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Indie game dev 🇨🇦 It Consumes: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2371060/It_Consumes/

It Consumes is now available on Steam! It's a frantic arena shooter set in total darkness, where you see by beating your heart. - Roguelite and classic modes - Leaderboards - Extensive custom games editor where you can make your own game modes and modifiers store.steampowered.com/app/2371060/...

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It Consumes is a frantic arena shooter that takes place in the dark. See by beating your heart to reveal your foes. Choose your preferred playstyle with both roguelite and classic modes, or use the ex...

store.steampowered.com

It Consumes is now available on Steam! It's a frantic arena shooter set in total darkness, where you see by beating your heart. - Roguelite and classic modes - Leaderboards - Extensive custom games editor where you can make your own game modes and modifiers store.steampowered.com/app/2371060/...

Save 20% on It Consumes on Steam

It Consumes is a frantic arena shooter that takes place in the dark. See by beating your heart to reveal your foes. Choose your preferred playstyle with both roguelite and classic modes, or use the ex...

store.steampowered.com

What if I told you that all of the Publishing Agreements I have reviewed in the last 6 months (several dozen) included a no gen AI provision, wherein the use of gen AI in development is a material breach, but companies like Epic and EA are still trying to convince us the industry is cool with it

Austin Wood@woodwould.bsky.social · 2w ago

He's only gone and written 2,500 more words about how game devs feel about generative AI. Latest piece quotes around two dozen different people with an indie background. When asked how they feel about gen AI, not one, but two devs responded, "Fuck that shit." www.gamesradar.com/games/it-cre...

Do you hate GenAI? 🫵👀 Have you recently played a handcrafted indie game that you liked but haven't yet left a review for it? 🤔 Good news! By leaving a review, you'll be supporting the game you liked while also making these statistics even worse for GenAI! 🤗 Go leave a review on Steam today! 📝🐘

Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏@mrhands31.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Someone actually crunched the numbers, and using GenAI can decrease reviews for indie game on Steam (a useful proxy stat for sales) by as much as *58%* 🤖

For people who think that AI is inevitable or worry it is, I made starter packs of game devs refusing to use AI, and in less than 24 hours had more than 200 devs ask to be included. Creatives don't want this and won't use it. You just need to support those who won't use it.

What if instead of trying to forcibly invent the next big technical revolution... what if we paid devs and funded projects? The budget for this stuff could create so much THRIVING art. Imagine: more games! more weird games! more games that take risks! games that dont need to monetize aggressively!

Hear me out... Univerally praised games are neat enough, but nothing hits quite like something unpopular that speaks to *you*. So show-and-tell: Link and Explain a game that's UNDERRATED (sub-500 user reviews), UNDERRATED (sub 80% score) or BOTH (ideally!) that is near and dear to your heart.

ENCHAIN has already been out for almost 2 weeks! early access launch has been great. feedback has been super positive and thoughtful, from what I peeked at so far. thank you for the support! been on a break, excited to jump back in. I will start making the first update (QoL+polish) next week.

a bowhorn enemy, with large fangs and a bony frame, is perched on a stone platform in front of a large red and black rhomboid gate, with a monolithic tower in the background. a weapon pickup sits on a stairway in front of the stairway just off to the right. a dark blue sky overcasts the scene

Holy shit CICADAMATA is bursting at the seams with style. It's like it's from some alternate reality where everyone went all in on making sick as hell Jumping Flash type games.