Puzzle Spy International

my most anticipated puzzle games for 2026. the demo was so fun.

Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it! 😊🕵️‍♀️

YouTube video by Michael Dashow Puzzle Spy International - Release Date Trailer

Our release date trailer is live! It's got a serious groove to it, so please check it out!

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

(Music and sound design by the amazing Alex Doty at AlexDotyMusic.com)

#indieGame #indieGames #puzzleGame #gameTrailer #trailer

A screenshot from the upcoming Puzzle Spy International trailer, showing a cropped part of a puzzle with various old-fashioned baggage tags all around. The two baggage tags in the center for DED (Dehradun, India via Receding Airlines) and UCE (Eunice, Louisiana, via BudJet Air lines) together spell out the word "Deduce."

New release date announcement trailer coming tomorrow...!

#indieGame #indieGames #puzzleGame #thinkyGame #VNdev

A screenshot from the upcoming Puzzle Spy International trailer, showing a cropped part of a puzzle with various old-fashioned baggage tags all around. The two baggage tags in the center for DED (Dehradun, India via Receding Airlines) and UCE (Eunice, Louisiana, via BudJet Air lines) together spell out the word "Deduce."

New release date announcement trailer coming tomorrow...!

#indieGame #indieGames #puzzleGame #thinkyGame #VNdev

This is the background from our demo (which is live now!) showing in order the original New Scotland Yard, Big Ben & the Houses of Parliament in London. I had to make the buildings overlapp to work with the cool parallax effect on the main menu.

#gameArt #indieGame #indieGameDev #gameDev #VNdev

This is the background from our demo (which is live now!) showing in order the original New Scotland Yard, Big Ben & the Houses of Parliament in London. I had to make the buildings overlapp to work with the cool parallax effect on the main menu.

#gameArt #indieGame #indieGameDev #gameDev #VNdev

✨The Daily Spell✨: a daily word puzzle Drop letters into place to unscramble today's magical headline. New puzzle and story daily!

Today is The Daily Spell's 100th day of daily puzzles! ✨
www.the-daily-spell.com

We're now at:
🧩 104 letter-dropping puzzles
📜 13k words of story
🪶 2500 daily players

Could not have reached this milestone without so many enthusiastic and helpful players! Thank you!
#gamedev #puzzlegame #thinkygame

If you don’t add one, it just grabs a frame from the middle of the trailer, doesn’t it?

I did a little bit of animation work on this to help out (I hardly ever get to bust out my 2D hand-drawn animation skills any more! 😅) It's a super useful package if you're looking to add more life to your RenPy screens.

Agent Epsilon says with Stefania Plinth "And once I've found your diamond, maybe we can find some way to celebrate." Stefania looks receptive to this idea. Both women are in 60s outfits, Epsilon in a teal mod short-sleeved dress and Stefania in a blue and cream dress with a wide collar and double-breasted buttons up the front. She's got cats-eye glasses and her hair is in a tight bun. Both are standing in the geology museum, with display cases of rocks, framed phots of how plate tectonics work, and a T-rex skeleton in the back. The scene is purple and gold and the whole thing is drawn in a mid-century modern art style.

Happy Valentine's Day and happy #ScreenshotSaturday from Agent Epsilon and all of Puzzle Spy International!

#indieDev #indieGame #indieGames #puzzleGame #gameArt #VN #VNdev #characterDesign #characterArt

Agent Epsilon says with Stefania Plinth "And once I've found your diamond, maybe we can find some way to celebrate." Stefania looks receptive to this idea. Both women are in 60s outfits, Epsilon in a teal mod short-sleeved dress and Stefania in a blue and cream dress with a wide collar and double-breasted buttons up the front. She's got cats-eye glasses and her hair is in a tight bun. Both are standing in the geology museum, with display cases of rocks, framed phots of how plate tectonics work, and a T-rex skeleton in the back. The scene is purple and gold and the whole thing is drawn in a mid-century modern art style.

Happy Valentine's Day and happy #ScreenshotSaturday from Agent Epsilon and all of Puzzle Spy International!

#indieDev #indieGame #indieGames #puzzleGame #gameArt #VN #VNdev #characterDesign #characterArt

The Love, Romance, and Heartbreak Debutante Ball arrives this Valentine's Day The Love, Romance, and Heartbreak Debutante Ball runs February 13, 2026 - February 20, 2026 containing 100+ games about that tricky thing called love, from romance to heartbreak

Happy #Valentine'sDay!

Check out 100+ video games about that tricky thing called love in the Love, Romance, and Heartbreak Debutante Ball #Steam festival

store.steampowered.com/curator/4576...

