Excellent analysis, thanks so much for sharing!

ChainStaff is finally ready! 🎸⚡💥
I've been making games since '94 and I love doing new 2D action gameplay.
"Let's make a new grappling hook game!" I said back in 2019😅
ChainStaff is out now Xbox, Steam, Switch, and Playstation.
Please grab a copy and leave a review--thanks!

Yeah, I think the namesake has its origins in American football, and ostensibly it was about welcoming alumni back to campus for the first "home" game of the season. But the history is mostly forgotten these days.

As a home-schooled kid in the US I was equally baffled, and was shocked to learn it was (kind of) about football.

I made a zoomie friend!
#papercraft #spacecar

Scavengers Reign is a show where at one point you watch the entire life cycle of a plant for like 5 minutes and it’s somehow the best thing you’ve ever seen. If you haven’t watched this show you are depriving yourself of transcendent beauty.

Friends!!!!! 🥹💛

THE GOD IS OUT OF THE BAG! 💫

I’m so happy to announce that I’m the game director for this incredible game where you’ll play as Pythia, the priestess of Apollo’s oracle in Delphi! 😍

Demo available now! ✨

Wishlist & share! 💛

This has happened to me a ton of times except in my case whenever I went back to my order details it turns out I did in fact order one (1) bag of shallots or onions or whatever 😅

Happy to Announce that Sunken Stones is now out on Android!
Try before you buy!
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left image: pixelated image of a man in a shower from 'shower with your dad simulator 2015' right image: isiah mustafa from 'old spice' tv commercials on the beach under a shower wearing a towel

wonderful news everyone i have enabled dlss 5 on 'shower with your dad simulator 2015'

Slumber Realm is a dreamy dice roguelike

Enter the Slumber Realm and battle your adolescent fears. Discover powerful synergies, unlock upgrades and equipment, fight broccoli. Decorate your crib with relics of the 90s.

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#TeaseYaGame

A creepy puppet, Mr Magpie, sits across the table from you. He has dealt a bunch of cards face down to the casino-green board.

Hey #TeaseYaGame,

Mr. Magpie's Harmless Card Game is a surreal blend of Minesweeper, Blackjack and Balatro, hosted by your friendly neighborhood murder-puppet.

Playtest on steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3616280/...

Hey #TeaseYaGame!

Help Tashia unravel the mystery of Bredda Anansi's murder and (more importantly) find her cell phone!

🔍Gather Clues
👻Meet the Suspects
👁️Solve the mystery of the Halfway Market

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The Abbess Garden | Launch Trailer | indie.io YouTube video by join-indie-io

My historical gardening game is out on Steam!

If you're feeling for spy plots, queer romance, discovering plants and caring for real plants, you can now join the Abbey and embody Agnès! 🌿

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Launch trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Ev...

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SOME GENERAL TIPS FOR STEAM GAME DEMOS
(from someone who has played so many of them)

Note: These tips also apply to games in general! They're good tips!

Meme showing hot peppers saying "evolution can you give me capsaicin to deter mammals? I want birds to spread my seeds?" Evolution, rendered as a DNA double helix, asks "to deter mammals?" and the peppers reply "yes, to deter mammals, that is precisely what I said." Then it shows two cavemen excitedly yelling "mouth hot" at some peppers, to which the peppers say "wait what the fuck?" and the final image is a bunch of hot sauces and dishes, again captioned "what the fuck?"

It's one of my favorite topics to teach in sensory physiology-- how plants likely evolved capsaicin as a deterrent to keep us from eating them and that didn't work out so great for them (or did, since we now lovingly grow and cultivate them):

Hell yeah this could totally work as a night walk

I’m not sure whether this is semantics or not. IMO, mentorship is about experts dedicating time to newcomers, usually on an occasional call or scheduled meeting, to help them with their own goals and projects. Internships are about showing up like you would for a job with assignments+expectations

The best possible scenario for an internship would be working with established experts on commercial games, getting actual shipped games under their belt, credits in games, and time with mentors who are doing EXACTLY what they want to do. And this is not usually the environment indie teams offer.

Again, I don't mean this as a dig. I've been in the industry for 20 years, and shipped 12+ games. I would not take on an unpaid intern, especially if they are aiming to enter a field I'm not an expert in, like art. IMO - their time would be better spent making a game on their own.

Have you shipped commercial games before Chantel? If so, do you have the experience (and time) to mentor and manage the average beginner in their desired area of expertise (art, production, business, etc.)? If the answer to both of these isn't 'yes', I question the relative value of interning there.

Perhaps - there's definitely been a shift away from unpaid internships in the US.

I think the value of unpaid internship work is largely dependent on how well equipped the organization actually is to provide real value to the interns... Unpaid internship at Blizzard? Probably super valueable.

And I think in like 99% of cases, it's much, much more useful for those individuals to just go make their own games, contribute significantly to shipped products, and to avoid the overhead of "working" with scrappy remote part time teams.

Time and again I see people volunteering for small, unfunded teams, often remote, part-time, often teams that have no track record of shipping. More often than not, they get little useful things on their resume, and little in the way of useful mentorship from industry specialists for their role.

Chantel I mean this will all the love in the world:
I think you may be overestimating the value YOU provide interns or anyone doing things for free on your team, particularly if your commitment is to not use their work in a shipped game.

Nothingness - PlayFly That creepying feeling...

One Page Horror Story:
Nothingness

www.playfly.games/ugc/b703ddd3...

🌴DEMO ANNOUNCEMENT🌴 Surprise! I am thrilled to announce that the demo for Ourlands, my cozy island builder, just went live! Take a break from, well, everything, and go craft your perfect slice of paradise.

Enjoy!

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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.

I think it probably is, but here it's five bucks and *shiny and visible*