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๐ฎ Game Development Diary - Weekly Roundup
Your Weekly Dose of Gaming & Dev News
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Latest Video from AI Craft
Blue Prince Solved Puzzle Design's Biggest Problem With Randomness
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๐ซ Latest Skool Posts
Blue Prince Solved Puzzle Design's Biggest Problem With Randomness by Morgan Page Blue Prince just swept every major design award this year โ GDC Best Design, BAFTA Game Design, D.I.C.E. Outstanding Independent โ and it was built by one solo developer over eight years. The game com
HoMM3 vs Every Failed Sequel โ Here's What They Missed by Morgan Page Heroes of Might and Magic 3 nailed turn-based strategy on its first try in 1999 โ and after 25 years of failed sequels, Olden Era just proved the original formula was right all along by selling 500K c
Claude Agents Can Now Dream โ And Anthropic Bought 220,000 GPUs to Power It by Morgan Page Anthropic just dropped three massive announcements in one day: Claude Code limits doubled, the SpaceX Colossus 1 data center deal brings 220,000 GPUs online, and Claude agents can now "dream" โ review
Claude Just Became Your Entire Game Dev Toolkit by Morgan Page Anthropic just plugged Claude directly into Blender, Autodesk, SketchUp, Adobe, and Ableton โ letting you create and modify 3D models through conversation. This is the biggest creative workflow update
Great AI news...again! by Jon Gerton xAi partnerships with Anthropic is new. Anthropic gets more compute power and they doubled quotas for Pro/Max tier subscriptions. xAI recently partnered with Cursor too, this looks good for Grok to ge
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๐ SteamCharts This Week
Top 5 Most Played Games
Trending Games (24-Hour Growth)
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๐ช Game Jams This Week
Active Jams
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๐ฐ Gaming News
AMD reportedly planning a new budget graphics card with a surprising number of cores Though much lower clocks.
NBN price hikes are coming on July 1, but you can delay them by a year if you act fast Introductory offers are still your friend.
Everyone knows Wolfenstein 3D made the FPS a phenomenon. What this mod presupposes isโฆ what if it didn't? Isowulf does a remarkably faithful job transforming Wolfenstein 3D into an isometric shooter.
16 years after attending a Fallout: New Vegas launch event, Aaron Paul gets cast in Fallout Season 3 He played the long game.
World of Warcraft 'Classic Plus', a version of the old MMO with modern updates, might actually be real as Blizzard hosts secret event with popular streamers WoW Classic streamers Xaryu, Sodapoppin, and Esfand are among the few invited to Irvine under NDA.
No Pokemon on PC? Try this 86%-rated monster creator collector game on Indie Pass While Pokemon paved the way for the creature catching genre, Coromon modernizes collecting and brings the action to PC via Indie Pass.
Power Simulator X codes May 2026 Here are all the new Power Simulator X codes you can use to redeem for free tokens and rerolls in the Roblox game.
Subterra codes May 2026 Here are all the new Subterra codes you can redeem for free items, ore, and boosts in the Roblox game.
T1's League of Legends Academy team now has a Faker doppelganger Korean League of Legends titans T1 appear to have cloned star player Lee 'Faker' Sang-hyeok. My conspiracy senses are tingling like mad.
Brawl RNG codes May 2026 Get rare characters and free golden dice when you redeem these new Brawl RNG codes in the Roblox game that openly flaunts its inspirations.
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๐ฏ Indie Game Releases
Based on SteamCharts trending data, here are the indie games experiencing massive growth:
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R.E.P.O. - Currently experiencing a massive 75.9% improvement in ranking (22 positions up)
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Resident Evil Requiem - Currently experiencing a massive 42.5% improvement in ranking (54 positions up)
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Subnautica - Currently experiencing a massive 35.3% improvement in ranking (53 positions up)
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โญ GitHub Trending
godotengine/godot - 110,602 stars (C++) Godot Engine โ Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
ocornut/imgui - 73,148 stars (C++) Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
bevyengine/bevy - 46,035 stars (Rust) A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
phaserjs/phaser - 39,611 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 - 36,874 stars (C++) Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight.
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๐ค Community Highlights
godotengine/godot (GitHub) 110,602 stars
ocornut/imgui (GitHub) 73,148 stars
godotengine/godot (GitHub) 110,602 stars https://github.com/godotengine/godot
ocornut/imgui (GitHub) 73,148 stars https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
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๐ 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! ๐
Happy developing!
**โ Morgan**
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