Need a quick gift for a friend or family member that LOVES puzzles?

It'd be cool if ya'll considered CIPHER ZERO (@cipherzerogame.com ) for the following categories!

• Game of the Year
• Best Approachable Game
• Best Challenging Game
• Best Puzzle Design
• Most Innovative Game
• Best Art Direction

I'm still so incredibly proud of this game. 💜

Save 15% on CIPHER ZERO on Steam A minimalist logic game. Can you solve for 𝒙?

CIPHER ZERO by @zapdot.com challenges you with 300+ logic puzzles, evolving worlds, and a reactive soundtrack.

CODE GIVEAWAY 🎮🗝️ What game pushed your brain the hardest? We’ll drop codes to some of our favorite replies.

Available now! on.unity.com/3K36zS5

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This is embarrassing -- sent that message with the wrong account (@cipherzerogame.com) can you add our studio account instead please? 🤦

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We're in the Rules Discovery Games Bundle!

Get 20% off on:
🧩 Strange Jigsaws (@flebpuzzles.bsky.social)
🔳 LOK Digital (@letibus.bsky.social)
🔲 CIPHER ZERO (@cipherzerogame.com)
🪨 Linelith (@cwpat.me)

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Cipher Zero is a logic game where the initial simplicity masks a snowballing level of fiendish complexity. — The Geekly Grind Minimalist logic puzzler Cipher Zero teaches you its rules without any conventional instructions.

Minimalist logic game @cipherzerogame.com from Ben Cole Wu and @zapdot.com is fantastic! Simple on the surface but ultimately quite complex. 9/10

Thank you @thinkygames.com for helping me discover this gem!

#indiegames #puzzle #Steam #pcgaming 🎮

My review on @thegeeklygrind.bsky.social --

A screenshot from CIPHER ZERO done in minimal style, a varied color palette, and layered in textures. Inside a train, a booth's table is littered with random objects, such as a lava lamp, a camera with film next to it, an open CD players, an old school monitor with blue text. In the background, out the window, the background of a city and its pier can be seen.

"Were we overly-ambitious? For sure. [...] We wanted our soundtrack to be dynamic in a unique way... and I think we succeeded."

Join Ian in how he wove the sounds of CIPHER ZERO into its dynamic score.

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A table with several BGW pins, name tags, and a poster that says "this event is brought to you by Boston Game Dev!"

A photo from Made in MA. Manny Mallea is holding a frog plushie from the game Frogmageddon in front of a mounted camera. Its big frog face appears on the large screen behind Manny.

The Boston Indies Demo Night. A crowd of game devs socializing and playing demos outdoors in the evening.

Our Make Games Make Friends event. A crowd gathered indoors is chatting and ordering drinks.

That's a wrap on the very first Boston Gamedev Week! We were totally blown away by how many people showed up to every single event, wore our pins and embraced BGW enthusiastically. Thank you to everyone who took this leap with us, and to all of our incredible organizers. Let's do this again!

⚠️ A scammer has posted several fake job postings for our studio, and has been setting up fake interviews for a Concept Artist and Video producer.

We are not currently hiring. Please don't give out your personal information.

You know what the game developer on your list needs this holiday season?

Game ideas.

...they could probably also use this asset pack we made (and conveniently have on sale!):

bitworks.games

We just released Bitworks: Stronghold, a modular asset pack to build your own interior fantasy environments!

📦 Get it:
📘 Read more:

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Know any animators looking for work? Point them our way, please!

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We're happy to support AbleGamers and accessibility in games by sending a member of our team to become a certified APX! Get someone in your studio/team to join us!

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Making games can be lonely, come talk to us on discord while we do it!

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We need playtesters! Can you help? Signup here:

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Congrats to our friends at @spryfox for their launch of #alphabear2! We had a ton of fun helping with the WebGL port for Merriam-Webster:

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Join us in sponsoring a girl to attend the @BlackGirlsCODE Game Jam in Boston on Nov 5 -

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With every new addition to the team, this set gets even more awesome!

We're pretty excited to announce the launch of the new @PleasantDreams site today!

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We're the Indie Game Collective, you probably haven't heard about us -- but now, you can!

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Boston Herald on the IGC:

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Playing with some new particle effects for Ugly Baby:

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Check out a playthrough I did of a song in the latest Ugly Baby update!

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If you haven't done it already, @popcannibal could use your vote for greenlight:

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New design for the site is up at Also, we're collaborating with @dejobaan on Ugly Baby!

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Jack Lumber Review - IGN

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It was great to see so many local devs at the screening of Indie Game: The Movie last night! :)

Hello World! :)