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It Consumes is now available on Steam! It's a frantic arena shooter set in total darkness, where you see by beating your heart. - Roguelite and classic modes - Leaderboards - Extensive custom games editor where you can make your own game modes and modifiers store.steampowered.com/app/2371060/...

DEADBODY is a no-AI studio because it's simply the correct choice. You get better results, you don't alienate customers, you don't contribute to the death of the commons, you get to work with interesting people, your pipeline isn't stuck through an unreliable external service. It's all wins!

"why can you not just enjoy AI art?"

on AI eroding trust and humanity

Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.

I frequently see "AI" boosters implying that LLMs are simply an innate and superior part of coding now, inescapable, and that literally all programmers agree with them. And, well. That, too, is a form of propaganda

ITS OUT! ⚔️ Slash-Out: Fantasy Dueling ⚔ OUT NOW ⚔️ Battle 10 Unique Bosses KICK THEIR ASS, OR THEYLL KICK YOURS 🛡️ Journey across a diverse landscape on a quest to defeat an ancient evil Fight a DJ Wizard, get eaten by a whale, all this and more! 🥩 FUCK AI, THIS IS MADE BY FLESH AND BLOOD

Fine, I'll do it myself.

I'm not being very productive, which could be due to sleep or thyroid. But what I can do is dick around on social media. So let's share again the starter packs I made of game devs who refuse to use gen AI in any capacity. Here you go: go.bsky.app/6DRdowf go.bsky.app/AS5R4p7 go.bsky.app/7K7JDCJ

This deserves your reposts, folks.

It Consumes by @sublexical.net is a stunning arena shooter roguelite where your greatest enemy is the dark. buried-treasure.org/2026/08/it-c... Help Buried Treasure keep the lights on: www.patreon.com/c/buriedtrea...

Big thank you to @sublexical.net for bundling It Consumes with Steel Judgment!!! Check it out here: store.steampowered.com/bundle/83957... #gamedev #indiegame #roguelike #fps

I had the pleasure of making the capsule art and title for this game! Definitely check out It Consumes! I had a blast playing it.

STEEL JUDGMENT HAS ENTERED EARLY ACCESS PLAY NOW: store.steampowered.com/app/3394690/... #indiegame #roguelike #fps

It Consumes releases in 3 days! (definitely not panicking nope totally cool over here) very excited to share my weird little shooter with everyone store.steampowered.com/app/2371060/... #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

Do you want smaller games that are made by developers who are paid more and are not even kidding??? Wishlist one now! 🖤

It Consumes releases in 3 days! (definitely not panicking nope totally cool over here) very excited to share my weird little shooter with everyone store.steampowered.com/app/2371060/... #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

Ive seen multiple posts online saying that "there are no game devs doing games without AI today" which is complete bullshit Raise yor hand if you don’t use any form of LLM and actively avoid it ✋

What if I told you that all of the Publishing Agreements I have reviewed in the last 6 months (several dozen) included a no gen AI provision, wherein the use of gen AI in development is a material breach, but companies like Epic and EA are still trying to convince us the industry is cool with it

God this looks so good, can't wait

Do you hate GenAI? 🫵👀 Have you recently played a handcrafted indie game that you liked but haven't yet left a review for it? 🤔 Good news! By leaving a review, you'll be supporting the game you liked while also making these statistics even worse for GenAI! 🤗 Go leave a review on Steam today! 📝🐘

Automaton Heart is on Steam today :D

#PitchYaGame I'm making It Consumes, an arena-FPS set in total darkness, where you see by beating your heart. It also has an extensive custom games editor where you can build your own game modes and even create your own unique modifiers. store.steampowered.com/app/2371060/...

AUTOMATON HEART IS HERE You can play it on Steam. Journey through a set of eclectic locales while managing your organs and switching between three characters.

For people who think that AI is inevitable or worry it is, I made starter packs of game devs refusing to use AI, and in less than 24 hours had more than 200 devs ask to be included. Creatives don't want this and won't use it. You just need to support those who won't use it.

Hello everyone, I just made this starter pack for game devs who refuse to use generative AI. In any capacity at all, including for ideas or placeholders or code or inspiration or whatever excuses people have. No AI use, period. Let me know if you want added. go.bsky.app/6DRdowf

the playtest for my fps roguelite Blast Judgment is now open store.steampowered.com/news/app/304... #indiegame #gamedev #lowpoly #psx

What if instead of trying to forcibly invent the next big technical revolution... what if we paid devs and funded projects? The budget for this stuff could create so much THRIVING art. Imagine: more games! more weird games! more games that take risks! games that dont need to monetize aggressively!

Hear me out... Univerally praised games are neat enough, but nothing hits quite like something unpopular that speaks to *you*. So show-and-tell: Link and Explain a game that's UNDERRATED (sub-500 user reviews), UNDERRATED (sub 80% score) or BOTH (ideally!) that is near and dear to your heart.

Leon giving Grace the Requiem in RE9

ENCHAIN has already been out for almost 2 weeks! early access launch has been great. feedback has been super positive and thoughtful, from what I peeked at so far. thank you for the support! been on a break, excited to jump back in. I will start making the first update (QoL+polish) next week.

Holy shit CICADAMATA is bursting at the seams with style. It's like it's from some alternate reality where everyone went all in on making sick as hell Jumping Flash type games.

this game is fun even on levels that are unrefined

Unbelievable what's happening. How broken do people's brains need to be to support this outright nazi shit?

I can't get over how cool this project is. Very inspiring

Indie devs! Time for another #ShowCasey DEMO EDITION! Do you have a demo in the Steam Next Fest? Do you need some eyeballs? Reply below with a link to your steam page and a brief description of your game, and let's see if I can't GRANT YOU EYES! (As usual, no GenAI)

So our new coop-comedy-horror-heist game Good Boy is part of Steam #NextFest. We'd certainly appreciate any RTs! store.steampowered.com/app/3670740/...

It Consumes is in Steam Next Fest! The demo includes a good chunk of the main survival mode, with lots of different abilities and modifiers to mess around with. And save data will carry over into the full release. store.steampowered.com/app/2371060/...

New public Patreon post today! I am not an expert at most things, but at being lazy? I come close. 😉 ➡️ www.patreon.com/posts/135447...

GDC has always been ass, and GDC now trying to further impose control outside moscone to strangle out side events is a sure sign that it's not going to get better. If you're a dev, this sheet is free and will have a higher impact than paying money to go to sf docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Boomstock starts tomorrow! It Consumes will be part of it, along with a bunch of other awesome FPS games.

Really smart technique. And gives it such an awesome vibe that I'm not sure would be there if everything were coloured individually.