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Amazon: we should compete with Steam, should be easy

Steam: bruh, we’ve existed for literally 22 years, idk how that’s gonna go

Amazon: NUH UH WE HAVE BEZOS BILLS BABYYY

Also Amazon when they ultimately failed:

@kjartankennedy.com and @gregwrogers.bsky.social will discuss the game's development, the present and future of Causeway Studios, and more!

Bring your questions to this interactive event. We're excited to share our journey with you!

The Haunting of Joni Evers Interactive Director's Commentary Saturday, November 1, 2025 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET

This weekend in the @causewaystudios.com Discord server, we're going to try something fun.

We'll be hosting a live Directors' Commentary "screening" of The Haunting of Joni Evers.

November 1 @ 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET.

discord.gg/KzW7GzBS?eve...

The Horror Game Awards 2025: PUBLIC Voting Round 1 While the majority of our awards are nominated by our jury members, with the public given the chance to vote on those nominations, we have two categories which are entirely nominated and voted for by the public: The Players' Choice Award The Horror Content Creator of the Year Award These awards will be decided in four phases: Open nominations running from Monday 6 to Wednesday 15 October. A vote on the top 30 nominations, running from Monday 27 October to Saturday 1 November. A vote on the top 15 from the first round of voting, running from Monday 10 to Saturday 15 November. A vote to pick a winner out of the top five from the second round of voting, running from Friday 28 November to Wednesday 3 December. You can take part in this process by voting below. The Horror Game Awards 2025 airs LIVE on Saturday 13 December at 7pm BST.

The Haunting of Joni Evers has made it to the first round of voting for the @horrorgameawards.bsky.social Players' Choice Award! We'd be honored to receive your vote!

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(Also, the game is 30% off as part of Steam Scream this week!)

#indiegame #indiedev #indiegamedev

In the wake of recent conversations around the use of generative AI in game development, we want to make it clear where we stand:

Causeway Studios has never used and will never use generative AI. We make games with deeply human stories and we value the people that make them too much.

Completely bonkers.

PUBLIC NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN — The Horror Game Awards The Horror Game Awards returns on 13 December 2025 and nominations have now opened on our two entirely public nominated and voted categories: The Players’ Choice and Horror Content Creator of the Year...

Public nominations are open for the Horror Game Awards' Player's Choice award and I'd be eternally grateful to anyone who spent 30 seconds to nominate The Haunting of Joni Evers (finalists will be based who gathers the most nominations): www.thehorrorgameawards.com/news/public-...

Interesting thread about "buffet" style game services that I am sharing for no particular reason.

One of the greatest.

I feel this.

On the bright side I finally voted by mail for the first time in the most recent Norwegian election.

I had an audible angry reaction when I heard about the settlement.

Save 30% on The Haunting of Joni Evers on Steam The Haunting of Joni Evers is an emotional tale of a broken family from small-town Oklahoma, driven apart by a malevolent haunting. Uncover the mysteries of Joni’s family and the Cunningham House, dig...

Hello there and thank you! We at @causewaystudios.com released The Haunting of Joni Evers in January!

store.steampowered.com/app/2828590/the_haunting_of_joni_evers

The tragedy of the UX Designer is being completely incapable of using technology without losing your entire fucking mind.

A Steam review: "So I just finished The Haunting of Joni Evers, and I’ve gotta say… I loved it. Not in a “wow, that was scary” way, but in a “this understands something about me” kind of way. It’s not really horror in the usual sense. There’s no big bad, no monsters popping out. It’s about trauma, and how it lingers in ways people don’t always see. That quiet, personal kind of haunting.

Without spoiling anything, Joni’s story felt oddly familiar. That sense of carrying too much, the isolation, the emotional weight of being the one who always has to be “okay” when everything else is falling apart… yeah. Been there. Still kinda there, to be honest. Watching her navigate that house, piece together fragments of memory, it was like watching a version of myself who finally gets a moment to heal.

Huge thank you to its_kris_bro for getting me this. I probably wouldn’t have found it without her, and I’m so glad I did <3

If you’re looking for something short, emotional, and quietly powerful, this is it. It sticks with you, in that soft aching way, quite wholesome too!"

Here's a review we got on Steam for The Haunting of Joni Evers earlier this month. We love seeing these reminders that our game and our story really hit its mark.

"...It sticks with you, in that soft aching way..." 🥹

30% off now if you haven't played it yet!
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This isn’t just a problem with books. Less professional criticism means more marketing driven understanding by consumers and that’s bad for the consumer AND the worker.

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 🎉

The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans.

Deadline: September 28th
More info 👇
grants.draknek.org

🥳🥳🥳 Congratulations! 🥳🥳🥳

Finally starting 1000xResist tonight!

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INDIE GAMES

An excellent article on the state of the industry and where we go from here!

now that i've written a book about community management, i can finally reveal the TRUTH:

Mike is THE PERSON to talk to about your game, project, soul, studio, and/or strategy. He _will_ make it better. Seriously, he literally wrote the book on Game Dev Business.

I'm absolutely thrilled and beyond thankful to share that we've now made an award-winning game 🥳

A promotional image showing the Collision Awards Gold Winner for Voice Performance: Character going to Kelly Pekar as the voice of Joni Evers in The Haunting of Joni Evers. The image features an illustration of Joni Evers and a photo of Kelly Pekar.

A promotional image showing the Collision Awards Silver Winner for Narrative and a screenshot from The Haunting of Joni Evers featuring a polaroid camera covered in stickers. The most prominent stickers are a mothman that says "Cryptid Preservation Society" and a roll of film that says "Film Never Died".

A promotional image showing the Audience Choice award for Games & XR: Craft along with a screenshot from The Haunting of Joni Evers showing a pinboard of horror movie monster design sketches.

🎉 The Haunting of Joni Evers is officially an award-winning game! 🏆

This morning the Collision Awards announced their winners and we took home honors for Voice Performance, Narrative, and the Audience Choice for Craft in Games.

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It’s strange what we remember, and what we wish we could forget. - - #indiegames#gamestudio#gaming#thehauntingofjonievers#walkingsim#indiegame#storygame#videogame#edit#edits#steamgames#steamgame#walki... TikTok video by Causeway Studios

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Text Reads Summer of Strange Scaffold July 16th - August 16th The image depicts a number of references to our characters, all on a beach setting with a lovely BBQ and Beach Ball present. The mask of the Clickold sits like an Easter Island statue, there is a nice sandcastle, the hat and video camera used by the main character in Life Eater is there, a COI Guard from I Am Your Beast can be seen in the background, and what's that in the sky? It's a dog on top of an airplane!

The Summer of Strange Scaffold is a celebration of a milestone for us.

Once Co-op Kaiju launches, we have made and released SIX GAMES in the last 2 YEARS!

So, we want to discuss that! Highs and lows, with the many people who brought these games to life in videos, podcasts and more!