only three hundred and sixty two days left 🎃🧡😻

happy hall of ween 🎃

the bandcamp daily is so cool, it's my only real music discovery tool. I also follow random people on bandcamp that have bought similar albums to me and "find" music through what they buy, it's great. youtube music in theory could be better for discovery but there just isn't the same support there

thinking now its cool how itch is naturally explorational. click on a game that was submitted to a jam, on the jam to find more games, on a user to stalk the stuff they commented on... it's not just an index of games or tags you scroll through

i don't have a large collection because i don't really save them, but here are some sources just off the top of my head that have given me good breadcrumbs to follow:

• warp door
• my itch.io feed (i mostly neglected this until recently when i discovered that oh yeah, the people i follow have good taste.)
• paradise (see above)
• escapethealgorithm
• sweetfish checkout counter (i only checked out a few things but it was nice! i think it overlaps with my interests but it's not stuff i've already seen)
• bandcamp daily

I'm sorry post warning prompt, I didn't listen. It's Indiepocalypse. two p's.

well there's indiepocalyse!
https://pizzapranks.com/
collection of ~10 small games that comes out each month, it's paid but the creators get paid too

I feel mostly the same, I love the itch trawl and not because I feel like I should, I just prefer small games.

For me I think it's because I don't really like clear communication, like a sanded down Aaa game. I like when the goals and mechanics are unclear, especially when they're unclear on accident. it's thrilling to play a horribly opaque game by someone who's never made a game before, you have no idea what's gonna happen next

I like a certain kind of pixel art for the same reason. if the game isnt stimulating my imagination I tend to get bored

hmm I should also find sources to get me out of my bubble of the-sort-of-stuff-that-i-click-on. any sources you can share?

jpeg glitch excerpts from jwest sky

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omg!! the 0:38 second long post soundtrack you shared ended the EXACT moment i finished reading your post!! #appreciate-anything