Dan Marshall
@danthat.bsky.social
Director of BAFTA-winning indie game studio Size Five Games
EARTH MUST DIE | Lair of the Clockwork God | The Swindle | Behold the Kickmen | Ben There, Dan That! | Time Gentlemen, Please! | Gun Monkeys | Privates | Gibbage
www.sizefivegames.com
EARTH MUST DIE | Lair of the Clockwork God | The Swindle | Behold the Kickmen | Ben There, Dan That! | Time Gentlemen, Please! | Gun Monkeys | Privates | Gibbage
www.sizefivegames.com
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Dan Marshall
@danthat.bsky.social
· Sep 28
EARTH MUST DIE
Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE
Please RETWEET and WISHLIST
Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE
Please RETWEET and WISHLIST
I'm at a restaurant and a kid about 16 years old just came up and ordered some food and "two Cobras" and the guy behind the counter served him two Cokes and let me tell you the AWKWARD SILENCE of that transaction was just *phenomenal*.
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I'm at a restaurant and a kid about 16 years old just came up and ordered some food and "two Cobras" and the guy behind the counter served him two Cokes and let me tell you the AWKWARD SILENCE of that transaction was just *phenomenal*.
Think you might have answered your own question in the opening paragraph there, mate
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November 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Think you might have answered your own question in the opening paragraph there, mate
metro.co.uk/2025/11/14/g...
metro.co.uk/2025/11/14/g...
Feels like there was a full 20 years of my life where games were constantly asking me to traverse some goop in a sewer by using crates as stepping stones then suddenly one day it never happened again. Weird what you get nostalgic for, isn't it?
November 14, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Feels like there was a full 20 years of my life where games were constantly asking me to traverse some goop in a sewer by using crates as stepping stones then suddenly one day it never happened again. Weird what you get nostalgic for, isn't it?
Reposted by Dan Marshall
![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
Fingers crossed the Steam Machine FINALLY comes equipped with the technology to let off a little burst of celebratory real steam when you beat a game. I can't believe this hasn't been a standard feature of consoles this far but hopefully Valve can do it.
November 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Fingers crossed the Steam Machine FINALLY comes equipped with the technology to let off a little burst of celebratory real steam when you beat a game. I can't believe this hasn't been a standard feature of consoles this far but hopefully Valve can do it.
There is no AI in Earth Must Die.
FULL DISCLOSURE in desperation, in my darkest hour, I did use CoPilot to try and fix a bug, but the code it spewed out was such absolute dogshit I couldn't have implemented it if I wanted to.
FULL DISCLOSURE in desperation, in my darkest hour, I did use CoPilot to try and fix a bug, but the code it spewed out was such absolute dogshit I couldn't have implemented it if I wanted to.
We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm
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November 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There is no AI in Earth Must Die.
FULL DISCLOSURE in desperation, in my darkest hour, I did use CoPilot to try and fix a bug, but the code it spewed out was such absolute dogshit I couldn't have implemented it if I wanted to.
FULL DISCLOSURE in desperation, in my darkest hour, I did use CoPilot to try and fix a bug, but the code it spewed out was such absolute dogshit I couldn't have implemented it if I wanted to.
Reposted by Dan Marshall
If I were lumines I would not have a title that looks like it says arse, on a logo that looks like an arse, positioned over an arse
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
If I were lumines I would not have a title that looks like it says arse, on a logo that looks like an arse, positioned over an arse
Reposted by Dan Marshall
We're excited for this one! Size Five has been making games inspired by classic Point 'n' Clicks for years and @timegentleman.bsky.social is one of our Excellent Community Helper People, so why not give this some wishlist love?
He had us at "accidentally doing a murder" 😉
bsky.app/profile/dant...
He had us at "accidentally doing a murder" 😉
bsky.app/profile/dant...
Another exclusive clip from 'EARTH MUST DIE'
After accidentally doing a murder, VValak finds himself needing to outsmart a little good cop/ bad cop routine with @alexhorne.bsky.social and @benstarr.bsky.social
Wishlist, please! It all really helps us out!
