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How Two Janitors Made One of the Year’s Most Charming RPGs ‘Kingdoms of the Dump’ reflects the democratization of video-game development.

Kingdoms of the Dump is one of the year's most charming RPGs, an Earthbound-inspired game set in a world made of trash, where you fight in landfills and heal with moldy sandwiches. Which is fitting — it was made by two janitors.

This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Witchy crows theme released 🪶
(Galaxy themes and LINE themes)

estoy jugando
a katamari

It's #PortfolioDay! Hi I'm Doriane, an indie dev/game artist 🌻
I make art for games and illustrations 🌱

🦥 HIRING 🦥

We're looking for a Senior 2D Animator for something new!
🖌️ Temporary, full-time role (12-18 months)
🖌️ Remote
🖌️ 3+ years exp of 2D Flash-style animation
🖌️ Proficienct with Adobe Animate

Apps close Oct 10. Apply now! innersloth.bamboohr.com/careers/33

Shattered Pixel Dungeon: A roguelike dungeon crawler RPG that's simple to get into but hard to master!

shattered-pixel.itch.io/shattered-pi...

Hollow Knight: Silksong “Was Never Stuck” Say Devs, Releases 4 September Team Cherry said their six-year silence on Hollow Knight: Silksong was simply due to a desire to focus on development.

Hollow Knight: Silksong's devs have spoken about their silence in a new Bloomberg interview.

"We’re a small team, and games take a lot of time. There wasn’t any big controversial moment behind it.”

“All we could really say is, ‘We’re still working on it.’”

thisweekinvideogames.com/news/hollow-...

a shark wizard telling stories by the campfire to his shark companions

🌑 the moon 🌑

i’ve been absent for a bit, mostly because i have been busy with kickstarter things and manufacturing new goodies for upcoming conventions :)
can’t promise to post more often, but i am alive and making things!:D

#art #oc #shark

Dungeon Ducks!

Duck Paladin!

Key art of Tiny Bookshop featuring a mobile bookshop with characters surrounding it.

We can't believe it! Tiny Bookshop has won the ✨Games for Impact✨ award at Gamescom hosted by IGN 🥳🥳🥳

Thank you, everyone, for making this such a fun and memorable event!

Pixelart of Evanescence's album, Fallen; A girl with black hair is standing center with a deep stare and smile in front of an industrial background, blue tones

Evanescence - Fallen
48x48, 4 Colors
#pixelart

August Dev Blog is Live! It’s finally happening!! The Coral Island: Multiplayer & Romance update launches on August 14th! 🌟

Check it out here: blog.stairwaygames.com/post/coral-i...

In honour of @wholesomegames.com celebration this week repost with four pictures of your #wholesomegame

This is little corners... store.steampowered.com/app/3651310/...
🌷 decorate thematic rooms with stickers
🌷 listen to a fully original lofi soundtrack
🌷 no timer, no pressure, just vibes

Album cover featuring a cozy, cartoon Germanic-influences house with grass and flowers on the roof. A little yellow bird sits on top. The house is surrounded by crops and a little lake featuring lilypads and fish. A couple of white chickens sit by a small wooden bridge.

I've created a cozy music asset pack to use in your projects! ✨

The pack contains 15 loopable wav files in the style of Pikmin, Disney Dreamlight Valley and Tales of the Shire.

This provides an affordable way to use my music! Thank you for the support 🥰

Link below ⬇️

OCs Atlas and Wendy

✨Ritual of Raven is now sitting at Very Positive!✨

Reviews are so so important for indie games, so we wanted to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who has taken the time to write one! 💜

Every single review matters & means so much! 🔮🌱

a sparkling sardine floats above a cloaked demon it sees all, but cannot process the information it is a sardine after all

an all seeing sardine
#art

Microsoft Achieved Record Annual Profits, Increased Xbox Revenue, Prior To Layoffs Quarterly Gaming revenue also grew by 10%. The company's 9000 layoffs occured days after the reporting period.

Microsoft has reported record annual revenues and profits, increased quarterly Gaming revenue, and strong Xbox Game Pass performance for the financial reporting period ending two days before it made 9000 layoffs.

thisweekinvideogames.com/news/microso...

First attempt at 8-directional character turnaround 💜!
#PixelArt #ドット絵 #픽셀아트 #Pixquare

I'm so happy to share that the stairs update is liiiiiive. This is by far our biggest update that we've been cooking since *checks calendar* omg, since March x_x Huge thanks to everyone who helped us test it while in beta <3

Now lemme walk you through some of the new shinies 🧵

That’s good info to know. Did not know that.

Does anyone use Substack? I’ve been tossing the idea around of starting a gaming and review blog on there. Was curious if anyone would be interested in that.

🦥 HIRING 🦥

We're looking for a freelance Senior Game Designer for something new!
🔹 10-month contract, remote
🔹 5+ years exp
🔹 Create quest designs combining gameplay designs and story beats and balance gameplay elements

Apps close Aug 13. Apply!
innersloth.bamboohr.com/careers/32

A photo of a hand holding up a recipe card over a wooden tabletop, several more copies of the card scattered in the background. The print features vintage style art of a kitten in a frilly dress and apron kneading dough, several baked goods and white daisies framing the note lines of the card. The back side features a section for directions with the line "All you 'knead' to know!"

A graphic showing the front and back of a recipe card design. The print features vintage-style art of a kitten in a frilly dress and apron kneading dough, several baked goods and white daisies framing the note lines of the card. The back side features a section for directions with the line "All you 'knead' to know!"

For jotting down everything you "knead" to know! 🐱💙

New recipe cards available here!

#artshop #stationery #cooking #nightmarket

As Video-Game Media Struggles, Star YouTuber Launches New Outlet Websites like Polygon and Kotaku are facing huge challenges, opening opportunities for newcomers

Ralph "SkillUp" Panebianco has built a successful YouTube career with more than one million subscribers. So naturally, his next move is... to start a video game website?

I spoke to Panebianco about his new venture ("no ads, no AI") and why he's doing it: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

YouTube video by melosprout Let's have a cozy chat while we fish in Cast n Chill!

A very chatty video while I check out Cast n Chill!

youtu.be/jkJAaJhbWmo

YouTube video by melosprout Such a cool roguelite auto battler! - He is Coming

I've started posting some videos again on Youtube. Right now it will be 1-2 episodes a week till I get back to recording more. In today's video I am checking out He is Coming, a fun roguelite auto battler!

youtu.be/hFZT0LjzrqY?...