André Bernhardt
@indieadvisor
André 4.000 (he/him) / Works with indies devs - now with SpielFabrique 🏭 / IGDA Berlin Treasurer 💸 / ♥s games, books & pencils ✏ / Neutral Good out of Offenbach 🦊
Today I learned (out of a newsletter) 💡 HR tip | Is an employee entitled to pay during pre-trial detention? 1/2 🧶
How does ist work with the gamescom tickets/ passes this year? It seems a bit complicated as old traditions seem to be gone and other things changed as well. Like devcom being "gamescom dev" now. Let´s take a look on the business side of tickets as far as I got it 👀 🧶 1/4
Just kidding - its a bit messy this year - but there is still an exhibitor ticket!
Check your password and password security - you might be surprised 🙀 bitwarden.com/password-str...
Greetings from the #germandevdays in beautiful Frankfurt am Main. Who else is here these days?
Greetings from the GAME association members gathering. See you all later at the #sommerfest 🦩
🚂I took the night train to Nordic game conference! If you are into travelling with night trains AMA on my trip Berlin -> Malmö (Stockholm) and/ or read my blog entry: theindieadvisory.de?p=216 #nordicgame #nightjet
If you heard #indiepocalypse before, I guess you know this image, but I was always curious: Steam got released in 2004 (at least in Europe with Halflife 2) What kind of titles where on it before and how?
(Took me a while to upload the foto - sorry) Kojima shares his specific experiences with certain books and media as well as the outcome of it for his work. So if you are not too familiar with his games - like I am - it will be hard to find a resemblance. Still readable - yes! But necessary - no!
15 mins break is all I need to tell you that today is already the last day of the Play Promote Publish Workshop with Erich Pommer Institut 😢 Today we still have great speakers like Tim of @headup.bsky.social and ... 1/2 🧶
First one to use the #easyonline hashtag. Like when you recently also been hanging out with this amazing piece of software engineering :)
3rd day of thePlay Promote Publish workshop series with Erich Pommer Institut. Thanks again to Medienboard, all the speakers and participants. Currently learning about PC self-publishing and the major platforms by Joni of Happy Broccoli Games 🥦 1 /x 🧶
Second workshop day of our PPP workshop series. Having @riad.de talking right now about early validation! Short glimpse here 👀 Thanks to all participants, Erich Pommer Institute and medienboard for making this possible!
Took my like forever ("wounded") but finally got it! Looking forward to the full release! @odddreamsdigital.bsky.social Try the demo 🦀 store.steampowered.com/app/3526710/... #everythingiscrab
Anyone remembering the good old times? 😅 #indiegamedev #steamsales
Greetings from Talk and Play. Looking forward talking to great people and to briefly promote the workshop series I am running with Ruth Lemmen and the Erich Pommer Institute called Play Promote Publish. Find all details here: www.epi.media/playpromotep... #berlingamescene 🍋
And the answer is: 1999 🎉 "game design Secrets of the pros / The scene book from the USA" Will share some more knowledge out of it in the future 😉
Guess the publishing date of the book! "So, you want to produce a game? There has never been a better time to create your very own computer game. The tools have never been better or easier to use, the industry has reached a high level of maturity... 1/2 🧶 #indiegamedev
Do I miss something on Steam? I am playing Easy Delivery Co. right now - I like. I am 3 hrs in & solved one of the riddles to enter Fishingtown - was not to complicated - got an achievement. I needed to visit 3 of the radio towers therefore - two of them you will only reach by using Tea... 🧶 1/2
To Blizzard or not to Blizzard in Berlin - currently it is snowy but all fine 🌬️ As clever as I am I used the coldest days to move into an ew office with Stratosphere Games. If you are sitting in Berlin Mitte - let me know if you wanna go for a coffee these days. #berlingamescene #indiedev
State of the Bundesförderung 11.12.2025 Still some money available 💶 If you need some help in the application process - let me know 🩼
The Venga Bus is coming ... 🚌 🎶 Actually it is not a bus as I am on a train going to Cologne for Deutscher Entwicklerpreis 2025 but I am looking forward to see you there and needed a reason to post some more Eurodance from the 90ies Yours truly, André #dep2025 youtu.be/4HFppOam4AU?...
We played Monowave at #ddc2025 by Korean Studio BBB @studiobbb.bsky.social and liked it ♥️ Check out what Korean Indies have to offer here 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJaA...
Looking for money for your game dev project in Germany 👀 The DLR & BMFTR 🚀 still have something to offer for you. Attached status of the current "Bundesförderung"s pool 💶