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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou
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Indie Developer/Director @ Polygon Treehouse (Mythwrecked & Röki) • BAFTA Breakthrough 2021 • BAFTA Games & The Game Awards nominee • 2 x BAFTA Juror • Industry speaker & mentor • He/him

Dundee (Scotland)

https://www.polygon-treehouse.com/
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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · Dec 5
📢 EEEP!!! MYTHWRECKED is OUT NOW

After *3 years* my next indie game (following Röki) is OUT NOW on Steam, Xbox and Nintendo Switch...

🏝️ Explore a secret island
⚡️ Meet the gods of legend
🔎 Uncover the truth, behind the myth
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kanaratron.bsky.social
A line on clichés from Guards! Guards!
A highlighted line from Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett. It reads:- "The reason that cliches become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication."
January 3, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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greyalien.bsky.social
'Forbidden Solitaire is ostensibly about you finding and playing a spooky ‘90s CD-ROM solitaire game—think The 7th Guest but, y’know, solitaire—and getting way more than you bargained for. I have no idea what that means in gameplay terms, but I can’t wait to find out.'

bsky.app/profile/kota...
January 3, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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kanaratron.bsky.social
The view for the evening...
A view of a lounge with a Christmas tree still standing. Guards! Guards by Terry Pratchett is being held up to the camera, while the soundtrack to one of the Discworld video games plays on the TV via YouTube.
January 3, 2026 at 6:43 PM
kanaratron.bsky.social
A line on clichés from Guards! Guards!
A highlighted line from Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett. It reads:- "The reason that cliches become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication."
January 3, 2026 at 8:18 PM
kanaratron.bsky.social
The view for the evening...
A view of a lounge with a Christmas tree still standing. Guards! Guards by Terry Pratchett is being held up to the camera, while the soundtrack to one of the Discworld video games plays on the TV via YouTube.
January 3, 2026 at 6:43 PM
kanaratron.bsky.social
Video games completed in 2026.

#1 Post Trauma
The key art for Post Trauma. A lot of spooky eyes look out from a spiderweb-like twisted mass
January 3, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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paulscottcanavan.com
✨My art mentorships continue this year!✨

I had the great pleasure of working with 90 students last year, helping them level up their illustration work. If you want to join, I have a few spaces open for the February class.

Details about the course here:
www.masteringimaginativerealism.com
Art by Morgane Magloire, created during Semester 3. Follow Morgane: https://bsky.app/profile/morganemgl.bsky.social The art depicts a cool femme character with a spear, crouching on a tree in the jungle. A huge striped cat is climbing down beside her. A companion. There are colours, but I don't know what they are because of my eyes. Art by Alexandria Neonakis, created during Semester 4. Follow Alex: https://bsky.app/profile/beavs.bsky.social The artwork depicts a cool cowgirl riding a rattlesnake dragon. They are flying over a heard of cows, ready to... wrangle them? Rope them? Whatever cowfolk do. Art by looceyloo, created during Semester 2. Follow Lucy here: https://bsky.app/profile/looceyloo.bsky.social The art depicts a woman in western clothing (hat, poncho, shirt and gloves etc), kneeling beside her massive jackalope (?) friend. The creature has various packs and a saddle strapped to it. Both are looking off-canvas. Big clouds and mountains in the background. It's gorgeous, god this one is so gorgeous. Art by Jeleynai, created during Semester 5. Follow Jeleynai here: https://bsky.app/profile/jeleynai.bsky.social The art depicts a femme character crouching (always gotta be crouching, holding a spear and attempting to hold back 2 massive dog things. They are cute as hell. The one on the left is poking it's head out of the shadow into the bright light.
January 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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stuckinattic.bsky.social
🎉 Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure passed 100k units sold on Steam!

Currently on sale, check out the reply 👇🏿

And thank you again for keeping our lights on! Love y'all!

(Kitteh said "Don't let it get to their heads". Oh, Kitteh...)
January 3, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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noio.games
Officially announcing my new game:

GARBAGE COUNTRY.

A lonely road trip through the ruins of a forgotten world.

feat. vast wastelands, tower-defense battles, upgrades, mysteries, & lots of driving.
June 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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headwaregames.bsky.social
made a nice lil snow guy
a lil snow guy in the snow
January 3, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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strupf.bsky.social
I'm putting a lot of care into the boss fights of Owlet's Embrace. Here's a preview of what's to come.

Will you take on the challenge?

#playdate #metroidvania #gamedev
January 2, 2026 at 10:39 PM
kanaratron.bsky.social
Fucking hell.
January 3, 2026 at 8:49 AM
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kanaratron.bsky.social
Second quest done! Happy to report no elf was left behind 🙌🏻
Four Heroquest miniatures depicting four hero characters
January 2, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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ritchie.bsky.social
it do be like that sometimes
Screenshot of a textbook page I was living and painting in Spain when the incredible possibilities of what animation could do engulfed my mind. I planned my first film and took the money I had left from portrait painting to London. I starved for a bit, finally found work animating television commercials and managed to self-finance The Little Island - a half-hour philosophical argument without words which won several international awards. Still from The Little Island, 1958 Three years later, when I'd finished the film, the unpleasant realisation slowly crept up on me that I really didn’t know very much about animation articulation, that is, how to move the stuff. To train myself I traced off the animation that Ken Harris had done of a witch in a Bugs Bunny cartoon (Broomstick Bunny - 1955, directed by Chuck Jones). Doing this only confirmed how little I understood about movement. While I was making The Little Island I had seen a re-release of Bambi, but since I'd considered myself a revolutionary in the field of animation, I'd rejected the film as conventional. But when I finished my film, I saw Bambi again, and almost crawled out of the theatre on my hands and knees. ‘How did they ever do that?’ I'd learned just enough to realise that I really didn’t know anything
January 2, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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kanaratron.bsky.social
Time to start that hot new show everyone's been talking about*

*20 years ago
A big box set of Supernatural on Blu-ray
January 2, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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kanaratron.bsky.social
...one more for good luck 👌🏻
The Animator's Survival Kit by Richard Williams
January 2, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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shawndoublea.bsky.social
Here's my thread of 2025 games made with Black leadership you should check out.

I'm not an advocate of supporting things just because X group made them - I share genuinely unique games that have something special about them that I think are worth checking out.

I just focus on #blackgamedev
January 1, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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aerialknight.com
It’s 2026, and I’ve got games coming out. I’m coming for everything. Support now, because this is going to be the start of a crazy run.

If you’re here now, you’re part of the story. Don't forget to wishlist Dropshot on your favorite platform.
January 2, 2026 at 6:21 PM
kanaratron.bsky.social
Second quest done! Happy to report no elf was left behind 🙌🏻
Four Heroquest miniatures depicting four hero characters
January 2, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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kanaratron.bsky.social
The most sacred of tomes.
A copy of The Animator's Workbook, by Tony White
January 2, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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scriblit.bsky.social
TIRED: Listening to billionaires
WIRED: Listening to our great episode about the Brontes
INSPIRED: Going 'is that Gabby channeling Daphne Moon to play Emily?'
scriblit.bsky.social GHC Has Gorra Lorra Fings On (the radio) @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d
It's the 15th & final episode of this series of Dead Funny History & it's the one that made us laugh the hardest in the writers room. Terrible teachers, brilliant (yet struggling) writers, and also Branwell was there! It's The Brontes!
(feat Emma as Anne & me as Emily) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
You're Dead to Me - Dead Funny History - The Brontës - BBC Sounds
Tragedy and triumph in the Brontë story.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 2, 2026 at 3:13 PM
kanaratron.bsky.social
Time to start that hot new show everyone's been talking about*

*20 years ago
A big box set of Supernatural on Blu-ray
January 2, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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kanaratron.bsky.social
The translators of the new Asterix book deserve medals for their dedication to pun character names.
A close up crop of an Asterix comic panel. The name reads "Infancidress'. A close up crop of an Asterix comic panel. The name reads "Pearlclutcha'. A close up crop of an Asterix comic panel. The name reads "InfancidresNuibusiness'. A close up crop of an Asterix comic panel. The name reads "Umaminess'.
January 2, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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danieldutton.bsky.social
Thank you everyone for a great year! Happy new year everyone 🌟
December 31, 2025 at 10:05 PM
kanaratron.bsky.social
The most sacred of tomes.
A copy of The Animator's Workbook, by Tony White
January 2, 2026 at 10:29 AM