Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈

Text: Herd - A new puzzle board game - Out now / Illustration: two black Shepherds and 3 white Sheep gathered around a Herd box

Herd is now finally out.

Available as a physical game and as print files. Physical version is also part of the Letibus Bundle for 10% off. There are 100 free community copies of print files on Itch.io.

blazgracar.com/herd

We're excited to announce that LOK Digital is OUT NOW on Nintendo Switch!

lok-digital.com/switch

Featuring approachable mechanics and mind-bending gameplay, LOK Digital is designed by @letibus.bsky.social and @icedropgames.bsky.social and published by Draknek & Friends

It's so obvious that the main users of gAI are the same idea guys I used to see all the time on developer forums back in the day.

They think the idea is the difficult or interesting part of making, steal from everyone around them, and then whine that no-one understands what geniuses they are 🤦

Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS.

Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.

There is a small possibility that in moment of weakness I've decided to try to see if I can hook Godot up to this thing in order to make some very shiny puzzles with a weird controller?

So far I've gotten it sending Midi data to Godot, and receiving colour data in return, which is cool!

Goodness, I'm not thinking of anything that intense just yet 😂

There is a small possibility that in moment of weakness I've decided to try to see if I can hook Godot up to this thing in order to make some very shiny puzzles with a weird controller?

So far I've gotten it sending Midi data to Godot, and receiving colour data in return, which is cool!

Herd December 9th

My puzzle board game Herd will release next Tuesday, on December 9th.
Be notified about the release: mailchi.mp/0ea8882f064d...

Congrats, that's really exciting 🎉

It should be of no surprise that I've already sign up for this! Great to see more daily options, especially from such a talented team.

Also love that there is no manipulative FOMO on this either once you're in. Seems that puzzles can always be played later even if you can't do them on the day 🧩🧡

🔔Big announcement time🔔

After almost two years of saying I was a Project Manager at @thinkygames.com, I can finally talk about what we were doing.

It's a daily web game, but every day there are new rules, plus there's a story (and some lovely art) that progresses with each day.

Well this looks so far up my street it might have just moved in with me 😯

It is well lit, but I'll give it a pass 😅

Well this looks so far up my street it might have just moved in with me 😯

Definitely not all reviews. It's very telling how far down on Metacritic I had to scroll to find one of my usually gotos. The Polygon one was scathing in a way that absolutely resonated with me and will hold me off buying it, sadly.

Awesome, that's a really nice feature to get working 🎉

And to be clear I'm totally guilty of this too! I think everyone is, because it's fucking hard and emotional and personal to make things. But I also know SOLAS 128 would fundamentally be a better game if I had gotten over my own ego earlier in the design process, and I learnt so much from that.

You can totally make games with friction that encourage people to overcome "impossible" situations which are accessible to a wider group of people. Practically you have to limit it to release something, sure, but honestly these arguments feel like they come more from designer ego than anywhere else

While I'm a huge fan of friction in games (puzzle games are built around it), arguments against difficulty options always irk me because they assume everyone can overcome blockers at the same rate, and that's just not true.

You're just punishing players with physio or neurological differences?

Upfall on Steam Upfall is a game about bouncing, dodging, and near death experiences. Burst bubbles to progress upwards, but be careful to dodge the hazards in the depths. How far will your upfall be? A free game for...

I've got a Black Friday Deal for you...

How about some of yous play a free game full of vibes, leave a few reviews to get Upfall to Very Positive on Steam, and I will drink a heroically large gin this weekend?

Deal? Deal!

👉 store.steampowered.com/app/3570280/...

#GameDev #IndieDev #FreeGame

Upfall on Steam Upfall is a game about bouncing, dodging, and near death experiences. Burst bubbles to progress upwards, but be careful to dodge the hazards in the depths. How far will your upfall be? A free game for...

I've got a Black Friday Deal for you...

How about some of yous play a free game full of vibes, leave a few reviews to get Upfall to Very Positive on Steam, and I will drink a heroically large gin this weekend?

Deal? Deal!

👉 store.steampowered.com/app/3570280/...

#GameDev #IndieDev #FreeGame

Had a very lovely talk about games with @boardgameblitz.bsky.social :) You can take a look and listen below. Thanks again, Ambie and Crystal!

I assume the reward is Samus finally telling every single side character to shut the fuck up.

POLL: Does Microsoft understand consent?

- Yes
- Ask me again in three days

A classic image of decibel level examples, only it's been titled 'Dog Whistle Levels' and the 140dB example of Fireworks has been circled.

Lets have a quick check on the Labour Dog Whistle chart this week... oh.

Labour in order to win back voters have, this week:

1. Announced an immigration policy which was hailed as a win by obvious fascist Tommy Robinson
2. Announced they're going to give AI companies cheap electricity while household bills are at record levels

They are truly deeply fucking awful people

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Hey folks, I often do posts calling for indie developers to link me their games so I can signal boost them. Today I want to do something similar for all trans creatives.

If you are a trans game dev, artist, writer, streamer or YouTuber, reply here with a link to your work. Only one rule: no GenAI.💜

The Running Man is really good fun. Big, kinda dumb, but knows exactly what it is.

It's also not subtle about it's themes of useless out of touch execs, police brutality, and politicians caring more about the media then the populous... And you know what? Fucking yeah, more of that please 👌