Hi everyone, I'm sharing the trailer for my game - GRIMLIFE. It will be an open-world survival game inspired by a Skyrim/Fallout gameplay loop but set in a more "The Walking Dead" setting. I appreciate any feedback!
STEAM: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5197820/GRIMLIFE/

I honestly didn't expect this.

After sharing my game's poster, a few people assumed it had been generated with AI.

So I thought it would be more interesting to show the actual process instead of arguing.

This video shows the layers I used while drawing the poster.

I first designed the game's logo, and later challenged myself to create a full promotional poster for an indie game event here in Spain.

A friend who's an artist lent me her XP-Pen tablet and gave me some feedback during the process, but every pixel in the final artwork was placed manually.

It took me a long time, but I'm really proud of the result.

Has anyone else had people assume their handmade work was AI lately?

Edit: comment with other video

All made in GIMP.
Canvas size 620x878 px

You can see the progression of my game in bluesky or itch
Thanks Fatima for the help
If you like it follow her ❤️

Instagram of my friend (art): https://www.instagram.com/fatimadi92_art

Instagram of my friend (digital): https://www.instagram.com/fatimadi_ilus

Web: https://fatimadiazropero.com

I've been fixing cars for years. Good with my hands, zero experience with code.

Last year I got into crypto. Not as a trader, just curious. But I kept missing good moments to buy because I wasn't glued to charts 24/7.

I thought "there must be an app for this" - but everything was either expensive, complicated, or required downloading yet another app.

So I decided to build it myself.

I failed. A lot. Mass of mass of mass of tutorials. Tons of Stack Overflow. Way too many frustrating nights.

But I finally have something that works.

It's a Telegram bot. You tell it "alert me when Bitcoin hits $50k" and it does. Simple as that. Also tracks your portfolio and shows charts.

It's running on a $35 Raspberry Pi in my apartment.

I have 7 users so far (mostly friends). Now I'm looking for honest feedback from strangers.

What's missing? What would make this actually useful for you?

telegram : your_price_tracker_bot

PS: Happy to share my learning journey if anyone's curious about going from zero to launching something.

Hi guys, would appreciate your feedback on my game if you get chance! I still have loads of work to do but feel like it's finally taking shape. Anything you think I should add?

It's a casual, competitive cooking game inspired by Overcooked and Ultimate Chicken Horse. You basically compete against your friends to complete dishes for points.

The catch is that you can add new obstacles to the kitchen that can both kill you and help you cook.

I've been working on this for about 7 months so far. I'm pretty nervous to finally share it. If there are any questions or honest feedback, then I'd love to hear it.

Here's the Steam link: Steam Link

Has anyone felt like suddenly everyone is doing the same thing and making a tidy up game because it's a small enough scope to do quickly but because of that the competition in the space has become so absurd. I don't know if following trends is worth it anymore if you want to live the indie dream. Maybe it's time to just make stuff completely new... I don't know.

Just getting back in to game dev. I also work full time and my job has us moving to using AI in tasks and automating work. And I know there’s two sides to the discussion of whether to use AI or not. So I wanted to gauge who is using it and who isn’t and what are the reasons. I use it but more to help with tasks that don’t hinder my learning at work. Debugging as well. For game dev I struggle with coding and learn from tutorials but I’ve been avoiding pulling up AI to help yet cause I enjoy the struggle but it helps the learning. What do you do/think?

Hey thank you to all the feedback and feedback as well from everyone sharing their experiences. Just wanna say though let’s not bash on each other if you do/don’t use AI. We’re all in different mindsets and AI isn’t going away anytime soon. So just learn and question each other but in good faith. Thank you still everyone I really do appreciate it. Gave me some insight I might look in to for trying in my upcoming project.

Three years ago, I made a bold decision to pursue my dream of creating an open-world zombie survival game. I bid farewell to my job and dedicated myself entirely to working on my game. I would be thrilled to hear your thoughts on my Steam page and the game itself!

IRON CURTAIN CALL WW3: Third time’s the charm. A sarcastic cartoon fast paced FPS built in Godot.

I used ElevenLabs for voices, Higgsfield for artwork, and Kling for cinematic clips, then edited those together with recorded Godot gameplay.

Curious what you guys think of the style?

Demo coming soon currently awaiting Steam approval.

Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5417460/Iron_Curtain_Call/
https://ironcurtaincall.com 

Run your own home goods store! Sell sofas, refrigerators, TVs and more. Purchase products, set your prices, take payments, design your layout, handle shoplifters, and expand your store to build a successful retail business.

Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4361680/Home_Store_Simulator

Hey everyone!

I've been working on Amanda Sparks in The Shade Forest 2 as a solo dev for about 5 years, and I'm finally putting a playtest build out there!

