APRIL ALUMNI: featured in Convergence '25, toony shoot-em-up Gunboat God is on Steam now!

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Part 2: How did someone try and erase Cookie's Bustle from the internet?

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Today in niche events: Cookie's Bustle, the game you've never heard of that a copyright troll is OBSESSED with. Part 2 coming soon!

Frutiger freerunners: Panline & Liquid Lungs

MORE NEW GAMES: Part 2! Modulus and Grime II are OUT NOW on Steam!

Our next indie roundup brought to you from Substack! Which is your fav?

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"There's no such thing as the Video Game Industry"

Luke Plunkett at @Aftermath.site writes that video games are instead "a medium, a vehicle for art, product and play all at once." and that there isn't one singular market they exist in.

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One of the most dramatic stories in game development seems to have a happy ending. Excellent Star Wars’y immersive sim Fortune’s Run is back in production after the developer emerged from a year-long brush with the carceral system. The dev-blogs make for an intense read.

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Perhaps some old-school paranoia is more your flavor of poison, as It Has My Face launches out of early access with its final story chapter.

Navigate dense crowds as you hunt for your own murderous clones. Now with a whole bunch of multiplayer modes.

Why was that guy launching copyright takedowns against Cookie's Bustle anyway? Find out at insertcredit.com/show/431

The liminality of Cookie's Bustle...

cookie from cookie's bustle getting ready to skydive. she is wearing a red jumpsuit.

the quiet loneliness of cookie's bustle

WizardWare Trailer YouTube video by Ghost Garden Games

🪄WISHLIST WIZARDWARE ON STEAM TODAY!!🪄

✨🔮Your apprenticeship is soon to begin! Keep your operating system intact in WizardWare, a game of balance and management that blends Y2K aesthetics and whimsical fantasy. 🔮✨

#indiegame #indiedev

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Perhaps some old-school paranoia is more your flavor of poison, as It Has My Face launches out of early access with its final story chapter. Navigate dense crowds as you hunt for your own murderous clones. Now with a whole bunch of multiplayer modes.

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Idols Of Ash is a first-person nightmare about navigating your way through a vast concrete abyss with a grappling hook, all while being chased by a colossal centipede.

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@raccoingame.bsky.social is the latest experiment to emerge from the Balatro-like ‘numbers go up’ lab. A coin-pusher machine simulation where the numbers are fake (or at least in scientific notation), and your CPU groans at the physics involved.

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Game dev Teyon accidentally uploaded an entire work in progress build of a new game based on a tabletop RPG to their Steam page for Robocop: Rogue City.

Robocop players everywhere were baffled at the giant 'update' they downloaded, and Teyon devs everywhere have our condolences.

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Your joys will always be someone else's junk"

Lincoln Carpenter at @pcgamer.com reminds us all that review scores, zeitgeist and concurrent players really don’t matter so long as you’re having fun.

Don’t be afraid to try something ‘bad’ once in a while. You might just surprise yourself!

View the full thing here: vgmaps.com/Atlas/PC/Hol...

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Stitched together from over 420,000 screenshots, the sprawling world of Hollow Knight: Silksong is now the largest single map at VGMaps: The Video Game Atlas.

It measures 58000 x 63000 pixels, at a total of 242MB 🗺️

Week in Releases: Chainstaff, the latest from prolific solo dev Mommy's Best Games, a fast-paced action platformer with a unique visual style.

Available on Steam now!

Week in Releases: Super Meat Boy 3D, the OG indie mainstayer re-imagined in 3 dimensions!

Available on Steam and console now!

Week in Releases: GRIME II, a major release from Clover Bite @playgrime.bsky.social
and Convergence alumnus!

Steal the forms of enemies using many-handed tendrils in this surreal action-adventure metroidvania. Available on Steam now!