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Wunder on Steam - http://s.team/a/3895480
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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · May 4
☠️ LAUNCH TIME ☠️

Wunder: The Double-Sided Deckbuilder is Out Now!

My partner @emilymumble.bsky.social made the coins and good art, I made the "everything else", both our cats think you'll like this game!

Steam: s.team/a/3895480

Please share with everyone, thanks!
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames
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coghdev.bsky.social
holy fricking flip we actually released a game
apexmangostudio.bsky.social Apex Mango - WISHLIST 🍎💀 ~FRUITBEARER~ 🍎💀 @apexmangostudio.bsky.social · 17h
FINALLY!!! 😍

Fruitbearer is OUT NOW!

Please go give some love and write a review on steam. For small indie devs like us it helps us a lot 😭💖

Our first attempt to make this into a full time career🥹

Hope you enjoy! 🥰💖

store.steampowered.com/app/4300180/...

#indiegame #gamedev #pixelart #art
September 21, 2026 at 4:51 PM
bumbleborn.com
100% this, every bad video game I've been involved in was down to a lack of clarity in design.

It's a plague, people want to do everything so they end up doing nothing.
joewintergreen.com Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 2d
no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind
September 21, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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debugmag.com
Are you making a game?

Even if it’s very early in development…

Tell our Games Editor @mostlyalright.com

Follow each other. Do the DMs 😊
September 19, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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gamedesigndan.bsky.social
So annoying in golf when you're right by the hole and have to take another swing - and that's putting it lightly.
September 17, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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mixolumia.com
all my life i've dreamed of dealing +3% damage to enemies afflicted with poison
September 17, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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spudonkey.bsky.social
Something for all the new people following me from the mecha bluesky artist pack. I swear I shall return to mechas one day, a lot of Fool King right now. 😅
If we sell enough copies maybe mecha game next!
September 16, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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skymagpie.bsky.social
I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰
September 16, 2026 at 5:17 PM
bumbleborn.com
I've never seen crunch result in better work. Often I've seen the opposite, because management was so poor that it resulted in crunch, the work done during crunch ended up being thrown out because it was planned in an impulsive (badly managed) way

it's just really dumb
speedyjx.bsky.social Jaime Cross @speedyjx.bsky.social · 5d
I really REALLY need game devs, and especially those who are in higher up positions, indie or otherwise, to clue into the fact that crunching away for weeks or months of a time is neither normal nor something you should wear as a badge of honour.
September 16, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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ramiismail.com
Make not opposing genocide hurt more than Israel works to make opposing genocide hurt. Make it hurt politicians' odds. Make it hurt artists' sales. Make it hurt medias' reputation. Make it hate platforms' revenues. Make it career-endingly devastating to stand there and "both sides" mass murder.
September 15, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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kenney.nl
I feel it's important to share this again. The internet is so hostile toward creators nowadays. I've seen people have their work stolen, and no longer feel comfortable sharing their creations. We can do better.

Let's be supportive to the people that make this a better place! 💞
September 14, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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jonkk.bsky.social
Some of these features, holy shit. I love this.
September 15, 2026 at 6:59 AM
bumbleborn.com
This is such a damn bop! I've mostly warmed to new zelda look tbh, not a massive fan still but I love zelda so damn much!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_jM...
A Link to the Past: Enhanced Soundtrack
YouTube video by Zerethn
www.youtube.com
September 14, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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beetlenaut.bsky.social
someone casually assumed I would be using AI tools on my new game, and I didn't realize how fucking offensive that suggestion was until it was flippantly floated at me

I make games; they need to be tight, performant systems. they cannot be "black box" tech. AI is meaningless in this space

fuck AI
June 17, 2026 at 3:28 PM
bumbleborn.com
I know it's not the same thing but every day I'm perturbed by the fact that if I had 20k - 30k a year, I could launch a decent game every 2 years forever and yet most games are somehow costing in the region of millions!

and I believe there's a lot of people that would apply to
jasonschreier.bsky.social Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 10d
The video game industry has always been volatile (I published Press Reset in 2021!) but the skeleton key to understanding the current state of things is this: Big games now cost 10x to make what they did 15 years ago but most do not generate even close to 10x the revenue. Simple as that
September 11, 2026 at 4:51 PM
bumbleborn.com
I genuinely think games "look" bad now compared to this, not in screenshots or videos, but as games.

