This is a Game Dev Podcast with my guest Gavin Eisenbeisz (Two Star) and your host Jonas Tyroller.

In this episode I want to learn how to make wildly successful indie games that go viral a lot.

Acrolyte is a 2D action-adventure platformer which brings the player through vast, mysterious alien landscapes. Awaken from your dying rest in an endless pursuit of revenge against ancient forces beyond your own comprehension.

Delivers high quality voice acting and a beautiful mix of 2D sprites on a 3D background. With writing that would not seem out of place next to LucasArts classics, we can only hope that this will be a teaser to a larger project.

Bewildebots is a brain-frying new take on the puzzle genre that requires the player to direct up to 10 robots at once to a set of corresponding teleporters. Each move is a command that is sent to every robot at the same time, which each robot will perform based on the way it is facing.

a vast online multiplayer universe spanning 10 planets, each with sprawling mainlands and hundreds of islands to explore.

Customize your avatar, meet new people, cruise around in cars or ships, and enjoy fun mini-games scattered across the world.

Totally free, forever: Planet Samuro is built by a passionate community of hobbyists — no companies, no real money involved.

Platform support: The game is primarily designed for Windows.

EXEMPLAR is born by mixing two very different genres, specifically Action Platformer and Graphic Adventure.

The Action Platformer part tries to evolve great classics like Super Castlevania IV and Ninja Gaiden, iterating on those to create a fun, linear and fast paced experience, and rejecting the bloating of Metroid-Vania titles to grant a fresh and simple experience.

The Graphic Adventure part is more of a palate cleanser, offering you 20-30 minutes of calm to rest until you're ready to push forward.

You are our last pilot

Fight aboard the Omeganaut - not for glory, not for victory, but to carve one last mark across space and time. Let the stars remember that humankind existed.

Pilot your rusty-but-trusty Zero-G fighter through forsaken, procedurally generated ruins where up and down lose any meaning. Battle enemy attack drones, scavenge weapon mods and shields to survive the descent into this insane underworld.

A space-ripping anomaly has torn these places apart, leaving them broken and changed yet still the same. A sentient flesh fungus born from the anomaly festers there. It infects everything, twisting it into mindless killers.

An adventure game based on the works of H.F. Lovecraft with survival, dungeon crawl and auto battler elements. Game events take place in the mid-19th century in the South Africa.

A grizzled private eye in a sci-fi adventure takes a murder case no one else will touch. He’s seen it all before, but nothing’s prepared him for a conspiracy that leads off-world. Something big is about to happen. Whatever it is... it goes live at midnight.

The top lawyer of showbiz is shot dead, and that’s where private eye Simm Gurnett steps in. Something’s rancid big time, so much so that even the police won’t touch the case. And for good reason: the killer is rumored to be not of this world.

The assassin is far from finished. The killing was only an opening move.

Idylls of the Lunar Maria is a charming "match-3 builder" roguelite adventure. Chat with rats, defeat demons.

The Tower Master's Treasure Hoard is a strategy deckbuilding roguelike pixel-art card game, where you balance offense and defense to steal the Tower Master's biscuit hoard.

Upgrade your cards!
Add new cards to your deck!
Defeat the defenders of the tower to claim the biscuits as your own!

UNGA is an ambitious Stone Age hunter. He comes home after a hard hunting day with nothing but this small rat-like animal - not enough for his wife NONGA. For a long time she wants to eat something delicious. Therefore UNGA's task is clear:

HE HAS TO HUNT A HUGE MAMMOTH!

Can you help UNGA to succeed on his prehistoric adventure?

After being stuck on an asteroid with a decrepit, gabby hermit for a week, Clotilde has had enough!

She must find a way to call for help and hitch-hike a ride out of there!

Will she manage to escape the asteroid?! Only one way to find out! Or maybe two.

What happens when two worlds collide? Find out in Liminal Leap: Episode Two. The sterile, artificial environment of the Backrooms has been breached, now containing the unsettling presence of a decaying, familiar space. Explore this impossible fusion of realities, where the familiar becomes alien and the unsettling becomes truly terrifying. What secrets does this strange new place hold? And what lurks within its walls?

Filled with debt, you are desperate to find ways to earn money. One day one opportunity rises.

A benefactor is willing to pay all your debts and add some cash on top of that if you manage to retrieve something from the depths of the islands excavations.

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

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.

Point and Click style adventure.
Solve a series of grisly murders as defective Detective Inspector Dermot Dervish.
Get help from mood power ups, your trusty notepad, and an assistant who's pretending she isn't a traffic warden.
Arrest the city's criminal scum- or let them go if you think they've got a good enough reason!
Demo free to play on Steam and itchio. Game in development.

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.

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!

The fastest and best crash course on how to make a commercially successful indie game for PC (on Steam).