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Access-ability Summer Showcase thread //

The Access-Ability Summer Showcase just aired, sharing accessibility features of over 20 very diverse games. We prepared a summary of the highlights, and of course included links to the captioned, ASL, BSL, and audio described versions of the showcase. caniplaythat.com/2025/06/06/a...

๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ Final 48 hours of our massive turn-based games festival & #Steam sale! ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ store.steampowered.com/sale/turnbas... โ–ถ๏ธ Watch let's plays & win Steam keys from our content creator showcase ๐ŸŽฎ Explore hand-curated selections of 400+ featured games ๐Ÿค‘ Get great deals up to 90%-off #TurnBased #Gaming

Reminds me of when my wife went to a restaurant once. Wife: What's the Soup du Jour? Service: Oh, it's the soup of the day. Wife: I know. What soup is it? Service: ???

YOU CAN'T -MAKE- SOUP DU JOUR IT'S WHATEVER FRESH SOUP YOU MAKE THAT DAY ARE YOU GOING TO EXPLAIN HOW TO CATCH THE FISH OF THE DAY NEXT?

Juicier level-up screen is done plus you get to spend 2 stat points now, so you can increase two stats by 1 or a single stat by 2. Wishlist here store.steampowered.com/app/3505230/... #gamedev #indiedev #godot #screenshotsaturday #soulblaze

Ubisoft sexual harassment trial: 'I've seen some sordid files, but on this scale, never' aftermath.site/ubisoft-sexual...

DO NOT BUY JURASSIC WORLD EVOLUTION 3 Theyโ€™re using ai generation in their game, boycott this shit and force their hand to remove this garbage from their game entirely. store.steampowered.com/app/2958130/...

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All "articles" I find on Soulblaze are just A/I generated reassemblies of my Steam and Press kit descriptions but the latest takes the cake with a "Junior Editor" that is holding a sword and quill in hand. Wow, you changed your profile picture just for me? Wowie. Lazy soulless content everywhere.

And here's the #Steam event page ๐Ÿ˜ฎ๐Ÿฅณ store.steampowered.com/sale/Access-... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #accessibility #AccessAbility

It's starting! Check out games and their accessibility features! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tbu... #gamedev #indiedev #accessibility

Make sure to tune in for @laurakbuzz.bsky.socialโ€™s incredible Access-Ability Summer Showcase!

Tune in to the Access-Ability Summer Showcase, hosted by @laurakbuzz.bsky.social, today at 11 AM ET to learn how we and developers are working to make games more accessible for all players. Watch it on: Twitch.tv/LauraKBuzz Youtube.com/LauraKBuzz

#StevenUniverse #Bismuth

Vacation

It's today!! ๐ŸŽ‰โœจ

Seeing a nasty hacking scam going around that targets game workers - where compromised accounts ask you to test out a game, but it's a keylogger. Exact sort of thing so many indies would ask, but it's a scam - don't download it! (Hope Jupiter and others get their accounts back soon!)

It's always a joy to return to Sea of Thieves

We're happy to share that we're this week's official #TurnBasedThursday host!โ˜บ๏ธ We welcome all #IndieDev and #GameDev creators to share their #TurnBased games in the replies (donโ€™t forget to use #TurnBasedThursday!)๐Ÿ™ Turn-based playersโ€ฆ feast your eyes on the games below!๐Ÿ‘‡

Hard watch but so, so good. Sad I missed it in theaters.

I have two sides of art Cute Cartoon โœจ๏ธ and Badass painterly ๐Ÿ—ก Show me yours! (Quote Repost don't reply)

Opening up emergency commissions, 4 Slots for flat colored Sketch/Lineart commissions 75โ‚ฌ a piece! Thank you so much in advance ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿ˜ญ

In half an hour we're getting PlayStation's big summer State of Play broadcast. 45+ minutes of news about upcoming PS5 games. I'm going live now to do prediction Bingo, then react live. Come watch along. www.twitch.tv/laurakbuzz

AHAHAHAHA I just realized ALL the stat scaling for the enemies effectively didn't work so they all (including bosses) are at level 1 stats. No wonder the balancing felt off... ๐Ÿซ  And it's been like this for a couple of weeks... ๐Ÿซ ๐Ÿซ ๐Ÿซ  #gamedev #indiedev

The Access-Ability Summer Showcase 2025 is airing Friday June 6th at 4pm UK, 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific. 52 Mins, 20+ Games. Regular: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tbu... ASL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1haL... BSL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg7I... Audio Described: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3d4...

Digging the music in Soulblaze? All love goes to @tallbeard.itch.io who not only composes awesome tunes but also shares some of them via CC-0! ๐ŸŽต Check out his work and spend a coin or two: www.abstractionmusic.com #gamedev #indiedev #Soulblaze #music

Another exclusive streamer Animon appears! This is Darkside's Novayn for @buddyclub.bsky.social Wanna stream #Soulblaze and get your own Animon for your channel? Shoot me a message! #gamedev #indiedev #godot #art #Twitch

Any editors looking for freelancers to help with reviewing the Switch 2 launch lineup? I'm a freelance reviewer with past experience writing reviews for Polygon, recieving a Switch 2 on launch day, and eager for work. [email protected] Review example: www.polygon.com/reviews/2019...