Crystals Of Irm on Steam Crystals Of Irm is an old school RPG with a distinctive combat system and dungeon crawl elements. With three heroes you explore Irm, visit the different regions of the land and climb deep down into th...

If you want to check out Crystals Of Irm you have one more weekend to do so!

store.steampowered.com/app/1971470/...

Hey! Again, a big thank you for all the playtest feedback that's coming my way. It's so helpful and I'm already working on some things from it!

As you may have noticed, the playttest is still running and will continue until next Monday!

#indiegame #videogame #crystalsofirm

Anyway!
Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️

I'm not super visible right now, but I'm workin on it! :]

Ever since I came out last year, life's been... wild, to put it lightly, but pretty much everything has been changing for the better so far. I'm so incredibly glad I finally found myself! <3

i blocked the poor widdle markov bot, very toxic 🥺

😂

lmao

That means, yes - Gen"AI" is so useless, it can't even represent itself

Pragmata's newly revealed New York stage was painstakingly made by human developers to look "AI generated," according to director - AUTOMATON WEST Pragmata director Cho Yonghee and producer Naoto Oyama talk about the creative process behind the game's "AI-generated" New York stage.

I love this article so much, because it highlights a great point:

Gen"AI" is so utterly devoid of intentionality that you can't even use it to engage players in a fun and meaningful way with the idea of an AI-generated world. It *has* to be crafted by humans.

automaton-media.com/en/news/prag...

I can't believe people are seriously still pitching us web3 games in 2026

NEVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

🥲🥲🥲

Can highly give my (very unbiased*) recommendation to sign-up for the playtest for Crystals of Irm! It's a really cozy old-school dungeon crawler-y game that's also kind of a semi-turnbased bullet hell! 😀

*actually biased af - I'm working for the publisher and have helped a little with development

Crystals Of Irm on Steam Crystals Of Irm is an old school RPG with a distinctive combat system and dungeon crawl elements. With three heroes you explore Irm, visit the different regions of the land and climb deep down into th...

Today's the day!

The Crystals Of Irm playtest starts today and will run all weekend!

You can still sign up for it and I’m really looking forward to your feedback 💎

store.steampowered.com/app/1971470/...

#indiegame #crystalsofirm #indiedev

Here are Dave and David's full unedited comments for those interested:

100% yes!

OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform; Disney Drops Plans for $1 Billion Investment OpenAI is planning to discontinue Sora, the generative-AI video creation platform it launched in late 2024. Disney has ended its partnership for Sora.

It's the future! It's inevitable! Pretty soon all content will be generated by it! We're about to achieve AGI! If you aren't on the train it's gonna pass you by!

variety.com/2026/digital...

These "major cuts" should only affect one type of employee and they can all be found in upper management.
Shameful.

"Our generic mobile slop was so generic that no one even noticed when we turned on the slop machine!"

I wonder if it says something about the baseline quality of the game if no one noticed that over the last year all of its content has been "AI"-generated, hmmmmmmmmmmmm 🤔🤔🤔

Source: www.gamesindustry.biz/this-mobile-...

A Steam AI Generated Content Disclosure The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this: AI-generated voiceovers for ingame characters. This is a indie no-budget production. Sorry :-'(

I'm so sick of seeing AI disclaimers like this.

The solution to not having the budget for voice acting isn't to use AI, it's to not have voice acting at all!

Games don't need VO to be good!

By jamming in slopvoices, you're not making your game better, you're making it worse and reprehensible!

Yes.

Okay I fully filled out the pokédex and the habitat dex, I'm free 🫠

As if I needed even more reasons to halt any development of my own stuff for Xbox 🙃

i'm so cooked Ben

Hello! Just wanted to let everyone know that work on 1.1 will continue as soon as I get out of Pokopia jail!

...help me D:

Oh! Good to know it actually works, haha! :D

Lunistice running on Nintendo Switch 2 (Handheld Boost Mode) in tabletop mode.

Handheld Boost Mode go brrr on this 'mid' game (actually one of the most fun and well-made indie games I've ever played)

Oh yeah, it was pretty standard for a while (and still is for some companies). Horrible.

100%. im cooked

mid game. pretty disappointing

What a timeline we live in, where a 7/10 - 8/10 game is considered "disappointing" and where the stock market reacts violently to fucking Metacritic of all things.