Joël™💜 - Indie Game Dev

@jdeepixels.bsky.social

(He/Him) 🎮 GameDev & 3D Artist @PixelGoatGames working on "Red's Revenge" and "7 Nights with Vroombi"! Red's Revenge- https://tinyurl.com/fjyvj6k4 Vroombi - https://tinyurl.com/Vroombi

By the time all is said and done, the majority of cool projects never go anywhere - safe bets often land nowhere, but the few times something courageous and weird makes it through funding (and we can agree or disagree on the merits, etc. etc.) it can become the biggest thing that launches.

Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%

Pie chart showing game engines used to create 10,511 GMTK Game Jam games in 2026. Godot has the largest slice with 47%. Then Unity with 34%. Other with 11%. Game Maker with 5%. And Unreal Engine with 3%.

CALLING ALL LOW BUDGET INDIE GAMES‼️ We're gathering games interested in participating in a "Low Budget, Big Heart" Steam Festival! 💰Self Published, Self Funded 🤏Under ~50k budget 🚫NO AI if you're interested in the festival sign up here: forms.gle/cndDrEf4rxiL... rts appreciated :)

Low Budget, Big Heart Steam Festival interest form

We're looking for interested developers of low budget games to participate in our potential steam festival! Self published/self funded games are also welcome. If your game had a development budget ov...

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There's a few slots for this if anyone wants free art for their indie game characters. Just drop a comment in that post with what you want and i'll get all that to Kristin till we run out of slots.

William Davis@willdavis.bsky.social · last mo.

Did something crazy and i'm sponsoring some art for #indiegamedev so if anyone would like a bust sketch of their indie characters done by Kristin in the below style please comment below. First come first serve.

3 more! I give you permission to bully your friends into getting Vroombi 🙏 (please dont haha but do leave me a review 😚) And if you missed it, Vroombi got a small patch yesterday! #indiegame #indiedev

Joël™💜 - Indie Game Dev@jdeepixels.bsky.social · last mo.

Eight away from 50! 😍 Check out 7 Nights with Vroombi and toss me a review will ya? So I can stop making memes :P store.steampowered.com/app/3992580/... Have you already played? What was your favorite Vroombi moment? #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

a meme asking for more steam reviews