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Dan Marshall
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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
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 14d
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
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 50m
Just code a robot with a quill.
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 1h
Sounds like SOMEONE has forgotten about our humble friend the printer. Simply print your code and consume, it's delicious.
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 16h
One last push: if you HAVEN'T reviewed the EMD demo yet please do, as it'll massively help us out with Next Fest tomorrow. Downloads and reviews get us prominence, apparently.

If you HAVE reviewed it, you're a shining example of the very best type of Terranoid, well done. Big star ⭐
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 1d
The Steam reviews for the EARTH MUST DIE Demo have certainly taken an unusual turn. We get an altogether better class of reviews here at Size Five Games

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...
Steam review: This game doesn’t merely ooze with charm — it secretes it, thick and slow, from pores that shouldn’t exist. Each surface trembles as if beneath it, something vast and unseen squirms and breathes. The charm is alive here, a sentient fluid that remembers older, wetter worlds. It seeps between pixels, whispering through the code in languages not meant for lungs. It pulses beneath the menus like veins beneath translucent flesh, its rhythm too steady to be human. Sometimes the charm glistens with a light that isn’t reflection, a phosphorescent shimmer like the soft wink of something watching from the dark. When you play, it reaches back — not maliciously, but hungrily — tasting you through the buttons and wires. And when you close it, you’ll feel it still. In your fingertips. In your teeth. In the soft, wet corners of your dreams.
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 13h
I could possibly get onboard with Halloween a lot more if John Carpenter's Halloween theme was playing on a loop as I walk around Waitrose.
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 15h
Thank you!
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 16h
One last push: if you HAVEN'T reviewed the EMD demo yet please do, as it'll massively help us out with Next Fest tomorrow. Downloads and reviews get us prominence, apparently.

If you HAVE reviewed it, you're a shining example of the very best type of Terranoid, well done. Big star ⭐
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 1d
The Steam reviews for the EARTH MUST DIE Demo have certainly taken an unusual turn. We get an altogether better class of reviews here at Size Five Games

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...
Steam review: This game doesn’t merely ooze with charm — it secretes it, thick and slow, from pores that shouldn’t exist. Each surface trembles as if beneath it, something vast and unseen squirms and breathes. The charm is alive here, a sentient fluid that remembers older, wetter worlds. It seeps between pixels, whispering through the code in languages not meant for lungs. It pulses beneath the menus like veins beneath translucent flesh, its rhythm too steady to be human. Sometimes the charm glistens with a light that isn’t reflection, a phosphorescent shimmer like the soft wink of something watching from the dark. When you play, it reaches back — not maliciously, but hungrily — tasting you through the buttons and wires. And when you close it, you’ll feel it still. In your fingertips. In your teeth. In the soft, wet corners of your dreams.
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 1d
Your Steam Reviews: "waaah, a DEI woman looked at me!!!"

Our Steam Reviews: "Hot, throbbing secretions."

We are not the same.
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 1d
The Steam reviews for the EARTH MUST DIE Demo have certainly taken an unusual turn. We get an altogether better class of reviews here at Size Five Games

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...
Steam review: This game doesn’t merely ooze with charm — it secretes it, thick and slow, from pores that shouldn’t exist. Each surface trembles as if beneath it, something vast and unseen squirms and breathes. The charm is alive here, a sentient fluid that remembers older, wetter worlds. It seeps between pixels, whispering through the code in languages not meant for lungs. It pulses beneath the menus like veins beneath translucent flesh, its rhythm too steady to be human. Sometimes the charm glistens with a light that isn’t reflection, a phosphorescent shimmer like the soft wink of something watching from the dark. When you play, it reaches back — not maliciously, but hungrily — tasting you through the buttons and wires. And when you close it, you’ll feel it still. In your fingertips. In your teeth. In the soft, wet corners of your dreams.
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 1d
Your Steam Reviews: "waaah, a DEI woman looked at me!!!"

Our Steam Reviews: "Hot, throbbing secretions."

