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Famous Five: Five on a Treasure Island V1

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Famous Five: Five on a Treasure Island V1 (Amstrad CPC) - Games That Weren't

Before you say anything, I know this game came out and that Amstrad Action gave away the game on their September 1992 cover tape as I have that tape and played it to death. But the

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October 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM Everybody can reply

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Game Development Daily News

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Making the Correct Game Is Key

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Making the Correct Game Is Key

This is a conversation with Timo Falcke and Zwi Zausch, two of the devs at Toukana Interactive, the developers of Dorfromantik and Star Birds. This is a game...

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October 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM Everybody can reply

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Team Zandt | 🏁 RaceWorms (Demo on Steam!)

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Concept art for our speedboost item! We ended up going for the first option. Would you have picked the same?
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October 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM Everybody can reply

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Game Development Daily News

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"We Live In An Age Where Even Bubsy Can Make A Comeback" - Meet The Developers Trying To Resurrect The Barcode Battler

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"We Live In An Age Where Even Bubsy Can Make A Comeback" - Meet The Developers Trying To Resurrect T

"I actually had a meeting with the chaps over at Epoch Japan several months back"

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October 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM Everybody can reply

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Fronkon Games

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Improve Your Unreal Workflow with this Free In-Editor Note Tool

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Improve Your Unreal Workflow with this Free In-Editor Note Tool

We take a look at a free Unreal Engine 5 editor tool for taking and sharing notes, for individuals and small teams.

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October 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM Everybody can reply

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YAARRGH! Me Matey!

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🫨 They Said Hold the Line! We Heard, Hold My Beer! 🍺
#screenshotsaturday #gamedevelopment #gamedev #game #games #gamer #gaming #gametrailer #indiedev #gamedesign #indiegamedev #indiegame #indiegames #dev #voxels #Steam

October 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM Everybody can reply

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YAARRGH! Me Matey!

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🫨 They Said Hold the Line! We Heard, Hold My Beer! 🍺
#screenshotsaturday #gamedevelopment #gamedev #game #games #gamer #gaming #gametrailer #indiedev #gamedesign #indiegamedev #indiegame #indiegames #dev #voxels #Steam

October 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM Everybody can reply

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YAARRGH! Me Matey!

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🫨 They Said Hold the Line! We Heard, Hold My Beer! 🍺
#screenshotsaturday #gamedevelopment #gamedev #game #games #gamer #gaming #gametrailer #indiedev #gamedesign #indiegamedev #indiegame #indiegames #dev #voxels #Steam

October 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM Everybody can reply

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YAARRGH! Me Matey!

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🫨 They Said Hold the Line! We Heard, Hold My Beer! 🍺
#screenshotsaturday #gamedevelopment #gamedev #game #games #gamer #gaming #gametrailer #indiedev #gamedesign #indiegamedev #indiegame #indiegames #dev #voxels #Steam

October 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM Everybody can reply

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Game Development Daily News

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GTA 6 has taken longer to develop and cost more than it took to build Burj Khalifa (the tallest building in the world)

GTA 6: 2.0B 💵, 8 years🎂

Burj Khalifa: 1.5B 💵, 6 years🎂

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October 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM Everybody can reply

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DOLOS: Your Best Future | 2nd DEMO OUT!

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Really proud of this one! 😊
Stickers design by @contreculs.bsky.social ‏

Wishlist DOLOS Your Best Future on Steam!
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October 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM Everybody can reply

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Game Development Daily News

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Video game union workers rally against $55bn Saudi-backed private acquisition of EA, with formal petition to regulators

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Video game union workers rally against $55bn Saudi-backed private acquisition of EA, with formal petition to regulators

EA employees and the Communications Workers of America union have issued a statement against the proposed private acqui…

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October 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM Everybody can reply

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Pre-firepower wargames

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Pre-firepower wargames

Warfare before gunpowder (firepower) dominated, was quite different from the era of firepower.New free video every Thursday, 11AM Eastern time. Sometimes my...

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October 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM Everybody can reply

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Solving the Open World problem

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Solving the Open World problem.

Open-world games receive a lot of criticism these days, for a variety of reasons, but despite that, they can’t stop being inspiring and…

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October 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM Everybody can reply

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Fronkon Games

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Control - PS5/Pro/Series X Update 1.30 - PSSR Upscaling and RT at 60FPS Tested on PS5 Pro!

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Control - PS5/Pro/Series X Update 1.30 - PSSR Upscaling and RT at 60FPS Tested on PS5 Pro!

Digital Foundry is now fully independent! Join the DF Supporter Program and support the team: https://bit.ly/3jEGjvxA brand new patch 1.30 lands on all curre...

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October 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM Everybody can reply

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PlayStation 3 architecture

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PlayStation 3 Architecture | A Practical Analysis

An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally

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October 18, 2025 at 10:09 AM Everybody can reply

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Pure Tech

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Seattle studio One More Game scraps initial project and reboots itself for new alien world co-op #Technology #Gaming #Other #GamingNews #GameDevelopment #CoOpGames

Seattle studio One More Game scraps initial project and reboots itself for new alien world co-op

(SWAPMEAT Image) The team at Seattle-based game developer One More Game is finally sharing its first title with players, six years after the company initially started. Shortly after landing a $22 million...

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October 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM Everybody can reply

GuacGameDev LLC (working on "Catto Chateau")

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I spent some time improving the jump. It's snappier and more reliable now. Alot less floaty but still a little bit since Mimo is a ghost cat.

#indiegame #solodev #Metroidvania #pixelart #gamedev #indie #indiedev #platformer #Godot #gamedevelopment #CattoChateau #screenshotsaturday

October 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM Everybody can reply

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Tiny Life

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Small Tiny Life update just dropped that adds a few new nature-related build mode items and also comes with some improvements and bug fixes!

Read the changelog here: tinylifegame.com/changelog/#0...

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