We're having a The Mermaid Mask giveaway to celebrate Next Fest! Three winners will take home a bundle including: 🕵️Handmade crochet amigurumi of Detective Grimoire & Sally 👕The Mermaid Mask t-shirt 🍫Bar of “HER” chocolate Head to our Steam news post to enter: store.steampowered.com/news/app/169...

No generative AI was used in creating The Mermaid Mask - this game is the result of nothing less than a small group of very talented artists working hard for a long time! A shame it even has to be said, but it's important to restate our values when making games: No GenAI. Ever.

We're having a The Mermaid Mask giveaway to celebrate Next Fest! Three winners will take home a bundle including: 🕵️Handmade crochet amigurumi of Detective Grimoire & Sally 👕The Mermaid Mask t-shirt 🍫Bar of “HER” chocolate Head to our Steam news post to enter: store.steampowered.com/news/app/169...

This is what the dialogue tool looks like in our Mermaid Mask Unity project. I write the script directly into these boxes, select facial expressions if it's for an examine box, as these are, and I include voice directions, since it later gets exported as a script for the voice actors

Thanks to @sfbtom.bsky.social's custom pipeline, at the press of a button we can export a script file that's automatically formatted, ready for the voice actors:

No generative AI was used in creating The Mermaid Mask - this game is the result of nothing less than a small group of very talented artists working hard for a long time! A shame it even has to be said, but it's important to restate our values when making games: No GenAI. Ever.

playstation icons ✨💜 who's missing? #lowpoly

Steam Next Fest is here! And The Mermaid Mask is in it! Like Ace Attorney, Professor Layton and Monkey Island? Want to try a murder-mystery detective adventure aboard a weird submarine? Play our new Next Fest Demo, with a new Art Gallery feature: store.steampowered.com/app/1696770/...

If you enjoyed our last game Crow Country, will you enjoy The Mermaid Mask? There's a good chance, yeah! Different genre, sure, but @sfbdim.bsky.social wrote/directed/designed both, so I think you'll see some of the same sensibilities shining through.

Mythmatch in Steam Next Fest is Live! It's a narrative-rich, town-building match-3 game! store.steampowered.com/app/2490290/... The demo will be live all week, but the first two days tell Steam how much to show it so please 🎮 Play the Demo! ✅ Wishlist the Game! 📢 Spread the word!!

If you enjoyed our last game Crow Country, will you enjoy The Mermaid Mask? There's a good chance, yeah! Different genre, sure, but @sfbdim.bsky.social wrote/directed/designed both, so I think you'll see some of the same sensibilities shining through.

The Mermaid Mask is part of Next Fest! Go check out the Steam page and the updated demo: 🕹️A 40-minute streaming video of us playing through the demo and talking about the game! 🎞️The Steam page has new gifs and graphics 🎨The demo has been updated to include a glimpse at the art gallery

Steam Next Fest is here! And The Mermaid Mask is in it! Like Ace Attorney, Professor Layton and Monkey Island? Want to try a murder-mystery detective adventure aboard a weird submarine? Play our new Next Fest Demo, with a new Art Gallery feature: store.steampowered.com/app/1696770/...

🚨New Wax Heads demo out for Steam Next Fest!!!🚨 Need convincing to play? Then check out what others have been saying: www.polygon.com/wax-heads-ga... www.thegamer.com/wax-heads-re... www.altchar.com/features/wax... lootlevelchill.com/features/wax... www.pockettactics.com/wax-heads/pr...

The Duppy Detective Demo (say that three time fast!) is a part of Steam Next Fest!!! store.steampowered.com/app/4222200/... So check it out! And remember if it resonates with you: 👻 Wishlist! 🔍 Recommend! 👁️ And Review! ((also please please please repost!!!))

Our murder mystery adventure game The Mermaid Mask is coming Summer 2026! That means we're going to be in the upcoming Steam NextFest, with a refreshed demo (see Adam's post below) and more to share soon! The demo is up on Steam already: store.steampowered.com/app/1696770/...

mouthwashing and crow country soundtracks on vinyl get!

