Currently working on: Debriz - Retro Homebrew Shooter Ruby: Huntress of Vale - RWBY Fangame Synthetic Onslaught - 2D RTS/RPG
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Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
🎮 GAME DEVS, THIS ONE'S FOR YOU.
15 years in games. Here's the community + social media stuff I wish someone had told me before I spent years posting 'New update! #gamedev' into the void:
✅ Followers aren't an audience until they've talked to you. Reply to people. 300 real conversations beat 30,000 impressions.
✅ Post the game, not the patch notes. Nobody in history has wishlisted a changelog.
✅ The first 3 seconds of your clip ARE the clip. If it opens on your logo, congrats, you made an ad people scroll past.
✅ A Discord isn't a community until someone besides you posts in it. 20 people who care beat 2,000 who joined for a giveaway.
✅ Hashtags are seasoning, not the meal. Eight in a row reads like a ransom note.
✅ Other devs aren't your competition. They're coworkers in the world's least organized office. Share their stuff. They'll share yours.
✅ Viral is a lottery ticket. Showing up every day is a salary.
✅ When someone says something nice about your game, screenshot it. You'll need it at 2 AM in month 14.
Got questions? I'm around right now. Ask me anything below 👇
I'm also open for contract work (community, social, launch strategy). DMs open.
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
生成AIを使わない“人の手で作ったゲーム”を集めた世界規模のインディーゲームショーケース「Games Without AI」始動！11月25日配信へ
gamespark.jp/article/2026/10…
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
✨ New Playtiles Season, New Dev Lineup!
Biscuit Locker is back for their third Playtiles Season, showcasing a NEW EXCLUSIVE GAME!
Use code "BISCUIT" for a discount on any pre-order & directly support the dev!
👉 limited.playtil.es/campaign.…
#indiedev #retrogaming #gb #gbc
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
Weiss Schnee leak for the upcoming ZZZ X RWBY collab!
(Source: my imagination)
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
One of the best things about indie games is that nobody asked for them. No meeting of people in suits decided your game should exist. You just wanted to make something cool that you love. Never forget that's your biggest strength
You're indie. Be weird, be raw, be authentic! ❤️
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
I was in a very dark place before doing all this. I was not well at all. But helping others, meeting new friends, and just seeing the joy I can bring to devs gives me something to wake up for
I am very grateful I get to do this. Thank you guys, truly ❤️
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
A U.S. congressman wants to change how we legally “own” video games.
Rep. Ritchie Torres has announced plans to introduce the Power To The Players Act, a bill that would direct the FTC to create rules protecting consumers who buy video games.
The proposal would give players three basic rights:
>The right to own the games they purchase, rather than simply receiving a revocable license
>The right to keep playing games after online servers are shut down, through an offline mode
>The right to transfer or resell games they own
Torres argues that if a company can take a game away simply by shutting down its servers, then the consumer didn’t really buy the game in the first place.
Torres also hopes the legislation could eventually establish a precedent for ownership rights across other parts of the digital economy:
“If you pay for it, you own it.”
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
Ruby Rose joins BlazBlue Entropy Effect.
Crescent Rose, recoil dashes, four kinds of Dust. Playable now in public alpha through Redux, an unofficial fan mod.
Get it in the official BBEE Discord: discord.gg/2s8sQbmtpE
#BlazBlueEntropyEffect #RWBY #BlazBlue #FGC
youtu.be/J_qYu5dr-Uc?si=uFlq…
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
If this proposal passes as written, it is the end of SuperTuxKart in the EU — and possibly the end of the project.
We need to be serious for a moment.
We cannot "block the EU market." We cannot prevent private servers. The code is GPL. Anyone can run one.
That is not a loophole — it is the entire point of open source.
We could not detect EU players on VPNs without tracking our players. We will not track our players. Not for Brussels, not for anyone.
A law written for tech giants is about to outlaw free and open source software made with love.
All hands on deck! This is the biggest threat to Stop Killing Games yet!
The EU #KidsAct could end #StopKillingGames by collapsing the EU gaming market and making private and community servers illegal!:
youtu.be/mQRcK9nYg9g
"The best thing you can do is spread the word...The people who write this crap do not like it when the public at large knows what they're trying to do to you" - @accursedfarms
Don't just take our word for it, here's the EU Kids Act to see for yourself. Ross also has more links in the description of his video:
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-cont…
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-cont…
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
We just can't catch a break, can we?
The EU Kids Act is nightmare fuel, if you look beneath the honorable surface claim of "protecting kids online". The breakdown: youtube.com/watch?v=mQRcK9nY…
#StopKillingGames #StopKillingTheInternet
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
Normal manga is getting hit by censorship even for non sexual things like kidnapping or violence.
Either we go back to cash or the art world is gonna collapse under visa/Mastercard.
well, would you look at that. what the pro censorship crowd swore wouldn't happen, happened.
payment processors have started hitting works that aren't even sold as adult content. kidnapping plots, violent fiction, old posts from years ago. not just the R-18 stuff they said this would stay limited to.
creative expression is getting squeezed at every layer now, storefronts, payments, even the tools people use to make the work.
The same people who were fine with this when it was "just porn" will go quiet the second it lands on much more than that, this is going to be another "when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me" situation.
The only ones speaking out will be those affected, that's why they do this shit in steps
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
Good news: Discord's new age verification means more than 90% of users won't be asked to confirm their age at all. Instead, it's going to... profile you?
It just needs to know who your friends are, which communities you're part of, what games you play, how often you're online, and the full shape of your social graph.
They're calling it "privacy-preserving." Because technically they're not reading your messages.
In September 2025, a vendor Discord used for age-related appeals was compromised, potentially exposing government ID photos from around 70,000 users. That manual review process has been retired. For most users, the behavioural model now estimates their age group instead.
"Privacy-preserving." Cool. 🙂
An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord from @svishnevskiy. Read the full blog here: discord.com/blog/safer-for-t…
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
Tomorrow, Discord will place everyone into an age group using account signals. They claim 90% of users won't have to confirm their age.
They are also introducing new verification methods if you do need to verify that you are an adult, including Credit Cards and App Stores.
ALT More than 90% of you won’t be asked to confirm your age. Since our last post about teen safety, we've had to launch age assurance solutions in more places, including Texas and Brazil. Laws requiring age assurance are expanding around the world. Rather than waiting to be told how to do it, we’re launching our own privacy-preserving approach: one that reflects your feedback. You can check your age group status at User Settings > Account Status. We've estimated your age group automatically from account signals like how long your account has existed or the kinds of servers you're a part of. We don’t look at your messages, calls, or other content. We're launching this over the course of this week, so it may take a few days to reach your account. If you're in the adult age group (18+), nothing changes. If you're in the teen age group (13-17), you can keep messaging friends, joining voice calls, and participating in non-age-restricted servers, but with additional safety protections that block
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
Video's out! Hope you enjoy it! Also, poor Blake got shafted in the thumbnail. youtube.com/watch?v=dJn5pmBr…
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
Hot take but creating games in this manner is the cause of the downfall of the western industry. It's all graphs to them.
At no point does this man go "Dude, it would be sick if-" about some new insane idea. He can only make games that have been made 50 times before.
