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🎮 Game Development Diary - March 30, 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

Peak's new update gives you the keys to the climb with a suite of custom settings, including the option to turn on 'Grapple Mode (Stupid)' Spiders will always be turned off in this household.

Remember when Mastercard pressured Steam to remove a bunch of NSFW games? The FTC says that's not cool—sort of The FTC warned Mastercard, PayPal, and others against denying consumers the right to buy what they want, saying that "access to such infrastructure an

Too Many F*cking Nazis is the name of a new Steam FPS, and coincidentally an accurate description of its Steam community forums Apparently a controversial idea for a videogame in 2026?

Tiny Empires codes March 2026 Here are all of the new Tiny Empires codes you can redeem for free super farms and some extra gold.

A fan favorite mode is finally returning to Fortnite after a seven year wait The Marvel Endgame LTM is returning to Fortnite OG Chapter 1 Season 8, seven years after it first appeared in the game.

We're finally getting Gears of War E-Day gameplay as Xbox locks in major June 2026 showcase The 2026 Xbox Games Showcase has been announced, promising plenty of news, gameplay, and deep-dives into upcoming games.

Arc Raiders' Flashpoint update finally streamlines crafting—oh, and you can also supercharge Scrappy using food because that just makes sense A new enemy, a map event, and two guns arrive in the Flashpoint update tomorrow.

'The most boring protocol on the internet is also, quietly, one of the most abusable': Doom has been broken down into 1,964 DNS text records and can be run via a PowerShell script Is there anything on earth that can't run Doom at this point?

I love Teamfight Tactics Set 17's Hades vibes, but I'm going to find it hard to say goodbye to Lore and Legends Teamfight Tactics Set 17, Space Gods, does away with the carousel and introduces my favorite skin and unit combo, but I’ll miss Set 16.

Arc Raiders Steam player count for March down over 50% since launch The Arc Raiders player count has dropped significantly since launch, but on the eve of the Flashpoint update, things could be looking up.

🎯 Indie Game Releases

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

  • THE FINALS - Currently experiencing a massive 34.2% improvement in ranking (41 positions up)
  • Warframe - Currently experiencing a massive 29.0% improvement in ranking (9 positions up)
  • FiveM - Currently experiencing a massive 23.1% improvement in ranking (3 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 - 108,727 stars (C++) Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine

ocornut/imgui - 72,280 stars (C++) Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

bevyengine/bevy - 45,344 stars (Rust) A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

phaserjs/phaser - 39,255 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 - 35,667 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) 108,727 stars

ocornut/imgui (GitHub) 72,280 stars

godotengine/godot (GitHub) 108,727 stars https://github.com/godotengine/godot

ocornut/imgui (GitHub) 72,280 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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