MamaMonkey aka Anna Barham

Loved this moment of synchronicity in my feed today @geoffkeene.bsky.social @jessmwoodward.bsky.social

a promo image for Hatch Dragons! a mobile game by Runaway Play. the logo is along the bottom and a big cute catlike dragon is curled up and looking at its baby

Genuinely so proud of the team for this one 🥳 Hatch Dragons is out now! (rolling out slowly, please hold our servers in your thoughts)

Cold Salvage is a #multiplayer #co-op #horror #survival game set in the reaches of space. You're not a soldier - you're an engineer. Load up on gear, Explore, Repair, Survive.

Public playtests coming in 2026

📣 Heads up! Event volunteer applications for the New Zealand Games Festival close this Sunday, March 8!⏳️

👉 It's the perfect opportunity to get involved in the local games industry! 😊

Volunteers will receive a discounted or free ticket! 🎫✨️

Sign up through the link in bio! 🔗

You can save the date!  We're happy to share that NZGDC 2026 will be held from 30 September - 3 October in Auckland at the new NZ International Convention Centre.   See you there!

#NextFest has brought in a flurry of new players and positive reviews.

Sounds like the Rollick N’ Roll demo has fried a few brains, but everyone seems genuinely glad to have experienced it!

Hey lovely people,
I'm thinking of holding some online workshops about finding tiny moments of joy in day-to-day life during chaotic times and I'm wondering if that's something you'd be interested in?

Let me know if that'd be your cup of tea😊

or it can be coated with a kind of thin raspberry icing, I think they make it using jelly crystals?

Yeah some days they don’t quite follow the pattern

True true

YouTube video by Dead Teapot what if i advertised like a mobile game?? #indiegame #puzzlegame #gaming

here's a recreation of watching playtesting of shape sender deluxe

www.youtube.com/shorts/t3-8E...

#SteamNextFest Teeto demo is live! We've also got a time trial version of the Lawn & Order level. Record your best time, submit on our Discord and be in to win STUFF.

Here's my best time so far - you can probably do much better. SHOW ME.

#indiegame #gamedev #speedrunning

Ship it.

I always just rip mine off our website

Hard same!

The Steam Next Fest promo image.

📢 INDIE DEVS WHO ARE IN NEXT FEST!

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🙋 Keen to get involved in Aotearoa's game development community? We're looking for volunteers at the New Zealand Games Festival!

✨️ Volunteers receive a discounted/free ticket to the Play By Play conference.

Link in bio! 🔗

⏳️ Applications close March 8th.

#NZGamesFestival #NZGF2026 #NZGameDev

The upside of having our flight cancelled and rescheduled this morning is that I got to meet and shake hands with Sir Ashley Bloomfield, who is one of my heroes🤩 He was so nice! And shorter than I expected! (Sorry Ashley)

You are going to be okay. This too shall pass.

It might pass like a kidney stone, but it shall, eventually, pass.

Sending you one of my best squidgy mum hugs

Our 4 year old plays through our Steam Next Fest demo… at least she’s honest!

#indiegame #steamnextfest #gamedev

My husband was cycling to work one sunny winter morning. He forgot to put his sunglasses on, got the sun in his eyes and smacked into a Road Works warning sign (the irony!)

Only realised a few days later he’d actually broken a knuckle and had to have a cast for six weeks

The Wellington wind is VERY LOUD tonight

It is

Oh wait, he’s in army uniform. Does that mean he’s an army dad who’s away from his family for months and he’s smelling the sock to remind him of the kid he’s left at home?

I hope so

If he’s a dad and that’s his kid this is ok, because it means he’s (a) doing the laundry and (b) tidying up on a regular basis.

It seems unlikely that’s what he’s referring to??

Thank you! Oh, and the signature was a lovely little surprise 🥰

Happy Valentines Day! ❤️

Throwback to when I proposed to the other half of our studio with a secret co-op level I made.

Lots of people asked for it as an easter egg - so you can actually find it in the Teeto demo (which you can play now on Steam!)

#valentinesday #indiegame

I wanted you to know I gave my husband of 27 years this book this morning at 6.30 am as a Valentine’s Day present, and he spent the next half hour giggling and reading bits out to me. A resounding success!

(He was already awake, I’m pretty sure)

I mean I've seen on TV someone walking around eating a cucumber like it was a chocolate bar, tomatoes are pretty basic imo :-/

Ahh. In our family we called that plastic cheese, for two reasons …