Will Aryitey

If you missed the lightning talks, they're now up on the WGGB's Youtube channel! Thanks again to @kimmacaskill.bsky.social , @flipdock.bsky.social , @thewizardlockwood.bsky.social . @rosebehar.bsky.social , Colin Harvey, Ben Sabin and our sponsor @articydraft.bsky.social
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Experimenting with a stylised day-night cycle while flying through the sky 🛩️

#GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame #Unity3D #Prototype

Two images of Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki edited to make him say “Game making only brings suffering. Can’t believe I actually want to do another one.”

Key art for the game Citizen Sleeper depicting the protagonist looking up at the looming densely-packed space station

What’s your Game of the Year you played in 2024 but didn’t come out this year?

HIGHLY recommend Citizen Sleeper if you love compellingly crafted, personal character-driven stories

Emily is Away on Steam Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.

Pre-modern social media era but Emily is Away plays out through AIM messages

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A charming mute robot’s spaceship gets attacked by an alien who dismantles the ship and scatters the robot’s friends across the galaxy.

Rebuild the ship, rescue the robot’s friends, and defeat the alien menace.

The strut tho 💅🏽

This game has aura already

YouTube video by David J. 7 AM - Animal Crossing: New Horizons Soundtrack

Tune check 🎶 What’re you listening to?

7am - Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Kazumi Totaka

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✈️🧩⚙️🛠️🔄

It’s called ✨dramatic effect✨

100% an intentional feature to add juice and not at all a bug

I've started a pack for people doing cool or innovative stuff with game narrative. I'll keep adding to it as I remember more amazing games. And as more creators join Bluesky go.bsky.app/8kmdXpP

Feels like our little Playdate game gets to grow bigger every month!

@ozone.birb.house would love the Game Dev label. Time to hop back on BlueSky more often!

Nostalgic Dreams key art by Jake Lawrence. A comatose woman lying on a hospital bed, surrounded by life-sized toys which stare at her menacingly.

Fight toys from your past & embrace the 80s! Fight through the dreamscape of your 80s-themed memories to try and wake yourself up from a coma in Nostalgic Dreams, our 2D roguelike currently in development. 
Follow us to learn more!

A big ol’ update about our growing game 🤩
Plus, a major life milestone for @guvbubbs.bsky.social ! 👶🏻

Reposting this for the new week! Happy hunting! 😎

#gamewriting

Team Comet is made up of Drew, Maria, @flipdock.bsky.social & myself.

And we're making a game called ☄Comet.

Follow us on itch https://guv-bubbs.itch.io/comet

#playdate #playdatedev #gamedev

Yea it’s never easy juggling mental health with life stuff. Something I still struggle with sometimes. Idk what your work life’s like but might be worth putting a recurring 10 min private meeting in your work calendar to step away from your desk?

Aka skeeter’s elbow

mega64 tweet energy and I’m here for it

🖕🏾

Comet by guv_bubbs, aloebach, FlipDock, rowdy41 A journey through light and dark.

Today we're reached some big milestones on ☄Comet!

1. Chapter 1 is playable!

2. We launching our store page!
https://guv-bubbs.itch.io/comet

Follow us on itch!

#playdate #gamedev

Other people. Pitch some fellow devs or close friends your game and periodically chat to them about ideas, ask for critiques. One of the best things about the indie community is open feedback! :)

Here’s a thread to get you started 😊 plenty of artists and devs here to connect with!

Take breaks, and I don’t just mean a 5 min tea break. If you can, focus on something else for a few days/weeks. Watch films, read books/comics, go on a trip. Get different types of creative input, and that may spark something

A devlog update for our Playdate game Comet☄️

If you like sokoban puzzles, Earthbound, or strange happenings in small towns, take a look 👀

The paradox!

Fighting the game dev urge to ‘whip up a quick prototype for a cool idea’ 🙏🏾
(while my hand is injured so I can’t even work on current projects…) 🤕

If you’ve got 20-30 hours to spare. I’d highly recommend going back to Mass Effect 2. The world, the lore, the characters, the absolutely perfect finale that relies on interpersonal relationships with your crew 🔥