Joel Couture
@joelcouture.bsky.social
EIC of IndieGamesPlus.Writer for Game Developer and Siliconera. Formerly...a lot of places. Day job in assistive tech. I heart indie games! He/him.
Joel.indiegames at gmail
https://indiegamesplus.com/
https://joelcouture.itch.io/
Joel.indiegames at gmail
https://indiegamesplus.com/
https://joelcouture.itch.io/
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New jam game! 🌻👿 SLAUGHTERING CAN 👿🌻 Made in a weekend for #PEGJAM 2025. The theme was "An Unconventional Weapon", so I tried to make a watering can feel like a satisfying weapon. It's a small, loud, and silly little project. Try it here: graebor.itch.io/slaughtering...
February 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
New jam game! 🌻👿 SLAUGHTERING CAN 👿🌻 Made in a weekend for #PEGJAM 2025. The theme was "An Unconventional Weapon", so I tried to make a watering can feel like a satisfying weapon. It's a small, loud, and silly little project. Try it here: graebor.itch.io/slaughtering...
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CW grief & death of a loved one
my entry to the #36wordrpgjam is this business card game consisting of exactly 35 words, with the last one to be provided by you.
the title was chosen because those are the last words i ever spoke to him.
check it out in full:
naladraws.itch.io/i-will-see-y...
my entry to the #36wordrpgjam is this business card game consisting of exactly 35 words, with the last one to be provided by you.
the title was chosen because those are the last words i ever spoke to him.
check it out in full:
naladraws.itch.io/i-will-see-y...
i will see you later. by Nala J. Wu
35 words to help you let go, one word at a time
naladraws.itch.io
January 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
CW grief & death of a loved one
my entry to the #36wordrpgjam is this business card game consisting of exactly 35 words, with the last one to be provided by you.
the title was chosen because those are the last words i ever spoke to him.
check it out in full:
naladraws.itch.io/i-will-see-y...
my entry to the #36wordrpgjam is this business card game consisting of exactly 35 words, with the last one to be provided by you.
the title was chosen because those are the last words i ever spoke to him.
check it out in full:
naladraws.itch.io/i-will-see-y...
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alright y'all let's
let's just do this
SKELETON GELATIN, out now on adamatomic.itch.io/skeleton-gel... !!
🍮 World's FIRST "blobtroidvania" (maybe) (I haven't checked)
📉 No upgrades
💀 No HP
🏃 No jumping
🏆 No items
I do not recommend attempting an all-skulls run until you have finished a regular!
let's just do this
SKELETON GELATIN, out now on adamatomic.itch.io/skeleton-gel... !!
🍮 World's FIRST "blobtroidvania" (maybe) (I haven't checked)
📉 No upgrades
💀 No HP
🏃 No jumping
🏆 No items
I do not recommend attempting an all-skulls run until you have finished a regular!
February 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
alright y'all let's
let's just do this
SKELETON GELATIN, out now on adamatomic.itch.io/skeleton-gel... !!
🍮 World's FIRST "blobtroidvania" (maybe) (I haven't checked)
📉 No upgrades
💀 No HP
🏃 No jumping
🏆 No items
I do not recommend attempting an all-skulls run until you have finished a regular!
let's just do this
SKELETON GELATIN, out now on adamatomic.itch.io/skeleton-gel... !!
🍮 World's FIRST "blobtroidvania" (maybe) (I haven't checked)
📉 No upgrades
💀 No HP
🏃 No jumping
🏆 No items
I do not recommend attempting an all-skulls run until you have finished a regular!
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Happy 12th Birthday to Anodyne!! We have a little sale running on our store to celebrate, great time to get the Anodyne 1 Fan Book or T-Shirt!! Use the code "ANODYNE"!
analgesicproductions.bigcartel.com
analgesicproductions.bigcartel.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Happy 12th Birthday to Anodyne!! We have a little sale running on our store to celebrate, great time to get the Anodyne 1 Fan Book or T-Shirt!! Use the code "ANODYNE"!
analgesicproductions.bigcartel.com
analgesicproductions.bigcartel.com
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Gaming Freelancers! I've changed the way I commission paid features, and am using a dedicated Slack channel. Every month I will reach out to grow my pool of writers to call on for new opportunities.
Right now I'm looking for writers with NES and DS experience. Is this you?
Right now I'm looking for writers with NES and DS experience. Is this you?
February 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Gaming Freelancers! I've changed the way I commission paid features, and am using a dedicated Slack channel. Every month I will reach out to grow my pool of writers to call on for new opportunities.
