Order Automatica has a demo on GOG now : )

Working on a new level with units that create terrain when attacked. You'll have to cleverly play cards to work around their defense mechanism.

#gamedev #indiegames #madewithunity #unity3d #cardgame #roguelike

My Unity outline shader is 50% off! It has tons of features :)

assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx...

In honor of Slay the Spire II EA, and actually being allowed to share these now, I'm going to be posting some of my beta art.

Here's Spite, which was in the trailer, so it felt appropriate to start with it. Ahh, refreshing!

#slaythespire #slaythespire2

Part of the experience riding on the first 2-line train across the I-90 bridge:

- Waiting at platform: "Next train to Downtown Redmond in 2 minutes." Crowd cheers
- On the train; "This is the train to DT Redmond." Crowd cheers
- We start moving; "Next stop, Mercer Island." Crowd starts booing 😂

BIG NEWS‼️🟢 Peglin's 4th and FINAL act is available now, and you know what that means! NEW MUSIC 🎵 Here's a sampler of my favorite parts of the new songs!

GET THE UPDATED OST HERE ⬇️
crashtroid.bandcamp.com/album/peglin...

we're still hiring for this role!

can't stress enough what a pleasure it remains to work here. the game is truly exciting and unique, the team is talented and empathetic, & everyone is empowered to great stuff with a healthy work life balance.

share with any talented senior eng managers you know!

For Dosa Divas and Thirsty Suitors, we built a custom tool in Unity to layout the flow and structure of the game based on gameplay and story beats. It helps us keep track of all the various scenes, run the game at specific points and speeds up iteration.
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I Don't Care How Many Games Are Coming Out on Steam Enough stats. Let's game.

Stats chat has had an exclusively negative effect on my career and I'm starting to question the value of it at all for indies:

modecollapse.substack.com/p/i-dont-car...

it's crazy that we're all on here pretending like the world didn't radically shift under our feet last week. you just can't deny the technological leap that has happened and those of you who refuse to take advantage of it are going to get left behind. I am of course talking about slay the spire 2

Never would have believed someone if they had told me the scariest thing to come out this year would be a live service game from Bungie and not Resident Evil

I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

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 😉🌟

Cairn - Technical Breakdown - Rock Rendering, Anthony Beyer I was lucky to work on Cairn as Technical Art Director, and now that the game has been released, I thought it might be interesting to share some of its "development secrets". At the beginning, i want...

our wizard-in-chief at @thegamebakers.com Anthony Beyer made a breakdown about ミ🪨 rocks 🪨彡. check it out! www.artstation.com/artwork/AZzrJm

Demonschool does this... kinda! Our backgrounds ARE full 3D, but for most of the overworld gameplay, we have a fixed camera angle... if there are no moving lights, we can cache the world to a texture and treat the whole world as an impostor, essentially doing runtime 'pre-rendering' i guess.

We are thrilled to announce that Flock Around is being funded by Outersloth! (@outersloth.com)
We can't wait to make the game even better thanks to their support!

The Spire awakens once more in Steam Early Access on March 5, 2026! ⚔️

New characters, enemies, environments & more await you in Slay the Spire 2, the sequel to the iconic roguelike deckbuilder.

Will you attempt the climb alone... or enlist the aid of your fellow adventurers?

Reminder to other indie dev teams especially new teams. Most of us are happy to share advice and give feedback on publisher/funding/platform deals and terms. There are some shady predatory biz weasels that will take advantage of you as soon as your game starts to pop off. Please reach out.

PLAY TOWERBOLT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Most of the R&D projects have animal codenames so likely from one of those

all the kinds of modern Indie Games:

-"roguelike" (slot machine)
-feelings
-unlock/tech tree simulator
-"god we hope northernlion plays this"
-crunchy first person shooter
-morrowind built by a single lunatic

FIVE DAYS until my game Towerbolt comes out!

⚡Lovingly made by a solo dev
⚡Made for newcomer platformer players and speedrunners alike
⚡Features a very cool owl 🦉

Wishlist the game below!
store.steampowered.com/app/2559220?...

#indiegame #platformer #steam

I owe you an apology, Amber Glenn. I wasn't really familiar with your Magic: The Gathering Game.

Towerbolt - Press and Content Creator Sign-Up for Early Keys Towerbolt is a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X. Race and escape to the top of an impossibly tall cyberpunk tower prison, while outrunning deadly rising lasers on every floor! ⚡ A...

⚡ Hey folks, Towerbolt comes out in TWO WEEKS! ⚡

If you're press, a streamer or content creator and would like an early key, please fill out this form to get a key before the game's launch on Feb 18th!  Thank you so much for your interest and support!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#indiegame

You'll get different definitions at different studios but here's mine: a person who helps individual contributors (ICs) and leads work with each other to make workflows better/easier/[Radiohead voice] more productive. They should be like oil: reducing friction and energy required to get things done.

Notes on level design workflow for the 3D platformer Big Hops A behind-the-scenes look at some of the tooling, level design methods, and metrics use for this cartoony 3D exploration game I helped make.

new blog post: notes on level design workflows for the 3D platformer Big Hops www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/01/note...

Hi!👋I've been leading character art on Spirit Crossing with @spryfox.bsky.social for the last few years and, as I'm new to BlueSky, I thought I'd try sharing some of the work that's gone into making characters for an MMO over the next few months! Follow if you like characters and lil tech details 😊