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@chrisoshea.org.bsky.social

Indie making games for the whole family to play together as Cowly Owl. @chrisoshea on Twitter www.chrisoshea.org

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"ร–oo" the bomb caterpillar exploration puzzle platformer, is out now! ๐ŸŽ‰

Dive into an adventure packed with discovery and clever puzzles, we hope you enjoy it!

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store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/...

07.08.2025 14:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 284    ๐Ÿ” 135    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17
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โœจ๐ŸšŒ Is This Seat Taken? is OUT NOW!

๐Ÿ’บArrange picky characters.
๐Ÿ•ต๏ธโ€โ™€๏ธPiece together satisfying puzzles.
๐Ÿ”ถ Follow Nat on their journey.

โฌ‡๏ธโฌ‡๏ธโฌ‡๏ธ

07.08.2025 14:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 51    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

congrats on the launch!

06.08.2025 09:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐ŸŽ‰LUDOCENE LAUNCHED ๐ŸŽ‰

So excited (and nervous) to send our game-finder into the world.

Ludocene.com

If you want a better way to find amazing games that rewards experts and is in the hands of players, this is our shot.

Thank you to the 1000's backers and supporters.This is just the beginning.

06.08.2025 08:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 571    ๐Ÿ” 227    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31    ๐Ÿ“Œ 60
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August 7 is a powerhouse of indie releases, giving us:

Wildwood Down (@crashablestudios.bsky.social)
The Royal Writ (@yogscast.games)
Artis Impact (@artis-impact.bsky.social)
Tiny Bookshop (neoludic.games)

And so much more: the-indie-in-former.com/2025/07/14/2...

04.08.2025 19:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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big news: TALL TRAILS is OUT NOW !!

๐Ÿฅพ an exploration game where EVERYTHING goes in the boot!!
๐Ÿค  you're a little golem on a quest to find his purpose
๐Ÿš€ use items as fuel in your ROCKET BOOT to blast yourself through the air!!

get it now Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/2393760/...

04.08.2025 14:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 302    ๐Ÿ” 113    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16
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Here's the (current) pitch: a 10-button physics-based web game where your goal is to move yourself into a hole in the ground and proceed to the next level. Choose from or combine 8 stances. You can also grab objects or go limp.

#ScreenshotSaturday #Godot3

02.08.2025 08:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 233    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Platypus Reclayed is in @nvmuk.bsky.social National Videogame Museum's new Make it! Play it! Exhibition!

Discover how games are made from LEGO, embroidery and clay (like us!)

Read more (and wishlist)
๐Ÿ‘พโœจ๐Ÿš€ store.steampowered.com/news/app/291...

#platypusreclayed #gamedev #nationalvideogamemuseum

24.07.2025 09:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 51    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This is what making a game with weird little guys looks like.

#gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity #weirdlittleguys

30.07.2025 09:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 73    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ludocene: Game Discovery From People You Trust A dating app that matches you with games rather than people. A deck-builder that profiles your gaming taste.

Last 6 months have been wild:
๐ŸคฏWe realised game discovery was broken.
๐ŸงชWe made a prototype game-finder.
๐ŸŽฏWe Kickstartered it into reality.
๐Ÿฅ˜We cooked and cooked with our backers.

๐Ÿš€On Weds 6th Aug we launch Ludocene.com into the world.

๐Ÿ™Last chance back/share: www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud...

29.07.2025 16:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 168    ๐Ÿ” 59    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?

29.07.2025 10:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4743    ๐Ÿ” 1518    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 52    ๐Ÿ“Œ 40

The real pain here is that often you have to update the iOS sdk, which means you need to update xcode, which sometimes means a mac os upgrade, which sometimes means your hardware is too old to update the mac, so you have to buy new hardware

17.07.2025 14:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m in :)

16.07.2025 20:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think thatโ€™s the wrong website :)

16.07.2025 18:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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!!!! we just dropped a ๐ƒ๐„๐Œ๐Ž for curiosmos !!!!

woahโ€ฆ I almost canโ€™t believe it but everyone gets to try this silly game of ours

>:โ€ข) s.team/a/2585710/

16.07.2025 16:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 220    ๐Ÿ” 75    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Discord tells me this invite is invalid

16.07.2025 15:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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WORK LOUDERยฎ Work Louder make products for people, inspired by a version of themselves sometimes forgotten - playful, versatile, and above all else, creative.

i have no idea about keyboards, but these look swish and very expensive (been following them on instagram, small company) worklouder.cc/knob1

14.07.2025 15:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 (UK Layout) : Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories Buy

This is the one I use as its super good for rsi / wrists, but it's ugly as hell

www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Na...

14.07.2025 14:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Stop fake age ratings on app stores Big tech is lying about the real age ratings of appsโ€“ letโ€™s make them come clean

Good for @goodlawproject.bsky.social starting a campaign to hold big tech accountable for age ratings on App/Play store. It's time these games and apps show their true minimum age, rather than hiding it in the license agreement. goodlawproject.org/campaign/sto...

09.07.2025 13:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Looking for inspiration, I browsed through some old prototypes. Here's one that's absolutely exhausting to play.

09.07.2025 10:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 186    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

@sharnajackson.com @katboo.bsky.social Just ordered Spy Club for my youngest Yoto lover

08.07.2025 08:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

do you use colliders and a physics object on the player to restrict player movement to walkable areas?

07.07.2025 17:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What!? My kid loves the Yoto and I saw this interactive audio game on their feed the other day, I didn't realise there is such an awesome team behind it!

04.07.2025 16:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I had a go at y sorting in unity this morning, it basically works but it makes working with characters/things that are made up of lots of sprites a pain. do you use colliders and a physics object on the player to restrict player movement to walkable areas?

04.07.2025 15:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Do you use these for player movement restriction too or just enemy ai? How do you do depth sorting between scenes and moving sprites?

04.07.2025 14:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wrong, you can archive but not delete. Also they shouldn't be linking any local offline projects to the cloud full stop unless users want them too. If they stopped doing that, there wouldn't be any gdpr issues.

02.07.2025 14:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Troll Hunter - movie: where to watch streaming online Find out how and where to watch "Troll Hunter" online on Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney+ today โ€“ including 4K and free options.

Obviously this one, not the kids show on Netflix :)

Its very good, way more indie. Troll Hunter is 12 years older than Trolls so bear that in mind, plus a tiny budget. By the looks of this link you have to buy it for ยฃ6 now

www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/tro...

30.06.2025 15:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it was fun, but Troll Hunter was better imho. Have you seen it?

30.06.2025 15:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hub 3.13.0 feedback Maybe Iโ€™m holding it wrong but the โ€œNew Projectโ€ form is missing the โ€œConnect to Unity Cloudโ€ checkbox - so Iโ€™m now forced to use Cloud?? Did I miss something in Ts & Cs?

Ugh @unity.com making bad decisions again. Update 3.13.0 of the Unity Hub, when making a new project you can only connect it to Unity Cloud, there is no option to disable it and create a local only project. I hope this is just a bug! discussions.unity.com/t/hub-3-13-0...

30.06.2025 07:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
Felt That Boxing Premiere Official Trailer Announcement ๐ŸฅŠ Summer Game Fest 2025
YouTube video by San Strings Studio | Real-Time Animation Felt That Boxing Premiere Official Trailer Announcement ๐ŸฅŠ Summer Game Fest 2025

Theyโ€™ve unveiled a new game they are working on, a puppet boxing game that looks to have lots of humour woven in

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSZC...

27.06.2025 15:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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