My pals, who prev made CorpoNation, have uploaded a demo of their new thing. I've had a play of it, and it's really cool - I'm excited to see where it goes from here

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

We’re going to Gamayo! And what’s even better is we’re showing a demo of A Line Held Tight. If you’re going and you recognise us please come say hi! This will be our first time showing a game publicly in a very long time, and we’ll be excited and nervous in varying measures. See you there!

Rough.

I've been working with Geometry Nodes in Blender to make a system for authoring patchwork meadows for my game The Wings of Sycamore #blender

i don’t exactly blame devs for signing bad deals with publishers. in a lot of cases i imagine they feel it’s the only way their game will ever get made and they probably right

i often see people say “you don’t need a publisher” etc as if most developers don’t understand that. but games do require labour and labour requires payment

So our game is about remote control human beings #IndieGameDev

Theres a lovely article on Highrook and its production in the latest edition of Debug++ 25/10 @debugmag.com www.teamdebug.com/plus Debug++ is free to subscribe to and you get a nice downloadable pdf each time a new issue comes out!

Thrilled to share the illustration I created for my friend's play, "Kill the Dinosaur", currently being performed in London!

Get ready to hear me rant about start up culture bleeding into indie dev, and why we should be making our dream games! 👀

This French language channel did a very lovely playthrough video of my game 'The Collage Atlas'. It was really heartening to see it really connect with someone. youtu.be/I8X6Xn6_hak?...

SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT📢 Why You Absolutely Should Ignore the Advice & Make Your Platformer / Solo MMORPG / Sims-Like Dream Game First Sam Scaife - Indie Developer In this talk I’ll share lessons from my experiences making & releasing my first game & make a case for you to start on your dream game!

We’re excited to share some news: the demo for our new project, A Line Held Tight, is available today! You can get access by joining our aptly named ‘Demo Access’ tier on Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/demo-a...

We've been working on our game's story recently. And in the process have created a very normal, 100% not weird, timeline! #indiegamedev

Currently busy doing huge amounts of landscaping and world design for The Wings of Sycamore. There's something weirdly deflating about working flat-out and then committing to repo and seeing the file has grown by...only 200kb

Pretty horrifying Resident Evil trailer: trainers on the bed.

It's happened, I've started naming files for my game "_final". That's surely gotta do something, right??

Working on some mountain region terrain for 'The Wings of Sycamore' You can see more of my dev progress on insta: www.instagram.com/johnwilliame...

A little test-flight through some block-out terrain for 'The Wings of Sycamore' See more on www.instagram.com/johnwilliame... www.tiktok.com/@johnwilliam...

we are in the indie showcase in the develop expo all day today, come and get some sweet stickers

Highly recommend giving this a look, it's really very cool.

New dev update for The Wings of Sycamore over on TikTok... All about hand-crafting my little game world. vm.tiktok.com/ZNdfs5r9B/

Breath of the Mario Kart is extremely good.

My entirely pen & ink, actually-was-drawn-on-paper, first-person adventure is 50% off this weekend (Steam, PC). lose yourself in a peaceful, meditative, picture-book world. Reviews are greatly appreciated - good, bad, or indifferent 🖤 store.steampowered.com/app/2581960/...

New Patreon exclusive post and video on our approach to world building 🌍 www.patreon.com/c/humblegrove

After about 2 years my strange clockwork-cosmic-horror-narrative-card/boardgame Is released! Proud of this one, hope it does well enough for me to keep exploring this unique and exciting avenue of game dev.

Barely 2 days left now! Just working up some new assets to spruce up the steam page on launch. Anyway, if you aren't already aware. The Horror at Highrook is an occult card-crafting RPG full of 🕯️Secrets 💧sadness 🌀Madness and 👹Demons Still time to Wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/2836860/...

More low-poly modeling for my next game 'The Wings of Sycamore'

A little progress update on my upcoming aviation adventure 'The Wings of Sycamore'

To mark the 1st anniversary of my pen & ink adventure releasing on Steam (PC), it's on sale this weekend - 50% off. Biggest discount I've offered to date, so if you've been tempted to give it a look before, now might be a good time to give it a try 🖤 store.steampowered.com/app/2581960/...

back to working on this after some time off. Building a biometric key system so the player can unlock new areas as they discover the missing crew 👀 #indiedev #indiegame

!! RELEASE DATE !! The doors of Highrook shall open on May 1🐦‍⬛ The Horror at Highrook is an occult card-crafting RPG 🕯️Uncover the dark secrets of Highrook Manor 🌙Manage your team of investigators 🔥Summon Ancient Demons Wishlist the game on Steam now: store.steampowered.com/app/2836860/...

Talking about drawing my next game 'The Wings of Sycamore'

Under Brighton pier. Shot on a Tomiyama 170 6x17 medium format camera.

Prototyping a game where you grow a tree

That is not dead which can eternal draw new cards🐦‍⬛ Amazing to see Highrook in the latest edition of @pcgamer.com

A little work update for my next pen & ink game 'The Wings of Sycamore' (I post a bunch on insta but I'm trying to get better at sharing here)

Highrook Manor is home to many secrets🕯️ Summon dark entities in the Chapel and unravel what happened to the missing Ackeron family🐦‍⬛ Steam Next Fest starts today! Try the Highrook demo now: store.steampowered.com/app/2836860/...

The Collage Atlas: My entirely pen & ink first-person adventure is on sale on Steam this weekend. There's a 21 min vid on the Steam page where I talk at length about the motivations behind the game. So if you're curious...or struggling to sleep: store.steampowered.com/app/2581960/...

As someone that used to dream about making games for a living I can't believe our first release is one year old today!

I've been revisiting the Gravity Rush 2 soundtrack today, it's just so beautiful. The 3hr(!!) deluxe edition is on Apple music, and I think Spotify too. youtu.be/6QPOmQQg3Z4?...

Turns out, Unity still does all the work of logging in Release. Also turns out, there are times this matters. This led to writing a blog post: www.kittehface.com/2025/01/unit... Might be specific to this engine version because why does it do this? #unity #unity3d #unityengine

Barbican Conservatory, shot on a 1930s Zeiss Ikon

It's the shortest possible clip - But seeing the track disappear into the distance made me think how cool it would be if new MK was long linear rally-style courses

Some recent shots I took on 35mm that expired in 2004

💡Blender on Mac thing - run a second(or more) instance of Blender at the same time by typing this in your terminal: open -n -a "Blender"

You ever have a chord sequence that loops so neatly it totally stumps you as to how to progress out of it?

A few shots from The Burning of the Clocks in Brighton last night.

CorpoNation is 40% off! Check it out for a retro-futurist, dystopian adventure about how corporations see us all as disposable resources. bit.ly/CorpoNation