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THE DINO RUN 2 EARLY ACCESS KICKSTARTER IS LIVE! Sorry for shouting, but we're super excited. Check it: kickstarter.com/projects/pixel… All $10+ backers get immediate access to the Multiplayer Sandbox, which is already a lot of fun. Help us make this game incredible! And please share!

The Dino Run 2 Pledge Manager is open! Last chance to pledge and get access to early playable builds: kickstarter.com/projects/pixel… Also, dev progress report (see the vid): - Expanded emotes - Multiplayer lobbies - Joints and Welds - Terrain painting - Level generation And more... It's gonna be awesome.

@GreyAlien Awesome news Jake - glad to hear it :)

Big News! We've sold 10,000 copies of Forbidden Solitaire! That's a lot of cursed gamers out there :-o You can endanger yourself via these stores: Steam: tinyurl.com/ywj43ptj GOG: tinyurl.com/2s3sv45j Itch: tinyurl.com/3k4bjt8m

LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT Forbidden Solitaire is out now! We are immensely proud to release this awesome game made by two veteran indie studios and we hope you really like it. Steam: tinyurl.com/ywj43ptj GOG: tinyurl.com/2s3sv45j Itch: tinyurl.com/3k4bjt8m Plz share, thx!

🔪The Day Has Come🩸 IT’S KUMITANTDAY! ‼️Available on PC NOW - Kumitantei: Old-School Slaughter is here to test your wits, resilience, and detective skills in a love letter to 80s & 90s anime that combines all your favorite adventure game tropes. Get it TODAY!

@Ionsphr Not that I know of! :). Funky Town is a great song though...

Hey @pixeljamgames, is the main Dino Theme tune inspired at all by "Funky Town?" That weird open drum synth at a minute and a half in on "Funky Town" sounds beat for beat like the one from your game? It's so good.

Nova Drift iOS & Android version 1.2.346 is now live - we took some of the most pressing issues from launch an hotfixed them: - Rare crashes - First time users are asked to choose between joystick or L/R buttons - Expanded hitboxes on interface buttons Other improvements are in the works: touch control tweaks, edge case crashes, and a save & quit feature...

@newgroundsdoc @terrycavanagh @Newgrounds @kongregate A classic

17 years ago, @terrycavanagh uploaded DON'T LOOK BACK to @Newgrounds. A take on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, it was originally sponsored by @kongregate. The game won Daily 4th, and has over 300K+ plays on the site.

🚨NOVA DRIFT MOBILE JUST LAUNCHED! iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/nova-dr… Android: play.google.com/store/apps/det… 🔹 Rougelike ship-crafting arcade space combat 🔹 Exact port of the desktop version (with optimizations) 🔹 Configurable touch controls 🔹 Pew pew pew kaboom

Which Homestead biome are you looking forward too the most?

5 days until Nova Drift Mobile drops! And when it drops it will make a KABOOM heard round the cosmos. Or just a loud popping sound, we will see.

@2_left_thumbs Congrats Graeme, awesome news!

They say a 20% conversion of your launch wishlists in the first week is a strong result. So an 80% conversion must be pretty damn GREAT, right?! 34,000 launch wishlists and 27,000 copies sold!! THANK YOU

When we added swords to Nova Drift, I really wanted to rename the game 'Super Space Sword' and redo all of our marketing materials around it. Fortunately Chimeric talked me out of it. Anyway Nova Drift launches on iOS & Android March 10th!

Funded on #Kickstarter! We're celebrating today #wishlistwednesday 🥳 kickstarter.com/projects/robhw…

Did you hear? Did you hear? 📢 There's a contest going on in the Pixeljam Discord! Beat this one map and get $25 bucks. Fun stuff like this happens all the time, so comes say hi! (I am not liable for any frustration this map creates.)

@Everette @pitdesi Just our 2 cents but we (and I bet most game devs - digital or tabletop) prefer existing Kickstarter over "capturing the most value" Kickstarter. It's nice to have a few companies left in our corner that didn't succumb to enshittification.

Don’t count us out yet, but Kickstarter has never been about becoming a 10B dollar company - it’s been about benefitting the world and making a positive impact. There was decisions made when the company started that put us on that path and I’m proud of that. However I do agree with your take on the 32 hour work week, for companies optimizing for high growth and the ultimate output - I would not recommend. Running this company has been a delicate balance, and doing the best under the circumstances given to me.

TIL Kickstarter employees are unionized and work 32 hours a week. They were on strike for 42 days last fall. Kickstarter might be the company that achieved the most cultural significance while capturing the least value... Oculus, Peloton, Oura and many others started there. They could have built a post-campaign commerce layer instead of handing that to Shopify and Amazon. Could have moved into equity crowdfunding. Could have built financial products: production financing for creators, backer insurance, BNPL, factoring for repeat creators. They have pretty good data to underwrite. There's a version of Kickstarter that's a $10B company. I don't think they'll get there with 32 hours a week :(!

Nova Drift Mobile drops in a week! (March 10) Remember one-shotting an entire enemy swarm with a single super-charged deathball? Now you can do it on a smaller screen, on the toilet. What a time to be alive

@Twitchfactor Nice! Was one of my faves as well - such a great feeling of progression and purpose. Can't believe one can beat the game in 5-10 minutes if you're good at it though (I never beat it)

@pixeljamgames I LOVED Fort Apocalypse. Played it to death on my Atari 1200xl. It's not an accident that it's similar. Fort Apocalypse was an inspiration for it and my other games; Desert Strike, Jungle Strike, etc.

nobody asked for this game but I made it anyway vector arcade shmup

The prehistoric world has snowboarding fever! Here's more cool stuff the community built in the Dino Run 2 Sandbox for the winter sports contest. Wishlist the game before a solar flare knocks out Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2590330/Di…