Joel
@jhaddock.bsky.social
Writer, Game Designer, Co-Founder of Porch Weather Games. Appreciator of pixels of all sizes. He/Him
Wishlist Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/Camp_Keepalive_Endless_Summer/
Wishlist Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/Camp_Keepalive_Endless_Summer/
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Save 34% on Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer on Steam
Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer is a turn-based strategy game set in a camp straight out of an 80's horror movie. Save the helpless and dull-witted campers from an onslaught of monsters with a team of ...
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Get ready to give yourself (or someone else) the perfect holiday treat - all the 1980's summer camp-based mayhem you could want!
Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer is on sale right now for its lowest price ever! #indiegame #turnbased #strategygame store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...
Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer is on sale right now for its lowest price ever! #indiegame #turnbased #strategygame store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...
Oh, did I mention you can get *both* Camp Keepalive and Station Zeta as a bundle over on Itch? Well guess what - you can! itch.io/s/173270/win... #indiedev #indiegame #sale
Winter Sale 2025 by Porch Weather Games
A bundle by Porch Weather Games, $12.99 for Station Zeta, Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer
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December 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Oh, did I mention you can get *both* Camp Keepalive and Station Zeta as a bundle over on Itch? Well guess what - you can! itch.io/s/173270/win... #indiedev #indiegame #sale
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Twas the week before Christmas
🎅 Santa’s loading his sleigh
And #gamers rejoiced
It’s #TurnBasedThursday!
All #gamedev / #indiedev
Show your #turnbased game!
🩷 Like, share and wishlist
To increase their fame!
I’m honored to host
This great weekly fest
Thanks for having me
🥹 You all are the best!
🎅 Santa’s loading his sleigh
And #gamers rejoiced
It’s #TurnBasedThursday!
All #gamedev / #indiedev
Show your #turnbased game!
🩷 Like, share and wishlist
To increase their fame!
I’m honored to host
This great weekly fest
Thanks for having me
🥹 You all are the best!
December 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Twas the week before Christmas
🎅 Santa’s loading his sleigh
And #gamers rejoiced
It’s #TurnBasedThursday!
All #gamedev / #indiedev
Show your #turnbased game!
🩷 Like, share and wishlist
To increase their fame!
I’m honored to host
This great weekly fest
Thanks for having me
🥹 You all are the best!
🎅 Santa’s loading his sleigh
And #gamers rejoiced
It’s #TurnBasedThursday!
All #gamedev / #indiedev
Show your #turnbased game!
🩷 Like, share and wishlist
To increase their fame!
I’m honored to host
This great weekly fest
Thanks for having me
🥹 You all are the best!
Looking for even more treats? Station Zeta is on sale for literally cheaper than a small cup of coffee! Spend some cold winter days running, jumping, and puzzling your way through the worst station in space! #indiegame #indiedev #puzzleplatformer #retrogame store.steampowered.com/app/2950320/...
Save 60% on Station Zeta on Steam
Run, jump, shoot, and think your way to safety in this retro-inspired 2D puzzle-platformer. Station Zeta is out of control, and you'll have to deal with crazed robots, terribly designed station machin...
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December 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Looking for even more treats? Station Zeta is on sale for literally cheaper than a small cup of coffee! Spend some cold winter days running, jumping, and puzzling your way through the worst station in space! #indiegame #indiedev #puzzleplatformer #retrogame store.steampowered.com/app/2950320/...
Get ready to give yourself (or someone else) the perfect holiday treat - all the 1980's summer camp-based mayhem you could want!
Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer is on sale right now for its lowest price ever! #indiegame #turnbased #strategygame store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...
Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer is on sale right now for its lowest price ever! #indiegame #turnbased #strategygame store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...
Save 34% on Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer on Steam
Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer is a turn-based strategy game set in a camp straight out of an 80's horror movie. Save the helpless and dull-witted campers from an onslaught of monsters with a team of ...
store.steampowered.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Get ready to give yourself (or someone else) the perfect holiday treat - all the 1980's summer camp-based mayhem you could want!
Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer is on sale right now for its lowest price ever! #indiegame #turnbased #strategygame store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...
Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer is on sale right now for its lowest price ever! #indiegame #turnbased #strategygame store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...
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Ben & Jerry's Festivus (2000-2002): Brown sugar- cinnamon ice cream loaded with a ginger-caramel swirl and gingerbread cookie chunks. Received 3 seasonal releases, as a perfect dessert to enjoy under your aluminum pole (airing your grievances can work up an appetite!)
December 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Ben & Jerry's Festivus (2000-2002): Brown sugar- cinnamon ice cream loaded with a ginger-caramel swirl and gingerbread cookie chunks. Received 3 seasonal releases, as a perfect dessert to enjoy under your aluminum pole (airing your grievances can work up an appetite!)
Rewatching old Stargate: Atlantis eps, and there’s one where they are put on trial by the native humans in the galaxy and, honestly, they are guilty as hell. Just absolute sowers of chaos wherever they go.
December 18, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Rewatching old Stargate: Atlantis eps, and there’s one where they are put on trial by the native humans in the galaxy and, honestly, they are guilty as hell. Just absolute sowers of chaos wherever they go.
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This week's #TurnBasedThursday host is another multitalented solodev, composing his own music for a fantasy sports battle game. Final Fantasy Tactics meets football? Sounds like a stunner to me!
What's the score with your game? Follow @jlansing19.bsky.social & show us in tomorrow's thread!
What's the score with your game? Follow @jlansing19.bsky.social & show us in tomorrow's thread!
December 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This week's #TurnBasedThursday host is another multitalented solodev, composing his own music for a fantasy sports battle game. Final Fantasy Tactics meets football? Sounds like a stunner to me!
What's the score with your game? Follow @jlansing19.bsky.social & show us in tomorrow's thread!
What's the score with your game? Follow @jlansing19.bsky.social & show us in tomorrow's thread!
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❄️ ’Tis the season to celebrate with Sierra On-Line’s 1986 "A Computer Christmas." ❄️ Thanks to #softwarepreservation, this retro holiday classic is now a perennial gift for new generations of holiday revelers. 🦌🎄
See all the animated sequences ⤵️
archive.org/details/sier...
#TechHistory #retrogaming
See all the animated sequences ⤵️
archive.org/details/sier...
#TechHistory #retrogaming
December 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
❄️ ’Tis the season to celebrate with Sierra On-Line’s 1986 "A Computer Christmas." ❄️ Thanks to #softwarepreservation, this retro holiday classic is now a perennial gift for new generations of holiday revelers. 🦌🎄
See all the animated sequences ⤵️
archive.org/details/sier...
#TechHistory #retrogaming
See all the animated sequences ⤵️
archive.org/details/sier...
#TechHistory #retrogaming
Everyone at Porch Weather Games (all two of us) don't use AI for any ideas or placeholder assets. And we have absolutely never, ever produced a single PowerPoint.
December 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Everyone at Porch Weather Games (all two of us) don't use AI for any ideas or placeholder assets. And we have absolutely never, ever produced a single PowerPoint.
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Birdhouse in Your Soul.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdgR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdgR...
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul (official music video)
YouTube video by ParticleMen
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Birdhouse in Your Soul.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdgR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdgR...
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The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff
December 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff
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Happy 35th to the original Commander Keen trilogy. 🎂🎉🥂
($15 back then is approximately $36 today.)
($15 back then is approximately $36 today.)
December 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Happy 35th to the original Commander Keen trilogy. 🎂🎉🥂
($15 back then is approximately $36 today.)
($15 back then is approximately $36 today.)
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I don’t want to be a “consumer” of medical care! I want my doctor to see me as a person they want to help - not as their bankroll!
December 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I don’t want to be a “consumer” of medical care! I want my doctor to see me as a person they want to help - not as their bankroll!
This sent me down a spiral of thinking about a Master of Orion 3, then remembering MoO 3 existed and was terrible.
Then remembering they remade MoO in 2016 and that was also not very good.
Then I got sad.
Then remembering they remade MoO in 2016 and that was also not very good.
Then I got sad.
suggest 3rd games in a two-games-for-now series that you'd be honestly more excited for than half-life 2
megaman legends 3 is one for me.
megaman legends 3 is one for me.
December 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This sent me down a spiral of thinking about a Master of Orion 3, then remembering MoO 3 existed and was terrible.
Then remembering they remade MoO in 2016 and that was also not very good.
Then I got sad.
Then remembering they remade MoO in 2016 and that was also not very good.
Then I got sad.
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This week's #TurnBasedThursday host is an Australian indie dev with a love of jRPGs. His next game is an incredible CROSSOVER featuring characters from 13+ indies!
Always amazing what collaborations can create. Follow @CriticalGamesAU.bsky.social & join tomorrow's thread!
Always amazing what collaborations can create. Follow @CriticalGamesAU.bsky.social & join tomorrow's thread!
December 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This week's #TurnBasedThursday host is an Australian indie dev with a love of jRPGs. His next game is an incredible CROSSOVER featuring characters from 13+ indies!
Always amazing what collaborations can create. Follow @CriticalGamesAU.bsky.social & join tomorrow's thread!
Always amazing what collaborations can create. Follow @CriticalGamesAU.bsky.social & join tomorrow's thread!
If I were Wart, I simply would not put a machine that generates the one thing that hurts me in my throne room.
December 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
If I were Wart, I simply would not put a machine that generates the one thing that hurts me in my throne room.
“What better way to celebrate yourself than with 20 seconds of all-out burpees?”
Honestly, Nike Trainer, I can think of so, so many ways.
Honestly, Nike Trainer, I can think of so, so many ways.
December 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“What better way to celebrate yourself than with 20 seconds of all-out burpees?”
Honestly, Nike Trainer, I can think of so, so many ways.
Honestly, Nike Trainer, I can think of so, so many ways.
Was moving some things around and shifted my dog’s bed into Optimal Sunbeam Position. He seems content with it.
December 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Was moving some things around and shifted my dog’s bed into Optimal Sunbeam Position. He seems content with it.
Please enjoy this bunny giving itself a thorough grooming in the middle of the snow.
December 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Please enjoy this bunny giving itself a thorough grooming in the middle of the snow.
How do people feel about tutorials you can lose? Maybe I'm just used to them from the days of yore, but I feel like it's ok to have the player have to try again if they didn't learn what they were supposed to. But, others might find it frustrating! Curious what people think! #indiedev #gamedev
December 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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We're honored to host this week's #TurnBasedThursday!✨
You have the floor, game devs! Drop your turn-based #indiegame projects 👇! Be sure to show us your store page!
❤️ & 🔁 go a long way towards spreading the word and supporting creatives! We're excited to see your work!😁
You have the floor, game devs! Drop your turn-based #indiegame projects 👇! Be sure to show us your store page!
❤️ & 🔁 go a long way towards spreading the word and supporting creatives! We're excited to see your work!😁
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
We're honored to host this week's #TurnBasedThursday!✨
You have the floor, game devs! Drop your turn-based #indiegame projects 👇! Be sure to show us your store page!
❤️ & 🔁 go a long way towards spreading the word and supporting creatives! We're excited to see your work!😁
You have the floor, game devs! Drop your turn-based #indiegame projects 👇! Be sure to show us your store page!
❤️ & 🔁 go a long way towards spreading the word and supporting creatives! We're excited to see your work!😁
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Over at Kotaku, we are trying to cover at least one cool indie game every week. It's called Indie of the Week!
kotaku.com/opinion/impr...
If you are an indie dev with something cool, feel free to send it to [email protected]!
kotaku.com/opinion/impr...
If you are an indie dev with something cool, feel free to send it to [email protected]!
December 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Over at Kotaku, we are trying to cover at least one cool indie game every week. It's called Indie of the Week!
kotaku.com/opinion/impr...
If you are an indie dev with something cool, feel free to send it to [email protected]!
kotaku.com/opinion/impr...
If you are an indie dev with something cool, feel free to send it to [email protected]!
Voting closes today! There's still time to vote for Porch Weather Games for Indie Dev of the Year! (if that's how you are so inclined to vote). And lots of other great things to vote for as well! www.thehorrorgameawards.com/news/public-...
PUBLIC VOTING IS NOW OPEN! — The Horror Game Awards
The time is now! With only two weeks until The Horror Game Awards 2025, presented by Lost in Cult, voting is open on the nominees in all sixteen of our award categories. Choose your favourites, cast ...
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December 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Voting closes today! There's still time to vote for Porch Weather Games for Indie Dev of the Year! (if that's how you are so inclined to vote). And lots of other great things to vote for as well! www.thehorrorgameawards.com/news/public-...
going through my MAME library and it’s really incredible how many arcade games are the same arcade game. We just didn’t notice at the time.
December 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
going through my MAME library and it’s really incredible how many arcade games are the same arcade game. We just didn’t notice at the time.