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About the Game
This is the Beta version of Dodge the Ball.
The game is still a work-in-progress, which means you’re playing an early test build. Things may change, improve, or even break — that’s part of beta testing!

Your goal is simple: move left and right to dodge the falling ball. The longer you survive, the higher your score goes. One hit = Game Over.

What’s in This Beta

Basic movement (Left / Right arrow keys)

Falling ball to dodge

Game Over system

Score system

What’s Coming Later

Multiple ball types

Increasing difficulty

Sound effects & polish

Explore a mysterious world brought to life through text symbols.

It's easy to transmit a video signal when you're just the distance of a satellite away. If you go beyond the solar system, it may take hours to send a regular image to Earth.

Inspired by games like Daggerfall, AI Dungeon, and Dwarf Fortress, this project aims to blend emergent storytelling, open-ended gameplay, and richly simulated worlds.

It offers an innovative RPG system, allowing you to forge any character, from wandering poet to hardened warrior. Every choice carves your path through a rich and dense world, procedurally generated with deep lore and endless possibilities.

The apartment is too quiet. No neighbors through the walls. No footsteps in the hall. Just the faint tick of a clock and the heavy stillness of midnight.

You curl under the blanket, eyes half-shut, when your phone buzzes on the nightstand. Once. Then again—longer this time, rattling against the wood.

One new notification.
One new photo.

You don’t remember taking it. You don’t remember moving at all. Yet the image is there, waiting for you in the glow of the screen.

The Last Notification is a short horror story about insomnia, silence, and the late-night dread of realizing you may not be as alone as you thought

You are Robert, the cashier from THE VHS PARADISE. Your job is to serve customers on the night shift, but be careful! There is a lot of crime in the city and all kinds of crazy people on the loose.

It was an uneventful summer, until the green flashes began.

For months, astronomers watched Mars with growing unease, tracking strange bursts of emerald light across its surface. If only we’d known they were the first warning signs of an invasion.

Experience the Martian onslaught as H.G. Wells imagined it—through the eyes of an ordinary person: untrained, unequipped, and utterly unprepared for what’s coming.

I am taking part in a writing competition with the theme of "desert isolation". The story must take place in either Mexico or the US southwest and feature a passage of desert isolation. Beyond that, we are up to our own devices to make whatever story we like.

This is the story of a washed-up former child celebrity.

A 3D RPG action third person game with enemies to defeat and coins to collect!
About five minutes of fun, action-packed gameplay!
Made for a game jam in 5 days!

Pioneer is a space adventure game set in the Milky Way galaxy at the turn of the 33rd century.

The game is open-ended, and you are free to eke out whatever kind of space-faring existence you can think of. Explore and trade between millions of star systems. Turn to a life of crime as a pirate, smuggler or bounty hunter. Travel through vast territories of various factions, experience beautiful scenery, be the first to witness foreign stars being eclipsed by alien worlds. The universe is whatever you make of it.

The sun shines high in the sky. You arrive at a ruin in the desert, with only the vague promise of a priceless historical artefact hidden inside. Before you reach it, many dangers must be overcome. Can you find a path through this abandoned structure without losing your head?

The Ruin Wanderer is a small episodic homage to the classic female archeologist simulators from the 90's. It focuses on exploration and light puzzle solving in beautifully desolate environments. Above all else, it is about atmosphere; just you, the silent ruins of a long gone civilization, and here and there a swinging blade or spike pit to watch out for.

Welcome to NOVA CITY, a sprawling metropolis of the near future where the government maintains a CITIZEN SCORE system to control the population.
For residents of the city, their CITIZEN SCORE dictates everything in their life: the districts they can access, the goods they can purchase, the people they can talk to... essentially - their fate.

Dystopiatech is my own little "universe" about a comedically evil corporation who's motto is "Ethic? What are those?" I've been making little audio comedy bits about them for about 2 years now.

This is a Game Dev Podcast, today with my guest Benjamin Zuckerer from Cip Soft, the creators of Tibia, an MMO that has been under continuous operation and development for over 30 years. This is an entertaining and educational look behind the curtain of how to make and run online games that last for decades.

Swan Song is a relaxing puzzle game about music, family & loss. Solve puzzles inside a music box, all the while uncovering the tragic story behind the box, it's maker and his family.

You solve puzzles by placing notes on your musical scale. After cranking the box, these notes will activate certain platforms when your composition is played. Play them in the right order, and your little swan will make it safely to the exit!

You come across a small music box. Inside it you find all sorts of artifacts belonging to it's maker. This box was his Swan Song and most beloved piece, dedicated to his family. By solving the puzzles inside, you will slowly uncover pieces of his story and discover the true meaning behind the box and it's contents.

Tina's Last Stand is my entry for MelonJam 6!
Its about Tina, a chainsmoking alcoholic methhead whose meth compound gets raided by the police, so she has to defend it with her gun which she can upgrade with various attachments to help her protect her meth stash!
The game was made in 3 days, and im pretty happy with how it
ended up. It might just be my first gamejam entry with no major
bugs!

This is a devlog for Bloodthief, the indie game I'm working on inspired by Quake, Hotline Miami, Ghostrunner, and ULTRAKILL. In this devlog I talk about Replayability, and all the things I'm adding to Bloodthief to make it as replayable as possible!

Get ready to experience a thrilling top-down arcade racing game that's inspired by the classic 90s racing games you know and love.

Super Power Racing League is the prestigious racing competition where ruthless competitors from around the world come together to tear up the track and power their way to victory

• Choose from multiple vehicles with unique handling
• Unlock new vehicles
• Crisp 16-bit pixel art graphics
• 2 exciting racing modes
• Take out your rivals with missiles in the ultimate arms race

Get ready to feel the adrenaline rush of Super Power Racing League, where the competition is fierce and the stakes are high. Start your engines and let the race begin!

Last Fuse is a roguelite city-builder meets tower defense—but with a dangerous twist. What could go wrong?

The game tempts you with risk-reward mechanics like Overdrive, which boosts energy but rapidly increases heat. Push too hard? Kaboom.Your crazy engineers constantly throw problems at you.

Every decision shapes your survival. Will you take the risk for extra materials, faster turrets, more workers—but at the cost of rising heat, or play it safe? Choose wisely!

Cyclopean is an old school dungeon crawler with cosmic horror elements that takes place in the legendary Vaults of Zinn, referenced in H.P. Lovecrafts story "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath". It is being made for the Dungeon Crawler Jam 2024.

In a desolate, windswept wasteland, a lone fast-food joint stands as the last bastion of hope. The Last Fry Stand. Once a bustling hub of neon-lit indulgence, it's now a deserted outpost, a relic of a bygone era.

You, a lone survivor, find yourself trapped within its confines. A mysterious corporation, intent on maintaining its iron grip, has unleashed a swarm of robotic crows to eliminate any potential threats. Armed with nothing but a trusty pistol, you must navigate the treacherous terrain, outsmart the relentless avian drones, and activate the dormant antenna on the roof.

Your mission: Send a desperate SOS, a beacon of hope for a long-awaited rescue. As you fight for survival, you'll uncover the dark secrets behind the desolate landscape and the corporation's sinister motives.

Everything changes when the night is almost over.

You’ve survived the darkness , or so you think. But as dawn approaches, the world around you begins to twist, revealing that the real nightmare was never the night itself... but what waits at the end of it.

In End of the Night, you must navigate the final hours before sunrise, when reality begins to collapse and hidden truths claw their way to the surface. Not everything, or everyone, will make it to morning.

You’ve been awake for hours… but it feels like days.
Every creak, every shadow, every flicker of light has kept you on edge.
And now, the silence is even worse.

It’s 4:47 AM.
The darkness is thinning, but it’s not over yet.
The thing that’s been watching… hasn’t left.
Not yet.

End of the Night is a psychological horror experience that takes place in those final, fragile moments before sunrise, when your sanity is stretched thin, and the only thing keeping you going is the hope that the sun will rise before something e

We are a new artist collective specializing in electronic music. We aim to release side projects, split releases, compilations and special releases using aliases for our most hermetic of friends.

Less like a label and more like a trusted seal of approval from a close trusted friend.

SUBMISSIONS HIGHLY ENCOURAGED!

Welcome to the lively desert town of Glint Rock! As Dr. Mill - Geologist - It's your job to find out what happened with the recent meteor crash and convince the towns folk of the imminent danger of mutated giant ants. Recruit a party to fight those six-legged freaks before they overrun town.

Prepare for combat with a variety of arms and consumables. Use your time well and collect evidence to convince the local authorities. This is not a fight that you can win alone! Gather a party of supporters and take good care of them, as death is permanent and has far-reaching consequences.

A large variety of characters and non-linear progression allow for great replayability. And a few mini-games and surprises mix up the experience every time.

The game features a charming retro pixel art style and an atmospheric soundtrack, free saving and multiple difficulties.