How do you find out about the indie games you play?

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Relating to the discussion from What indie games are on your radar?:

I found out about Stonehearth through serendipity and Steam Greenlight. Thankfully I saw it while it was still in Kickstarter. I have since learned of several indie titles through the forums here, but I am frustrated that in general interesting games have to get a relatively big following before I hear about them. Usually I only hear of them long after their Kickstarter and other similar campaigns have ended so I never have the chance to get in on the ground floor, as it were.

So Iā€™m wondering, how do you all learn about new games, specifically indie games, that are in early development?

(UPDATE: Edited for clarity and for correction of bad grammar.)

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The big oneā€™s usually crop up on twitter, or in the media somewhere.

But for everything else, I tend to give IndieGaming a browse, I canā€™t speak of the community there as I donā€™t know anything about it, but it seems pretty on the ball for the majority of indie games out there.

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I found Stonehearth on Sjindie Games, a microseries by Sjin from Yogscast. The next two Iā€™m checking out are Hammerwatch and the Papers, Please games, both demonstrated by Lewis and SImon, the founders of the Yogscast. (Iā€™m a bit of a fan.)

Sjindie games.

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Iā€™ve found games vial a ton of methods ranging from random links on Reddit tangential searches of games in a genre to digging through over 700 games on Greenlight. I found Stonehearth by chance on Greenlight i think in the first few hours of its Kickstarter. I found Towns and Gnomoria by googling ā€œdwarf fortress like gamesā€. I found the Doublefine adventure and kickstarter via reddit.

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my two favorite sources for all things ā€œindieā€ā€¦ :slight_smile:

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Go, Yognauts! It is very entertaining.

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I follow regularly sites like

Gamasutra

Kotaku

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Between Gamasutra, Facebook, and crowd-funded websites like Kickstarter I find a good amount of great games!

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Well, the Cube World Forum introduced the game ā€˜Timber and Stoneā€™ and the T&S forum introduced me this.
3 Voxel-graphic game at a row :stuck_out_tongue:

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I usually browse kickstarter, thatā€™s how I found out about Stonehearth, Timber and Stone, Castle Story, and ROAM

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I found stonehearth because of sjindie games,
as well as:
@ManOfRet and @bitassassin .

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I found stone hearth because of paulsoaresjr which is how Iā€™ve found my last 2 games( his stonehearth demo can be found here: YouTube ) other than that usually its just from my nephew who lives on the net and seems to find everything as soon as it goes up

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After I found my first indev indie: Cube World, I siged up for Cube World Forum. Amazing community so I just forum there all the time, barely talking about Cube World. Anyway, I normally find Indie Games through that, e.g. Stonehearth, Castle Story, Starbound, etcā€¦

Also, I was Sjin from the Yogscast who normally does 1-2 ā€˜Sjindie Gamesā€™ episodes a week. So I can see what is new, and if you didnā€™t already know, he done one on Stonehearth. And, funnily enough, that isnā€™t how I found Stonehearth, but I was like O.O when I saw it on his channel.