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We're excited to officially host this week's #TurnBasedThursday! Devs: Reply with your #TurnBased game, screenshots / videos and Steam link Let's all support each other by ❤️ 🔁 and adding to your wishlists. Thanks! #indiegames #gamedev #indiedev

I'm honoured to be officially hosting this week's #TurnBasedThursday!🥳 🎨If you're a #GameDev / #IndieDev, comment below with your awesome #turnbased game! EVERYONE! 🔁 Repost & ❤️Like this tweet 👉 Tag other games & devs you support ✨ Add the games you love to your wishlist!

#pitchyagame #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #TCGCommunity #roguelike Cardtographer is a Roguelike Deckbuilder with Coop – unlock cards, include them in your deck and clean the lands from the evil! Please wishlist or check Demo: store.steampowered.com/app/3460540/Ca… tistic-games.online/CardtographerP…

@epyoncf Just checking; you're an engine programmer and a professional roguelike, right? 😜

Tempted to finally start that big roguelike project again.

@tallPhilb @epyoncf @SebAaltonen I second the Claude Code part; haven't really got warm with Cursor just yet. I am aware that you can essentially combine them. Not sure if you get to use a Claude Max subscription on anything other than the OG Claude Code, though.

@epyoncf @SebAaltonen Claude code (command line) and cursor are both leagues above for coding than copilot and ChatGPT

People say that one should not build their own engine. It's not possible anymore as engines have grown to be so big. But all of these big engines have legacy foundations which can't be replaced as there's so much code on top of them. You can definitely build a better foundation today for modern hardware. And you don't need a big team for that. But what about leaf features A,B,C...Z? There's so many of them. A great core isn't enough. A useful engine needs all the leaf features. Same as OS vs kernel. This is where AI steps in. I have been doing AI assisted programming lately and it's actually very good at writing leaf code. You don't need a massive team. A small team of seasoned experts with AI agents is very productive. I know that most of my followers despise AI written code, but it's improved drastically in past year (again) and it continues to improve rapidly. Build the core tech yourself, design good architecture and good APIs and let the AI build the leaf features on top of your APIs. That's a solid way to build a hobby project too nowadays. You write the most important code (= innovation) and let AI write the less important code. A future game engine could be a thin core (kernel) with good APIs. Leaf features are modular and built by AI. Customers can build their own features on demand using AI.

@JonasTyroller It's been long known that 50 % of Marketing is a waste of time. Also, that it's impossible to know which 50 %.

Talked to a lot of game devs for the podcast recently and got a key revelation from it. FOCUS ON WHAT MATTERS. (Massively reduce investments in areas that don't.) It makes your games better AND cheaper at the same time. That is insane!! Nothing else can do that for you.

We are excited to host this week's official #TurnBasedThursday thread!⚡️ #gamedevs & #indiedevs— drop your turn-based beauties below and don't forget to use the hashtag! #turnbased game fans —❤️,💬 and 🔁these amazing projects.🙏 Let’s make the algorithm take its turn too. 😎

We couldn’t be happier to say that… it’s our turn now! We’re officially hosting this week’s #TurnBasedThursday 🎲 If you’re a developer – show us your awesome turn-based games in the comments and tag other devs! If you’re a fan of the genre – share your love for them right here in this thread! GOG links are most welcome, but if your game isn’t on our platform yet, other links will do too 💜 Now… your move.

@aminerehioui @threejs trains do not need to make sense. they make every game better. I don't make the rules

I almost forgot how well trains worked in the first prototype of Powerplay, more than a year ago. The game was still in @threejs at the time I want to bring them back, but I need to think carefully about the design. Trains only make sense if bases are far apart and they carry enough resources to justify the trip. And they should probably be a late-game unit, with trucks handling mid-range transport. We also have a special mission about trains that @Alex_06 and I discussed, something that’s never been tried in an RTS. Really looking forward to it!

@Lord_Arse Antisuns. Damn.

Name a video game WITHOUT the letter “A” YOU CANT 😂

@mustache_dev looks sick tbh

So, almost week in Godot, and for the first time since I started 3D, i made my first enemy AI. they will make evasive manouver as you hit and aim at them. What i 'm really proud of is how natural are their movements, they inherit the player's class #Gamedev #indiedev

@3rdEchoSounds I dragged, I dropped, but it didn't upload 😥 😜 In the meantime, good old link. (turnbased tactics) store.steampowered.com/app/2963210/An…

Hey ##gamedev! It's #FollowFriday!! Drop your #indiegame here! 👇

We're officially hosting this weeks #TurnBasedThursday! 🕹️#indiedev: Reply with your game & don't forget the hashtag 🎮#players: ❤️Like 💬Comment & 🔄Repost If you don't, we have a spot reserved for you in our haunted domain 👀🎃!

This week's #TurnBasedThursday host is a Belgian game studio who is working on a haunted mansion builder that lures in and torments unsuspecting humans 👻 Follow @Mantis_GamesBE and come in to tomorrow's thread… don't worry, there's nothing to be afraid of 😈

Lots of games can be made by just starting to mess around and seeing what works. You get a guy on screen, have him jump on stuff, or shoot stuff. Or you put a city on screen, click on squares to build houses. And so on. Such games are easy to find because they don't require a theory of what's going to work. You just try random simple things and see what feels good and chase that. It's not easy to do well, but it's a shallow process. But as time goes on, such low-theory games are more and more oversaturated. The basic "objects bumping into each other" and "map painting" and "number goes up" designs are more and more already done. To succeed in the future, designers will need to start having actual theories about what will work. They'll need to be able to posit a design that can't be built in a game jam, and why it works, and be correct, and then build that. There's a huge universe of games that can't be made by just trying simple verbs and seeing what feels good first try. It means that in the future, design insight and analytical ability will become more and more essential in making a successful game. If everyone is doing basic and obvious designs, the differentiators are tech, art, writing, or marketing. In the new era, the differentiator will be whether you are able to find a great set of mechanics that nobody else can find.

Proud to officially host #TurnBasedThursday this week! 😊 #gamedev, please share your games in the thread! Make sure to like ♥ share 🔁 and wishlist ✅ any turn-based gems you come across in the comments!

Happy to be the official host of #TurnBasedThursday this week! Are you a game dev? It's time to get on board, show us your screens and pitch your game! Remember to: Add the #TurnBasedThursday hashtag, Tag other Devs, Like ❤️ Retweet 🔃 and Wishlist ✅

One of the most well-written game-related articles I've read in quite a while: loekalization.com/blog/blog/2025… About the Silksong Chinese translation issues.

@NineDotsStudio @TurnBasedThurs Thank you for hosting #TurnBasedThursday, @NineDotsStudio! We're working on a demo of #Antisuns for later this year; come to our Discord for a chance to test it out before that! discord.gg/4fjMdhD6 #Indiegame #turnbasedtactics

We're very happy to be the official #TurnBasedThursday host this week. This community is amazing and support us a lot. Now it's your time #GameDev #IndieDev to let players discover your #turnbased games. Love #turnbased games? ♥ / 🔁 great games in the replies and @ who should be in this thread!