Right now I'm looking for writers with NES and DS experience. Is this you?
Right now I'm looking for writers with NES and DS experience. Is this you?
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Keep Walking (Plasmator Games)
"Just keep walking. Something is moving."
PWYC to download / play on itch.io - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/02/07/keep-walking/
"Just keep walking. Something is moving."
PWYC to download / play on itch.io - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/02/07/keep-walking/
February 7, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Keep Walking (Plasmator Games)
"Just keep walking. Something is moving."
PWYC to download / play on itch.io - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/02/07/keep-walking/
"Just keep walking. Something is moving."
PWYC to download / play on itch.io - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/02/07/keep-walking/
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Keep Driving, our management RPG about life on the open road, is OUT NOW!
🌍 Explore an early 2000s setting
💥 Unique turn-based 'battle' system
🔧 Strategic resource management
👋 Pick up folks along the way
🚗 You’re young, you have time…
Available on Steam: s.team/a/2756920
🌍 Explore an early 2000s setting
💥 Unique turn-based 'battle' system
🔧 Strategic resource management
👋 Pick up folks along the way
🚗 You’re young, you have time…
Available on Steam: s.team/a/2756920
February 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Keep Driving, our management RPG about life on the open road, is OUT NOW!
🌍 Explore an early 2000s setting
💥 Unique turn-based 'battle' system
🔧 Strategic resource management
👋 Pick up folks along the way
🚗 You’re young, you have time…
Available on Steam: s.team/a/2756920
🌍 Explore an early 2000s setting
💥 Unique turn-based 'battle' system
🔧 Strategic resource management
👋 Pick up folks along the way
🚗 You’re young, you have time…
Available on Steam: s.team/a/2756920
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🏁Nightmare Kart: THE OLD KARTS🏁
➡️ Brand new FREE expansion!
💉 New mini campaign!
🏎️ New racers & karts!
🗺️ New tracks!
💥 New power ups & game modes!
📅 COMING SOON 📅
Press kit below!
#NightmareKart
➡️ Brand new FREE expansion!
💉 New mini campaign!
🏎️ New racers & karts!
🗺️ New tracks!
💥 New power ups & game modes!
📅 COMING SOON 📅
Press kit below!
#NightmareKart
February 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
🏁Nightmare Kart: THE OLD KARTS🏁
➡️ Brand new FREE expansion!
💉 New mini campaign!
🏎️ New racers & karts!
🗺️ New tracks!
💥 New power ups & game modes!
📅 COMING SOON 📅
Press kit below!
#NightmareKart
➡️ Brand new FREE expansion!
💉 New mini campaign!
🏎️ New racers & karts!
🗺️ New tracks!
💥 New power ups & game modes!
📅 COMING SOON 📅
Press kit below!
#NightmareKart
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New Mashina update in which I chat about the art and aesthetics and stuff. One week left! Spread the word please. www.kickstarter.com/projects/637...
Update 6: Mashina Update: One Week Left! · Mashina
Hi there,Jack here. We have one week left! This final week we're going to have a big push to try and reach that stretch goal! We have lots of updates planned so please keep a look out for them.Today I...
www.kickstarter.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
New Mashina update in which I chat about the art and aesthetics and stuff. One week left! Spread the word please. www.kickstarter.com/projects/637...
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How to turn off AI. 📌
Here to report that this morning I finally got frustrated enough to contact Google support so they would let me turn off Gemini and it was very easy and took three minutes, they're clearly used to this by now
I used this comment as a template btw: www.reddit.com/r/GMail/comm...
I used this comment as a template btw: www.reddit.com/r/GMail/comm...
OhMyInternetPolitics's comment on "How do I disable all Gemini AI features in Gmail?"
Explore this conversation and more from the GMail community
www.reddit.com
January 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
How to turn off AI. 📌
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Horror games starting off strong this year. Butcher's Creek is quite good, mix of Condemned and Manhunt. ~ 2 hours. Great creepy vibes, solid melee combat. store.steampowered.com/app/2512560/...
Save 15% on Butcher's Creek on Steam
A first person melee horror game where you use rusty tools to brutalize a gang of serial torturers in the remote Appalachian Forest.
store.steampowered.com
January 25, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Horror games starting off strong this year. Butcher's Creek is quite good, mix of Condemned and Manhunt. ~ 2 hours. Great creepy vibes, solid melee combat. store.steampowered.com/app/2512560/...
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Dale and Dawson has something going for it: an Among Us-like set in a staitionery company's office. "Slackers" have to try to watch cat videos and sabotage the office without getting caught...
store.steampowered.com/app/2920570/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2920570/...
