On a more positive indie note, we had a wonderful time at MCM Comic Con / EGX 2025. Got to see some amazing projects and chat to some wonderful developers. These were my personal highlights from what I played. @vantasia.dev @otterweavegamesstudio.com @hawaiianshirtgames.bsky.social

FINGER GUNS 👉👉 GAMESCOM@fngrgns.bsky.social · 11mo ago

[FEATURE] MCM COMIC CON / EGX BIRMINGHAM GAME HIGHLIGHTS PART 2 Our second round of game highlights from our weekend in Birmingham is now live! fingerguns.net/features/202... @vantasia.dev @otterweavegamesstudio.com @hawaiianshirtgames.bsky.social @nyamakop.co.za

Wow! @mcmcomiccon.bsky.social was amazing - thanks to the brilliant #indiegamedevs that joined the Game Republic zone! #gamedev

Be afraid and do it anyway” said Raine from @vantasia.dev on our GR panel today with Dan from @infinity27.bsky.social and Marco from @otterweavegamesstudio.com at @mcmcomiccon.bsky.social #gamedev

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Very excited for this! It's my first time doing anything like it so I'm nervous, but thrilled for the opportunity 😄

The Saplum Cradle@saplum.com · 12mo ago

The Saplum Cradle will be getting interviewed by Kyodom0 on Twitch tonight at 6PM GMT! We'll be spending 2 hours giving a QnA and developer commentary for the game's demos, so come along if you have the chance!

The Saplum Cradle will be getting interviewed by Kyodom0 on Twitch tonight at 6PM GMT! We'll be spending 2 hours giving a QnA and developer commentary for the game's demos, so come along if you have the chance!

I'm happy to announce that a new demo for The Saplum Cradle will be available at the FORMAT LIVERPOOL Halloween Event on October 30th! Tickets are still available, and you can find my trailer for the event below. Hope to see some of you there! 😄 #liverpool #halloween #gamedev #madewithunity

✨🚨SALE ALERT!!🚨✨ GESTALT: The Fifth Day is under $5 on Steam rn, and with DLC it's still under $8! Play my horror game and the first game under KINJAKO, I love this game and love Wicke, so add it to your library right before Spooky Month gets here! 💀 store.steampowered.com/app/2616720/...

Save 20% on GESTALT: The Fifth Day on Steam

Wickeina 'Wicke' Gestalt lives in a haunted house. Trying to balance the stresses of life with the horrors of her home, play through a point-and-click psychological horror and multiple scenarios, wher...

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Finally set up a proper business email for myself! Looks far more official than my old gmail one, that's for certain.

Very happy to say our game will be at GaMaYo on the 13th of November! I've gone to this event before, but it's my first time as an exhibitor. So excited 😄 #gamedev #indiedev #showcase

GaMaYo - next GaMaYo 26th November 2026@gamayo.bsky.social · last yr.

"Exploring, uncovering, and surviving the remnants of dead worlds." The Salpum Cradle by Devroom-Vantasia showing at GaMaYo on the 13th November @vantasia.dev gamayo.co.uk/2025/09/26/g... #indiegamedev #gamedev #showcase

I think the type of person who unironically comments to claim on those "comment for good luck and fortune" type posts actually does deserve to have those good things happen to them theres too much cynicism and irony in the world now. i like seeing someone online act so genuinely

Point: "Penultimate" does not mean "super extra epic ultimate". Counterpoint: It *should* mean that, so I'll keep using it that way.

If you're in Brighton next week for Develop, why not swing by some of the unofficial social events going on? During Develop:Brighton, the city becomes a host for a vibrant and diverse selection of peripheral events. Find the list of fringe events here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #DevelopConf

The Unofficial Develop Brighton Events Calendar

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Bluesky is NOT Twitter. 🚫 On Twitter, you get high engagement for being controversial or inciting arguments. Easy dopamine hits, but empty ones. And that's by design. Everyone is trying to pop off and get "paid". It's soulless. You can't treat Bluesky the same way. INTERACTION is KEY. (cont...)

To figure out why something is bad, apply the word 'slop' to its genre, and work backwards

Very happy with the colour scheme on the backgrounds, but still need to refine the smaller details. #madewithunity #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Been going through the process of scaling down the rest of the art for my game into pixel art. A more painful process than you'd think, but the sprites look fantastic so far! #madewithunity #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Thank you so much for inviting me! Super excited to show my game off in July 😄 If anyone's in Brighton at the time, make sure to pop by and say hello!

Brilliant Indie Treasures@brilliantindietreasures.com · last yr.

Game Announcement! The Saplum Cradle by @vantasia.dev is a choose-your-own-adventure horror game about using the memories of the dead to scavenge lost civilisations. Tickets live at midday, on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brilliant-...

Finally managed to find a place that sells physical copies of my favourite manga of all time Helck and Vermilio I love youuuuuuuuuuuu 😭😭😭

highly recommend this form of iterative game design. it's been great for productivity

Devroom-Vantasia@vantasia.dev · 2y ago

undergoing important market research (polling my close friends) for a project im working on

undergoing important market research (polling my close friends) for a project im working on

I accidentally did old-school stress testing on my game, and by that I mean I fell asleep with Unity in play mode all night. The game still worked afterwards! That's a good sign 😄

Attended Leeds Games Toast today, a monthly meetup for a bunch of people all over the games industry. Learned a lot of great stuff and met a lot of great people, definitely going to make it a regular thing to show up 😄

Gonna be attending this today, very excited! With any luck, I'll be able to catch up with some familiar faces

Andrew Crawshaw@andrewcrawshaw.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you're a game maker, and in/around Leeds on the evening of Tues 25th February, feel free to come along to a 'meet & mingle' event I host every month. We usually welcome 40-60 gamedevs that spend the evening chatting and catching up. It's informal, friendly and no ticket required.

Anybody know any good 8x8 fonts that'd be fine to put in commercial games? I'm finding myself starved for choice recently 😭

accidentally stayed up all night coding for the first time in forever. safe to say that i've landed on a project i'm passionate about. with any luck i can show off some of the more technical stuff soon™.

The worst part about making a new project in unity is having to remember how raycasts work again. This was something only the me from 4 months ago should've had to deal with.

GameDev challenge: Find a way to hide a family recipe into the game.

Had my first game developer's conference today. Got an opportunity to talk with a lot of people from all over the industry, and the advice I received was invaluable. Feeling very confident about the direction I want to take my career now, and especially *how* I intend to accomplish that.