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Rianna
@vividfax.bsky.social
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Game designer & programmer ✤ co-organiser of Advent.js, knitwear designer ✤ prev Hollow Ponds, Stellar Cartography ✤ https://vividfax.itch.io/
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Rianna @vividfax.bsky.social · Jan 30
Shutterbug is still at the National Videogame Museum in Sheffield for the next 5ish months, complete with custom built bug shaped controller! Thanks for hosting us!!
nvmuk.bsky.social The National Videogame Museum @nvmuk.bsky.social · Dec 20
🐝 Introducing Shutterbug 🐞⁠
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We're so excited to be introducing the excellent Shutterbug to the NVM as part of our Illuminate The Play Christmas program
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The browser based bug photography game centres around taking pictures of insects when venturing out into the woods

thenvm.org/illuminate-t...
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patattiemurray.bsky.social
Look at me, I'm doing a marketing
December 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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tomnullpointer.bsky.social
Ok, Nearly the end of the year, and 6 months since Highrook was released! I wrote a little postmortem, covering some nerdy production info and my thoughts on what it was like to be an indie in the last few years.
www.nullpointer.co.uk/game-post-mo...
Indie Game Post-mortem - Highrook
A rocky road to Highrook So 'The Horror At Highrook' has been…
www.nullpointer.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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mtrc.bsky.social
No new @adventjs.itch.io from us this year, but hey - 2024 and 2023's calendars are still there, go follow along and enjoy all the surprises!
vividfax.bsky.social Rianna @vividfax.bsky.social · 2d
Last year's advent calendar had a whopping 29 doors worth of creative coding treats made by our lovely friends!

adventjs.itch.io/adventjs-2024
December 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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vividfax.bsky.social
Bad news: no new @adventjs.itch.io this year as @mtrc.bsky.social and I have both been snowed under

Good news: if you missed either or both of the last two years, we've got two months of creative coding wonders for you! Treat yourself to a door a day, or open them all at once, we won't tell ;)
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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doodledemmy.bsky.social
Some value sketches from a recent trip - it was quite nice to not worry too much about anatomy and just enjoy painting some fuzz.
December 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
vividfax.bsky.social
Bad news: no new @adventjs.itch.io this year as @mtrc.bsky.social and I have both been snowed under

Good news: if you missed either or both of the last two years, we've got two months of creative coding wonders for you! Treat yourself to a door a day, or open them all at once, we won't tell ;)
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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maxkreminski.bsky.social
😶‍🌫️ Remecarving: or, Forgettings

a collection of 829 computational poems, each depicting the gradual algorithmic *forgetting* of a sentence found in Wikipedia that exhorts the reader to remember

last-minute entry for NaNoGenMo 2025!

github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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celechii.itch.io
here's some that i have the Biggest Opinions About wrt the new designs and the software. i can make them feel like what using the programs feel like to me, and it feels sooooo good. i'll prolly draw some more and write up a blog post about my thoughts about each of them cause it was really fun :)
comparison between unity's default icon and mine. unity's is the big blocky cube with a big bold 6 pasted on top, and mine is a magenta square background with a default blender cube on to, positioned to have the same orientation and perspective as the old unity logo. it has 3 arrows coming out of the three faces in the left handed Y-up orientation. pasted overtop is the text "UNITY 6000" comparison between unity's unity hub icon and mine. mine is a grey folder with a big list of projects on the front, a ton of messy papers spilling out of it, and unity's axis gizmos coming out, over, and piercing through the folder comparison between unity's unity version control icon and mine. mine is a big shiny blue orb with the text "PLASTIC" written overtop. 3 small lines come out of the left and right sides comparison between jetbrains' rider icon and mine. mine looks a lot like their windows icon, but i've changed the text from "RD" to say "R-IDE-R", with the "IDE" being significantly bigger cause i can't stop myself from making puns
November 29, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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doodledemmy.bsky.social
🐟Trout Priest is OUT NOW! ✨

Piously strike down waves undead fish, and ensure Wallace the priest survives the night in this short, spooky action game.

demmy.itch.io/troutpriest

#indiedev #indiegame #short #spooky #atmospheric #combat #blackandwhite #new
Trout Priest by Dan Emmerson
Survive waves of undead trout as they crawl from the river, and lay them to rest.
demmy.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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doomquasar.bsky.social
This was such a special video to make, and I really appreciate the Consume Me team being so generous with their time and ARTIFACTS! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfaM...
How these indie devs turned teenage anxiety into a video game
YouTube video by Polygon
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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pyrofoux.bsky.social
Do you like weird puzzles? You don't mind playing the first experimental iterations of a game? Like this post and DM me your mail, I'll have a surprise in your inbox everyday of December 🎁✨
SCRIDDLE - the secret rules puzzle
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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mtrc.bsky.social
The theme for #PROCJAM 2025 is:

❄️ ☃️ COLD PLACES ☃️ ❄️

Brr! We selected this theme using a new method: I asked community members to send in theme suggestions, then we turned them into word vectors, found the average, and looked at the words nearest to that! A little bit of unpredictability. 🔮
November 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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finnjc.bsky.social
Blog that's been cooking for wayyyy too long finally out.
About considering the ways games intend themselves to be played, and how players interact with those intentions.

sandboxdunes.neocities.org/posts/Touchi...
Sandbox Dunes
Touching the Bounds
sandboxdunes.neocities.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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wednesdays-game.bsky.social
Wednesdays is ✨ free ✨ for World Children's Day in order to raise awareness about child sexual abuse.

Grab it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2747770/...
or Itch: artefrance.itch.io/wednesdays
before November 21th 9PM CET!
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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lootdonkey.bsky.social
We just published the latest update to our prototype on itch.
Involving a massive art overhaul and mechanics shake up -
lootdonkey.itch.io/fool-king
Fool King by Loot Donkey
Claim the throne in this tactical auto battler!
lootdonkey.itch.io
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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dodoot.bsky.social
Wait 🙌
New BUG LOVER bundle just dropped on Steam 💌🐞🐝🪲💌
November 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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patattiemurray.bsky.social
Just finished polishing up all the zines for Wax Heads 🔥😱

One of them below here shown by the fabulous Paul 👀❤️

#indiedev #indiegame
November 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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ninfadp.bsky.social
FRIENDS! 💛

My team at @bluebackpack.bsky.social and I just released The Berlin Apartment, the game we’ve worked on for the past 4 years! 😭💛

Give us so much love, wishlist and buy! ✨

store.steampowered.com/app/2280430/...
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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mtomsky.bsky.social
Tiny Earth Sprite, singing to the plants and soil.

www.martintomsky.com/shop/earth-s...

#art #illustration #woodwork
September 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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kellyknowles.art
me and whomst
a digital redraw of gustav klimt's "the kiss" where a green wireframe man embraces a demure android woman, kissing her cheek. classic windows 98 UI styled patterns adorn their clothes. the man's drapery features a bunch of overlapping windows, all with gibberish text and inverted colors. the woman's dress is filled with lots of different desktop icons in varying sizes.
November 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
vividfax.bsky.social
I'm having a lot of fun with Spooky Express. It's a really elegant puzzle game that feels a bit like actually being able to solve the seven bridges problem and a bit like untying knots in a very satisfying way
draknek.bsky.social Alan Hazelden / Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 21d
We've just rolled out a minor patch for Spooky Express which fixes a number of reported audio bugs, and some iteration on the initial onboarding.

Thanks so much to everyone who has played and given feedback (or left us a review) so far!

spooky.express
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
vividfax.bsky.social
I really enjoy when a person's such a huge nerd about a subject that they make a whole videogame about it. You can tell it's made with so much heart
alexvscoding.bsky.social Alex Johansson @alexvscoding.bsky.social · 22d
The Kaisers fleet approaches! Use timing, tactics and telegraphy to thwart the attack and learn a lost language. MORSE is now available on Steam, give it a play and start your journey into amateur radio!
store.steampowered.com/app/1976860/...
#hamradio #gamedev #morsecode
November 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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nachimir.bsky.social
MORSE is out now: store.steampowered.com/app/1976860/...

As well as keyboard or mouse, can work with actual Morse keys too; so, backwards compatible with hardware all the way to 1844
Save 20% on MORSE on Steam
Vanquish the Kaiser's Imperial Fleet using timing, tactics and telegraphy in MORSE, a minimalist strategy game that teaches you the lost language of Morse code. Can you change the world with the push ...
store.steampowered.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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noionart.bsky.social
puter
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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liamflannery.bsky.social
An overview of how to make complicated PowerPoint slides in our Windows 95 PowerPoint factory game.

You can sign up to the beta running in a few weeks here: subscribepage.io/C1erpq
#indiegame #gamedev
October 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM