It's live!
Estelle Igni, the JRPG of eternal night and endless discovery:
store.steampowered.com/app/4387830
・13 classes, each party member can mix any 3
・Non-linear, multiple character narrative
Discover the mysteries of Limina and the rifts slowly eating its stars.
#JRPG#turnbased#indiegame
I also want the bad news to be turned into a better ending than "guess we'll just die."
"Tim Sweeney is being a fucking prick again, raising the case for Fortnite players to buy indies, and thousands of UE dev studios to embrace Godot."
Genuinely not trying to start any sort of argument. Really just would love if Good News got more headline space than “Tim Sweeney is being a fucking prick again”
It doesn't even have to be "new" hardware.
We could just brand a no-AI version of something like the Evercade Nexus. We're tired of curating our library for AI and we want physical media.
Rally the zero-AI dev studios, curate the platform, and watch the demand roll in.
I also want the bad news to be turned into a better ending than "guess we'll just die."
"Tim Sweeney is being a fucking prick again, raising the case for Fortnite players to buy indies, and thousands of UE dev studios to embrace Godot."
Genuinely not trying to start any sort of argument. Really just would love if Good News got more headline space than “Tim Sweeney is being a fucking prick again”
Sony and XBOX ending physical media? Hardware arms race has priced out millions of players?
New demand for up-and-coming manufacturers like Panic or Evercade to step in with budget low/mid-range gaming hardware.
Lots of things are bad, but there's a fuck ton of demand for good actors in this business.
New hardware would boost indies and small publishers. Small publishers have influence to rally that demand.
I also want the bad news to be turned into a better ending than "guess we'll just die."
"Tim Sweeney is being a fucking prick again, raising the case for Fortnite players to buy indies, and thousands of UE dev studios to embrace Godot."
Genuinely not trying to start any sort of argument. Really just would love if Good News got more headline space than “Tim Sweeney is being a fucking prick again”
In the last year, No More Robots has funded + is currently funding a dozen games, and has paid numerous devs to make prototypes happen for free
But obviously, getting press is absolutely impossible for us, because only doom and gloom gets clicks
Every article and post about a corporation terminating a loved service or product should end with "leaving money on the floor for ambitious, up-and-coming competitors."
Physical media isn't being killed because it's unprofitable. It's being killed because Sony needs infinite growth and they think they can get away with cutting costs.
If you're an #indiegamedev#indiegames participating in Next Fest, and you are NOT using genAi poppycock, feel free to put your steam page here if it makes it easier for folks to find your game. I will share and try to get eye balls for you.
Next Fest is back, with a new and improved UI for all your browsing needs! From now until October 26th, check out thousands (literally) of demos for games of all types - from frantic cooking typers to frozen railway games, there's something for everyone.
store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest
The companies are all in massive debt. The venture capitalists have all over leveraged themselves.
Everything you see crowding your vision is their desperation.
"The issue is Claude Opus 5.5’s ability to decompile a game’s code."
- It did not suddenly gain this ability.
New model releases don't birth new capabilities whole cloth like this. Citing the full name and model release is just advertising ffs.
- Company declares bankruptcy.
- Disney bidding for the company's IP.
- Disney coincidentally hired the company's former CEO 4 weeks prior.
This is just laundering. Literally the plot of organized crime movies.
i hate ai with a passion and will never willingly touch the stuff. if you're an indie dev who can say the same, i invite you to check out my art 🤗
seliel-the-shaper.itch.io
OH!WARE, my first commercial release, IS OUT NOW!
Your ancestors whisper guidance. The Gods all watch. They want you to check it out and give it a review 🙏♥️
store.steampowered.com/app/4121430/...
Clicking Google's fun whimsical throwback logo today sends you to an AI chat pre-filled with a goofy prompt and immediately hits you with a warning that it is potentially dangerous to continue. You couldn't make a better commentary on how badly they have fucked up the internet if you tried.
Hmmm....so apparently I need to write something contentious to drive engagement....
...hey you!
The thing in videogames you like is bad design and that thing you hate is good design.
Prove me wrong!
The cat's out of the bag! I'm proud to announce that I'll be the lead composer for @stillsunark.bsky.social! I'm very excited to bring this beautiful and dangerous alien world to life through my music! #indiedev#JRPG#OST
The cat's out of the bag! I'm proud to announce that I'll be the lead composer for @stillsunark.bsky.social! I'm very excited to bring this beautiful and dangerous alien world to life through my music! #indiedev#JRPG#OST
Slop slingers aren't in it for the love of the art. They don't stop and smell the roses. Your potential ceiling will always be higher than theirs because you can do what they can't. Build a community of people that love art. Champion the creatives. Here's one of Rado's games.
Indie game devs should band together and sell their games on CD or DVD at local events. So everyone at an event sells all the games for everyone in the group, and not just their own.
Lil indie dev cooperative sales groups.
"The ai slop game made 100k we're doomed!"
Good news! That means your game you poured your heart out into can make that too! It starts with showing your game and getting wishlists. Do what they can't. Do it for the love of the art and let people know about it.
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Small team. Big heart. Bigger ambitions.
We're expanding our indie studio focused on memorable games, exceptional craft, and treating people well along the way.
Open positions here: https://kinaliworks.com/careers#RemoteGameJobs#DevJobs#IndieStudio#IndieGame
New IRL Profession: Heavy Metal Friend
Refer me to your shitty workplace. I'll do whatever it takes to get hired.
Then I'll steal a few paychecks doing nothing but supporting you, even picking fights on your behalf.
No need to pay me. Your employer will do that for you.
New IRL Profession: Heavy Metal Friend
Refer me to your shitty workplace. I'll do whatever it takes to get hired.
Then I'll steal a few paychecks doing nothing but supporting you, even picking fights on your behalf.
No need to pay me. Your employer will do that for you.
[Backend dev's ticket got a frontend request. BE dev is east coast, already out of office]
Me: "I went ahead and did the frontend work. Here's a pull request you can test in the morning."
BE Dev: "It was my ticket and you touched it, so now it's your ticket and you have to do everything."
I don't understand how mean people even do it.
Someone at work got extremely petty with me and I very reasonably stood up for myself.
I am still trembling 3 hours later just from standing up for myself.
I know I'm bad at confrontation because my paraphrase doesn't even sound as mean as what he said lol.
How do you work 25 years in this industry and still not know the use case of a pull request???
Artificial Intelligence? Buddy, I'm not even incorporating Artificial Stupidity. If my NPC behaviour code ever exceeds 3 lines I scrap the whole project and start over.
i think the success of Drag'n Wash just reveals where dragons sit in the cultural consciousness, which is squarely in the middle between Car and Dog and Husband
I don't understand how mean people even do it.
Someone at work got extremely petty with me and I very reasonably stood up for myself.
I am still trembling 3 hours later just from standing up for myself.
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft.
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games!
Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI.
You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:-
www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal