Graham Pentheny

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

Build a solid, working system out the gate: nobody notices.

Build a buggy mess and then fix it later after everyone experiences the pain of using it: you're the hero.

Visual scripting is objectively terrible in 99.99% of cases. This is the hill I will die on.

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Sameeeee

Man, C is so much simpler and more fun to program in than C++.

It’s so ugly. It looks like a 90s inflatable plastic chair

friends, full disclosure: i have ZERO recollection of what we talked about when we recorded this. But I was hanging with Alan and Syrenne so I'm sure I had a good time. Go listen and be entertained? Educated? Who's to say, I guess. Go listen.

Can confirm. Adam is one of the best humans I’ve ever had the pleasure of getting to know. Check this out!

Draknek & Friends Official Podcast Join Alan and Syrenne from Draknek & Friends as they talk to developers of some of their favorite puzzle games, shedding light onto how games get made and th...

Draknek & Friends Official Podcast Episode 36 featuring @adamdegrandis.bsky.social is out now! Topics include the development of the games, his time teaching, a dive through some gaming history, and a surprisingly long tangent about music.
draknek.org/podcast

Our latest Studio Spotlight: Jake Birkett (@greyalien.bsky.social) on the 20‑year journey behind his “overnight” indie success.

👽 Read → www.weloveeverygame....

#IndieDev #GameDev #Interview

"Don't repeat yourself" (aka "DRY") is the foremost pitfall of our generation of software engineers. It's followed so myopically and dogmatically that people perform heroic code structure contortions just to enable re-use of a 10 line method they could have copy/pasted.

Wooooo congratulations!!! 🙌👏📗

Holding up my book "Mastering Community Management: Chaos, Compassion, and Connection in Games".

Picture of me in between shelves of books, holding up my book.

✨ MY BOOK IS OUT NOW ✨

"Mastering Community Management" is finally here! 😭

Learn what goes into community management for video games from pre- to post-production. ❤️ Get my step-by-step strategy for creating meaningful online spaces!

Shares appreciated. AHH!!

Buy: www.victoriatran.com/book

Maybe we'd have flying cars and world peace if Windows had switched to LF and case-sensitive file systems like everyone else... 🤔

YouTube video by Spry Fox Spirit Crossing - 14.2 Trailer

Hi everyone! We're Spry Fox. 🦊

As some of you may have heard, we've been working on our newest project: Spirit Crossing, a cooperative life-sim focused on friendship & community.

Let's take a look at the world we've been crafting:
🌲 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEKb...

☀️ playspiritcrossing.com

4000 more hours and you’ll be an expert in video games!

the thing about "move fast and break things" is that not breaking things is often quite a lot faster

My neighborhood is rife with them. They come out as early as 8:30am. Fun fact: they resonate at the same frequency as a low A string on a guitar and are about 100db. 🫠

Could be worse. Could be leaf blowers

Dumpster fire fighter 🗑️🧑‍🚒

just ship it. shut up, theseus.

A big group photo of the BBQ attendees.

People sitting on the grass and gathering under tents in the park.

People chatting under tents in the park.

The tops of trees against a blue sky.

There's a reason the summer community BBQ is one of our favorite events of the year! So great to see our amazing community come out and make an already sunny and beautiful day even better.

#gamedev #indiedev

Please, Windows, just be an operating system for me. That's all I want.

Imagine not being able to open your game engine editor today because it can't phone home. status.unity.com

drawing of the artist full body walking in profile holding a bag and bouquet of flowers, her head and hand is in a neon color fire, her head/hand reduced to skeletal form

hypernormalisation

Join us today at the very first Thinky Direct, filled with trailers and announcements from all the games that scratch your brain.

Tune in to see #CipherZero news!

6pm BST/10am PDT/1pm EDT!

www.youtube.com/live/iXyyhQd...

#PlayCipherZero #IndieGameDev #IndieDev #SolveForX #ThinkyDirect

Yo!

I’ve been working on my game, a tower defense called Spires of Morosith: Gossamer Sundered, and I've just published a Demo! Please give it a try, you can get it on steam here: store.steampowered.com/app/3094970/...

If you dig the game, tell a friend!

#indiegames #steamdemo #towerdefense

GameLoop 2025 GameLoop 2025

Boston GameLoop tickets went up the other day!

GameLoop is one of our fav local events, "like a day full of all the best hallway conversations you’d have at GDC" as they say. Tell your game makin' friends and coworkers!

August 16th @ MIT

Tickets here -> www.bostonfig.com/gameloop-2025/

A picture showing two diagrams of rounded corners, one using a circular equation and the other using a parabolic equation.

Some of y'all are gonna think I've gone completely nuts, but I'm gonna talk about rounded corners and why circles suck.

Most devs take it for granted that rounded corners are circles. Spoiler: They don't have to be!

There is a much more aesthetically pleasing and cheaper alternative. 🧵👇
#gamedev

YouTube video by Mark Mayers DESOLUS Announcement Trailer

After nearly a decade of development, I am very excited to finally announce Desolus!

Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in Desolus, a first person puzzle game.

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