THANK YOU for tuning into
#FutureOfPlay
Direct! Enjoy a replay of the hype reel as you WISHLIST GAMES✨
Steam event runs until June 15, so check out Season 5 featured titles and explore some past hits too!
🎮 Steam:
▶️ Showcase:
What if creators had the power to develop, control, and ship the games they want to see in the world without asking for permission?
GLITCH presents THE MOONRISE FUND. We're backing people, not projects, with checks between $120-250k!🌛
Find out more:
Your fave Toonami-inspired showcase is back for Summer Game Fest: Future Of Play Direct airs Saturday June 8
⏰ 8am PT / 11am ET
🎮 Exclusive announcements & premieres!
✨ Space! Witchcraft! Anime girlies!
💃🏾 The power of DANCE!
Tune in (or else) 😈
➡️:
Want to learn more about the work of Black founders in video games?
Here is a list of Black founders of game development studios that we would fund in a heartbeat.
THREAD:
GLITCH presents: The Founder's Kit! A tool built by Evva Karr that contains an array of useful resources curated for indie studios and developers!
And it's constantly being updated and improved, y'all! Link below!💜
The future is here.
#FutureOfPlay
Direct is a new spin on indie showcases, inspired by 90's anime & the quintessential hype machine Toonami! New trailers and fresh updates from across the galaxy featuring 20+ titles.
Debuting at
#SummerGameFest
on Sat, June 12th at 11:15 am PT!
We are deeply saddened to hear that our friend
@fahmitsu
, creator & writer of Coffee Talk, has passed away. Our hearts are with his friends & family
In his memory, we’d like to share his message from our recording, to everyone touched by his work
Thank you, Fahmi
We miss you ❤️
fahmiツ | check pinned & wishlist our upcoming game
innalillahi wa innailaihi rajiun telah meninggal adik saya fahmi, mohon dibukakan pintu maaf yang sebesar2nya jika ada urusan atau hutang yang belum diselesaikan bisa menghubungi kami pihak keluarga
Howdy indie devs!
Your pals at GLITCH have curated pitch decks from game creators around the world — and the outcomes of each! More info + link below!
RT to help spread the word!💜
We were thinking that the
#TheGameAwards
are missing some categories...so we made our own 👀
✨First up in THE GALAXY GAME AWARDS✨
Best Game Where You Play as a Bird
In
@BreezeGame
, you’re a pet corgi that ends up in the world in the clouds and gains weather powers, tasked with defeating pollution and fixing the weather.
Currently in development, can't wait to see more!
#FutureOfPlay
GLITCH is working hard towards providing tools to indie game developers!
From Backbone to Bioshock, this collection showcases not only the pitch deck but the type of pitch and the outcome of said pitch.
Check it out!
🛰️ SYSTEMS ONLINE 🛰️
#FutureOfPlay
Direct is BACK during Summer Game Fest on Saturday, June 11 at 10:30am PT!
🎉 Exclusive announcements & trailers
✨ New game premieres
🎸 Special guests & performances
Get in the ship you won't want to miss this ⬇️
Black Dahlia will kill the competition... TODAY!
She is now available on PS4 and Steam!
Dahlia will arrive on Nintendo Switch this Friday, March 31st.
Check out everything in this update in her full release notes here:
#Skullgirls
#SkullgirlsBlackDahlia
Split Fate Studios is a two person team creating
@highelogirls
! A Free-to-Play VN about an amateur team chasing esports glory! We're chatting with the narrative designer & one half of the team behind the project:
@epistellar
.
#IndieStudioWednesday
Are you ready to pre-game
#TheGameAwards
?
#FutureOfPlay
Direct returns with a BANG bringing you new trailers, fresh updates, and endless style from across the galaxy. 🚀
Season 2 airs on YouTube & The Game Awards pre-show on Twitch, Thurs Dec 9th at 3pm PT / 6pm ET!
ValiDate is a romantic visual novel about 13 adults navigating new relationships and the harsh realities that come alongside them.
Play as Malik, Inaya, Isabelle, and Emhari in Volume 1 of ValiDate: Struggling Singles in your Area this September!
#ValiDateGame
#VisualNovel
🚀 LAUNCH INITIATED 🚀
#FutureOfPlay
Direct is back for Summer Game Fest on Saturday, June 10 at 11:00am ET!
🎉 Exclusive announcements & trailers
✨ Brand new game premieres
📺 Live on Twitch, IGN, GameSpot & GLITCH YouTube
Expect the unexpected 😏🎮
What if creators had the power to develop, control, and ship the games they want to see in the world without asking for permission?
GLITCH presents THE MOONRISE FUND. We're backing people, not projects, with checks between $120-250k!🌛
Find out more:
And of course, a return of a crowd favourite category:
Most Smoochable Characters Award💋
💗 ValiDate: Struggling Singles in your Area -
@ValiDateGame
🎹 We Are OFK -
@OFKband
🪄 Potionomics -
@potionomics
🏝️ Coral Island -
@coralislandgame
It's a shame, but
#FutureOfPlay
Direct has come to an end for this season (👀). That doesn't mean the hype stops here!
