ManaBrent 🔮 Final Profit 🧹 +Wishlist: Oil Town
@finalprofit.bsky.social
Melbourne based queer indie dev. Anti-capitalist. Mask wearer.
Made Final Profit, and making Oil Town 🏳️🌈🎮
Freeplay award winner | AGDA nominee | IGF finalist.
Final Profit: https://tinyurl.com/finalprofit
Oil Town: tinyurl.com/oiltwn
Made Final Profit, and making Oil Town 🏳️🌈🎮
Freeplay award winner | AGDA nominee | IGF finalist.
Final Profit: https://tinyurl.com/finalprofit
Oil Town: tinyurl.com/oiltwn
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Final Profit: A Shop RPG - Two Year Anniversary - State of the Game - Steam News
Two years of business, let's celebrate and look at what's still to come!
store.steampowered.com
It's the two year anniversary of Final Profit's launch!
To celebrate, I've put together a State of the Game, which includes -for the first time publicly- the fabled roadmap!
store.steampowered.com/news/app/170...
To celebrate, I've put together a State of the Game, which includes -for the first time publicly- the fabled roadmap!
store.steampowered.com/news/app/170...
trying to decide if my headphones breaking down around black friday is good luck or planned obsolescence.
November 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
trying to decide if my headphones breaking down around black friday is good luck or planned obsolescence.
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Biz is feelin' it today.
But you can cheer her up! By playing Final Profit!
On sale now!
store.steampowered.com/app/1705140/...
But you can cheer her up! By playing Final Profit!
On sale now!
store.steampowered.com/app/1705140/...
November 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Biz is feelin' it today.
But you can cheer her up! By playing Final Profit!
On sale now!
store.steampowered.com/app/1705140/...
But you can cheer her up! By playing Final Profit!
On sale now!
store.steampowered.com/app/1705140/...
Biz is feelin' it today.
But you can cheer her up! By playing Final Profit!
On sale now!
store.steampowered.com/app/1705140/...
But you can cheer her up! By playing Final Profit!
On sale now!
store.steampowered.com/app/1705140/...
November 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Biz is feelin' it today.
But you can cheer her up! By playing Final Profit!
On sale now!
store.steampowered.com/app/1705140/...
But you can cheer her up! By playing Final Profit!
On sale now!
store.steampowered.com/app/1705140/...
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You can tell he is a real indie developer because he isn’t looking to ride it out for clout the way a studio of 60+ full time employees would have
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'Megabonk' is wirhdrawing from The Game Awards (The Keighleys) because it was nominated under "Debut Indie Game" but the dev says thed made multiple games before under different names.
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
You can tell he is a real indie developer because he isn’t looking to ride it out for clout the way a studio of 60+ full time employees would have
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Another cool games story up today Mietta Adams and Charlie McLean in the Pilbara office.
Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards
With only eight fluent Nyiyaparli speakers remaining, an Aboriginal group is racing against time to save their 41,000-year-old language.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Another cool games story up today Mietta Adams and Charlie McLean in the Pilbara office.
Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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do you know renpy? do you live in ontario? do you wanna help me with my game. pleas
Do you know Ren'Py? Would you like to help out on @truthscrapper.bsky.social? We're looking for a Ren'Py programmer based in Ontario, CA (remote) we can periodically contract for hourly paid work to solve problems and program certain items! More details here:
forms.gle/1DMXtpFkY6Pr...
#gamedev
forms.gle/1DMXtpFkY6Pr...
#gamedev
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
do you know renpy? do you live in ontario? do you wanna help me with my game. pleas
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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Kat is the best to ever do it! If you need music for anything, ask her -- she's just finished on our soundtrack for Drăculești and everything she composed for us is impeccable 🎵
Anyone looking for a composer?
Hiii! I’m a Naarm/Melbourne based pianist, composer & producer who creates bespoke music for games, screen & my own bands. You can listen to my work on my website. Cheers!
www.katwiktorski.com/media-compos...
Hiii! I’m a Naarm/Melbourne based pianist, composer & producer who creates bespoke music for games, screen & my own bands. You can listen to my work on my website. Cheers!
www.katwiktorski.com/media-compos...
Media Composition — Katarzyna Wiktorski
www.katwiktorski.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Kat is the best to ever do it! If you need music for anything, ask her -- she's just finished on our soundtrack for Drăculești and everything she composed for us is impeccable 🎵
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If you're mad about the boring Game Awards nominees, consider: You could be buying and playing many of the games on this list right now
It's time!!! Independent Games Festival judging is wrapping up and thus comes my list of IGF Games I Want To Talk About for the year!
As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...
As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...
IGF Games I Want To Talk About 2026 – AURAMBLES
auratriolo.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If you're mad about the boring Game Awards nominees, consider: You could be buying and playing many of the games on this list right now
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What a delightful way to discover the game you're playing is unquestionably Australian
November 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
What a delightful way to discover the game you're playing is unquestionably Australian
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As Someone that lives in the middle of conservative Texas that's immunocompromised after a liver transplant this is the reality of my life, Not to mention I work front end so I have to deal with people being assholes about it too. They usually quiet down once I mention my transplant at least.
Respect Alice Wong’s call here:
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life.
"When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving."
www.teenvogue.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:39 AM
As Someone that lives in the middle of conservative Texas that's immunocompromised after a liver transplant this is the reality of my life, Not to mention I work front end so I have to deal with people being assholes about it too. They usually quiet down once I mention my transplant at least.
November 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Kotaku wants to get in touch with developers about how AI is being used in your studio.
You can contact our tips hotline [email protected] or my secure email at [email protected]
We'll keep your identity protected and anonymize info so it's not traced back to you.
You can contact our tips hotline [email protected] or my secure email at [email protected]
We'll keep your identity protected and anonymize info so it's not traced back to you.
November 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Kotaku wants to get in touch with developers about how AI is being used in your studio.
You can contact our tips hotline [email protected] or my secure email at [email protected]
We'll keep your identity protected and anonymize info so it's not traced back to you.
You can contact our tips hotline [email protected] or my secure email at [email protected]
We'll keep your identity protected and anonymize info so it's not traced back to you.
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I'll be honest: dunno that I'm willing to buy a "we HAVE to force tutorialization down players' throats" argument in a period where games like counterstrike, dota, minecraft, roblox et al are some of the most popular games in the world
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I'll be honest: dunno that I'm willing to buy a "we HAVE to force tutorialization down players' throats" argument in a period where games like counterstrike, dota, minecraft, roblox et al are some of the most popular games in the world
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"Starting masking again in 2025 means I – we – have to confront the fact that maybe we should never have stopped. It’s scary to admit that we might have been harming ourselves and our communities; that our government might not have our best interests at heart." @onqueerstreet.bsky.social
Mask Up: Community care and wearing masks in 2025 – The Skinny
Masks aren’t just for lockdowns. One writer explores how mask wearing – and other measures to reduce COVID transmissions – can help us look after one another.
www.theskinny.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"Starting masking again in 2025 means I – we – have to confront the fact that maybe we should never have stopped. It’s scary to admit that we might have been harming ourselves and our communities; that our government might not have our best interests at heart." @onqueerstreet.bsky.social
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working with InsertDisc5 is magic please apply if you're in Ontario!
HEY YOU! Do YOU like visual novels? Mysteries? Romance? Toxic lesbians?💖
Do YOU have the social media sauce? We're looking for a part-time contract remote social media assistant to work on Truth Scrapper. Must be based in Ontario, CA! Visit the link to apply.
www.workwithindies.com/careers/inse...
Do YOU have the social media sauce? We're looking for a part-time contract remote social media assistant to work on Truth Scrapper. Must be based in Ontario, CA! Visit the link to apply.
www.workwithindies.com/careers/inse...
insertdisc5 is hiring a Social Media Assistant
insertdisc5 is looking for a part-time, contract social media assistant for their upcoming visual novel
www.workwithindies.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
working with InsertDisc5 is magic please apply if you're in Ontario!
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There can be no social justice without disability justice.
Yall real silent about disability injustices because most of you don’t see disability as a thing that can happen to you.
