Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP
@innkeep.bsky.social
He/Him | Living on noongar boodja.
Lead developer of 🍺INNKEEP @ Boot Disk Games.
Steam👉 https://mythwright.gg/Innkeep
Discord👉 https://discord.gg/q5nyWXRmqU
Mailing List👉 http://eepurl.com/gzRndT
Lead developer of 🍺INNKEEP @ Boot Disk Games.
Steam👉 https://mythwright.gg/Innkeep
Discord👉 https://discord.gg/q5nyWXRmqU
Mailing List👉 http://eepurl.com/gzRndT
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Hey Blue-sky! I'm working on Innkeep, a game about being a sneaky innkeeper! You get to:
- Serve ale and food. 🍲🍺
- Eavesdrop on guests to learn their secrets. 🤫
- Develop a silver tongue and turn on the charm. 😏
- Sneak into bedrooms and steal trinkets. 💰
- Summon demons?? 🕯️🔥👹
#screenshotsaturday
- Serve ale and food. 🍲🍺
- Eavesdrop on guests to learn their secrets. 🤫
- Develop a silver tongue and turn on the charm. 😏
- Sneak into bedrooms and steal trinkets. 💰
- Summon demons?? 🕯️🔥👹
#screenshotsaturday
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For all the new folks arriving, both #indiegame developers and players alike, I've got some starter packs below you might find useful 👍
🔸 Indie Game Studios - go.bsky.app/EbnyA2d
🔸 Solo Indie Devs - go.bsky.app/46HSs4C
🔸 Indie Game Publishers - go.bsky.app/DAoKtHj
🔸 Indie Game Studios - go.bsky.app/EbnyA2d
🔸 Solo Indie Devs - go.bsky.app/46HSs4C
🔸 Indie Game Publishers - go.bsky.app/DAoKtHj
November 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM
For all the new folks arriving, both #indiegame developers and players alike, I've got some starter packs below you might find useful 👍
🔸 Indie Game Studios - go.bsky.app/EbnyA2d
🔸 Solo Indie Devs - go.bsky.app/46HSs4C
🔸 Indie Game Publishers - go.bsky.app/DAoKtHj
🔸 Indie Game Studios - go.bsky.app/EbnyA2d
🔸 Solo Indie Devs - go.bsky.app/46HSs4C
🔸 Indie Game Publishers - go.bsky.app/DAoKtHj
Merry Christmas from Australia. 🏖️
December 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Merry Christmas from Australia. 🏖️
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everyone on here is 38 years old and loves star trek deep space 9
December 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
everyone on here is 38 years old and loves star trek deep space 9
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heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community
go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!
go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!
December 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community
go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!
go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!
New arrival for the film collection.
December 24, 2025 at 8:58 AM
New arrival for the film collection.
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Woah. Ice-Pick Lodge will be taking on Darkwood 2, published by Hooded Horse. Sign me up.
youtu.be/CR99LP_nays?...
youtu.be/CR99LP_nays?...
Darkwood 2 - Announcement Trailer | Survival Horror Game
YouTube video by Hooded Horse
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December 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Woah. Ice-Pick Lodge will be taking on Darkwood 2, published by Hooded Horse. Sign me up.
youtu.be/CR99LP_nays?...
youtu.be/CR99LP_nays?...
See also, our local Perth lad ColdFusion TV.
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
December 24, 2025 at 4:54 AM
See also, our local Perth lad ColdFusion TV.
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Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
I had five fascinating conversations for this RPS piece, gathering perspectives on genAI chatbots in games, as seen in Where Winds Meet. Thanks to @meghna.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social, and @chrisgardiner.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/horrible-bor...
"Horrible", "boring", and "cheap": Experts pan new chatbot NPCs, but some leave room for optimism
We speak to a collection of developers and AI experts about the potential impact of LLM-powered NPCs in videogames.
www.rockpapershotgun.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
Similarly, nobody has made another simulated world in the style of Ultima 7 (1992) that is equally detailed and ambitious. Origin itself couldn't do it. Each forward step in fidelity past that point required a retreat on other fronts.
When I left 2K Marin in 2013 and went indie, this statement (from a Rock Paper Shotgun guest piece about Deus Ex written by my friend and former colleague JP LeBreton) was seared into my mind.
December 24, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Similarly, nobody has made another simulated world in the style of Ultima 7 (1992) that is equally detailed and ambitious. Origin itself couldn't do it. Each forward step in fidelity past that point required a retreat on other fronts.
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AAA video game character going to the toilet: "I'll take these stairs." "Ah, there it is, the bathroom." "Better open the door." "The door's open, nice." "Gonna pull my trousers down now." "Sitting down." "Okay, here we go." "I needed that." "Okay, time to fl
December 23, 2025 at 10:26 AM
AAA video game character going to the toilet: "I'll take these stairs." "Ah, there it is, the bathroom." "Better open the door." "The door's open, nice." "Gonna pull my trousers down now." "Sitting down." "Okay, here we go." "I needed that." "Okay, time to fl
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illiterate guy, daydreaming
December 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
illiterate guy, daydreaming
Wadjet Eye games are awesome and worth your time!
The Steam Winter Sale is STILL ON!
Nab all our games from 20-70% off until January 5th!
store.steampowered.com/developer/Wa...
Nab all our games from 20-70% off until January 5th!
store.steampowered.com/developer/Wa...
December 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Wadjet Eye games are awesome and worth your time!
Dreamed that I bought a sketch pad and took up drawing and painting. Maybe it's a sign?
December 22, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Dreamed that I bought a sketch pad and took up drawing and painting. Maybe it's a sign?
Got an urgent email requiring I open my accounting software. 🥲
a man says just when i thought i was out in a kitchen
ALT: a man says just when i thought i was out in a kitchen
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December 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Got an urgent email requiring I open my accounting software. 🥲
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Now would be a great time for a 10 episode, 20 hour prestige series about the ten years between 1916 and 1926, covering the establishment of the 8-hr work day & 5-day work week, in the US. Each episode would be one year & the middle episode should be entirely devoted to the Battle of Blair Mountain.
December 21, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Now would be a great time for a 10 episode, 20 hour prestige series about the ten years between 1916 and 1926, covering the establishment of the 8-hr work day & 5-day work week, in the US. Each episode would be one year & the middle episode should be entirely devoted to the Battle of Blair Mountain.
Charged up my old iPhone 1 and it still works fine people. Also damn I looked pretty good when I was 13 years younger and 15 kilos lighter. 😬
December 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Charged up my old iPhone 1 and it still works fine people. Also damn I looked pretty good when I was 13 years younger and 15 kilos lighter. 😬
Cool thread. Some years back I noticed nearly all my favorite studios and games were coming from eastern Europe.
Stars aligned in mysterious way lately, as I've been exposed to multiple great pieces on Eastern European culture & how they create / perceive certain games. So I'll make a little thread to share them 🧵
Starting with @stefanonsense.bsky.social's new video on Fallout & the USSR: youtu.be/Hi2D9xRjw7s
Starting with @stefanonsense.bsky.social's new video on Fallout & the USSR: youtu.be/Hi2D9xRjw7s
Why Ex-Communist Countries LOVE Fallout
YouTube video by StefaNonsense
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December 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Cool thread. Some years back I noticed nearly all my favorite studios and games were coming from eastern Europe.
One of the things that fills me with joy about the last decade or so in gaming is the broadening of simulators to encompass things like driving a truck, cutting apart derelict space ships, or fixing broken buildings.
store.steampowered.com/app/3283240/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3283240/...
THE LIFT: Supernatural Handyman Simulator on Steam
You are a handyman renovating a massive research facility abandoned after a mysterious incident. The Lift is an eerie first-person simulator with satisfying house-flipping gameplay, a mind-bending sto...
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December 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
One of the things that fills me with joy about the last decade or so in gaming is the broadening of simulators to encompass things like driving a truck, cutting apart derelict space ships, or fixing broken buildings.
store.steampowered.com/app/3283240/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3283240/...
From Peace, by Gene Wolfe.
December 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
From Peace, by Gene Wolfe.
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My god. It's full of stars.
This sparkling #JWST stellar scene is Westerlund 2, a young star cluster only a few million years old and containing some of the hottest, most massive stars known.
Westerlund 2 is situated within the Gum 29 stellar nursery, and is around 20,000 lightyears from home.
This sparkling #JWST stellar scene is Westerlund 2, a young star cluster only a few million years old and containing some of the hottest, most massive stars known.
Westerlund 2 is situated within the Gum 29 stellar nursery, and is around 20,000 lightyears from home.
December 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
My god. It's full of stars.
This sparkling #JWST stellar scene is Westerlund 2, a young star cluster only a few million years old and containing some of the hottest, most massive stars known.
Westerlund 2 is situated within the Gum 29 stellar nursery, and is around 20,000 lightyears from home.
This sparkling #JWST stellar scene is Westerlund 2, a young star cluster only a few million years old and containing some of the hottest, most massive stars known.
Westerlund 2 is situated within the Gum 29 stellar nursery, and is around 20,000 lightyears from home.
And that's a wrap for me on Innkeep work for 2025. A massive year all up as we hammered out the bulk of the systems. Very much looking forward to what we get to work on in 2026. But first, some beer and games. 🍻🕹️
Stay safe everybody. 🖖
Stay safe everybody. 🖖
December 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
And that's a wrap for me on Innkeep work for 2025. A massive year all up as we hammered out the bulk of the systems. Very much looking forward to what we get to work on in 2026. But first, some beer and games. 🍻🕹️
Stay safe everybody. 🖖
Stay safe everybody. 🖖
Definitely using some normal mapping like this on my next game.
Our upcoming game The Hearth and Harbour is fully 2D, but with some neat tricks we’ve made it look 3D. Ethan, our environment artist, did this with a special type of texture called a Normal Map. (Thread! 1/7)
December 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Definitely using some normal mapping like this on my next game.
You should play Expelled!
Lots of inkle games on sale on Steam, but we wanted to highlight Expelled!
40% off -- 95% Very Positive -- 5-stars in the Observer -- 8/10 in Edge
"A wicked good time."
40% off -- 95% Very Positive -- 5-stars in the Observer -- 8/10 in Edge
"A wicked good time."
Save 40% on Expelled! on Steam
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the cr...
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December 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
You should play Expelled!