I’ve been wanting to revisit the 1998 psychological horror adventure Sanitarium for a long time. After over 3 months of working on it, it's finally finished! Sincerely hope you have a good time with it. 🫶 youtu.be/msRVh8d6q7U

Sanitarium and the Underworld of Grief

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Series 2 of Malevolent, subtitled "Threshold" begins April 1st for Public and February 2nd for Patrons... youtu.be/vPTri2Vihh0 Trailer by: @jametc.bsky.social @thirdchildart.bsky.social @shnikkles.bsky.social

Malevolent: Threshold Trailer

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@malevolent.ca btw, don't know if you're listening to azathoth blues, but I think it might be up your alley. :)

I launched a Kickstarter for Shutter Story but it went under the radar! It's a horror game about revealing and categorizing signs of the paranormal in a family's photographs 📸 Kickstarter link below. RTs, support appreciated 🖤 #indiegame

What if there were a better way to discover new games? 🌎Explore a universe of games. 🎯Bigger cards = most similar. 📚Card behaviour = genre. 🍿Click = trailers and screenshots. 💰Flip = game details and price. Ludocene subscribers are testing the prototype this month: www.ludocene.com/subscription

Esoteric Ebb

Lovely view from here

'Esoteric Ebb' Reviews: DualShockers 9/10 ThreeTwoPlay 4.5/5 RPG Fan 83 COGconnected 90 CGMagazine 9.5/10 IGN DE 8/10 OC 88: opencritic.com/game/20180/e... MC 88: www.metacritic.com/game/esoteri... (Just to be transparent, I received a key for Esoteric Ebb.)

Small joys

Still cannot believe I'm hosting the IGFs at GDC this year. The IGFs are THE show I've looked up to for my entire career! But I'm not doing it alone! I've assembled collaborators and presenters who I deeply admire and are the ones making the indie dev community the best damn community on earth

I did want to be able to lick the gems for good luck, but it's also fun to see people discover Jake's puzzle type - having enjoyed his other games I love to see people experiencing it for the first time.

Night Signal Entertainment@nightsignalentertainment.com · 5mo ago

"Forbidden Solitaire is solitaire if you could cheat by shoving gems into your hand because an eyeball told you to." - Tyler Colp, PC Gamer 💿PLAY THE DEMO: tinyurl.com/ywj43ptj

Coming up today: AMA with the ROUTINE devs. ► When: TODAY at 18:00 GMT | 19:00 CET | 10:00 PT ► Where: r/Games subreddit - www.reddit.com/r/Games/comm... Join Lunar Software and leave your questions about ROUTINE. See you there.

The time has come for our newest trailer. Luna Abyss - Coming 2026. Wishlist on Steam now: https://bit.ly/4oxGIjO #LunaAbyss🌑 #indiegame #indiedev

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Very much looking forward to this. The crew are amazing.

Upstream Arcade@upstreamarcade.com · 8mo ago

Launch date update! Wed December 3rd 2025! Sky Skater is a minimal, chillout hover skate toy with a score attack mode to stretch your skills. Think Back to the future 2 meets Chopper from 2000A.D (yes, we're old). Add it to your collection and be ready to soar! upstreamarcade.itch.io/sky-skater

Indie Recommendation: The Séance of Blake Manor From out of nowhere comes one of 2025's best games - a murder-mystery set in 19th Century Ireland with outstanding writing, smart investigation systems, ravens, ghosts, druids and more. WATCH: youtu.be/0WQlXo0hjlY (by @spookydoorway.bsky.social)

Danny's Game of 2025? The Seance of Blake Manor is Fantastic!

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I reviewed The Seance of Blake Manor by @spookydoorway.bsky.social and absolutely adored it. Interesting procedural detective work, folk horror, Irish mythology, colonial subtexts and jump scares!! 👻 www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...

The Séance of Blake Manor review – gripping gothic detective game steeped in mystery and menace

An atmospheric folk-horror adventure combines colonial guilt, spiritualism and supernatural chills in a tale of secrets and seances on Ireland’s haunted west coast

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If you, like me, are a fiend for deductive narrative games (Obra Dinn, Golden Idol, etc) then you must check out the tremendous The Seance of Blake Manor (out today), which has become one of my favorite games of 2025. Only caveat is that I ran into a few nasty bugs www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATH_...

The Séance of Blake Manor | Release Date Announcement Trailer

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Ouch but.... Not false. We need people to drop the excel sheets and get in early, get in and take risk instead of just being fucking middlemen. If you're taking revenue % - fucking earn it.

Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Look, it’s really straightforward to get a publisher as a new name indie in 2025. Simply do 95% of the work making and marketing your game, and if your metrics are trending towards almost certain success, a publisher will swoop in to promise the remaining 5%, deliver 3%, and collect 75%

This is tomorrow!

Johan Toresson@jtoresson.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The pressure is on! Let's see if I can cook something without saying bad words and get us taken off the air... Let’s find out at Charity Cook-Off! 📅 13 October, 11:00AM (GMT+7, Bangkok time) 📺 Streaming LIVE on Zlapped’s Twitch: twitch.tv/zlapped

The pressure is on! Let's see if I can cook something without saying bad words and get us taken off the air... Let’s find out at Charity Cook-Off! 📅 13 October, 11:00AM (GMT+7, Bangkok time) 📺 Streaming LIVE on Zlapped’s Twitch: twitch.tv/zlapped

Demo is live on #Steam! 🎉 Its taken me 2 years to get this far. Its been a long journey with a lot of learnings and now I'm finally ready for #NextFest What are you waiting for? Go play! s.team/a/3919240/ #GameDev #IndieGame #MadeWithUnity #SteamNextFest

This year has had a ton of indie bangers.... But what about next year? Post your steam page/trailer/site below and show us what you're releasing in the next 12 months! Reskeeeeeeeeeets welcome!

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For those interested I'm doing a slow ama on LinkedIn today www.linkedin.com/posts/jtores...

ok, so starting up this AMA. I'll be answering on and off during the next 12-16h. I'll try to be as useful as possible but if you're an expert in the field and feel like you have a better/...

ok, so starting up this AMA. I'll be answering on and off during the next 12-16h. I'll try to be as useful as possible but if you're an expert in the field and feel like you have a better/different an...

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GDC has always been ass, and GDC now trying to further impose control outside moscone to strangle out side events is a sure sign that it's not going to get better. If you're a dev, this sheet is free and will have a higher impact than paying money to go to sf docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Alan's Gamedev Resources Sheet (Public)

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Kyle Orland@kyleor.land · 11mo ago

Are you or someone you know skipping GDC (or considering doing so) because of worries about coming to the US/San Francisco in the current environment? If so, I want to hear from you for a piece. DM me here or kyle DOT orland AT arstechnica DOT com. Please spread the word

If you like your mystery games with a big fuckin bag of actual deduction based detective work... Get in! Scratch your head and get your nice pens out folks! Time to take notes!!!

The Séance of Blake Manor - OUT NOW!🔮@blakemanorgame.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The Séance of Blake Manor has a launch date! 🥳 You will be able to check-in and begin your investigations on 27 October 2025! bit.ly/TheS%C3%A9an...

Sequel to No, I'm not a human: It's just a face mom, I'll grow out of it

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Again, if you're a games publisher/investor scout (or do scout work for relevant funding sources), let me know. Retweets appreciated! bsky.app/profile/did:...

If you see me in Köln next week after 1900, yes I'll probably have a kölsch if it's close by and I'm not running late to a dinner.