This quick drawing of some of the characters is actually the only piece of concept art for the entirety of Crow Country project. Instead I just modelled ideas straight into Unity and iterated as I went along

Run your own punk rock record shop and tell the kids what to buy in Wax Heads, as the game will arrive on PC via Steam this May. #indiedev #indiegame

Where would we be without ffmpeg

After Steam changed game pages to only show the count from reviews in your own language, Crow Country has finally re-crossed the 5,000 review mark (for English, the total review count is now 6,464!) Still clinging on to that 98% positive rating too

At the age of 18, Pokémon FireRed was the first video game I ever bought with my own money*, packaged in with the NES GBA SP, and a wireless link cable *except it wasn't quite my own money, it was my student loan meant for food and shelter OOPS

Mythmatch is starting to show up in Steam's Popular Upcoming list!!!! It's all starting to feel real! store.steampowered.com/app/1778050/...

After Steam changed game pages to only show the count from reviews in your own language, Crow Country has finally re-crossed the 5,000 review mark (for English, the total review count is now 6,464!) Still clinging on to that 98% positive rating too

EXCITING NEWS: we’re *amped* to announce Wax Heads, our new game about running a record store, releases May 5! 💿⚡ check out the new trailer + spread the love 🤘 coming to Nintendo Switch, PS5, Steam, Xbox! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DorB... #indiegames #cozygames #switch #xbox #steam #playstation

We've done it. We've just hit the release button on our biggest game yet... DEMON TIDES IS OUT NOW ON STEAM! AHHHHH! An open world platforming adventure full of mysteries, challenges and a ton of customization! Express yourself through the movement and explore the oceans!

early concept art for Detective Grimoire and Sally in Secret of the Swamp and Tangle Tower. (Sally was just one of the suspects in SotS, and then got promoted to co-protagonist in TT)

Here’s a comprehensive thread of all my Detective Grimoire illness in celebration of Mermaid Mask news

a little glimpse at some of the equivilant icons from The Mermaid Mask

Made it into the Radio Times. This feels like a genuine achievement 💪

*inhales* LET'S GOOOO!

All the icons I drew for the Mind Games in Tangle Tower

Gingerbread pancakes came out nicely!

Despite all odds we now somehow have multiple physical game releases

the meandering journey leading up to the release of The Mermaid Mask, our next game

I found work-in-progress development screenshots from the very first Detective Grimoire Flash game from 2007, almost 20 years ago

Our murder mystery adventure game The Mermaid Mask is coming Summer 2026! That means we're going to be in the upcoming Steam NextFest, with a refreshed demo (see Adam's post below) and more to share soon! The demo is up on Steam already: store.steampowered.com/app/1696770/...

We just updated The Mermaid Mask demo on Steam! One of the things we've added is a glimpse at the Art Gallery feature, which you can access from the title screen. It features concept art, 3D models and and behind-the-scenes notes from the artists :) Most of it is currently locked, of course...

"Never before have we poured so much love and care into a single project" - Crow Country team readies detective game The Mermaid Mask for summer www.eurogamer.net/crow-country...

Wew! I've got a personal update 👀 Neonhive is being shuttered by the owners so I'm stepping into my old freelance marketing shoes! I'm excited to share that I'm working with the incredible team at Wolfeye Studios as their internal marketer & with SFB Games on this absolute beaut 👇

🚀 Mythmatch launches March 13th on Steam!! 🚀 🐐 Merge the items 💪 Unite the people 🏠 Make a home Play the demo now and continue your progress in the full game. store.steampowered.com/app/1778050/...

💃 1000xRESIST has passed 4500 Steam Reviews!! 💃 Thank you to everyone who has supported the game and spread the word. We're here because of you 🙏

Man, ABIDE looks so good – stop motion has something inherently uncanny about it, and this is exactly the kind of distinct, unsettling horror vision you'd hope for from the team behind JUDERO. Consider backing it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/637...

A very nice piece to read about Sable : comicbook.com/gaming/featu...

In the last 2 months, I've 100%ed Silksong, 13 Sentinels, 1000xRESIST and Outer Wilds(+DLC). Remember when games were good? You should, it's RIGHT NOW

I was going through my art and thought it would be cool to show the process of my Crow Country fanart. This game was so good! It might be time for a replay!

Bel's Fanfare Kickstarter is OUT NOW Support this whimsical RPG inspired by Zelda classics, Undertale and Spirited Away. We reached the goal in just 1 hour but let's see how far we can make it 🔥 www.kickstarter.com/projects/chi...

HARMAN say they're gonna keep supporting the .swf format in AIR indefinitely for backwards compatibility.