Indie game Meccha Chameleon has reached more than 130,000 players at the same time on Steam and sold 1 million copies in just four days. The game has a simple idea: players hide by painting themselves to match the background. Many AAA games wish to reach these numbers of a small indie game.

Indie Japanese SRPG developer highmotivation8 added a funny new feature called the bust search function. In the unit menu, any character with a chest of 100cm or more gets tagged busty based only on measurements. It applies the same to curvy females and big muscular male knights in heavy armor His next classic fantasy tactical RPG now in development with crowdfunding support.

Indie developers, this is what you've been waiting for... Calamity: A real-time indie MMO with PvE, PvP, and a player-driven economy is tapping into 5M RON rewards for builders. Are you? 👀

Indie shooter developers Double Eleven have pulled a reverse-Concord with their game Blindfire. No one played the game so they made it free to play and are keeping the servers online indefinitely anyway. The devs wrote in a message to players that “We failed on our terms, and we’re proud of that.” “Blindfire didn’t blow up. It didn’t top charts. But it meant everything to the team who made it,” wrote the devs. “Instead of shutting it down, we’ve made Blindfire free for everyone. Not as a marketing stunt. Not as a desperate last push. But because we believe creative work matters, even when it doesn’t go viral.”

An indie game dev claims Gemini AI leaked a character’s name after a player asked the AI about future content, which was only in a private Google doc “Somehow, the AI spitted out the exact & highly specific character name ‘Vantage Tripod,’ which I had never mentioned to anyone”