Tim Ian Hely - Just a Guy making Games and trying to Survive 🤷‍♂️

There is a graveyard of broken dreams occupied by hundreds, probably thousands of creators, writers, musicians, artists, who gifted years of their lives to a silent audience they never knew they had.
So they gave up, and somewhere some fan wonders why they quit, but never asks.

Monster Match by Axol Studio, Tim I Hely Defend your realm from trespassing heroes by summoning monsters in this match-3 puzzle game!

I like making "spooky" themed games that are not actually scary/gory/jumpscarey.

This spooky season, check out some of my favorites:

axolstudio.itch.io/heck-house

axolstudio.itch.io/monster-match

axolstudio.itch.io/spooksville-...

axolstudio.itch.io/long-road-to...

#indiegames #halloween

Monster Match by Axol Studio, Tim I Hely Defend your realm from trespassing heroes by summoning monsters in this match-3 puzzle game!

I like making "spooky" themed games that are not actually scary/gory/jumpscarey.

This spooky season, check out some of my favorites:

axolstudio.itch.io/heck-house

axolstudio.itch.io/monster-match

axolstudio.itch.io/spooksville-...

axolstudio.itch.io/long-road-to...

#indiegames #halloween

I did.

a man with a pumpkin head is dancing in a cemetery in the fog . Alt: a man with a pumpkin head is dancing in a cemetery in the fog .

Happy October to those who celebrate!

St Louis Game Developer RoundUp № 27 The St Louis Game Developer RoundUp is a monthly news aggregator for the St Louis Game Development community. It is a collection of news, events, and other items of interest to the community.

St Louis Game Developer RoundUp № 27

roundup.stlgame.dev/issue-27/

#gamedev #indiegames #stlouis

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

(I'm the larger person, FYI)

Post you from a different era.

~2008

Yeah I hate when that happens.

I have embedded a url-lock in a few games (if they access the game from a non-whitelisted) URL it only displays an error) but if I forget to do it before they steal a copy it's too late.

☹️

spongebob squarepants is sitting in a chair with the words `` patiently waiting '' written below him . ALT: spongebob squarepants is sitting in a chair with the words `` patiently waiting '' written below him .

Yay! See you next week then!

a man in a plaid shirt is sitting in a chair with his head resting on his hand Alt: a man in a plaid shirt is sitting in a chair with his head resting on his hand

Me, late on a Tuesday afternoon, refreshing my Subscriptions and waiting for the latest gl;hf episode.

If I don't have a life why should the people who make my content have one?

@memoriamatters.bsky.social @anyaustin.bsky.social

I spend all of my time at home. Alone. I don't go anywhere. I don't see anyone. I don't talk to anyone. I don't know how to do anything else.

I feel this.

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

... Is there good anime?

Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be.

Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.

That's all folks! (P-switches)

Join us on September 11th at 7 pm at the #Dirty20Bar for a night of creativity, carbs, and speed networking! Share your projects & find teammates for the Spooky Jam kicking off next month!

art by ilikethepixies
part 1 song by andrew mannis

#stlouis #gamedev #stl #creativecommunity #networking

Tim, Colin, Laz, Kelsey, and Wes!

Ducks in a Row, by Goofy Gourd!

We had a great time meeting so many passionate developers and players at the Chicago Indie Games Showcase this weekend! Check out the games we featured at stlgame.dev/directory!

Feels real hopeless right now. All I've been able to do lately is try to ignore it all so I can manage to get the stuff inside my little bubble done that I need to do (which is exactly what they want) but I'm so totally drained of everything to be able to do anything else...
Sorry :(

In the top image Gordon Ramsay is holding two slices of bread to each side of a lady's head. the lady is wearing a beret. He is yelling at her "what were you almost?" and in the bottom image you can see that the lady is wearing a STARS beret and she says "An Jill sandwich"

The next STLGameDev Game Jam is going to be a Spooky one!

Make a game!

October 16-30th! Free Work-up Sessions at different St Louis County Library branches!

Dress-up for the Post-Jam Showcase at Maryville University!

See you there? 🧛‍♀️

Have you messed with UFO 50 yet?

🎃 Spooky Jam 2025 Announcing: The 2025 Spooky Game Jam STLGameDev is hosting another Game Jam! Participants may work independently or in teams. All projects must be created within the two-week jam window, following the...

Do you know what's scary?

Going TOO LONG without a Game Jam!

⚡ (perfectly timed thunder!)

MWAHAHAHAHAHA~(maniacal laughter!)

stlgame.dev/news/spooky-...

#STLGameDev #STLGameJam #STLSpookyJam25

Drop by and play some sick games today! We are all set up!

Super Diamond Dwarves by Super∴Try A dwarven heist made with Turbo

classic 8PM on a thursday supertry game drop
This one's called Super Diamond Dwarves and it's a game about digging up a big heavy diamond and jetpacking away from lava and you can play it in your browser!
supertry.itch.io/diamond-dwar...

So close and yet so far...
Trying to find them all without looking it up.