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catnetz.bsky.social
J. Den ✨
@catnetz.bsky.social
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Indie game dev working and 2d artist working to release my little game one day... Prototyping in Godot, productizing in custom game engine written in C.
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catnetz.bsky.social
Wishlisted it. Beautiful pixel art and looks fun! Can't wait to play it.
indieklem.bsky.social Indieklem @indieklem.bsky.social · 7d
If everyone shares this post, how long will it take to reach 7,000 wishlists?
Babayaga from another door the fawn from another door henry from another door steam chart almost 7k wishlist for another door
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
catnetz.bsky.social
Looking forward to Valve's Gabe Cube!
November 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
catnetz.bsky.social
For a solo indie working on my first game, is it better to try a smaller-scope game that "finds the fun" rather than a high-risk, years-long one? Thinking about pausing my current "dream project" and make a Great Conjunction game: howtomarketagame.com/2025/11/04/t...

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev
The optimistic view that indie games are in a golden age right now – How To Market A Game
howtomarketagame.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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pank0.bsky.social
Usagi Shima joins Steam's Animal Fest from Nov 10-17!! 🐰✨

Relax, decorate your own bunny island and care for adorable rabbits! 🐇🏝️

Wishlist Usagi Shima on Steam and check out the other animal games in the festival! 🥹🐶🐱💖

store.steampowered.com/app/3144010/...

#SteamAnimalFest
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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raphkoster.bsky.social
Game design is simple, actually. Except when it isn't. Here are the 12 things you need to know.
Game design is simple, actually
So, let’s just walk through the whole thing, end to end. Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design. One: Fun There are a lot of things people call “fun.” But most of them are not useful for getting better at making games, which is usually why people read articles like this. The fun of a bit of confetti exploding in front of you, and the fun of excruciating pain and risk to life and limb as you free climb a cliff are just not usefully paired together.
www.raphkoster.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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phineas.bsky.social
New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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raptor.on.computer
this 5 minute doodle that I drew on a post-it note is superior to AI art in soul, skill, originality and personality

ANYTHING that you create yourself is

✨️ fuck ai ✨️
a loose doodle of a raptor with the text 'I dont use AI because I'm not a fucking loser'
October 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
catnetz.bsky.social
A useful little gdscript function to crossfade sprites.

gist is here: gist.github.com/jwel/4beb5ae...

#godot #gamedev
crossfade_sprites gdscript function that fades in a sprite and fades out another in parallel.
August 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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victoriatran.bsky.social
Phew busy morning. Gonna highlight things I'm part of!

First: NEVERWAY IN A NINTENDO INDIE WORLD. RELEASES IN 2026!

Sooo happy to have them as part of @outersloth.com and loved that @saint11.art and @isadora.codes did their presentation in Brazilian Portuguese. So cool!!

💜 @coldbloodinc.studio
August 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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ellemyuurei.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gJK... japanese version of the vid of our game...... KOYASU NARRATING...... IM GOING TO EXPLODE IDK HOW TO WORK TODAY I
Neverway [Indie World 2025.8.7]
YouTube video by Nintendo 公式チャンネル
www.youtube.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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badpantssituation.bsky.social
A highly optimized rogue build SHREDDING little ASCII monsters #indiedev #indiegamedev #gamedev #indiegame #indiegaming #roguelike
June 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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byobattleship.bsky.social
Announcing TORMENT HEXUS, a match-3 roguelike about putting technofascist CEOs on the wrong side of skyscraper windows!

Please spread the word, and wishlist on Steam at store.steampowered.com/app/3238420/...

And remember: they SHOULD be afraid of us.
#indiedev #indiegame
March 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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noelfb.bsky.social
I've been making video games in some form for 20 years, so I wrote an article about my process - and why I don't use an engine.

noelberry.ca/posts/making...
Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)
Thoughts, tools, and libraries I use to make games
noelberry.ca
May 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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noelfb.bsky.social
taking the subway (City of None with @liamberry.ca)
(metro map still wip / doesn't have art yet)
May 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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coldbloodinc.studio
You’ll grow things. You’ll lose things.
You’ll become something you don’t recognize.
Neverway trailer is out. Wishlist now on Steam
April 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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dmitrydeceiver.bsky.social
#NEVERWAY
April 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
catnetz.bsky.social
Spent some hours playing with raymarched SDF primitives and smooth minimum to render a humanoid-like thing out of blobs. It was fun but takes endless hours tweaking the math in the fragment shader. #sdf #raymarch #gamedev
April 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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aoc.bsky.social
Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.

This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.

Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.

And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in Denver Zoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background
March 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
catnetz.bsky.social
Had fun blending 3d SDF shapes. Now, making custom 2D Renderer for a classic roguelike. It's a single full-screen quad where fragshader renders tiles & sprites. Batches of quads likely not needed, although that would allow the pipeline to cull the vertices for me. Hoping to share screenshot soon.
March 18, 2025 at 6:59 AM
catnetz.bsky.social
@gameengines.bsky.social

I would like Custom/In-House Engine please!

I am building my engine in zig and OpenGL. Thanks!
March 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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falconeerdev.bsky.social
Stay safe folks travelling to #GDC these aren't the fun times anymore.
gleemie.bsky.social Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · Mar 1
CBP is detaining german tourist for over 1 mo because they accused her of intending to tattoo for $$ while in US. In jailing her to deport, they held her in solitary for 9 days, also kept her from her return flight Feb 15. She's still jailed.

CoreCivic+CBP ⬆️ 💵

www.kpbs.org/news/border-...
German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility
The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.
www.kpbs.org
March 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
catnetz.bsky.social
Finally was able to verbalize what Joe Rogan experience podcast's "business model" is --> Oligarch Laundering.

#oligarch #DOGE #podcast
March 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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kelseyhightower.com
They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.
February 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
catnetz.bsky.social
Post-Processing Shaders as a Creative Medium by @maxime.bsky.social blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/post-p...
Post-Processing Shaders as a Creative Medium - Maxime Heckel's Blog
TBD
blog.maximeheckel.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
catnetz.bsky.social
@gameengines.bsky.social
I would like Custom/In-house Engine please!
February 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM