Bushmonkey
bushmonkey.bsky.social
Bushmonkey
@bushmonkey.bsky.social
Hobbyist developer of free detective mystery games:

https://bushmonkey.itch.io/
my new game The Red Pearls of Borneo is out a week early and available for free on itch.io

You are a clairvoyant investigator in 1948 London, exploring the psychic echoes of a tragedy that occurred eight years prior on a remote plantation in Borneo.

Game link: bushmonkey.itch.io/the-red-pear...
January 30, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Experiment wit a new simpler graphical style for Red Pearls
January 27, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Timelapse of the creation process for one of the characters in Red Pearls of Borneo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCDN...
Pirate timelapse recording
YouTube video by Will Picard
www.youtube.com
January 25, 2026 at 9:23 PM
My new game The Red Pearls of Borneo has a release day now:
7th February.

Get ready to be immersed in a murder mystery set against the backdrop of a British tobacco plantation in the 1940s on the eve of the Japanese WW2 invasion.
January 25, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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Creating art for my new game progressed really well over the weekend.
January 19, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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Retro Textures 1 is out now! 🎉

Completely free to download and use in any of your projects. Includes 115 textures like walls, floors, windows, doors and much more!

kenney.nl/assets/retro... (no tracking, no ads, no sign-up, etc.)
January 15, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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Detective Fest on Steam is here, and options are plentiful. Instead of just a big list, I want to try “If you played this, have you looked at these?” for many notable detective games and some of my favs. Each top level game will have a demo you can try out now, and all are released on Steam
January 13, 2026 at 3:19 PM
I finished the lineart for the map of my new game The Red Pearls of Borneo. Now time to paint.
January 10, 2026 at 3:45 PM
My new “detective puzzle mystery” game The Red Pearls of Borneo is ready for external testing.
If anyone wants to take part in the testing, DM me.
January 1, 2026 at 12:18 PM
I am working on a new murder mystery game. You are a psychic investigator figuring out what happened on a tobacco plantation in 1930s Borneo where everyone mysteriously disappeared.
Tech demo of how the mechanics of the game will work is up on YouTube:

youtu.be/aeWo1su0Z8Q?...
The Red Pearls of Borneo gameplay test
YouTube video by Will Picard
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I released my Interactive Fiction What Happened to the Crew? last week to little fanfare. I was just happy to share my work with other fans of the genre.

Within a week it’s at over 1000 plays, 5-star reviews and glowing comments from players enjoying the ride.

bushmonkey.itch.io/what-happene...
December 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far

i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I enjoyed Type Help so much that I decided to create an interactive fiction game in the same style.

What Happened to the Crew is a totally free terminal-based sci-fi mystery inspired by Type Help, Obra Dinn and Immortality.

It’s available now on itch.io

bushmonkey.itch.io/what-happene...
November 30, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!"

"no problem boss. i'm on it"
November 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
New game released: What happened to the Crew? - What happened to the crew?
bushmonkey.itch.io/what-happene...
November 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
My current games rotation:
- Silksong
- Metal Gear Delta
- Death Stranding 2
- Borderlands 4
September 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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I posted on Twitter how much I liked the animations of Hornet from Silksong that reminded me of Alucard, and a completely unnecessary fight started there over nothing, I wanted to understand where people get so much hate from. x__x (I hope here is better)
September 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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August 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My current games rotation:
- Death Stranding 2
- Silksong (as soon as it’s out)
- Tiny Bookshop
- Is this seat taken?
August 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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From: Hurvinek's Circus (1955), dir. Jiří Trnka, Loutkový Film Praha
August 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Have the list just in case
April 9, 2025 at 5:45 AM