Treasa is design lead, tech lead & producer at Spooky Doorway (@spookydoorway.bsky.social) the studio behind The Séance of Blake Manor & The Darkside Detective. Finbarre caught up with her to talk haunted houses, Irish folklore, and the art of game design. #indiegames #tarot #folklore #witchsky

The @imirt.bsky.social Steam Curator List now has a handy section showing all of the wonderful games that work on @valvesoftware.com 's #SteamDeck . store.steampowered.com/curator/4145... #IrishGameDev #IndieDev #GameDev #IrishCreatives #IrishGameDomination #SpeirGhorm #SpeirGorm #IndieGame

What a year! First @psychicsoftware.com releases The Necromancer's Tale, which I built the world & wrote opening sections for. @blakemanorgame.bsky.social dropped last week to A+ reaction. Now @greenheartgames.bsky.social's Tavern Keeper is out, which I pitched, did early designs & writing for.

Nice short interview from some press at home. www.galwaynow.ie/seance-at-bl...

We just hit a nice landmark with 500 reviews :-) Thank you so much to everyone who has played the game. If you have enjoyed it but not written a review, please consider doing so -- it really helps visibility! store.steampowered.com/app/1315320/...

Tomorrow afternoon, we have a spooky stream to celebrate Halloween! 👻 A Necromancer's S̷c̷r̷e̷a̷m̷ Stream featuring: 🌱 Greenhearth Necromancer (for the first time!) 💀 @psychicsoftware.com's A Necromancer's Tale ⚔ Mortal Sin 🤠 @strangescaffold.bsky.social's Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion III + more!

We’re in good company here!

We are excited to host this week's official #TurnBasedThursday thread! #gamedevs & #indiedevs— drop your turn-based beauties below and don't forget to use the hashtag! #turnbased game fans —❤️,💬 and 🔁these amazing projects.🙏 Let’s make the algorithm take its turn too. 😎 #indiegamedev

There are just 4 places left on my upcoming course at @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social - starting next week, and online on Thursday evenings for 5 weeks! irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ...

The Seance of Blake Manor is now live on Steam. Check out our launch trailer! 💀 store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/... #indiegames

The Necromancer's Tale is in the Steam Scream IV festival. Catch it on sale this week! :-) store.steampowered.com/app/1315320/...

Check out the awesome new game by my wonderful and talented friends at Spooky Doorway!

Between this and the AI poop app, we're firmly in the part of the dot-com speed run where any old thing was flung together to try to grab the investor dollars before the game was up.

I need to mention something that happened yesterday. I had a negative review of my game & an irate player in my Discord, talking about bugs they claimed were longstanding, mentioned all over Steam and Reddit, and never fixed. After some probing they admitted they had been asking ChatGPT for hints.

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

#ScreenshotSaturday. Launching on Oct 27th. Wishlist Now! Can you solve the supernatural mystery of Blake Manor? Check out our Steam Next Fest demo if you haven't already: bit.ly/47Pm8XA #Indiegames

Great news! We have just updated The Séance of Blake Manor demo. The content and length of the demo remain unchanged but now includes voice acting from our amazing cast of actors. Check out the demo: bit.ly/47Pm8XA

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

Don't forget to tune in at 5 PM Eastern to watch the Kobolds stream Necromancer's Tale!

A new blog post, in which I ramble about the process of directing a 400,000-word narrative game (along with 7 other writers) over a 5-year development period... www.psychicsoftware.com/2025/designi...

🎃 The kobolds are back for Scarecase 2025 — this Friday & Saturday (Oct 10–11)!👻 Two days of monster reveals, art battles, cozy game streams, and sneak peeks at future Kobold Press releases. Catch it all live on Twitch & YouTube — and bring your spooky energy. 👉 koboldpress.com/scarecase-2025

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

The Necromancer's Tale is on sale! We're reviewing well (93% positive on Steam) and a bunch of content updates and feature improvements have been made in the 2 months since launch :-) store.steampowered.com/app/1315320/...

I was pleasantly possessed by The Necromancer's Tale from @psychicsoftware.com. The writing infests your soul and the art/music is perfect for the shadow-shrouded victorian streets - just in time for spooky season! You must clutch it in your icy claws, now! store.steampowered.com/app/1315320/...

This. And also the notion that autism is something that always needs 'treatment' or 'prevention' - when we all know neurodiverse people have frequently been behind great leaps in human knowledge, incredible creativity and unique insight. Like everything brains are not binary normal / abnormal.