Includes SFW games, NSFW games, and games across many genres

#ScreenshotSaturday #indiegames #SteamDeck

Wow!! That’s really old-school Puzzled Pint! How did you first find out about it to bring it to London?

Thank you! The game is VERY much influenced by Puzzled Pint, which we both love and have participated in for years. (But some of the puzzles with fiddly movable pieces are a little more fun when you don’t have to cut everything out yourself! 😄)

Make Visual Novels RenPy Transition Kit by Stella @ MakeVisualNovels Need help transitioning? Look no further!

Hey, it's been a while! I just submitted my entry into this year's MVNA Jam. There's 423 transitions for use in RenPy to make your visual novel!

makevisualnovels.itch.io/mvn-renpy-tr...
Check it here^ #renpy #vndev #visualnovel

Cadence is out now!

Make music by solving circuits. It took 13 years to figure how to do this well!

Beyond the puzzles:
🐈‍⬛ Pet Ren, the cat!
📜 Enjoy Ren's life philosophy (all text is skippable)
🎹 Use the sandbox to make music
🧮 Or explore turing complete contraptions

If you care about pixel art as a medium and want to learn more about how to detect if it is genuine or AI-generated, please refer to this writeup that I created with the help of the community. Read, download, share and support real creators.

The 3rd Annual Thinky Awards A celebration of the very best thinky games released over the past year! Discover the winners and the runners-up in each category.

There's only a couple days left of the Thinky Awards Steam event where a bunch of the nominees are on sale!

I thought I was just going to make a single release trailer for PSI, but several people suggested that I make one for NextFest and another for release. And honestly, I'm having so much fun making them! 😊

MOONROT is a short horror game about a rover alone on a distant moon.

Take grainy photos, record crackly signals, keep your battery charged, and uncover the source of the anomaly that led you here.

Coming February 19th

store.steampowered.com/app/3622230/...

We're upgrading destruction in our upcoming multiplayer shooter (BunnyOps) by introducing segmented destructible buildings! Here's a bit about it :)

Register for playtesting on Steam ❤️ → store.steampowered.com/app/4037840/...

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegame

Reminder do NOT keeps funds in PayPal like it's a bank. It's not. It doesn't matter if you're a SFW or NSFW Artist.

If you sneeze wrong they will freeze your account and you will not get to access that money at all. Make sure you're transferring it out as often as you can.

I (Mike) will be co-hosting this event, along with @cwpat.me, @caymacres.bsky.social and folks from PlayMath.org. It's one of my favorite events at GDC every year so if you're in town for it, hope you'll swing by!

#gdc #gdc2026 #thinkyGames #thinkyDevs #puzzleGames #puzzleDevs

🎟️ GDC pass giveaway

We’re hosting Hearts & High Scores at @mademuseum.bsky.social in Oakland — a cozy, playful community event around games and creativity.

To enter:
• RSVP on Luma
• Attend the event
• Join XOXO Bingo

Free admission, RSVP required
👉 luma.com/5cxkz7k2
@officialgdc.bsky.social

I (Mike) will be co-hosting this event, along with @cwpat.me, @caymacres.bsky.social and folks from PlayMath.org. It's one of my favorite events at GDC every year so if you're in town for it, hope you'll swing by!

#gdc #gdc2026 #thinkyGames #thinkyDevs #puzzleGames #puzzleDevs

Congratulations to all of the winners of this year's Thinky Awards! It was a well-balanced selection, and I was very pleased to see some personal favorites (like Type Help and Blue Prince) get nods. 🏆

Puzzle Spy International - February 2026 Update - Steam News A short blog about what we're working on the game to complete it, the work on the trailer(s) and what events we're looking forward to participating in over the next month.

New blog post up on Steam talking about all the work that's going into getting the game ready to ship!

store.steampowered.com/news/app/340...

Puzzle Spy International on Steam Pursue diamond thieves and a trail of cryptic puzzles in this short ‘60s spy adventure. As Agent Epsilon you’ll choose your path as you chat with (or chat up!) suspicious contacts. Deduce the puzzle r...

Spy adventure with thinky puzzles!

store.steampowered.com/app/3406690/...

A banner showing a close-up of the Thinky Games mascot - a black blob with arms and one eye - holding up the thinky deciphering-wheel trophy. The information reads "The 3rd Annual Thinky Awards, Wednesday February 4, 10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm UTC"

The Thinky Awards are getting closer! (As is the image on the banner!)
They're tomorrow, Wednesday at 10am PST, and Puzzle Spy International is up for Most Anticipated Game. See you then!

#puzzleGame #puzzleGames #thinkyGames #indieGames