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
After accidentally doing a murder, VValak finds himself needing to outsmart a little good cop/ bad cop routine with @alexhorne.bsky.social and @benstarr.bsky.social
Wishlist, please! It all really helps us out!
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
November 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
We're excited for this one! Size Five has been making games inspired by classic Point 'n' Clicks for years and @timegentleman.bsky.social is one of our Excellent Community Helper People, so why not give this some wishlist love?
He had us at "accidentally doing a murder" 😉
bsky.app/profile/dant...
He had us at "accidentally doing a murder" 😉
bsky.app/profile/dant...
If I were put in charge of rebooting Bond, I would simply start by writing about how he got in the shower while apparently fully asleep. Who put him in there, and why?
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If I were put in charge of rebooting Bond, I would simply start by writing about how he got in the shower while apparently fully asleep. Who put him in there, and why?
Reposted by Dan Marshall
ICYMI: this game is lush and needs wishlisting to shiiiiiit so please share and wishlist it and that
Another exclusive clip from 'EARTH MUST DIE'
After accidentally doing a murder, VValak finds himself needing to outsmart a little good cop/ bad cop routine with @alexhorne.bsky.social and @benstarr.bsky.social
Wishlist, please! It all really helps us out!
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
After accidentally doing a murder, VValak finds himself needing to outsmart a little good cop/ bad cop routine with @alexhorne.bsky.social and @benstarr.bsky.social
Wishlist, please! It all really helps us out!
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
ICYMI: this game is lush and needs wishlisting to shiiiiiit so please share and wishlist it and that
Reposted by Dan Marshall
Had a headache yesterday when planning a D&D session for 2 excitable kids, and had the genius idea of introducing an entity which shrieked in agony and caused 1hp of damage if they talked too loudly.
Hilarious session, carried out mostly in hushed whispers. Bliss 👍
Hilarious session, carried out mostly in hushed whispers. Bliss 👍
November 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Had a headache yesterday when planning a D&D session for 2 excitable kids, and had the genius idea of introducing an entity which shrieked in agony and caused 1hp of damage if they talked too loudly.
Hilarious session, carried out mostly in hushed whispers. Bliss 👍
Hilarious session, carried out mostly in hushed whispers. Bliss 👍
ICYMI: this game is lush and needs wishlisting to shiiiiiit so please share and wishlist it and that
Another exclusive clip from 'EARTH MUST DIE'
After accidentally doing a murder, VValak finds himself needing to outsmart a little good cop/ bad cop routine with @alexhorne.bsky.social and @benstarr.bsky.social
Wishlist, please! It all really helps us out!
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
After accidentally doing a murder, VValak finds himself needing to outsmart a little good cop/ bad cop routine with @alexhorne.bsky.social and @benstarr.bsky.social
Wishlist, please! It all really helps us out!
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
ICYMI: this game is lush and needs wishlisting to shiiiiiit so please share and wishlist it and that
Reposted by Dan Marshall
This is a great read.
Also: important to realise that this industry has become *persistently terrifying* for your favourite devs, and that is no atmosphere in which to be creative.
Try to buy games, if you're able. Buy lots of games. Review and share them if you love them. Talk about them.
Also: important to realise that this industry has become *persistently terrifying* for your favourite devs, and that is no atmosphere in which to be creative.
Try to buy games, if you're able. Buy lots of games. Review and share them if you love them. Talk about them.
Sat down for a lovely chat with @clert.bsky.social over @eurogamer.bsky.social To talk about my games and how I'd like to keep making and improving them sustainably. To step away from the launch, meme and hype driven madness that has taken root in games.
www.eurogamer.net/as-viral-hit...
www.eurogamer.net/as-viral-hit...
As viral hits like Escape from Duckov and Megabonk change the industry, Falconeer developer Tomas Sala has found another way to survive
What if you didn't have to spin the roulette wheel every time you released a new game, hoping for it to find an audience? What if there was a better way?
www.eurogamer.net
November 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
This is a great read.
Also: important to realise that this industry has become *persistently terrifying* for your favourite devs, and that is no atmosphere in which to be creative.
Try to buy games, if you're able. Buy lots of games. Review and share them if you love them. Talk about them.
Also: important to realise that this industry has become *persistently terrifying* for your favourite devs, and that is no atmosphere in which to be creative.
