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Dave Gilbert
@wadjeteyegames.bsky.social
Known for Old Skies, Blackwell, Technobabylon, Primordia, Unavowed, Hob's Barrow, and more! Working on: Nighthawks, Gilt and [REDACTED]. Discord: http://discord.com/invite/kj2mkWs
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WO🕐🕙🕕O!

Old Skies is OUT.

Join ChronoZen agent Fia Quinn on a time-traveling adventure of spanning 200 years!

Old Skies is a story of love, loss and legacy. And it is 10% off during the first week!

Humble (includes OST)▶️ bit.ly/4cKaLQR
Steam▶️ bit.ly/3FYho5Z
GOG▶️ bit.ly/4i2fdvk
Anyone who interviews people should interview Sally right away. She talks professionally and is very good at being interviewed.
December 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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One indie game per day (when I don't forget): Old Skies (www.oldskiesgame.com). This deserved recognition in last year's IGF and didn't get it, they resubmitted so I'm gonna plug them again. Probably my favorite from Wadjet Eye, a graphical adventure about time-travel tourism.
Old Skies - Wadjet Eye Games
www.oldskiesgame.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Check out the Old Skies OST! 49 tracks wrapped up in a nice 2 hour listening experience! 🎵
Old Skies Soundtrack - (Links in description)
YouTube video by Thomas Regin
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Late to hear the news. Oof. What a talent. As a teen I played Moon in The Real Inspector Hound (alongside @abegoldfarb.bsky.social as Birdboot, the only time we shared a stage together), and the sheer focus of staying in character for a full hour is still a core memory.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sir Tom Stoppard, playwright famed for his wit and depth, dies at 88
The King and Queen pay tribute to a "dear friend who wore his genius lightly".
www.bbc.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Have you played the video game Unavowed? If not you should really get right on that, it's an underappreciated gem. Anyway, after you've read it, read my trashy fanfic I wrote about some of the characters archiveofourown.org/works/23629894 It even got the seal of approval from the game's main writer.
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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i love all of wadjet eye’s releases and could not be more excited
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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BAFTA Breakthrough voice actor @sallybeaumont.bsky.social guested on our podcast last August to discuss voice acting and her role as Fia in Old Skies.

It was an excellent talk, which you can listen to here: tinyurl.com/66tew5ee or check our Linktree at Linktree.ee/somanygames for other links.
November 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Nothing quite says Y2K fashion like a long-sleeve shirt under a shirt-sleeve shirt.
Other than the hat, this whole outfit is pretty much exactly my current style. Not sure what to make of #OldSkies Fia wearing it... when she travels back to 2001.
November 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Cool, I was just on ClassicFM, talking about Old Skies and its brilliant music by @thomasregin.bsky.social!

It was pretty surreal and lovely- adventure games are so rarely featured in mainstream interest in games, and to get my voice on the biggest classical music station in the UK is amazing!
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
4 million listeners apparently!

Also sharing the programme with the music from Legend of Zelda and God of War was quite a thing!

Congrats to @caraellison.bsky.social, @kylewbanks.com and @choiby.bsky.social too for your interviews and featured music!
November 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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I can assure you: no one is missing this news, I’m going to be spamming about it for weeks!
In case anyone missed the news:
I’m a BAFTA Breakthrough!
November 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Listening to ClassicFM to hear which Old Skies music they will use (and an interview with me), and completely swept up in @choiby.bsky.social 's music for Empire of the Ants!

This week has been really surreal, but I feel really fortunate to be in such a talented cohort!
November 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Other than the hat, this whole outfit is pretty much exactly my current style. Not sure what to make of #OldSkies Fia wearing it... when she travels back to 2001.
November 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
This is so frigging cool.
I was interviewed by @classicfm.com about video game music and the BAFTA Breakthrough! It’ll feature music from Old Skies by @thomasregin.bsky.social as part of @dantdm.bsky.social’s show- that’s tomorrow (Saturday 29th) at 9pm BST!
A little taste of Thomas’ music: youtu.be/zXt0ABkAxsM?...
Old Skies Soundtrack - (Links in description)
YouTube video by Thomas Regin
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Old Skies somehow straddling both these categories…
To heal our divided nation I propose splitting Game of the Year awards into two categories:

- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
November 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Not exactly unbiased but Gilt is looking so darn good.
I feel like every scene I draw for Gilt is a real struggle and I am never satisfied, but then I put the character sprites over my WIPs and seeing them hanging out in that world makes me happy.
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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I feel like every scene I draw for Gilt is a real struggle and I am never satisfied, but then I put the character sprites over my WIPs and seeing them hanging out in that world makes me happy.
November 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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3. Old Skies

It starts as a clever adventure across time. It becomes a whole lot more.
November 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Dunno what it says about me that it took me a minute to realize who she was referring to.
How to give your boss a heart attack: tell him huge news just before he gets on a long haul flight:
SALLY BEAUMONT IS A BAFTA BREAKTHROUGH FOR HER WORK IN OLD SKIES!!
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Actor Sally Beaumont was selected as a BAFTA Breakthrough for her role as the time traveller Fia in Old Skies. "A lot of people say, 'You speak like you're about a hundred years old'," she says. "I'm very good at playing historical ladies and immortal gods."

www.gamesindustry.biz/bafta-breakt...
BAFTA Breakthrough profile: Sally Beaumont
"I have all this weird, disparate experience: like I did commedia dell'arte"
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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My replay of the Blackwell series from @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social is complete, and I'm happy to confirm that Blackwell Epiphany is the best game of 2014! firsthour.net/goty/2014-ga...
2014 Game of the Year | First Hour
Way back in 2012, a few writers here huddled around a 2006 point and click adventure game called The Blackwell Legacy. Available in “Wadjet Eye's The Blackwell Trilogy Remastered” bundle, at the time ...
firsthour.net
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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100% deserved, Old Skies is great and we've started pointing at other characters in games going 'thats Fia Quinn, that is'
I'm a BAFTA Breakthrough 2025!

I'm honoured to be amongst such an incredible cohort, and for BAFTA to recognise my work on Old Skies!

As a disabled, female, performer-writer in games, I am so proud to show what we can do, and with BAFTA's support the sky's the limit!

www.bafta.org/stories/brea...
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Both have amazing stories and it was hard for me to pick. I want to make an art book for both. Trying to find art to do so. I hope I can get it done. Both have regular PC Big Boxes but this will be GOTY editions with more included.
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Was great to see you again and thank you for making me cry playing #OldSkies 🤪
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Two bafta breakthrough performers, side by side!
Thomasina and Fia now living on the laptop is one of the best things that happened at AdventureX!
November 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM