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Daniel Turner
@pointered.bsky.social
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Director at College Fun Games, @collegefungames.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy
Now making our second game, a point-and-click parody of Les Misérables... Wishlist now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4090610
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Daniel Turner @pointered.bsky.social · Oct 9
A point-and-click parody of Les Miserables? Where could I register my interest for such a thing??

www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...

#IndieGame #AdventureGame #PointAndClick #LesMiserables
Coming soon: Less Misearbles: A point-and-click parody of Les Miserables
An adventure game that's a loving parody of Les Misérables, complete with hand-drawn art and live voice acting.
www.kickstarter.com
pointered.bsky.social
Want a taste of the art, voice acting and humour we have planned for Less Miserables? Our first little game is just pennies!

store.steampowered.com/app/2994780/...

#IndieGame #PointAndClick #AdventureGame
Save 60% on The Protagonish on Steam
A short adventure game, where you don't control the adventurer. Play the side characters in a medieval village, and decide to help or hinder the adventurer in their mysterious quest.
store.steampowered.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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little-writer.bsky.social
Here are my top ten adventure games of 2025!
@wadjeteyegames.bsky.social @inklingwood.bsky.social @blakemanorgame.bsky.social @adhocstudio.com @dave.powerhoof.com @kathyrain2.bsky.social @blueprincegame.bsky.social @endofthesungame.bsky.social @grundislav.games
My Adventure Game Top Ten of 2025
The Point 'n Clicker blogspot adventure game reviews and playthrough posts by Johnny Nys
the-point-n-clicker.blogspot.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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mackeza.bsky.social
Every year I ask the Guardian's games contributors to come up with some lesser-known game recommendations, and every year I end up with a bunch of impulse purchases in the Steam winter sale

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
The video games you may have missed in 2025
Date a vending machine, watch intergalactic television and make the most out of your short existence as a fly. Here are the best games you weren’t playing this year
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
pointered.bsky.social
This potato looks exactly like the Kupier belt primordial contact MU69 Arrokoth

#Space #NewHorizons #Astronomy #Potato
On the left a dusty potato, with two large nodules connected with a thin neck, on the right a similar looking Kupier belt object in greyscale
December 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
pointered.bsky.social
Really important to keep drawing attention to this
mackeza.bsky.social Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 6d
Money and power are concentrating in video games in the same way as in the wider world. And games influence people’s thoughts and attitudes: the most powerful people in the world have started to realise this. I wrote about the state of play at the end of 2025:

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
State of play: who holds the power in the video games industry in 2025?
This year has brought us many brilliant video games – but as wealth continues to concentrate, and games are used to exert economic and political influence, we need to keep an eye on the top players
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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villainyvs.bsky.social
Have you missed any of the last 6 days of #pointandclickmas?
Catch up here!

7. 🐂 Feria D'Arles: buff.ly/swga2g4
8. 😼 Inspector Waffles: buff.ly/pPU8fDy
9. ♦️ Abscission & Carnival: buff.ly/I4pUm6F
10. 📜 The Will of Arthur Flabbington: buff.ly/p6YyiPk
11. 💎 The Crimson Diamond: buff.ly/f4PZW8x
December 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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collegefungames.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy
Our last Less Miserables #devlog for the year is up! Find out what we did, and what we have planned for the spring!

#gamedev #indiedev #adventuregame #pointandclick #rewind

https://collegefun.games/blog/less-miserables-devlog-december-2025/
Less Miserables #Devlog December 2025
I should probably do a end-year round up, but honestly this month has been so busy it can fill a post by itself! Briefly, this year we finished 3 months of art dev, went to Paris (!), did our first voice over recording session in July during the Edinburgh Fringe, made
collegefun.games
December 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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hollynielsen.bsky.social
Seeing gen AI in game dev and also seeing it pushed in education feels so bizarre. The outside influence in every insistence that it’s “essential” is so transparent.
jesawyer.bsky.social Yule Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 6d
I’ve been in game dev for 26 years and I can’t remember any other time where a specific tech was being insistently and persistently pushed on devs as a group in the public sphere.

Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?
voxels.ca Zach Soares @voxels.ca · 6d
My conspiracy theory about genAI in games blowing up more and more by big companies is that they’ve all got a ton of investors insisting they use genAI tools otherwise they(investors) won’t be able to bankroll em anymore
December 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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kanaratron.bsky.social
HEADS UP! Both of our award-winning indie games are on sale over the festive period...

❄️ Röki
☀️ Mythwrecked
The two key art images for our games. The first shows a group of characters on a sun-drenched beach, the second shows two children running through the snow at night
December 22, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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villainyvs.bsky.social
On the TENTH day of #Pointandclickmas Santa Villainy gave to meee...
The Will of Arthur Flabbington for one lucky winner on GOG or Steam!

