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Bit Loom
@bitloomgames.bsky.social
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Creators of PHOGS! and Tray Racers! making experimental games to surprise and delight, currently dreaming up new prototypes! 👀✨
Based in Dundee, Scotland 💙

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Bit Loom @bitloomgames.bsky.social · Mar 4
Some exciting news :)! The PHOGS! OST (with 33 tracks!!) is now available to stream anywhere that you'd normally stream music! 🔵🐶🎶🐶🔴

#soundtrack #indiegames #phogs #streaming #chill
The artwork for the original soundtrack from the video game PHOGS!, a 2d illustration filled with lots of the fun characters from the game including the yellow phogs (two happy dog heads connected with a long stretchy, wiggly body) with their red and blue collars, a few hidden "boingles" which are tiny blue creatures with 2 legs, one eye and a little pink/yellow/blue point on there heads. Also, a very colourful wizard with a star wand flying in the sky, a purple guy with blueberries on his head playing an acoustic guitar (one of the boingles is hidden in the guitar), some big speakers playing music, and a big smiling sun in the sky. It also says "PHOGS! SOUNDTRACK" and "HENRY PULLAN" at the bottom.
bitloomgames.bsky.social
Drop in and Play was great, lots of kids played our new (wip) game which is always fun! Watched people make some pretty and silly things and got some helpful feedback 🦕🍄🥣 #indiegames #indiedev #art #dca
A still life art composition: Mint background, pink platform box in the middle, a blue glazed bowl, a highland cow cuddly toy, a pineapple, a polka dot teapot, a couple of pinecones and a few other things A still life art composition: Blue background, a tabletop game miniature of a rogue pine marten facing off against a red/white toy dinosaur with a much smaller miniature on it's back A still life art composition: Grey background, this one was rendered in an abstract style which is lumpy/pointy and I can't tell which objects they were but I think there's an apple half, there's also a pink blob A still life art composition: Orange background, light coming through a grided window, a takeaway coffee cup, glasses, an apple half and a colourful notebook
September 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
bitloomgames.bsky.social
Come on down to the DCA for Drop in and Play where we'll be showing off our next game! (And loads of other local games too!)

🎨🖌️
A man in a blue shirt standing beside a table with two monitors showing a game
August 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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This week multi talented musician/singer/developer/writer, Claire Morwood, aka @shimmerglitch.bsky.social, joins the podcast to tell us all about Asterism, her latest adventure game/interactive music album. You can check it out anywhere you listen to podcasts and below. Enjoy!

youtu.be/HTG025p2uwE
Interview with Claire Morwood Asterism
YouTube video by Adventure Games Podcast
youtu.be
May 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
bitloomgames.bsky.social
Henry (programming AND musical wizard 🪄 not very fair) just released a whole album! of very cool and creative acoustic guitar songs! go listen! 🎸
henwuar.bsky.social Henry Pullan @henwuar.bsky.social · May 8
Today I've released my first solo acoustic guitar album Music for Sharks!

I'm very grateful that I've been able to follow this dream and I hope you can enjoy my percussive guitar and janky rhythms 🦈

Find it where ever you like to get music!
ffm.to/musicforsharks
May 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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henwuar.bsky.social
I just needed to update some text on my website but instead I spent a couple of days reworking my ~snazzy background~
April 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
bitloomgames.bsky.social
Today is the 2nd anniversary of the release of Tray Racers!!! Weeeeeee 🐫🌵🦊🤖🏁💨
Key art for the video game Tray Racers! a group of kids and robots are riding fast down a sand dune on trays. There's cactuses, trees and wind generators about the place. A colourful logo sits at the top centre.
April 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
bitloomgames.bsky.social
ATTENTION INDIEDEVS
Show off your art style
A screenshot from the game PHOGS! It has a primarily pink/purple palette and is a shot of a mattress/pillow fort with a starry sky. There's a blue bear and a moth playing a guitar. There's also a "glorb" in the foreground - a big while glowing ball with a cute happy face on it that rolls around. And the titular phogs - two orange fuzzy dog heads connected with a stretchy wiggly body in the middle. A screenshot from the game PHOGS! It's a bright sunny daytime scene. Some "farmers" with hats made of different foods are chilling out on pillows on bright green grass. There's a giant corn on cob in the middle and the phogs (described in the last photo) are breathing fire onto it to create giant popcorn. A screenshot from the game Tray Racers! There is a big sleeping creature with it's tongue out, it's yellowy orange with darker spots. There are multiple characters hanging around it holding their boards for downhill sledding and they are two robots and two desert foxes. A screenshot from the game Tray Racers! A night time pink/purple scene with a starry sky, a large try in the background and a busted up old caravan. In the foreground characters (humans and a desert fox) are around a campfire playing different instruments (pan pipes, bongo, guitar)
March 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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kanaratron.bsky.social
ATTENTION INDIEDEVS
Show off your art style
A screenshot from Mythwrecked. It shows a character running across a beach at dawn A screenshot from Röki. It shows a wintry peak, with a giant wolf sleeping at the summit. A screenshot from Röki. It shows a young girl exploring a snowy woodland scene. A screenshot from Mythwrecked. It shows a shipwrecked backpacker talking to Hermes, the messenger god of Greek mythology.
March 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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shimmerglitch.bsky.social
Asterism is currently on sale on Steam, if you want to check it out and haven't picked it up yet, now is a great time 😉

store.steampowered.com/app/2187450/...
Save 25% on Asterism on Steam
Immerse yourself in the cosmic symphony of Asterism - a playable indie-rock concept album set in outer space. Follow astronaut Ruby as she embarks on an emotional journey of self-discovery through a s...
store.steampowered.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
bitloomgames.bsky.social
Team trip to The McManus in Dundee for some inspiration ✨🔎

#gamedev #dundee #themcmanus
A photo of 4 people taken in the reflection of a glass case in the McManus museum containing many vintage food packing examples
March 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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yamyak.bsky.social
Thought I should post the vinyl art I designed for this forever ago, it's been a while since I thought about it so it's nice to be reminded with the soundtrack finally being available to stream :D. It was really fun, I love that we did the day/night full art both sides 🌞😴 #art #games #ost
A vinyl sleeve sitting on a vinyl player sitting on a wooden unit. The front artwork for the original soundtrack from the video game PHOGS!, a 2d illustration filled with lots of the fun characters from the game including the yellow phogs (two happy dog heads connected with a long stretchy, wiggly body) with their red and blue collars, a few hidden "boingles" which are tiny blue creatures with 2 legs, one eye and a little pink/yellow/blue point on there heads. Also, a very colourful wizard with a star wand flying in the sky, a purple guy with berries on his head playing an acoustic guitar (one of the boingles is hidden in the guitar), some big speakers playing music, and a big smiling sun in the sky. This is the back of the sleeve, it has a night time scene contrasting the sunny party scene on the front in the first photo. The majority of colours are pink and purples apart from the yellow phogs and stars. The sun is lower in the sky and sleeping, there's a couple of planets in the sky, a flying bird with a lamp head, a squishy shaped castle at the bottom half with a boingle in one of the windows. Clouds, and other bits and pieces like a giant book and a couple of pillows. This is a close up shot of the actual vinyl record, it's made of mostly clear pvc but with a kind of splat of pink/blue mixed in coming from the middle. The sticker in the centre is half a phog that looks like it's coming out of the hole in the centre and swirling around with a couple of characters and objects from the game. This is one side of the inner sleeve for side A with the songs listed. It's blue and white, and there's a big yellow phog body wigging around and a couple of little decorations like fruits and music notes.
March 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
bitloomgames.bsky.social
Happy Pancake Day!!! 🥞🧑‍🌾✨
A farmer from phogs (they have purple skin, a round belly and big hands/feet with only 3 toes/fingers) with a very happy face and a blueberry for a hat, away to tuck into a giant stack of pancakes sitting on the ground in front of them. There's green grass and a pink and green leafy vegetables plant behind them as well as a brown wavey patterned wall.
March 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
bitloomgames.bsky.social
Some exciting news :)! The PHOGS! OST (with 33 tracks!!) is now available to stream anywhere that you'd normally stream music! 🔵🐶🎶🐶🔴

#soundtrack #indiegames #phogs #streaming #chill
The artwork for the original soundtrack from the video game PHOGS!, a 2d illustration filled with lots of the fun characters from the game including the yellow phogs (two happy dog heads connected with a long stretchy, wiggly body) with their red and blue collars, a few hidden "boingles" which are tiny blue creatures with 2 legs, one eye and a little pink/yellow/blue point on there heads. Also, a very colourful wizard with a star wand flying in the sky, a purple guy with blueberries on his head playing an acoustic guitar (one of the boingles is hidden in the guitar), some big speakers playing music, and a big smiling sun in the sky. It also says "PHOGS! SOUNDTRACK" and "HENRY PULLAN" at the bottom.
March 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
bitloomgames.bsky.social
it's a feature not a bug

maybe 🦖↘️↗️⬅️⬇️
February 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
bitloomgames.bsky.social
james brought an orange to life ✨
February 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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yamyak.bsky.social
I'm not good at captions but I made this and it was fun :)
#b3d #blender #cafe
A 3D render of a cafe scene, warm colours, cozy vibes, cute minimal/chunky style. On the table there's an orange mug of coffee, a glass of chocolate milk, a battenburg cake and a millionaires shortbread. Square wooden table and stools, a skateboard under the table and a helmet on one of the stools, a menu on the wall, a plant in a pink pot that's made out of simple bumpy spherical shapes.
February 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
bitloomgames.bsky.social
happy tuesday! 😵‍💫 hope everyone's had a good start to their week :)
February 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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designdundee.bsky.social
Especially wonderful to see a feature of Dundee's rare books collection, hosted by Local History at Central Library, on display alongside a new mural by local designer James Moorwood of @bitloomgames.bsky.social.

Be sure to stop by to see all the gorgeous wee details in-person! 👀
A fragile looking book sits under glass. It shows a full colour print of 4 geisha's dressing for the day whilst a row of soldiers wait in the courtyard outside. A hand drawn character, with a crocodile head, places a book on a shelf. Sitting a top the shelf is a myriad of miniature characters and figures including a small character with antlers and small mouse-like character in a wheelchair.
January 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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shimmerglitch.bsky.social
My new game + album Asterism is out now! I made a behind the scenes of my handcrafted art to celebrate! 🚀

Please share around! If you play, a steam review would be super appreciated :D It's very hard to get seen as a small indie game and reviews do help!

store.steampowered.com/app/2187450/Asterism
January 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
bitloomgames.bsky.social
Thank you to @curatorgeoff.bsky.social and the National Museum of Scotland team for sending us this awesome memento from the Game On exhibition, it was so much fun to be a part of it :)! and the pixel art Phogs are so cute 🎮🕹️
An info board that was next to our game phogs in the exhibition, it is also surrounded by a couple other cool phogs mementos we have in our little collection including a crocheted red and blue and a big scarf version of them! The info board reads: "Ever wanted to play as a two-headed dog? Well now is your chance. In this multiplayer puzzle game, you need to work together to solve problems and move obstacles in a colourful and calmingly cosy landscape. Playing with a friend in cooperative mode or as a solo adventure, you need to help the hydra-headed dogs Red and Blue overcome the challenges in front of them. Created as a novel new form of puzzle game based on a physics mechanism where gameplay objects act as they would in the real world, the Dundee-based Bit Loom Games has shown how you can combine imagination and creativity with science and problem-solving. Grab a friend and play together on the same controller or try and solve the puzzles with Red and Blue on your own."
January 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
bitloomgames.bsky.social
James made this playful scene last week after we decided on a boat on the shore as a little prompt

sound on :) 🔊
January 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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shimmerglitch.bsky.social
Asterism is out now!!!!
shimmerglitch.bsky.social Claire Morwood @shimmerglitch.bsky.social · Dec 9
Very excited to announce that ASTERISM IS LAUNCHING 17th JANUARY 2025!!

Wishlist on Steam -> store.steampowered.com/app/2187450/...

Follow on Itch -> shimmerwitch.itch.io/asterism

Pre-order on Bandcamp -> shimmerglitch.bandcamp.com

Also I made a cool trailer check it out! 💖
youtu.be/mPYVPOZFems
Asterism Launch Trailer
YouTube video by Claire Morwood
youtu.be
January 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
bitloomgames.bsky.social
Happy belated 2025 from us at Bit Loom!! ✨🥳
January 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
bitloomgames.bsky.social
Check out some of these recent stylish compositions our artist Caitlin has created while we continue work away on our new game prototype! 🍌🥤🪴 Bonus points if you spot the Tray Racers themed object! 🔎🌟
A composition with two takeaway cups alongside a banana and a pair of binoculars in earthy, chalky tones. A composition of two tech deck mini skateboards, one flipped over. Both have a cactus design and ants crawling all over them. On a lime green background. A hexagon mosaic of a succulent plant in a little teracotta pot resting on a colourful notebook with a pinkish red background.
November 13, 2024 at 12:33 PM
bitloomgames.bsky.social
We had a great time showing off our new untitled still life making game at the DCA Dundee Drop in and Play this weekend. Everyone came up with some very creative paintings! 🫖🍎🦆
A painterly composition with a mushroom person, glorb, gameboy, bangles, phog, succulent, tiny duck some of which are on a notebook. On an orange background A white and brown spotted dog wearing a tophat sits on the side of a bowl of sharks, with a green background A white linocut of an ant on a black background A yellow and blue rubber duck on a yellow background in an expressionist style
October 14, 2024 at 10:10 AM