Try to buy games, if you're able. Buy lots of games. Review and share them if you love them. Talk about them.
This is a great read.
Also: important to realise that this industry has become *persistently terrifying* for your favourite devs, and that is no atmosphere in which to be creative.
Try to buy games, if you're able. Buy lots of games. Review and share them if you love them. Talk about them.
Also: important to realise that this industry has become *persistently terrifying* for your favourite devs, and that is no atmosphere in which to be creative.
Try to buy games, if you're able. Buy lots of games. Review and share them if you love them. Talk about them.
Sat down for a lovely chat with @clert.bsky.social over @eurogamer.bsky.social To talk about my games and how I'd like to keep making and improving them sustainably. To step away from the launch, meme and hype driven madness that has taken root in games.
www.eurogamer.net/as-viral-hit...
www.eurogamer.net/as-viral-hit...
As viral hits like Escape from Duckov and Megabonk change the industry, Falconeer developer Tomas Sala has found another way to survive
What if you didn't have to spin the roulette wheel every time you released a new game, hoping for it to find an audience? What if there was a better way?
www.eurogamer.net
November 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
This is a great read.
Also: important to realise that this industry has become *persistently terrifying* for your favourite devs, and that is no atmosphere in which to be creative.
Try to buy games, if you're able. Buy lots of games. Review and share them if you love them. Talk about them.
Also: important to realise that this industry has become *persistently terrifying* for your favourite devs, and that is no atmosphere in which to be creative.
Try to buy games, if you're able. Buy lots of games. Review and share them if you love them. Talk about them.
Had a headache yesterday when planning a D&D session for 2 excitable kids, and had the genius idea of introducing an entity which shrieked in agony and caused 1hp of damage if they talked too loudly.
Hilarious session, carried out mostly in hushed whispers. Bliss 👍
Hilarious session, carried out mostly in hushed whispers. Bliss 👍
November 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Had a headache yesterday when planning a D&D session for 2 excitable kids, and had the genius idea of introducing an entity which shrieked in agony and caused 1hp of damage if they talked too loudly.
Hilarious session, carried out mostly in hushed whispers. Bliss 👍
Hilarious session, carried out mostly in hushed whispers. Bliss 👍
Reposted by Dan Marshall
HOT TAKE: modern insistence that theres a 'right' way to design games is leading to homogenised cookie cutter games.
That's why every game you played in the 1990s was a weird, enchanting delight and everything now is a bit stale and makes you feel like you've played it before.
END HOT TAKE
That's why every game you played in the 1990s was a weird, enchanting delight and everything now is a bit stale and makes you feel like you've played it before.
END HOT TAKE
November 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
HOT TAKE: modern insistence that theres a 'right' way to design games is leading to homogenised cookie cutter games.
That's why every game you played in the 1990s was a weird, enchanting delight and everything now is a bit stale and makes you feel like you've played it before.
END HOT TAKE
That's why every game you played in the 1990s was a weird, enchanting delight and everything now is a bit stale and makes you feel like you've played it before.
END HOT TAKE
FWIW @steampowered.com the only acceptable way to announce Half-Life 3 is a specially commissioned issue of PCZONE that just carries on with news and reviews like it never died, and has an 8-page preview spread dedicated to HL3.
People should find out about this game at a newsagents imo.
People should find out about this game at a newsagents imo.
Half-Life fans believe they've worked out a possible announcement date for Half-Life 3 - and it's very, very soon
www.eurogamer.net/half-life-fa...
www.eurogamer.net/half-life-fa...
November 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
FWIW @steampowered.com the only acceptable way to announce Half-Life 3 is a specially commissioned issue of PCZONE that just carries on with news and reviews like it never died, and has an 8-page preview spread dedicated to HL3.
People should find out about this game at a newsagents imo.
People should find out about this game at a newsagents imo.
We all did cringey, afwul shit as teenagers but imagine being in your 50s and actively posting things like this for everyone to see aaaargh my bumhole just crawled up into my insides out of second-hand embarrassment
Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
We all did cringey, afwul shit as teenagers but imagine being in your 50s and actively posting things like this for everyone to see aaaargh my bumhole just crawled up into my insides out of second-hand embarrassment
"okay, yeah, we were wrong last time, and the time before that and the time before that and the time before that and the time before that but THIS time..."
