Genuinely powerful words to live by.

There's one week left to apply for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant ⏰‼️ If you're thinking of applying, make sure you get your applications in before next Sunday in order to be considered. Grant: $15,000 USD Deadline: Sept 28th Link: grants.draknek.org

Part 2 at the TERPECA winning Mad Machines

More escape rooms: Milan edition! 🍧✨

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Babe wake up, new favourite escape room photo just dropped

It will come as no surprise to anyone I am once again escaping from rooms this week 🙏

My alarm jingle just came on the cafe speakers where I'm sitting working at and I had a real "I've been asleep this whole time, wake up" jolt of horror.

I wonder why all these great indie games are coming out of Australia where they have a massive public funding effort for videogame creators

I brought a kind of goth vibe to the summer wedding this weekend

Goodbye five-ever Edinburgh, you were so nice and I am so sad to not have a home here anymore 👋

Celebrate with us! Our biggest @officialpax.bsky.social Family Gaming Room: 🕹️ 100s PS5/Xbox/Switch games ♿ Accessible Tech from Respawn 🔥 Games from @wholesomegames.com 🎯 Parental controls and @esrb.org explainer sessions ✏️ So many Guestbook comments www.familygamingdatabase.com/search/list/...

The sky is doing a majestic this morning

Me with my friends: I love you so much, you light up my life, you are so beautiful and I can't wait to spend time with you, I would do anything for you 🥹 Me with my crush: ok, cool, cyu ✌️

I'm probably not coming back to Edinburgh any time soon, so everything lately has been "the last" 🥲 Last time I see certain friends, last time I taste certain meals from certain places, last time I wave off friends from the platform, last time looking at the morning sunshine through the window.

I love meeting people who work in the space industry and are also into sci-fi books/films like heck YEAH, lets be excited about space and aspirational! Take us to Mars! Do your cool science thing! I love it!!

The Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant is offering $15,000 USD to traditionally under-supported game developers working on thinky puzzle games. If this is you, we invite you to apply! Deadline: September 28th grants.draknek.org

I did my last therapy session today and there was a real mic drop when she said "maybe you were the escape room all along" (followed shortly by "I don't actually know what an escape room is, does that metaphor work", but hey I'm impressed. We both taught each other so much)

We're excited to share that one of our founders, @mairispaceship.com is a part of Game Changer 2025, funded by the UK Government and Mayor of London.

Super excited I get to announce this now! I'm part of Game Changer 2025 with the new studio I founded, @heft.studio 👏 see you at Slush Helsinki!

TERPECA season is officially here which means I'm going to be talking about escape rooms a little more than usual (which is a lot already ok). It's like the Oscars for escape rooms and if you've played more than 100 rooms you can contribute! terpeca.com/2025/

Oh the little grey cells

For the next few weeks we're celebrating 12 years of Draknek & Friends. We've got a few exciting things going on, including: 🎂 The Developer Steam Sale 🎉 A Humble Bundle of all Draknek & Friends games 🎊 12 years, 12 games giveaway

My brain on a random Thursday morning: You should open a museum

"Minions have really pushed me over the edge" is not a phrase I thought I'd say spilling my heart out over a coffee this morning but here we are

Apparently I can't leave well enough alone and I've added a rotary encoder to interact with my Thicc Digit Clock. Switch between current time (with different colours per hour), temperature in °C, cloud cover percentage, humidity, and a working stopwatch you can start/stop by clicking the encoder!

I had such a great time chatting to Link!! I need no excuse to talk about video games hehe 🥰

"We have Spooky Express at home" spooky.express

I wrote an Intro to Puzzle Design article🧩 This covers the usual points I discuss with people who are working on their first puzzle game. Given how some concepts can be quite abstract, I think a written piece allows everyone to digest it at their own pace. www.ludipe.com/2025/08/18/i...

Super excited for this deductive puzzle game 👇

Step into the shoes of Cleo, an apprentice to her aunt, the world renowned detective, Maya Lynch. From impossible heists to baffling murder cases, use your deduction skills to solve mysteries! Wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3618570/...

My chat with @qdork.bsky.social and AP went up on the Guardian. I've been crossing my fingers for Consume me to release for YEARS, and was such a joy to finally speak to them. www.theguardian.com/games/2025/a...

This was the moment @mairispaceship.com as well as Dani and Bill from @escapethispodcast.bsky.social got a surprise voice cameo from top puzzle maestro @nphstuff.bsky.social (thanks again Neil!) Listen to the full episode of wherever you get your podcasts. linktr.ee/theinfinitee...

I'm mentoring Stuti, the designer of this fantastic little puzzle game and it's definitely one to watch 👀 Death at the Corner Shop: A Mini-Puzzle + Updates - The Detective's Apprentice darqwerful.itch.io/the-detectiv...

I ought to post a link so my non escape room pals know what the heck I'm talking about and why this is exciting realityescapecon.com

No better puzzle solving pals than the hosts of Escape This Podcast 💖

Happy RECON FIRST DAY (@realityescapecon.bsky.social) to all those who take escape rooms very seriously as I do lol 🙏

Applications for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant have been open for one week & we're thrilled to see so many fantastic thinky puzzle game applications already 👏 If you're planning to apply, the deadline is September 28th at midnight PST. Find out more about the grant here: grants.draknek.org

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Hop onboard the Spooky Express! 🎃 Our next game will be launching October 21st 2025 on: Steam Android iOS All the passengers are dying to ride the Spooky Express! They may be monsters, but they still have places to be and people to eat – er, we mean meet! Wishlist and pre-order spooky.express

On this recommendation I went to go see Uncle Barry's tonight and it was definitely one of my highlights of the whole Fringe so far! Somehow the strangest, most intense, most magical experience. Simultaneously just a great party, and a play about friendship. 100% my jam. I am full of cake.

What the heck Lorah, who doesn't like bubbles at a picnic?! 😭 @potipoti.studio

I often type "blue" into my browser hoping to go to Bluesky and ending up on the Wikipedia entry for the boy band from 2004

I'll be giving a talk here! Hope to see some of you folks there 💖

We (Draknek & Friends - A Monster's Expedition, Cosmic Express, etc.) are looking for a Godot consultant to help us investigate and fix some issues with long load times for scenes on mobile. If you're interested, email [email protected] with your experience and rates. #godot #madewithgodot

Yesterday I ran a Downpour workshop at @glasgowindiegamesfest.org. And today I put together a little roundup of all the games people made! blog.vbuckenham.com/glasgow-indi...

At the @glasgowindiegamesfest.org I made a very short very silly game called "find mairi (she is the one with blue hair)" at @v21.bsky.social 's fantastic Downpour workshop. This game is exactly what it says in the name and nothing more. downpour.games/~mairispaces...

I am about to fall into a rabbit hole on r/numberstations and I'm not sure I'll ever emerge again 😱 What's the digital equivalent of tying a piece of red string so I can find my way back? www.reddit.com/r/numberstat...

It was a pleasure trapping Bill and Dani of Escape This Podcast in my escape room for this episode 😆 I had a lot of fun designing this one!

This was a life changing opportunity for me. The financial support let me work on Compress(space) full-time. But the best part of the grant was the mentorship and awesome dev community that you get to be a part of. Compress(space) would not exist as it is without it (1/3)