Every weekend, indie developers showcase current work on Twitter #SaturdayShots tag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these picks and clips. This week, a lot caught my eye! Come check out immersive piano playing, hand-drawn and stop-motion art, space and pandemic horror, dogfighting planes, and more!
Cute handcrafted scenes in this stop-motion language learning adventure game: Language Adventures:
happy #SaturdayShots! Here are four of them from Language Adventure!
Language adventure is a # Stop motion #Lusty #language #learning # Hahaha !#indiegame #gamedef # solodef # Point and click #Adventure games #indiedev #Vitality # Indian games #langtwt #learning #Languages pic.twitter.com/PWu680j7UP
Language adventure! (GamesWonky) January 28, 2023
strong mood at curfew (Coming to Itch.io), a horror game “set on a surreal British floating island during a mysterious pandemic”:
I promised myself to break the cycle of starting and not finishing projects. CURFEW is the result of that promise. It’s a game I really care about. Follow my journey https://t.co/pVGMugxFQh Follow me on Twitter!#curfew #SaturdayShots # Unit # Indian games #indiedev pic.twitter.com/2zD18g1RtL
– Oliver Hughes (GamesOjh) January 27, 2023
I don’t often like musical puzzles, not least because I spend ages searching for “well those two black keys mean this is C which means…” and counting on my fingers, so I simulate immersive Spectra adding note clues. I’m looking forward to playing the note I know off the top of my head (the lead dimple from “The Big Breakfast”) on this piano:
Hot coming with late submission of #SaturdayShots! Today’s work is a fully functional piano – displaying note information on the player means music input is fair game to use in….. places😉 #indiegame #gamedef # Hahahahahahahaha #indiedev # Hahaha pic.twitter.com/zf0fv4aZ6e
– Spectra: The Immersive Seventies (Spectrathegame) January 29, 2023
Colorful scenes in Roto Force, a two-stick shooter (Coming to Steam):
No GIFs, but some actual screenshots of #SaturdayShots for a change. pic.twitter.com/tpS2N7kuRF
– Anton Klinger (@accidentlyAnton) January 28, 2023
Playing the sound of the sad scenes in the RPG game The Milk Lake (Coming to Steam):
I worked to die and come back this week. Here Emir is hunted.#SaturdayShots #indiedev #gamedef # Unit # 3d module # Hahaha pic.twitter.com/SwyQIDTW9x
– Milk Lake (@TheMilkLake) January 28, 2023
Great question for a great kid:
The little slug boy I made for my game. I wonder what kind of music he plays. #gamedef #indiedev #SaturdayShots pic.twitter.com/iqrTeN2n5p
– MrShlong (@MrShlongus) January 29, 2023
While we’re by the water, here’s a nice water shot of Teslagrad 2 (Coming to Steam):
do water
Teslagrad 2 #SaturdayShots pic.twitter.com/SSCfILrv8m– 🐱ri-Warui (@oleivarrudi) January 28, 2023
And why not just spray more water, from Trip AutUmn (Coming to Steam), a hand-drawn adventure game about Android exploring an alien planet:
it’s a #SaturdayShots
We’re making good progress with the AutUmn Trip. 🚀
Currently we are playing the third semester test. 😊#indiedev #game developer #IndieGameDev # scifi # Point and click # Hahaha # Tale @tweet pic.twitter.com/tzoVoCQNL8– Artfactory Jalokivi (ArtfactoryJ) January 28, 2023
I like this little detail in Bridgebourn’s “action-adventure role-playing game” about treasures, which is generally good looking:
Forget the Cape Physics feature creep. I added a “breathing rate” that goes up after physical activity#SaturdayShots pic.twitter.com/SpunLI0Q0n
– BambooBanditSR January 28, 2023
A nice take on the classic level genre in the Pepper Grinder game (coming to steam And gog):
If you want to fight mints you have to catch them first, and they won’t make it easy! #SaturdayShots #PepperGrinderGame #gamedef pic.twitter.com/oAN1W10A1k
– Reef (Ahr_Ech) January 28, 2023
Seeing that “Lovecraftian spacefighter RPG in the open world” Underspace (coming to Steam) They didn’t use these concepts makes me very curious as to what they actually did:
Some unfamiliar notions of the texture of a giant, planet-sized squid.# Hahaha #gamedef # 3d module #SaturdayShots #indiedev #indiegame # Unit #indigmedv # space #Void # Game development pic.twitter.com/b1Un7Y3nJw
– Trainwiz (trainwiz) January 29, 2023
Very interested in this long downhill sightseeing from metroidvania VA Proxy (Coming to Steam):
Underground regions got a sprawling ecosystem (still surveying) #gamedef #indiedev #SaturdayShots pic.twitter.com/VMNBxUfg8f
– LithPyro January 28, 2023
A spell that consumes all my mana and deals as much kill as possible magically really appeals to me:
Lightning Wand is a new type of item that keeps bouncing until your mana is empty, when used. #IndieDev #Saturday screenshot #DoHashtagsEvenMatterAnymore pic.twitter.com/8TGm6qTF1k
– Vanguard Jay (@JaysGames) January 30, 2023
Extreme realism in an air wrestling survival game in Top Dog (Coming to Steam):
TOP DOG SITREP #3 👉 https://t.co/VEJ4el2c07 #SaturdayShots #gamedef #indiegame pic.twitter.com/dgFJCxpDeW
– Morfeo (@MorfeoDev) January 27, 2023
Unkind Twitter pressure for this spooky scene from The White Owl alien encounter (Coming to Itch.io):
Forest scene for my nighttime haze and lighting test at B&W in my whimsical game The White Owl. I aim to create something similar to Rendlesham Forest, the site of the equivalent of the Roswell accident in the UK.#SaturdayShots #indiedev # Unit # 3d module # tweets pic.twitter.com/tuTVdA3d2r
– ⚪ Caladrius 👽 (ArgentCaladrius) January 28, 2023
A little puzzling in the hand-drawn world of Ruffy And The Riverside (Coming to Steam):
shrine solution?
Line swapMay SWAP be with you.
Wishlist👉 https://t.co/1iZDDPymSG#SaturdayShots # Tumblr #indiedev #indiegame # Toys #RT #Toys #NintendoSwitch #PS5 #pcgaming # X-Box pic.twitter.com/vPJgjQdHRp
– Zockrates Labs (zocklabs) January 28, 2023
This is my curiosity:
We’re working on our first commercial video game, a sci-fi pacifist puzzle game set in the far future. Below are two screenshots of #SaturdayShots #gamedef # Unreal Engine 5 #Video games # Indian games #indiedev # scifi pic.twitter.com/vTtHh1M3zF
– Damian Jovanovic (dmjn_net) January 28, 2023
And in conclusion, I enjoy a game that has a built-in museum of its own history, like the ultraviolent first-person shooter Ultrakill (now out). On Steam Early Access) Soon you will:
Coming in next update: Developer Museum.
An interactive credits level where you can look around, read who did what, see things like cut content and maybe even find some easter eggs?
high resolution: https://t.co/Xsyizec9kN
museum by @tweet#SaturdayShots #gamedef pic.twitter.com/GjNOfpZEPm– ULTRAKILL – ACT II OUT NOW (ULTRAKILLGame) January 28, 2023
What caught your eye this weekend, dear reader?