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Follow our indie game shenanigans over at @mistikstudios.bsky.social #gamedev #indie #promosky #godot #coop

When you're testing out some facial feature textures in engine and the camera angle you end up at starts to feel a bit familiar 😳 #gamedev #anime #kitchwitch #godot

Our cozy witchy cooking game, Kitch Witch, has a free demo up on Steam right now to celebrate Steam Cooking Fest! Our small team would be so happy if you would give it a try and cook up some magic with us. ❤️ store.steampowered.com/app/4816430/... #gamedev #indiegames #gamedemos #cozygames

Our FREE DEMO of Kitch Witch is now live!!! 🎉 Play our cozy narrative cooking game for free until Oct 19 here: store.steampowered.com/app/4816430/... #freegames #gamedemos #steamgames #indiegames #gamedev

What if your cooking could actually heal people? Brand new gameplay trailer for Kitch Witch! We're going to have a free demo out on Oct 12 on Steam to celebrate Steam Cooking Fest! 🔥❤️ Don't forget to wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/4816430/... #cozygames #gamedev #indiegames

We have fantasy #crt tvs in Kitch Witch. Because even young witchlings deserve sailor moon. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #indie

My wife said Brakence sounds like hyperpop Machine Gun Kelly and you know what :/

Stop inventing shit the humans in Wall-E use

Going to gamescom and full indie has reminded me that uhh I don’t really like being a “commercial artist”

Hey look I promise I am a sweetheart of a person but you get my loud mouth bitch side only when you're showing your bigotry or boot licking okay lol #feminism #antiai #queer #anticapitalism

I will always be insufferable and loud about things I care a lot about Become ungovernable friends! ✌️

Another day another zero $ "wasting our time" hand crafting all our 3D assets ourselves without gen AI. Everything you see in our game is made with hrs and hrs of yelling at Blender until it bends to our will like god intended 🤣 I'm even modelling the damn blueberries #blender #gamedev #antiai

People should give me money to make video games. But I am of course, a leftist. And that means I think people should give YOU money to make video games too

Always helpful to remember that from the perspective of the "anti-woke gaming" content creator, hours a viewer spends actually playing games are hours they're not spending watching anti-woke gaming content. Games aren't their hobby, they are their competition

I want to see something here- If you are making a game that does not use any generative AI, let us know in this thread, we'd love to wishlist your game and support you and I'm sure others would too! (gif is how I feel when yelling into the void about AI art all the time lol) #gamedev #antai

When chuds call us "woke losers" when our video game studio is literally made up of just 4 queer natives 🤣 We aren't just "woke" we're living the wokeness baby OPEN YOUR EYES #indigisky #gamedev #lgbtq #queer

If you think we won't put you on blast publicly for being a shitty person because we're a game studio you are sorely mistaken. We have nothing to gain from your "support" and nothing to lose from the lack of it. See ya! ✌️

Was cool to see THE @toadyone.bsky.social at #gamescom, he seemed too busy to say hi (or maybe I was too shy?) but I had a good chat with some fine folks at @kitfoxgames.com

the amount of generative AI on display at Gamescom is genuinely embarrassing. there is no shame.

Screenshots from our magic cooking game, Kitch Witch. ✨ No generative AI used. Hundreds of hours hand-crafting 3D models. And the game isn't even close to being done yet. AI shills will you tell you skip the slog, but it's part of the art of making art. #gamedev #blender #3dart #retro #indie

I hate when I see cool indigenous projects that I’m really happy and excited to support, just to find out all their 3D models are auto generated ai-slop. Real cool. Real cool.

Had the opportunity to play a bit of this pre-gamescom! Such a tightly designed playdate puzzle game. Highly recommend if you own one of these fun little devices. #gamescom #gamescomdev #indiegames

Pasta with Canada friends this evening! #gamescom #dinnertime

Capitalism is evil and is ruining art and I hate that I have to interface with this shit at all I'm so tired take me back home to Canada so I can stop being in suit land thanks #gamescom #gamedev

Not a single word of a lie. One of the most unpleasant people I’ve ever had the displeasure of speaking to.

Xsolla can fund everything under the sun but let's not forget the fact that they will lay off masses of their employees to replace them with AI and treat indie devs like the scum of the earth and just print money that they steal off the top and add no value whatsoever #xsolla #gamedev #gamesindustry

for any indie devs who might be interested in xsolla now after their ai slop ad closed out the day of the devs presentation you might wanna also read their wikipedia first en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xsolla

I’m so tired of xsolla man.

I love making and playing videos games

I took literally one step into the main #gamescom floor and immediately ran back to the business area. That shit is TOO busy. I’ve never seen so many people in my life.

I know we all want to promote PoSiTiViTy in our daily lives and yeah sure that's good whatever But here's some negative shit that has happened to me working in the video game industry that is WORTH TALKING ABOUT Feel safe to vent too, I'm here to listen as well as yap! #gamedev #gamesindustry

reminder to those who were underwhelmed by opening night live, there are FIVE HUNDRED indie games at gamescom.

Requested a song at karaoke and it ended before they played it 😭😭 my night is ruined and I will never recover #gamescom #gamescomdev

Absolutely fucking phenomenal. Best talk of the entire #gamescomdev hands down.

While at #GameconCanada, I played Kitch Witch by @mistikstudios.bsky.social - which is a fantastic game about being a witch-doctor. I wrote about it for @indiegamesplus.com: #indiegame #gaming indiegamesplus.com/kitch-witch-...

Character portrait concept art for our playable character and a couple NPCs in Kitch Witch from our lovely artist @cainupe.bsky.social ! ✨💖 Wishlist Kitch Witch here! store.steampowered.com/app/4816430/... #conceptart #characterart #gamedev #gameart #art

Kitch Witch fan art from our friend Daya at @voidblob-coop.bsky.social! We are OBSESSED, forever grateful and just blown away that our game can inspire our friends to make such gorgeous art! 🥹💖 store.steampowered.com/app/4816430/... #kitchwitch #gamedev #art #cozygames #cottagecore

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Our cozy cooking game, Kitch Witch, just surpassed 100 wishlists on Steam in the first week of our Steam page being live! 🎉 We are so grateful for the support! If you haven't wishlisted yet, we would be so happy if you did! 💖 store.steampowered.com/app/4816430/... #kitchwitch #gamedev #cozygames

I didn’t realize showcasing would be so exhausting but it’s so nice to see our game click for so many people. Worth the long days and early mornings for sure. #gcc #gameconcanada #gameconcanada2026 #indie

Nothing has made me feel more confident that we are going to publish our game independently than going to a game dev event and meeting with and/or talking to investors and some publishers (I had a couple publisher meetings that were really good and with people who felt real).

"But gen AI allows me to make art when I can't do it myself!" Make bad art. Making bad art is the first step to making good art. Your AI art looks terrible and painfully obvious anyway, may as well at least learn some actual skills #antiai #gamedev #gameart #genai