DancingEngie

Eternal Afternoon on Steam Spend one last afternoon exploring your childhood neighborhood before the world ends at 6:38 PM.

While we're at it: Eternal Afternoon is an incredibly atmospheric timeloop game set in a nostalgic Israeli neighborhood. The amount of interactions you can do, big and small, is super impressive and varied.
Incredibly heartening stuff, absolutely nailed the aesthetics

Esoteric Ebb by @chrisbodegard.bsky.social is the closest thing to a D&D play session with a hilarious, professional, yeah-sure-you-can-do-that DM. Reactive, funny, mysterious and genuinely smart with its worldbuilding. The first truly great Child of Disco.

Enter Stage Light (@dancingengie.xyz, Mor Ohana, Nadav Hekselman, Nadav Sheffer)

"Give the spotlight to the right actors, and change its color according to the script - all in real time."

Free - Windows: warpdoor.com/2026/02/02/e...

It's the depression era. You're the only gaffer around.

Read the cabaret's script and give the right actor the right spotlight - all in real time.

Play it on @itch.io here:
dancingengie.itch.io/enter-stage-...

what the internet did to Mario (and why nintendo hates it) YouTube video by planet clue

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaZW...

A screenshot from a YouTube video called "what the internet did to Mario (and why nintendo hates it)" by planet clue. Mario is laying dead on the ground with a pool of blood under it, as a Goomba besides him says: "Yay! The fucking plumber is dead!"

Nothing could have prepared me for seeing a Flash animation I made when I was 10 in a random video essay about Mario parodies

A loop, drawn in MS paint. this is the best game ever -> this is the shittiest game ever -> i have a better idea for a game -> wow it is a better idea -> this is the best game ever -> (repeat)

What I would suggest is making as many weird janky prototypes as possible to speedrun this loop until you hit something that you want to work on for a year, with a team or without

דויד ברוזה - יהיה טוב // David Broza - Will Be Better YouTube video by David Broza

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUyP...

This year taught me how much I love learning and reading about history, but not particularly living in it. "There are decades where nothing happens, and years where decades happen", goes the quote.

It'll all be funny eventually, you know. Unfortunately, 'eventually' is not right now.

Things I did this past year:
- 2 short films
- 2 game jam games
- made a working proof of concept for a giant-ass imsim
- put that imsim in haitus 'cause oh god
- sent 200+ resumes
- finally got a full-time job
- did video art for an original musical
- finally beat persona 3 reload

Seeing 30+ notifications on this post out of nowhere is one hell of a New Year's Eve gift. Cheers y'all <3

I've been experimenting with level design and outlining the setting, but I work full-time so progress is slow. Hope to post more in 2026. And thanks again

Yeah, I was just about to make a follow-up but forgot. Turns out Godot generated a giant collider on my root bone, which collided with literally everything else. Removing it (and fixing overlaps like you said) fixed the problem.

cool ragdoll godot

(seriously though, I found a way to fix the stretching, but why does it keep simulating forever)

#GodotEngine

Also this.

Gave my "mouse-only third-person-shooter killer7 thingy" a full arena combat test, and it actually works
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev

Brendan always delivers short but extremely sweet & stylish games, and this one is no exception. Best edutainment I ever played, and funny to boot.

A game settings menu with a tooltip next to the "V-SYNC" setting. It reads: "Limits the game FPS to prevent screen tearing. If disabled, the game's FPS will run free as the wind... until it reaches 120, at which point it will think about its life and stop chugging your GPU."

Who said settings menus explanations have to be boring

A comment by a person named "Anii_starr" stating: IT'S HERE! A FRESH UPDATE IS READY! 🎉 We've been working hard, and the newest version is ready for you to download: [MALICIOUS DOWNLOAD LINK] Stay safe! Only download from this official link. 🔒 WHAT'S INSIDE? 🎁 Enhanced Stability: Say goodbye to crashes! 🛡️ Performance Boost: Enjoy smoother gameplay! ⚡ New Content: Fresh things to discover! 🌟 Polish & Shine: Refined features and a cleaner UI! ✨ Update today and jump back into a better, fresher gaming experience! 🚀

Listen, @itch.io, I love your platform, but can you please implement stronger safeguards against spammers?
It seems like every other day I have to ban and report another one. Just adding a CAPTCHA if a comment has a link would go a long way

enemies with threatening auras
(he is floating because i forgot to reset his y value)

My #ScreamJam game got into the top 100 in the story category, and won (g)Host's Choice for "games that were especially innovative or unique"!

Thanks to everyone who played and voted for it, and if you've yet to play it, Halloween's the perfect time:
dancingengie.itch.io/monster-smok...

You see a monster smoking in the parking lot.

Investigate it, kill it, get food, think about your life, laugh, cry, drive away, or anything in between with 33 unique endings.

A cinematic horror-dramedy text adventure made for #ScreamJam 2025.

dancingengie.itch.io/monster-smok...

A cinematic PSX scene where a strange muscle monster is standing in a restaurant parking lot with his back to the camera. The monologue text reads: "A monster. Smoking. In the parking lot."

I have no idea what the fuck I'm improvising for #ScreamJam. Turns out it's a cinematic text adventure horror comedy???
#screenshotsaturday i guess

overwhelming forces

#GodotEngine #IndieDev

I won't be leaving itch, and I don't wish to imply that you should leave it. It's an important platform with a wonderful community.
That said, I won't be surprised if people do leave it for better alternatives.

This might be a hot take, but I believe itch is riding off its reputation and the lack of any real alternative.
That's fine, but you have to actually keep that reputation.

Hell, there hasn't been any significant updates or fixes since *2019*.

A tweet by KenneyNL: Started keeping track of the @itchio uptime, this is getting ridiculous. I'll genuinely start promoting my Patreon store a bit more, the revenue split is better and at the very least it's up

I owe this audience to @itch.io , and I got actual job opportunities thanks to it.

I have cut the tiny dev team a lot of slack, but I agree this is getting silly. Not to mention the influx of scam and spam comments in recent months.

P.S. I apologize to the good people at Valve, who forewarned in 2007 how players never look up in first person games and must be encouraged to do so, and I scoffed at them thinking this no longer happens, only to find out this still, indeed, happens

To be clear I'm not blaming them. It's 100% on me that the game is ambivalent about what it is, and that's something to be solved. That's why you playtest and fail fast.

What I *am* saying is that you should never make an imsim as a solodev in your fucking life

Both groups really liked the exploration loop, and had a lot of fun realizing they infiltrate in different ways.
It was great to see and hear all that, but that further confirmed their original expectation instead of what I as a designer intended.