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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! 🔎🌟

A painterly composition with a mushroom person, glorb, gameboy, bangles, phog, succulent, tiny duck some of which are on a notebook. On an orange background

A white and brown spotted dog wearing a tophat sits on the side of a bowl of sharks, with a green background

A white linocut of an ant on a black background

A yellow and blue rubber duck on a yellow background in an expressionist style

We had a great time showing off our new untitled still life making game at the DCA Dundee Drop in and Play this weekend. Everyone came up with some very creative paintings! 🫖🍎🦆