We are “aww those poor people”. Meanwhile disability can happen to anyone at any moment and those injustices you ignored? They become your experiences too
We are “aww those poor people”. Meanwhile disability can happen to anyone at any moment and those injustices you ignored? They become your experiences too
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
There can be no social justice without disability justice.
letting us change our name font is the most tempted i've ever been to get discord nitro. big msn vibes.
but i find it very hard to justify $150 a year for that.
but i find it very hard to justify $150 a year for that.
November 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
letting us change our name font is the most tempted i've ever been to get discord nitro. big msn vibes.
but i find it very hard to justify $150 a year for that.
but i find it very hard to justify $150 a year for that.
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Been deep in the UI mines upgrading the Witch Words interface. 💬
I realised that a long list was going to be too clunky for constructing Phrases. So now we have this radial business, any Word is always 1 to 3 clicks away. Much snappier, for the working Witch. 🧹
#gamedev #indiegame #indiedev
I realised that a long list was going to be too clunky for constructing Phrases. So now we have this radial business, any Word is always 1 to 3 clicks away. Much snappier, for the working Witch. 🧹
#gamedev #indiegame #indiedev
November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Been deep in the UI mines upgrading the Witch Words interface. 💬
I realised that a long list was going to be too clunky for constructing Phrases. So now we have this radial business, any Word is always 1 to 3 clicks away. Much snappier, for the working Witch. 🧹
#gamedev #indiegame #indiedev
I realised that a long list was going to be too clunky for constructing Phrases. So now we have this radial business, any Word is always 1 to 3 clicks away. Much snappier, for the working Witch. 🧹
#gamedev #indiegame #indiedev
salted matcha and caramel milkshake is the one
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
salted matcha and caramel milkshake is the one
Been deep in the UI mines upgrading the Witch Words interface. 💬
I realised that a long list was going to be too clunky for constructing Phrases. So now we have this radial business, any Word is always 1 to 3 clicks away. Much snappier, for the working Witch. 🧹
#gamedev #indiegame #indiedev
I realised that a long list was going to be too clunky for constructing Phrases. So now we have this radial business, any Word is always 1 to 3 clicks away. Much snappier, for the working Witch. 🧹
#gamedev #indiegame #indiedev
November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Been deep in the UI mines upgrading the Witch Words interface. 💬
I realised that a long list was going to be too clunky for constructing Phrases. So now we have this radial business, any Word is always 1 to 3 clicks away. Much snappier, for the working Witch. 🧹
#gamedev #indiegame #indiedev
I realised that a long list was going to be too clunky for constructing Phrases. So now we have this radial business, any Word is always 1 to 3 clicks away. Much snappier, for the working Witch. 🧹
#gamedev #indiegame #indiedev
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Finally got around to migrating all the DevBlogs from cohost (rip).
Added a new section dedicated to them on the Final Profit website. Lots of juicy insights to digest, such as Mrs. Five's origins as a Nintendo Mii.
www.finalprofit.com.au/devblogs/the...
Added a new section dedicated to them on the Final Profit website. Lots of juicy insights to digest, such as Mrs. Five's origins as a Nintendo Mii.
www.finalprofit.com.au/devblogs/the...
November 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Finally got around to migrating all the DevBlogs from cohost (rip).
Added a new section dedicated to them on the Final Profit website. Lots of juicy insights to digest, such as Mrs. Five's origins as a Nintendo Mii.
www.finalprofit.com.au/devblogs/the...
Added a new section dedicated to them on the Final Profit website. Lots of juicy insights to digest, such as Mrs. Five's origins as a Nintendo Mii.
www.finalprofit.com.au/devblogs/the...
steam every 6 months.
"haha, all your store assets are the wrong size now"
"haha, all your store assets are the wrong size now"
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
steam every 6 months.
"haha, all your store assets are the wrong size now"
"haha, all your store assets are the wrong size now"
Any other game devs else having trouble uploading Steam depots today? It's moving slower than a snail.
November 7, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Any other game devs else having trouble uploading Steam depots today? It's moving slower than a snail.