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Portland Indie Game Squad
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The Portland Indie Game Squad is a nonprofit community platform supporting game developers with events, meetups, showcases, dev resources, game jams, and more!
www.PIGSquad.com
How we all doing on "Finish Your Game" Jam?
This is our last weekend! Again, you can of course finish a project, but progress pages, devlogs, and updates are welcome!
You can submit your project update here:
itch.io/jam/finishyo...
"Finish Your Game" Jam 2025 - itch.io
A game jam from 2025-11-12 to 2025-12-02 hosted by Portland Indie Game Squad. Work on a game that's been on your mind and share the progress you've made with a jam page! If you'd like to follow a more...
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November 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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🚨 Creator Day is LIVE! 🚨

For the next 24 hours we are waiving our platform fee! Creators will get the most they can from each transaction.

Support your favorite developers and check out over 15,000 projects participating in our Black Friday sale

itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Happy holidays, everyone!
Note that we're talking about lots of cool stuff coming up in 2026 via the virtual PIGSquad Town Hall event Wednesday, December 17th at 7pm!
Details online now :)
pigsquad.com/events-list/...
PIGSquad Virtual Town Hall — Portland Indie Game Squad
Join us in an evening of sharing year-end retrospectives and future plans for the Portland Indie Game Squad nonprofit!
pigsquad.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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“Make a Thing, Make it Now” Multimedia Art and the Experimental, Lonnie Garcia and Yugo Limbo in Conversation about Molly Moon, David Lynch and more! www.tcj.com/make-a-thing...
"Make a Thing, Make it Now" Multimedia Art and the Experimental, Lonnie Garcia and Yugo Limbo in Conversation - The Comics Journal
Lonnie Garcia and Yugo Limbo thaw a fish, watch movies on a CRT, point and click.
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May 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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@johnriggs.bsky.social has published 6 games for NES, GBA, Dreamcast, Genesis, Steam, and Switch. Here is his story on how he was able to make it happen without knowing how to code. Panel recording at youtu.be/Pb4uyOchtoY
#prge #prge2025 #retrogaming
How To Publish Your Own Game - John Riggs Rigg'd Games PRGE 2025 Portland Retro Gaming Expo
YouTube video by Portland Retro Gaming Expo
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November 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
See ya'll in a sec :)
Hello, fine folks! We have a surprise special announcement stream tonight at 8pm PT to announce something really big. Feel free to hop in and hang then 🌟
www.twitch.tv/pigsquad
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Hello, fine folks! We have a surprise special announcement stream tonight at 8pm PT to announce something really big. Feel free to hop in and hang then 🌟
www.twitch.tv/pigsquad
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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See you tonight! Come by to play games, meet devs, and give feedback on the games you play! You can bring your game to get feedback on it, too >:)
Details here!
pigsquad.com/events-list/...
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Refactored the battle logic and figured out a better way to handle 2D sprites in a 3D world with rotatable camera. The neat thing is I only need 2 versions of each animation: front and back facing. I can flip either of those horizontally to account for the other two angles

#godot #gamedev #indiedev
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 AM
See you tonight! Come by to play games, meet devs, and give feedback on the games you play! You can bring your game to get feedback on it, too >:)
Details here!
pigsquad.com/events-list/...
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Oh! Tomorrow night we're also going to be distributing some flyers for our Year End event if anyone wants to help post them around town! Hit us up if you want the file to print >:)
November 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Oh! Tomorrow night we're also going to be distributing some flyers for our Year End event if anyone wants to help post them around town! Hit us up if you want the file to print >:)
November 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Tomorrow night! Come out and play some games, everyone needs your feedback 😍
This Thursday! It's Feedback Night! 🗣📝
Bring your game out and set it up or just pop by to leave some notes to help along the development of awesome local games. All ages / free / wooooo!
Details here: pigsquad.com/events-list/...
November 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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The shop closes tonight!
Get your Cubepig Castle shirt here:
pigsquad.com/store/cubepi...
Huge thanks to everyone who picked one up - you're supporting the nonprofit in a ton of ways (and also making yourself look really 🆒)
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The shop closes tonight!
Get your Cubepig Castle shirt here:
pigsquad.com/store/cubepi...
Huge thanks to everyone who picked one up - you're supporting the nonprofit in a ton of ways (and also making yourself look really 🆒)
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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time to work on the dang burger game www.twitch.tv/freedrull_
freedrull_ - Twitch
Hi I'm firedrill aka freedrull aka tony making video game burgerzone: deluxe meal and website datafruits.fm
www.twitch.tv
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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last day to get your own!!!
Last chance for you to get your Cubepig Castle shirt, designed by @marlowedobbe.com and printed locally! Sales end next week Tuesday and we're shipping first week of December.
Pick it up before it's gone and support the PIGSquad nonprofit 🏰⚡😍
pigsquad.com/store/cubepi...
November 18, 2025 at 4:46 AM
This Thursday! It's Feedback Night! 🗣📝
Bring your game out and set it up or just pop by to leave some notes to help along the development of awesome local games. All ages / free / wooooo!
Details here: pigsquad.com/events-list/...
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Last chance for you to get your Cubepig Castle shirt, designed by @marlowedobbe.com and printed locally! Sales end next week Tuesday and we're shipping first week of December.
Pick it up before it's gone and support the PIGSquad nonprofit 🏰⚡😍
pigsquad.com/store/cubepi...
November 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Really happy with this article! Great to see more interest in game making at local events and see tons more people exposed to what's possible now!
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Taking a break from making my game to work on a little fan project. Any theories as to what it might be?
November 16, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Really happy with this article! Great to see more interest in game making at local events and see tons more people exposed to what's possible now!
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Last chance for you to get your Cubepig Castle shirt, designed by @marlowedobbe.com and printed locally! Sales end next week Tuesday and we're shipping first week of December.
Pick it up before it's gone and support the PIGSquad nonprofit 🏰⚡😍
pigsquad.com/store/cubepi...
November 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Hey everyone! I wrote about @pigsquad.com, indie game development as both a job and a calling, and took a photo of a busted Mario costume for the @portlandmercury.com! Check it out! www.portlandmercury.com/photo-essay/...
Game Jammers: Creativity as Code
A busted Mario costume. An extremely old pinball machine—so simple you wonder how pinball ever took off. Fighting games… so many fighting games. Hundreds of old consoles, some of which were complete f...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
And we're off! The "Finish Your Game" Jam is pretty long so feel free to pop in at any time to make progress on your projects 😍
itch.io/jam/finishyo...
If you want to do a more traditional jam, the theme is "Second Wind!" First time we've broken a tie with applause at the event and it was fun >:)
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM