Boston Indies

we've been seeing Hexical around at demo nights since back in 2018(!!!) and now it has a Steam page and release date! Go give it a wishlist!

store.steampowered.com/app/2283110/...

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Last night was the BGD takeover of the @officialgdc.bsky.social Instagram!!

Check out interviews with @normalhorsegames.bsky.social & @frogmageudon.bsky.social & @grooveboxgames.bsky.social here ➡️ www.instagram.com/official_gdc/

Props to @quantumconnor.bsky.social, who put this together! #gdc2026

Hello! Western Massachusetts developers are gathering for Boston Gamedev Week and PAXEast, playing some games, making plans, and finishing demos. Come join us for cheeseburgers and software bugs; same bit-time, same bit-channel! #pioneervalley, #gamedev, #indiegames, #videogames, #interactive-media

Our CEO Ryan, will be hosting a roundtable at Game Developers Conference this year, focused on balancing work for hire with building original titles as a studio.

Link to the session: https://f.mtr.cool/hijvnjccpq

Boston Game Dev is excited to be partnering with PAX East to bring some Massachusetts indie games to the PAX show floor!!

We're looking for FOUR great teams to join us in our booth and represent the local scene; more info on the form below

Apply here by midnight on 2/14 ➡️ forms.gle/qJNjrD1MKX3u...

Messy Hearts on Steam Messy Hearts is a pixel-art visual novel about a complicated coworker friendship. Through journal-style narration, Florence unpacks romance, trauma, and some messy boundaries in a deeply personal stor...

AND WE'RE LIVE. Phew, what a sprint. 😮‍💨

Messy Hearts Volume 1, our #indiegame #visualnovel, is now live, and can be played for free:
- Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3892820/...
- Itch: black-heart-games-studio.itch.io/messy-hearts

Send wishlists, likes, and follows if you'd like to see more! 🖤

⚡Lightning Talks are TONIGHT!⚡ at the Cambridge Public Library outside Harvard. Great slate of speakers (listed on the Meetup post), come learn somethin' and hang out!

A week late here but THANK YOU to everyone who came out to our Global Game Jam site last-last week!

We had a fun mix of pros, amateurs, and new folks, and ended up with a set of mostly-playable games, so that's a win in our book :)

And another huge thank you to @unity.com for making it possible!!

This weekend I worked on my first game jam solo! I wasn't able to finish but I'm happy with the progress 🐦‍⬛

#gamedev #indiedev #popochiu #godot

The demo for Tamzin Twins is now LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

store.steampowered.com/app/3082430/...
#gamedev #indiedev #demo #TamzinTwins

The goal is to send out acceptance/ denial emails by end of week! And if you have any questions feel free to reach out!

Thank you!

Boston Game Dev Lightning Talks @ PAX EAST For Boston Game Dev Week, on Thursday, March 26th at 3:30pm - 4:30pm Boston Game Dev will be hosting Lightning Talks at PAX EAST! (If selected, you receive a FREE 4 Day Speaker Badge.) If you have a ...

💀🪄 LAST CHANCE TO APPLY! We're looking for speakers to participate in a Lighting Talk ⚡ at PAX East 2026 for Boston GameDev Week!

If selected you'll receive a FREE 4 day Speaker Badge!

‼️ If interested, please read & fill out the form below:
forms.gle/TfxCw7hxcYQc...

BGD will be at #GDC2026, and we'll be joined by a bunch of speakers from the local games community! Here's a handy thread of the speakers from MA so you can be sure to go check out their talks 🧵

Also reminder to use coupon code BGD10 for 10% off a pass -> gdc.informafestivals.com/2026/registr...

Coming to PAX East from out of town? Please hit me up so I can pester you with offers of networking, coffee/drinks, and give you a platform to speak.

Boston Indies: Lightning Talks!, Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 5:30 PM | Meetup C'mon out for LIGHTNING TALKS, a series of \~10 minute talks on a variety of game development related topics given by you, the Boston Indies community! Come share a cool so

Lightning Talks has been rescheduled!
www.meetup.com/bostongamede...

Steam :: Factory Town 2: Paradise :: Factory Town 2 Newsletter - January 2026 Hello! It's been a few months without a newsletter - sorry about that! Development is still full speed ahead, it's just that most of the things I have been working on haven't been the headline-grabbin...

Factory Town 2 Newsletter time!! November, December, and January all rolled into one, for your convenience. steamcommunity.com/games/331213...

Update to the idle game:

Redid the UI, added resident menu, residential upkeep, quests, tooltips, sound effects, juice, and most importantly...

A dog. Yes, you will be able to pet the dog.

#IdleGame #gamedev #unity3d #sologamedev #indiegamedev

No Rizz? No Chance! 💢

Mess up a Rizz? You might cause a Monster Girl's heart to shrivel up, sending her into an ENRAGED state... AKA, she will never, ever, EVER love you. Oops!

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #godot

👇 Wishlist TODAY! 👇
store.steampowered.com/app/4029090?...

bostongamedev.org/gdcraffle

One more round of GDC Festival passes!

To participate:
- be registered on the Boston Game Dev Slack channel
- be an active user as of January 20th
- enter using the same email you are registered with on Slack.

#Boston #Indies #gamedev
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[BPM] AAA Q&A: Discussing Game Writing with Anna Megill, Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup The BPM crew sit down with Anna Megill, a multi-award winning AAA game writer, to discuss her career, writing for games, and working within the AAA space. We will also have

Next month, BPM will be hosting a discussion and Q&A with Anna Megill, a multi-award winning AAA game writer who has worked on games such as Fable and CONTROL, to discuss her career, writing for games, and working within the AAA space. #gamedev #writing

www.meetup.com/bostongamede...

Working on a reroll mechanic for Loki's Revenge. One of those things I put off thinking it'd be really annoying, but turns out it's incredibly simple.

#godot #indiedev #gamedev

shout out to the programmers for making it interactive and not just a cutscene!! 🥰 #indiegames #gamedev #indiegamedev #videogames #cozygames

Tonight at 7, on the BGD Discord!

www.meetup.com/bostongamede...

10 Mysterious Games To Check Out In Steam's Detective Fest Some coming soon, some out now, here are some investigative games you've yet to discover

Thank you @kotaku.com for highlighting Murder Is Game Over: Murder Otaku as part of Steam's Detective Fest sale going on this week!
kotaku.com/steam-detect...

Approaching the data tower's core. ⚙️

From: Robot Rhapsody (PC/Steam). 💥

🎮Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3758170/...

❇️Campaign: www.kickstarter.com/projects/rap...

#indiegamedev #ドット絵
#pixelart #indiedev #gamedev
#ピクセルアート #RPGMakerMZ

The Game Developers Conferencee is comin' up! Boston Game Dev will be there, hop on the Slack (slack.bostongamedev.org) and drop by the #gdc channel if you want some pals in SF!

You can use coupon code BGD10 for 10% off your pass here! -> gdc.informafestivals.com/2026/registr...

YouTube video by Black Heart Games Game UI: Watch me design hotkey schematics for PlinkIdle in Figma and Unity

I made a lil' slice-of-work-life video about making UI for hotkeys (Figma and Unity) in PlinkIdle. Sloppy indie game dev in action if anyone is into that sort of thing. 😅
youtu.be/O1jb1JMwICs

Loki's Revenge by OWL A Norse mythology survivors-like

Loki's Revenge is now out on @itch.io for FREE (aka PWYW)

This is the full version of the game, same as Steam (just missing Steam features like cloud saves, achievements, etc.)

owlmakesgames.itch.io/lokis-revenge

Going forward, all of my games will be free on itch
#godot #indiedev #gamedev

Last Friday, the newest Indiepocalypse came out, closing out 6 years of Indiepocalypse!