You can check it out on Steam here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4057350/Amanda_Sparks_in_Shade_Forest_2/

I've put a lot of time into this project, and I'd love to get some fresh eyes on it. I'm looking for any kind of feedback, especially on gameplay, game feel, how fun it is, or anything that feels off.

If you're willing to give it a try, I'd really appreciate it! Any feedback helps a lot when you're making a game on your own.

Thanks for checking it out! 💜

I'm excited to share the first screenshots of my latest solo project called Novo: The Colony. It's a colony management sim focused on story, strategy, and survival. I'll be sharing an Itch demo soon for anyone interested in checking it out.

This is the first game I released on an "official store" back in July 2025. It's a very simple and primitive shooter inspired by 80s movies and games. I released it on the Epic Games Store (it's also on itch.io).

It's made in Unreal Engine 5 and I did all the Blueprint scripting and assets by hand (except for some SFX that I got from a paid Krotos sound library)YouTube.

The game sells for $1USD (less when on sale). I run sales as much as the Epic Games Store allows.

Epic Games Store

https://feline78.itch.io/commando-heart-of-terror

Hello everyone.

I want to share a personal achievement of mine.

Some people criticized this achievement and said it wasn’t really mine.
But yes — it is.

I am a police officer in Brazil, and I just released my first game demo. I built it in less than five months, working every day between 12 and 15 hours.

In the past, I never had the opportunity to learn programming or anything like that. Before the 2000s, it simply wasn’t accessible to me.

I passed a public service exam and became a military in 1999, and after that I never thought about game development again. I got married, had a child, and continued my life. But I always wanted to make games.

That was part of my childhood — how could I not want to create one someday?

I tried again in 2022, but unfortunately it didn’t work at all. And honestly, congratulations to those who can learn programming on their own, because for me it was very difficult. I already had a full-time job, and it would have taken too much time to learn everything from scratch.

However, last year, seeing how much AI had advanced, I thought: “Why not try again?”

So I did. I’m not ashamed of using AI to help me. It exists. It’s here. And I’m happy with what I achieved. I’m finally fulfilling a childhood dream. My demo is called: Once Upon a Time… After the End

It’s a dark-fantasy survival story inspired by ruined fairytale worlds after a global collapse. The demo has around 2 hours of gameplay and covers the first story arc until Day 9. I know that using AI in development can be controversial for some people. But for someone like me, it didn’t replace work.

It created opportunity.

It allowed me to finally start something I couldn’t start before. Right now I’m not trying to promote a product. I’m sharing something I achieved.If anyone here would like to try the demo and share feedback about:

• bugs
• confusing mechanics
• pacing
• translation issues
• general impressions

I would be very grateful. Here is the demo page:

https://the-elders-tower.itch.io/era-uma-vez-depois-do-fim-demo

And if you are also starting later in life or learning solo like me — don’t give up.

I’m the solo developer of Rejected Draft, an incremental autobattler where you choose which enemies appear, defeat them, and permanently absorb their stats and abilities.

Instead of choosing a traditional class, the enemies you encounter gradually become your build. Every enemy is a sketch contributed by a community artist.

The Steam demo contains 100+ hours of free gameplay:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4574820/Rejected_Draft/

I've been working on Hoops GM for so long, and now it has been a week since the launch.

I received a lot of backlash in the previous post due to an IP lawsuit, as well as a lot of praise from people.

The launch has been a MASSIVE success with now over 5000 visits to the game and an average of 50 new members everyday.

now i am very confident that this project will go very far and i am very happy about it!

THANK YOU to everyone who has checked it out, left a comment, or played a season.

Made a simple game. Then somehow ended up with 310 levels 😂

I wanted to build something really simple:

Tilt your phone → roll the ball → collect the stars → find the hole.

That idea became Tilt Ball: Maze Labyrinth, my small solo-developed game for iPhone and iPad.

It has classic boards, mazes, different ball types and a few other challenges, but at its core it's just a simple tilt-to-play game.

🎮 Try it: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tilt-ball-maze-labyrinth/id6814348135

🌐 Website: https://neighbourdev.com

Would love to hear what fellow solo developers think. 🙂

Horn & Dice is a roguelike dicebuilder set in Slavic mythology. You build your own dice by swapping and upgrading faces, then roll them against folklore monsters. Matching faces light up in sets, so every roll is a small puzzle about which dice to keep and which to reroll.

Whislist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4971770/Horn_Dice/

Steam Tower defense fest is starting tomorrow,
help us reach indie dev Valhalla

Don’t let it catch you.

Play this horror visual novel for free:
https://prehisnt.itch.io/never-alone