Bit Loom

The PHOGS! are leaping into the air with a cake, everyone is wearing party hats and there is a giant number 5 balloon all made from creative commons clip art!

PHOGS! turned 5 yesterday! Thanks so much to everyone who has enjoyed the game over the years! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

A still life art composition: A blue glazed bowl sitting on a red brick, an orange and banana inside of it, a blue jug with fishes painted on it

A still life art composition: A shark toy with angry looking googley eyes stuck on it, two keys stuck under it for legs, armour made from button badges and a scaled down candlestick as a lance

A still life art composition: A mushroom character toy with a smiley face duplicated many many times creating an army of them, green/red/purple

A still life art composition: Pink background, another abstract lumpy/spikey rendering - yellow, pink, white, grey - you can see a colourful ringed notebook

Some more pictures!

A still life art composition: Mint background, pink platform box in the middle, a blue glazed bowl, a highland cow cuddly toy, a pineapple, a polka dot teapot, a couple of pinecones and a few other things

A still life art composition: Blue background, a tabletop game miniature of a rogue pine marten facing off against a red/white toy dinosaur with a much smaller miniature on it's back

A still life art composition: Grey background, this one was rendered in an abstract style which is lumpy/pointy and I can't tell which objects they were but I think there's an apple half, there's also a pink blob

A still life art composition: Orange background, light coming through a grided window, a takeaway coffee cup, glasses, an apple half and a colourful notebook

Drop in and Play was great, lots of kids played our new (wip) game which is always fun! Watched people make some pretty and silly things and got some helpful feedback 🦕🍄🥣 #indiegames #indiedev #art #dca

A man in a blue shirt standing beside a table with two monitors showing a game

Come on down to the DCA for Drop in and Play where we'll be showing off our next game! (And loads of other local games too!)

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YouTube video by Adventure Games Podcast Interview with Claire Morwood Asterism

This week multi talented musician/singer/developer/writer, Claire Morwood, aka @shimmerglitch.bsky.social, joins the podcast to tell us all about Asterism, her latest adventure game/interactive music album. You can check it out anywhere you listen to podcasts and below. Enjoy!

youtu.be/HTG025p2uwE

Henry (programming AND musical wizard 🪄 not very fair) just released a whole album! of very cool and creative acoustic guitar songs! go listen! 🎸

I just needed to update some text on my website but instead I spent a couple of days reworking my ~snazzy background~

Key art for the video game Tray Racers! a group of kids and robots are riding fast down a sand dune on trays. There's cactuses, trees and wind generators about the place. A colourful logo sits at the top centre.

Today is the 2nd anniversary of the release of Tray Racers!!! Weeeeeee 🐫🌵🦊🤖🏁💨

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ATTENTION INDIEDEVS
Show off your art style

A screenshot from Mythwrecked. It shows a character running across a beach at dawn

A screenshot from Röki. It shows a wintry peak, with a giant wolf sleeping at the summit.

A screenshot from Röki. It shows a young girl exploring a snowy woodland scene.

A screenshot from Mythwrecked. It shows a shipwrecked backpacker talking to Hermes, the messenger god of Greek mythology.

ATTENTION INDIEDEVS
Show off your art style

Save 25% on Asterism on Steam Immerse yourself in the cosmic symphony of Asterism - a playable indie-rock concept album set in outer space. Follow astronaut Ruby as she embarks on an emotional journey of self-discovery through a s...

Asterism is currently on sale on Steam, if you want to check it out and haven't picked it up yet, now is a great time 😉

store.steampowered.com/app/2187450/...

A photo of 3 people in the McManus museum/gallery looking up at a high platform with realistic replicas of many animals including a bear, a dear and beaver

A cool old stone slab, it's info card reads: "Monifieth 2 Cross-Slab. David McGovern. Carved Sandstone. One side of the stone is decorated with a cross carved in relief and filled with interlace and key patterns. The other side shows bird-headed monsters, a crouching beast and a deer's head above a cloaked figure, and the crescent with V-rod symbol. The figure is damaged and has been interpreted as a woman wearing a large brooch. Based on a similar figure on a stone from Canna there is a theory that the woman is the Virgin Mary holding a baby, but it was decided not to speculate on the missing figure for the recreation."

An original big box version of the first Grand Theft Auto game, released in 1997 featuring a fish eye photograph of skyscrapers

A crop of an old realistic traditional painting featuring many fluffy horned cows in different shades of brown/black/white

some cool stuff!

A photo of 4 people taken in the reflection of a glass case in the McManus museum containing many vintage food packing examples

Team trip to The McManus in Dundee for some inspiration ✨🔎

#gamedev #dundee #themcmanus

Thought I should post the vinyl art I designed for this forever ago, it's been a while since I thought about it so it's nice to be reminded with the soundtrack finally being available to stream :D. It was really fun, I love that we did the day/night full art both sides 🌞😴 #art #games #ost

Hey :) that's so cute! 🐸 Glad he's been enjoying exploring! 💛 I think the only place you can order one these days is from Kakehashi Games! www.kakehashigames.com/phogs-plush....

