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[vague indirect spoilers for The Mermaid Mask] These are moodboards I made during the casting process, to try and get across the general vibes I had in my head for each character. (I deliberately gave too many suggestions, so the actors wouldn't just imitate one thing) 1/2

Woah, The Mermaid Mask made it to Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam (needs >500 reviews) in under three days! Thank you to everyone who's left such kind, detailed messages, it's been so life-affirming for us both!

such a good take from @edwyntiong.com

The Mermaid Mask is out now on Steam, PS5, Switch 1 and Switch 2 - and it's been getting some really excellent reviews...

Congrats to @sfbdim.bsky.social & @sfbtom.bsky.social m.bsky.social on releasing The Mermaid Mask! To celebrate, Mina the Hollower + Crow Country are bundled together on Steam! 🐭🎡 Mina has faced giant insects, vampires, & worse. Surely an abandoned theme park with a terrible secret will be fine…

🪸The Mermaid Mask🪸 is OUT NOW on Steam, Switch 1 and Switch 2 - and hopefully very soon on PS5! A murder-mystery detective adventure aboard the world's strangest submarine...

Valve put The Mermaid Mask in the top carousel on the very front page of Steam! And we made it into to Popular New Releases!

Valve put The Mermaid Mask in the top carousel on the very front page of Steam! And we made it into to Popular New Releases!

Crow Country is 🐦‍⬛🎡🎊🚨 🎉 70% OFF ✨ 👀⭐👆😱 for a Steam Daily Deal to celebrate tomorrow's launch of our new game, The Mermaid Mask We're not discounting this low again for a looong time, so grab it white you can! Already played? Recommend to a friend! store.steampowered.com/app/1996010/...

Crow Country is 🐦‍⬛🎡🎊🚨 🎉 70% OFF ✨ 👀⭐👆😱 for a Steam Daily Deal to celebrate tomorrow's launch of our new game, The Mermaid Mask We're not discounting this low again for a looong time, so grab it white you can! Already played? Recommend to a friend! store.steampowered.com/app/1996010/...

Lastly, a bit of tech art from @sfbtom.bsky.social - Catherine's art has a coloured outline - not immediately possible with 3D, but Tom made a shader that adds it dynamically - taking the colour it's closest to and producing a darker version of it, and then pinching and warping it to look painterly

Here's a look at the Captain's Jacket model and the amazing painted texture that Kindra made (from scratch) to match Catherine's painting style. (Don't ask me how the UV wrapping works, this part is still pure wizardry to me)

One of the most rewarding art challenges we took on in The Mermaid Mask was to make all the clues fully 3D. @catherineunger.bsky.social would paint the 2D image as always, and then @kindradantone.bsky.social modelled and painted a 3D model to match it exactly - and the results were quite incredible-

Like Tangle Tower before it, the characters in The Mermaid Mask all have 'chibis' that are used on the map screen, diagrams, etc. But since I learned some rudimentary 3D modelling during Crow Country, I was also able to make 3D versions of the chibis, which ended up being incredibly useful...

Fun Fact: Hundreds of voice actors tried out for each suspect in The Mermaid Mask (around 200-500 VA's per character). There were over 3,000 audition samples total, not including callbacks! Some handy databases like the VGM, Queervox, & Disabled Voice Actors were priceless casting resources.

✨️ Oh! ✨️ Absolutely thrilled to share that I voice Symmetry Silkmoth in The Mermaid Mask by SFB games!! 🩷 Symmetry was my send & couldn't forget audition! She captured my heart the instant I saw her specs 🪙 Wishlist today & play July 16th!! #voiceactor #themermaidmask

Vinyl figure blind bags when?

Hope everyone down in Brighton for Develop has fun and stays somewhat cool! We only went and scheduled a game launch this week - silly of us - so no fun in the sun for us this year

🚨We got a 10! a 10!! 🚨 report.wand.com/reviews/the-...

The Mermaid Mask is our in 2 DAYS and reviews have started to roll in 🔥 9/10 - Game Informer gameinformer.com/review/the-m... 9/10 - ShackNews www.shacknews.com/article/1500... 8/10 - EDGE Magazine Hit me up if you're Game Press or a Gaming Creator interested in checking it out! Email in bio ✌️

me getting ready to politely dismiss any and all accusations of plot holes in The Mermaid Mask

A couple of my answers from this interview about The Mermaid Mask (out this week!) - Read the whole thing here: www.gamereactor.eu/the-mermaid-...

The Mermaid Mask comes out in LESS THAN A WEEK. I've had every line of dialogue from this loaded up into my brain for what now feels like forever. I can't remember a time when it wasn't occupying my mind. Quite honestly, I'm looking forward to being able to slowly stop thinking about it

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Well well well, look who's coming soon in the eShop... twice!

If you look carefully, you can see that my left Joy-Con analogue stick has been Silksonged™

Well well well, look who's coming soon in the eShop... twice!

The Airlock from the Mermaid Mask

an interview I did recently about The Mermaid Mask!

Grimoire getting hyped for the next Pokemon TCG set

Thinking about Satoru Iwata today, for some reason.

The first part of our Meet the Voice Actors series for The Mermaid Mask - give SFB Games a follow on the other socials linked in my pinned post to see the rest Featuring @edwyntiong.com as Detective Grimoire!

If you hear Edwyn's voice and the name 'Dan McNeely' pops into your head, congratulations - You're Old™

The first part of our Meet the Voice Actors series for The Mermaid Mask - give SFB Games a follow on the other socials linked in my pinned post to see the rest Featuring @edwyntiong.com as Detective Grimoire!

Two weeks until The Mermaid Mask sets sail! ...wait, do submarines normally have sails?

Two weeks until The Mermaid Mask sets sail! ...wait, do submarines normally have sails?

for no reason at all, images of the Crow Country physical releases

Glad we managed to just about be part of the last generation of physical PlayStation games

Glad we managed to just about be part of the last generation of physical PlayStation games

Calling all games press & creators!! 👋 The Mermaid Mask launches on July 16th on PC, PS5 and Switch 1 & 2 It's the follow up to Tangle Tower from SFB Games, the Snipperclips and Crow Country devs Reviews keys going out soon! Press 👉 email me for one - see bio Creators 👉 forms.gle/CYT27TuU2Hpq...

I do like this stupid little joke

this is what it feels like to make a game

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History repeats as T. Partey angers English in Boston www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

It is impossible to be caught up on games but I really think my new system is working. I made a list of games from this year that I would ideally get to & just knock them out in order of how much I want to play them. Ps. I am regularly reordering things based on mood: backloggd.com/u/Gameonysus...

So over on our (relatively new) SFB Games social channels, @shikaboom.bsky.social has been putting together some brilliant short form stuff showing off The Mermaid Mask in the runup to launch, well worth digging into if you're interested! Links in my pinned post

So over on our (relatively new) SFB Games social channels, @shikaboom.bsky.social has been putting together some brilliant short form stuff showing off The Mermaid Mask in the runup to launch, well worth digging into if you're interested! Links in my pinned post

We have a piano in our house, so I've been playing for the first time in 25 years. Sight reading is slowly clicking for me now in my 40s in a way it never did in my teens - never too late to learn I guess! Helps that I found some music I enjoy playing

50k wishlists in a week. from our small team: thank you! 🐦‍⬛🔥