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We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 🎉

The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans.

Deadline: September 28th
More info 👇
grants.draknek.org

Single Choice Jam A game jam from 2025-07-15 to 2025-08-16 hosted by manonamora, Autumn Chen & Lapin Lunaire Games. The Jam where you give only ONE CHOICE to the player! The Single Choice Jam is a short unranked jam wh...

What would you do if you only have ONE choice?

Come participate in the next Neo-Interactive jam and show us how you used the ONE choice!

itch.io/jam/single-c...
#interactivefiction #visualnovel #gamedev #singlechoicejam #neointeractives

The subject of "full playthroughs of escape rooms" came up in a Discord I'm in, and I didn't actually have those archival links in a convenient place. So, time for a (somewhat slowly updated) thread!

‘Heavyweight,’ an Acclaimed Narrative Podcast, Returns Pushkin Industries, the podcast company that will release the show, is betting that documentary-style audio programs can still win an audience.

Everyone get real excited -- huge huge news -- @heavyweight.bsky.social is coming back. I am so so excited, I can't begin to tell you. Also, I am here to tell you that Jonathan Goldstein is the rare human being who is exactly like he is on the radio IRL. He's humble, kind, curious, and so so funny.

The Purple Pearl-- A Two-Player Text Adventure by Amanda Walker A stolen treasure. A desperate king. Two valorous volunteers.

I played The Purple Pearl, a two-player escape room text adventure, and now I wish there were more multiplayer parser games. It takes about an hour to set things up and play over voice chat with a friend. If the format sounds interesting, give it a try! amanda-walker.itch.io/the-purple-p...

I discovered I like Dropbox Paper better than Google Docs. It may be missing some small features, but it does everything I need and it feels nicer, especially regarding the collapsible headers/table of contents

Anti-Match Oscars 2025 In this game, you want the lowest possible score! If you've never played an Anti-Match Quiz before, please read the remainder of the instructions after this paragraph carefully; the format here is dif...

Hello! I am excited to announce my new Anti-Match Quiz inspired by the nominees for Best Picture. Each question has multiple answers; you want one given by the fewest other people. To play, go to www.tinyurl.com/AMOscars25
Entries are due by 2/20 at 5:00 PM EST. Happy quizzing! #trivia #oscars

What I wish more people knew about Pilates:
- It was invented by Joseph Pilates, a boxer and circus performer who developed his methods while interned during WWI
- Using a Pilates reformer feels a lot like playing on a jungle gym or using a weird contraption at a science museum
- It is NOT VERY HARD

After decades of searching for a form of exercise I don't hate, I have discovered...PILATES.

My doctor recommended it to me years ago, but it seemed like a fad for a certain type of person that I'm not. Turns out trying to keep your body from falling apart from disuse is good no matter who you are!

It’s February 1 and #EnigMarch2025 is just one month away! We’re making the prompt list (and checking it twice) in preparation for another daily puzzlemaking frenzy. Are you going to be participating this year? Let us know!

Submissions to ShuffleComp 2024

Shufflecomp games are up! Check all 19 of them out right here: itch.io/jam/shufflec...

My entry Anolelona has a bug, which I will leave in for now, in order to atone and because it's funny: if you get in the hammock the game will not ever let you leave it. Oops 🥲

I wish there was more of a push from writers/websites to have people use RSS. I know Google Reader's death made it harder, but there's apps now like Inoreader and Feedly that work on phones that I think people would use. It's just easier to see something through RSS feeds than checking social media

A picture captioned "When Nintendo shuts down miitomo" featuring a blue-haired Mii wearing a tiny crown and an athletic jacket saying "Maybe I will try this tide pod" and holding a Mii head with strategically placed orange eyebrows and blue hair, who's saying "Eat me."

Thinking about the day before Miitomo shut down in 2018 (artist unknown)

FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE - A David Lynch Game Jam A game jam from 2025-01-20 to 2025-02-21 hosted by Jellyfishlines. With the news of the passing of David Lynch, I want to take the moment and honor his legacy by holding a game jam. David was a person...

Hey so I made a David Lynch Game Jam. use the #davidlynchgamejam to follow along, tag your entries, and if you can't join, share.

Go here to join: itch.io/jam/fix-your...

Björguðu álftarunga vopnaðar hitabrúsa og brimbretti - RÚV.is Náttúruverndarsinni segir mikilvægt að huga að fuglunum þegar frostið bítur sem mest. Álftarunga sem sat frosinn fastur á ísilagðri Reykjavíkurtjörn var bjargað um helgina af náttúruverndarsinnum sem ...

I saw a post on Facebook yesterday about a swan frozen to the ice on Reykjavík pond. People were wondering what could be done and there was a comment from this absolute legend pictured below saying: "I am on my way with the necessary gear".

And there is just nothing cooler than people like this.

Remember, every big IP & everything you love,
was originally someone's OC

Be cringe. Be free.

Gaming Like It's 1929 A game jam from 2025-01-01 to 2025-02-01 hosted by Randy Lubin & Copia Gaming. A new year means new material entering the public domain! Starting January 1st 2025, works from 1929 are free to use and ...

Looking forward to the Gaming Like It’s 1929 Jam, where people make digital and tabletop games based on things entering the public domain in 2025. Plenty of examples listed on the page for the jam

itch.io/jam/gaming-l...

If you like

• puppets
• puzzles
• musicals

then you will LOVE this

Games for Blind Gamers 4 A game jam from 2025-02-01 to 2025-03-10 hosted by NightBlade. Welcome, Blind and Sighted Game Developers! Welcome to the fourth annual Games for Blind Gamers jam! The goal of this jam is to build awa...

Thank you everyone who has been helping spread the word about the game jam! We are up to 50 sign ups, which when it's still more than 2 months away is a fantastic amount of sign ups! Every sign up is someone wanting to make more accessible games, so each one is precious!

itch.io/jam/games-fo...

Screenshot of the Draknek itch page, with discounts from 30% to 70%

Today is @itch.io creator day where 100% of revenue goes to the creators! Buy some indie games today.
Our games are all discounted right now BTW: draknek.itch.io

"Gifts for People Scared of Flying How do you feel about flying? Do you step onto an airplane or a helicopter or a hot air balloon and think, this is probably a bad idea? Then these books are for you! Whether it’s the sinking feeling that something will inevitably go wrong or the sensation that really humans should stay on solid ground, these books will legitimize all of your fears and anxieties. Wait, is that smoke? Are we losing altitude, or is that just me? Shop Plane Crashes"

"Gifts for Budding Anarchists Want to destroy everything? Are you looking for the perfect gift for an anti-establishment anarchist? Do you ever wake up and think, maybe today I’ll topple the government? Are you—and everyone you know—particularly fired up right now? Boy oh boy, do we have books for the budding anarchist reader! This compilation of books is chock-full of doom, gloom, and vroom. You might join forces with the Evil Power Master. Or inadvertently aid in the siphoning of Earth's oil through laser straws. Maybe you'll end the world entirely! Could AI have written this copy? Absolutely not. Shop Anarchy"

"Gifts for People Who Love the Terror in the House of Danger on Prisoner Zombie Death Island Did you read the title? Ever feel like one thing goes right and twelve thousand go wrong? Me too. Sometimes it’s exhausting that we have to keep trying…. So why not lean into the chaos? I hate to say it, but you’re doomed from the start with these titles. Did you really think picking up a book called Tattoo of Death was going to end well? Be serious. It’s cathartic to watch things crash and burn. Especially when you can just close the book and go to bed after your own demise. Shop Bad Ideas"

A menu reading "2024 Holiday Gift Guides": For People Scared of Flying Failed Heists For Budding Anarchists Where Pets are Better than People I'd Rather be on a Deserted Island Just Trying to Survive Books with Anxiety-Inducing Titles For the Gossip Lovers The Silly Gooses

I'm not a person who likes *brands* but I gotta hand it to @chooseadventure.bsky.social for going out on this particular limb this week. It's bizarre, vulnerable, and unmistakably 2024. Gratitudes.

Hey, just FYI, AI art sucks, and generating it to demonstrate how bad it sucks also sucks. Just don’t use it. It is an unconscionable polluter and is costing people their livelihoods. Don’t normalize it

does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags

Every time I question whether it's worth it to spend time making games with things as they are, I remind myself why I do it: to empower people and expand their ideas of what's possible. Games are great at that, and it's very important, and relevant, and something worth improving at.

Educational Jam A game jam from 2024-11-16 to 2024-11-26 hosted by manonamora, Lapin Lunaire Games & Autumn Chen. The Jam where the player learns something! The Educational Jam is a short unranked jam where (fun) fac...

Come tell us about neat facts through IF: itch.io/jam/educatio...

#interactivefiction #gamejam

Fred Rogers standing in a wide stance on a walkway near a porch, aiming a camera at the person taking the photo. Pastel green windbreaker, canvas sneakers, sculpture of a baby deer, dead grass, overall New England goodness

This is my favorite picture of Fred Rogers. A close second is the one of him making grilled cheese, but I can't find that one.