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Hoodies from $42.50 (DDR/ITG/SMX/PIU), sherpa blankets from $28.50, ornaments for $8.50 + more. I also take custom commissions!💖

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Once a week post.

I've gotta figure out how to use the player feedback on the title since every social network liked a different one.

I've started storyboarding the second draft script and I'd say I'm about 50% through the rewrite.

That might change after I have testers if it crashes and burns.

First Person Stapler on Steam Clear targets in your office call center and race to the exit in this ridiculous, stapler-centric target shooter.

I know this is the moment you've all been waiting for. First Person Stapler is now free on Steam!

#IndieGaming #Steam #PCGaming

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🎤 Interview with Kinmoku We had the pleasure of speaking with Kinmoku about their incredibly nostalgic visual novel VIDEOVERSE, which recently got a Japanese translation! We spoke about the nostalgia of 90s and early 2000s In...

New #blog post! We had the pleasure of speaking with @kinmoku.bsky.social about their incredibly nostalgic visual novel #VIDEOVERSE, which got a Japanese translation! Interview available in English and Japanese 👀 Please check it out!!

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#IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev

All 35 talks from ThinkyCon 2025 are now available to watch on YouTube · Thinky Games In case you missed any of our 2nd annual online convention centered around the making of the games we love so much, every presentation from ThinkyCon 2025 has now been uploaded to our YouTube channel so you can pick and choose what to watch whenever you like.

In case you missed the talks from ThinkyCon, all 35 of them are up on YouTube!

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Sunflowers and green leaves on a bright background. A grayscale character portrait of a short haired woman with crossed arms is opposite a dish of green bean casserole.

The company is having an office potluck this Thanksgiving week! Wonder what are our characters bringing to the function?

As eagle-eyed as ever, of course our BIRA expert Ms. Darcy was also invited.
She's bringing a classic dish, with attention paid to every detail. 🦉 🥦

#COA2 #ADV #ノベルゲーム #renpy

The whole Mangotronics games collection is 77% off! It's like 3 games for less than the price of 1!
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Sunflowers and green leaves on a bright background. A grayscale character portrait of a black haired woman is opposite a charcuterie board.

It's Thanksgiving week and the company is having an office potluck! Let's check out what some of our characters are bringing to the function...

Next up is Ms. Wong, a sales manager that knows how to handle company politics. 🏃‍♀️ 💁

#COA2 #ADV #ノベルゲーム #renpy

It's been almost a whole year since the first mangotronics fund grant wrapped, and as the 2025 holiday season approaches I thought it would be a good time to send a quick update on project progress. Taylor McCue has been dilligently posting weekly updates with design notes and sketches. Follow her for project updates! https://bsky.app/profile/tmccue.bsky.social https://taylormccue.itch.io/ JohnLee Cooper has been making cool things and even gave a talk at ThinkyCon. https://ergman.itch.io/ https://bsky.app/profile/thinkygames.com/post/3m5c345t54y2h https://bsky.app/profile/johnleeerg.bsky.social Wasteland Games released Rusty Flesh! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2962940/Rusty_Flesh/ https://bsky.app/profile/wastelandgames.bsky.social Intimidation Crab (Andrew Connelly) released Tire Fire Rally! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3459330/Tire_Fire_Rally/ https://bsky.app/profile/intimidationcrab.bsky.social WurmFud is releasing Slaughter Void and working on Wallflower! (Please WISHLIST!) https://store.steampowered.com/app/3333980/Slaughter_Void/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3266290/Wallflower/ https://bsky.app/profile/wurmfud.itch.io Thanks for all your support through 2025, and check back in 2026! We hope to continue the grant in future years, but currently have no concrete plans. If you know any nonprofits that would want to collaborate on supporting truly independent games, please let us know. Happy holidays! -matt from mangotronics

mangotronics fund end-of-year update (w/full text in alt):

JohnLee Cooper joins us at ThinkyCon 2025 to present the talk: "Is a Puzzle Game Without An Undo Still A Puzzle Game?" Talk description: Going through two different puzzle games I've made that lack an undo feature, and seeing how and why the results varied, and examining how genre expectations colo Is a Puzzle Game Without An Undo Still A Puzzle Game? - JohnLee Cooper (ThinkyCon 2025)

JohnLee Cooper joined us at ThinkyCon to talk about making two puzzle games without an undo button!
@johnleeerg.bsky.social

Tarrot Reader by Intimidation Crab Get a glimpse of your stupid future with a Tarrot Reading

intimidation-crab.itch.io/tarrot-reader

Trans woman with a succedaneum. The background was supposed to be a kinda watery background but I sorta messed it up. The woman is sad, the succedaneum is just happy to be there with her buddy.

Once a week post. Still working on game.

