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Alex Trowers
@bulkpaint.bsky.social
820 followers 170 following 930 posts
Industry veteran from the late 1900s. Solo Indie Dev. Design Consultant. Game Dev Dinosaur. Lord of Bullfrog anecdotes. Playability, pitching and prototypes a speciality. Got a project that needs poking with a stick? Let me know.
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · Dec 14
This is my game. 2 Delve 2 Deep (not a sequel).
It's a small game about a little owl with a big dream - to one day become the King Of Explorers.
Or, in mechanical terms - it's a procedural dungeon crawler about exploration, greed and pushing your luck.
#indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 7h
Is it because he still has a connect that can hook you up with Smash?
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 8h
What if you already love that guy?
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 2d
(Totally a trap, BTW. I won’t stop there. Next it’ll be 900. Then a full bag. After that, who knows?)
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 2d
799 followers. Is 1 more too much to ask?
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 2d
Sure. Pop me on there. I love it when numbers go up.
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 4d
The Great Enshitification continues unabated
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 5d
The Great Enshitification continues unabated
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 7d
And 'Himself' (Team America: World Police, 2004) :)
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 7d
Who is that handsome fellow with the moody headshot one wonders?
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 9d
I am playing Hades II.
I really enjoyed the original and this one is... well, more. I'm only 17 hours in and haven't completed a run yet. I've reached the big bad (or, at least, one of them).
Mainlining the Axe for now.
And I <3 Frinos.
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 11d
Needs more of a DPS spec?
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 12d
Never get between a woman and wine. That stubborn piece of cardboard was asking for trouble.
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 12d
Would have made a great Weatherwax, no?
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 13d
Pics or it didn't happen
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 14d
There's part of me that wants to ask 'why?' but also I stopped trying to figure out how your brain works a long time ago and generally I just go with it.
Cool man.
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 15d
I feel that #AI is this generation's quick and dirty.
It'll produce something that looks like the finished article to the money folk insanely quickly. But, when you get down to it and actually need to make something usable and scalable for the long term, it falls over.
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 15d
They see the shiny, golden-path-infused goodness and sign up. Then, when milestone 1 drops, get confused as that lovely, fully-realised game gets replaced by a bunch of cubes moving in a circle.
But this is what you had to do to get signed which differed wildly from actually building the thing.
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 15d
These things would be made as quick and dirty as possible. The point being that, as soon as the money came in, you'd tear the whole thing down and rebuild it properly.
Some publishers were often surprised by this.
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 15d
A tricky aspect of #gamedev was always the product demo. This would be a cut-down but shiny version of the project you'd use to convince a publisher to send money your way so you could actually build the entire game.
It's a sales pitch in game form.
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 15d
Why did you feel the need to sign his crotch?
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 16d
Best before date doesn’t even clear October. Merry Christmas ya filthy animals.
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 16d
Technically, I’m an adult. So I can do shit like this if I want and there’s nothing you can do to stop me.
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 17d
Spoiler alert - I DID pick it up. Also, I did not pay £90 for it. The chap seemed pleased it was going to a good home.
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 17d
At a retro fair. I definitely shouldn’t pick this bad boy up, right?
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Alex Trowers @bulkpaint.bsky.social · 18d
If patriotism is a pride and love of ones country, what's the word when you're actually deeply embarassed by what your country is doing?
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