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Chris O'Shea

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Indie making games for the whole family to play together as Cowly Owl. @chrisoshea on Twitter www.chrisoshea.org

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ANNOUNCEMENT INCOMING!

Card Crawl 2 will release on the 26th of March 2026,
on the App Store and Google Play.

🍻 Pre-Orders available NOW! 🍻

Card Crawl 2 App Store Pre-Order: apps.apple.com/us/app/card-...

Card Crawl 2 Google Play Pre-Order: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

07.03.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

It's great isn't it? I finished all the rooms, but I missed collecting two of the secret thingies, so I couldn't get all the way to the top 😒 will have to play again later to try again.

09.03.2026 08:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Indie games are turning the act of looking into an art Seek and find.

Really wonderful article by @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social on Hidden Folks and the sub-genre Sylvain and I spawned and on making searching games in general!

www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

06.03.2026 16:54 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the first game I tried on pico8 and I spent over an hour playing it this morning, it's lovely. I had to go out and didn't finish it though, so look forward to playing it again.

06.03.2026 16:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've wanted to try Pico-8 for a while and watching this video yesterday made me instantly buy it....

06.03.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Great stuff Gavin, how time flies!

05.03.2026 13:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Roundup #023 - 25 years of Jamfactory πŸŽ‰ Hiya! How goes it? I've been celebrating as of late, as at the start of the month on the 6th February, it was exactly 25 years since first registering my domain name jam-factory.com, which means it's ...

πŸŽ‰ NEW BLOG KLAXON!! πŸŽ‰ blog.jam-factory.com/roundup-023-...

05.03.2026 13:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sandcastle on Steam On a sun-warmed tropical shore, quietly craft a mighty sandcastle. Carve moats, raise towers and walls, then embellish with driftwood, pebbles, shells and seaweed. Gentle tides, soft surf and a calmin...

This Sandcastle game by Fabien Weibel looks very fun store.steampowered.com/app/3216520/...

27.02.2026 18:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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MAJOR ANNOUNCE :

fuck AI assets, who needs that!
When ShipShaper fully releases it will come with fbx export and a license to use it in your #indiegame , mods, or 3D prints. No limits.

Try out the DEMO today tho and Wishlist #shipShaper

store.steampowered.com/app/4339280/...

12.02.2026 14:31 πŸ‘ 686 πŸ” 206 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 20
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I can finally announce that my little game, that I originally made for the Steam Deck, is coming to the Nintendo Switch!

#nintendoswitch #handheldgaming #indiegame #solodev #gamedev

25.02.2026 08:47 πŸ‘ 1490 πŸ” 116 πŸ’¬ 67 πŸ“Œ 8
Session: Quit Your Job… Then Join Duolingo? The Unexpected Journey Of An Indie Icon - Nicoll Hunt.
Session: Quit Your Job… Then Join Duolingo? The Unexpected Journey Of An Indie Icon - Nicoll Hunt. YouTube video by PocketGamerbiz

Quite an interesting talk by Nicoll Hunt (indie behind Fist of Awesome) talking about leaving indie life, going corporate and his journey to Duolingo (although the talk is sponsored by his employer, its fun) www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b_c...

23.02.2026 19:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pico8 is fun!

17.02.2026 10:49 πŸ‘ 507 πŸ” 71 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 1
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1 month of game dev in 1 minute:

04.02.2026 10:49 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Creating the Art of ABZU
Creating the Art of ABZU YouTube video by GDC Festival of Gaming

Ooh nice. Did you ever see the talk they did about Abzu? www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9NX...

05.02.2026 18:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I made a debug view to see all the colliders as meshes, color coded by mass to help fine-tune the physics and spot issues quickly

28.01.2026 15:26 πŸ‘ 127 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

Love it 🀘

26.01.2026 20:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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13 years ago today. Cooking up a little something that would become Surgeon Simulator at Global Game Jam 2013.

26.01.2026 20:31 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

mine barely make any money now, but i painfully keep them alive because it feels sad for them to be removed

23.01.2026 12:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Have you seen this guy? www.instagram.com/matthewsinst...

23.01.2026 09:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What a fun way to present your new game πŸ›»

19.01.2026 10:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ustwo Games is β€˜weaning itself off’ Apple Arcade and Netflix amid strategy shifts CEO Maria Sayans says the London studio is going β€˜PC first’ after Monument Valley 3 fell victim to Netflix’s shifting games strategy.

So @ustwogames.co.uk becoming pc first, not premium mobile makes total sense and I think is the right strategy. It's harder to build an audience of your players can get your games through subscription platforms initially. mobilegamer.biz/ustwo-games-...

16.01.2026 08:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I thought mobile premium games were dead, but iOS accounting for 35% of this revenue is pretty good (lots of Apple featuring support helps)

16.01.2026 08:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

try before you buy seems to be the defacto route for premium mobile games these days

16.01.2026 08:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Fool’s Errand β€” our latest game for @play.date β€” is out now!

Get it now: play.date/games/a-fool...

Learn more: www.iorama.studio/afoolserrand

12.01.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 1206 πŸ” 253 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 15

not only first 3d, first game controller, first native mac game πŸŽ‰

08.01.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Subscribed today to give it a go, congrats on the launch

08.01.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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For the love of plugins πŸ’œ plugins.audio is a place to discover thousands of audio plugins from the world's best developers. Browse by category, brand, year, and more.

@pkirn.bsky.social have you seen this Peter? plugins.audio (by - nicmulvaney.com/plugins-audio )

06.01.2026 16:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Meet Stickerbox: Creativity That Sticks
Meet Stickerbox: Creativity That Sticks YouTube video by Stickerbox

AI slop, you know, for kids www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxN-...

16.12.2025 09:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

yeah its lovely 😊 πŸ””

12.12.2025 09:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I sent 3 off to Nintendo to fix the drift, they did but the "top" buttons have stopped working, I think its the ribbon cable :(

05.12.2025 17:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0