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Need a quick gift for a friend or family member that LOVES puzzles?

18.12.2025 21:39 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

It'd be cool if ya'll considered CIPHER ZERO (@cipherzerogame.com ) for the following categories!

• Game of the Year
• Best Approachable Game
• Best Challenging Game
• Best Puzzle Design
• Most Innovative Game
• Best Art Direction

I'm still so incredibly proud of this game. 💜

01.12.2025 21:19 👍 15 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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Save 15% on CIPHER ZERO on Steam A minimalist logic game. Can you solve for 𝒙?

CIPHER ZERO by @zapdot.com challenges you with 300+ logic puzzles, evolving worlds, and a reactive soundtrack.

CODE GIVEAWAY 🎮🗝️ What game pushed your brain the hardest? We’ll drop codes to some of our favorite replies.

Available now! on.unity.com/3K36zS5

#MadeWithUnity #indiegame #gamedev

10.09.2025 19:46 👍 22 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0

This is embarrassing -- sent that message with the wrong account (@cipherzerogame.com) can you add our studio account instead please? 🤦

05.09.2025 15:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
An image of four game splashes: CIPHER ZERO, LOK Digital, Strange Jigsaws, and Linelith

An image of four game splashes: CIPHER ZERO, LOK Digital, Strange Jigsaws, and Linelith

We're in the Rules Discovery Games Bundle!

Get 20% off on:
🧩 Strange Jigsaws (@flebpuzzles.bsky.social)
🔳 LOK Digital (@letibus.bsky.social)
🔲 CIPHER ZERO (@cipherzerogame.com)
🪨 Linelith (@cwpat.me)

zpdt.co/RDGBundle202

#GameDev #IndieGameDev #IndieDev

29.08.2025 18:34 👍 17 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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Cipher Zero is a logic game where the initial simplicity masks a snowballing level of fiendish complexity. — The Geekly Grind Minimalist logic puzzler Cipher Zero teaches you its rules without any conventional instructions.

Minimalist logic game @cipherzerogame.com from Ben Cole Wu and @zapdot.com is fantastic! Simple on the surface but ultimately quite complex. 9/10

Thank you @thinkygames.com for helping me discover this gem!

#indiegames #puzzle #Steam #pcgaming 🎮

My review on @thegeeklygrind.bsky.social --

01.08.2025 03:07 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
A screenshot from CIPHER ZERO done in minimal style, a varied color palette, and layered in textures. 

Inside a train, a booth's table is littered with random objects, such as a lava lamp, a camera with film next to it, an open CD players, an old school monitor with blue text. In the background, out the window, the background of a city and its pier can be seen.

A screenshot from CIPHER ZERO done in minimal style, a varied color palette, and layered in textures. Inside a train, a booth's table is littered with random objects, such as a lava lamp, a camera with film next to it, an open CD players, an old school monitor with blue text. In the background, out the window, the background of a city and its pier can be seen.

"Were we overly-ambitious? For sure. [...] We wanted our soundtrack to be dynamic in a unique way... and I think we succeeded."

Join Ian in how he wove the sounds of CIPHER ZERO into its dynamic score.

notes.cipherzerogame.com/posts/03-ass...

#GameDev #IndieDev #SolveForX #DevLog

28.07.2025 18:31 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 3
A table with several BGW pins, name tags, and a poster that says "this event is brought to you by Boston Game Dev!"

A table with several BGW pins, name tags, and a poster that says "this event is brought to you by Boston Game Dev!"

A photo from Made in MA. Manny Mallea is holding a frog plushie from the game Frogmageddon in front of a mounted camera. Its big frog face appears on the large screen behind Manny.

A photo from Made in MA. Manny Mallea is holding a frog plushie from the game Frogmageddon in front of a mounted camera. Its big frog face appears on the large screen behind Manny.

The Boston Indies Demo Night. A crowd of game devs socializing and playing demos outdoors in the evening.

The Boston Indies Demo Night. A crowd of game devs socializing and playing demos outdoors in the evening.

Our Make Games Make Friends event. A crowd gathered indoors is chatting and ordering drinks.

Our Make Games Make Friends event. A crowd gathered indoors is chatting and ordering drinks.

That's a wrap on the very first Boston Gamedev Week! We were totally blown away by how many people showed up to every single event, wore our pins and embraced BGW enthusiastically. Thank you to everyone who took this leap with us, and to all of our incredible organizers. Let's do this again!

12.05.2025 20:36 👍 47 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 3

⚠️ A scammer has posted several fake job postings for our studio, and has been setting up fake interviews for a Concept Artist and Video producer.

We are not currently hiring. Please don't give out your personal information.

18.01.2022 20:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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You know what the game developer on your list needs this holiday season?

Game ideas.

...they could probably also use this asset pack we made (and conveniently have on sale!):

bitworks.games

14.12.2021 23:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We just released Bitworks: Stronghold, a modular asset pack to build your own interior fantasy environments!

📦 Get it:
📘 Read more:

#madewithunity #unity3d #indiedev #gamedev

u3d.as/2hZQ bitworks.games/stronghold

26.01.2021 16:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Know any animators looking for work? Point them our way, please!

remotegamejobs.com/jobs/zapdot-3d…

09.11.2020 16:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We're happy to support AbleGamers and accessibility in games by sending a member of our team to become a certified APX! Get someone in your studio/team to join us!

eventbrite.com/e/east-coast-c…

14.08.2020 13:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Making games can be lonely, come talk to us on discord while we do it!

discord.gg/R8cWckp

14.07.2020 12:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We need playtesters! Can you help? Signup here:

forms.gle/CqjLT8HKQH8Tr2…

26.06.2020 16:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congrats to our friends at @spryfox for their launch of #alphabear2! We had a ton of fun helping with the WebGL port for Merriam-Webster:

merriam-webster.com/word-games/alp…

10.09.2018 14:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Join us in sponsoring a girl to attend the @BlackGirlsCODE Game Jam in Boston on Nov 5 -

bgc-bos-game.eventbrite.com

27.10.2016 00:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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With every new addition to the team, this set gets even more awesome!

08.03.2016 02:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We're pretty excited to announce the launch of the new @PleasantDreams site today!

pleasantdreamsgame.com

31.10.2014 17:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We're the Indie Game Collective, you probably haven't heard about us -- but now, you can!

indiegamecollective.org/about/

24.05.2013 17:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Boston Herald on the IGC:

bostonherald.com/business/techn…

29.03.2013 04:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Playing with some new particle effects for Ugly Baby:

youtube.com/watch?v=ipSU80…

14.03.2013 16:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Check out a playthrough I did of a song in the latest Ugly Baby update!

youtube.com/watch?v=63whnF…

02.03.2013 19:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you haven't done it already, @popcannibal could use your vote for greenlight:

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/fi…

24.11.2012 01:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New design for the site is up at Also, we're collaborating with @dejobaan on Ugly Baby!

zapdot.com

20.09.2012 12:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jack Lumber Review - IGN

fb.me/27uVBt9ap

28.08.2012 12:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was great to see so many local devs at the screening of Indie Game: The Movie last night! :)

20.04.2012 18:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hello World! :)

22.01.2012 21:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0