We are not the same.
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 1d
The Steam reviews for the EARTH MUST DIE Demo have certainly taken an unusual turn. We get an altogether better class of reviews here at Size Five Games

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...
Steam review: This game doesn’t merely ooze with charm — it secretes it, thick and slow, from pores that shouldn’t exist. Each surface trembles as if beneath it, something vast and unseen squirms and breathes. The charm is alive here, a sentient fluid that remembers older, wetter worlds. It seeps between pixels, whispering through the code in languages not meant for lungs. It pulses beneath the menus like veins beneath translucent flesh, its rhythm too steady to be human. Sometimes the charm glistens with a light that isn’t reflection, a phosphorescent shimmer like the soft wink of something watching from the dark. When you play, it reaches back — not maliciously, but hungrily — tasting you through the buttons and wires. And when you close it, you’ll feel it still. In your fingertips. In your teeth. In the soft, wet corners of your dreams.
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 1d
SATURDAY. Stop doomscrolling and do me a quick favour please:

🔽 Download the Earth Must Die demo
🕹️ Play it, have a lovely time
✅ Review it
🌟Wishlist the full game
♻️ Share

This is all FREE and *massively* helps us out with Next Fest/ launch/ keeping the company afloat, so please do. Thanks!
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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 2d
Have you played the Earth Must Die demo?

It went live yesterday, and already has a 100% rating on Steam <3

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 1d
Mannequin.
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 1d
SATURDAY. Stop doomscrolling and do me a quick favour please:

🔽 Download the Earth Must Die demo
🕹️ Play it, have a lovely time
✅ Review it
🌟Wishlist the full game
♻️ Share

This is all FREE and *massively* helps us out with Next Fest/ launch/ keeping the company afloat, so please do. Thanks!
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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 2d
Have you played the Earth Must Die demo?

It went live yesterday, and already has a 100% rating on Steam <3

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you! I don't understand it, but I think downloads (and reviews please!) at this point will help the algorithm take it more seriously for Next Fest? Worth a shot!
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 2d
A brilliant RealBirdFakeBird.com today, and a tense, harrowing 6 for me.

Disgusted in myself.
Real bird fake bird score card, 6/7
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Pete Stewart 🏳️‍🌈 @petestewart.bsky.social · 2d
They should put Frasier Crane in Fortnite
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 2d
Ha ha :D
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 2d
If you have played this Demo, please do leave a review on it! It really helps us out for complicated computer reasons I do not understand.

If you HAVEN'T played the demo yet, please do, even if you're planning to get the full game! Just downloading it helps an algorithm do a job, or something.
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 3d
WAIT WHAT'S THIS?

💿There is a demo live for EARTH MUST DIE!

🕹️This gives you (most of) the tutorial section for the game! Have fun, and if you haven't wishlisted the full game yet DO THAT NOW PLEASE it really really helps us out.

Enjoy!

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...
Earth Must Die Demo on Steam
These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 2d
How you know it's a Size Five Games game

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...
Steam review: "An incredible cast, great script, lovely art and animation, and an alien sex shop within 15 minutes of starting the game. Take my money."
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you! Demo reviews are super handy too, please!
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 2d
This smacks of incredulously scoffing "what were we supposed to do?? Make it ourselves???!" and then "Wait, I'm having an AMAZING idea..."
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 2d
If you're an indie developer, here's a harrowing thread to make you feel a sort of hollow gloom deep in the pit of your stomach that feels like shadowy thorns.

Things have definitely changed and it is arguably not ideal for most of us.
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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 2d
Somehow we had a successful game launch in 2025: A thread 🧵

We launched Little Rocket Lab this week, and it's been mega for us. Which is amazing, because well, the industry is bad right now!

So I wanna go through the things we did, in the hope that something here can be helpful to someone here

➡️➡️
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 2d
Please do and also a review pleeeease! Thanks!
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 2d
This is for the demo, which is free. I assume they're talking about the full version, which is not free.
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 2d
How you know it's a Size Five Games game

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...
Steam review: "An incredible cast, great script, lovely art and animation, and an alien sex shop within 15 minutes of starting the game. Take my money."
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