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After having my previous Oeuf Demo WR (01:45) beaten by @therealdyer.bsky.social (01:40) and then @lmaonadestand.bsky.social (01:37), I have reclaimed it!

01:32

www.twitch.tv/videos/27132...

Whenever I see this, there's like a 95% chance it's a bot that has gone through to like a bunch of really old posts.

I enjoyed @kasiski.bsky.social's calculus analogy

Highlight: Oeuf Speedrun 1min40sec record - therealdyer on Twitch therealdyer went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Oeuf VOD now.

It was really nice to have a bit of friendly competition with @jagriff.bsky.social and get the new record for #OeufGame demo speedrun:
www.twitch.tv/videos/27121...

Cerebral Puzzle Showcase Cerebral Puzzle Showcase is a celebration of the most wonderful puzzle games available on Steam, organized by Draknek & Friends.

There's less than one month left to submit your game to the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase 2026! ⏰

Check out the showcase here:
www.cerebralpuzzleshowcase.com

Or submit your thinky puzzle game directly here:

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[WR] Oeuf Demo Speedrun: 00:01:45 - jagriff on Twitch jagriff went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Oeuf VOD now.

I speedran the Oeuf demo tonight and set the new world record! Here's the full run:

www.twitch.tv/videos/27107...

Indie Chris has started a full playthrough! Go do the like/comment/subscribe thing 🐧

Spreadsheet for Gentoo Rescue localization. Column A has a key string, Column B has the English text, and Column C has the Simplified Chinese text. Some cells in Column C are shaded red, which indicates they're placeholders using Google translate.

Here's the beginning of what will become a several thousand row localization spreadsheet. I'm surprised by so many tiny pieces of text lurking in the UI!

It's nice being able to Google translate (in RED) placeholders for font and size estimates. There's a long road ahead, but so far so good.

Congrats! My game got only got ~10% of that on the first NextFest day last year.

It has been uploaded to YouTube! Here's a link to the "Best Systemic Puzzle Game" category.

youtu.be/LQLr0OfBF08?...

as a reminder to #indiegamedev, I'll be covering steam next fest coming up, and if you would like me to check out your game during the event, let me know about it.

Celebrating 10 years of Devil Daggers!
And announcing Devil Daggers II
store.steampowered.com/news/app/422...

At first I was skeptical about the level because it seemed like the bottleneck was going to be fiddly execution. In fact, it is really hard to test any idea in this level. However, after deducing the setup I needed, the execution was fairly straight-forward.

The starting state of *Teleports to Void*, but with a lot of red/green/blue lines with some numbers, algebraic expressions, and other markings.

I just had a very fun time solving the custom level *Teleports to Void* by GaryGoh884. It was very satisfying to work out the penultimate setup using paint. Here are the scribbles.

(Bonus points to anyone that can tell me what the x in the 8+8x expression represents)

AntiMatcher on Steam Merge, pop, burst and... annihilate?! Play with bubbles and antibubbles to discover their strange properties in this abstract puzzle game.

The demo for our puzzle game AntiMatcher is out!! You can get it on Steam, or play it in your browser on itch! Yes, even on your phone/tablet!

Steam version: store.steampowered.com/app/4336520/...
Browser version: legigo.itch.io/antimatcher

#wishlistwednesday #indiegame #gamedev

This can work offline too

An image showing the 5 nominees: Ooo, Gentoo Rescue, Spooky Express, Glowkeeper, and Lab Rat.

The finalists included Glowkeeper by @oolimry.bsky.social . Also Ooo, Spooky Express, and Lab Rat.

Gentoo Rescue won "Best Systemic/Logic Puzzle Game" at Lizard King's Independent Game Awards!

Here's a bilibili link. The category starts at 41:09. It includes an awkward video of me accepting the award and announcing something 🐧

www.bilibili.com/video/BV1FuZ...

Thinky Awards 2025: The 3rd Annual Thinky Awards · Thinky Games We're celebrating the very best thinky games of 2025 in the latest Thinky Awards.

Yeah, which normally is fine and I wouldn't care. But in the thinky award page (thinkygames.com/events/awards/) I noticed that GR was the only game whose YT thumbnail was not the key art of the game.

Whoops! I just realized that I never added a thumbnail to the launch trailer for Gentoo Rescue. It's been 8 months.

Gentoo Rescue world with 3 varying lock heights marking: unvisited, previously visited, and currently visited.

I'd really like this to be visible from a glance, if only for my own benefit in custom levelpacks with crazy structures. I take your point that adding a symbol to the lock draws disproportionally too much attention to this behavior. So I'm playing with a "partially raised lock" instead of a decal.

Locks are on unbeaten levels and unbeaten levels that have been visited can be warped to.

You're understandably confused why a lock marks unbeaten levels. The lock is actually on a trap that locks characters in-place when landing on the level. Once beaten, the trap and lock are removed.

A red map marker pin icon, which is annulus (or ring) on top of a triangle with the point down.

Is there a better icon I could use? Right now I'm leaning towards a map pin icon, like this.

The problem is that the spiral is too abstract. Since players don't interact with the warp menu much until the late game, players will often get confused why this abstract spiral is appearing on locks. To make things worse, there are some unrelated spiral-esque elements in the game.

Spiral icon, with text "Warp to visited sublevels"

Two locks, one with spiral and one without

I have this white spiral in my game that represents "warp" menu, which is just a fast travel system that lets players easily go back to levels they've already seen. This includes completed levels and levels that the player has visited but not completed. Incomplete levels have the spiral on the lock.

Going for the win in Hyper Demon!

www.twitch.tv/jagriff

GR will be in the awards for 2025, and so I was shown this video for reference. It's very crazy to have this mystery randomly solved!

YouTube video by 独立游戏蜥蜴君 2024·年度独立游戏大赏【XGA】

Here's the YouTube version, with a timestamp link. Your game was up for the "Best Logical Puzzle of the Year", and a trailer for mine was shown afterwards. Note that the bilibili version has over a million views

youtu.be/Uvy9Yg7Y93E?...

Over a year later, I finally found the source for why you sold a lot and why I received a lot of wishlists: www.bilibili.com/video/BV16Gf...

What a coincidence?! Me too!