January 12, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Dale and Dawson has something going for it: an Among Us-like set in a staitionery company's office. "Slackers" have to try to watch cat videos and sabotage the office without getting caught...
store.steampowered.com/app/2920570/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2920570/...
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BrokenLore: LOW is a first-person horror game taking place in a remote Japanese village haunted by supernatural entities.
Releasing on February 21st.
Releasing on February 21st.
January 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
BrokenLore: LOW is a first-person horror game taking place in a remote Japanese village haunted by supernatural entities.
Releasing on February 21st.
Releasing on February 21st.
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A Butterfly is now available on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/3439300/...
"The abyss called your name. You followed it here. Now you are its prisoner."
a poem about overcoming, surrender, and death.
🦋✨🌒🌓🌘
#GameDev #IndieGame #Dreamcore #Poetry #InteractiveFiction
store.steampowered.com/app/3439300/...
"The abyss called your name. You followed it here. Now you are its prisoner."
a poem about overcoming, surrender, and death.
🦋✨🌒🌓🌘
#GameDev #IndieGame #Dreamcore #Poetry #InteractiveFiction
A Butterfly on Steam
The abyss called your name. You followed it here. Now you are its prisoner. A Butterfly is part horror, part interactive poem about overcoming and bittersweet surrender
store.steampowered.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A Butterfly is now available on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/3439300/...
"The abyss called your name. You followed it here. Now you are its prisoner."
a poem about overcoming, surrender, and death.
🦋✨🌒🌓🌘
#GameDev #IndieGame #Dreamcore #Poetry #InteractiveFiction
store.steampowered.com/app/3439300/...
"The abyss called your name. You followed it here. Now you are its prisoner."
a poem about overcoming, surrender, and death.
🦋✨🌒🌓🌘
#GameDev #IndieGame #Dreamcore #Poetry #InteractiveFiction
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I've sent a load of press releases for Mashina but if you are a games press person or you know someone I should try, please let me know here or in DMs, please please pleeeaase.
January 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I've sent a load of press releases for Mashina but if you are a games press person or you know someone I should try, please let me know here or in DMs, please please pleeeaase.
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Castlevania Bootleg 'Castlevania Reincarnation' Gets New English Fan Translation Patch. (Repost)
Castlevania Bootleg 'Castlevania Reincarnation' Gets New English Fan Translation Patch
The Java phone title was released back in the 2000s
www.timeextension.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Castlevania Bootleg 'Castlevania Reincarnation' Gets New English Fan Translation Patch. (Repost)
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Faunamorph is OUT NOW on Steam!!!
Recombine your DNA 🧬, transform into animals 🐻🦏🐬, and find a way to escape the abandoned laboratory!!!
Thanks so much for everyone's support, and we hope you'll have a great time playing it!
Buy it now on Steam: https://buff.ly/3P9XCWv
Recombine your DNA 🧬, transform into animals 🐻🦏🐬, and find a way to escape the abandoned laboratory!!!
Thanks so much for everyone's support, and we hope you'll have a great time playing it!
Buy it now on Steam: https://buff.ly/3P9XCWv
January 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Faunamorph is OUT NOW on Steam!!!
Recombine your DNA 🧬, transform into animals 🐻🦏🐬, and find a way to escape the abandoned laboratory!!!
Thanks so much for everyone's support, and we hope you'll have a great time playing it!
Buy it now on Steam: https://buff.ly/3P9XCWv
Recombine your DNA 🧬, transform into animals 🐻🦏🐬, and find a way to escape the abandoned laboratory!!!
Thanks so much for everyone's support, and we hope you'll have a great time playing it!
Buy it now on Steam: https://buff.ly/3P9XCWv
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Gareth Damian Martin on creating Citizen Sleeper 2 without coding (and more) www.creativebloq.com/3d/video-gam...
"Game development is more accessible than ever": how Citizen Sleeper 2 was created without coding
Illustrator turned indie dev, Gareth Damian Martin's new game is built entirely with visual scripting.
www.creativebloq.com
January 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Gareth Damian Martin on creating Citizen Sleeper 2 without coding (and more) www.creativebloq.com/3d/video-gam...
