Jeff Row

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

in an effort to make a puzzle game hybrid, we've started working on an extremely early combat prototype (no final visuals, missing game feel stuff + bugs)!

Aiming for a mix between hack-n-slash and tactics wrapped up in a Zelda inspired adventure game🧩
#gamedev #indiedev #prototype #WIP

Screenshot: r/technology I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using ai, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that chatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realize that they should not use it as a primary source.

Teaching AI literacy.

(GenAI is wrong A LOT. And even though people tend to think it saves time, we now have randomized controlled trials that show situations where it takes *more* time even when participants self-report it's saving them time.)

New procedural planet gen tech for Journey Space 2
#indiedev

every day i try to bring the moguta energy to my daily life

GDC talk submissions are open and just wanted to point out to people that if you were planning to apply to talk at a summit (like indie summit, narrative summit, tools summit, etc.) that there's only one call for submissions now and it's only open for a month: gdconf.com/gdc-call-for...

This looks awesome!

the part of me that wants to make balanced design choices is always at war with the (significantly more powerful) part of me that just wants to go wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

anyway im tuning a post-dash jump combo and its going swell thank you for asking

I was feeling a little burnt out on bug fixing and prototyping, so I took a detour make the moment-to-moment gameplay feel just a little bit better with vfx.

Worked like a charm to build some development momentum 😤
switching tasks can really be a huge help sometimes.
#gamedev #indiedev

Pierce the heavens with that drill!

Hahahahaha.

Hello, world!
We've just begun development on a new sci-fi adventure puzzle game 🧩✨
Still very early in the prototyping phase, but if you're into thoughtful, handcrafted games and want to follow the journey, stick around 🙂 !
#IndieGame #ThinkyGame #PuzzleGame #IndieDev #GameDev

Game jam finally over!
An unfinished story, but give it a try if you feel so inclined studiopolyfire.itch.io/dia-stole-th...
No combat, just walking around, talking to NPCs. Some may not have your best interests at heart.

#gamejam #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #unity #lowpoly

Eid Mubarak !! Handing everyone my Muslim artist starter pack again - if you're looking to follow more Muslim artists this is a great place to start!

go.bsky.app/BPtxoeS

A knight standing in a forest beside a large rock looking up at a purple fire and a starry night sky

Game jam is nearing its end and its exhausting, but this little moment surprised me.
#gamejam #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #unity #lowpoly

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#gamejam #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #unity #lowpoly

Campfire
#gamejam #solodev #unity #indiedev #indiegame

These look great!

Making a game jam game about recruiting a slew of npcs to help stop [insert_villain_name_here] from keeping the world in eternal darkness.

#gamejam #solodev #lowpoly #devlog #unity

🎉 We're excited to announce our very first Thinky Direct!

Yep, we'll be sharing brand new trailers and exclusive reveals for lots of exciting thinky games!

📺 Watch live on Thursday, May 29!
👉 thinkygames.com/direct/

Isles of Sea and Sky on Steam A fantastic, oceanic, open world puzzle adventure. Solve innovative block puzzles while unearthing a mystifying story, gaining new friends that change the puzzle landscape, and unlocking powers that p...

It seems like we are achieving something which is not that common on Steam: Approaching 1k reviews 1 year after launch.

Apparently, if a game hits 1k revies, it is very fast. Not many claw their way there over a year lol.

More below 👇

store.steampowered.com/app/1233070/...

Made a new trailer to celebrate our 1st demo being released to the public!
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3031160/...

music: @gpurisen.bsky.social

#indieGame #thinkyGame #GameTrailer #puzzleGame #indieDev #indieGameDev

Okay this is cute, our game looks tiny and the colors are clashing a bit, but I like it lol.
#Sokobanfest #BoxPushingFest

this looks sick

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

"AI art Ghibli trend" but it's Miyazaki's reaction and actually art

I have one Starter Pack that still needs more folks in it!

If you're an INDIE GAME PUBLISHER (not just publishing your own games) then hit me up in the replies and I'll add you on.

Currently at 71/150 so reposts welcome.

clef character illustration from Reignbreaker. a muscular woman with a white dyed undercut mullet carrying a large medieval lance type weapon

character illustration from Reignbreaker. Evangeline is a large muscular person wearing a green tunic and holding a bowl of food.

character illustration from Reignbreaker. The trapper is a bearded red haired man sitting on a chair holding a large hunting rifle on his shoulder.

character illustration from Reignbreaker. A woman in royal armor stands at attention holding a large medieval lance-like weapon.

i've seen some comments calling our characters 'ugly'...?

reskeet if you think they're hot, i'm trying to see something

Moon/Mermaid eye - A digital painting of an eye in cool serene moon light that glances into the moon. The eye has no pupil, it looks as if it’s entirely made of milky opal with mint and amber colored reflections. The part of the face that is shown (half of the nose bridge, bit of the cheekbone, eyebrow) could be from a beautiful mermaid. The skin is very teal and seems undead, the lashes and eyebrow delicate.

Now a proper Intro:
Hi👋 I’m Pauline, concept artist, illustrator - currently creating an adult coloring book, into Barbie nostalgia (recently bought all the Barbies I didn’t have as a kid but always wanted), DIY, and 19383 other things. Love the vibe here So happy to connect and be inspired. 💜
#art