Dylan Ilvento
@dylanilvento.com
Game dev working on cool things at @ward-games.com | he/him | [email protected]
Trans Rights 🏳️⚧️ & Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Trans Rights 🏳️⚧️ & Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Pinned
Dylan Ilvento
@dylanilvento.com
· Dec 4
Hey Bluesky! It’s Ward Games, your favorite indie game studio. If you’re following us elsewhere across the ‘Net, you know we’re working on a pretty cool game: Project Lexa, a sci-fi mystery where you explore a planet where everything is written in an alien language! ward-games.com/post/what-th...
What the Heck Have We Been Working On?
A surprise update!
ward-games.com
Hello, Bluesky followers! In case you didn’t know, I’m making a game with a cool buncha folks and we just started talking about it on Bluesky. You should follow our studio account and check out the other devs working on it! It’s all in this handy dandy thread below 👇
Reposted by Dylan Ilvento
Thanks @botherer.bsky.social and @kotaku.com for including Project Lexa in their innovative indie games list!
Hooray! The first of the Thanksgaming 2025 posts is up on Kotaku, with an epic TWENTY unknown indies to check out!
I'm going to put up another 20 tomorrow.
Spread it far and wide!
kotaku.com/indie-games-...
I'm going to put up another 20 tomorrow.
Spread it far and wide!
kotaku.com/indie-games-...
20 Incredible Innovative Indie Games To Wishlist This Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgaming 2025 everybody! Celebrate with a huge pile of unknown indies to put on your radar
kotaku.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Thanks @botherer.bsky.social and @kotaku.com for including Project Lexa in their innovative indie games list!
Reposted by Dylan Ilvento
Reposted by Dylan Ilvento
Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
Reposted by Dylan Ilvento
Hooray! The first of the Thanksgaming 2025 posts is up on Kotaku, with an epic TWENTY unknown indies to check out!
I'm going to put up another 20 tomorrow.
Spread it far and wide!
kotaku.com/indie-games-...
I'm going to put up another 20 tomorrow.
Spread it far and wide!
kotaku.com/indie-games-...
20 Incredible Innovative Indie Games To Wishlist This Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgaming 2025 everybody! Celebrate with a huge pile of unknown indies to put on your radar
kotaku.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Hooray! The first of the Thanksgaming 2025 posts is up on Kotaku, with an epic TWENTY unknown indies to check out!
I'm going to put up another 20 tomorrow.
Spread it far and wide!
kotaku.com/indie-games-...
I'm going to put up another 20 tomorrow.
Spread it far and wide!
kotaku.com/indie-games-...
Thanks @botherer.bsky.social and @kotaku.com for including Project Lexa in their innovative indie games list!
Hooray! The first of the Thanksgaming 2025 posts is up on Kotaku, with an epic TWENTY unknown indies to check out!
I'm going to put up another 20 tomorrow.
Spread it far and wide!
kotaku.com/indie-games-...
I'm going to put up another 20 tomorrow.
Spread it far and wide!
kotaku.com/indie-games-...
20 Incredible Innovative Indie Games To Wishlist This Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgaming 2025 everybody! Celebrate with a huge pile of unknown indies to put on your radar
kotaku.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Thanks @botherer.bsky.social and @kotaku.com for including Project Lexa in their innovative indie games list!
Reposted by Dylan Ilvento
That's right, Project Lexa will be playable again as a part of Leftfield Collection, this time at EGX / MCM Comic Con Birmingham! It will be playable all weekend, November 28th through the 30th.
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
That's right, Project Lexa will be playable again as a part of Leftfield Collection, this time at EGX / MCM Comic Con Birmingham! It will be playable all weekend, November 28th through the 30th.
Reposted by Dylan Ilvento
If you missed us at EGX London, we just wrote about our experience demoing Project Lexa at the show! Thanks to everyone who played the demo and for EGX and Leftfield Collection for having us! And if you missed us, don't worry, we'll be demoing again this weekend! ward-games.com/post/takeawa...
Takeaways from Our First Public Demo of Project Lexa
Plus, Project Lexa will return to Leftfield at EGX Birmingham this week!
ward-games.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
If you missed us at EGX London, we just wrote about our experience demoing Project Lexa at the show! Thanks to everyone who played the demo and for EGX and Leftfield Collection for having us! And if you missed us, don't worry, we'll be demoing again this weekend! ward-games.com/post/takeawa...
Reposted by Dylan Ilvento
finished the new defunctland
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
finished the new defunctland
Reposted by Dylan Ilvento
What the hell? I have worked on, without hyperbole, literally dozens of games and NEVER had to submit a build for a coming soon page.
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
What the hell? I have worked on, without hyperbole, literally dozens of games and NEVER had to submit a build for a coming soon page.
Reposted by Dylan Ilvento
Do you find yourself exhausted by having to create titles, puns, and names for things in your games?
⭐ Here is my small suite of websites that I find super useful when writing! ⭐
(disclaimer: I am pretty confident these are all genAI-free. I've certainly been using them since before genAI)
⭐ Here is my small suite of websites that I find super useful when writing! ⭐
(disclaimer: I am pretty confident these are all genAI-free. I've certainly been using them since before genAI)
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Do you find yourself exhausted by having to create titles, puns, and names for things in your games?
⭐ Here is my small suite of websites that I find super useful when writing! ⭐
(disclaimer: I am pretty confident these are all genAI-free. I've certainly been using them since before genAI)
⭐ Here is my small suite of websites that I find super useful when writing! ⭐
(disclaimer: I am pretty confident these are all genAI-free. I've certainly been using them since before genAI)
I credit WoW for expanding my vocabulary so much, even if it was mostly in the realm of “medieval arms and armors.” Pauldrons, grieves, scabbards… these are cool words to know!
there is almost no feedback I will reflexively ignore as a game developer but “you shouldn’t name something X because people don’t know that word” is one of them. oh no! You might learn a new word! God forbid you take away a piece of knowledge from a game that’s not a brand of gun or some shit lol
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I credit WoW for expanding my vocabulary so much, even if it was mostly in the realm of “medieval arms and armors.” Pauldrons, grieves, scabbards… these are cool words to know!
Respectfully, please stop putting the Musk / Rogan clip on my timeline.
November 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Respectfully, please stop putting the Musk / Rogan clip on my timeline.
Reposted by Dylan Ilvento
Asking average Millennial if they've seen a TV show other than Avatar the Last Airbender and they respond "what? You mean like Legend of Korra?"
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Asking average Millennial if they've seen a TV show other than Avatar the Last Airbender and they respond "what? You mean like Legend of Korra?"
A four hour Defunctland video? 😩👌
November 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
A four hour Defunctland video? 😩👌
Reposted by Dylan Ilvento
Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
Reposted by Dylan Ilvento
psst, no one is struggling with this - we are trying to create singular things that resonate with a huge audience or resonate hugely with a specific audience. We "struggle" with how tech and VC funding has broken almost every creative economy we have. So thanks but no thanks
November 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
psst, no one is struggling with this - we are trying to create singular things that resonate with a huge audience or resonate hugely with a specific audience. We "struggle" with how tech and VC funding has broken almost every creative economy we have. So thanks but no thanks
Love that, on Google, the Game Awards site's highest surfaced navigation links include Future Class — an initiative they've shuttered — and the site's 404 page. This is a metaphor for... something.
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Love that, on Google, the Game Awards site's highest surfaced navigation links include Future Class — an initiative they've shuttered — and the site's 404 page. This is a metaphor for... something.
Reposted by Dylan Ilvento
Reposted by Dylan Ilvento
Are The Game Awards important? No
But they do showcase the best gaming has on offer? No
But do they allow devs to tell their stories? No
But do they highlight underserved indies? No
But at least it's not an excuse to show more ads? No
But they do showcase the best gaming has on offer? No
But do they allow devs to tell their stories? No
But do they highlight underserved indies? No
But at least it's not an excuse to show more ads? No
there are accounts here who apparently exist just to defend the Game Awards and point out its high viewership numbers. like cool - but it also sucks? lol. i don't know how "a lot of people watch this" is a defense of anything quality-wise.
November 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Are The Game Awards important? No
But they do showcase the best gaming has on offer? No
But do they allow devs to tell their stories? No
But do they highlight underserved indies? No
But at least it's not an excuse to show more ads? No
But they do showcase the best gaming has on offer? No
But do they allow devs to tell their stories? No
But do they highlight underserved indies? No
But at least it's not an excuse to show more ads? No
Reposted by Dylan Ilvento
there are accounts here who apparently exist just to defend the Game Awards and point out its high viewership numbers. like cool - but it also sucks? lol. i don't know how "a lot of people watch this" is a defense of anything quality-wise.
November 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
there are accounts here who apparently exist just to defend the Game Awards and point out its high viewership numbers. like cool - but it also sucks? lol. i don't know how "a lot of people watch this" is a defense of anything quality-wise.
Reposted by Dylan Ilvento
It's gonna be so funny when these two have to fight CG Mario in the Smash Bros. movie
First photos of Link and Zelda in The Legend of Zelda live-action movie released www.vooks.net/first-photos...
November 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It's gonna be so funny when these two have to fight CG Mario in the Smash Bros. movie
Reposted by Dylan Ilvento
Me when I try to write dialog for our game.
November 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Me when I try to write dialog for our game.
Shout out to Matthew Macfadyen who, between Succession and Death by Lightning, seems to revel in playing the most annoying characters.
November 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Shout out to Matthew Macfadyen who, between Succession and Death by Lightning, seems to revel in playing the most annoying characters.
Reposted by Dylan Ilvento
The winner takes all-instant hit-meme-flywheel mentality that has completely overtaken the games industry and even #indiedev is poison.
It deteriorates the space for risk and sustainable growth, until all that's left is to to either make slot-machines or slop-machines.
It deteriorates the space for risk and sustainable growth, until all that's left is to to either make slot-machines or slop-machines.
November 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The winner takes all-instant hit-meme-flywheel mentality that has completely overtaken the games industry and even #indiedev is poison.
It deteriorates the space for risk and sustainable growth, until all that's left is to to either make slot-machines or slop-machines.
It deteriorates the space for risk and sustainable growth, until all that's left is to to either make slot-machines or slop-machines.