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Sanjuny
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i accidentally made a game about 5th graders beating each other up in a card game during recess: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3087810/Recesses/
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man, someone should really make a game about how miserable/hopeless it is to be a kid right now.

maybe wrap the deeper message in a cutesy card game, maybe have fifth graders discuss society/capitalism/human existence on the playground at school...

oh.

store.steampowered.com/app/3087810/...
Recesses on Steam
It's recess. Time to play cards, find your missing friend, discover the meaning of life. The usual 5th grade playground stuff.
store.steampowered.com
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Income from my indie games over the last few years:
- 2021: $0
- 2022: $0
- 2023: $0
- 2024: $0
- 2025: $31!!!!

Don't let your dreams be memes, YOU CAN MAKE IT!

#gamedev
November 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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game design 101
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Anyone else going for the AAA to celebrate the holiday today?? 🥰

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlze...
DJ nagureo - 20, november (HQ)
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November 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Can we have a conversation about RNG in games?

I feel like the overwhelming opinion of gamers is "RNG = bad" and the only type of skill expression is memorizing/executing patterns.

Rarely do I see anyone talk about the skill expression of adapting/responding to RNG. Why?

#indiedev #indiegame
November 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Just watched Battle Royale for the first time in 20 years and... good lord has it aged like ✨🤌🌟 the finest wine 🌟🤌✨
November 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Other games: The free demo has one map, one character, un-installs itself after 15 minutes, and we hate you for playing it.

My game: The free demo is pretty much the whole game lmao

#indiedev #indiegame #cardgame
November 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
For no particular reason, if you're in the mood to play a game that has 5th graders talk about the horrors of modern society, dunk on tech-bro A.I. and team up to take down their crusty old principal tyrant, Recesses may be up your alley!

store.steampowered.com/app/3087810/...

#indiedev #indiegame
Recesses on Steam
It's recess. Time to play cards, find your missing friend, discover the meaning of life. The usual 5th grade playground stuff.
store.steampowered.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Working on my horror game, and thinking of having something like this for the splash screen. What do you think?😈

#indiedev #indiegame #horrorgames
November 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Why does it feel like every game that comes out has 8,000 mechanics right off the bat and a 5-hour tutorial explaining each one of them in excruciating detail? 🥲
November 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Static-Orb was one of the first cards put in the game!

I wanted cards that could only be done digitally right off the bat, and this one uses different ability pools depending if you use it on your own card (good abilities) or the opponent's (good and bad abilities).

#indiedev #indiegame #cardgame
November 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I've always found the psychological difference interesting that new players have between Hellfang and Spikyball.

They both basically do the same thing (take down *one* card, since Spikyball has the max of 9 power), but new players love Hellfang and hate Spikyball 😆

#indiedev #indiegame #cardgame
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Talking about Recesses cards because way too much thought went into their design😆

Peptalker is everybody's favorite card at first. It emphasizes learning/predicting type-matchups and then, in the mid-game, you realize it's not really worth a slot anymore and drop it. A great training wheels card!
November 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Thinking about making videos like "THE SECRET MEANING IN [book/movie/game title] THAT EVERYONE MISSED!!" but it's just the obvious themes/allegories that the author fully intended.
November 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Okay fellow millennials...
October 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Love it when you've been trying to figure out how to connect two seemingly unconnectable story threads in your game for weeks... then you just sit down one night and *BAM!* your brain is like oh, just use this perfect idea 😆

#indiedev #indiegame
October 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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"How my game made 10k wishlists in 1 week" well my game made 2 wishlists last week and one of them was my best friend and I'm very happy with it
October 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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i keep getting into creative fields because stuff pops into my head and it wont leave me alone until it is out in the world

i honestly dont care about making money from it, i just want to be able to rest
October 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Moi?
October 18, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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You know that kind review you left for an indie game on itch?

The creator read it and it meant the world to them. And they will go on to make more cool stuff because you took the time to say something positive.

Being nice is cool. Keep it up.
October 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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October 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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I like Stephen King’s short story “The Jaunt” a lot, but I think it ought to be classed as a novella really. It’s longer than you think.
October 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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I just noticed that Jimmy And The Pulsating Mass - one of the best indie JRPGs I've ever played - is JUST shy of 500 reviews and the Overwhelmingly Positive rating.

We should make that happen. One of the best Earthbound-inspired games I've played while having its own, very strong identity.
Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass on Steam
One day, Jimmy looked inside.
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October 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
@quest64official.bsky.social I saw during a stream of my game today that I misspelled "brain" as "brian" 😆

I think your posts have subconsciously influenced me. I was going to patch it... but maybe it's better this way??

www.twitch.tv/comfybasilis...
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October 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Welcome to 26 o'clock.

🔴 GOING LIVE - viewer request day! playin Recesses, a card game adventure

twitch.tv/comfybasilisk
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viewer request day! playin Recesses
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October 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM