Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️🌈
@amicableanimal.bsky.social
Created #SOLAS128, working on #CRT7. Try the demo: https://bit.ly/CRT7Game | Part-time lecturer, part-time Scottish BAFTA winning game developer! He/him
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Upfall is OUT NOW – totally free!
Burst bubbles to progress upwards, but be careful to dodge the glowing hazards in the depths!
🎨 20+ customisations
🎮 Controller support
🔊 Creepy reverb
🦾 Accessibility options
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3570280/...
Itch: amicableanimal.itch.io/upfall
Burst bubbles to progress upwards, but be careful to dodge the glowing hazards in the depths!
🎨 20+ customisations
🎮 Controller support
🔊 Creepy reverb
🦾 Accessibility options
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3570280/...
Itch: amicableanimal.itch.io/upfall
I absolutely loved Trifoil when I played it on Stream last year. Definitely check out the demo if you've not already!
Cannot wait for #screenshotsaturday, a stutter free video showing some new backgrounds for mid game levels. LMK what you think.
Trifoil is an unique line drawing puzzle game with a twist. Check out the demo and wishlist on steam store.steampowered.com/app/3085710/... #puzzlegame #puzzle #trifoil
Trifoil is an unique line drawing puzzle game with a twist. Check out the demo and wishlist on steam store.steampowered.com/app/3085710/... #puzzlegame #puzzle #trifoil
January 8, 2026 at 10:34 AM
I absolutely loved Trifoil when I played it on Stream last year. Definitely check out the demo if you've not already!
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I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.
January 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM
I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.
It's wild to see the small minority that are still defending posting on Twitter.
Where is your line? What do they need to do to make it clear they're the bad guys to you?
What am I supposed to think about *you* if you post there apart from that you're an absolute piece of work?
Where is your line? What do they need to do to make it clear they're the bad guys to you?
What am I supposed to think about *you* if you post there apart from that you're an absolute piece of work?
January 7, 2026 at 1:08 PM
It's wild to see the small minority that are still defending posting on Twitter.
Where is your line? What do they need to do to make it clear they're the bad guys to you?
What am I supposed to think about *you* if you post there apart from that you're an absolute piece of work?
Where is your line? What do they need to do to make it clear they're the bad guys to you?
What am I supposed to think about *you* if you post there apart from that you're an absolute piece of work?
So many designers will do anything aside from learn the *absolute basics* of how our visual system works.
The amount of times I've talked to UI/UX designers and they've never heard of Gestalt Principles, or preattentive features. These are crazy basic concepts that help so much in making things.
The amount of times I've talked to UI/UX designers and they've never heard of Gestalt Principles, or preattentive features. These are crazy basic concepts that help so much in making things.
It’s 2026, we’re all worried about AI taking over design but check this UX out...
Let me explain:
We stayed over at Blackwood Forest over xmas.
When we arrived, I plugged the car into the electric charging point.
After it was charged I tried to release the charging cable.
Let me explain:
We stayed over at Blackwood Forest over xmas.
When we arrived, I plugged the car into the electric charging point.
After it was charged I tried to release the charging cable.
January 6, 2026 at 11:05 PM
So many designers will do anything aside from learn the *absolute basics* of how our visual system works.
The amount of times I've talked to UI/UX designers and they've never heard of Gestalt Principles, or preattentive features. These are crazy basic concepts that help so much in making things.
The amount of times I've talked to UI/UX designers and they've never heard of Gestalt Principles, or preattentive features. These are crazy basic concepts that help so much in making things.
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It's time to start shouting about EDJAM 2026!
Will you be in Edinburgh Jan 30th to Feb 1st? Then come join us and make cool stuff in our big annual 48h game jam!
100ish people, all disciplines/experience levels welcome, super friendly! Hybrid options for joining too 🧡
Sign up: bit.ly/edjam26
Will you be in Edinburgh Jan 30th to Feb 1st? Then come join us and make cool stuff in our big annual 48h game jam!
100ish people, all disciplines/experience levels welcome, super friendly! Hybrid options for joining too 🧡
Sign up: bit.ly/edjam26
January 3, 2026 at 9:11 PM
It's time to start shouting about EDJAM 2026!
Will you be in Edinburgh Jan 30th to Feb 1st? Then come join us and make cool stuff in our big annual 48h game jam!
100ish people, all disciplines/experience levels welcome, super friendly! Hybrid options for joining too 🧡
Sign up: bit.ly/edjam26
Will you be in Edinburgh Jan 30th to Feb 1st? Then come join us and make cool stuff in our big annual 48h game jam!
100ish people, all disciplines/experience levels welcome, super friendly! Hybrid options for joining too 🧡
Sign up: bit.ly/edjam26
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‘Sh*t’ art is better than no art
January 5, 2026 at 5:13 PM
‘Sh*t’ art is better than no art
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Je viens tout juste de jouer à la démo de SOLAS 128 de @amicableanimal.bsky.social, et je suis totalement charmé. Profitez des soldes Steam pour vous le procurer !
store.steampowered.com/app/1257850/...
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Save 75% on SOLAS 128 on Steam
Explore SOLAS 128, a game of interconnected puzzles where you redirect and reconfigure rhythmic pulses of light to breathe life back into an ancient machine. BAFTA Scotland Game Winner.
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January 5, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Je viens tout juste de jouer à la démo de SOLAS 128 de @amicableanimal.bsky.social, et je suis totalement charmé. Profitez des soldes Steam pour vous le procurer !
store.steampowered.com/app/1257850/...
store.steampowered.com/app/1257850/...
Oh well hello there... Loved the first Brutalist Jam, I'll need to get all up into this!
super thrilled to finally release Quake Brutalist Jam 3! an absolutely insane amount of work was put into this pack, so much so that we decided to put together a standalone release, no purchase of Quake required!
www.slipseer.com/index.php?re...
www.slipseer.com/index.php?re...
Jam - Quake Brutalist Jam III
Quake Brutalist Jam III is a megalithic community project more than a year in the making. It features an entirely new arsenal, a set of new monsters, new powerups, and a complete visual overhaul of Qu...
www.slipseer.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Oh well hello there... Loved the first Brutalist Jam, I'll need to get all up into this!
It's time to start shouting about EDJAM 2026!
Will you be in Edinburgh Jan 30th to Feb 1st? Then come join us and make cool stuff in our big annual 48h game jam!
100ish people, all disciplines/experience levels welcome, super friendly! Hybrid options for joining too 🧡
Sign up: bit.ly/edjam26
Will you be in Edinburgh Jan 30th to Feb 1st? Then come join us and make cool stuff in our big annual 48h game jam!
100ish people, all disciplines/experience levels welcome, super friendly! Hybrid options for joining too 🧡
Sign up: bit.ly/edjam26
January 3, 2026 at 9:11 PM
It's time to start shouting about EDJAM 2026!
Will you be in Edinburgh Jan 30th to Feb 1st? Then come join us and make cool stuff in our big annual 48h game jam!
100ish people, all disciplines/experience levels welcome, super friendly! Hybrid options for joining too 🧡
Sign up: bit.ly/edjam26
Will you be in Edinburgh Jan 30th to Feb 1st? Then come join us and make cool stuff in our big annual 48h game jam!
100ish people, all disciplines/experience levels welcome, super friendly! Hybrid options for joining too 🧡
Sign up: bit.ly/edjam26
With everything going on, I think it's time to properly retire my Twitter not leave it up and unused.
Does anyone have a good suggestion for deleting all tweets over there? I want to leave it empty aside from a forwarding address, basically. Been looking around and quite a few ways look rather sus?
Does anyone have a good suggestion for deleting all tweets over there? I want to leave it empty aside from a forwarding address, basically. Been looking around and quite a few ways look rather sus?
January 3, 2026 at 9:26 AM
With everything going on, I think it's time to properly retire my Twitter not leave it up and unused.
Does anyone have a good suggestion for deleting all tweets over there? I want to leave it empty aside from a forwarding address, basically. Been looking around and quite a few ways look rather sus?
