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Snot Pop!

Snot Pop!

Trap, pop, and splat your way through slime-choked sewers in this '90s-style vertical pixel platformer! Armed only with snot bubbles, outmanoeuvre vile Mouldlings, Mushrooms, Bog Belchers, Glumbats, and Brutes across fifty+ level…

Followers5
LaunchNov 2, 2026
Has some form of AI usage

Snot Pop! is an indie project. Like many independent developers, generative AI was used as a tool among many during development; for brainstorming, writing, art and audio design, and working through balancing problems. AI was not the game designer or orchestrator of the project. All content was reviewed, directed, altered, and approved before inclusion. Everything in the game reflects deliberate creative decisions made by the developer.

Writing, Ideation, Other
Xenogarden

Xenogarden

Xenogarden is a dark sci-fi strategy game where you spread an alien swarm, build synapse nodes, defend your core, and overwhelm human defenders before they destroy your living network and cut the invasion apart.

Followers5
LaunchUnknown
Has some form of AI usage

Generative AI-assisted tools were used as part of the development process for Xenogarden.This includes support in creating and refining selected visual content such as concept art, artwork, textures, marketing materials and store page assets, as well as assistance with text, localization, sound/music ideas and creative drafts.All content included in the game is pre-generated, selected, reviewed and curated. The game does not generate new AI content during gameplay and does not connect to external AI services during gameplay.

2D Images, Marketing Assets, Writing, Localization, Music, Ideation
Forged Cards

Forged Cards

A roguelike deckbuilder where YOU forge the cards. Slot casts into molds, temper their power, and etch combo inscriptions. Pick your path, battle, bargain, or brave the unknown, then outplay your enemy in simultaneous, position-b…

Followers5
LaunchOct 26, 2026
Has some form of AI usage

Forged Cards is a passion project, built by one person. I'm not a game studio, I'm a single developer who fell in love with an idea for a deck-builder where you build the cards and set out to make it real.Games like this usually take a team. Modern AI development tools are a big part of how one person was able to build something at this scope. I used AI coding assistants to help me build and iterate on the game's systems, AI image generation for the art, and AI-generated sound effects, all of it reviewed, edited, and shaped by me to fit the world I wanted to create. Every card, every enemy, every choice about how this game looks and feels came from a person (and some close friends) who cared about getting it right.I'm being upfront about this because I think you deserve to know how the thing you're playing was made. Forged Cards exists because these tools let one person build a game that otherwise would have stayed an idea in a notebook.

2D Images, Code, Sound Effects
Shirt Happens!

Shirt Happens!

Build a t-shirt brand with your friends online, or run the whole shop solo. Draw your own prints, then cut, sew, overlock and press every shirt by hand. Want a real factory? Bring up to 10. Do a bit of everything, or pick one sta…

Followers5
LaunchNov 10, 2026
Has some form of AI usage

Shirt Happens! was made with the help of generative AI. We used it to write and reviewcode, to bring the game's mechanics online, to support our UI work, to generate visualassets and reference images for our 2D and 3D art, to draft written text including partsof this store page, and as a sounding board for design ideas. Everything it produced wasreviewed, edited and finished by us before it shipped.

2D Images, UI Elements, 3D Models, Code, Writing, Ideation
Trials Of The Void

Trials Of The Void

Trials of the Void is a co-op survival crafting and base defense game for up to four players. Explore, gather, craft, and upgrade your castle by day. When night falls, the Void awakens. Defend what you've built, survive the relen…

Followers5
LaunchUnknown
Has some form of AI usage

AI has been used to generate artwork for this game.

2D Images
Oops, All Tanks!

Oops, All Tanks!

Build a tiny 2×2 RPG warband, draft and upgrade gear, forge powerful weapons — then watch your terrible ideas fight other players’ saved builds and somehow turn four questionable heroes into an unstoppable wall of tanks.

Followers5
LaunchUnknown
Has some form of AI usage

Some pre-generated artwork and sound assets used in the game and its marketing materials were created or edited with the assistance of generative AI tools. All such content was manually selected, reviewed, and edited as needed by the developer. The game does not generate AI content during gameplay.

2D Images, Sound Effects, Marketing Assets
Warix

Warix

Warix is a fast-paced 1v1 territory capture fighting game set in a dark, microscopic world. Control a glowing cybernetic nanobot, draw trails to claim turf, and destroy your rival in high-speed combat. Parry bullets, steal boost,…

Followers5
LaunchUnknown
Has some form of AI usage

Generative AI tools were utilized to create some base visual and audio assets for Warix. AI was used to generate background textures, character sprites, and promotional store art. All AI-generated imagery was subsequently edited, composited, and polished by hand to fit the game's final aesthetic.

2D Images, Marketing Assets, Sound Effects
Findport: Before the Silence

Findport: Before the Silence

A cyberpunk detective visual novel where you investigate a hidden signal beneath the city, dive into a digital underworld, and make no-win decisions the game remembers all the way to one of four endings.

Followers5
LaunchUnknown
Has some form of AI usage

This game uses generative artificial intelligence (Midjourney) as a supporting tool in the production of some of its artwork and illustrations. All AI-generated content is selected, edited, and art-directed by the development team, which defines composition, style, and visual coherence before it is integrated into the game.

2D Images
Cruzado

Cruzado

Cruzado is a medieval action roguelite where you battle relentless hordes, create powerful builds, and prepare between fights. Upgrade your gear, drink potions, romance your companions, and choose every move carefully—one mistake…

Followers5
LaunchUnknown
Has some form of AI usage

Some visual assets and illustrations in the game were created with the assistance of generative AI tools. These assets were selected, edited, refined, and integrated into the game by the development team. No generative AI content is created during gameplay.

2D Images
Kintsugi Moon

Kintsugi Moon

A small rabbit awakens with no memory in ancient Japan. Guided by moonlight and drawn to shrines, piece together a forgotten past on a hand-painted climb toward Mount Fuji — where a shapeshifting fox, a wandering storyteller, and…

Followers5
LaunchUnknown
Has some form of AI usage

Some visual assets in this demo are AI-generated placeholders, used temporarily due to budget constraints as a solo developer. These are planned to be replaced with final hand-crafted art before the game's full release.

2D Images
Nova Survivors

Nova Survivors

A space horde-survival roguelite where the 21 ships aren't skins: each flies its own weapon, ultimate and role, so the same cards build wildly different runs. Chain evolutions and artifacts through a 100-level campaign and endles…

Followers5
LaunchNov 5, 2026
Has some form of AI usage

This game features background music generated with AI, used under a commercial license. Some of the supported-language translations were produced with AI assistance. All visual art and game code are hand-authored.

Music, Localization
THE 13th Digit

THE 13th Digit

In a rain-soaked megacity, one law remains: cross one trillion dollars in hidden wealth and you forfeit your right to live. You are K, the executioner who enforces it — until the numbers start to lie. A branching cyberpunk noir w…

Followers5
LaunchOct 12, 2026
Has some form of AI usage

This game uses AI-generated content. Background and character artwork was created with the assistance of generative AI image tools and edited by the developer. The English localization was produced with AI assistance (a large language model) and reviewed. All such content is pre-generated during development; nothing is generated live during gameplay.

2D Images, Localization