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House on the Bailey @houseonthebailey.bsky.social · 3d

Want an indie game about the bleak comedy of UK office jobs? No? Well we made one anyway. You're welcome!

🖥️ Play the demo today -> tinyurl.com/BtHEdemo

#indiegame #godot #nextfest

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House on the Bailey @houseonthebailey.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 Our demo is now live!

If you've been yearning for a satirical pixel game about being an office project manager with the unfortunate debuff of being British, then...that's odd. But boy have we got the game for you!

Play and let us know what you think -> tinyurl.com/BtHEdemo

#nextfest #indiegame

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Adam @onperambulation.bsky.social · 4d

My degree touched on this, where I looked specifically at the imposition of slaughterhouses in Vietnam, both as vectors for outbreaks and as important sites of racialisation. 'Slaughterhouse Capitalism' is a very useful term to understand both of these and how they shaped capitalist development.

Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 4d

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Adam @onperambulation.bsky.social · 4d

Huge support for the actionists ✊

BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 4d

A MESSAGE FROM THE FILIA ACTIONISTS

MESSAGE FROM THE ACTIONISTS

We'd like to express our gratitude to those who have shown their explicit support.
Especially in this atmosphere, we are glad to know that so many recognise the value of direct action.

We are also so happy to see that our actions got the reaction we wanted, and would like to take this moment to remind the reader that FiLiA's bio-essentialist view of 'feminism' harms cis and trans people alike and only serves to uphold the patriarchy.

To the trans people and allies reading this, we keep ourselves safe - not the state, not the police, but we as a community.

Death before detransition.

-BASH BACK

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Jonathan @jqhy.bsky.social · 12d

1952, Empire Grand. The DEMO for Switchboard is now live on Steam and itch, your first invitation to experience this game and its story. Try it early, and wishlist before Next Fest!
store.steampowered.com/app/3931650/...
jqhy.itch.io/switchboard
#indiegames #indiedev #game #demo #gaming #gamedev

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Adam @onperambulation.bsky.social · 6d

This is not a drill, demo is live! Go piss about in our lovingly crafted horrible office simulator! What a milestone 🥳

House on the Bailey @houseonthebailey.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 Our demo is now live!

If you've been yearning for a satirical pixel game about being an office project manager with the unfortunate debuff of being British, then...that's odd. But boy have we got the game for you!

Play and let us know what you think -> tinyurl.com/BtHEdemo

#nextfest #indiegame

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Adam @onperambulation.bsky.social · 6d

We have a short—30 mins-ish!—demo of our funny little pixel narrative game where you try (badly!) to manage a project in a satirical British office.

store.steampowered.com/app/4057930/...

Behind the Hydra's Eyes Demo on Steam

Get a taste of life at ForwardGreen with this probation period, Dave. We'll be keeping a close eye on you, so make sure you manage your team well and keep on top of that pesky inbox. Ready to make a d...

store.steampowered.com

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Adam @onperambulation.bsky.social · 9d

More vital pixel work, and some of my best yet 🙏

#pixelart #indiedev

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Adam @onperambulation.bsky.social · 9d

More vital pixel work, and some of my best yet 🙏

#pixelart #indiedev

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 11d

A red line for Palestine.

Greens gathered on Bournemouth beach this morning to show solidarity with the people of Palestine.

End the genocide
End the occupation.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
@greens4palestine.bsky.social

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Adam @onperambulation.bsky.social · 13d

Enjoy! I couldn't make it (delaying my acquiring of GO merch for now ahah), but I'll be watching the speeches. Hopefully you're right about the voting being pretty noncontroversial!

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Adam @onperambulation.bsky.social · 20d

Hard at work making important content for the game 👀
#pixelart #indiedev

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Adam @onperambulation.bsky.social · 20d

Hard at work making important content for the game 👀
#pixelart #indiedev

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Adam @onperambulation.bsky.social · 22d

🥳 Ordered! Congrats to Thea on the accomplishment.

Will try and binge read it before BtHE is finished to help me freshen up the script and add any new info or insights. Green politics without greenwashing!

#anticapitalism

Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 23d

Today is publication day!

EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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South East Asia Game Aesthetic @seagamethetic.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you to everyone for support Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle. We have just reached $100,000 and with 2 days left,

Please give us a boost and support by Repost the bundle!!

itch.io/b/2979/play-...

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House on the Bailey @houseonthebailey.bsky.social · 23d

To wrap it all up-Oscar, the incredible flying Ostrich by @thomashunt.bsky.social and Renato Baroni. Stunning decorations aside, Oscar himself moves and feels incredible while you're holding the controller, leading to his many stunts feeling very satisfying. Hilariously written, one to look out for

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House on the Bailey @houseonthebailey.bsky.social · 23d

To the right, we had another important game proudly presenting Palestine and support groups-The Activists. While not on itch, the game does an incredible job to put the players in the shoes of people that are capable and want to make a change. Break into a weapons factory and disrupt the status quo

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Adam @onperambulation.bsky.social · 23d

EXTRA special shout out to the two games our stall was sandwiched between, which were both centred themselves around Palestine, with Cagla focusing on the importance of memory and the deep roots of history, while Rebecca considers the necessity of direct action and internationalism.

🇵🇸✊

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Adam @onperambulation.bsky.social · 23d

Check this thread for a quick rundown of some of the great games we exhibited alongside last week! Lots of them are playable on Itch, and more than worth the short time investment to experience:

#indiegames

House on the Bailey @houseonthebailey.bsky.social · 23d

A week or so ago, Behind the Hydra's Eyes was featured in the Games and Playful Design - Final Degree show from Goldsmiths!

I (Dragos-half of HotB) submitted BtHE, and have been working on the game as my final project. Was lovely seeing friends and colleagues play, an outstanding experience!

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House on the Bailey @houseonthebailey.bsky.social · Sep 15

Aaaand it's over! We've had a very busy, very fun three days exhibiting Behind the Hydra's eyes and mingling with other cool developers.

Thanks to everyone that played it! To everyone else: psst, we're launching the demo on Steam soon 😉

store.steampowered.com/app/3554030/...

#IndieGame #IndieDevs

The two developers, Adam and Dragos, in front of the church the exhibition was held in. They're holding a small flower, which they're both gesturing towards.

The stall that Behind the Hydra's Eyes had at the exhibition. It's set up like an office desk: monitor, keyboard, pens, stapler, a decorative flower, a printer, a calendar on the wall behind. Very drab, very cool!

One of the event's brochures being held in front of a screen showing the game's menu. On the brochure, the following is highlighted: Stall 9, Dragos Farcas & Adam James, Behind the Hydra's Eyes.

A wide photo with our game's stall circled in the middle. Above the stall is a huge stained glass winder. There is another stall to the left and right of ours, each draped in keffiyehs - we were grouped with other left-wing games. Free Palestine!

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Adam @onperambulation.bsky.social · Sep 13

🚨We're exhibiting Behind the Hydra's Eyes in person this weekend!

Watching people enjoy it is a very nice shock, and such a privilege to be surrounded by other great games by great people (I'll share some below when I get chance!).

Wishlist us!: store.steampowered.com/app/3554030/...

#indiegame

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Adam @onperambulation.bsky.social · Sep 10

So anyway, join the Greens, @zackpolanski.bsky.social is great lol. The age of austerity must end.

Adam @onperambulation.bsky.social · Sep 10

I think (totally unbiased lol) that our game is full of really great writing. The dialogue option that this is part of is probably one of my favourites though.

Living in Britain is pretty brutal, unless you protect yourself with a veil of ignorance. Let the veil fall: fight the hydra, find hope!

House on the Bailey @houseonthebailey.bsky.social · Sep 10

Looking at the headlines in Britain is bleak when you're not a lover of transphobia, racism, and performative cruelty. It's lucky that our game provides escape from th—no Dave, stop, don't think about it!

...We'll have words with him.

#indiegame #indiedev #pixelart

The protagonist is looking out of his balcony at night, talking to himself.

"Thinking of the future brings to mind snippets of news, headlines which have pierced your studious ignorance, and questions about England's slide into gleeful cruelty and poverty."

He continues: "Spiking suicides for trans youth. A refugee boat sank by vigilantes. The government covering up the deaths of disabled people. Keep your head down, see no evil, this is the way it has to be, no alternative allowed."

"A snake eating itself. Every year there's less and less body left, but the head is hungrier. Meaner. Wallowing in it's unchallenged superiority."

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Adam @onperambulation.bsky.social · Sep 8

Steve Reed was my MP before I moved. He ignored a load of my emails, then replied to one, where I asked if he'll carry out his legal duties to hold Israel to account for genocide, spouting blatant Zionist propaganda and victim blaming the targets of the genocide.

Does this represent Co-op values?

Co-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · Sep 8

Congratulations to Labour and Co-operative MP Steve Reed, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government.

Adam @onperambulation.bsky.social · Aug 30

Solidarity ✊

BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · Aug 30

Our full statement on our action against Sodexo Leeds

STATEMENT ON BASH BACK ACTION
AGAINST SODEXO (29/08/25)
On the week of the 28th of July, a trans man, Toni Asik was murdered in the Sodexo-run HMP Bronzefield. He had endured weeks of abuse because of his gender identity, constant misgendering and harassment by Sodexo staff. In the same week, an 18 year old trans man, also incarcerated in Bronzefield, attempted suicide by throwing himself off of a high railing. Sodexo and prison staff responded with aggressive 5 day lockdowns, further restrictions on prisoners' rights, and further violence against the prisoners themselves.
Every death in prison is a murder. Every incarcerated trans person is a
victim of the same harassment that killed Toni Asik and Taylor Atkinson, a prisoner held for 14 years under the UK's draconian IPP laws.
Through the violence inherent in discrimination, misgendering, abuse, denial of HRT, and segregation from other prisoners of the same gender, the prison system is designed todehumanize, erase and kill trans prisoners.
By taking action against Sodexo this week we stand in solidarity with
Prisoners for Palestine, CAGE, No More Exclusions and the Anticarceral
Solidarity network, in condemning the hideous abuse the prison system wreaks on its victims, and standing with all prisoners - our trans siblings, and our fellow activists, the Filton 24 (especially T. Hoxha who remains on hunger strike in HMP Peterborough as we write this) - in holding these
murderers to account.

OUR DEMANDS
We DEMAND that trans prisoners be transferred
to prisons of their gender.
We DEMAND investigations. into the abuses that led
to these deaths.
We DEMAND the immediate release of all political
prisoners held without trial or under IPP legislation.
Until then, we will continue to hold the bigots at
Sodexo and HMP to account.
SMASH SODEXO. SMASH THE STATE.
LIBERATION FOR ALL PRISONERS NOW.
STAND UP,
BASH BACK

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