Calligram Studio
@calligramstudio.com
Alex, Eleanor and Jigmé (hi👋). We make arthouse games. Herman Melville Award losers. Working on project #2. Phoenix Springs is out now:
🏝️ s.team/a/1973310
🐈 www.calligramstudio.com
🏝️ s.team/a/1973310
🐈 www.calligramstudio.com
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Calligram Studio
@calligramstudio.com
· Jan 24
Hi again! (new pin📌)
Our first game is out now:
“A point-and-click detective game for the 21st century"
– The Guardian
“…unsettling, smart, and emotionally cathartic”
– The Verge
“Phoenix Springs is playable art...”
– Polygon
❤️ Here to share art, words and code x
🕹️ s.team/a/1973310
Our first game is out now:
“A point-and-click detective game for the 21st century"
– The Guardian
“…unsettling, smart, and emotionally cathartic”
– The Verge
“Phoenix Springs is playable art...”
– Polygon
❤️ Here to share art, words and code x
🕹️ s.team/a/1973310
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LOUDER
You GOTTA stop being so desperately afraid of the audience. Look at me. Look in my eyeballs. Stop being so desperate for approval. Stop writing for the whiny babies in your audience and start writing for the freaks who like cool fucked up shit
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
LOUDER
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@amabel.bsky.social makes the most thought provoking and innovative games. Few publishers have a catalogue as rich and stacked with gems.
I've lost count of how many Hollandspiele games I've played that have floored me with their inventiveness.
I've lost count of how many Hollandspiele games I've played that have floored me with their inventiveness.
November 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
@amabel.bsky.social makes the most thought provoking and innovative games. Few publishers have a catalogue as rich and stacked with gems.
I've lost count of how many Hollandspiele games I've played that have floored me with their inventiveness.
I've lost count of how many Hollandspiele games I've played that have floored me with their inventiveness.
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I love a lot of things Angeline Era does, but IMO its smartest decision is understanding that Mystery and Full Knowledge Of A Game's Scope are enemies that cannot coexist and its refusal to even _imply_ what completionism looks enhances its sense of atmosphere a thousandfold
November 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I love a lot of things Angeline Era does, but IMO its smartest decision is understanding that Mystery and Full Knowledge Of A Game's Scope are enemies that cannot coexist and its refusal to even _imply_ what completionism looks enhances its sense of atmosphere a thousandfold
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Excellent question!
Quoting so everyone can see the answer, because this is vital for anyone playing games in a professional capacity: ALWAYS KEEP SOME GAMES FOR YOURSELF!
Have separate games that you play just for you, that aren't for streaming, aren't tied to your career, that are for you time.
Quoting so everyone can see the answer, because this is vital for anyone playing games in a professional capacity: ALWAYS KEEP SOME GAMES FOR YOURSELF!
Have separate games that you play just for you, that aren't for streaming, aren't tied to your career, that are for you time.
How do you professionally play and review games without burning out on what is a past time/stress relief for most players?
November 8, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Excellent question!
Quoting so everyone can see the answer, because this is vital for anyone playing games in a professional capacity: ALWAYS KEEP SOME GAMES FOR YOURSELF!
Have separate games that you play just for you, that aren't for streaming, aren't tied to your career, that are for you time.
Quoting so everyone can see the answer, because this is vital for anyone playing games in a professional capacity: ALWAYS KEEP SOME GAMES FOR YOURSELF!
Have separate games that you play just for you, that aren't for streaming, aren't tied to your career, that are for you time.
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i'm working on a horror game where the levels are alive
it comes out next year, wishlist panoptique here:
store.steampowered.com/app/4100350?...
#PitchYaGame #Solodev #indiegame #horrorgame #godotengine
it comes out next year, wishlist panoptique here:
store.steampowered.com/app/4100350?...
#PitchYaGame #Solodev #indiegame #horrorgame #godotengine
November 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
i'm working on a horror game where the levels are alive
it comes out next year, wishlist panoptique here:
store.steampowered.com/app/4100350?...
#PitchYaGame #Solodev #indiegame #horrorgame #godotengine
it comes out next year, wishlist panoptique here:
store.steampowered.com/app/4100350?...
#PitchYaGame #Solodev #indiegame #horrorgame #godotengine
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Hello #PitchYaGame -
ever wanted to investigate (and judge)
a personal path through a coming revolution
and counterrevolution?
You can do just that in 2026 in "a permanent echo"
store.steampowered.com/app/3727200/...
ever wanted to investigate (and judge)
a personal path through a coming revolution
and counterrevolution?
You can do just that in 2026 in "a permanent echo"
store.steampowered.com/app/3727200/...
November 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Hello #PitchYaGame -
ever wanted to investigate (and judge)
a personal path through a coming revolution
and counterrevolution?
You can do just that in 2026 in "a permanent echo"
store.steampowered.com/app/3727200/...
ever wanted to investigate (and judge)
a personal path through a coming revolution
and counterrevolution?
You can do just that in 2026 in "a permanent echo"
store.steampowered.com/app/3727200/...
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The Steam page for The Many Sins of House Ocampo is now LIVE!
➡️https://store.steampowered.com/app/4102890/The_Many_Sins_of_House_Ocampo/⬅️
Wishlist, repost, tell your friends, tell the press! 📢
➡️https://store.steampowered.com/app/4102890/The_Many_Sins_of_House_Ocampo/⬅️
Wishlist, repost, tell your friends, tell the press! 📢
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The Steam page for The Many Sins of House Ocampo is now LIVE!
➡️https://store.steampowered.com/app/4102890/The_Many_Sins_of_House_Ocampo/⬅️
Wishlist, repost, tell your friends, tell the press! 📢
➡️https://store.steampowered.com/app/4102890/The_Many_Sins_of_House_Ocampo/⬅️
Wishlist, repost, tell your friends, tell the press! 📢
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This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct.
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Grand Theft Auto’ Studio Accused of Union Busting After Firings
Union says 30 and 40 people were terminated. Rockstar Games’ parent company cites ‘gross misconduct’
www.bloomberg.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
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Folks! I’m looking for an illustrator to do some in-game artwork for an unannounced project on a contract basis in November.
Feel free to shoot me a DM with your portfolio if you’re interested!
Must be based in the UK, and absolutely no AI 🌟
Feel free to shoot me a DM with your portfolio if you’re interested!
Must be based in the UK, and absolutely no AI 🌟
October 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Folks! I’m looking for an illustrator to do some in-game artwork for an unannounced project on a contract basis in November.
Feel free to shoot me a DM with your portfolio if you’re interested!
Must be based in the UK, and absolutely no AI 🌟
Feel free to shoot me a DM with your portfolio if you’re interested!
Must be based in the UK, and absolutely no AI 🌟
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Going to toot my own horn for a moment: when I was at the SAFC I worked very hard to establish a games grant program to get funding to local developers, and now it’s finally announced and applications are open www.safilm.com.au/latest-news/...
South Australia’s video game sector levels up with new $100,000 Digital Games Fund grants and the return of SAGE: SA Game Exhibition - SAFC
South Australian video game developers will get a $100,000 opportunity to level-up their businesses with the South Australian Film Corporation’s (SAFC) new Digital Games Fund now open for applications...
www.safilm.com.au
October 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Going to toot my own horn for a moment: when I was at the SAFC I worked very hard to establish a games grant program to get funding to local developers, and now it’s finally announced and applications are open www.safilm.com.au/latest-news/...
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please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
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The New York Videogame Critics Circle (@nyvgcc.bsky.social) is going big for the 2026 New York Game Awards with a 2 day festival hosted at the SVA Theatre in Manhattan on Saturday, Jan. 17 and Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026!
Come celebrate & argue with me.
Get tickets:
www.eventbrite.com/e/15th-ny-ga...
Come celebrate & argue with me.
Get tickets:
www.eventbrite.com/e/15th-ny-ga...
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The New York Videogame Critics Circle (@nyvgcc.bsky.social) is going big for the 2026 New York Game Awards with a 2 day festival hosted at the SVA Theatre in Manhattan on Saturday, Jan. 17 and Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026!
Come celebrate & argue with me.
Get tickets:
www.eventbrite.com/e/15th-ny-ga...
Come celebrate & argue with me.
Get tickets:
www.eventbrite.com/e/15th-ny-ga...
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Just finished Easy Delivery Co. Loved the lonely, dreamlike atmosphere. Nice sense of mystery and really quite eerie at times. Driving around doing delivery jobs weirdly hypnotic. Great soundtrack. One of my GOTYs for sure.
October 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Just finished Easy Delivery Co. Loved the lonely, dreamlike atmosphere. Nice sense of mystery and really quite eerie at times. Driving around doing delivery jobs weirdly hypnotic. Great soundtrack. One of my GOTYs for sure.
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This is awesome. Wish more game devs chronicled their early adventures into the craft. Great stuff @jaytholen.net jaytholen.net/teengamedev/
Being a kid making games in the early 2000s - Jay Tholen
An autobiographical essay by Jay Tholen about being a youngster making games and posting them online!
jaytholen.net
October 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This is awesome. Wish more game devs chronicled their early adventures into the craft. Great stuff @jaytholen.net jaytholen.net/teengamedev/
Phoenix Springs turned one year old this month. An immense thanks to everyone who played, wrote about, rage against or loved getting lost into this little experimental world of ours ❤
Can't wait to share what's next for the team.
