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Layla Manley

@layla.gg

I work on clouds for games ☁️ https://layla.gg/

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Galactic Pirate Legend - Layla Manley

Also you can play it on my website if for some reason you don't want to use the itch version 😅
layla.gg/games/galact...

17.02.2026 19:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We did this full project in C++ with SDL and it ended up being very fun to work within the limitations of not having a full-blown engine. I am very happy with how it turned out! ✨

17.02.2026 19:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Galactic Pirate Legend by Layla, Star Banner Games, Vee, Crimsonn The FULL adventure of a space cowboy's journey of saving Nova Station!

NEW GAME JAM PROJECT: Somewhere in Space, a space cowboy must journey to Nova Station, where pirates roam free, to collect the 6 power crystals and defeat the evil pirate captain!
yeslayla.itch.io/galactic-pir...

17.02.2026 19:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Maybe I'll have to take you up on that offer sometime! 😊

12.01.2026 16:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You would think? haha

I intend to visit other places eventually, but I've been trying to know Sweden better since I'm an immigrant here and honestly pretty bad at solo travel. 😅

12.01.2026 15:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh wow! 😲❤️

That is a good chunk of Europe, very cool! Everyone I know from Poland is cool so I definitely want to visit some day! Denmark is probably one of the easiest countries to get to from where I'm at (Stockholm) so I'm expecting I'll probably just end up there by coincidence some day! 😂

11.01.2026 12:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Europe Level 0 Europe Level

I definitely need to visit more of Europe. There's so much here!

You can make your own map 👀
tenpages.github.io/us-level/eu....

10.01.2026 00:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Though it makes my lack of travel within Europe very obvious 😅

09.01.2026 18:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Map of US showing Michigan as lived here, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, South Dakota, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, Virginia, Florida, and Washington DC as Stayed Here. Then Pennsylvania, Indiana, and California Visited Here. Then North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Maryland being Passed Here. The remaining states are Never Been Here.

Map of US showing Michigan as lived here, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, South Dakota, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, Virginia, Florida, and Washington DC as Stayed Here. Then Pennsylvania, Indiana, and California Visited Here. Then North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Maryland being Passed Here. The remaining states are Never Been Here.

Map of Europe showing travel with all marked as "Never Been Here" aside from Sweden which is marked "Lived Here"

Map of Europe showing travel with all marked as "Never Been Here" aside from Sweden which is marked "Lived Here"

Fun little map!

09.01.2026 18:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
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Gave the house a nicer texture 🥰

02.01.2026 23:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Grandma is idling👵

02.01.2026 20:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Get well soon!!! 🙏

24.12.2025 12:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is that better or worse? 😖

23.11.2025 16:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

!!!

19.11.2025 22:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Silly"

19.11.2025 22:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

All good things must come to an end!

It's ridiculous we reached 507 positive reviews before our first negative, and even that one has nice things to say!

Thank you to all the chefs who've been cooking up unhinged omelets for a demanding chicken principal ❤️🍳🐔

19.11.2025 13:10 👍 43 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 2

I think some people don't know how seriously developers take reviews.

...or maybe they do and are just not that nice.

19.11.2025 13:02 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I Made a Game with My Friends in the Swedish Forest!
I Made a Game with My Friends in the Swedish Forest! YouTube video by Spelkollektivet

I went to the @spelkollektiv Halloween Game Jam!🎃

We made a short video documenting the experience here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxtS...

#gamedev #indiedev

13.11.2025 19:32 👍 19 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1

Today has been a fun day to work with cloud infrastructure... 🥴

20.10.2025 16:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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You can play our new Winter Burrow demo NOW and…

🥧 cook more recipes
📖 play through a new storyline
🪑 craft new items
🪓 collect new resources
🍄 mushroom gardening
❄ explore the winter forest & try to survive the cold‼

01.10.2025 18:05 👍 38 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 2

my new mottos for the rest of the year:
- not trusting the process
- crying over spilt milk
- better sorry than safe
- counting my chickens before they hatch
- chewing off more than i can bite
- building Rome in a day

30.09.2025 21:46 👍 159 🔁 15 💬 8 📌 0

These people are really awesome, check out their stuff!!!! ✨

19.09.2025 22:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Spelkollektivet

@spelkollektivet.com is a great place to work on your game in the company of like minded Devs, make friends and see the countryside of Sweden. It's the only coliving co-working place for gamedev in the world. And there are spaces to stay in the coming months.

Check it out!

www.spelkollektivet.com

28.08.2025 06:15 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 2

Spelkollektivet Halloween Game Jam 😠

11.08.2025 19:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just a quirky little comedy game with a bit of a surprise!

21.07.2025 20:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The You Game! by Layla It's the game all about you!

So I made a silly little game about YOU!
yeslayla.itch.io/the-you-game

21.07.2025 20:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

With the current situation of the industry, I feel like it's going to become even worse with money pulling out and publishers focused more on safe bets.

14.07.2025 21:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good article! Though love the irony that the article referenced talking about the precarious financial situation for queer indie developers is pay walled 😅 Still, it is interesting to see a phenomenon I've seen with my own eyes in the industry pop up in academia.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

14.07.2025 17:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

There's some more features I'd like to add, such as a better objective, but I probably won't have the time since I'll be starting the Midsummer Game Jam on Saturday 🥰

13.06.2025 06:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NECROKEEPER by Layla Strategy Card Game where you create destruction!

I put together a little card game where you create destruction for a jam! ✨

yeslayla.itch.io/necrokeeper

13.06.2025 06:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0