Watch the re-run on YouTube right now and catch up on all the bangers that you may have missed.
LINK BELOW⬇️
The GALAXY GAME AWARD 🪐✨ for 'Game with Most Smoochable Characters' goes to...
HADES,
@SupergiantGames
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Honourable mention goes to
@perfectgarbo
and LOVE SHORE because Hades is a hell of a final boss 🔥
Where’s that video of the guy who picks up one cat and then is surrounded by cats because that’s me right now with y’all adding MORE CAT GAMES in the replies 😂😻
Moonrise, a new games fund championing diverse voices, announced the first three studios it's backing: Future Club (formed by the developers of Skullgirls), Raddminton developer Virtuoso Neomedia, and Love Shore developer Perfect Garbage.
🚀INCOMING TRANSMISSION🚀
#FutureOfPlay
Direct returns for E3 2022
Our Toonami-inspired, freshly curated, hype-filled interstellar showcase is BACK this June, and you're invited!
Ready to show the galaxy what you've got?
Game submissions are now open ⬇️
✨Imposter Syndrome✨
Do you experience it? Does it exist? Is it all just a construct meant to exacerbate self-doubt and prevent you from pursuing your dream? 🤔
We're chatting about it with
@EvvaKarr
and
@legobutts
tomorrow at 6PM ET in the Twitter Spaces! RSVP below 🔽
And our FINAL category of the Galaxy Game Awards:
Game with Most Smoochable Characters (that maybe should not be smooched but the heart wants what it wants)💋
• Resident Evil Village
• Hades
• Love Shore
• Boyfriend Dungeon
June 11 is gonna be WILD! Just remember,
#FutureOfPlay
Direct airs right after
#WholesomeDirect
Here I made you a handy little graphic to help you remember okay now you can’t possibly forget
First it’s 💜🐱💜 then it’s 🖤👾🖤, got it? 👍🏾
#FutureOfPlay
Direct returns in June 2023! 🚀
The most stylish show in the galaxy is back for another interstellar broadcast and YOU'RE invited
🎮 Showcase your games to 1M+ viewers
🎉 Summer Game Fest 2023
🎶 Music, exclusive trailers & reveals
Submissions are now open! ⬇️
Want to learn more about the Moonrise Fund, a fund created to help bold voices in gaming get started?
Who better to explain it than GLITCH's CEO
@EvvaKarr
? This video thread will feature some answers to questions folks might be having!
🚀 🚀
Wow, yesterday was
@chicory
's one year anniversary, and they’re doing a piano album of that glorious
@kuraine
OST!
Hmm, maybe we should do something at
#FutureOfPlay
Direct to celebrate with y’all? I have an idea... a funky idea...
Did you hear?
@ValiDateGame
is coming to Switch!
ValiDate: Struggling Singles in your Area is a romantic visual novel about 13 adults in Jercy City navigating new relationships and the harsh realities that come alongside them.
Coming this summer!
#FutureOfPlay
Tell your friends,
@CartomancyGame
is coming August 9th!
Dive into divination with the The Cartomancy Anthology, a collection of introspective digital experiences in an anthology format. Each card is one of the Major Arcana! 😮✨
#FutureOfPlay
Howdy y'all!
GLITCH has returned with another tool created for developers starting their own studios! Pacts, Covenants & Treaties is filled with example templates for writing non-disclosure agreements, founder pacts, contracts and more!
Host
@MeliosAI
returns to turn up the volume and add a little flavour with 30+ stellar games from across the globe!
And who better to bring the funk than
@alex_moukala
with a brand new funky performance, starring some fan favourites games 🎸
The time has come for the most talked about award show that sort of exists
The ✨ GALAXY GAME AWARDS ✨ return!
An online celebration of games featuring categories
#TheGameAwards
missed (don't worry Geoff we got this one 👍🏾)
All voted by YOU right here on Twitter
Let's go ⬇️
Solve murders, fight gods and maybe (definitely) fall in love.
Another exciting announcement as Love Shore by
@perfectgarbo
comes to Steam and Xbox on October 21!
I am marking my calendar RIGHT NOW 👀
#FutureOfPlay
Date MORE weapons 🔨❤️🪓
The Secret Weapons update starring Leah and Jonah is coming to Boyfriend Dungeon this summer!
And meet DR. HOLMES, a new character concepted by
@nakamura193
& voiced by
@Loserfruit
Whew
@KitfoxGames
you sure know how to bring the heat to
#FutureOfPlay
!
Howdy folks! It’s time for a new
#IndieStudioWednesday
! This week, we’re joined by the show stopping
@MelloMakes
, whose tunes continue to rock my world.
We’ll be talking influences, inspirations, dreams and more. Follow this thread for a live interview below!
As you may have seen during
#FutureOfPlay
Direct, we’re launching our campaign raise for the
#GalaxyFund
!
The Galaxy Fund is a prototype grant for bold new ideas and playful experiments made by BIPOC & queer game developers 💜
Showcased at
#FutureOfPlay
Direct S3, the dark fantasy visual novel Kabaret launched last month, and we've got 2 Steam keys to celebrate! 🍵
To enter:
👥 Follow
@heyglitch
&
@personatheorymy
❤️ Like & RT this tweet
💬 Comment with your favourite type of tea (or warm drink)!
And finally, in our most voted category EVER, and after being tied for nearly 2 days straight
The GALAXY GAME AWARD 🏆 for Most Smoochable Characters goes to…
VALIDATE,
@ValiDateGame
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Way to show up y'all, this one was WILD
#FutureOfPlay
Direct may be done for this season, but the hype doesn't stop here.
Check out the games we featured in our HYPE reel and keep eyes on the thread below for more info on how to get them 👀
Tuning in to Twitch Gaming channel on June 10? We'll have some special programming there!
Vibe to Melios' mixtapes before and after
#FutureOfPlay
Direct 🎶 then don't change that channel, because
@_wholesomegames
Direct airs next!
Plus, reruns if you miss it the first time 📺💜
Less then 24hrs to go, so let’s do this one last time 😎
✨
#FutureOfPlay
Direct
☀️ During
#summergamefest
🗓️ Saturday, June 8
⏰ 8am PT / 11am ET
📺 On GLITCH YouTube, IGN & GameSpot
🎮 Exclusive premieres, announcements, trailers
😈 Tune in (or else)
New gameplay from The Wandering Village by
@StrayFawnStudio
! (Gosh I love that creature so MUCH)
Become a leader, build a settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with this giant wandering animal to survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful world.
#FutureOfPlay
.
@futureclubdev
is a cooperatively owned & run games studio, where everyone on the team has equal ownership and voting power
"One of our top priorities was to preserve our worker-owned, cooperative business structure,” says
@frani_e
and
@kinucakes
The Most Smoochable Characters winner
@ValiDateGame
just dropped a new update 😘 And 'tis the gifting season, so we're giving away a Steam, Xbox & Switch code for the game!
To Enter:
💗 Follow
@heyglitch
&
@ValiDateGame
🔁 RT this tweet
💬 Comment which platform you'd play on!
High Elo Girls is a VN set in the fictional Laurea Heights, CA, that follows Rafaela* and her journey from college dropout to substitute for Momentum Gaming (MMG), an ambitious team of five high level players come together to compete at Targon.
Hello
#IndieStudioWednesday
!
@kimchica25
is a powerhouse, working as the CM for Rose City Games, and as a Producer for Soft Not Weak’s upcoming Spirit Swap. AND, she is an advisor for Kowloon Nights!
We’re gonna chat about her journey and experiences in games below! ✨✨
Get in the ship,
#FutureOfPlay
Direct is almost here! 🚀
Tune in Saturday, June 10
8:00am PT | 11:00am ET | 3:00pm GMT
🔴 YouTube:
Click 🔔 to get notified
🟣 Twitch:
🟠 IGN channels
🟡 GameSpot channels
Oh hey new folks 👀👋🏾
Want to know how you and your studio can work with GLITCH to make bold new games?
💸 Moonrise Fund
✨ Founder’s Kit
🎮 Future Of Play Direct
▶️ Publish Me / Punish Me
🎉 & MORE
Take a look at how to co-create the
#FutureOfPlay
together! 🧵⬇️
Burnout causes real damage, but it can be hard to know when you’re in it and even harder to come back from it
How do we identify burnout in ourselves & our team? How do we set boundaries and make room for moments of joy?
Let's discuss this week on Future Of Play Radio!
LINK ⬇️
Slowly catching up on all these tweets, please accept this shot from the GLITCH social media home base for today, just before the show aired.
No I am not the pretty lady in the front, that’s
@delaneynovinka
, Queen of Comms. I am very clearly the frantic one in the background.
Howdy y’all!
It’s
@bogboogie
here to say farewell. My time at GLITCH as their social media manager has come to an end! It’s been a wonderful year working with the community and such an amazing team.
Don’t worry, it’s not forever. You’ll still be seeing me around. 😈
HOW MUCH DOES YOUR INDIE GAME DREAM COST?!
@EvvaKarr
and
@bogboogie
team up for another episode of Publish Me, Punish Me! A show centered around deal practices in the indie game industry.
Time to get wild on some deals.
😈 😇
#FutureOfPlay
Direct may be done for this season, BUT THE HYPE DOESN'T STOP HERE
Check out the games we featured in our Hype Reel and keep an eye on the thread below for more info on how to get all the titles featured this year 👀
I too would die for Pudgems 😻
Check out today's episode of Game Devs React where we sit with Kells from
@CalicoGame
to read reviews about their cozy cat cafe simulator!
LINK BELOW ⤵️
HOWDY
#IndieStudioWednesday
!
This week, I'm joined by my lovely co-founder
@_emnays
. Emmett is the Narrative Director of Perfect Garbage, an indie studio producing
@LOVESHOREGAME
! We're going into making an indie studio, the hurdles and the successes, and more! Join us!