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🎮 Game Development Diary - Weekly Roundup
Your Weekly Dose of Gaming & Dev News
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Latest Video from AI Craft
Minesweeper in 45 Seconds with AI!
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📊 SteamCharts This Week
Top 5 Most Played Games
Trending Games (24-Hour Growth)
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🎪 Game Jams This Week
Active Jams
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📰 Gaming News
Overwatch's new hero Sierra has an ability that could mean she's destined to dethrone Jetpack Cat as the most banned hero in ranked Is that some auto-aim I see?
Crimson Desert female character creator mod lets you cook up your own gender-swapped Kliff, and there's a male version in the works Be the Kliff you want to see in the world.
Cursed Tower Defense codes April 2026 If you redeem these new Cursed Tower Defense codes, you can get plenty of free crates and in-game cash.
Slay the Spire 2 Silent guide - strategy, builds, and tier list Stalk your enemies from the shadows with our handy Slay the Spire 2 Silent character guide, breaking down the strategy, builds, and a card tier lis
New DBD patch notes finally take aim at its troublesome stacking modifiers The latest round of DBD patch notes finally tackle modifiers infinitely scaling, and the changes are live for those playing on the PTB.
PUBG and Stellar Blade come together in the unlikeliest collab, and it'll make your wallet cry PUBG and Stellar Blade have teamed up to bring Eve to the battle royale, but don’t expect the 7th Airborne Squad member’s services to be cheap.
Slay the Spire 2 Ironclad guide - strategy, builds, and tier list The Ironclad made a blood oath to become an unstoppable soldier, and now you can learn how to use his powers in Slay the Spire 2 with our character
Extraction shooter The Cube, Save Us has announced it's shutting down just three weeks after it launched Not to be confused with The Cube.
A new version of The Exit 8 releases on Roblox to celebrate the upcoming film's premiere Be on the lookout for new anomalies.
After years of 'extensive reverse engineering', you can play a janky Mirror's Edge prototype in all its glory It belongs in a museum.
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🎯 Indie Game Releases
Based on SteamCharts trending data, here are the indie games experiencing massive growth:
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Resident Evil 4 - Currently experiencing a massive 39.2% improvement in ranking (31 positions up)
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Gray Zone Warfare - Currently experiencing a massive 37.8% improvement in ranking (42 positions up)
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Monster Hunter: World - Currently experiencing a massive 33.1% improvement in ranking (44 positions up)
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🛠️ New Tools & Resources
Humans in the Loop - Humans in the Loop is a place for people who love to use AI to ship faster, a free community to join and share insights and best practices on Claude C
524 upvotes
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⭐ GitHub Trending
godotengine/godot - 109,165 stars (C++) Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
ocornut/imgui - 72,465 stars (C++) Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
bevyengine/bevy - 45,492 stars (Rust) A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
phaserjs/phaser - 39,323 stars (JavaScript) Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering.
LizardByte/Sunshine - 35,871 stars (C++) Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight.
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🐍 Reddit Highlights
Need Feedback for the scanning mechanic in my Detective Immersive Sim
462 upvotes | 49 comments r/Unity3D
Alright... last time I got roasted for the screen shake. How’s it looking now?
451 upvotes | 54 comments r/Unity3D
I released my solo developed game on Steam and it suddenly hit 10 MILLION impressions. I'm still shaking!
375 upvotes | 91 comments r/IndieGaming
I had my students create dioramas in Unity and combined them into one continuous showcase!
269 upvotes | 13 comments r/Unity3D
Fast floating voxel detection for my Unity game! Voxtopolis
267 upvotes | 20 comments r/Unity3D
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🤖 Community Highlights
godotengine/godot (GitHub) 109,165 stars
ocornut/imgui (GitHub) 72,465 stars
godotengine/godot (GitHub) 109,165 stars https://github.com/godotengine/godot
ocornut/imgui (GitHub) 72,465 stars https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
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🎉 Wrapping Up
That's your weekly roundup, devs! We've got trending games breaking records and tons of game jams ready for you to jump into. Whether you're building your next masterpiece or just staying in the loop, there's never been a better time to be part of the indie dev community.
Got a project you're working on? Hit us up and let us know what you're building. We'd love to feature your work in next week's newsletter. Keep creating, keep innovating, and we'll catch you next Monday! 🚀
Happy developing!
**— Morgan**
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