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David Smith
@trigpointdave.bsky.social
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Director at Trigpoint Games. Unreal Engine Programmer (porting), Game Developer, Trail Runner.
https://trigpoint.games/
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · Sep 15
Video posts are here! So here's my finish of a (hilly, rainy, boggy, windy) 47 mile Ultramarathon around Lake Windermere from yesterday! Hardest thing I've ever done.
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sweaterparrot.bsky.social
I should be working on other things but I keep getting distracted by my "the forklift job minigame from Shenmue but an entire game of it" game idea
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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nachimir.bsky.social
MORSE is out now: store.steampowered.com/app/1976860/...

As well as keyboard or mouse, can work with actual Morse keys too; so, backwards compatible with hardware all the way to 1844
Save 20% on MORSE on Steam
Vanquish the Kaiser's Imperial Fleet using timing, tactics and telegraphy in MORSE, a minimalist strategy game that teaches you the lost language of Morse code. Can you change the world with the push ...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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mikebithell.bsky.social
It’s funny catching wind that my posts against generative ai have raised a few eyebrows and pissed a few people off. I’d love to be able to give a fuck, but first I’d need to steal a million fucks from other people, and have a machine randomly assemble small parts of those fucks together for me
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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writnelson.bsky.social
What I expected from Atomfall was British Fallout. What it’s actually doing is a fascinating verb-based investigative RPG??

You “level up” by exploring, and choosing when and how you deploy information. And when that finally clicked, it produced one of my favorite games in years. Don’t sleep on it
October 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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danthat.bsky.social
If you enjoy Size Five and want to see it survive what is a very iffy time for the Games Industry, please do three things with your Saturday:

✅ Wishlist EARTH MUST DIE
✅ Buy a game on sale
✅ Share these links where you can

store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

store.steampowered.com/dev/sizefive
Earth Must Die 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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October 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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danthat.bsky.social
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
September 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
trigpointdave.bsky.social
Distributed Denial Of Silksong
September 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
trigpointdave.bsky.social
@patricio.io Hi, will there ever be another print run of Pixel Spirit Deck? Thanks
August 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
trigpointdave.bsky.social
SIMD stands for Simple Issue, Multiple Dead-ends
August 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
trigpointdave.bsky.social
A fish coughed its way out of the ocean one day and now I have to FIX SIMD CRASHES. MAKE IT STOP
August 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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andrewcrawshaw.bsky.social
It's the 10th anniversary of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. Here's a thread of images that very few people will have seen. Thanks to the opportunity that Sony Santa Monica gave us, we had the freedom to explore ideas, even if that meant we left a lot of amazing work on the cutting room floor...
August 11, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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farleigh.bsky.social
In the wake of the announcement regarding redundancies at Bithell Games please go and follow these wonderful, talented people go.bsky.app/U1R3UmV
August 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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mikebithell.bsky.social
Sad news today. Bithell Games, having been unable to secure a new larger scale project, is reducing in size. This means that eleven jobs are being made redundant. This constitutes the majority of our full-time staff. It became clear leading up to the release of our most recent game that we were not immune to the challenges faced by many game development teams seeking funding partners in 2024 and 2025. We’ve fortunately been able to communicate these challenges ahead of time, and work with affected staff to ease departures as much as possible via severance packages. It’s important to state that this was an incredible team of exceptionally talented people. If you’re a developer reading this, and you’re hiring; anyone among those affected would be a great addition to your studio, please reach out if we can help to put you in touch. This news will not impact the availability of our existing self published games and ongoing support for them. We are incredibly grateful for our audience, and hope that your interest in our work follows individual team members as they head into other roles. Bithell Games was always defined and elevated by our people. Today we are less. - Mike Bithell
August 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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stecurran.bsky.social
Deep breath.

✨ Mindset GO! is in soft launch now! ✨

🔵 iOS: mindset.game/app/
🔺 Android: mindset.game/app/
🟨 ... Or web: mindset.game

Mindset is a new smart casual puzzle that tests 👀 observation and 🧠 logic.

Install! Play! Share! ENJOY. And let me know how you get on.

Big day. More to come... 🔮
A release image for Mindset GO! It says "Mindset GO! Out Now!" next to the Mindset logo, a modified Venn diagram. Below, a cat lurks by some sortable shapes. There are cats in the game; also shapes.
August 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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nachimir.bsky.social
It's the last week to get your submissions in for Leftfield 2025. They close on Friday 1st of August: airtable.com/appIQDFmYU3o...
July 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
trigpointdave.bsky.social
Renaming my toilet the Payment Processor
July 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
trigpointdave.bsky.social
Have they invented super coffee yet I need some
July 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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zizmakesgames.bsky.social
it is now my turn for the "role at risk" post
www.linkedin.com/posts/esimoe...
Screen shot of a linkedin post about needing new work with a photo of ziz and her dog zuli
July 4, 2025 at 10:38 AM
trigpointdave.bsky.social
deeply upsetting to open monday dot com on a saturday
June 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
trigpointdave.bsky.social
The text reads: "House of Leaves is about a descent into madness involving a structure that seems to endlessly expand, change and defy rationality, which makes it exactly the same as that game you've been working on" The word House and the word game are written in blue.
June 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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kriswbennett.co.uk
A new VR game from the Manifold Garden devs was just announced by @playstation.com

Hotel Infinity from Studio Chyr @chyr.bsky.social & @studiochyr.bsky.social is about navigating the plausibly impossible

- Mind-bending
- Roomscale-first design
- Navigate impossible spaces
- Solve enigmatic puzzles
June 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
trigpointdave.bsky.social
Writing a tool for a designer and resisting the urge to name a field 'Macguffin'
June 24, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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nachimir.bsky.social
Leftfield submissions are now open for EGX London, Oct 24th-26th: airtable.com/appIQDFmYU3o...
June 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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mikebithell.bsky.social
TRON: Catalyst is out now store.steampowered.com/app/3025590/...

(Consoles coming online shortly)

It’s been a journey, we couldn’t be more excited to join you again on the Arq Grid.
TRON: Catalyst on Steam
The Arq Grid stands on the brink of collapse. With your Identity Disc and Light Cycle, fight to escape by wielding the power of the Glitch loop. Electrifying action and a rich story combine in a new a...
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June 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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annahollinrake.com
Just 4 hours to go! Every Kickstarter pledge bring us a little closer to our true dream for the game: @benstarr.bsky.social making motorbroom sounds with increasing bafflement and incredulity 🙏🙏
An image of a motorbroom from Crescent County with voice actor Ben Starr's face badly superimposed on the windscreen. It features a screencap from a coversation saying 'ben starr: broom noises' and 'oh I'll do it'. The bottom says 'Broom Starr Mode*'. *Also this is very much a silly joke
June 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM