Alessandro Cossidente

Got my hands on the latest build of City 20 and damn the team's been cooking with this one!

SPOILER ALERT FOR CREATORS: if this feels like it's right up your alley, keep an eye on it! We might have something happening soon :D

#indiegame #twitchstreamers

Choose what cards from the deck packed the most damage against the enemy to make the most 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗔𝗖𝗧!

Operatives: Revolve is part of the SEAsian Games Showcase!

Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3004810?...

#indiegamedev #indiedev #madewithunity #roguelike #DeckBuilder #indiegames

Side effects of playing UMAMI may include:
✅ Sharing it with your favorite human
✅ Wishlist impulse
✅ Making a tiny dev team SUPER HAPPY

Apply directly to your serotonin receptors. 💕

#indiegame #indiedev #cozygame

Decided to step away from the office for the weekend and touch the proverbial grass (and some snow - I found snow in June)!

Enjoy some pictures!

nothing personal but I think more devs should start considering social media marketing an integral part of making a game.

If it makes you feel better, you're definitely on the right path!

Absolutely! Another solution, if you can't be sure your soundtrack is 100% safe, is to add a way for content creators to disable/lower music volume for the game.

(something that a lot of creators love to have anyway as it makes it easier to record commentary).

i quit polygon; today's my last day. back to being an intergalactic bounty hunter (full-time freelance writer)! you'll soon see my bylines elsewhere & ofc you can still hear my video game opinions on Triple Click weekly. if you've got room in your budget for me: maddymyerswrites at gmail dot com <3

Client: "can you still deliver that on time?"

Vikki no! I broke/twisted or sprained most of my extremities over the past two decades! That would be a nightmare!

Oh, routine definitely help. Even just having a dog (and having to walk her thrice a week) has been helping a ton.

Steam Next Fest, Knowledge Share, the Italian Video Game Awards.... what a week!

Now excuse me while I hibernate throughout the weekend and try to survive the heatwave!

I often see people complaining 30 is the moment their backs fail. I'm 33 and mine's still holding, which sounds like a good thing but it's outright terrifying.

Every day could be my last.

IT'S (ALMOST) TIME FOR SOME KNOWLEDGE!

In about an hour, I'll be sitting down with @bippinbits.bsky.social (Dome Keeper, PVKK) to talk development, publishing, and what's the effect of a successful release on a small indie studio!

If you want to know more, join us here: discord.gg/fZBvK8eU?eve...

Funny story, I think I actually first heard about Spiritstead when someone linked to your logo-related Reddit post in one of the gamedev servers I'm in and I've been excited to try it ever since :D

But no rush, good things take time!

Absolutely! and even worse, it teaches consumers that production value is only measured in how polished, flashy, and shiny a game is.

Definitely give @electricsaint.bsky.social and Fading Serenades ( @partnano.bsky.social) a chance for some cozy goodness!

Personally, I also loved @siestagames.bsky.social's Empire in Decay, @blindflugstudios.bsky.social's Ground of Aces and the Cleared Hot demo :)

It's frustrating how those toxic expectations just get pushed and pushed and pushed.
"Oh, you're indie, of course you should be able to deliver AAAA kind of quality, right?" ....
All just a slow push to argue for even less funding than small teams and indies already get.

On a side note, I played a bit of your demo over my lunch break and loved it <3 It's so cozy and cute! Keep up the great work!

Different perspective but, as a marketer, I've seen this constant push towards "small teams can do amazing things" kill so many otherwise great games - just because players have warped expectations and now think if it doesn't look like a 2million dollar project, it's not worth playing.

Hey! Any chance I could get into this? Pretty please?

Wait! You mean the animal husbandry part of my agriscience degree could finally be useful? I'm in!

( please share once it's ready! I'm genuinely curious to read it! :D )

Why am I not surprised to see you both sharing these? 😂

a bird is standing on a car in a parking lot with the words viralhog written below it ALT: a bird is standing on a car in a parking lot with the words viralhog written below it

And rightly so!

oh, they are highly intelligent birds! Too bad they decided to devote their life to mischief

Seagulls are wild! I had an external cooler when I was living in Scandinavia and these little fuckers would routinely besiege it - to the point that they learned how to get it open and emptied it one night 😭

Aaaaah, I saw the first line there and I was so excited for a demo!

Fingers crossed one comes soon. Meanwhile, welcome to my wishlist! :D

Okay this will sound silly but how nice are we talking about exactly? Is it an iPad/Apple product level of nice or more of a mid-high range phone?

Asking because I got an iPad a while ago thinking it'd be a perfect travel companion and almost never took it out the house for fear of damaging it.

Ah yeah! The in-person event special! Sounds about right!