🎄 Visit the competition link to enter: buff.ly/p6YyiPk
🎁 Winners drawn on 25th December!
❄️ @gugames.eu
#giveaway #indiegames
December 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
pointered.bsky.social
Three weeks since AdventureX, and the wristband is still on! It's being cut off today though, I sense my marriage is in danger...
A hairy wrist with a very worn, twisted and scuffed looking plastic wristband, green and white
December 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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askusaboutloom.bsky.social
I *loved* @collegefungames.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy's The Protagonish.
They have a new game spoofing Les Miserables starting soon, and their kickstarter is due to start soon:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...
December 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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amicableanimal.bsky.social
I got some more time to work on the code to make it simple to send colour data to the Launchpad... so I ended up creating two different rainbow effects. One that phases across the pads, and one that follows you if your draw a line on the pads.

Now to make a simple puzzle on it!
December 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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torreznoenter.bsky.social
Today is #PointNClickFriday and yes, I’m proudly hosting this week’s edition!

📝 How to jump into the fun 🧵
🔶 Share your adventure game in the comments
🔶 Explore new titles and wishlist them all

♥️🔄 Your support keeps this thread thriving!
December 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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collegefungames.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy
Our first short game is 60% off! Play an adventure game where you don't control the adventurer!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2994780/The_Protagonish/

#steamsale #adventuregame #pointandclick #indiegame
Save 60% on The Protagonish on Steam
A short adventure game, where you don't control the adventurer. Play the side characters in a medieval village, and decide to help or hinder the adventurer in their mysterious quest.
store.steampowered.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
pointered.bsky.social
Look what our art team drew in my Christmas card! Not entirely sure why there is a dead pig eating a frog? Should I be worried??
A crayon and pen sketch of a beared character in a red santa suit, with a pig eating a frog on top of a wrapped present. The words JOYEUX NOEL are written at the top and there is a green xmas tree to the left
December 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
pointered.bsky.social
Excellent pub-playtesting session for Less Miserables last night! Great feedback, and a few pints makes testers actions less predictable and better at finding obscure bugs!

#IndieDev #GameDev #PlayTesting
Behind head shot of someone with their hand on a white laptop, playing a game, with a tall mug of beer, and a smaller glass on a wooden table
December 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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gameconf.bsky.social
⭐️NEW Event Added⭐️

🔍 Glasgow Indie Games Fest 2026
🗓️ 11 - 12 Jul
🌍 Glasgow, Scotland

Register → glasgowindiegamesfest.org
Follow → @glasgowindiegamesfest.org

Find out more about #gamedev events at Game Conference Guide.
Glasgow Indie Games Festival 2025
An all-day event dedicated to celebrating the most interesting, the most moving and the most unconventional games from Scotland and around the world.
glasgowindiegamesfest.org
December 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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villainyvs.bsky.social
On the SIXTH day of #Pointandclickmas Santa Villainy gave to meee...
Foolish Mortals for one lucky winner on Steam!

🎄 Visit the competition link to enter: buff.ly/UYKZefP
🎁 Winners drawn on 25th December!
❄️ @inklingwood.bsky.social
#giveaway #indiegames
The image shows the cover for the game Foolish Mortals: Ghostly text appears in green along with a slightly shocked looking man with a manuscript in his hands, and two ghostly figures; a woman in fancy dress and a gentleman in a top hat. The image also conveys that this game is available to win in the linked competition.
December 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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yakwaxlips.bsky.social
These New Adventure Games Demand Your Attention Right Now

💋 youtu.be/R8r0nWsXgbo?...

@sparrowland.bsky.social @spookydoorway.bsky.social @mowlodev.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
pointered.bsky.social
Got to play this last night, was really fun but hard! Really good mouse control for your fists
December 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
pointered.bsky.social
Check out this handsome coo sticker on my laptop, by the amazing @clasticartistic.bsky.social! Available now in Leith Collective Livingston, Ocean Terminal and Fort Kinnaird, Edinburgh
A white outlined sticker of a handsome orange hairy highland cow, in a line art style, on a white laptop surrounded by a bunch of other colourful stickers
December 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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devilishgames.bsky.social
Hi #TeaseYaGame!

Mystery of Silence is a #PointAndClick adventure where William, a young writer in search of inspiration, enters an abbey shrouded in silence. What William finds within those walls is not just a story to tell, but a secret that should never be discovered.
December 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
pointered.bsky.social
Hi #TeaseYaGame! We are making a point-and-click parody of Les Miserables where you have candlesticks forced upon you! Follow for our Kickstarter launch next year!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...

#IndieGame #AdventureGame #PointAndClick #IndieDev
December 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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collegefungames.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy
For the last GameDevEd meetup of the year, there's a tradition of 'Christmasifying' your game for people to play. So, snow has come to Less Miserables!

#edinburgh #indiegame #gamedev
Outside the brick walls of a prison at night, cartoon style, with a prison guard on the left standing in an open doorway, with 'Well Claude, tonight's the night!' above his head, speaking to a convict in brown rags. Snow is falling
December 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM