James Patton ⚙️ Putting the finishing touches on Duskpunk
@jamespatton.bsky.social
Solo gamedev making DUSKPUNK, a gritty steampunk RPG of survival and hope!
🔗 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2610880
Also made:
🧙🏽♀️Hidden Isle
🤖Silicon Dreams
🔗 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2610880
Also made:
🧙🏽♀️Hidden Isle
🤖Silicon Dreams
How would you survive, if you were worth more dead than alive?
In my new game Duskpunk, corpses are repurposed into fuel to power the War to End the World.
How would you escape that fate?
In my new game Duskpunk, corpses are repurposed into fuel to power the War to End the World.
How would you escape that fate?
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
How would you survive, if you were worth more dead than alive?
In my new game Duskpunk, corpses are repurposed into fuel to power the War to End the World.
How would you escape that fate?
In my new game Duskpunk, corpses are repurposed into fuel to power the War to End the World.
How would you escape that fate?
Less than 2 weeks before my gritty Dishonored-inspired RPG comes out!
🧭Explore a dystopian city
🫂Find community
🗡️Shank the Emperor, he deserves it
If you want to support but have no money or time, no worries! Taking 10 seconds to wishlist is also helpful!
store.steampowered.com/app/2610880
🧭Explore a dystopian city
🫂Find community
🗡️Shank the Emperor, he deserves it
If you want to support but have no money or time, no worries! Taking 10 seconds to wishlist is also helpful!
store.steampowered.com/app/2610880
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Less than 2 weeks before my gritty Dishonored-inspired RPG comes out!
🧭Explore a dystopian city
🫂Find community
🗡️Shank the Emperor, he deserves it
If you want to support but have no money or time, no worries! Taking 10 seconds to wishlist is also helpful!
store.steampowered.com/app/2610880
🧭Explore a dystopian city
🫂Find community
🗡️Shank the Emperor, he deserves it
If you want to support but have no money or time, no worries! Taking 10 seconds to wishlist is also helpful!
store.steampowered.com/app/2610880
Duskpunk is launching November 19th!
I'm so stoked to show everyone this strange dieselpunk metropolis.
You can wishlist here, or check out the demo: store.steampowered.com/app/2610880/...
I'm so stoked to show everyone this strange dieselpunk metropolis.
You can wishlist here, or check out the demo: store.steampowered.com/app/2610880/...
October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Duskpunk is launching November 19th!
I'm so stoked to show everyone this strange dieselpunk metropolis.
You can wishlist here, or check out the demo: store.steampowered.com/app/2610880/...
I'm so stoked to show everyone this strange dieselpunk metropolis.
You can wishlist here, or check out the demo: store.steampowered.com/app/2610880/...
Some of my favourite backgrounds from Duskpunk:
🎸The Arclight, a steampunk bar
💉 Opium-style drug den
🧐 Parliament, run like a crooked business
🚨The bluecoats caught you!
🎸The Arclight, a steampunk bar
💉 Opium-style drug den
🧐 Parliament, run like a crooked business
🚨The bluecoats caught you!
October 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Some of my favourite backgrounds from Duskpunk:
🎸The Arclight, a steampunk bar
💉 Opium-style drug den
🧐 Parliament, run like a crooked business
🚨The bluecoats caught you!
🎸The Arclight, a steampunk bar
💉 Opium-style drug den
🧐 Parliament, run like a crooked business
🚨The bluecoats caught you!
Anyone fancy storming the imperial palace?
In Duskpunk, my dice-driven RPG, you can help kick the Emperor off a balcony.
Or you can arrest him quietly, if you're boring.
store.steampowered.com/app/2610880
In Duskpunk, my dice-driven RPG, you can help kick the Emperor off a balcony.
Or you can arrest him quietly, if you're boring.
store.steampowered.com/app/2610880
October 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Anyone fancy storming the imperial palace?
In Duskpunk, my dice-driven RPG, you can help kick the Emperor off a balcony.
Or you can arrest him quietly, if you're boring.
store.steampowered.com/app/2610880
In Duskpunk, my dice-driven RPG, you can help kick the Emperor off a balcony.
Or you can arrest him quietly, if you're boring.
store.steampowered.com/app/2610880
After being buried for days, it looks like Duskpunk crawled out of the Nextfest labyrinth to reach the frontpage of CRPGs?
Or is this just random chance?
Or is this just random chance?
October 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
After being buried for days, it looks like Duskpunk crawled out of the Nextfest labyrinth to reach the frontpage of CRPGs?
Or is this just random chance?
Or is this just random chance?
Any nextfest devs who are wondering why your demo doesn't have a nice big green button on your Steam page: you need to click this tick box!
Kind of maddening that this isn't the default. Learn from my mistakes! 🤣
Kind of maddening that this isn't the default. Learn from my mistakes! 🤣
October 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Any nextfest devs who are wondering why your demo doesn't have a nice big green button on your Steam page: you need to click this tick box!
Kind of maddening that this isn't the default. Learn from my mistakes! 🤣
Kind of maddening that this isn't the default. Learn from my mistakes! 🤣
My artist, Konstantin Dvoytsov, went through a few iterations of him, but I think he hit on the vibe pretty much instantly.
(Find more of Konstantin's work here: www.artstation.com/koodjo17)
(Find more of Konstantin's work here: www.artstation.com/koodjo17)
September 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
My artist, Konstantin Dvoytsov, went through a few iterations of him, but I think he hit on the vibe pretty much instantly.
(Find more of Konstantin's work here: www.artstation.com/koodjo17)
(Find more of Konstantin's work here: www.artstation.com/koodjo17)
Brother Rejchek: the first friendly face you meet in Duskpunk, when he scoops you off the cobbles.
He's deeply religious. So he cares for the poor... but has unwavering loyalty to the Emperor, the "Little Father".
He's deeply religious. So he cares for the poor... but has unwavering loyalty to the Emperor, the "Little Father".
September 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Brother Rejchek: the first friendly face you meet in Duskpunk, when he scoops you off the cobbles.
He's deeply religious. So he cares for the poor... but has unwavering loyalty to the Emperor, the "Little Father".
He's deeply religious. So he cares for the poor... but has unwavering loyalty to the Emperor, the "Little Father".
ICYMI: I announced my next game, antifascist RPG DUSKPUNK
You’re an escaped soldier with only two things to your name: your life and your sanity. Keeping both will prove a challenge. Explore the streets of a steampunk city, gather friends and allies, and spark revolution in a world consumed by war
You’re an escaped soldier with only two things to your name: your life and your sanity. Keeping both will prove a challenge. Explore the streets of a steampunk city, gather friends and allies, and spark revolution in a world consumed by war
September 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ICYMI: I announced my next game, antifascist RPG DUSKPUNK
You’re an escaped soldier with only two things to your name: your life and your sanity. Keeping both will prove a challenge. Explore the streets of a steampunk city, gather friends and allies, and spark revolution in a world consumed by war
You’re an escaped soldier with only two things to your name: your life and your sanity. Keeping both will prove a challenge. Explore the streets of a steampunk city, gather friends and allies, and spark revolution in a world consumed by war
ICYMI, I just announced my "Citizen Sleeper meets Dishonored" RPG I've been working on for the last 2 years!
⚙️Survive a gritty steampunk city
💣Spark revolution!
🚩Take down the Empire...
👿...or put a new dictator in power?
⚙️Survive a gritty steampunk city
💣Spark revolution!
🚩Take down the Empire...
👿...or put a new dictator in power?
September 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
ICYMI, I just announced my "Citizen Sleeper meets Dishonored" RPG I've been working on for the last 2 years!
⚙️Survive a gritty steampunk city
💣Spark revolution!
🚩Take down the Empire...
👿...or put a new dictator in power?
⚙️Survive a gritty steampunk city
💣Spark revolution!
🚩Take down the Empire...
👿...or put a new dictator in power?
August 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
August 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Found a fun little hacking game, played entirely in your desktop folder architecture!
RUN ON VENTACORP
w.itch.io/run-on-venta...
#indiegames
RUN ON VENTACORP
w.itch.io/run-on-venta...
#indiegames
August 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Found a fun little hacking game, played entirely in your desktop folder architecture!
RUN ON VENTACORP
w.itch.io/run-on-venta...
#indiegames
RUN ON VENTACORP
w.itch.io/run-on-venta...
#indiegames
Gonna toot my own horn here, but these are some reviews for "Silicon Dreams", my cyberpunk thriller which sold badly but everyone loved.
The last one's from PC Gamer. They loved it.
store.steampowered.com/app/1272070/...
#indiegame #indiedev
The last one's from PC Gamer. They loved it.
store.steampowered.com/app/1272070/...
#indiegame #indiedev
August 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Gonna toot my own horn here, but these are some reviews for "Silicon Dreams", my cyberpunk thriller which sold badly but everyone loved.
The last one's from PC Gamer. They loved it.
store.steampowered.com/app/1272070/...
#indiegame #indiedev
The last one's from PC Gamer. They loved it.
store.steampowered.com/app/1272070/...
#indiegame #indiedev
There are these wonderful, surreal scenes where the Red Army storms the palace.
Gunfights in the Tsar's wine cellar.
Soldiers creeping through the Velvet Jungle of the palace staterooms, using marble pillars as cover.
Gunfights in the Tsar's wine cellar.
Soldiers creeping through the Velvet Jungle of the palace staterooms, using marble pillars as cover.
July 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
There are these wonderful, surreal scenes where the Red Army storms the palace.
Gunfights in the Tsar's wine cellar.
Soldiers creeping through the Velvet Jungle of the palace staterooms, using marble pillars as cover.
Gunfights in the Tsar's wine cellar.
Soldiers creeping through the Velvet Jungle of the palace staterooms, using marble pillars as cover.
Spent a big chunk of today writing my game's revolutionary climax scenes: storming a palace!
It was inspired by the climax of "October" (1927), a brilliant Russian movie made by communists depicting the October Revolution.
#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #history
It was inspired by the climax of "October" (1927), a brilliant Russian movie made by communists depicting the October Revolution.
#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #history
July 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Spent a big chunk of today writing my game's revolutionary climax scenes: storming a palace!
It was inspired by the climax of "October" (1927), a brilliant Russian movie made by communists depicting the October Revolution.
#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #history
It was inspired by the climax of "October" (1927), a brilliant Russian movie made by communists depicting the October Revolution.
#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #history
July 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
As I was rewriting this "mass protest" scene for Duskpunk, I realised I was in the same territory as Andor's chilling scenes from S02E08.
(Andor and Duskpunk spoilers below.)
🧵 #indiegame #gamedev
(Andor and Duskpunk spoilers below.)
🧵 #indiegame #gamedev
July 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
As I was rewriting this "mass protest" scene for Duskpunk, I realised I was in the same territory as Andor's chilling scenes from S02E08.
(Andor and Duskpunk spoilers below.)
🧵 #indiegame #gamedev
(Andor and Duskpunk spoilers below.)
🧵 #indiegame #gamedev
Woke up, thought about game while brushing my teeth, created impromptu torture sequence by lunch.
Narrative design goes to strange places sometimes.
Narrative design goes to strange places sometimes.
June 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Woke up, thought about game while brushing my teeth, created impromptu torture sequence by lunch.
Narrative design goes to strange places sometimes.
Narrative design goes to strange places sometimes.
From an anti-capitalist poem I wrote a few months ago
June 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
From an anti-capitalist poem I wrote a few months ago
The slums of Dredgeport: noisy, dirty, crowded…
And full of opportunity, if you know where to look.
#indiedev #indiegames #gamedev
And full of opportunity, if you know where to look.
#indiedev #indiegames #gamedev
May 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The slums of Dredgeport: noisy, dirty, crowded…
And full of opportunity, if you know where to look.
#indiedev #indiegames #gamedev
And full of opportunity, if you know where to look.
#indiedev #indiegames #gamedev
Dredgeport is divided by its river. Bridges are critical: they facilitate commerce, but allow the population to be herded and controlled.
People who can’t afford transit passes are often born, and die, in just one section of the city.
#indiedev #indiegame #gamedev
People who can’t afford transit passes are often born, and die, in just one section of the city.
#indiedev #indiegame #gamedev
May 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Dredgeport is divided by its river. Bridges are critical: they facilitate commerce, but allow the population to be herded and controlled.
People who can’t afford transit passes are often born, and die, in just one section of the city.
#indiedev #indiegame #gamedev
People who can’t afford transit passes are often born, and die, in just one section of the city.
#indiedev #indiegame #gamedev
Frey’s animals protect them, perform for passersby for groats and food, and distract marks.
In Dredgeport, pickpocketing is so common it’s known as “a thief making a withdrawal”.
In Dredgeport, pickpocketing is so common it’s known as “a thief making a withdrawal”.
May 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Frey’s animals protect them, perform for passersby for groats and food, and distract marks.
In Dredgeport, pickpocketing is so common it’s known as “a thief making a withdrawal”.
In Dredgeport, pickpocketing is so common it’s known as “a thief making a withdrawal”.