Does anyone have a good suggestion for deleting all tweets over there? I want to leave it empty aside from a forwarding address, basically. Been looking around and quite a few ways look rather sus?
I've seen student after student after student discouraged because they see a game sold as "from a solo dev" (that's actually dozens of people with you count up QA etc) and think "I can't make something like that" so they never try.
This obsession is making games as a whole less interesting.
This obsession is making games as a whole less interesting.
2026 is the year I’m going to fight against the Solo Dev classification
December 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I've seen student after student after student discouraged because they see a game sold as "from a solo dev" (that's actually dozens of people with you count up QA etc) and think "I can't make something like that" so they never try.
This obsession is making games as a whole less interesting.
This obsession is making games as a whole less interesting.
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People get hung up on "I don't know how to write a good review" but honestly you don't need paragraphs of analysis and observations. Don't compare yourself to a journalist. "I loved it!" or "I had fun" are equally valid reviews, AND matter just as much to the Steam algorithm to support game devs!
Sometimes it is so easy to write a review 💜
December 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
People get hung up on "I don't know how to write a good review" but honestly you don't need paragraphs of analysis and observations. Don't compare yourself to a journalist. "I loved it!" or "I had fun" are equally valid reviews, AND matter just as much to the Steam algorithm to support game devs!
I once sold Johnny Ball some paint.
Working in a video store in the 90s, guy came in to order laserdiscs- Dune and The People Under The Stairs. Commented to a co-worker about the odd order (we sold very few laserdiscs, and usually just Criterion Collection art house films.)
"I think he's in them." It was Everett McGill.
"I think he's in them." It was Everett McGill.
December 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I once sold Johnny Ball some paint.
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Garry, hon, your 10 year old has an abnormally excellent grasp of shape, colour, and chiaroscuro shading for someone who can't stay inside the lines or tolerate more than 5 mins of colouring, but go off queen.
December 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Garry, hon, your 10 year old has an abnormally excellent grasp of shape, colour, and chiaroscuro shading for someone who can't stay inside the lines or tolerate more than 5 mins of colouring, but go off queen.
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Hello new followers! I'm away for a little bit, but if you want to play a totally free game with interesting vibes, do try Upfall!
It'll be perfect for sleepy Boxing Day (or regional equivalent) games, and we're only two (2) reviews from the coveted 50 on Steam 🧡
#GameDev #IndieDev #FreeGame
It'll be perfect for sleepy Boxing Day (or regional equivalent) games, and we're only two (2) reviews from the coveted 50 on Steam 🧡
#GameDev #IndieDev #FreeGame
Upfall is OUT NOW – totally free!
Burst bubbles to progress upwards, but be careful to dodge the glowing hazards in the depths!
🎨 20+ customisations
🎮 Controller support
🔊 Creepy reverb
🦾 Accessibility options
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3570280/...
Itch: amicableanimal.itch.io/upfall
Burst bubbles to progress upwards, but be careful to dodge the glowing hazards in the depths!
🎨 20+ customisations
🎮 Controller support
🔊 Creepy reverb
🦾 Accessibility options
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3570280/...
Itch: amicableanimal.itch.io/upfall
December 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Announcing the World Forge!
This is a teaser of a Sigil of Kings "play mode" I'll make available to you sooner rather than later...
Basically, instead of just creating worlds procedurally, well, you'll be able to modify them or make from scratch, & export!
#gamedev #godotengine #indiedev #games
This is a teaser of a Sigil of Kings "play mode" I'll make available to you sooner rather than later...
Basically, instead of just creating worlds procedurally, well, you'll be able to modify them or make from scratch, & export!
#gamedev #godotengine #indiedev #games
December 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Announcing the World Forge!
This is a teaser of a Sigil of Kings "play mode" I'll make available to you sooner rather than later...
Basically, instead of just creating worlds procedurally, well, you'll be able to modify them or make from scratch, & export!
#gamedev #godotengine #indiedev #games
This is a teaser of a Sigil of Kings "play mode" I'll make available to you sooner rather than later...
Basically, instead of just creating worlds procedurally, well, you'll be able to modify them or make from scratch, & export!
#gamedev #godotengine #indiedev #games
Hello new followers! I'm away for a little bit, but if you want to play a totally free game with interesting vibes, do try Upfall!
It'll be perfect for sleepy Boxing Day (or regional equivalent) games, and we're only two (2) reviews from the coveted 50 on Steam 🧡
#GameDev #IndieDev #FreeGame
It'll be perfect for sleepy Boxing Day (or regional equivalent) games, and we're only two (2) reviews from the coveted 50 on Steam 🧡
#GameDev #IndieDev #FreeGame
Upfall is OUT NOW – totally free!
Burst bubbles to progress upwards, but be careful to dodge the glowing hazards in the depths!
🎨 20+ customisations
🎮 Controller support
🔊 Creepy reverb
🦾 Accessibility options
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3570280/...
Itch: amicableanimal.itch.io/upfall
Burst bubbles to progress upwards, but be careful to dodge the glowing hazards in the depths!
🎨 20+ customisations
🎮 Controller support
🔊 Creepy reverb
🦾 Accessibility options
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3570280/...
Itch: amicableanimal.itch.io/upfall
December 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
As we come near the end of the year I have an important question:
Why the piss is anyone suggesting calling what we do here skeeting, when bleeting is *right there*?
Why the piss is anyone suggesting calling what we do here skeeting, when bleeting is *right there*?
December 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
As we come near the end of the year I have an important question:
Why the piss is anyone suggesting calling what we do here skeeting, when bleeting is *right there*?
Why the piss is anyone suggesting calling what we do here skeeting, when bleeting is *right there*?
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A lamplighter and his dog, Scotland, 1937 - by John Peat Munn
December 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A lamplighter and his dog, Scotland, 1937 - by John Peat Munn
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Just saying, but our Layton-inspired daily puzzles (and all the narrative and art) were created by actual humans. 👀
We're still running our preview at the moment, so you have to solve a puzzle to get in.
thinkygames.com/dailies/
We're still running our preview at the moment, so you have to solve a puzzle to get in.
thinkygames.com/dailies/
December 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Just saying, but our Layton-inspired daily puzzles (and all the narrative and art) were created by actual humans. 👀
We're still running our preview at the moment, so you have to solve a puzzle to get in.
thinkygames.com/dailies/
We're still running our preview at the moment, so you have to solve a puzzle to get in.
thinkygames.com/dailies/
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The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks
December 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks
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Posted a log about #Trifoil progress:
store.steampowered.com/news/app/308...
and itch andrew-jones.itch.io/trifoil/devl...
Trifoil is a line drawing puzzle game. Check out the demo on and wishlish on steam store.steampowered.com/app/3085710/...
#puzzlegame
store.steampowered.com/news/app/308...
and itch andrew-jones.itch.io/trifoil/devl...
Trifoil is a line drawing puzzle game. Check out the demo on and wishlish on steam store.steampowered.com/app/3085710/...
#puzzlegame
December 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Posted a log about #Trifoil progress:
store.steampowered.com/news/app/308...
and itch andrew-jones.itch.io/trifoil/devl...
Trifoil is a line drawing puzzle game. Check out the demo on and wishlish on steam store.steampowered.com/app/3085710/...
#puzzlegame
store.steampowered.com/news/app/308...
and itch andrew-jones.itch.io/trifoil/devl...
Trifoil is a line drawing puzzle game. Check out the demo on and wishlish on steam store.steampowered.com/app/3085710/...
#puzzlegame
FINE! I'll play SkyRoads for the 800th time, jeeeeeez.
December 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
FINE! I'll play SkyRoads for the 800th time, jeeeeeez.
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Please do not purchase Luck be a Landlord on Xbox. I will be making a $10,000 donation to The Palestine Children's Relief Fund to (hopefully) help offset the revenue the game has generated for Microsoft.
December 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Please do not purchase Luck be a Landlord on Xbox. I will be making a $10,000 donation to The Palestine Children's Relief Fund to (hopefully) help offset the revenue the game has generated for Microsoft.