#indiepocalypse

[pimientosdulces]

Cover for Indiepocalypse Issue #66

[alexsiple]

my cover for indiepocalypse feb 2026

[pizzapranks]

Celebrate the thriving world of independent games with this month's Indiepocalypse #66!

-10 curated games for $15! -Zine! -Newly commissioned game by Viditya Voleti -Cover by @pimientosdulces

Games included: My Beautiful Misinterpretation of Words by Jiuya Lin Computer Engineering (for dropouts) by @grijzelucht MEDUSA by @noxether nibbling cheese by maaruska / lombric by cumulet Frog Bard by Moon Candy Ini the Kappa | Rating Sponges by Tyler Wright Sqwrk by The Voices Games Live, Love, LIGHT by Pakkanoek STAR CRASH! by Viditya Voleti

Indiepocalypse #66 by PIZZAPRANKS

Issue #66 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.

[w0rm-king]

My game Maidhem is in the newest issue of Indiepocalypse, so check it out if you're interested in it or any of the other really cool games in this issue!

[squidlikestalking]

had a dream shovel knight ended up being a very bad game and the indiepocalypse never happened as a result

anyways i was doing a let's play of a fanmade phantom striker campaign that was like a roguelike or something and i kept talking about markiplier instead of the game

[bibixpgames]

Indiepocalypse #71 by PIZZAPRANKS

Issue #71 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.

My game, "We Could Just Be Annoying" has made it into the Indiepocalypse! ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᗜ - ˵ ) ✧

I obviously think that's really cool, since I've never been part of a zine before, and in general I'm excited that I could contribute to something that I seriously thought I was going to be passed over for since, in the end, I still sometimes feel new to indie games!

Everything, including the other games look great as well, so I think everyone should check it out! :DDD

[moreteethplease]

> Get the game as part of Indiepocalypse #63!

The candy jar on my desk is empty again, and that means something horrible is coming for me.

The Candy Jar On My Desk Is Empty Again is a short interactive fiction game with a confusing metaphor and 20 endings. It was commissioned for Indiepocalypse #63 (@pizzapranks) and is currently available exclusively by purchasing the bundle!

A post-mortem about the themes of the game can be read in the bundle's accompanying zine; you can sign up for the Indiepocalypse newsletter to get free versions of all the zines so far! A devlog is under the cut.

Conception

I was actually terrified to receive this commission lmao. It's been a while since I felt such acute imposter syndrome. (And a lot of negative, unexpected events happened shortly after I was asked to make this game, which did not help. But Andrew was very patient with me and I appreciate that!)

It did take me a while to decide what I was going to make. After one false start that I scrapped altogether, I knew I wanted the game to open on a ridiculous reality that it would then uphold as if it were a completely normal fact of life. This was partially inspired by people often telling me that they don't believe I am chronically ill because they don't think anyone can function under the conditions I describe. It was only partial inspiration, though. Mostly I just wanted to be silly.

Ah, yes, silliness. That was the original tone of the game, but it morphed quite quickly and became about themes I have personally struggled with as a person with an abusive childhood and mixed parentage. But more on that in the aforementioned post-mortem.

Art

Jungle green in a colour present throughout the game. It's the exact shade of green that confuses me the most (I have psychosomatic colour vision issues, related to DID), which is why I chose it. It's present in every single image in the game except the ending screens. Due to my interpretation of the colour, it was meant to be symbolic of trauma-based confusion that disappears, abates, or ceases to exist with the MC upon reaching an ending, but now that I'm typing that out, it sounds a little pretentious. That was my intention, though, so I'm standing by it.

Anyway, here are some shots from the game in its original base palette (jungle green + dark green + light pastel green). Some of these have different colour palettes in the final game, but the jungle green is always in them.

(...it would be so embarrassing if someone told me this isn't jungle green and I've been a fool this whole time. It would be oddly thematic, though.)

Writing and Coding

Unlike with most of my games, I wrote the narrative script as I was coding it (which I did outside of the bitsy engine website due to the additional hacks I was using), so it was morphing and shifting all the time. It was, in my mind, the only way to make the story have the weird, almost disjointed vibe and feel I wanted out of it. It also allowed the script to take me by surprise, in the way that sometimes creative works seem to write or otherwise make themselves.

The three primary game routes are 1) a completely narrative route with just text and changing images, 2) a route where you wander around with a sprite in a top-down map, and 3) a mix of the two. I actually made them in that order, but in the game itself they're arranged 2, 3, 1, which makes it look like I lost steam towards the end. I do regret that a little; if I could redo things, I would swap the choices around so it doesn't seem like I was rushing at the end.

Thankfully, I didn't struggle too much with the choice hack (thank you, borksy!); I made a short and silly bitsy game two months ago called The Hissing Booth with the hack so I could remind myself how it works, and it paid off.

I originally planned to add music to the game using bitsy's music feature, but I found that the chiptune sound kind of reduced the impact of some aspects of the game. Perhaps if I'd had more time (and fewer life things in the way), I would have made it work. For now, I'm at peace with the game's silence.

Thank you for reading this devlog! If you would like to play this game, you can get it as part of the Indiepocalypse #63 bundle. After the exclusivity period is over, you'll be able to get the game directly from my page, too! The accompanying readme contains content warnings for those who may need them.

Indiepocalypse #63 by PIZZAPRANKS

Issue #63 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.

The Candy Jar On My Desk Is Empty Again by More Teeth, Please

Didn't I just refill this?

[titanrpg]

i turned one of my poems into this game

I'm proud to announce that one of my games, CRUSHCRUSHCRUSHCRUSH, was accepted to Indiepocalypse, an anthology zine of indie games! It's in issue #56, which is available now!

Click here to see all the cool games you'll get in this month's issue.

(P.S. The game I made is actually NOT a TTRPG. It's an actual visual novel you can play. The first video game I've published! 

If you get the good ending, you can see the poem that originated this in its entirety!

Here's the link to Issue #56 of Indiepocalypse by PIZZAPRANKS: https://pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-56

Thanks for reading!!)