Can't wait to share what's next for the team.
October 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Phoenix Springs turned one year old this month. An immense thanks to everyone who played, wrote about, rage against or loved getting lost into this little experimental world of ours ❤
Can't wait to share what's next for the team.
Can't wait to share what's next for the team.
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🌟 SAVE THE DATE🌟
London Games Festival returns Monday 13 - Sunday 19 April 2026
Applications NOW OPEN
🕹️Official Selection submissions
💸Games Finance Market submissions
🎉Ensemble nominations
🏙️Side Events
👉 Apply here: festival.games.london
#LGF26
London Games Festival returns Monday 13 - Sunday 19 April 2026
Applications NOW OPEN
🕹️Official Selection submissions
💸Games Finance Market submissions
🎉Ensemble nominations
🏙️Side Events
👉 Apply here: festival.games.london
#LGF26
September 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🌟 SAVE THE DATE🌟
London Games Festival returns Monday 13 - Sunday 19 April 2026
Applications NOW OPEN
🕹️Official Selection submissions
💸Games Finance Market submissions
🎉Ensemble nominations
🏙️Side Events
👉 Apply here: festival.games.london
#LGF26
London Games Festival returns Monday 13 - Sunday 19 April 2026
Applications NOW OPEN
🕹️Official Selection submissions
💸Games Finance Market submissions
🎉Ensemble nominations
🏙️Side Events
👉 Apply here: festival.games.london
#LGF26
found old concept art / prototype
October 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
found old concept art / prototype
hey it's on sale 35% off thank you so much bye
Phoenix Springs is one of the few point and click games that truly feel like a result of 21st century art and I urge everyone interested in ludonarrative to play it. Alexandra Crow's performance as Iris Dormer is terrific.
October 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
hey it's on sale 35% off thank you so much bye
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The art for this piece, 'Thank You For Your Interest', is a composite of 60 template rejection letters all received by the artist Claire Peckham. You can buy prints of the art, and her other work, here:
www.clairepeckham.com/project...
www.clairepeckham.com/project...
Thank you again for your interest — Claire Peckham
www.clairepeckham.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The art for this piece, 'Thank You For Your Interest', is a composite of 60 template rejection letters all received by the artist Claire Peckham. You can buy prints of the art, and her other work, here:
www.clairepeckham.com/project...
www.clairepeckham.com/project...
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just a reminder that bandcamp friday is tomorrow & streaming services are interrupting music streams with ai generated shit, flooding the database with artists that don't exist in any way other than profiting the platform owners
so instead of paying a monthly fee, buy an album or two each month ok
so instead of paying a monthly fee, buy an album or two each month ok
October 3, 2025 at 4:23 AM
just a reminder that bandcamp friday is tomorrow & streaming services are interrupting music streams with ai generated shit, flooding the database with artists that don't exist in any way other than profiting the platform owners
so instead of paying a monthly fee, buy an album or two each month ok
so instead of paying a monthly fee, buy an album or two each month ok
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My curator page is very nearly up to 700 games, almost all recommendations, and a great way to find stuff in the sales!.
As always, I recommend switching to the Discounts filter and scrolling down. It's ranked by revenue, so the deeper you go, the more indie/obscure. Deep cuts await there.
As always, I recommend switching to the Discounts filter and scrolling down. It's ranked by revenue, so the deeper you go, the more indie/obscure. Deep cuts await there.
Steam Curator: Dominic Tarason's Opinionation Station
Info-tags aside (for listing stuff) this is 100% personal recommendations on games I've played. Expect a lot of weird, indie, undersold or otherwise mysterious stuff, plus the occasional mainstream fa...
store.steampowered.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:21 AM
My curator page is very nearly up to 700 games, almost all recommendations, and a great way to find stuff in the sales!.
As always, I recommend switching to the Discounts filter and scrolling down. It's ranked by revenue, so the deeper you go, the more indie/obscure. Deep cuts await there.
As always, I recommend switching to the Discounts filter and scrolling down. It's ranked by revenue, so the deeper you go, the more indie/obscure. Deep cuts await there.
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the steam autumn sale is here, so here are all the games we've recommended in the FBG newsletter over the past two years in case you need inspiration
Steam Developer: Failbetter Games
Purveyors of the finest words in gaming. Independent since 2009.
store.steampowered.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
the steam autumn sale is here, so here are all the games we've recommended in the FBG newsletter over the past two years in case you need inspiration