PIGCON 2026 Trailer - Join the Portland Indie Game Squad for an indie dev con on May 30th & 31st! YouTube video by PIGSquad

PIGCON Tickets are now live! Get yours now, we can't wait to see you May 30th & 31st in Portland!
pigcon.pigsquad.com

We also made a lil trailer :3
youtu.be/GJqzBtRRiYs?...

A screenshot of the PIGCON website. Two featured guests shown on the site include Mike Bennett & Mike Lorenzo working on a Mystery Project and Olivia Haines with her game Surf Club.

You can now preview tickets for the Portland Indie Game Convention & sign up for a notification to pick yours up when they go live this Thursday, April 16th at 9am PT!
Take a look at
ti.to/pigsquad/pig...
Here we go! 🤩

lol I have been SO annoyed lately, we have some heavy losses over here!

Totally! Yeah I've had a ton of fun at chiptune shows with NES/GB/etc visualizers that allow the audience to cycle color schemes and other imagery. Super fun to have something kick in idly but also allow a listener to play with, beat match, etc >:)

Heya, Will here! Been hearing "oh submissions close next week????" lately and I think I needed to work harder on spreading the word about due date. We're gonna extend submissions through April 13th!
Stoked to see yours, and excited by the massive response we have so far 🤩
pigcon.pigsquad.com

This rules. Any plans to allow audience input?

A special, two-of-a-kind 8.5"x11" riso designed, printed, and signed by Marlowe Dobbe. You get one, PIGSquad gets the other one <3

A 2020 Playdate handheld with silly pizza cover. The Playdate is in new condition, factory reset, and ready to play weird little indie games! Donated by our wonderful pals at Gas Station Story GB.

A 12"x30" original hand painted cabinet door featuring an aloof wizard zapping a content frog. Hand painted on wood recycled from Portland's ReBuilding Center by Marlowe Dobbe, signed. Has hardware on the back to display it on a wall!

MDO prints of the Kanto Starter Pokemon by Mike Bennett, made as a part of his quest to paint the first 151 Pokemon from his studio by the end of the year! These are one-offs made for and donated to PIGSquad, signed by Mike. Thanks Mike! The prints are posed outside of "Mike Bennett Studios."

Part of this evening's 15 Year Anniversary will be a silent auction to help raise funds for the nonprofit! We have some rad items that are VERY local and VERY gamey, and the auction site is up now if you'd like to check it out and bid early >:)
tinyurl.com/pigconauction

a photo of a long oak cabinet with a wrought iron handle. On it is painted a wizard in a pink robe zapping a blue frog

PDX FOLKS!
I've got a new original painting as part of PIGSquad's 15 year silent auction! You can bid online or in person and pick it up at our event tonight or at a later date :)
auction link: tinyurl.com/pigconauction
in-person event tonight! pigsquad.com/events-list/...

See you TONIGHT 🎉1️⃣5️⃣🎊

wait I forgot to mention that is if FREE to submit and FREE to showcase! :)

Just a COOL reminder that submissions for Portland Indie Game Convention are OPEN and we already have such cool people confirmed (and more to announce soon) and YOU should submit:
🗣️Your weird and cool talks
AND
🎮Your weird and cool games
pigcon.pigsquad.com

Dude I have been thinking that this would be the case EVERY time someone recommends it to me. It's just the Ready Player One recommendation all over again 😩

"Y-hyew are NAHT... wehUUUUURTH a'trubble."

A cutout of a woman with blue hair is laid over an image of the low poly horror remake "Bloodborne PSX." The PIGCON logo is in the corner of the image.

Hell yeag, our guest announces for PIGCON this week include @b0tster.yeag.gay! Can't wait to hear about demaking Bloodborne and solo dev stuff in the presentation lineup 😱
Learn more about the Portland Indie Game Convention at pigcon.pigsquad.com ~

A large group of people waves to the camera in a rustic party room. Some folks are seated at game setups, playing on laptops or with board games at a PIGSquad showcase.

Friday, April 3rd, is our 15 YEAR ANNIVERSARY 🌟
We're hosting a feedback night & fundraiser at an evening party in NW Portland if you can make it 🤩
pigsquad.com/events-list/...
Bring your game, come play games, and check out our next silent auction, it's going to be a blast.

Oh yeah of course! Yeah it's super cool to see people collab - it's both fun to see people form "cliques" (but better lol) while still remembering when they first came in and knew nobody, but also folks who have been coming forever but run into each other for the first time >:)

I've seen it go back and forth and it's weird! I see some people finally come out of their shells and ask new people if they want to make stuff together with PIGSquad, but I also still see a ton of people who are like "if it gives me an edge, so be it" 🤮

Reading more and more that people love the Devoted Sculptor's operatic "CA CAAAW" and it makes me so happy :)

Huge congrats to the team, and so excited to be a part of it. Listen out for me, I voiced many of the characters!

The PIGCON: Portland Indie Game Convention logo, depicting a large Cubepig over a city with a bridge. Text also reads "May 30th - 31st, 2026 Norse Hall, Portland, OR"

PIGCON game & presentation submissions are now open!
pigcon.pigsquad.com
Share your insights, skills, and weird stuff on the show floor or speaker hall in a weekend of wonderful people & games :)
Applications close April 6th!

See you tonight!

Yeah the epochs are SUCH a good add 🤩

Wooo yeah glad to catch you at the end! Get some sleep haha

Huge congrats to the team, and so excited to be a part of it. Listen out for me, I voiced many of the characters!

The PIGCON: Portland Indie Game Convention logo, depicting a large Cubepig over a city with a bridge. Text also reads "May 30th - 31st, 2026 Norse Hall, Portland, OR"

ANNOUNCING:
PIGCON, the Portland Indie Game Convention
A weekend for indie devs of all kinds to learn, share, and connect
May 30-31 at Norse Hall, Portland, OR
pigcon.pigsquad.com
See you this spring 😉🌟

Cannot express what a wild day it was to release Slay the Spire 2. So excited to see folks finally playing and so lucky to have gotten to work with the seriously talented and lovely people that made up the dev team 💜

Yup

Check out these FOLKS btw. Incredible first lineup, we really do have some wild stuff to announce down the road too :)

Whelp here it comes, let's do it 😈