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Tom Arnold
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Finished my game Carpoon! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1068840/Carpoon/ (Updates continue)
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Tom Arnold @tomfarnold.bsky.social · Aug 8
Carpoon is out now on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/1068840/...
Save 38% on Carpoon on Steam
What happens when you fuse a harpoon gun to a tow truck? Twin-stick car harpooning arcade party action for 1-4 players! Harpoon and reel cars in, then tow them into the recycling crusher before time r...
store.steampowered.com
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fluffnight.bsky.social
Excited to show off the amazing sponsors who've donated! All to proceeds for this @extralife4kids.bsky.social event will go towards BC Children's Hospital! You can donate here for a chance to win a prize! You can see all our sponsors and links on the donation site!
www.extra-life.org/participants...
December 27, 2025 at 5:37 AM
tomfarnold.bsky.social
Monster trucking like a boss

(no health bar)
December 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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jakecollinge.bsky.social
✨Artwork Stages 2&3 of The Ancients - symbiotic contact has been made. The environment is encouraging, but something is wrong...

Find SporeBloom on Steam (Wishlist/Discord)
store.steampowered.com/app/2895740/...

#gamedev #unity #gamedesign #indiegames #strategygames #fungi #mushroomgame
December 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
tomfarnold.bsky.social
Festive update for Carpoon, bigger one soooooon
Santa hat
December 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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deartogod.bsky.social
Just ran through and gave some quick recommendations to the small games in my steam library. Trying to do my part to uplift the small devs.

Ya'll should go through your library, find a small game, and leave a review as well. The smaller the game, the bigger the impact the review will have :)
December 14, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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bai.dev
So if you're going to be doomscrolling today, at least make it a journey through decades of community creativity that helped shaped gaming as we know it.

Maybe something you made is in here?

doomscroll.cx
DoomScroll — Browse, Preview, and Play Thousands of User-Made Doom WADs
Endlessly scroll through decades of user-made Doom maps. Preview and play WADs instantly in your browser.
doomscroll.cx
December 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
tomfarnold.bsky.social
In the desert, you say?
December 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
tomfarnold.bsky.social
Thoughtful words in Prime 4. I also enjoyed some of the highs, but afterwards questioned why parts like the motorbike were in it. I wonder if some of the decisions were to differentiate this iteration and try something new, or guessing what a new generation wants to reach a wider audience.
brendanlh.bsky.social Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 16d
I beat Metroid Prime 4 a couple nights ago. 100% items, it took 16 hours and change. It did weird things to my brain, and I needed to write about it. So enjoy this unplanned meditation on the fourth Metroid Prime game.

Please repost and share it around :)
Within the first hour of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Samus is imbued with psychic powers. From that moment onward, I spent my 16-hour first playthrough wishing I had psychic abilities, too. Not because I want to move things telekinetically or see into the future, but because I wish I could beam my thoughts about Metroid Prime 4 directly into someone else's mind. Your mind. Maybe I wouldn’t have to talk about this game--because, frankly, I think we’ve all talked about it too much already. Instead, you could know—feel—my experience with the game first-hand. If I had psychic powers, you would know what it feels like to have actively, stubbornly, held Metroid Prime as your favorite game these past 25 years, and the self-inflicted expectations I struggled against in the lead up to Prime 4’s launch. And you would know how it felt for all that to dissolve the moment I viewed an unknown world from behind the familiar HUD of Samus’ visor. If I could share my memories with you, you could trace in yourself the same shape of the emotions I felt while exploring Ice Belt--my awareness flitting between the unease in my gut and melancholy in my chest. The sense of scale I felt seeing the megalithic storm clouds of Volt Forge’s skybox. My surprise that Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano somehow found such an alien electric guitar tone, but also chose to feature it prominently throughout the soundtrack. The familiar compulsion to break every green crystal and return to locations to collect lingering items, long before the game asked me to. The way a single unimportant scan in a Lamorn shrine evoked vivid images of the species’ final hours. How else, than with psychic abilities, could I convey the way the dissipating mist in Fury Green’s Cargo Launcher platform never lost its novelty? Or how it felt to look up from the depths of the Great Mines, see the gray sky peeking through the broken rock hundreds of feet above, and think, “This is all I’ve ever wanted from Metroid.” And if I could invite you into my mind, then you, like me, would also question if the only reason these familiar “Metroid-y” moments meant something is because they’re juxtaposed against my frustrations with the story; my disappointment in the brevity of Flare Pool and linearity of The Great Mines; my lingering apathy towards Samus’ companions and underutilized rival; my skepticism about whether this is the direction I want the series to take, if it continues. You would see how these highs and lows blend uncomfortably, echoing the unpleasant dissonance I felt between the oversaturated orange and purple hues of Sol Valley against the dense, dark, moody atmospheres of the on-foot biomes. Or the ways radio calls and escort missions impinge on segments of sublime isolation and engrossing visual design. Maybe after all of that, you, too, would struggle to resolve these contradictions and distill the totality of this arc into a succinct statement of quality, much I like am. Alas, I do not have psychic powers, so these words must suffice. Written & Designed by Brendan Hesse Proofreading & Feedback - Abram Buehner Special thankt to THE CRAWL Patraon Supporters
December 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
tomfarnold.bsky.social
EmCon is the best idea of all-time.
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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decepticondoug.bsky.social
Had a good time chatting with a bunch of the exhibitors at the Vancouver Game Expo. Here's my video...
@vangameconnect.ca
#videogames #Vancouver #indiegames

youtu.be/bMi7SUrQfFs?...
Checking out the Vancouver Game Expo 2025
YouTube video by Moving_piKtures
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
tomfarnold.bsky.social
If you're in Vancouver today, indie game expo alert.
vangameconnect.ca Vancouver Game Connect @vangameconnect.ca · Nov 29
We're less than ONE day away until our first Vancouver Game Expo!!!

Get tickets here: vangameconnect.ca/tickets
November 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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dadako.com
Questy Chess is 50% off this Black Friday over at Itch! Come play this highly polished puzzling chess-like rpg, with a range of super cool screen effects.

dadako.itch.io/questy-chess

#blackfriday #indiegame #indiedev #minimal #bauhaus #itchio
Questy Chess by dadako
Turn based Chess RPG
dadako.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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dominictarason.com
Yoooooo - all-star team including the developer of Cave Story.
November 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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captkuso.bsky.social
black screen is out on Dreamcast and PC now!!
There's a 10% launch week discount, so go check it out :)

PC: store.steampowered.com/app/4063290/...
Dreamcast: captkuso.itch.io/black-screen

#homebrew #dreamcast #indiegame #pixelart
black screen on Steam
Trade to make your fortune in this lo-fi, laid back space adventure, where you'll get help from anthropomorphic animals, gear up your ship, and search for the mythical key to immortality hidden in the...
store.steampowered.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
tomfarnold.bsky.social
Carpoon is in this! Wanted to do something a little extra special so I made it 45% off to be $5 Canadian. Check out DOT Defence and Flower Drops on sale as well!
wario64.bsky.social Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · Nov 21
Games from Vancouver sale on Steam buff.ly/IrqC3gW
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Pickle Rick
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
tomfarnold.bsky.social
It'll be worth harpooning to your calendar.
vangameconnect.ca Vancouver Game Connect @vangameconnect.ca · Nov 6
The GAMES FROM VANCOUVER 🍁 Steam sale goes live Nov 21-30 with over 50 discounted games!

We've partnered with @bbigames.bsky.social to present a digital showcase of talent from Greater Vancouver.

Mark your calendar to snag a great deal and discover hits you might not have known were made here!
Games from Vancouver Steam sale is happening on November 21st - 30th. The background shows an illustration of Vancouver, albeit, with a lot more strange happenings. On the left in the water, a giant mech with four legs towers over the mountains. An ominous UFO ship is hovering above Downtown Vancouver. And, just in the sea, there is a giant octopus. This is putting some needed fun in Vancouver.
November 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
tomfarnold.bsky.social
4-3 but real!
Mario mushroom
November 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
tomfarnold.bsky.social
Day 31: Award #inktober2025
November 1, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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brendanlh.bsky.social
They put my words in another book!

I'm very grateful I got the chance to write about one of my all-time favorite visual artists, Ayami Kojima, for @lostincult.co.uk's Lock-On 006.
Cover art of Lock-On 006, featuring an illustration of Terra from Final Fantasy VI by series artist Yoshitaka Amano.
October 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM
tomfarnold.bsky.social
Day 30: Vacant #inktober2025

Terrifying game on GB
Samus
October 31, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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milanks.com
treating myself to some juice
#gamedev
October 31, 2025 at 12:30 AM
tomfarnold.bsky.social
Day 29: Lesson #inktober2025

Don't get cocky,
It's gonna get rocky.
PaRappa
October 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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richtaur.bsky.social
BOO! (the scary ghost kind)

Anyway How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself is 50% off as part of the Itch Halloween Sale 2025:

valadria.itch.io/how-to-make-...
How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself by Valadria
10 steps, just you and a computer
valadria.itch.io
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
tomfarnold.bsky.social
Day 28: Skeletal #inktober2025

T-pose
October 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM