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Six hour loop of Crumbling Castle, good to go

I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.

SUBMISSIONS FOR TALKS AND SHOWCASE GAMES FOR PIGCON ARE OPEN.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL but it *is* a very fun convention for indie game devs you don't want to miss :)

pasta power

If you wanna take a break from sts2, @jdag.bsky.social and I released a little baseball deckbuilder called Pinch Hitters for @pigsquad.com BYOG Jam last week!

Go check it out in the links below
#gamedev #GodotEngine #godot #indiedev

Next up: Xargon???

especially good one. especially good arc

Thought it'd be Spearmaxt but it blasted my buds to SpiceSpace and they haven't found their way back yet

Hey, the original dev team of those games was like, twenty full-time devs who'd been handed the Link's Awakening engine. I don't think you need to feel bad that you're "only" going at a speed you can fit into your life

big fan @manbearcar.bsky.social

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yup yup, it's an unlabeled Endless Mode finale instead of a proper winscreen. You know how jams be 😝

good commit names from the jam:

"removed My Dad from the pool"
"strongman works more like My Dad"
"My Dad is back in the pool"

They still generate skeletons but they don't animate in correctly due to a web build thing, hoping to fix that soon

Daves was "have two of the daves skeletonize the third guy", lmao. I gotta check if the tell for that is working correctly on the web build. Web build!!!!

got em all right except the Veteran one, which it turns out is currently impossible due to a bug, lol

bugfixes coming when we have time 👍👍

we don't have achievements, but if we did, they would be named:
[ ] Like a Bat Outta Hell
[ ] Believe in The Dream
[ ] Found Original Dave!
[ ] Planet of the Daves
[ ] Veteran's Final Stand
[ ] Teach An Old Bone New Tricks

This is easily the biggest jam game I've ever been involved with. There's so much stuff jam-packed into this game

I got distracted. It's here
bsky.app/profile/jdag...

Pinch Hitters by joespacio Play in your browser

PINCH HITTERS is out!

⚾Customize your team!
⚾Discover hidden secrets!
⚾Can you defeat all nine pitchers?

Made in 17 days for Build Your Own Game Jam 2026
joespacio.itch.io/basedball

2 week jam game droppin in like ten minutes. it's good

Is it normal to put sidequests and split evolution paths in a game jam game

I think a lot of people conflate "wholesome" with, like, "inoffensive". Or "does not challenge me"

You can have sharp edges and be comfortable too...

kill all fake lovers

"Jumper low jump%" does sound like an interesting category

well that's all I needed to hear

Hey.

Tell people when they do good job.

When you like the stuff they make.

When you like the characters they’ve created.

The stories they’ve told.

Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time.

Trust. They don’t.

Tell. Them.

Like four years lmao

Refactored + simplified + deleted like 400 lines of code in the last week, feels great

Will do!

I got to play Horsey Game about a year ago at Vancouver Game Garden. It made me cry laughing from all the wonderful horses we bred

This is a really good group activity game, just watch it unfold