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i make games and music and other things!

wishlist my game derelict star! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/Derelict_Star/

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gate @gate.itch.io · Sep 23
My game Derelict Star is coming soon!

It is a platformer about exploring and navigating tricky spaces. I hope you love it as much as I loved making it!

Available to wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/...
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yeah this is rad and super powerful! stuff like this and the fast bulk userdata math methods makes developing in picotron feel a lot different than pico-8 to me. super fun to play with!
lexaloffle.bsky.social zep.p8 @lexaloffle.bsky.social · 4d
playing with colour tables in #picotron
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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game slaps imo
ivysly.com ivy sly @ivysly.com · 16d
EVIL EGG is OUT NOW and FREE FOREVER on Steam and Itch. infinite twin-stick paradise, no strings attached. it's not your fault you were born a monster.

download on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3651950/...

other links below
#gaming #indiegame #indie
🥚👽👾🍄
October 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
gate.itch.io
made an assist menu for derelict star today. surprisingly all the options were pretty easy to implement. guess i had a good foundation.
October 30, 2025 at 4:33 AM
gate.itch.io
like a good roblox game in an entirely non-pejorative sense

i love a charge jump & i love exploring
October 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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brineleaves.bsky.social
ENTER THE PRISON

My survival horror game, panoptique, now has a Steam page! Watch the teaser and wishlist it here:
store.steampowered.com/app/4100350/...

#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #horror #horrorgame #gamedev #solodev #godot #godotengine
October 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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foone.bsky.social
For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin.

Here's the video of it running.
October 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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ellaguro.bsky.social
hey folks - just in case you missed it, we just decided to extend the deadline to submit to 2026 Experimental Games Showcase at GDC one more week! if you or anyone you know was thinking of submitting but ran out of time, now's your chance! www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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sylviefluff.bsky.social
Soon you will be able to Discover the World. Trailer music is Bloodlines Bequeathed from Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
October 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
gate.itch.io
remembering the time i sent myself an email while sleep walking at 3:30am
An email to myself with the subject "Evil computer output?" and the body "Evil part of computer output. Anything I can do when I'm not sleepy or is this literally made up?"
October 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
gate.itch.io
pretty happy w/ this interface for my in-game help/hint system
October 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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brlka.com
our big game has a demo in steam next fest!! please check it out if you like psychological horror, platformers, or me :)
LOVE ETERNAL Demo on Steam
Wander a castle built of bitter memories in LOVE ETERNAL, a psychological horror platformer with devious trials and an unsettling, experimental narrative. Find a way out - or live in Shelter forever m...
store.steampowered.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
gate.itch.io
two types of people
top review: 1/5 stars - "There is no help" bottom review: 5/5 stars - "this entire experience was excruciating pain. thank you"
October 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
gate.itch.io
this is very clever! i kind of love the implementation for the realtime projectiles!
benjaminsoule.bsky.social Benjamin Soulé @benjaminsoule.bsky.social · Oct 9
I finished the #pico8 version of clockwise knight ! You can play it here : www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=151...
#gamedev #indiedev How many days do you need to defeat Karnoth ?
October 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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hantani.bsky.social
Finished this great cave story review / historical context of it amongst shareware, doujin, and modern indie: syslbnth.neocities.org/htxt/cave-st...

Which led to a 2013 post by @ellaguro.bsky.social on the game corrypt & the discourse around its "bad" graphics
ellaguro.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-...
From the corrypt post, quote: It's hard not to see the magic in the game as some sort of allegory on human beings' never-ending thirst for more resources, and the irreparable damage it enacts on the environment. It suggests, especially taken with his other works like Vesper.5, that environments are delicate spaces that need to be accepted on their own terms in order to really be understood at a deeper level. These greater themes seem to be absent in the little critical writing that does exist about his games they're not mentioned anywhere in the Wired article, nor in this detailed critical reading, which focuses solely on the mechanical aspects of his games. The strangeness and beauty of the environments become a marginalized backdrop to a game seen as only remarkable from a design perspective-something the game even seems to mock with its flat looking aesthetics and its big, square block pushing and its few mock-JRPG miniquests in the beginning. From the cave story post, quote: "What's more, as indie games improved dramatically in quality over the course of the ensuing decade, the technical skill floor lowered by the first wave of hits would get raised back up in the end. You could get away with pixel art and chiptune now, but it had to be the pixel art and chiptune of a professional. Tools would be released to help control the ballooning scope of new indie games-Unity, Unreal, GameMaker Studio, and the, like. [15] But somehow this would just move the goalposts further. When these were released, we didn't make Iji faster and more comfortably-we made Hollow Knight."
October 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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juneflower.bsky.social
My lizardman game is out! It's free! Very happy with how it came out, if you give it a try let me know what you think of it. Most of all... enjoy swamps.
june-flower.itch.io/elbe
#gamedev
Elbe by June Flower
a life spend wading in drivel
june-flower.itch.io
August 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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ellaguro.bsky.social
legitimately don't know where i found this but this is great. perfect moody midi orchestra shit. this is what i wish oneohtrix point never sounded like tbh lol barchboi.bandcamp.com/album/feral-...
Feral Scape II :: Wolf Dragon .Midi, by Barchboi
26 track album
barchboi.bandcamp.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
gate.itch.io
anyone with opinions on which capsule art they like better?

(same as last thread but i made the option b title pop more)
September 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
gate.itch.io
hello please enjoy a song called "Mystery" from my upcoming game "Derelict Star" thank you
September 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
gate.itch.io
anyone know where i can get those indie game laurel hat awards?? i mean i don't want to call anyone out but SOME GAMES are hogging them all imo
legit award that says "good job gate you made a good game"
September 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
gate.itch.io
ok @ivysly.com i'm starting to cook!! it's tough bc i'm still having to learn new enemies. rush of a game though -- all flow state
September 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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farawaytimes.bsky.social
Had fun poking around this collection again after some time away, it's really a new gold standard for "classic freeware dev doing a super-loved-on collection of their old games"

if you like VVVVVV or Super Hexagon or Dicey Dungeons you should absolutely check it out, some all-time classics in here
September 26, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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modernmodron.itch.io
if you like silksong, play sylvie lime
if you dont like silksong, play sylvie lime

sylvie.itch.io/sylvie-lime
Sylvie Lime by sylvie
I've become a green lime
sylvie.itch.io
September 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
gate.itch.io
"worse than hollow knight" - my brother-in-law
store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/...
Derelict Star on Steam
A precise momentum-based platformer that emphasizes exploration and navigation puzzles. Run and jump your way through a wide variety of obstacles and challenges as you explore an abandoned derelict fr...
store.steampowered.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
gate.itch.io
maybe a late-game feature -- it does look really cool
September 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
gate.itch.io
yes agreed wishlist my game for sickos
store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/...
mixolumia.com davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · Sep 24
i think the most important thing an artist can have is a philosophy guiding their work, even if (maybe especially if) it's an obviously wrong and ridiculous philosophy
September 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM