Photo du numéro 116 de JV Culture jeu vidéo, thématique "animaux et jeux vidéo" (la couverture présente des animaux en dégradés de gris avec des pointes d'orange), sur un fond végétal. La lumière du soleil traverse deux suncatchers hors champ, ce qui créé une auréole arc-en-ciel autour du magazine.

Capture d'écran de la première double page d'un article de six pages intitulé "Ribbit hole - la grenouille est-elle devenue la chouchoute des indés" publiés en page 44 du numéro 116 de JV Culture jeu vidéo. Sur la moitié haute, on voit des captures d'écrans de Mudborne et Time on Frog Island. Chapo : "2026 sera-t-elle l’année de la grenouille ? En tout cas, joueurs et développeurs du monde entier semblent de plus en plus obsédés par des petites bêtes qui pullulent sur tous les continents et dans toutes les cultures. Nous avons demandé à une quinzaine de développeurs pourquoi, la grenouille, ils y crôa plus que jamais."

Graphique généré par votre serviteur pour mesurer l'augmentation du nombre de jeux publiés sur Itch avec les tags "chien" et "grenouille" entre 2014 et 2025. Là où l'augmentation des jeux de chien est constante, on constate une augmentation bien plus forte des jeux de grenouilles à partir de 2020.

🐸 𝙍𝙞𝙗𝙗𝙞𝙩 🐸

Vous trouvez qu’il y a de plus en plus de grenouilles dans le jeu vidéo ? C’est le cas.

Pour @jvlemag.com #116, j'ai plongé dans le 𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘣𝘪𝘵 hole des jeux de grenouilles. Je suis allé à la rencontre d'une quinzaine de devs pour savoir pourquoi et comment cet animal est devenu cool.

The craziest thing happened, and our first Steam release reached over 100k players!

The grass is rotating away from the ball and slowly coming back after, there is also some randomness to the direction of the bend so it looks more natural!

Back to playing with grass

We welcome all the frogs to our islands!

Thanks for sharing, 'I just want to make small games, have fun making them and not overwork myself' hits really close to home, I'm always glad when other devs touch on the lifestyle part of being indie and not just focus on numbers.

They said you can go ahead and sample the sounds!

Thanks! I will have to confirm this with our musician, will let you know when I get an answer.

Hi, right now the game is only officially supported on Windows, there is no quick fix to make it work on Linux other than making a version specifically for it (which we are working on, just no ETA yet).

Screenshot of Steam store showing Ropuka's Idle Island with 504, 96% positive review score

My first Steam game just reached Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam! A lot of crazy things happened in the last two weeks, but this one takes the spot 🙈

Too busy cutting grass so he missed the beans 😢

Thank you, people seem to love it so far!

It's thanks to your gamejams that we discovered we love making games together so sincerest thank you for organizing and I hope we will soon have a free week to participate again 😅

Save 10% on Ropuka's Idle Island on Steam A cozy idle game that sits anywhere on your desktop. Watch the frog cut grass, upgrade his tools, and decorate the island while you work or relax.

click for frog store.steampowered.com/app/3416070/...

🎉Ropuka's Idle Island is out 🎉

Together with extremely talented @littlechmura.bsky.social we've made an idle game that sits on your screen like a small, playable sticker. Watch little frog tend to his garden (and take frequent naps) while you work or relax! 🐸

Thank you for sharing our game! 🐸

Releasing my first small project on Steam tomorrow, it was a crazy ride to get it done on time, but I'm happy we've stuck with the initial deadline. I hope people will enjoy our little playable sticker 🐸 store.steampowered.com/app/3416070/...

#gamedev #cozygames #indiegame

~250Mb according to Windows, will probably increase by 100-150 soon

Ropuka's Idle Island is a "playable sticker" for your desktop. "Focus on work or fun while the little frog tends to his garden."

Screenshot of a desktop, painterly wallpaper with green hills and could sky. In the right bottom corner you can see a video game, small 3D island with a lot of grass and a cartoony frog sleeping on a chair.

Screenshot of a desktop, painterly wallpaper with green hills and could sky. In the center you can see a video game, small 3D island with a lot of grass and a UI panel showing different colored grass and house and ability to buy new tree, chair and fence.

Screenshot of a desktop, painterly wallpaper with green hills and could sky. In the center you can see a video game, small 3D island with a lot of grass and frog cutting some of it.

Screenshot of a desktop, painterly wallpaper with green hills and could sky. In the center you can see a video game, small 3D island with a lot of grass and frog running.

I will be releasing Ropuka's Idle Island, a small idle game in the form of a desktop sticker, on Steam on January 29th!

store.steampowered.com/app/3416070/...

#gamedev #indiegame

The Indie Games Polska is pretty much just shilling AI everywhere now, extremely disappointing

Happy New Year, let's release two 🐸 games this year! #gamedev

This little buddy has been keeping me company while I work on his 'main' game

Wolcen was one of the rare cases where Steam didn't have any problems refunding it way past the 2 hours window because of how broken the game was at launch.

don't we all?

Work on the main frog game is going well, but I got a bit distracted by a small, Ropuka-related side game...

#gamedev #indiedev

I rediscover this term every half a year and proceed to forget about it until I see a post like this again.

It's Peter Talisman: Lord of the Harvest, you can play it in the browser petertalisman.quest

Show me four games that influenced YOUR current game project.

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

We used to have a word for those self-published games without market pressures from publishers balooning their budgets...