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Rocket Adrift Games | Dead Finger Dice is OUT NOW!
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Three-person Toronto-based indie game developer. Developed #OrderaPizza , #RaptorBoyfriend , #Psychroma , and Dead Finger Dice on Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3512300/Dead_Finger_Dice_A_Billionaire_Killing_Game/
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Rocket Adrift Games | Dead Finger Dice is OUT NOW! @rocketadrift.bsky.social · Oct 24
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#indiegame #gamedev #deadfingerdice #roguelike
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linrocketadrift.bsky.social
Doing some style tests while also learning more 3D modeling in #Blender. Modeled Kei from Akira in this low-poly style.
#indiegame #gamedev #lowpoly
January 16, 2026 at 8:47 PM
rocketadrift.bsky.social
IndieCade awards festival kicks off today! Please show some love to these award nominees

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#IndieCadeFestival #indiegame #gamedev
19th Annual IndieCade Festival
Join us this January 16th - 30th, 2026 as we celebrate this past year’s IndieCade indie game nominees. Connect with the creators, play demos and featured games, and more!
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January 16, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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greyalien.bsky.social
Announcement: STEAM DEMO OUT NOW!

The early dungeons of Forbidden Solitaire are now open to those bold - or foolish - enough to explore them.

How badly do you wish to live forever? 👁️🩸
👇👇👇

store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...

Please wishlist and share - thank you!
#indiedev
January 16, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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houseofdarkly.bsky.social
Are you or someone you know in #gamedev an experienced game designer who also enjoys Job? Well, we have Job! Look at, share, consider applying for Job! Have a good time with Job™ apply.workable.com/jackbox-game...
Senior Game Designer - Jackbox Games
Jackbox Games is looking for a Senior Game Designer to join our team!Who are We?Jackbox is a mid-sized game studio (~80 people) best known for our Jackbox Party Pack franchise: a set of five social pa...
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January 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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cosmo-guffa.bsky.social
Missing the schadenfreude heydays when Luigi fanfare was all over your feeds? Maybe try this
rocketadrift.bsky.social Rocket Adrift Games | Dead Finger Dice is OUT NOW! @rocketadrift.bsky.social · Aug 5
In Dead Finger Dice, make important decisions like... which pallet to use 🎨
#deadfingerdice #indiegame #godot
January 11, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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baroness.bsky.social
Excuse me, we're supposed to be discussing ludonarrative dissonance, get on the page!
The Official Gamedev Discourse Calender by @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social January - ludonarrative dissonance is bad February - GDC is bad March - working for free is bad April - but are games art? May - the indiepocalypse is bad June - crunching is bad July - difficulty options aren't bad, maybe August - this game engine is bad September - this economy: bad October - Steam is bad November - Cliffski tweets something bad December - this Discourse is bad
January 14, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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indiecade.bsky.social
Congratulations to our Narrative Award Nominees! 📚

@meredithgran.com
@arteinteractive.bsky.social @wednesdays-game.bsky.social @thepixelhunt.bsky.social
@ho-games-studio.bsky.social @jeremyxho.bsky.social
@rocketadrift.bsky.social

🏆#IndieCade Awards Ceremony on Steam & YouTube Sat 1/17 11AM PT!
January 11, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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indiecade.bsky.social
Join us on Steam on January 17th for the IndieCade Awards with our hosts Sarah Elmaleh, Isla Hinck, and Elyse Willems!

Ceremony will air at 11 am PST / 2 pm EST.

Learn about the nominated games here: www.indiecade.com/festival-202...

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #indiecade #Awards #games
January 8, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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xavierck.com
Gamedevs in 2026 trying to develop games for $6000 potato PCs with 256MB of RAM
Peaky Blinders "no fighting" meme NO NORMAL MAPS NO FUCKING FANCY SHADERS
January 5, 2026 at 11:54 PM
rocketadrift.bsky.social
Starting the new year in Blender
#gamedev #indiedev #3dart
January 2, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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shawndoublea.bsky.social
Dead Finger Dice by @rocketadrift.bsky.social - Who hasn't wanted to play a sinister game of poker dice against blood-thirsty demon billionaires who’ve trapped you on their mega yacht?

I love the visuals on this one. I recently picked it up & you can too!

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Save 20% on Dead Finger Dice on Steam
Play a sinister game of poker dice against blood-thirsty demon billionaires who’ve trapped you on their mega yacht in this rogue-like dice builder.
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January 1, 2026 at 12:10 AM
rocketadrift.bsky.social
Thanks for another year of Rocket Adrift Games! New Year's resolution - to keep putting out fun and interesting games.
#newyears #gamedev #resolutions
A banner depicting a collage of game art featuring games developed by Rocket Adrift Games. Includes art from Psychroma, Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance, and Dead Finger Dice: A Billionaire Killing Game
December 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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corviday.bsky.social
put up a generic icon set in the shop, fleshed out from a set i made ages ago for a now defunct internal UI kit

set is pay-what-you-want and available both as PNGs and SVGs. want to make more resources like this, so hope this helps: store.corviday.net/products/ico...

#gamedev #indiedev #ui
A set of 100 generic icons.
December 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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knoebel.bsky.social
61 workers at Ubisoft Halifax have formed the first North American union at Ubisoft.

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December 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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caraellison.bsky.social
‘everyone in gamedev is using AI’ the business dumdums are using it to generate decks and write bad copy. They think it’s good because they think their basic lore ideas make a good game. that’s it that’s who is using AI
December 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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linrocketadrift.bsky.social
Here's my indie game in #15seconds

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December 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
rocketadrift.bsky.social
Steam Winter Sale discounts are available for all of our games. If you have been waiting for sales, now's the time to grab a copy!
store.steampowered.com/curator/4509...
#indiedev #gamedev #steamsale
December 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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delaneyking.bsky.social
As a gamedev of nearly 30 years, I can absolutely definitively say you do not need AI as a placeholder.

You know what we used as place holders?

Fucking cubes.

Grow the fuck up.
December 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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nixxi.mohilchock.com
Any game studio or publisher that pledges to never replace an artist, an engineer, a musician, a designer, a producer, or even a tester with AI, and/or to never allow AI to be integrated into their workflows will have my unending support - and more importantly my money.

Long live the real makers. ✊
December 17, 2025 at 12:54 AM
rocketadrift.bsky.social
We're so proud and excited to share that Psychroma is a nominee for the @indiecade.bsky.social Anywhere & Everywhere Narrative Award!
Learn more about the festival here:
www.indiecade.com/festival-202...
#indiedev #gameawards #gamedev
Pixel art of two young people sitting across from each other, hooked up to a cybernetic sci-fi machine with the indiecade nominee badge in the center and the Psychroma logo below it.
December 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
rocketadrift.bsky.social
relatable 😞
playswave.com Game Rumors @playswave.com · Dec 16
'To a T' shines as a joyful tale about not fitting in but also highlights the growing challenge of making experimental games in today's market.

Creativity is alive, but the indie scene is feeling the squeeze!

#IndieGames #GameDev
To a T was meant to counter the "downer" vibes of 2019, Takahashi says it "did not sell well"
December 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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johnryanwrites.bsky.social
1) AI placeholder stuff can easily end up as the final content.

2) Don't reduce your creatives to chasing AI slop when it would have been easier to just have a human make it.

3) Some of the best moments I've had in gamedev were the organic creation process with concept artists. Don't snuff that.
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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nathangrayson.bsky.social
while industry figures, dressed to the nines, filtered into LA's peacock theater last week, protesters chanted "the industry is dead" outside of it. despite how often geoff keighley says the game awards exist to "celebrate" games and the people who make them, many feel ignored
"We are the ones who poured our blood, sweat, tears, sanity, and health into these games,” shouted one who paid tribute to a friend who’d just passed, who he said loved video games and hated corporate exploitation. “The ones who made the games are outside. [Bosses and executives] are inside patting themselves on the back. ... And what was our reward? Many of us were cast aside as soon as the products were created because we weren't needed anymore. And those who were lucky enough to stay [now] find themselves debugging ChatGPT code." Some present had direct personal experience with the video game industry’s current layoff-centric strategy. Earlier this year, Timothy Staton-Davis, who attended the protest dressed in a grim reaper cloak and holding a plastic scythe, was part of a small round of layoffs at Brass Lion Entertainment, which is currently working on Wu-Tang: Rise Of The Deceiver. “There were a few of us they had to let go of because of monetary issues,” Staton-Davis told Aftermath. “It’s their first game. They’re trying to pull through. They’ve been negatively affected by the current industry situation in a lot of ways because of mismanagement of money. It’s not the studio’s fault, but from our partners and all that kind of stuff.” “My first studio gig was at Monolith,” he continued. “Now they’re gone. Unfairly so. All these studios I’ve been connected to have been negatively affected in some way, shape, or form by people not doing the right things with their money and taking advantage of folks.”
December 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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godotengine.org
Inverse Kinematics returns to Godot 4.6! 🕺

After a long wait, IK is back with significant improvements. Tokage breaks down the new implementation:
Inverse Kinematics Returns to Godot 4.6 – Godot Engine
Now Godot has Inverse Kinematics in 3D.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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mdashow.bsky.social
With Clair Obscur winning multiple awards for best indie game, does that label even mean anything any more? I love this industry breakdown which uses measurable data - not vibes - to break games down into 4 categories.
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#gameDev #indieDev #indieGames
By the way, what’s a AA?
Instead of fuzzy labels like 'indie' and 'AA', we propose a new data-driven system to classify video games based on their actual production scope. This new framework reveals the real economic and crea...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM