Will

Will

@will.bearwaves.com

🇮🇪☪️🇵🇸 🐻👋 sound guy at Bearwaves Opinions are mine, you can't have em

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Will
@will.bearwaves.com

If you haven't had the chance to play the Seance of Blake Manor I highly recommend it! My favourite story game of 2025 in the prestigious Will's Game Awards

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Will
@will.bearwaves.com

remember when your mate got polio and then had to live the rest of their life in a coffin that breathed for them oh you don't? yeah so go get your vaccine because those diseases we eradicated were really really bad

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

Sometimes I open Feud up again after a while and realise that it's actually really good and like, you can just play it for free, no strings attached

Bearwaves@bearwaves.com

We haven't forgotten Feud! New update coming soon with some fixes.

Will
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Will
@will.bearwaves.com

indie devs either need to hire someone to run their blogs and socials or just be quiet because the venn diagram of people who can make good games and people who can communicate well to the public seems to be 2 circles barely touching

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

Hey game devs, don't forget to use the new feature of putting your links on your profile, it's always a good idea to minimise the friction it takes for people to find your stuff if they find you ps playdwg.com pps wiwafrog.online

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

also people can we please stop posting screenshots of tim sweeney ranting on twitter I use this app because I don't have to see that

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

Actually same with the whole ai and vibe coding thing I see the exact same zinger takedowns of it every day on here and it's just preaching to the choir

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

the post count on threads was a really useful feature, good thing bluesky is a really good app, they definitely wouldn't do something silly like break it so it doesn't show the total anymore and just shows up as 1/ 2/ 3/ instead of 1/3 2/3 3/3

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

Right so it seems like they've just broken the text box of it or something because sometimes you can see the other number and sometimes you can't

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

This is a really good idea can we convince the slop peddlers to move to egs

Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social

‘Use our store instead, the labelling sucks’

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

one day the word for the things that make your bike stop is gonna be spelled "breaks" and we all have to make peace with that

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

I love it when I open someone's discord profile and a big visual effect pops up to block my view of the information I'm trying to read because it tells me all I needed to know this idiot paid money for discord, the free app that does everything you need it to for 0 dollars

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

The plus side of keeping our next game under wraps is that we get to have a sick ass code name this time... www.patreon.com/BearwavesGam... @bearwaves.com

patreon.comWeekly Wave: 19th October '26 | BearwavesHello! Getting back into more of a rhythm with these now. It's been quite a busy week, particularly on the coding side, so let's get into it
Aftermath@aftermath.site

Game developers fear that thieving AI vibecoders will make free game demos a thing of the past aftermath.site/steam-next-fes...

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Games this year that are gonna run through my head for a while: Cairn REPLACED Luna Abyss Subversive Memories The Message from Deep Space

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

Games this year that are gonna run through my head for a while: Cairn REPLACED Luna Abyss Subversive Memories The Message from Deep Space

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Joel Auterson | DWG out now!
@joelotter.com

For no reason whatsoever I’m rereading what I wrote a month ago and trying to find that optimism again

Joel Auterson | DWG out now!@joelotter.com

I kind of crashed out this week. Generative AI has made a lot of my hobbies and creative endeavours feel pointless, when I'm not in a good headspace. I had a good conversation with a friend that helped, so I wrote about it, so I can read it when it happens again. www.joelotter.com/posts/2026/0...

joelotter.comFuck it, make it anywayCarrying on in the face of creative devaluation.
Will
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"yeah but in the 2nd half of next fest all the slop will sink to the bottom when valve train the recommendations" that requires people to actually wade through it in the 1st half and fewer are fewer people are gonna stomach it as this gets worse

Will@will.bearwaves.com

all the avenues for outreach as an indie dev are dead now and its fuckin depressing all the subreddits have imploded over the last month because they are overwhelmed by or unwilling to ban slop Next fest is flooded with slop tiktok etc are a massive time and energy drain with low conversion

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

all the avenues for outreach as an indie dev are dead now and its fuckin depressing all the subreddits have imploded over the last month because they are overwhelmed by or unwilling to ban slop Next fest is flooded with slop tiktok etc are a massive time and energy drain with low conversion

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

Like if you're able to get an article written about your game that's great, but the places willing to write about indies are dying off too

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

I think this is a compelling pov on this, and does share many of my own thoughts on it. Also seeing some rather over the top responses that may be focusing their rage in the wrong direction. However, I do think there's a good reason to be more cautious at the minute, especially with public WIP.

Richard Meredith@rtm223.me

Given that the person who had their game "replicated" is also an AI slopper, is lying about that, and the "replica" was on Steam before their game was: I feel ok using this as a jumping off point for discussing why I don't think this is anywhere near as much of an issue as people are worried about

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Will
@will.bearwaves.com

Clearly the type to hurriedly publish a slop clone isn't going to produce the best vision of how that converts into a full game, but it can still be enough to kill the momentum of audience growth of an emerging creator who maybe doesn't yet have an audience to leverage

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

I do worry that, because this so publicly started with a game jam game being cloned, we could see a drop in participation in them, which would be quite sad. I also worry that devs will shy away from making public their devlogs and progress posts because they're worried they'll get mugged.

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

I think this is a compelling pov on this, and does share many of my own thoughts on it. Also seeing some rather over the top responses that may be focusing their rage in the wrong direction. However, I do think there's a good reason to be more cautious at the minute, especially with public WIP.

Richard Meredith@rtm223.me

Given that the person who had their game "replicated" is also an AI slopper, is lying about that, and the "replica" was on Steam before their game was: I feel ok using this as a jumping off point for discussing why I don't think this is anywhere near as much of an issue as people are worried about

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

There's a growing trend around these rushed decomps and clones, and I think many are rightfully worried about game jams in particular, which are places where lots of compelling games are born in public view, in the form of fairly concrete vertical slices

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

What sauce are you dipping them in

Korlis@korl.is

I think it's important you know I'm eating vegan chicken dippers right now and no longer have any interest in talking circles around you.

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

always sucks to have to sit around in a hospital but to their credit Denmark seems to have packed all their most pleasant and patient nurses and doctors into them. Makes a huge difference to have people who are able to take their time with you and listen

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

hey there fellow windows users (prisoners?) if you just updated your computer don't forget to do the usual step of uninstalling copilot that microsoft just reinstalled without asking you

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

folks I really hate union busters. I think R* are a horrible company and I don't support them because of it. Now double fine, that indie darling, they would never bust their- sorry, getting a call right so as I was saying, the games industry is evil and must be destroyed

Will
@will.bearwaves.com

yo this game is sick you do so much maths

Will@will.bearwaves.com

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Will
@will.bearwaves.com

game pass is so funny dude like did anyone over there ever think it was possible to make that profitable