one million dollars to evil transgender women

Why do I have so many weird tech experiments on my computer?? What was this game even going to be? What?

Splosh

As the saying goes never ever make games

Had a chance to play Key Fairy today, which is available now on Ludolio! Owl Machine's ink-illustrated, pacifist bullet-hell about a tiny fairy untangling a cursed forest, one of the best-reviewed indies of the year, now available for classroom and library licensing.

What Plato will NEVER understand is that I just like caves

Happy four year anniversary to our beloved Queer Man Peering. A game that completely changed the trajectory of our lives. 😘😘 It was such a difficult development, but after four years of working on Janet I’m starting to think that maybe that’s an ‘us thing’. store.steampowered.com/app/1711420/...

Queer Man Peering Into A Rock Pool.jpg on Steam

A joyful, strange experience in which a middle-aged queer man toddles around a strange island attempting to re-furnish his empty house.

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Go play some lovely queer games!

kc 💀 play TRUE LOVE'S CURSE!@npckc.net · 3w ago

💛🤍NONBINARY CODED GAMES💜🖤 is live on Steam! For International Nonbinary Day, we're showcasing 150+ games by devs who are nonbinary, genderqueer, & outside the gender binary! Take a look and see the spectrum of what we have to offer 🌈 store.steampowered.com/curator/4610... #NonbinaryCodedGames

After 4+ years spent tinkering, Bravest Coconut is available on Steam. It's a Point & Click Adventure with no pointing and clicking, taking the quirky puzzles from games like Monkey Island and mixing with the exploration and action of retro Zeldas: s.team/a/2913190 #Godot #PixelArt #IndieGame

Save 10% on Bravest Coconut on Steam

Bravest Coconut is a Point & Click Adventure game without pointing and clicking. Help Coco the cat as her quest to return a library book becomes much more complicated than she thought. Solve story...

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I saw something...

Almost all game genres need better names, and here are my suggestions: "Friendslop" - "Gaggle-Core" Modern "Roguelikes" - "Synergy Builders" "Walking Sims" - "Ramblers" "Soulslikes" - "Sad-Zone" "Cozy Games" - "Cottage Industrial" "Vampire Survivors-type" - "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh"

Enbyeon@enbyeon.moe · last mo.

Friendslop is a horrid name and it has the same energy as gatekeeping BS like "game for casuals" from the 2010s and "walking sim" for narrative/exploration games. It's shit that 4chan doesn't like so they call it stinky names to try to push the idea that a category of games is "objectively" bad.

Key Fairy officially has a 100% "Very Positive" rating on Steam! People have been saying such lovely things about the game, and we appreciate every review! The game is still on sale for the next week, so now's the perfect time to get in on this game that 100% of people like!

Ok, I think what I'm trying to say is that: YOU CAN'T "WASTE" A GAME IDEA! If you make the game, and it's shitty, and dysfunctional, and fails to achieve your goals, then there's actually nothing stopping you from making it again. You don't use up your idea, you get a better understanding of it.

Another year, another awesome @qldgamesfestival.bsky.social ! Already wishlisted my faves and wrote about them on BabyGamer! 💜

Queensland Games Festival 2026

a free, public exhibition of locally made games

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In case you couldn't make it to @qldgamesfestival.bsky.social like me there's a Steam Event featuring all the games as well as past years' selections! 👀 store.steampowered.com/curator/4563... #indiegames #gamedev

Queensland Games Festival 2026

Celebrating games and developers from Queensland, Australia

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Bumper Bout won People's Choice Award at the Queensland Games Festival ❤️ very grateful

I played a bodycam shooter, a genre that I've avoided. Being an FPS guy means always wearing a shirt that says "I don't actually want to do this in real life!" When I play a bodycam shooter, I feel like I need more shirts. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/th...

The problem with bodycam shooters

When guns aren't fun anymore.

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When people suggest AI has a place in game development:

Oh hey, I've heard that Key Fairy is on sale again. They tell me this truth, and I pass it on to you. Game Newel came down to my cave, and he told it to me, "Key Fairy on sale!" And I said, "woaw" store.steampowered.com/app/2878580/...

Save 40% on Key Fairy on Steam

Deep in an ancient forest bound by a bitter spell, a tiny fairy wanders. Wielding a spool of thread and a bladeless sword, weave through twisting paths to unearth enchanted trinkets, evading monsters ...

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I think I got lost...

Hey! Do you know the way to the fish market?

Going for a walk

I've been following this game for ages! It's so freaky!

Maseylia - Wishlist on Steam@solbrothers.bsky.social · last mo.

Studios didn’t hire me because I had no experience in gaming… so I decided to make my own. Here’s my first indie game: a 3D metroidvania called Maseylia - Echoes of the Past. It's Out Now on Steam ⬇️

Good game design is a cowboy, shooting at the player's feet to make them dance. Good design is a context for performance.

I do think there could be more public debate and dialogue, more spirited exchanges of ideas about what it is we’re all doing here when we review games. Tevis Thompson made IMO a very stirring argument 13 years ago and really, not that much has changed since then. tevisthompson.com/on-videogame...

Wesley LeBlanc@wesleyleblanc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I wish games media wasn’t so anemic that we exclusively praise (or stay quiet), only criticizing or arguing when one’s words are objectively bad (like genuinely harmful). I want more ppl to tell me I’m wrong & I want to tell you your review sucks & you to do the same & we all get better bc of it

I know this week is heavy. I know you’ve lost hope in the medium of video games. I know those brighter days where technology wowed you feel far away. but open this in your browser and bask in the enduring spirit of human ingenuity and connection messenger.abeto.co

Messenger

It's a small planet, but someone's gotta make the deliveries.

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Y'all ain't even ready for the sort of *GamE FeEl* I'm working with!

I made a manifesto for the Manifesto Jam: neighbourhood-snake.itch.io/what-game-en... Go ahead! read it! It's about you, ya filthy animal!

"What Game Engine Did You Use?" by Neighbourhood Snake

What are you, a cop?

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It's 2025, no more "characters" in video games. All your NPCs have to be Autobiographical now.

Can't wait to play the new Edgar Alan Poe cozy game