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🌱 Chomp Garden 🌱 is out on @itch.io
A short puzzle game about guiding plants with your light.

Explore a garden full of strange plants 🌱
solve puzzles 🧩
and find your lost dog 🐢

Play it here: lunardust.itch.io/chomp-garden

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegame

3 weeks ago 25 6 0 1
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This has been a hard secret to keep: we're publishing the remarkable He Who Watches on Steam!

He Who Watches is a unique, first-person puzzle game with a fundamental twist - a casual disregard for gravity!

Play the demo and wishlist today!

store.steampowered.com/app/1070500/...

3 weeks ago 167 54 5 7
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Adding secrets under flower pots in my puzzle game.

#indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

3 weeks ago 12 4 0 0
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Watching my plants grow toward light gave me the idea for this puzzle game🌱

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1 month ago 12 4 1 0
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The Steam page for my game Chomp Garden is now live! 🌱

Venture into a dangerous garden full of strange plants, solve puzzles, and find your lost dog.

Wishlist on Steam ↓
πŸ”— s.team/a/4457150

#indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

1 month ago 21 8 0 0
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I made a tower defense game without building towers.
The caravan follows the path you draw. πŸͺ
As a cunning bandit, spend as little money as possible to design the perfect robbery!

πŸ”— lunardust.itch.io/shanzhai

#indiegame #towerdefense #puzzle

4 months ago 5 2 0 0
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Working on a puzzle game about a man-eating flower 😱
Would you feed it… or outsmart it? 🌸

#indiegame #gamedev #puzzle

5 months ago 16 4 0 0
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Made a Balatro inspired word-spelling adventure game for #ludumdare58 🦊

You collect letters and use them to fight monsters. The ultimate goal is to complete the alphabet collection.

lunardust.itch.io/letter-colle...

6 months ago 1 1 0 0
Intro to Puzzle Design – Ludipe

I wrote an Intro to Puzzle Design article🧩

This covers the usual points I discuss with people who are working on their first puzzle game. Given how some concepts can be quite abstract, I think a written piece allows everyone to digest it at their own pace.
www.ludipe.com/2025/08/18/i...

8 months ago 184 65 4 5
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We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 πŸŽ‰

The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans.

Deadline: September 28th
More info πŸ‘‡
grants.draknek.org

8 months ago 315 279 2 12
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Draknek & Friends Official Podcast Join Alan and Syrenne from Draknek & Friends as they talk to developers of some of their favorite puzzle games, shedding light onto how games get made and the people behind them!

Draknek & Friends Official Podcast Episode 32 featuring @chao-c.bsky.social is out now! Topics include the development of the game, designing a sokoban with movable stages, and the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant.
pod.link/1777156468

9 months ago 11 5 1 0
Kiko the bear makes the cutest noises in this apple-collecting sokoban! (Kiko's Apple Adventure)
Kiko the bear makes the cutest noises in this apple-collecting sokoban! (Kiko's Apple Adventure) Kiko's Apple Adventure was released during the Thinky Direct and to kick-off the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase, so we just had to try it out. Turns out, it's a super cute and interesting sokoban game! The goal of each puzzle is to push the apples on to rafts, and you'll also use those rafts to navigate a

Watch Joe play this cute sokoban about a bear on a mission to collect apples!
www.youtube.com/watc...

10 months ago 2 1 0 0
Kiko's Apple Adventure logo with Kiko the brown bear surfing on a log raft with apples all around

Kiko's Apple Adventure logo with Kiko the brown bear surfing on a log raft with apples all around

Kiko sleeps, waiting to begin a puzzle with two rafts and two apples on ice bricks

Kiko sleeps, waiting to begin a puzzle with two rafts and two apples on ice bricks

Kiko looks at a hole in the ground that leads to a separate thin island with rafts on the left and right. Two apples are on the top left and bottom right corners of the slightly larger island Kiko is on.

Kiko looks at a hole in the ground that leads to a separate thin island with rafts on the left and right. Two apples are on the top left and bottom right corners of the slightly larger island Kiko is on.

Kiko's Apple Adventure⁣ by @chao-c.bsky.social, a sokoban puzzle game [PC]

Kiko the bear has one goal: bake the biggest apple pie ever! Send apples home on rafts and outsmart the lands and critters in your way.

#indiegame

10 months ago 7 3 0 0
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Hello #PitchYaGame!