Psst! Hey kid, you want to play a game about Halloween ON HALLOWEEN? Victorian occult whodunnit @blakemanorgame.bsky.social is coming to a haunted PC near you on October 27th! Check out the trailer and demo, if you like having a fun time. If you hate fun, scroll on :P

If you heard us say differently, no you didn't! Mars Attracts is hitting Steam on Monday September 15 & we are very excited about it! #IndieGames #GamingNews

I’m delighted to host the official #TurnBasedThursday this week! 🌞 Don’t venture alone fellow #GameDev / #IndieDev! Reply to this post and add the hashtag to share your turn-based games! ✨ Love turn-based games? Make sure to comment, like and retweet the cool games in this thread. 💬❤️🔁

We're excited that The Necromancer's Tale has been shortlisted in the prestigious TIGA Awards 2025, for the Narrative & Storytelling category. Thank you, @tiga-games.bsky.social! 🏆

The Necromancer's Tale is in the Hungry Ghost Festival this week! To celebrate, we have discounted the game during the festival: store.steampowered.com/app/1315320/... Thanks for including us @seagamethetic.bsky.social ! :-)

The @imirt.bsky.social Steam Curator List is so close to 600 followers! All follows and shares help Irish game devs! Please and thank you. 😊 #speirghorm #irishgamedev #speirgorm #indiedev #gamedev #irishcreatives #indiegame store.steampowered.com/curator/4145...

Well done to Sean, one of our Facebook followers, who won the headset stand! :-)

Hey 2D artists! JOB ALERT! 📣 Especially those who do cozy cartoony or pixel art. I have some game dev friends here in Galway from Psychic Software (Just released Necromancer's Tale) that are looking for an artist to team up for their next game. Send your portfolio over to [email protected]

We recently released a major update to Terra Randoma and now back to working on Those Far Stars 🚀✨ This new game is a lot of UI, can't wait to show latest progress to everyone. bsky.app/profile/terr...

GIVEAWAY! store.steampowered.com/app/1315320/... Win this unique headset-stand designed by the incredible chainsawgraphics.etsy.com. Drop into our #Gamescom2025 stand in Hall 10.2 to see it. We will post the stand worldwide. Draw Wednesday 27th. Like, Comment and Share to win!

A great detective gathers five suspects to put a murderer to justice. Except… everyone in the room knows who did it, and there’s a surprise waiting in the detective’s wine. My story “Almondique” is out today in the latest Black Cat Weekly! michaelthomet.com/2025/08/10/a...

Valve has now certified The Necromancer's Tale as "verified" on the Steam Deck! As a big fan of the Deck, I put a lot of work into this so it's great to get through this rigorous review process. store.steampowered.com/app/1315320/... #SteamDeck #RPG

The Necromancer's Tale is in the #TinyTeams 2025 Official Selection! - thank you @tinyteamsfest.bsky.social 💀💀 Our story-rich CRPG portrays the player's descent into black magic and madness in the year 1733. Released July 17th and going well! store.steampowered.com/app/1315320/...

Calling all turn-based hackers! 🦾 We are honored to be this week's official #TurnBasedThursday hosts! 🧉 💬 Are you a #gamedev working on a turn-based marvel? Drop us a line below! 🕹️ Are you a turn-based lover? Support by checking the games and wishlisting your favorites!

Check out this new game released by some of my good friends! What's not to love in a cozy strategy game?

The Necromancer's Tale released today! It's a story-rich RPG that I've been working on for over 5 years(!) store.steampowered.com/app/1315320/... The game is set in an alt-history 1733, with the player getting sucked into black magic and necromancy.

Thank you for hosting #TurnBasedThursday Lumina Chronicles has been progressing very well. I've been able to start putting most of my efforts to the art of the game recently. bsky.app/profile/inve...

here's my stone age nomadic 4X with in-depth ecosystems and characters 🔥🦣🏃 cheers @psychicsoftware.com for hosting #TurnBasedThursday

Hey @psychicsoftware.com thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday this week, and the beautiful event art! We released a major update last weekend that features a codex. Testimony for 10+ years of feature creep 😅 bsky.app/profile/terr...

This looks so good too!

Another awesome looking turn-based game that's out next week. Wishlist it! :-)

Happy to be the official host of this week's #TurnBasedThursday! 🥳 #gamedevs / #IndieGameDev, drop your epic #turnbased game below, and use the hashtag! Community, you can all help by 🔁 and ❤ your favourites!

Thanks Jonathan! Two of the most colourful rogues in the game (and some of the best voice acting) :-)