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Seeds of Hope (MicroGiant, Joran De Pessemier, Tijmen Matthys)
"Create unique plants & heal your customers"
Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/01/20/seeds-of-hope/
"Create unique plants & heal your customers"
Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/01/20/seeds-of-hope/
January 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Seeds of Hope (MicroGiant, Joran De Pessemier, Tijmen Matthys)
"Create unique plants & heal your customers"
Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/01/20/seeds-of-hope/
"Create unique plants & heal your customers"
Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/01/20/seeds-of-hope/
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A GitHub repo with a English fan translation of Hideo Kojima's development diary for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty just popped up.
github.com/mgs2translat...
#gamedev #metal #metalgearsolid #gameindustry #kojima
#mgs2
github.com/mgs2translat...
#gamedev #metal #metalgearsolid #gameindustry #kojima
#mgs2
GitHub - mgs2translation/kojima-diary: A translation of Kojima's Development Diary for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
A translation of Kojima's Development Diary for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - mgs2translation/kojima-diary
github.com
January 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
A GitHub repo with a English fan translation of Hideo Kojima's development diary for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty just popped up.
github.com/mgs2translat...
#gamedev #metal #metalgearsolid #gameindustry #kojima
#mgs2
github.com/mgs2translat...
#gamedev #metal #metalgearsolid #gameindustry #kojima
#mgs2
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Pluma Familia (@sandervhove.bsky.social, Ben Lega)
"Grow a beautiful tail, build a family"
PWYC to download / play on itch.io - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/01/18/pluma-familia/
"Grow a beautiful tail, build a family"
PWYC to download / play on itch.io - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/01/18/pluma-familia/
January 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Pluma Familia (@sandervhove.bsky.social, Ben Lega)
"Grow a beautiful tail, build a family"
PWYC to download / play on itch.io - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/01/18/pluma-familia/
"Grow a beautiful tail, build a family"
PWYC to download / play on itch.io - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/01/18/pluma-familia/
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Very excited to announce that ASTERISM IS LAUNCHING 17th JANUARY 2025!!
Wishlist on Steam -> store.steampowered.com/app/2187450/...
Follow on Itch -> shimmerwitch.itch.io/asterism
Pre-order on Bandcamp -> shimmerglitch.bandcamp.com
Also I made a cool trailer check it out! 💖
youtu.be/mPYVPOZFems
Wishlist on Steam -> store.steampowered.com/app/2187450/...
Follow on Itch -> shimmerwitch.itch.io/asterism
Pre-order on Bandcamp -> shimmerglitch.bandcamp.com
Also I made a cool trailer check it out! 💖
youtu.be/mPYVPOZFems
Asterism Launch Trailer
YouTube video by Claire Morwood
youtu.be
December 9, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Very excited to announce that ASTERISM IS LAUNCHING 17th JANUARY 2025!!
Wishlist on Steam -> store.steampowered.com/app/2187450/...
Follow on Itch -> shimmerwitch.itch.io/asterism
Pre-order on Bandcamp -> shimmerglitch.bandcamp.com
Also I made a cool trailer check it out! 💖
youtu.be/mPYVPOZFems
Wishlist on Steam -> store.steampowered.com/app/2187450/...
Follow on Itch -> shimmerwitch.itch.io/asterism
Pre-order on Bandcamp -> shimmerglitch.bandcamp.com
Also I made a cool trailer check it out! 💖
youtu.be/mPYVPOZFems
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Bigfoot's Big Break (Just a Bee, Isaiah Sugar)
"Recent reports of Bigfoot sightings in the area sound very promising, and you're up to the challenge."
Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/01/16/bigfoots-big-break/
"Recent reports of Bigfoot sightings in the area sound very promising, and you're up to the challenge."
Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/01/16/bigfoots-big-break/
January 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Bigfoot's Big Break (Just a Bee, Isaiah Sugar)
"Recent reports of Bigfoot sightings in the area sound very promising, and you're up to the challenge."
Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/01/16/bigfoots-big-break/
"Recent reports of Bigfoot sightings in the area sound very promising, and you're up to the challenge."
Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/01/16/bigfoots-big-break/
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This is a fantastic read and I absolutely believe redubbing and re-translating SOTN is like spitting on the Mona Lisa
My original article on Castlevania: SOTN's original English translation is up at @polygon.com!
Based partly on an epic zoom interview I did with Jeremy Blaustein, who is still living & translating in Japan.
www.polygon.com/gaming/50682...
Based partly on an epic zoom interview I did with Jeremy Blaustein, who is still living & translating in Japan.
www.polygon.com/gaming/50682...
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night’s notorious English translation didn’t need fixing
The notorious localization effort is closer to art than a flub
www.polygon.com
January 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This is a fantastic read and I absolutely believe redubbing and re-translating SOTN is like spitting on the Mona Lisa