Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie
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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie
@greyalien.bsky.social
Indie developer since 2005, owner of Grey Alien Games. Working on Forbidden Solitaire (watch the trailer!) Creator of Ancient Enemy, Shadowhand, Regency Solitaire + more. Retro games fan. Please buy my games. Thx. https://www.greyaliengames.com/
Reposted by Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie
My first few trailers were just "cute packing sim" and no one cared (rightly). But when I did a summer trailer and socials that was "cute packing sim inspired by House of Leaves and Alan Wake" people said WTF (in a good way) and got a lot of attention and I launched "the coziest nightmare."
Moving Houses on Steam
A silly little physics-based game about moving on... or is it? Be neat, be careful, or be a chaos goblin. The choice is yours. But be warned, not all is as it seems in this quiet little house.
store.steampowered.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
:-o wow cool!
November 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Harsh.
November 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I'm a game designer so it's essential for my craft :D
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I have also ordered Breath of the Wild because I never played that. Will play that first.
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Had to be done really. Everyone raved about Bananza so as a game designer I must try it. Plus I'm a huge metroidvania fan so, yeah no-brainer. Keeping an eye on Prime 4 too.
November 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Ha, cool thx. We are working on it.
November 27, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Reposted by Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie
thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday!

Forbidden Solitaire is a card-slashing horror game about unearthing the contents of a cryptic 1995 CD-ROM that should have never existed. From the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline.
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
(maybe many of the 5000 couldn't either. Depends on how many PD games are on Lemon Amiga (my source for the 5K number). Some were great. Some not so much)
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Ah yes
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This is amazing and probably a $1M idea.
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I sure do!
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
And they will be thinking "lazy ass wearing his dressing gown at 10am". Well it's cold, that's why.
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
haha. Imagine I'd put out the right bin and they put out the wrong one. I'd have been bindicated!
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We can look it up on a website but tbh I assumed it was recycling as last time I put something in there it was pretty full. I assumed wrong.
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
hoho. Enough of this trash talk!
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM