Cooking up a new Data Explorer UI 🍳 #gamedev #indiedev

Today I'm cooking up image search for our #gamedev market research platform Game Oracle. Currently you can find competitors + stats about market demand using:
- Game titles that inspire you 💪
- Plain english descriptions of your concept 🚀
- Tags etc 🏷️
But sooooon you can use images too 📸🥳

Why Indie Devs Keep Abandoning Brewing Sims 📰 Subscribe to our monthly Indie Innovations newsletter: https://www.game-oracle.com/newsletter Brewing games on Steam present a strange opportunity. With 61% of titles currently unreleased and a…

Beer? 👍 Cool
Games? 🙌 Hell yeah!
Games about beer? 😍 OMG yes
#gamedev #indiedev #sologamedev

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The Brewing Game Players Want Doesn't Exist Yet YouTube video by Game Oracle

Wake up #gamedev another market segment deep dive just dropped 🙌 youtu.be/io9bQ_5Dnis?...

#indiedev #sologamedev #indiegamedev

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If you're a #gamedev who loves data and wants to explore the market in depth, please checkout our tools over at Game Oracle. Version 6 w/ new tools is coming soon! We also have a free monthly newsletter where we use our tools to highlight indie innovations: www.game-oracle.com/newsletter 4/4

An interesting market segment in that bottom right quadrant is 2D Eastern fantasy (xianxia) games blending intricate management, sandbox exploration, and strategic progression mechanics. I want Game Gap to be the ultimate market exploration tool for finding opportunities in your #gamedev journey 3/4

But market saturation doesn't correlate with demand. It might be harder to stand out from the competition but players appetite for great games doesn't falter 2/4

Every point on this graph is a #steam market segment from a new clustering algorithm I'm building to power our #gamedev discover Game Gap tool over at www.game-oracle.com
The bottom right segment are clusters of games with high demand but low competition 1/4

You're a hero and a saint 🙏 thank you kind sir

As a #gamedev #indiedev newbie coming from a data science background (my programming skills were forged in the harsh corporate grind) my safe space is linters, devops tools, pre-commit, CI/CD etc. Any advice on finding these sorts of comforts on my #godot journey? Should I just let go?

Hey #gamedev, who else loves a kanban board? Just me?

We can easily differentiate between "WWII flight" and "WWII infantry". No tags needed. Just a description of what you're building 😀

For the next 24 hours I will research the #gamedev market for any #indiedev using Game Oracle. Drop a one line description of your idea in the comments & I'll use our map of every game on Steam to scope out the competition for you

This is Game Oracle description search. It's the best way to research the #gamedev market. Here I'm using it to find games about making a game. So meta.

Interior design games can be more than just placing objects, like @whisperofthehouse.bsky.social by GD Studio

IKEA seemed like the most natural place to talk about House and Home Fest this week (not sponsored, we just love IKEA)
#gamedev #indiegamedev

Indie Storm Games are a Goldmine... Here's Why Discover why storm chasing games are a hidden goldmine for indie developers. With an average saturation score of just 2.8/10 and top titles earning millions of dollars with small teams of developers,…

⛈️ STORM CHASING GAMES ⛈️
Any #gamedev #indiedev folk out there thinking of making a storm chasing game? Anyone watch twister and was like "yes....that! But in a game!"

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Turns out I'm not the first person to think it might be fun to fry an egg in space. Description search is awesome. Makes #gamedev market research simple 3/3

You can use description search in Game Oracle to just describe a game concept 2/3

Are you still researching the #gamedev market using tags?....pls stop. 1/3

"I'll just make a little ski slope, it shouldn't take too long"

"....Christ, I haven't even placed all the decor yet"

#gamedevlife

The Outlier List | Game Oracle Celebrate the most unique games on Steam with The Outlier List where indie game developers ditch trends & let their imaginations lead the way.

I heard someone say the other day that there is "nothing original on Steam anymore" which blew my mind 🤯 we have an entire leaderboard that proves your wrong! www.game-oracle.com/leaderboards...

When I'm not working the corporate grind as a Data Scientist or building Game Oracle I'm working on little games for the love of it (and to build up my skills for the bigger projects I'm planning). Today I'm working on my little ski game, adding a custom data layer to control player speed #gamedev

PUSH. THE. BUTTON.

We can literally 👀 SEE 👀 the #gamedev #indiedev market move man! Game Oracles map of Steam 💪

That is why we have description search in Game Oracle. So you can just describe what you're working on and find the most relevant games w/ plain english 2/2

User defined tags on Steam are ridiculous. If you're doing your #gamedev #indiedev market research by aggregating on tags you're being mislead 1/2

Top Unique Indies 2025 An editorial spotlight on standout unique indie games that smashed 2025 with their unique design, fresh mechanics, and originality.

Hey #indiedev & #gamedev, have any of you played or been inspired by one of these unique best sellers? If you have, link your game in the comments below, I wanna see 'em!!!

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Working on a video showing how supply and demand on Steam has changed over the last 6 months. Give me a follow if you would like to know about it when it drops 👍
#gamedev #indiedev #gamedevlife

@folly.studio Created this beautifully charming #deckbuilder 😍 It's unique and players love the addictive and compelling gameplay loop. Just shows that gems can still be found in the deckbuilder space

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Slap on that tin foil hat & indulge me for a second. Does anyone else feel like Claude/Gemini/GPT etc have felt a little dumber since oil prices peaked?