We're delighted to be able to be part of the Second Wind Games Showcase!

Make sure to tune in for some #Horticular news! 👀

The Earth Appreciation Festival Showcase 2026 - Hosted by @SimonClark YouTube video by Slug Disco

Big things are happening today at Slug Disco!

The Ember Guardian releases today!
The Earth Appreciation Festival starts today! (Watch the showcase here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcFk...)
We're announcing something exciting internal today!

Screenshot of the Premiere landing page for the Earth Appreciation Festival showcase.

The Earth Appreciation Festival showcase - hosted by Simon Clark return April 17th at 5pm BST!

The video is set up as a YouTube Premiere so feel free to hit the notification bell to be alerted when the showcase starts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcFk...

Earth Appreciation Festival Returns April 17th to 24th! YouTube video by Slug Disco

The Earth Appreciation Festival Showcase returns April 17th, featuring trailers and announcements from over 30 games, hosted by content creator Simon Clark and supported by the events official charity partner @coolearthaction.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBtE...

The Earth Appreciation Festival returns for it's FIFTH year this year on Steam - taking place April 17th to April 24th.

The EAF Showcase will return too, premiering on the Slug Disco YouTube channel!

#WorldEarthDay

I don't know why everyone's suddenly making games inspired by Spore, but this roguelike twin-stick shooter might be the best attempt yet at realising the lost potential of the cell stage You can play a free demo of Pathogenic on Steam right now.

Shoutout to @pcgamer.com for their article about our upcoming Sporelike game Pathogenic!

www.pcgamer.com/games/roguel...

🌐 @slugdisco.bsky.social – Product Marketing Executive

Run social media, manage communities, and help plan upcoming game launches. Ideal if you love games and want to shape how they connect with players.

👉 More info: tinyurl.com/2s4esvcs

#gamedev #indiedev #hiring #jobs #gamesjobs

Logo for the company Slug Disco, a small slug sits atop a disco ball above the words "Slug Disco"

Join the disco! 🪩

Slug Disco are hiring a Product Marketing Executive - this is a fully remote entry level role for anyone based in the UK!

Salary: £25,000-£30,000
Deadline: 14th December

Learn more, and apply for the role here: slugdisco.com/position-pro...

#indiegame #marketing

Found a game that's giving me Bugsnax vibes 💗 In Chronicle Games' #StrangeSeed, you start as a tiny blob and evolve by eating DNA from other creatures @slugdisco.bsky.social 🧬 You build, reshape and experiment with your form as you explore different biomes and take on quests and battles! Vid below 👇

Green Again is joining #tinyteams2025 by
@tinyteamsfest.bsky.social from Aug 7-14!

The team might be tiny (it's hard to get tinier than 1 dev),
but the plans for the Sproutlings are big!

Check out all the amazing indie titles!
store.steampowered.com/sale/TinyTea...

Imagine Spore Cell Stage But It's A 'City' Builder YouTube video by GamerZakh

Thank you @gamerzakh.com for checking out Primordial Empire! Glad you liked the demo!

Please look forward to more content coming soon!
youtu.be/V3B3JlM3cVg?...

Check out Primordial Empire, a microscopic colony builder! 🦠

Cultivate a colony of microbes, plants and animals and build a self-sustaining ecosystem. Explore an alien world and protect your settlement from intruders. Nurture and evolve the tiny microbes and build your empire one cell at a time!

A Formica ereptor queen ant and workers. A fictional species from Empires of the Undergrowth. She is in an underground nest, with lab equipment visible in the background through the glass of her vivarium.

The scientists routinely dye their lab specimens several colours to differentiate them, but many researchers think Formica ereptor looks particularly pleasing in pink.

#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #MadeWithUnreal #ants

A brightly-patterned jumping spider performing a dance. A new animation soon to be added to Empires of the Undergrowth

Rate his rizz

Leafcutter ants don't eat leaves directly - they use them to grow a nutritious fungus.

Empires of the Undergrowth is out now - but a rainforest and leafcutter revamp is very close.

#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

Starting off our Mardi Gras weekend with something cool and joyful! 🎉

Thank you to @slugdisco.bsky.social for hooking us both up with keys for Horticular!

We'll be giving it a spin for the first time tonight @ 6 pm CST. We can't wait! How many of you have tried it so far?

A Myrmecia ereptor - a fictional ant species from video game Empires of the Undergrowth - with wasp-like markings. An underground scene with a queen and pupae is in the background.

Myrmecia ereptor looking wasp-like in yellow

#indiedev #gamedev #insects #ants #gaming

A leafcutter major soldier ant leaving her nest. She is close to the camera and in sharp detail. A rainforest scene is visible behind her. several of her daughters - minim workers, minor workers, media workers and powerful major soldiers. This represents a rework of art in the third tier of Empires of the Undergrowth.

