Tom Sandford
thesnee.bsky.social
Tom Sandford
@thesnee.bsky.social
Games, VR, Whatever interests me.

https://www.tomrsandford.com/

Making cool stuff in Unreal here: https://www.ideaforgeltd.co.uk/
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It Hunts You was an old experimetal horror game I made for a Haunted PS1 jam. I wanted to emulate those awkward, very early first person games, letting the monster feel otherworldly by not being bound to the same technical constraints as the rest of the world.
the-snee.itch.io/it-hunts-you
It Hunts You by Tom Sandford
Prototype horror game for #HPS1Jam
the-snee.itch.io
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Morning folks! Finished this as part of my daily warmups. Here's a lil thread with different shots and colourways

Osteon MarroRider Type A

Osteon specializes in lab grown biomechanical vehicles

www.artstation.com/artwork/vb6b8d
November 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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🚨 Brute Fort is live now on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/alf...

💸 Come back the project
📣 Share it around
🗡 Vanquish the evil that lurks in the fort

18 card dungeon delving game by me + tape cassette soundtrack by Gus BC
November 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Thinking more about #over/under (because of course I am) I think something that worked very well in its favour was that it ended. Everyone knew there was a time limit. It didn't get stale. It burned to the end, didn't fizzle out, and the bittersweet chats at the end made it all the more worth it.
November 19, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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designers who release projects on itch, please include the credits on your main project page!! not only is it virtuous to emphasize that nearly all projects are team efforts, but also I want to know who worked on something without needing to squint at some screenshot
November 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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And it's finished!
One Hundred #over/under Tables: A Prospero Potpourri

ktrey.itch.io/overunder-ta...

It was super fun to flex some of my old Cyberpunk/Sci-Fi muscles before they completely atrophied!
Over/Under Tables: A Prospero Potpourri by ktrey
100 Random Tables for Over/Under
ktrey.itch.io
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
And thus ends #over/under. A fantastic mess of creativity and chaos stapled on to a large scale wargame.

There's lots of posts already about the high stakes politics, the betrayals and the intrigue, but for me it was about the smaller interactions. The goings on in the blocks, the bars, the shops.
November 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Come to d0c's! 100% of our surveyed patients said they survived.

Fantastic bunch of weirdos I somehow teamed up with in #over/under. Our collective bit of organised chaos in the much bigger organised chaos.
I am finally in the process of making a group picture of all of the clinicians in #over/under. I still have a few folks I need to include, but it’s been wild to see how much this group has grown
November 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
As for the kids who stole the entire treat bucket (after we'd left it out while we ate), I hope they ate all of it at once, with appropriate consequences.
November 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
One thing did reoccur last night though: Older teens pushing the boundaries of what "Bare minimum costume" means to get sweets. One group of lads I wasn't sure if they were in costume or had just spilled some ketchup.
November 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Much quieter mood for Halloween last night than last year. Seemed like a lot less effort by a lot of people, including us. I think it might reflect a lot of larger factors effecting everyone.
November 1, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Saturnalia is an experience. It's a very strange one, and tricky to reccomend but I found it's uniqueness charming and it's story, and specifically the way it delivers it, compelling. If you are at all intrigued by it there's a good chance it is for you.
Our two most recent games, both at their deepest discount ever. 90%+ positive Steam reviews, 80+ Metacritic. store.steampowered.com/developer/sa...
October 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Wait, you mean denying people the means to happiness or even basic survival causes them to turn to illegal means instead of dissapearing conveniently into the ether?
Whoooooaa!
Whioooooaaaaaa!

*Is sucked into the Painfully Obvious Vortex*
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Just gave the demo for Cronos: The New Dawn a go. I was skeptical because the last Bloober game I played was Layers of Fear, which I thought was very pretty, with some nice attention to detail, but otherwise a kind of rubbish, tedious haunted house. 🧵
October 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Another thing i've noticed about #over/under is how much it deviates from the canon of the module. That's good! It can cause some confusion, since there are established module "truths" that might not be true here, but it levels out to a more player built and evolving experience.
October 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Great writeup on some of the amazing stuff happening in #over/under.
Stuff on this scald can only happen with a collective buy in to the fiction. I do think it highlights the importance of some degree of safety tools/checking in though, since it can overwhelm. It's ok to break immersion to check.
I wrote about my experiences with #over/under. onslaughtsix.com/2025/10/27/t...

The first part is very personal to my experience, so you may skip that part. I try to cover the incident that occured on Friday 10/24 as best as possible, but even after everything I still don't have all the other stuff
The Chokespawn Incursion
This is going to be very very very long, so strap in. This post is about an incident that occured in Over/Under, a Mothership MMORPG run entirely in Discord. If you don’t care about that, saf…
onslaughtsix.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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I will never forgive generative AI for making me question every “Dog being silly” compilation.

Like how bad does does something have to be to suck the joy out of dogs being idiots.
October 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Art direction > Fidelity
October 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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October 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The PDCS is live!
Very alpha, very rushed.
Go complain about it in #over/under
Or better yet, fund your own virtual museum wing as the ultimate vanity project!

the-snee.itch.io/pdcs
Prospero's Dream Cultural Slickworld by Tom Sandford
Available for Windows
the-snee.itch.io
October 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Very early preview of the Solarium from the Prospero's Dream Cultural Slickworld for #over/under
I don't have as much time to work on it as I'd like, and want to actually play the game a̶n̶d̶ ̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶p̶o̶l̶i̶t̶i̶c̶a̶l̶ ̶l̶e̶v̶e̶r̶a̶g̶e̶ so I'll try and keep it simple. Some beautiful stuff people have been producing.
October 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The things happening in #over/under keep blowing me away.
When I started out, I sleepily spewed out a prayer for the in-game religion. 4 people did musical versions of it. It was canonised as official scripture, and now people are making art about how it inspires them.
I'm tearing up.
October 21, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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So @lukegearing.bsky.social as .beefstink has re-invented NFTs in the far future and is attempting to scam Syndicate shareholders with them. This made me laugh so hard I woke my partner up. #over/under
October 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
So now in #OVER/UNDER I'm making and curating a virtual museum and art gallery in Unreal, to show off some of the amazing things people are creating (and hopefully end up as some kind of artefact of the inevitable chaos to come)

I've somehow got to find time for so many things!
October 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM