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🎮 Game Development Diary - March 25, 2026

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Your Weekly Dose of Gaming & Dev News

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📊 SteamCharts This Week

Top 5 Most Played Games

Trending Games (24-Hour Growth)

🎪 Game Jams This Week

Active Jams

📰 Gaming News

As a Thomas superfan, Thomas and Friends Wonders of Sodor would have blown my four-year-old mind Sure, it's not a great train sim, but the all-new Thomas and Friends Wonders of Sodor would have amazed my Thomas-obsessed toddler self.

Pacific Drive is an excellent driving sim with horror vibes, and you can get the full experience cheaper than ever Pacific Drive delivers a Stalker-style atmosphere through the eyes of a driving simulator, and this underrated indie deserves your time - especiall

After feedback that Death Stranding was 'too slow,' Kojima wanted more players to see Death Stranding 2 all the way through to the end Being more divisive wasn't the goal after all.

OpenAI discontinues Sora video generation app, Disney pulls out of $1 billion investment deal The shutdown of the app is reportedly part of a broader strategic shift away from video generation in favor of productivity apps.

Analysts say Slay the Spire 2 is the best-performing deckbuilder of all time—and the competition isn't close Slay the Spire 2 has been averaging over a million users per day since launch.

Popular Skyrim mod returns after 9 years with a major update and a full source code release to keep it relevant 'for many years to come' SkyUI 6 incorporates several of the mods people have been using in the interim.

There's a new Payday game coming later this year, and it's VR Payday: Aces High is being developed by Fast Travel Games, whose previous releases include Cities: VR and Vampire: The Masquerade: Justice.

"Haters" won't stop DLSS 5, says Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 director Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 creative director Daniel Vávra has taken Nvidia’s side in the DLSS 5 debate, and he’s right about one thing.

Epic Games is killing three popular Fortnite game modes after laying off 1,000 employees Following the news that Epic Games laying off 1,000 developers, the studio is also permanently removing three modes from Fortnite.

Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus review - the new sub-$200 gaming CPU go-to Easily outperforming AMD's price competitors and a huge improvement over the 245K, the Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus is a $199 champion.

🎯 Indie Game Releases

Based on SteamCharts trending data, here are the indie games experiencing massive growth:

  • Sons Of The Forest - Currently experiencing a massive 66.5% improvement in ranking (117 positions up)
  • Stardew Valley - Currently experiencing a massive 38.9% improvement in ranking (7 positions up)
  • It Takes Two - Currently experiencing a massive 31.5% improvement in ranking (40 positions up)

🛠️ 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

⭐ GitHub Trending

godotengine/godot - 108,434 stars (C++) Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine

ocornut/imgui - 72,174 stars (C++) Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

bevyengine/bevy - 45,276 stars (Rust) A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

phaserjs/phaser - 39,241 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 - 35,535 stars (C++) Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight.

🐍 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

🤖 Community Highlights

godotengine/godot (GitHub) 108,434 stars

ocornut/imgui (GitHub) 72,174 stars

godotengine/godot (GitHub) 108,434 stars https://github.com/godotengine/godot

ocornut/imgui (GitHub) 72,174 stars https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

🎉 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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