Talha Kaya
@taloketo.bsky.social
Making games. Turkish in London. ABIDE, Mashina, Judero, Wilmot Works It Out, Pill Baby, Soul Searching, and more: https://talhaandjack.co/
Ten years ago, it started with a game jam. Since then, we've poured all of our love and craft into every single pixel. Now, it's finally here: a wordless point-and-click adventure in a prehistoric world full of dinosaurs. Theropods launches August 20th!🦕
A side project is slowly taking shape. I’ll share more as it gets closer to completion. My friend @cemevin.bsky.social is helping with the code on this one.
Our heartfelt anime-themed driving game, Truck-kun is Supporting Me From Another World, is OUT NOW on PC/Xbox--and we did a singalong to prove it!! 🚶Hit pedestrians with your magic truck ⚔️Pay the soul debt you owe to the buff elf girl living in your head 🚚GO store.steampowered.com/app/3642010/...
I do understand in the current games economy publishers need to be risk-averse, but it does seem like they are often risk-averse in wrong ways. Some of their boxes to tick during their evaluations are not the right boxes.
Xalavier Nelson Jr.@writnelson.bsky.social · last wk.It's part of the reason I'm so disappointed by how "scared" games publishing has become. You never find this *can* connect with people unless you take the risk--and publishers want to do that less and less by the day.
You know when they announced this game I was like “this is some niche weirdo shit that is exclusively for me” I guess I underestimated how big even niche cultures can be. Kind of empowering to just do the weirdo stuff and you could still reach a whole lot of people.
Xalavier Nelson Jr.@writnelson.bsky.social · last wk.Two days to launch - and Truck-kun has crossed 100k wishlists! That's the most we've had since I Am Your Beast!! Please keep spreading the word--and thanks for supporting our weird, punchy little driving game. :) store.steampowered.com/app/3642010/...
Fans of our games may be interested to know that our long-term collaborator Richard Hogg has a new website up at www.h099.com He's done deep-dives into the art direction process for Flock & I Am Dead, as well as tons of assorted visual treats from his past work which should delight true Hoggheads
Richard Hogg
Richard Hogg is a game designer and visual artist.
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BEYOND EXCITED to say that ABIDE is receiving funds from the generous UK Games Fund 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 On top of the Kickstarter funds, this is very likely to mean the game has enough funds to ship without us having to make big compromises. ukgamesfund.com/ukgfnews/new...
Newly Funded Companies Announced - UK Games Fund
"Following the reopening of applications for the Prototype Fund, we received a strong response from highly talented teams developing ambitious and innovative projects.”
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walk is out now on steam! store.steampowered.com/app/4563880/... hope you like it <3
Here's a classic for Sci-Fi Cutaway Saturday: A 1970s cutaway view of a Toroidal Colony, by NASA artist Rick Guidice
Following @steamreleasebot.bsky.social is reminding me there is a lot of games on steam
Turkish game with pretty graphics
Steam Release Bot@steamreleasebot.bsky.social · 3w agoCelestial Return https://store.steampowered.com/app/2704090/ $11.99 Loot, bribe, gamble, survive. The dice will be your savior or your downfall in this story-driven RPG. Every roll matters when trying to uncover cosmic horrors and outwit megacorps. Pray your next roll won’t be your last.
Introducing: Brick Throw 🧱 A new games journalism website It's finally here!! 🎉 My first article on the website - a 45 minute read all about my favorite demos from Steam's June Next Fest. I'd love if you'd check it out, give it a skim, give some demos a wishlist, and let me know what you think. ❤️
My Top 15 Most Anticipated Games (from June Next Fest 2026)
Next Fest - a Steam event that takes place three times a year as a way for developers to show off early builds of their games to audiences in hopes that it will drive wishlists, hype, and feedback be…
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The only thing ID Software did wrong is working under Microsoft. Did you see how cool that last Doom game is? They deserve so much better.
VGC@videogameschronicle.com · 4w ago“Most, if not all,” of Id Software’s coders, 60-70 Obsidian developers, and more veteran developers have reportedly been laid off from Microsoft as the scale of this week’s big Xbox cuts becomes clearer. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/xbox-la...
This is the peak male form. You may not like it, but it doesn't make it less true. (Also wishlist ABIDE.)
Jack King-Spooner@king-spooner.bsky.social · last mo.So hot today, perfect day to trap myself in a small office and a big computer running really CPU and GPU heavy operations (making game) heating up the place even more
I don’t remember any Switch 2 exclusive game I bought since the console came out, but I did buy 2 new games for Switch 1: Tomodachi Life and Rhythm Heaven. Switch 1 is the console of the year for me.
Ownership of software is eroding fast. So what's the thinking behind Playstation's ending of physical? Maybe as they're working on a handheld device, they thought "there is no way I'll put a Bluray reader on this, this is not a Walkman for god's sake. Let's signal to consumer the future is digital"
So apparently there's a Godot For Switch port on the Nintendo forums? Like I thought I had to go with one of the handful of publishers or do it myself, but if I can just, go grab the open source Switch version of Godot? Holy fuk old.reddit.com/r/godot/comm...
I ported my Godot game to Switch 1 & 2 and Nintendo just approved it!
I’ve always designed my game *Dawnfolk* with handheld consoles in mind, so bringing it to Switch was a must for me. At first, I thought porting...
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That was a lot of fun, hope people enjoyed that. You can catch up with the stream on the same link if you want to.
D6 Learning@d6learning.bsky.social · last mo.Today at 17:30 CET join us for a live discussion on indie, weird, and artful games with @taloketo.bsky.social on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXr_... #gamedev #indiedev
Will be chatting (live) about weird indie games with Talha Kaya in 5 minutes from now. Watch and join us here ⤵️ www.youtube.com/live/kXr_6sd...
Talha Kaya on Weird and Indie Video Games
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Scrabber🪶🔞 (COMMISSIONS OPEN)@scrabber.bsky.social · last mo.Have been continuing with some fanart I started last month for that really cute @king-spooner.bsky.social and @taloketo.bsky.social game Mashina 🤖 If you get a chance I highly recommend this game as it's an adorable fun mining game I had a lot of fun with ☺️ #WIP #Sketchbook #fanart #mashina #robot
Go buy Judero - it's barely any money but it's a ton of fun & has great music & the boss fights are great & the writing is wonderful 😀
Jack King-Spooner@king-spooner.bsky.social · 2mo agoHuge 50% discount on Judero happening now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/1960900/...