A farmer from phogs (they have purple skin, a round belly and big hands/feet with only 3 toes/fingers) with a very happy face and a blueberry for a hat, away to tuck into a giant stack of pancakes sitting on the ground in front of them. There's green grass and a pink and green leafy vegetables plant behind them as well as a brown wavey patterned wall.

Happy Pancake Day!!! 🥞🧑‍🌾✨

The artwork for the original soundtrack from the video game PHOGS!, a 2d illustration filled with lots of the fun characters from the game including the yellow phogs (two happy dog heads connected with a long stretchy, wiggly body) with their red and blue collars, a few hidden "boingles" which are tiny blue creatures with 2 legs, one eye and a little pink/yellow/blue point on there heads. Also, a very colourful wizard with a star wand flying in the sky, a purple guy with blueberries on his head playing an acoustic guitar (one of the boingles is hidden in the guitar), some big speakers playing music, and a big smiling sun in the sky. It also says "PHOGS! SOUNDTRACK" and "HENRY PULLAN" at the bottom.

Some exciting news :)! The PHOGS! OST (with 33 tracks!!) is now available to stream anywhere that you'd normally stream music! 🔵🐶🎶🐶🔴

#soundtrack #indiegames #phogs #streaming #chill

it's a feature not a bug

maybe 🦖↘️↗️⬅️⬇️

james brought an orange to life ✨

A 3D render of a cafe scene, warm colours, cozy vibes, cute minimal/chunky style. On the table there's an orange mug of coffee, a glass of chocolate milk, a battenburg cake and a millionaires shortbread. Square wooden table and stools, a skateboard under the table and a helmet on one of the stools, a menu on the wall, a plant in a pink pot that's made out of simple bumpy spherical shapes.

I'm not good at captions but I made this and it was fun :)
#b3d #blender #cafe

happy tuesday! 😵‍💫 hope everyone's had a good start to their week :)

A fragile looking book sits under glass. It shows a full colour print of 4 geisha's dressing for the day whilst a row of soldiers wait in the courtyard outside.

A hand drawn character, with a crocodile head, places a book on a shelf. Sitting a top the shelf is a myriad of miniature characters and figures including a small character with antlers and small mouse-like character in a wheelchair.

Especially wonderful to see a feature of Dundee's rare books collection, hosted by Local History at Central Library, on display alongside a new mural by local designer James Moorwood of @bitloomgames.bsky.social.

Be sure to stop by to see all the gorgeous wee details in-person! 👀

My new game + album Asterism is out now! I made a behind the scenes of my handcrafted art to celebrate! 🚀

Please share around! If you play, a steam review would be super appreciated :D It's very hard to get seen as a small indie game and reviews do help!

store.steampowered.com/app/2187450/Asterism

An info board that was next to our game phogs in the exhibition, it is also surrounded by a couple other cool phogs mementos we have in our little collection including a crocheted red and blue and a big scarf version of them! The info board reads: "Ever wanted to play as a two-headed dog? Well now is your chance. In this multiplayer puzzle game, you need to work together to solve problems and move obstacles in a colourful and calmingly cosy landscape. Playing with a friend in cooperative mode or as a solo adventure, you need to help the hydra-headed dogs Red and Blue overcome the challenges in front of them. Created as a novel new form of puzzle game based on a physics mechanism where gameplay objects act as they would in the real world, the Dundee-based Bit Loom Games has shown how you can combine imagination and creativity with science and problem-solving. Grab a friend and play together on the same controller or try and solve the puzzles with Red and Blue on your own."

Thank you to @curatorgeoff.bsky.social and the National Museum of Scotland team for sending us this awesome memento from the Game On exhibition, it was so much fun to be a part of it :)! and the pixel art Phogs are so cute 🎮🕹️

James made this playful scene last week after we decided on a boat on the shore as a little prompt

sound on :) 🔊

Asterism is out now!!!!

Happy belated 2025 from us at Bit Loom!! ✨🥳

A composition with two takeaway cups alongside a banana and a pair of binoculars in earthy, chalky tones.

A composition of two tech deck mini skateboards, one flipped over. Both have a cactus design and ants crawling all over them. On a lime green background.

A hexagon mosaic of a succulent plant in a little teracotta pot resting on a colourful notebook with a pinkish red background.

Check out some of these recent stylish compositions our artist Caitlin has created while we continue work away on our new game prototype! 🍌🥤🪴 Bonus points if you spot the Tray Racers themed object! 🔎🌟