Dusty Gerkin
@dustygerkin.bsky.social
Barely human until fed coffee. Part time archer, occasional climber, infrequent game dev. Wanders across Yorkshire.
Games can/will be found here https://cc-workshop.itch.io/
Games can/will be found here https://cc-workshop.itch.io/
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Dusty Gerkin
@dustygerkin.bsky.social
· Nov 27
20ish years ago I started on a remake of the Acorn Electron game Swag! one of my favourites from my childhood. I can still hear the screech of the tape loading in (and the occasional swearing as it failed).
You can find it here: cc-workshop.itch.io/swag-remake
You can find it here: cc-workshop.itch.io/swag-remake
Time for a quick trip to see Peter Grant and a few things going bump.
The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch.
#AmReading
The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch.
#AmReading
December 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Time for a quick trip to see Peter Grant and a few things going bump.
The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch.
#AmReading
The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch.
#AmReading
I didn't realise that Paddington was a cat, I've been wrong all these years.
#PaddingtonBear
#PaddingtonBear
December 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I didn't realise that Paddington was a cat, I've been wrong all these years.
#PaddingtonBear
#PaddingtonBear
So glad I made a massive batch of roast potatoes and froze them.
Roasties whenever I want!
Roasties whenever I want!
November 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
So glad I made a massive batch of roast potatoes and froze them.
Roasties whenever I want!
Roasties whenever I want!
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Anyway, this is our game, which is pretty cool. Please take a look and wishlist if it's your thing:
store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...
Forbidden Solitaire on Steam
Forbidden Solitaire is a card-slashing horror game about unearthing the contents of a cryptic 1995 CD-ROM that should have never existed. From the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline.
store.steampowered.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Anyway, this is our game, which is pretty cool. Please take a look and wishlist if it's your thing:
store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...
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I’ve built a streamlined version of Pacman, that you can play on any device.
Get past 50 points? Share your screenshot for a follow!
🕹️ https://beep8.org
#SoloDev #GameDev #IndieLove #PixelArt #IndieGameDev
Get past 50 points? Share your screenshot for a follow!
🕹️ https://beep8.org
#SoloDev #GameDev #IndieLove #PixelArt #IndieGameDev
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I’ve built a streamlined version of Pacman, that you can play on any device.
Get past 50 points? Share your screenshot for a follow!
🕹️ https://beep8.org
#SoloDev #GameDev #IndieLove #PixelArt #IndieGameDev
Get past 50 points? Share your screenshot for a follow!
🕹️ https://beep8.org
#SoloDev #GameDev #IndieLove #PixelArt #IndieGameDev
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Atari Missile Command for the Acorn Electron
Is now available on Stardot, please follow the link, log in, read the post, download the file(s) and get playing.
www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewt...
Is now available on Stardot, please follow the link, log in, read the post, download the file(s) and get playing.
www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewt...
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Atari Missile Command for the Acorn Electron
Is now available on Stardot, please follow the link, log in, read the post, download the file(s) and get playing.
www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewt...
Is now available on Stardot, please follow the link, log in, read the post, download the file(s) and get playing.
www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewt...
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🎮 Early Bird Deadline Ends Tomorrow! 🎮
Submit your game for Official Selection 2026 before the early bird deadline closes.
-Playable demo by Feb ‘26
-Unreleased titles (launching Apr ‘26 or later)
-One submission per studio
Apply now: festival.games.london/official-selection
#LGF26
Submit your game for Official Selection 2026 before the early bird deadline closes.
-Playable demo by Feb ‘26
-Unreleased titles (launching Apr ‘26 or later)
-One submission per studio
Apply now: festival.games.london/official-selection
#LGF26
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
🎮 Early Bird Deadline Ends Tomorrow! 🎮
Submit your game for Official Selection 2026 before the early bird deadline closes.
-Playable demo by Feb ‘26
-Unreleased titles (launching Apr ‘26 or later)
-One submission per studio
Apply now: festival.games.london/official-selection
#LGF26
Submit your game for Official Selection 2026 before the early bird deadline closes.
-Playable demo by Feb ‘26
-Unreleased titles (launching Apr ‘26 or later)
-One submission per studio
Apply now: festival.games.london/official-selection
#LGF26
At least having a bad cough keeping me awake at night during the week means, fingers crossed, it'll be gone by the weekend.
I can then sleep all weekend ready to be bright eyed and bushy tailed for work on Monday. Hooray.
I can then sleep all weekend ready to be bright eyed and bushy tailed for work on Monday. Hooray.
November 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
At least having a bad cough keeping me awake at night during the week means, fingers crossed, it'll be gone by the weekend.
I can then sleep all weekend ready to be bright eyed and bushy tailed for work on Monday. Hooray.
I can then sleep all weekend ready to be bright eyed and bushy tailed for work on Monday. Hooray.
I think I've just found the worst product idea ever.
What were they thinking?
What were they thinking?
November 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I think I've just found the worst product idea ever.
What were they thinking?
What were they thinking?
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We're so excited to be the charity partner for the TIGA Awards tonight, and thankful for the opportunity to celebrate with some of our incredible industry friends and supporters in person! Best of luck to everyone who is up for an award! #TIGAawards
November 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
We're so excited to be the charity partner for the TIGA Awards tonight, and thankful for the opportunity to celebrate with some of our incredible industry friends and supporters in person! Best of luck to everyone who is up for an award! #TIGAawards
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
1
NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
2
[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
3
NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
4
MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
5
NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
6
NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
7
NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
8
KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
9
[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
10
MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
11
[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
12
[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreib7lt736b6rmzinml5s7kxjdaapo2a36xp4d4lssypimx3taqicdm@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
Aliens versus Predator (1999).
Playing it in the dark for extra atmosphere and having the music suddenly start up when an alien jumps out at you.
Left my seat.
Had to play with the lights on after that.
Playing it in the dark for extra atmosphere and having the music suddenly start up when an alien jumps out at you.
Left my seat.
Had to play with the lights on after that.
What's the scariest game you've ever played?
For me, it's Outlast II, far and away. I can't believe the places that game goes lol.
For me, it's Outlast II, far and away. I can't believe the places that game goes lol.
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Aliens versus Predator (1999).
Playing it in the dark for extra atmosphere and having the music suddenly start up when an alien jumps out at you.
Left my seat.
Had to play with the lights on after that.
Playing it in the dark for extra atmosphere and having the music suddenly start up when an alien jumps out at you.
Left my seat.
Had to play with the lights on after that.
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🚢🚢🚢 GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!! 🚢🚢🚢
Introducing ☀️CRUISE CONTROL☀️, our take on the management tycoon genre
- Deck out your cruise liner fleet
- Entertain and relax your guests with various facilities
- Hire staff, and keep building to meet the demand
WISHLIST NOW: store.steampowered.com/app/3973220/...
Introducing ☀️CRUISE CONTROL☀️, our take on the management tycoon genre
- Deck out your cruise liner fleet
- Entertain and relax your guests with various facilities
- Hire staff, and keep building to meet the demand
WISHLIST NOW: store.steampowered.com/app/3973220/...
October 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🚢🚢🚢 GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!! 🚢🚢🚢
Introducing ☀️CRUISE CONTROL☀️, our take on the management tycoon genre
- Deck out your cruise liner fleet
- Entertain and relax your guests with various facilities
- Hire staff, and keep building to meet the demand
WISHLIST NOW: store.steampowered.com/app/3973220/...
Introducing ☀️CRUISE CONTROL☀️, our take on the management tycoon genre
- Deck out your cruise liner fleet
- Entertain and relax your guests with various facilities
- Hire staff, and keep building to meet the demand
WISHLIST NOW: store.steampowered.com/app/3973220/...
October 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Finished my next book. Slightly behind my plan of a book a month but let's not rush things.
Past Tense was a good choice for the holiday. Left it there for someone else to enjoy.
#HaveBeenReading
Past Tense was a good choice for the holiday. Left it there for someone else to enjoy.
#HaveBeenReading
October 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Finished my next book. Slightly behind my plan of a book a month but let's not rush things.
Past Tense was a good choice for the holiday. Left it there for someone else to enjoy.
#HaveBeenReading
Past Tense was a good choice for the holiday. Left it there for someone else to enjoy.
#HaveBeenReading
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CALLING ALL DISABLED CREATORS AND STREAMERS
Do you want to help other physically disabled people to access gaming, to spread the word about accessibility and to highlight that gaming is for everyone?
Free in late February 2026 to support @specialeffect.org.uk?!
Drop a reply and tag your friends!
Do you want to help other physically disabled people to access gaming, to spread the word about accessibility and to highlight that gaming is for everyone?
Free in late February 2026 to support @specialeffect.org.uk?!
Drop a reply and tag your friends!
a poster that says disabled is 3 not a dirty word
Alt: a gif of a rolling blue wheelchair that says disabled is not a dirty word
media.tenor.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
CALLING ALL DISABLED CREATORS AND STREAMERS
Do you want to help other physically disabled people to access gaming, to spread the word about accessibility and to highlight that gaming is for everyone?
Free in late February 2026 to support @specialeffect.org.uk?!
Drop a reply and tag your friends!
Do you want to help other physically disabled people to access gaming, to spread the word about accessibility and to highlight that gaming is for everyone?
Free in late February 2026 to support @specialeffect.org.uk?!
Drop a reply and tag your friends!
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🚀🚀LITTLE ROCKET LAB IS OUT NOW!!! 🚀🚀
4 years of development, finally available on Steam and Game Pass
store.steampowered.com/app/2451100/...
RTs unbelievably appreciated!! <3
4 years of development, finally available on Steam and Game Pass
store.steampowered.com/app/2451100/...
RTs unbelievably appreciated!! <3
October 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
🚀🚀LITTLE ROCKET LAB IS OUT NOW!!! 🚀🚀
4 years of development, finally available on Steam and Game Pass
store.steampowered.com/app/2451100/...
RTs unbelievably appreciated!! <3
4 years of development, finally available on Steam and Game Pass
store.steampowered.com/app/2451100/...
RTs unbelievably appreciated!! <3
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I signed Little Rocket Lab back in November 2022!
Finally coming in 5 days, unbelievably excited to get it out there.
Such a long time coming, and it's *genuinely* one of the best games I've ever played
store.steampowered.com/app/2451100/...
Finally coming in 5 days, unbelievably excited to get it out there.
Such a long time coming, and it's *genuinely* one of the best games I've ever played
store.steampowered.com/app/2451100/...
October 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I signed Little Rocket Lab back in November 2022!
Finally coming in 5 days, unbelievably excited to get it out there.
Such a long time coming, and it's *genuinely* one of the best games I've ever played
store.steampowered.com/app/2451100/...
Finally coming in 5 days, unbelievably excited to get it out there.
Such a long time coming, and it's *genuinely* one of the best games I've ever played
store.steampowered.com/app/2451100/...
A relaxing holiday has got me back into the mood for running. Lovely early morning run around the island was just what I needed.
It might be cold and a bit grim up north this week but I'm sure I can still find some beauty on my run.
It might be cold and a bit grim up north this week but I'm sure I can still find some beauty on my run.
September 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A relaxing holiday has got me back into the mood for running. Lovely early morning run around the island was just what I needed.
It might be cold and a bit grim up north this week but I'm sure I can still find some beauty on my run.
It might be cold and a bit grim up north this week but I'm sure I can still find some beauty on my run.
Rather disappointingly it's time for the autumn duvet.
September 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Rather disappointingly it's time for the autumn duvet.
"Update and shutdown" my arse.
September 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"Update and shutdown" my arse.
Trying to get back into running but the weather is such a pain. It's either blisteringly hot or very soggy whenever I have the time.
September 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Trying to get back into running but the weather is such a pain. It's either blisteringly hot or very soggy whenever I have the time.
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"why does restaurant food taste better than food cooked at home"
The cook does not care if you live or die and uses salt and butter accordingly
The cook does not care if you live or die and uses salt and butter accordingly
July 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"why does restaurant food taste better than food cooked at home"
The cook does not care if you live or die and uses salt and butter accordingly
The cook does not care if you live or die and uses salt and butter accordingly
Why do comments and links in @eurogamer.bsky.social's Today in video games never work?
August 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Why do comments and links in @eurogamer.bsky.social's Today in video games never work?