Half-Life fans believe they've worked out a possible announcement date for Half-Life 3 - and it's very, very soon
www.eurogamer.net/half-life-fa...
www.eurogamer.net/half-life-fa...
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"okay, yeah, we were wrong last time, and the time before that and the time before that and the time before that and the time before that but THIS time..."
HOT TAKE: modern insistence that theres a 'right' way to design games is leading to homogenised cookie cutter games.
That's why every game you played in the 1990s was a weird, enchanting delight and everything now is a bit stale and makes you feel like you've played it before.
END HOT TAKE
That's why every game you played in the 1990s was a weird, enchanting delight and everything now is a bit stale and makes you feel like you've played it before.
END HOT TAKE
November 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
HOT TAKE: modern insistence that theres a 'right' way to design games is leading to homogenised cookie cutter games.
That's why every game you played in the 1990s was a weird, enchanting delight and everything now is a bit stale and makes you feel like you've played it before.
END HOT TAKE
That's why every game you played in the 1990s was a weird, enchanting delight and everything now is a bit stale and makes you feel like you've played it before.
END HOT TAKE
Hey! It's Bozz Liteyear! And Mariop!
November 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Hey! It's Bozz Liteyear! And Mariop!
Reposted by Dan Marshall
Another exclusive clip from 'EARTH MUST DIE'
After accidentally doing a murder, VValak finds himself needing to outsmart a little good cop/ bad cop routine with @alexhorne.bsky.social and @benstarr.bsky.social
Wishlist, please! It all really helps us out!
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
After accidentally doing a murder, VValak finds himself needing to outsmart a little good cop/ bad cop routine with @alexhorne.bsky.social and @benstarr.bsky.social
Wishlist, please! It all really helps us out!
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
November 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Another exclusive clip from 'EARTH MUST DIE'
After accidentally doing a murder, VValak finds himself needing to outsmart a little good cop/ bad cop routine with @alexhorne.bsky.social and @benstarr.bsky.social
Wishlist, please! It all really helps us out!
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
After accidentally doing a murder, VValak finds himself needing to outsmart a little good cop/ bad cop routine with @alexhorne.bsky.social and @benstarr.bsky.social
Wishlist, please! It all really helps us out!
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
Google just threw up this photo of a toy I took ten years ago
I can see why I took a photo of this toy, it's pretty vile
I can see why I took a photo of this toy, it's pretty vile
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Google just threw up this photo of a toy I took ten years ago
I can see why I took a photo of this toy, it's pretty vile
I can see why I took a photo of this toy, it's pretty vile
Another exclusive clip from 'EARTH MUST DIE'
After accidentally doing a murder, VValak finds himself needing to outsmart a little good cop/ bad cop routine with @alexhorne.bsky.social and @benstarr.bsky.social
Wishlist, please! It all really helps us out!
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
After accidentally doing a murder, VValak finds himself needing to outsmart a little good cop/ bad cop routine with @alexhorne.bsky.social and @benstarr.bsky.social
Wishlist, please! It all really helps us out!
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
November 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Another exclusive clip from 'EARTH MUST DIE'
After accidentally doing a murder, VValak finds himself needing to outsmart a little good cop/ bad cop routine with @alexhorne.bsky.social and @benstarr.bsky.social
Wishlist, please! It all really helps us out!
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
After accidentally doing a murder, VValak finds himself needing to outsmart a little good cop/ bad cop routine with @alexhorne.bsky.social and @benstarr.bsky.social
Wishlist, please! It all really helps us out!
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
Great, so if you're in Brazil and you want to buy a copy of GTA5 you have to own two copies?? This is such bullshit!
Don't feel sad for Take Two's shareholders over GTA 6 delay: GTA 5 has now sold more copies than the entire population of Brazil
www.eurogamer.net/gta5-more-sa...
www.eurogamer.net/gta5-more-sa...
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Great, so if you're in Brazil and you want to buy a copy of GTA5 you have to own two copies?? This is such bullshit!