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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 14h

All the money people pay Slack and they've never managed to get playing videos in a thread to work properly. When I click "play" on a video, start that video from the beginning, it's not hard!

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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 1d

What’s your most unPenge opinion?

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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 1d

Check this demo. You won't regret it, it's proper good.

Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry to keep banging on about this, but we are *so desperately close* to 50 reviews on the EMD Demo

It'd be HUGELY helpful to be at 50 ahead of Next Fest, for boring and complicated algorithm reasons, so if you haven't reviewed it yet PLEASE DO thank you x

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 ...

store.steampowered.com

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Ashley Gwinnell @ashleygwinnell.bsky.social · 1d

I made a Discord bot that alerts you in real-time when Twitch streamers start playing your indie game.

...and it's 10% off for Steam Next Fest!! (Code: NEXTFEST10)

🤖👉 impress.games/coverage-bot

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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 1d

UK Game devs - there's an open letter going to DCMS about a new Games Growth Relief. Get involved! ukie.org.uk/news/press-s...

Press start on growth - open letter to the Secretary of State for DCMS - Ukie

Open letter from leaders across the UK's video games and interactive entertainment industry to urge the Government to introduce a new Games Growth Relief in the forthcoming Autumn Budget

ukie.org.uk

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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 1d

Robot Teddy boss fight!

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Lyndy Bailey @lyndyb.bsky.social · 4d

🚨Deadline for submissions is 8pm tonight!!!!🚨

forms.gle/exeduC4yCtWY...

Enabled by @silverliningint.bsky.social 🥳

Dan Thomas @heydanthomas.bsky.social · 29d

Got an awesome #IndieDev game you wanna pitch but not sure how it all works?

📢Pitch Up!
🗺️4th November, Bristol, UK
💜Organised by indies for indies
(me, @ashleygwinnell.bsky.social & @lyndyb.bsky.social )
🙏Enabled by @silverliningint.bsky.social

👉 forms.gle/6ya2g78kARVv... 👈

Pitch Up! Consequence-free indie game pitching!
Guy Richards, ID@Xbox
Eben Cunningham, Silver Lining
Meg Clarke, Team17
Reese Wright, Devolver Digital
Joshua Garrity, Secret Mode
Kerryn Frean, Fireshine Games
4th November, Bristol UK
Enabled By Silver Lining

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 6d

GOOD NEWS, I was on One Life Left this week, and now you can listen to it.

I blabbed some more about Earth Must Die.

One Life Left @onelifeleft.com · 6d

We took it beyond mere flirtation and went all the way with @danthat.bsky.social as this week's Super Special Guest on the show! You can listen to it NOW on your podcatcher of choice!!

Then write us a letter. Don't forget that bit!!!

hello.onelifeleft.com

#GameDev

One Left Left - Listen on Spotify - Linktree

View sevenoutoften’s Linktree to discover and stream music from top platforms like Spotify here. Your next favorite track is just a click away!

hello.onelifeleft.com

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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 6d

Applications close in a week. If you were thinking about it, get yours fired in asap

Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 20d

Scottish early-stage/aspiring games leaders - this looks like a brilliant opportunity, stick your name down!
sgda.co.uk/accelerator

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The Horror At Highrook - Out Now! @highrookhorror.bsky.social · 8d

Hey investigators! Just a reminder that "The Horror At Highrook" is currently 30% off during Steams Autumn Sale (The biggest discount so far!)
Why not pop over and treat yourself!
👻🌛🐈‍⬛
store.steampowered.com/app/2836860/...

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 8d

Hello! I wrote this op-ed because I've fielded some awkward requests from devs and PR (who shall remain anonymous) this year and I think it's indicative of a wider issue in the game industry that stems from some folks not fully understanding the role of reporters.

THOUGHTS on Game Dev Dot Com:

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 8d

Dear game developers, please remember what 'on the record' means

Let's discuss the role of journalists and journalism in the video game industry.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 8d

Best Switch go-karting game since Mario Kart 8 and I'm not even lying.

Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · 8d

📣 BIG ANNOUNCE 📣

Ma go kart game is coming to Switch on 9 January 2026! 🙌

Literal childhood dream stuff making a kart game on a Nintendo console! Big ups to @ant-workshop.com for handling the publishing, always liked those guys.

HYPED 🥳

#indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · 8d

📣 BIG ANNOUNCE 📣

Ma go kart game is coming to Switch on 9 January 2026! 🙌

Literal childhood dream stuff making a kart game on a Nintendo console! Big ups to @ant-workshop.com for handling the publishing, always liked those guys.

HYPED 🥳

#indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 8d

You could even say they captured Brian and bring him back in hand drawn form!

Does anyone have the phone number for Universal, I reckon this is a goer.

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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 8d

I bet you could make Fast X:2 out of bits of existing Fast movies. Introduce them two motorcycle baddies from the Take On Me video to the franchise and you can hand draw whatever else you need to make it work

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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 8d

honestly I'd just assumed they'd filmed the two parts back to back.

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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 9d

Lego Gameboy set is really nice. A very satisfying and clever build with a surprising amount of detail for the size of the thing. And best of all, only 2 stickers (for the cartridge labels) with everything else being printed bricks. Lovely.

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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 11d

And when I say "recently" I mean "in any version of Unity from 2017 onwards" 😬

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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 11d

Good morning from Unity, I guess. If you’ve released a Windows/Linux/macOS game in Unity recently, might be worth patching unity.com/security/sep...

Security Update Advisory

A security vulnerability was identified that affects games and applications built on Unity versions 2017.1 and later for Android, Windows, and macOS operating systems. Unity has provided fixes that ad...

unity.com

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · 12d

✨NEW CONTENT UPDATE!✨

Sure you love the Go Kart Island demo, but have you ever wished you could play as a Zebra and race around a hotel? Well now you can! 🦓 🏨 ✅

Patch notes for 0.3.0 linked below!

📝 tinyurl.com/4wymfnrk
🎮 s.team/a/3749790

#indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 12d

spot whose key art artist is on holiday :)

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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 12d

Absolutely cool I'm getting spoilers for Peacemaker S2, a TV show I want to watch, through news about Fortnite, a video game I have no interest in.

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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 14d

Left breasty dumpling or right breasty dumpling? Of course, it was always both breasty dumplings!

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Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 15d

EARTH MUST DIE 🌍💀
Very proud of how this turned out - looks and sounds beautiful, great cast doing sterling work, and imho it's funny and clever too!
Please WISHLIST and SHARE!
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

youtu.be/RtgXzAiGw-I...

Earth Must Die - Announcement Trailer

YouTube video by No More Robots

youtu.be

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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 14d

“The controls in RDR2 are deliberately clunky and unwieldy to make playing it a slog like being an actual cowboy” is a real big brain take.

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