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Super Pinball Adventure is out now! ☄️ #indiegames #pinball store.steampowered.com/app/3684910/...

I keep being told that 'you cannot put the genie back in the bottle' but I am pretty sure you can put the genie back in the bottle as that is where the genie lives most of the time.

Premium currency you say (no, my game will not have microtransactions lol) #indiedev #gamedev

RT if you don't use AI for coding

developers with their ai-generated commit messages and I'm like

Working now on a set of "powers" you can unlock and then trigger while the ball is in play. This one is the 'shockwave' which, well, makes a mess. #indiedev #gamedev

We all love some burning cards don't we folks #indiedev #gamedev

Wibbly peg background is in - it's coming together! #indiedev #gamedev

Working on some more skeuomorphic UI elements like the scrap of paper, and wooden board for displaying inventory items I am absolutely in love with this style #indiedev #gamedev #blender

Someone managed to get my game running on a Retroid Pocket 6 😍 (psst ... it's also on sale at 70% off) store.steampowered.com/app/3684910/... #indiegames #retro #pinball #steam #videogames

Something approximating a final layout here. I hope it unlocks some nostalgia 😀 #indiedev #gamedev #cdrom

I love these LLM comments that say absolutely nothing. What a wonderful use of resources.

Experimenting with some different layouts and UI It’s close, but not quite there #indiedev #gamedev

That scarecrow episode of Round the Twist

My quirky pinball game is on sale - it's a steal right now! Runs great on Steam Deck store.steampowered.com/app/3684910/... #indiegames #pinball #steam

Added a special addition to the shop where you can s a c r i f i c e a peg to get a special modifier for the run #indiedev #gamedev #roguelite

Pegs react to explosions now. This seems stupidly obvious in hindsight. #indiedev #gamedev

feeling more and more confident in my stance that these are anti-humanity people making anti-humanity technology they want to create the minimal friction society for humans to just manifest whatever they want, as far away as possible from the friction of imperfection and the beauty of humanity

See also "Improve eyeball juice somewhat" #indiedev #gamedev

You get the best git commit messages in game dev "Increase banana timeout" #gamedev #indiedev

Added a restock option to the upgrade shop (note: all websites with shopping carts should do this) #indiedev #gamedev

Added the banana peg Inspired by a certain game (can you guess) 🪱 #indiedev #gamedev

Seems like everything is the same now 🙃 Sleek and corporate.

Putting one of these mini-games in #indiedev #gamedev

Taking my game to playtest at a local Unreal meetup like:

Added a bit more wobble (as one does) btw you can check it out here -> tombasche.itch.io/plinks-wip-d... Feedback welcome! 🙏 #indiedev #gamedev #itchio #indiegames

For those interested, I've created a web build and itch page for my ongoing project Tentatively titled, "Captain Plinky's Dungeon" - a cereal box cd-rom that went maybe a little too hard on the gritty edginess to appeal to the kiddos. tombasche.itch.io/plinks-wip-d... #indiedev #gamedev #itchio

Games need more cheesy orchestra hits when number go up #indiedev #gamedev

One downside of web builds ... ** dies of old age **

we saw a few of the weird freaks from my list in the trailer today so im happy kotaku.com/weird-little...

Been mainlining Hades II - my lord that is a GOOD GAME(tm)

I am not really great at 2D sprite drawing or illustration but I'm reasonable at using Blender So my trick for creating UI elements is to just create them in Blender lol What are some of your "so dumb it's genius" workflows? #indiedev #gamedev #blender

😍 1K followers! 😍 Here's a quick cut of all the stuff I've been working on in the last year and a bit. Some of it I even finished! One even won a game jam! All human-powered 💪 #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

Working a bit more on my weird roguelike - namely around the shop now. I always like these kind of in-world "menus" and the real balance here is to still make it usable but also fun and quirky in a way that fits the theme. More to come! #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

Check out Bumper Bout on Steam, it's PvP Pinball with characters that have super powers! Pls wishlist and try the demo! store.steampowered.com/app/3938260/...

Making some animated sprites for my game with a fun workflow * Model it in Blender * Take 8 renders of it at 45 degree increments (with posterization and pixellation setup in the compositor) * Stitch it together in Aseprite. Super cool that it's drag and drop #indiedev #gamedev #blender

I played the alpha build of a cool looking train game - The Spectral Express 🚂 @teamsunforge.bsky.social #indiedev #indiegames www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7-p...

The 8 ball increase your total "multiplier" if you're on your last ball. Well, *I* thought it was clever. #indiedev #gamedev

Designed a new peg 🎱 (see if you can spot it in action) Now to actually make it do something interesting! #indiedev #gamedev

commissions open, open for job.. RT if you can 😍

Will subscribe to any games website right now that pledges for the next 6 months to write 2 articles about indie games for every GTAVI article they publish.

First sneak peek at what I'm working on right now - a dark roguelike Peggle thingy (name tbd) I've been going through prototyping hell but finally found a really fun thing to work on - funnily enough not too dissimilar from my last released game 😆 #indiedev #gamedev

Not sharing any new game prototypes just yet, but here's an asset for it I made this morning 👁️👀 #indiedev #gamedev

I am with my PvP Pinball game! It would mean the world to me if you would take a look! Demo comes out next week for you to try at home. store.steampowered.com/app/3938260/...

Woah, bunch of new followers. I'm Tom and I make stuff with my own human brain like all this random stuff on itch: tombasche.itch.io and this little pinball thing: store.steampowered.com/app/3684910/... Currently working on something top secret but hoping to share it soon! #indiedev #gamedev

Hey! Are you an indie dev who doesn't use gen AI and have a game you're currently promoting? I'm looking to make a starter pack and you could be in it! Reply below with a link to your game 👇 go.bsky.app/78u8M6Y

This looks rad

📣ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 Vaporwave Pinball is in the "Pins & Pegs Festival", over on Steam and is 50% off for the next few days! (𝐵𝑢𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒) Link: store.steampowered.com/app/2465930/... (Reposts are very much appreciated! 🙏)

I thought I'd repost this piece quoting the first sentence. Then I thought, no, the first paragraph. No, the first three. And I went on doing that until the final word. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...