Thank you to @thinkygames.com for featuring Vexcell! 🥳 🎉 For their thoughts on the demo and more thinky Next Fest recs, check out the article here: thinkygames.com/features/ala... #indiedev #gamedev #puzzle #puzzlegame

Alan Hazelden's Thinky Third Thursday — October 2025 (Next Fest Highlights) · Thinky Games

Welcome to Thinky Third Thursday, curated by Alan Hazelden of Draknek & Friends – a monthly roundup of thinky puzzle games that have caught my eye.

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Here's the October edition of Thinky Third Thursday, the monthly roundup of thinky puzzle games that have caught our eye: thinkythirdthursday.com/october-2025 This is an extra special one, marking the two year anniversary of this newsletter! This month we're focusing on games from Steam Next Fest.

Thinky Third Thursday - October 2025 (Next Fest highlights)

Monthly game recommendations from the puzzle experts at Draknek & Friends

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...levels, levels, levels...

gorilla marketing #parttwo #gorilla #indiedev #gamedev #demo

remember: sanding off all the rough edges leaves you with nothing to hold on to

Vexcell is taking part in GALM! #indiedev #gamedev #puzzlegame

I just remembered that we did the Key Art animation and scene transition of our demo trailer in Unity. 🤣 Mainly because I don't know how to use any of those fancy editing softwares.💀😭 Anyone else use this forbidden technique for their trailers?👻👹 #indiedev #gamedev #trailer

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Vexcell's demo now has a *positive* rating on steam!!! (rather than being unrated) Thank you so much to everyone who has played and reviewed! #indiedev #gamedev #puzzle #puzzlegame

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A huge thank-you to everyone who has played and reviewed the Vexcell demo in its first 24 hours! 💖 #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

New Gamedev Feedback of Vexcell and the birth of "Abstraction Core" games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB_1YDxxflQ

GDF: Vexcell | The Birth of Abstraction Core Games

Dive deep into Vexcell, an elegant minimalist puzzle game by Joseph Bremer, where intuition meets abstraction. In this episode of GameDev Feedback, we break ...

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🧩🧩 Vexcell's demo is out now! ❤️⭐✨😁🧩 Please, give it a try! store.steampowered.com/app/3943780 #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #puzzlegame #demo #gaming #sokoban

Vexcell's first demo comes out 💖TOMORROW💖 Wishlist it to get notified right away when it comes out!!! store.steampowered.com/app/3845510 #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #puzzlegame #demo #gaming #sokoban

the only software that should purport to be smarter than its users are compilers

🎉2 DAYS🧩 Until Vexcell's first demo drops! Wishlist it here to get notified when it comes out!!! store.steampowered.com/app/3845510 #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #puzzlegame #demo #gaming #sokoban

💖3 DAYS✨ until Vexcell's first demo releases! 🧩🧩❤️ Wishlist here to get notified when the demo drops: store.steampowered.com/app/3845510 #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #puzzlegame #demo #gaming #sokoban

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. — Maya Angelou #gamedev #indiegame #games #art #digitalart #artist #artwork #MondayMotivation

alway forgor to put hashtag in my posts 💀

**4 DAYS** until Vexcell's first demo comes out! 🎉🥳🧩 Wishlist here to get notified when the demo drops: store.steampowered.com/app/3845510 #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #puzzlegame #demo #gaming #sokoban

I'm happy to announce that Vexcell's first demo will launch in 5 days, on *August 29*! 🎉🎉🥳 Vexcell is a simple, unique, sokoban-esque puzzle game. 🧩 Wishlist Vexcell to get notified when the demo comes out! #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #puzzlegame #demo #gaming #sokoban

This feels ... Familiar #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

should I add more color palettes before the demo comes out? 🖌️🎨

who up refactoring they video game 💀 #indiedev #gamedev #puzzle #puzzlegame #sokoban

introducing soko the frog 🐸🐸🐸 #indiedev #puzzlegame #sokoban #puzzle #frog @mystybelle.bsky.social

Finally out of the bug weeds, getting to work on new mechanics+puzzles! 🧩😁 #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

I wrote this a little while back at like 2am. I didn't realize at first that it was in 5, and when I noticed I was like, "whoops" 🎹 open.spotify.com/track/0tWfUV... #OddTimeSignature #NeoClassical #AmbientPiano #IndieComposer #InstrumentalMusic #MusicForStudy #LateNight

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Avo · Tiny Piano Trax · Song · 2025

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recursion is made up by big stack

so tempting to make this whole game look and feel slick and minimalist and then have one of the pieces just be a super blasted jpg of a frog