The demo for Dead Format is now on Steam! A first person survival horror game that lets you explore various iconic film eras. Also featuring live action film clips with homemade practical fx! store.steampowered.com/app/3399290/...

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Dead Format Demo now on Itch! A first-person survival horror game with live action film clips. It's a love letter to different eras of horror films and inspired by a time of horror censorship in the UK (unfortunately this feels oddly relevant again today).

I try to get an hour or two of mad scientist time in each week to experiment with some weird idea. This week it's a pint glass full of water with a hydrophonic microphone inside a broken speaker cab and dragging rubber mallets on the side to make some weird creature sounds!

I'll be attending Glasgow Indie Games Fest on the 9th of August and have Daemonologie playable there! Feel free to come over, play the game and chat some horror! youtu.be/X4kyzvhkWy4

Dead Format (formerly known as Video Ghastlies) is shaping up nicely. 🔊All sounds effects are handmade by @katanalevy.bsky.social who even went to his brother's work to record sound samples.

Environment sound design is one of my favourite aspects of game development! I recorded these sfx of machinery at my brother's work and love layering up the environment with sounds like painting with colours from a palette. #gamedev #horrorgame #indiegame

Video Ghastlies is my upcoming survival horror game. Explore various VHS worlds as a love-letter to different eras and genres of horror and uncover the secrets of the government trying to ban them. Featuring some live action practical fx filled tape clips! youtu.be/5SZc_Y6ULv8

What a wonderful world we would live in if companies would make actually useful error messages in their software and on their sites.

My most popular environment packs for UE5 are now on sale for 50%! www.fab.com/sellers/Kata...

If you live in the UK and also appalled by the rampant theft of copyright materials to train AI then I encourage you to let your opinions be added to this questionnaire for the Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence: ipoconsultations.citizenspace.com/ipo/consulta...

This is so extremely useful! All the previous places to look for reference images are completely polluted, we desperately need repositories of non-AI images.

Heartbreaking news about David Lynch. The first film I saw of his was Lost Highway and it still influences a lot of the things I make in some way. Every piece of art he worked on seems so unique and also uniquely Lynch.

So excited to be working with the awesome team at Oro! Their support has allowed me to finally quit my day job and go full-time game dev!! Working on a very exciting new project at the moment and with their expertise we can hopefully see Daemonologie reach more people.

Instead of spending £300 on a binaural mic for my game dev work, I spent Sunday evening with some rubber ears from ebay, toilet roll tubes, duct tape and milliput to make one myself for under £30.

Nosferatu on 35mm print has been my audio / visual feast for this year. Sound and set design were absolutely incredible!

This could not be more true.

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

Absolutely disgrace. Years of trying to lock kids up for Napster, discontinuing movies because of music rights, YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR promo bullsh*t and they're ready to give it ALL away to big tech billionaires

Some experimentation with water-based practical fx today and it's ridiculously addictive and fun!

Absolutely surreal moment to see my own game appear, even for a second, on a @jacobgeller.bsky.social video!!

Oh, this is really sad. CDRomance were a legit great resource for fan-translations, romhacks, etc.

I've started building up my physical bookshelf of ref books over the last few years, but this looks like a great collection too!

Having some fun building and painting a miniature graveyard set and then playing around with lightning and fog effects! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJMT...

Waited 22 years since I first saw The Thing on VHS, to finally get to see it on the big screen tonight!

Working on some c o o l stuff for this #ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev #UE5 #Blender

As I’ve been saying for over a year: If your business model doesn’t work without violating the law, you’re not in business — you’re in organized crime. Great reporting by @elainelow.bsky.social. theankler.com/p/tv-writers...

I use Designer for 75% of the scene with tiling textures and decals but some assets just require their own #SubstancePainter texture sets. #UE5 #ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev

Video Ghastlies will be a love-letter to classic trashy horror! So I'm having a blast learning some special fx techniques and experimenting with shooting live footage to go with the game. Running the whole thing through my VHS hardware several times. #gamedev #horror #vhs

An addendum: another reason I dislike the word "content" is it turns art into something *pushed* on you rather than something you *seek out.* Acclaimed animator Don Hertzfeldt sums it up better than I can:

My pipeline is one from all 4 corners... Can we just make a new X-up system so everybody is wrong and then force every bit of software to use that same new one?

Video Ghastlies is my latest solo horror game dev project started two weeks ago. It is inspired by an era of censorship during the 80s in the UK. Instead of any formal dev log I'm just going to post snippets as I go along. All raw work in progress. www.youtube.com/watch?v=waev...

First nights of the crisp winter air is the perfect time for some night photography around Edinburgh. What a weird mix of gothic, industrial and 80s business buildings this city is. Lumix G7 & Panasonic 25mm f/1.7 Prime, 1/4 Black Mist Diffusion Filter

Completely agree and fuck factors as well. I've had water pouring into my bedroom for the last 5 weeks and James Gibb factors are just dragging their feet because they don't want to pay for the repairs.

If you see this post a monster!

100 reviews milestone and 97% positive! Thank you everyone that has played Daemonologie and especially those that take the time to leave a review. It really is a huge help for smaller solo devs.

Amnesia: The Bunker appreciation post. Just replaying this, It's going to always be one of those legendary games that I always come back to study. The generator is a stroke of genius and I'd love to know if Frictional were inspired by Darkwood's generator.

The demo for Labyrinth Of The Demon King is exceptional! Some of the thickest, dreary atmosphere I've played in a while. Highly recommend checking out!

My copy of Susperia on VHS just arrived from Vice Press! Also it might just be reference material for my next horror game I started working on...

My environment packs are now available on the Fab store! - Highland Bothy Abandoned Cabin - Grave Of The Serpent King - Dark Fantasy Ruins - Great War Trenches

Daemonologie soundtrack is now available as a free DLC to download on Steam! 16 tracks covering all the music created for the recent and old version of the game, as well as all the animated scenes.

How did you pick your username? Katana was the name of the band I played lead guitar for in high school. Levy was my nickname then. Short for Levitator after being the first to learn the trick ollie-north on a skateboard in our group. It's just stuck, I've been making games since back then.

Indie dev follow thread Let's GOOOOOOOOOO! Comment below 👇 if you're an indie developer or content creator covering indie games and follow other cool people who have commented let's get a bit of a follow train going 🚂💨 I want to see lots of cool arty stuff in my feed :D

Scottish word of the day is: Gobshite! Daemonologie has a glossary to help you translate any words you don't understand.

Hi bluesky! I'm a solo game dev and environment artist from Scotland.

Daemonologie is an upcoming Scottish folk horror tale based on the 17th century witch trials. You play the part of a witch finder and must sort truth from lies. Steam page below and all the social sharing is much appreciated! #indiegame #gamedev

Grave of the Serpent King. Having a lot of fun making foliage for this one. No Quixel assets here. #ue5 #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

Dark Fantasy Ruins now available on the Unreal Marketplace! 2 Different lighting scenes and the landscape included. #gamedev #indiedev #ue5 #unrealengine

Making sure my latest environment pack is working in a variety of moods #UE5 #gamedev #zbrush

Working on a dark fantasy environment with that 80s set design look. #ue5 #gamedev