PIGSquadPIGCON game & presentation submissions are now open!
pigcon.pigsquad.com
Share your insights, skills, and weird stuff on the show floor or speaker hall in a weekend of wonderful people & games :)
Applications close April 6th!
Peter DrakeIndy Game Dev con in Portland, Oregon May 29-31:
Our new shirt by Marlowe Dobbe (https://bsky.app/profile/marlowedobbe.com) released last weekend at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, now it's available online!
Pick up this rad tee and support our local gamedev community at https://pigsquad.com/store/cubepigcastletee 🏰⚡
Another really cool one is the Summer Game Jam Celebration we're hosting on September 12th in collaboration with Geek Week PDX! Play a ton of games that local devs made over the summer 😎
RSVP & support our creatives: https://pigsquad.com/summerjamcelebration2025
#GameDev #PIGSquad #IndieGames #GameJam #IndieDev #PDX #GeekWeekPDX
It's showcase season, and our two highlight events are coming up! We just opened submissions for our booth at @retrogamingexpo.bsky.social - if you have something to share, apply before 9/19 to play your game with tons of rad devs and game fans in October!
Learn more: https://pigsquad.com/form-prge-2025 ❤️ 🕹️
Summer Slow Jams dates & themes are live for Jun, Jul, and Aug! Learn & collaborate with the community to make games every month this summer 😎Huge thx to Corwyn Pritchard for this year's awesome art!
Time to games together🎉
Learn more these jams at https://PIGSquad.com/summerslowjams, which has a link to Marlowe Dobbe's "How To Jam" guide! June's calendar is updated with lots of new events!
You can sign up for June's jam at https://itch.io/jam/ssjpuzzle
See ya soon!
Talent Talks is this Thursday @ 5:45pm-8pm! We had to postpone Feb's, but we're back on track with some rad topics:
🗣️ Dating My Medium: Working as a Creative in a Capitalist World
🗣️ Anatomy of a Flip Book: A Gentle Foray into Graphics Programming
🗣️ “Getting Perspective” and Cameras in Games
There will also be time to chat/meet-up before/after the presentations.
See you soon! 🎫RSVPs🎫 appreciated as they help out our venue: https://pigsquad.com/talenttalksapr25rsvp
PIGSquad Talent Talks RSVP — Portland Indie Game Squad
PIGSquad Talent Talks cross elements of a talent show or lightning talk in an evening of tutorials, showcases, lectures – you name it! Join in to hear about developers' personal experiences with their projects, get the low-down on an interesting new tool, or witness a different perspective on aspect
🐽JAM ALERT!🐽
Finish Your Game Jam encourages you to pick up that old unfinished game project and make some progress or get it across the finish line! The jam will kick off TOMORROW, Friday November 8th-25th! Register at the link below + join us online or in-person!
https://itch.io/jam/finishyourgamejam2024
#gamedev #indiedev #GameJam #PIGSquad #portland #pdx #unity #unity3d #godot #godotengine #UnreaEngine
We had 17 games made for this year's Zero Hour Game Jam! #0hGameJam is a fun event where you make a game during the hour that gets rolled back for Daylight Savings. Yes, from 1am to 1am! 🕐😅 A bunch of us were up in the middle of the night and so many great games got made. (Even a tabletop game!🎲) Check them all out over on @itchio! https://itch.io/jam/pigsquad0hgamejam2024/entries
#GameDev #GameJam #PIGSquad #Portland #PDX #GBStudio #GameMaker #unity #GodotEngine #twine #picotron #pico8 #tabletop
Dylan BennettI did the Zero Hour Game Jam this weekend with @PIGSquad. OMG what a bunch of silly fun. Basically you make a game in the hour that gets rolled back for Daylight Savings. You start at 1am, then jam for an hour until the clocks roll back to 1am. So... zero hours. We do a big thing in the @PIGSquad Discord where everyone jams together and it's so much fun. I made a silly clicker game, but I love how it came out. https://mboffin.itch.io/dylans-short-attention-span