There used to be so much charming abstraction that complex mechanics were intuitive, now you need a bucket of yellow paint to get someone to walk down a corridor 😞
lyssahh.bsky.social lyssa ✨ @lyssahh.bsky.social · 11d
As much as I am impressed by modern game graphics, I sincerely miss the charm of old blocky models and environments. If anyone makes a game that looks like harvest moon 64 I would buy it immediately
September 11, 2026 at 12:27 PM
bumbleborn.com
I always wondered how they made a proc gen system for placing the floating brush stroke alpha cards in Keeper, cause it seemed so authored and crafted...

The secret is (as usual) they just hand-placed them, by hand, with their hands.
youtu.be/1OOfRTfMnx0?...
The Making Of Double Fine's Keeper
YouTube video by Double Fine
youtu.be
September 11, 2026 at 11:03 AM
bumbleborn.com
Really sad to see, layoffs are brutal and I hope everyone lands on their feet.

The biggest thing I have always believed in when it comes to the success of a game is residuals, so it's nice to see that's planned for team members that are let go.

KO_OP still setting the standard.
ko-op.com KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com · 11d
An important update from KO_OP.
With great sadness and respect, over the next few months KO_OP will be saying goodbye to 13 members of our team. This decision was made to ensure the survival of the studio, and we deeply regret its necessity and the negative impact on our colleagues’ lives. KO_OP has been making games for nearly a decade and a half, and our project funding has primarily come from publishers and platform partners. The games funding landscape has changed radically over the last few years, and unlike previous project cycles, this time we have been unable to secure funding for new projects while developing our current engagements. As with all our company's operational decisions, this one was made democratically, and was motivated by the survival of the studio rather than maximizing profits. Our members are regularly updated on our cash flow situation, and were made aware of this upcoming shortfall well in advance. Membership then appointed a group to plan for this eventuality, and ratified their recommendations. Team leads and our elected executives will also be impacted by these reductions. We believe this level of transparency and accountability ought to be a minimum requirement for all organizations. Young Suns will be reaching new platforms, with new content and features. We're all tremendously proud of it, and hope it will find its audience. Our bylaws ensure that any profits from Young Suns will still be shared with impacted team members. Our goal now is to develop new game concepts and prototypes while continuing to support Young Suns. In the event that we secure funding in the coming months, our intent is to rehire as many of our colleagues as possible. In the coming days we will be sharing a list of impacted workers in the hopes of helping them find new work. We thank you for your support.
September 11, 2026 at 7:41 AM
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hypercubexl.bsky.social
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire

www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind? Guillermo Del Toro's reply: My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real. Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know? Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all. Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you. Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand? GDT: The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man. We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear. AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist. And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.” And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
September 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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harriorrihar.bsky.social
#portfolioday, I'm trying my luck again with my very old illustrations ⚡️⚡️⚡️
January 13, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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sasquatchers.wtf
Hey, get a load of the Playdate Update this morning!

Reason one billion I love the Playdate is because Panic always puts the focus on people, both inside the company and devs for the games.

And my game “Sound Mind” is finally going to come out in Season 3.

youtu.be/vmkhLH1xzSs
Playdate Update 10: September 9, 2026
YouTube video by Panic
youtu.be
September 9, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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indiana-jonas.com
I made a game for Playdate Season 3! It’s called Bonkhope!! (the E is silent, it’s pronouncer Bonkhop)
September 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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lubu.bsky.social
🚨 Playdate Season 3 Spoiler 🚨

I'm incredibly happy to announce that my Action-RPG/Dungeon Crawler Gloom Gate will be included in Season 3 for @play.date 💛

Honestly, it's a dream come true for me! ✨
I hope you all gonna enjoy Gloom Gate when it's out ⚔️

youtu.be/vmkhLH1xzSs

#indiegames #gamedev
Playdate Update 10: September 9, 2026
YouTube video by Panic
youtu.be
September 9, 2026 at 4:52 PM
bumbleborn.com
Hell(evator) YEHHHH!!
drd.dev DRD @drd.dev · 12d
Happy to Announce that #HELLEVATOR will be coming out on October 8th as part of Season 3!

You can grab it and 7 other amazing games here!
play.date/games/season...
September 9, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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makkon.bsky.social
oh yeah, it's all coming together
screenshot of a rock material that looks very hand painted
April 19, 2026 at 4:58 AM
bumbleborn.com
everytime I wanna post about OoT art style now,
I watch this again and I get in the crystal
September 9, 2026 at 10:28 AM