We're back with what you need - 45 minutes of back-to-back game announcements with zero fluff.
World premieres. Gameplay reveals. Release dates.
No hosts. No ads. Just games.
Be there April 9th - 9am PDT / noon EDT / 6pm CEST.

Dude, as someone unfortunate to be born with a passport of the wrong color, I can't stress how infuriating all these "account reviews" are. That's exactly why we should stand for self-hosting and ditch platforms as soon as they get big enough to be run by processes instead of people.

[AoCO 0/25] The Advent of Compiler Optimisations YouTube video by Matt Godbolt

Finished watching Advent of Compiler Optimizations by @matt.godbolt.org. Pure gold! Tons of really curious little details, great presentation. Amazing content - thanks, Matt!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Bw...

This.

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Tomorrow is Indie-Penance Day on Kotaku! If you have an indie game in development, or a recent release that's been ignored, email me: botherer@gmail.com, with the subject line "INDIE PENANCE 2025".

Please include a store link and a YT link (if possible).

Rules next...

😱

I see dice - I like

I like how it looks 👍

🙈

Wishlisted! Again 😀

Hey!

bsky.app/profile/dmin...

Dicewood –
Like a deckbuilder, but with dice-critters.

🦝 Cute creatures
🩸 Grim choices
🎲 Endless combos
🚪 One way out

A fantasy-horror roguelike deckbuilder where adorable forest animals band together to escape the relentless hunter.

**2026**
#pitchyagame

Game development in essence

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame

Thank you, Revy! 🙌

Hey! We've just released the DEMO on Steam!

Dicewood - a dice-critter roguelike deck-builder, set amid the gloom of an ancient forest.

store.steampowered.com/app/3393850/...

#screenshotsaturday

Final Sentence - Official Cinematic Reveal Trailer YouTube video by IGN

Some time ago, I mentioned that I was making a game with a typewriter. And now, here’s the announcement!

youtu.be/sHz8F30MaTI?...

Brother Deluxe 1300 Typewriter Side View

Brother Deluxe 1300 Typewriter Back Label Serial Number

Brother Deluxe 1300 Typewriter Top View

Brother Deluxe 1300 Typewriter

Just bought this beauty

Just finished the demo - this game is sooooooooo cool, dude!

Good luck with that! I've been through the journey of self-publishing - not a book, but a video game. It's not easy, but it's very satisfying.

Is this some special paper? What are these visible lines on it?

It's hard to be late to a discussion about typewriters ha-ha. I guess I will spend weeks trying to find good exemplars, so thank you very much, Ryan, for confirming the other advice as well as for your suggestions! This will help narrow my search.

No worries, I was able to check most of the links with Web Archive. Thanks again!

Great, thanks, Arnie, for the specific models! I'll look for them for sale here in Lithuania.

I’m making a multiplayer game like Squid Game, but with typewriters and typing challenges. I need two lightweight, widely available typewriters for easy repairs and parts, as I plan to showcase it at gaming expos.

Cool! Thanks, Judith!

For a project, I'm looking for two typewriters. Any suggestions on what to buy that's easy to transport and as durable as possible? Maybe @iviesofinkribbons.bsky.social ?

Don't invite me to your startup unless it looks like this.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. I've honestly watched this movie more than 30 times.