Francois van Niekerk

Reminder: Spooky Express is OUT NOW!

🚂🧟🧛
Take charge of the only rail service willing to carry the undead passengers of deepest, darkest Trainsylvania.

Steam: s.team/a/3352310
itch: draknek.itch.io/spooky-express
iOS: apps.apple.com/app/id673842...
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

DISC ROOM - Out Now! Are you ready to get sliced in half? The year is 2089 and a giant disc has appeared in orbit of Jupiter. Step into the oversized space suit of a brave scientist and explore this sprawling intergalacti...

Happy 5th birthday to Disc Room! 🎉Love this game @kittycalis.bsky.social @terriv.bsky.social @doseone.bsky.social & I sliced up together. discroom.com

More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC According to Press Engine data, the global pool of games journalists has shrunk by 25%

More than 1,200 video game journalists have left major publications in the past two years, and not returned to the media, according to data supplied to VGC.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/more-th...

EU criticised for pausing sanctions on Israel in response to Trump Gaza efforts Pause on move to freeze preferential trade pact comes amid scramble to shore up fragile ceasefire

Even if the bombing stops, we can't go back to the status quo.

There must be accountability for Israel's genocide. War criminals must be jailed, and economic and diplomatic sanctions imposed.

Spooky Express is OUT NOW on PC and Mobile! 🚂🎃

All the passengers are dying to ride the Spooky Express! Don’t let them miss their stops: they may be monsters, but they still have places to be and people to eat – er, we mean meet!

spooky.express

Every time I read "the wayback machine is slow", all I see is "the alcoholic proof of this wine that we turned from water seems a little light"

One of my favorite ongoing features for Remap is Steam Vent, where we purposely play games in the "new releases" category that are getting played by almost no one. We'll try anything—unless we see the AI disclosure. Then, you'll get skipped. End of story.

Aw, very kind! 🙏
And yeah, undo is so useful at dev time too. Check if the crazy thing you just saw was a bug or just a counter-intuitive rules interaction - and either way, study it in captivity.

Americans vastly underestimate the amount of wealth under their noses. A WA capital gains tax that was projected to bring in 300 million brought in nearly 3x that in its first year.

The best time to tax the wealthy was decades ago. The second best time is now.

Life imitates art 🎨

The unintuitive keyword to look for is font subsetting. I've saved whole MBs using it 😂

Tensegrity - Wikipedia

Had a brilliant metaphor to explain how authoring systemic games is different than core-mechanics games.

It should be acknowledged how *weird* the ubiquity of photo-realism in games is. Most visual artistic mediums, *especially* any form with sequential visuals, that aren't based in *actual photography*, opt for some form of iconic stylization rather than photo-realism, and for good reason.

for millennia, people would quite literally kill to find a way of protecting their loved ones from disease as easy and effective as vaccination. if you told them that there was such a way, and it required only a needle prick and half a workweek of fever, they would stampede

Look, it’s really straightforward to get a publisher as a new name indie in 2025. Simply do 95% of the work making and marketing your game, and if your metrics are trending towards almost certain success, a publisher will swoop in to promise the remaining 5%, deliver 3%, and collect 75%

Thread on what it took to port Rift Riff, made in Godot, to iOS and Android. 🧵👇

#godotengine #gamedev

Terra Nil OST Vol 2 is out now on all platforms 🍃

🏐BALL x PIT🏐

OUT NOW on PC, Switch, PS5 and Xbox.

A brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite.

But be warned: it’s seriously addictive. Watch the trailer for real-time proof.

I still can't believe my placeholder name for the Cozy Grove campfire stuck around 🥹🔥

sexy screenshot of rift riff in portrait on mobile

sexy screenshot of rift riff in portrait on mobile

sexy screenshot of rift riff in portrait on mobile

sexy screenshot of rift riff in portrait on mobile

Rift Riff released on mobile & it's portrait-only. just look at how sexy portrait is

App Store (iOS):
apps.apple.com/us/app/rift-...

Google Play (Android):
play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Calvin and Hobbes comic. Dad explains there's only two types of file formats: .txt and .zip #programming #software #softwareengineering

There's really only two file formats

A bright and colorful poster for the event. The main text reads: Super Frienship Arcade. Sub heading: Indie Games and Alt Controllers. The date and location for the event are: 18 October 2025. Makers Massive, Homecoming Centre, corner of Buitenkant street and Caledon street, District 6 Cape Town

🇿🇦Anyone here from Cape Town and into indie games?
We're hosting an awesome pop up arcade!

Come join us for:
🐱 Homemade indie games!
🐸 Weird alt controllers!
🐶 Awesome people!
🐯 Loads of high fives!

18 Oct at Makers Massive - home of CT Game Dev!
Tickets available on Quicket:
qkt.io/P5YI6m

Check out the demo of our top down action/tower defense/settlement builder mashup Existential Treads during #SteamNextFest!

You won't regret it! But even if you do, whatever! Check it out!

store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/Ash__Adams_Existential_Treads/

#indiegame

Finally finished a massive rework of EGG HARVERSTER.

Give it a play if you're into eggs, mysterious caves, or building factories!

squidcor.itch.io/egg-harvester

🇿🇦Anyone here from Cape Town and into indie games or alternative controllers?

Well then you need to be at the new Super Friendship Arcade!

Pop up arcade with:
🐱 Homemade indie game!
🐸 Weird alt controllers!
🐶 Awesome people!
🐯 Loads of high fives!

18 Oct at Makers Massive - home of CT Game Dev!

member influx on Discord

If your ideology isn't concerned with egalitarianism and normalizing a high quality of life for the average person, what's the point of your ideology?

give greta thunberg a gundam

Trade along the great snail trail to find your baby gastropods. 🐌⚖️ clockworkacorn.itch.io/escargo #ludumdare58 #LDJam

👑 the Below the Crown Demo is now on Steam ♟️

Our nerdy love letter to Roguelikes, Chess, and Dungeon Crawlers is here:
🔸Take the Wizard King below in our procedural dungeons
🔸Spells, Upgrades, Bosses ...and Psychological Testing!
🔸Daily & Player Challenges
store.steampowered.com/app/4023520/...