Our first game, EDDA Cafe, has finally been released after months of development. We hope this post mortem can be useful for other and aspiring devs in the deve...

Hey there! You might be wondering what is going on with everyone's favourite project, Barkley 2. Well, sit down, because it's a long story. I am Paperjack, a pr...

Demonizer has been out for six months. In that time, I have done some private reflection on the project, but kept myself too busy or distracted to talk about it...

As promised modest DevDiary. 1. Publishers? We don't have a publisher yet, but we've talked to a few. Most are delaying any decision. For us, it's a clear sign...

EXSYNCHRONOS About the development... EXsynchronos took me 14 months of work and it was the most painful production i ever went through. Pretty much time for a...

hey y’all! I wanted to write a post to talk a little bit about my current thoughts about the next version of bitsy: 8.0. first of all, I want to say a huge hu...

Hello, everyone! This is Cesca , Producer and Narrative Designer of Contigo Games. It has officially been a year since StarCrossed first launched on itch and St...

For more than three weeks, the second episode has been available on Steam. We are very sad writing this post. Unfortunately, our game does not sell well, and if...

Hiyo, Happy New Years everyone! Hope everyone's doing well. Sorry for the lack of updates, I've been adjusting to my part time job on top of general holiday fes...

Now that BFF or Die is out on consoles and PC I've been feeling reflective. I looked back at the very first developer video diary I made about it... 6 years ago...

Hello, Mark Lohmann from Bonte Avond here. 👻 A Towerfull Release The beloved tower we've all come to love was born during a GM48 game-jam, Halloween 2019. E...

Hey next-gen-gamers! Thank you all for playing my stupid game. It's insane how much people played it. I made a video about how I made this game, I would be supe...

What the Disc? Disc Room Game Jam is a game jam on Itch.io hosted by Devolver Digital and Disc Room developers Kitty Calis, Jan Willem Nijman, Terri Vellmann an...

In Beecember last year, I released a bee-themed management simulator called Hive Time . For this project, I was in a position to commit to pay-what-you-want pri...

End of the Skyline is an alternative turn-based tactics game, and our submission for Ludum Dare 47. You play as a rebellious gang of punks/hackers/protestors...

Hiyo everyone, Youtube After trying out a few different social media platforms, I've had to really sit down and decide which one to focus on rather than spreadi...

Light spoiler warning for The Year After It felt unfair and broken. It was an important point in the game but players didn’t know they were making a major dec...

Oh, hey there! :D What’s this now, you may ask? Well, it’s just me trying to reflect on this game I made called Escape from Life Inc. Why I made it, how it...

17600 views, 3600 downloads, 47 payments, and a feeling of dread as I try to remember how to start a new project. First month of release is going great! I have...

8000 views, 1500 downloads, 33 payments, and at least 10 game breaking bugs that had to be fixed. I'd call the first week a great success! Lianthus started thi...

Hello everyone! My name is Dani Marti, and I’m the indie game developer behind Dume Arts. It’s been about a month since I launched my first game, titled Cr...

This is just a post explaining some of the meaning behind the story and endings of Wireland. I left it all to be ambiguous and up to the player to interpret wh...

Hey all, Thanks for playing the game, I built this in a few days, mainly over a weekend for a gamejam. Sadly, the game didn't win anything, only got an honorabl...

Hi, So I made a video saying all this, but a TL;DR and text will follow. TL;DW: RR was helped a lot by community, I learned a lot about myself and games. There'...

Making new games for retro consoles is something that amateur developers can do quite easily thanks to today's technology. Last year, I released a new game for...

The Destroy Threats Together event was very special for all of us. It wasn't exactly planned but due to situation in the world, we had to stay home just like...

Hi everyone, Thought I'd try use this devlog function! Pretty nifty, actually. Trial Version I just wanna say that I'm creating a free trial version for Shiveri...

Hey everyone, I'm Torri and I'll be writing a bit about the idea behind Moonlight Garden and tid-bits about the development process so far in our very first pos...

Hello! So, a lot you people have played this now. Way more people than we thought would; for a little jam game made over a weekend. Thanks to anyone who has p...

Hi fellow Grims! Oak here. So we're off to an interesting month. Or life in general. But fret not, dear friends, colleagues and Grims - this too shall pass. I h...

Today it has been over 4 months since the release of 3x64, and I regret that I have not yet found the time to write an article on how the entire release includi...

I started working on "The Bath Crone" in 2016 and it's 2018 as I'm writing this. It's finally done! Though it takes only a few minutes to read, it took a very l...

As this post was only in Ludum Dare blog, here is a brief post mortem about how was the LD44 for us, our creative process through last weekend and what changes...

(This is part 3 of my series on the making of my 3D comic "The Bath Crone" and includes theorizing on 3D comics in general. You can read the comic yourself HERE...

(This is Part 2 of my series on the making of my 3D comic, "The Bath Crone." You can read Part 1 HERE , and you can read the comic HERE . It takes only a few mi...

From time to time I've been asked how I came up with Hive Time. While there are many of parts of the game that I think primarily came from my own or Mim's imagi...

The game that I dreamt of in 2017 is now ready for its release. ONLY ONE MORE DAY and it is out there! Warning: all of this might sound a bit cheesy and overly...

My faith in Inconsiderate Climbers comes and goes, but recently I had the chance to play it with some cool friends who renewed my faith that the heart of the ga...

I released the first demo of the art house VR ! This is a new project I've been working on as part of the Oculus Launch Pad program. Without going into too mu...

It’s the 24rd of January in 2020, the day I’m writing this post-mortem, and it’s been a little more than two months since the release of my second game, c...

Making a game I've been trying to make games for a quite a while! Typically my pattern is: Get excited about an idea Work furiously building an engine for said...

The year 2019 is coming to an end. It's a perfect time to look back and see how much Soulash grew over the last year of development and get excited over what is...

Hey everyone! There's still only a small number of people who know about or have played MONSTERS OF KANJI. With the sequel being in development right now, I tho...

A moment of silence for all the employees lost along the way. Following the release of the Employee Survival Guide , the development cycle for No Delivery offic...

(Posted originally on our blog ) Today marks the third anniversary that Stellar Interface officially came out, and for the first time since launch we don't hav...

Hey guys, I'm DeMarco Scarnegie! I was one of the artists for A Game About Literally Doing Your Taxes , the first game that Brandon Hesslau, Josh Eckhart, Vinc...

A monster created by a monster. I like to spook and prank people, of course only if it's fun for them too 😁. I like to make people laugh. Polymerikum was my...

Now that the demo has been out for a couple days, I think it’s okay to publish a public-friendly post-mortem focused more on the narrative decisions than on t...