@draknek.bsky.social
Personal website: https://alan.draknek.org/ Head Draknek at Draknek & Friends, making thinky puzzle games. He/him. https://www.draknek.org/ Our latest game: Spooky Express https://store.steampowered.com/app/3352310/Spooky_Express/
Our team is back with more hidden gems. In this edition, we feature Spooky Express, Jail Dice: Roll to Break, Rick Henderson, and Champions of Regnum
Story by Josh Bycer, Vitor Costa, Ben Rowan, and Anonymous
➡️ https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/hidden-gems-of-game-design-vol-45/
I'm down!
09.03.2026 16:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
To Do: Check out the Draknek and Friends Steam sale!
Up to 70% off on every single one of our puzzlers on PC via Steam, from Spooky Express to Sokobond.
store.steampowered.com/publisher/dr...
I made Moss Moss, a #pico8 game about mossing the world and finding secrets. Hope you enjoy ♥
noelcody.itch.io/moss-moss
Öoo is now available on Nintendo Switch! 🎉
If you have friends who don’t own a PC, I’d really appreciate it if you could recommend the Switch version to them! 🐛💣
www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...
Our massive Nintendo sale continues this month, including a first ever discount of LOK Digital on Switch and Switch 2.
www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...
Applications close in 3 days! 👀
👉 www.screenaustralia.gov.au/funding-and-...
Our huge Nintendo sale starts today! Massive discounts on all of our Switch titles are available from now until March 20th, with up to 75% off individual games and 60% off our multi-game bundle.
www.draknek.org/nintendo
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
28.02.2026 16:09 — 👍 13129 🔁 5317 💬 89 📌 184
Our huge Nintendo sale starts today! Massive discounts on all of our Switch titles are available from now until March 20th, with up to 75% off individual games and 60% off our multi-game bundle.
www.draknek.org/nintendo
In this week's podcast, we talk to Levi Pinkert, creator of Loophole, about what ideas make it from drawing board to actual development, how to make the judgement call on ambition Vs. realism, and the terrible crime of not featuring pushable blocks in a grid-based puzzle game.
draknek.org/podcast
Correction: by "one year anniversary", you might think that I meant to type "one one", aka "eleven". However, that is a number of years so implausibly high that it clearly cannot be true.
25.02.2026 23:18 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Today marks the one year anniversary of the release of A Good Snowman is Hard to Build on PC - still the only game with a price point (on itch.io) set by the weather!
Buy it there today (although it's quite sunny in London) there, or for a fixed price elsewhere.
agoodsnowman.com
The Draknek & Friends PlayStation sale ends tomorrow - it's your last chance to grab these gems at a discount, with 50% off a bundle of all three.
Monster's Expedition, Patrick's Parabox and Bonfire Peaks, plus DLC!
store.playstation.com/en-gb/produc...
Ultrapool Steam Next Fest demo is up! Go try the game that has >10k players on mobile before even getting released :)
store.steampowered.com/app/4195110/...
Happy Birthday Sokobond Express! Four years young today - look how you've grown!
store.steampowered.com/app/1701330/...
Screenshot of the no ice in Minnesota charity bundle on itchio that has raised $500,008
My heart is full of gratitude and there are still 20 days left of the bundle
22.02.2026 00:08 — 👍 260 🔁 122 💬 0 📌 5Absolutely insane story about a middle-aged woman from Hertfordshire who got arrested, shackled, and detained by ICE and held in a prison for eight weeks.... while on holiday... with a valid tourist visa... as she tried to leave the country.
21.02.2026 07:27 — 👍 1550 🔁 849 💬 96 📌 45
There are a bunch of exciting new releases, upcoming games, and a couple future projects hinted at in this month's roundup of thinky highlights!
20.02.2026 17:37 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Who's going to stop me? :D
19.02.2026 22:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Get Thinky Third Thursday sent to your inbox each month by joining the mailing list at thinkythirdthursday.com.
19.02.2026 22:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Upcoming games to watch for:
* The Detective's Apprentice, by @darqwerful.bsky.social
* Helix: Descent N Ascent, by Badass Mongoose
* AntiMatcher, by @gigomakes.bsky.social and @terzalo.com
* Tiling Town, by muratsubo Games
* ?????, developed by ????? and published by Draknek & Friends
Recent thinky highlights:
* where's my egg?, by @levelclear.bsky.social
* TR-49, by @inkle.co
* Chromatic Conundrum, by @chromaticconundrum.bsky.social
* Bento Blocks, by @sometimesltd.bsky.social
* HER TREES : PUZZLE DREAM, by @stone-gamedev.bsky.social
Here's the February edition of Thinky Third Thursday, the monthly roundup of thinky puzzle games that have caught our eye:
thinkythirdthursday.com/february-2026
Don't forget the Draknek & Friends PlayStation sale is on now. Get all of our PlayStation games at a discount separately, or with 50% off as a bundle!
store.playstation.com/en-gb/produc...
Sorry to hear this 🫂
16.02.2026 10:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Roses are red,
Puzzles are hard.
We know that you love us,
So we made you a card.
Happy Valentines from Draknek & Friends!
Our first development snapshot for #GodotEngine 4.7 has arrived!
Virtual joysticks, drawable textures, Windows HDR support, Vulkan raytracing groundwork, and more are ripe for testing:
godotengine.org/article/dev-...
We're helping to raise funds for the Immigrant Law Centre in Minnesota with the No ICE in Minnesota bundle on Itch.io.
Get 1439 items for $10, including A Good Snowman is Hard to Build, all for an excellent cause.
itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...
👾 ANNOUNCING 868-BACK!
Dismantle capitalism one server at a time in this computer-hacking strategy roguelike game by Michael Brough!
Play the free demo in Steam Next Fest on Feb. 23rd!
Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/...