A warm underground scene depicting a small leafcutter ant colony. The large queen is surrounded by several of her daughters - minor workers, media workers and powerful major soldiers. This represents a rework of art in the third tier of Empires of the Undergrowth.

A trail of leafcutter ants walking to nearby foliage to harvest leaf cuttings. Several ants have already climbed saplings and are working on cutting off sections of leaves. This represents a rework of art in the third tier of Empires of the Undergrowth.

A warm underground scene depicting a small leafcutter ant colony. The large queen is surrounded by several of her daughters - a minim worker, minor workers, media workers and powerful major soldiers. This represents a rework of art in the third tier of Empires of the Undergrowth.

Leafcutter ants collect leaves from their surroundings to grow a nutritious fungus. They may not be meat eaters - but those mandibles are powered by huge muscles and are capable of breaking human skin with ease.

Rainforest & leafcutter remaster coming soon!

#screenshotsaturday #games #indiegames

Earth Appreciation Festival 2025 Submissions In recognition of World Earth Day which takes place at the end of April, we’re hosting an event (April 1 to April 8 2025) celebrating the beauty of our green planet, and the marvelous diversity of lif...

Today we're (@slugdisco.bsky.social) announcing that Earth Appreciation Festival 2025 submissions are open! 🌍

You can apply here: forms.gle/3japXvzNH3by...

#gamedev #indiedev #gameevents #gamemarketing

A Christmassy scene in the Hungry Spider level from Empires of the Undergrowth - the festive spider is near the camera wearing a Santa hat, and behind him is a Christmas tree with many gifts. The landscape is snowy and snow is falling. Text to the right, above the EotU logo, reads: "Thank You for supporting us in our release year! You’ve made sure Empires of the Undergrowth was a big success. So, from the bottom of our hearts, Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals!"

Happy holidays to those celebrating today! We've got a very special message from the Slug Disco team.

#Christmas #Christmas2024 #HomeAlone #indiedev #gamedev

Postmortem: How Empires of the Undergrowth came together in over 7 years of Early Access Here's the path this ant sim took from mobile pitch to full-blown RTS on PC.

In a postmortem on @gamedeveloper.bsky.social, @slugdisco.bsky.social's Mike Connor discusses how ant simulation RTS Empires of the Undergrowth evolved from a mobile game concept to a full-fledged PC title during a seven-year Early Access period.

www.gamedeveloper.com/design/postm...

ICYMI, the #SteamWinterSale is here!

Our published titles are now ON SALE!

🐜Empires of the Undergrowth - 50% OFF!
🌿Horticular (new festive update!🎄) - 30% OFF
🐟Ecosystem - 30% OFF

Check out our games and get ready for a fun holiday!

#Steam #Steamsale #indiegame

❄️Winter update out for Green Again!

🎄Decorate your settlements with colorful lights, use "forever snow" mode for that festive mood.
🎅Sproutlings are dressed for the occasion
🎼It also has new music created by the awesome Tobi Weiss.

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Empires of the Undergrowth December 2024 Newsletter The EotU logo is at the top, in a blue theme. "December 2024 Newsletter" is at the bottom in a serif font. A wintery scene of wood ants collecting seeds from a pinecone is in the background.

Time for the final newsletter of 2024! Just a bit of a roundup of recent stuff and the ongoing beta testing.

Thank you so much for supporting us in our release year! It's gone amazingly well, and we're far from done with EotU yet.

store.steampowered.com/news/app/463...

Posting a blue sky on Bluesky (from our game Adapt!)

#indiegame

A whip spider hiding under a network of roots and leaves, in a daytime rainforest ground scene.

In a lair made of roots and leaves, a huge whip spider (Heterophrynus batesii) waits out the day, conserving its energy to hunt under the cover of darkness in the Ecuadorian rainforest.

The rainforest art update is going well!

#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #UE4 #indiegame

みなさん！！クリスマスには Empires of the UndergrowthのかっこいいアリさんのTシャツはいかがかな！？
このアリさんのイラスト、オレが描いたんだって！！すごいぞー！かっこいいぞー！！

Someone has released a mod for Horticular that includes an adorable lil' fox 😢

A screenshot of the Slug Disco shop showing the five t-shirts that are for sale on the website.

The last postage dates in time for Christmas on the Slug Disco shop are fast approaching. The last shipping dates are: 8th for the US, 11th for the EU and 21st for the UK!

shop.slugdisco.com/collection/e...

It's recently turned 7 years since Empires of the Undergrowth was first released into early access - it released fully in June of this year.

What a journey we've been on - and the bull ant has been its mascot all this time, despite not being in the game - until now!

#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev