favorite streamers, demos for upcoming games & plenty more! Links below 👇 www.cerebralpuzzleshowcase.com

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.

Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

SO happy to announce Moonlit Dreams will have a demo during the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase! You can read more here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/448... Thank you @puzzleshowcase.bsky.social for the opportunity! Hope everyone'll check out all the fantastic thinky games at the event when it starts!

BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.

Tempted to reply to this scam with something stupid like "the game's $4 on Steam you don't need the other $96" I wonder what the goal here genuinely is tho. Do they just buy the game and fill it with cryptominers? What's even the play here #gamedev #indiedev

Experimenting with the idea of running save files on the title screen for very smooth game-loading ...

fuck it, i had more thoughts about this, so i wrote them down mors.games/blog/do-we-e...

Vendo um monte de gente aqui falando como se Toby Fox não soubesse da existência de "empresas profissionais de localização" e gostaria de lembrar que ISSO AQUI quase foi a loc oficial de Celeste, feita por empresa muito bem recomendada:

when developing any user-facing software, make localisation something you think about fairly early on in the development process. it gets a lot easier to work on in the future, even if you dont currently intend on it, if you already have groundwork laid out for it

devs know pain when this happens to you

Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.

Hi everyone. Things have been happening in the fan-translation scene and I've been overdue in talking about them. For the first time ever I've made a long writeup. Please read it and feel free to reach out to me with comments.

i hope one day i will be able to make a post on this damn site with the word "gamedev" in it without this stupid bot account liking the post

A big draw of the game-design-by-A/B-testing type thinking is that it absolves you from having to form your own opinions & taste. It allows you to outsource the most difficult part of any creative endeavour: actually believing in your vision.