Figuring out vibes, technical designs.

See you next week.

a screenshot of Trail Mix. A blue cave with mushrooms and pickaxes. Two piles of white pilsbury dough boy lookin mfs stand in the center (these are the playable characters, its a co-op puzzle platformer)

screenshot of Decomposing Corpse Of Ganondorf. a blurry mess of cityscape and stone ganondorf statue. Its a plundercore game about being a swarm of flies consuming eternally.

screenshot of Cocooning For The Winter. a colorful pixelly naturescape with a flower, a caterpillar, and a mushroom. In this game you eat through the terrain and metamorphose into a different bug depending on what you eat.

Screenshot of Future Cat Sailor's Title Screen. A byronic kitty-man stands on the prow of his boat, overlooking the ruins of delphino plaza as rain plummets around him. It's a plundercore game about collecting coins from a decaying and undesigned landscape, and escaping before The Jellyfish awakens.

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I'm an Unemployed Game Dev! Here are some screenshots of some of my games! Play My Games! Hire Me! I'll also make games on commission for you, scoped to the number of hours you can afford! Feel Free to DM me about anything!

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Hello, I just come to say... RUSTY FLESH IS OUT NOW!

You can get it on Steam (store.steampowered.com/app/2962940/...) and itch (wasteland-gms.itch.io/rusty-flesh), and you'll make me incredibly happy!

Also, please repost so more people see it? 🙏

#indiegame #gameboy #gameboycolor #gbstudio #gbdev

Slaughter Void on Steam SLAUGHTER VOID is a brutal, high intensity hack and slash, combining the best of speed running and action RPGs with fast-paced combat and build variety. Hotline Miami meets Diablo in this homage to th...

Anyway wishlist SLAUGHTER VOID if you, too, desire number go higher! And cultists.

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Hey! I'm Andrew and for about 5 years I've run the monthly indie game anthology Indiepocalypse. Indiepocalypse highlights (and pays!) the world of underground indie games by both curating a selection of open submissions and commissioning a new game every month.

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physical edition of the game "asterism" showing the front, back, and spine of a tape cassette case with USB stick inside

screenshot of the game "asterism" featuring a handcraft astronaut controlling a star map

screenshot of the game "asterism" featuring a handcraft astronaut looking at a planet on a large screen

screenshot of the game "asterism" featuring a handcraft astronaut looking at a bulletin board

November's entry in the PIZZA PRANKS Video Game Tape Club is Asterism by @shimmerglitch.bsky.social!

Travel through space in a hand-crafted world solar system as you experience a playable indie-rock concept album.

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quite the adventure, I must dig deeper.

Here is the trailer for Aether Fount. The pilot is on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9p9... #indieanimationday

top down view of a ship shooting lots of lasers at other ships while dodging dots

view of an office with a desk and lots of drawers for files.

top down view of a triangle shooting at various shapes on a grid

a bird with a drill for a beak jumping through the air

Indie Game Roundup (November 18, 2025)
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did i mention EVERY week during movie perverts deep hell has been showcasing indie game trailers? YOU could find new things to play by joining US!

Episode 196 of Indiepocalypse Radio is up now on youtube for all to enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ec...

Slaughter Void on Steam SLAUGHTER VOID is a brutal, high intensity hack and slash, combining the best of speed running and action RPGs with fast-paced combat and build variety. Hotline Miami meets Diablo in this homage to th...

We're only 20 wishlists from hitting our milestone of 700 wishlists... 🥺🥺🥺 Do it for the void... you want to enter the void so bad... haha you love the idea of barbarian hotline miami soooooo much...

#indiedev #indiegame

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Goodness, would you look at that small girl... What could a creature like that even get up to?

Indiepocalypse Feature Pitch Form This is the quick pitch form for those interested in pitching written features about games and developers featured in Indiepocalypse. The goal is to better highlight the individual creators that have...

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Save 40% on Walthros: Renewal on Steam Make some friends, eat some burgers, and unearth terrible secrets from the depths of space. A turn-based RPG with a kind-hearted doofus trying to make tough times a little easier.

Hi friends and JRPG people and seal fans and dinosaur people, one of my games is on sale on Steam for 40% off, come celebrate with me!! It's a game with lots of slime and ghosts. The world is distressed. Time is weird. No one's very comfortable.

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Introducing the nominees for The Indie Game Awards 2025, airing on December 18th at 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET on @ign.com, @gamespot.com, and @sixoneindie.com's YouTube and Twitch channels.

Visit indiegameawards.gg for the full list of nominees, presenters, and judges.

Breaking: The #PitchYaGame Sheet is LIVE. 🧐

1800+ indie game posts to browse / search across X and BSky from November.

Massive Kudos, as always, to IGL 🔥