Kiko's Apple Adventure 🍎 is a cute puzzle game where you push apples onto floating rafts and trick your goofy enemies!

🧩 bite-sized puzzles
🐻 cartoony graphics
🎡 playful sounds
🍎 apple pie

Kiko released 1 week ago on Steam and itch!
store.steampowered.com/app/2916300/...

10 months ago 13 5 0 0

My visual processing is so busted today. Until I read the description, I thought the bear on a raft was a three-armed cyclops with floppy ear, a wild mane of red hair, and tiny nub horns like a giraffe's ossicones, flailing around with its head above the water

10 months ago 9 1 0 0

Just tried out this cute puzzle game earlier today, only had a chance to play for about 15mins, but enjoyed it!

I really like how it combines sliding puzzle with classic box pushing. You have to put the apples on the rafts, where the apples are box-pushing and the rafts are sliding. Very satisfying

10 months ago 5 1 1 0

Only one day left!

I have 2 small cozy puzzlers in Cerebral Puzzle Showcase 🧩

🍎 Kiko's Apple Adventure
🦊 Animal Planner

10 months ago 1 1 0 0
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The #CerebralPuzzleShowcase is live on @steampowered.com now! Come join a celebration of the puzzle genre!

πŸ’Έ 300+ incredible puzzle games + discounts
🧩 50+ demos to try
πŸ“¦ Exclusive showcase bundles
πŸ“Ί 4 days of livestreams

store.steampowered.com/sale/Cerebra...

10 months ago 100 45 0 19
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So many incredible games in this direct, I don't think Ive wishlisted so many games from the same showcase before (Except WG direct 🍰)

my highlights:

868-BACK (I still play 868-HACK on ios)
Kiko's Apple Adventure
Shape Sender Deluxe
Isles of Sea and Sky

10 months ago 21 9 1 0

So sweet! Thanks for the help during the development of Kiko!

10 months ago 1 0 0 0

Kiko's Apple Adventure is so cool. A small puzzle game you should really try.

It just released on Steam for 5€.

10 months ago 3 1 1 0

Thank you! Our sound designer will be super happy to hear that, he puts lots of effort on it! I love the sounds as well :)

10 months ago 2 0 0 0
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Save 15% on Kiko's Apple Adventure on Steam Join Kiko the bear rafting through diverse islands, pushing apples onto rafts to solve puzzles. Cleverly dealing with enemies, for a fun and cozy apple pie adventure!

There's a 15% launch discount runs for 2 weeks unitl June 12th :)
store.steampowered.com/app/2916300/...

10 months ago 0 0 1 2
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🍎 Kiko's Apple Adventure is out NOW! πŸŽ‰

Come help Kiko collect apples to make the biggest apple pie ever!

So happy Kiko was included in the amazing Thinky Direct earlier today @thinkygames.com

Thanks everyone for the support! Hope you enjoy the game! Cheers! 🍻

#indiegamedev #puzzlegame #cozygame

10 months ago 13 3 1 1
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Steam Achievements βœ…
Credits Page βœ…
Kiko 🍎 is β€œalmost” ready to launch πŸš€
Coming May 29th on Steam!

πŸ”— store.steampowered.com/app/2916300

#indiegame #puzzlegame #cozygame

10 months ago 5 1 0 0
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Loving how Kiko speaks so many languages! 🐻 🌍
Kiko's Apple Adventure 🍎 will launch on May 29th with 7 languages supported: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, German, Spanish, and French! πŸ₯³

#indiegame #puzzle #cozygame #gamedev

10 months ago 10 2 1 0

Great trailer! This is soooooo exciting πŸŽ‰

🍎 Kiko will be part of Thinky Direct on May 29! Cheers!

11 months ago 8 1 1 0
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Pup Champs, our newest game is out now!

🐢Control a team of soccer-playing dogs,
⚽Pass the ball and score over 100 goals,
🧩For puzzle novices and experts alike,
πŸ’¬Cute story told through interactive comic books,

Get on Steam, App Store & Google Play: afterburn.games/pup

11 months ago 135 46 7 10
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New logo for Kiko! A curious bear 🐻 who loves tasty apples 🍎

#indiegame #gamedev #puzzle #cozy

11 months ago 8 4 0 0
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Double Trip is OUT NOW!!

Thanks for the support throughout the development of the game, we hope you enjoy it ❀️

Check it out here: store.steampowered.com/app/3414480/...

#indiedev #gamedev #puzzle #indiegames

11 months ago 16 11 1 2