Today is a good day to remember that Carl Sagan was as outspoken about the dangers of war and nuclear weapons as he was an advocate of space exploration.

Painting of a tawny owl against a cloudy sky with crescent moon, on top of the easel are toys of artists

Sneak peek 🦉 plus my artist themed toys (gifted, thrifted, made, eBay - In that order)

🎪🎉

Andotrope Displays Omnidirectional displays without any sides or back. Full 360° viewing without head-tracking cameras. Patent-pending technology.

Super excited to unveil andotrope.com a dedicated website for my #Andotrope displays!

Like & Repost if you want an Andotrope of your own!

The Outersloth Contract | Innersloth - Creators of Among Us and The Henry Stickmin Collection! Hello!

💰THE OUTERSLOTH CONTRACT 💰

We just released the FULL contract and terms that all our games sign!

We hope this challenges the status quo of what you see out there.

In a nutshell:
💸 Pre-recoup 50/50
💸 Post-recoup 15/85
💸 Terms after 7 years

www.innersloth.com/the-outerslo...

Beginner Game Devs: Let's talk about Git YouTube video by Nathan Hoad

There doesn't seem to be a week that goes by without some game dev horror story on Reddit that could have been avoided if the project was using source control. I made a quick intro to Git video to hopefully make the process less scary.

📺 youtu.be/oYsAftrDaps

#IndieDev #GameDev #Coding

If you like thinky puzzle games but also like a little bit of action then you should check out Bravest Coconut.

🐱 s.team/a/2913190

#WishlistWednesday #IndieGames #PixelArt #Godot

Flyer for Tamborine Mountain Arts Trail. It reads "DISCOVER THE ARTISTS May 2-4 2026. Lilly Piri - Painter" and there is a picture of my painting Tawny, which is a self portrait of me holding a green pumpkin in front of my face. I have a wooly brown and white cap on and a tawny frogmouth sitting on my head. The background is turquoise with gold leaf stars.

You can come see some of my work at this year's Tamborine Mountain Arts Trail :) I am participating for the 4th time. the First year, there were just 11 venues, this time it's ~30. #tmarts2026 #ScenicRim #Brisbane #GoldCoast #Art

If you like thinky puzzle games but also like a little bit of action then you should check out Bravest Coconut.

🐱 s.team/a/2913190

#WishlistWednesday #IndieGames #PixelArt #Godot

When you don't make the Top 10 list, find the next best thing... supportive Reddit comments. Cheers fellas!
 
The "best demo... ever" ends soon on Steam.

Check out the demo of Bravest Coconut in Next Fest from February 23rd to March 2nd.

Check out the Bravest Coconut demo for #NextFest 😺 Help Coco become an adventurer on her epic quest to return a book to the library. s.team/a/2913190

#IndieGame #PuzzleGame #PixelArt #Australia #Godot

I love it when I go to wishlist something and it's already on MY list! 🤍

Bravest Coconut on Steam Help Coco become a certified adventurer on her epic quest to return a book to the library and unravel the mysterious goings on in Tambryn Valley. Explore a beautiful pixel art world full of secrets, p...

Help Coco on her epic quest to return a book to the library in the Bravest Coconut demo: store.steampowered.com/app/2913190/...

Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is in the Steam #NextFest!

🆕 Minor demo updates w/ localisation!
👥 Split into two quantum cats to solve puzzles.
⚛️ Play with quantum concepts including Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.
📤 Share this with one buddy who loves science (and cats!)

Check out the demo of Bravest Coconut in Next Fest from February 23rd to March 2nd.

Check out the Bravest Coconut demo for #NextFest 😺 Help Coco become an adventurer on her epic quest to return a book to the library. s.team/a/2913190

#IndieGame #PuzzleGame #PixelArt #Australia #Godot

Bravest Coconut on Steam Help Coco become a certified adventurer on her epic quest to return a book to the library and unravel the mysterious goings on in Tambryn Valley. Explore a beautiful pixel art world full of secrets, p...

Bravest Coconut is in #NextFest 🐱 store.steampowered.com/app/2913190/...

Bravest Coconut on Steam Help Coco become a certified adventurer on her epic quest to return a book to the library and unravel the mysterious goings on in Tambryn Valley. Explore a beautiful pixel art world full of secrets, p...

I've got a demo for Bravest Coconut, a cross between point & click adventures and classic Zelda games: store.steampowered.com/app/2913190/...

When I was in college people used to call kerbside pick-up "dodgy Christmas" lol

Bin Chickenz perform "Waking The Dead" YouTube video by Nathan Hoad

I made a little music video for the fictitious band in Bravest Coconut, The Bin Chickenz.

📺 youtu.be/bRs_NM3isII

#BinChickens #Brisbane #Australia #IndieGame #PixelArt

Bravest Coconut on Steam Help Coco become a certified adventurer on her epic quest to return a book to the library and unravel the mysterious goings on in Tambryn Valley. Explore a beautiful pixel art world full of secrets, p...

I'd love it if you'd give the Bravest Coconut demo a whirl. It's a cross between stuff like Monkey Island and Link's Awakening: bravestcoconut.com/demo

Painting of a white cat next to a still life set up of a bunny and citrus fruit and a PC screen with landscape and code on it

Close up of painted a still life set up with a bunny , citrus, and wreath, and a computer screen with code on it that is basically if I get replaced by AI I’ll paint either way.

My painting about continuing to paint even if I get replaced by ai has sold in case you wanted some good news 😸 people continue to buy art made by humans

An image featuring tiles of released games funded by Screen Australia.

📣 Hey Australian gamemakers!

Screen Australia's Games grants close in 2 weeks! A reminder to get your applications in! 🫶

🛠 Games Production Fund - up to $100,000
🎨 Emerging Gamemakers Fund - up to $30,000

📆 Applications close Thu 5 Mar, 5pm (AEDT)
👉 www.screenaustralia.gov.au/funding-and-...

Release v3.10.0 for Godot 4.6 · nathanhoad/godot_dialogue_manager What's Changed New Stuff Improve autocomplete, hints, and symbol lookup by @nathanhoad in #1070 Add enums to autocomplete by @nathanhoad in #1078 Allow generating IDs in all files at once by @nath...

Here's v3.10.0 of my Dialogue Manager addon for #godot 🤖. It brings a bunch of fixes for things as well as a major improvement to auto-completing mutations from GDScript (C# is a bit trickier).

github.com/nathanhoad/g...

#IndieDev #GameDev

Graph showing the relative share of game engines used in Global Game Jam from 2018 to 2026. It mainly shows a relative decrease of the Unity share from nearly 80% to 57%, while Godot grew from 1.4% to over 25%. There's a notable inflexion point in the year-on-year growth from Godot in 2024.

The 2026 Global Game Jam #GGJ26 was last weekend, so let's take a look at their historical data for engine usage.

📈 @godotengine.org is having a good run!

#Godot is now firmly established as the #2 engine in game jams (correlated by #GMTKJam data), rapidly closing the gap with #Unity.

😮

Really sad to hear today that Freeplay Independent Games Festival is likely coming to the end of its adventure in 2026 after 22 incredible years. Freeplay has been pivotal to my own career and I have some complex, straight out contradictory feelings about the announcement I wanna try to articulate.

Godot plushie sitting on a shelf

A new addition to the shelf.

#Godot #GameDev

I switched to Bazzite in November and things have been great. I hear good things about Mint, CachyOS, and Pop_OS too.

In the span of weeks, I've gone from someone who has never used Godot, to struggling to "get" Godot, to really liking Godot, to having taught aspiring gamedevs the basics of Godot, to strongly believing Godot's workflow & structure might be the best approach to developing games for many purposes.

My shop has finally had a micro update due to someone asking for a print, so there's a couple on there plus some originals. I have more originals IRL, but tbh, don't know if I will list them anytime soon, locals are always welcome to come have a look.
lillypiri.com/shop