Lynda Cowles

Sky blue Steam Next Fest logo with the purple skull Doctor Dekker 2 logo

If you’re streaming the Doctor Dekker 2 demo next week please tag us in, and thank you! 😊❤️ We’ll drop by if we can!l :) #SteamNextFest

MEGA PREVIEW DAY! (Winterwrath / Doctor Dekker 2 / Tearscape) YouTube video by Lomadiah LIVE

[AD/gifted] Checking out a bunch of game previews today including Doctor Dekker TWOOOOOOOO bet I still can't solve a crime

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The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2 demo is out now! Play through an entire session with Ophelia and take the new office out for a spin! 🧜‍♀️🐙🛋️
#steamnextfest #steamnextfest2026 #fmv #indiegame #horror

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Preview: The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2 (PC/Mac) – Digitally Downloaded

I've previewed the demo of The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2 ahead of its launch on Thursday. It's got great characters and stories, and a new gameplay system — and it's a good one! 🎮 #DDNet #News #VideoGames #Gaming #FMV @davekki.bsky.social

D’Avekki Studios reveals a new gameplay trailer and upcoming demo for The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2 – Digitally Downloaded

D'Avekki Studios reveals a new gameplay trailer and upcoming demo for The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2. 🎮 #DDNet #News #GameNews #Gaming #GamingNews #FMV #GameDemo @davekki.bsky.social

The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2 promises a new helping of Lovecraftian psychiatry, and you can play its demo soon. buff.ly/rgM4flz

Demo announcement and end of year dev update - happy incoming 2026 everyone!!

Encryptid on Steam Encryptid is a short FMV horror game about hunting and catching cryptids. Use real-world footage recorded exclusively via the Gameboy Camera to identify, locate and battle iconic creatures of myth and...

ENCRYPTID is now available to wishlist on Steam 😊🙏

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Marianna extended teaser - Happy Holidays everyone! ❤️

Meet Ophelia… Actually this is act 1 Ophelia, things get a bit stranger by act 5… #doctordekker

Ah, I have a hard enough time juggling my own creative projects to look at anyone else’s 🤦🏻‍♀️ (except Tim and R!) but congrats on finishing the writing - that’s a huge milestone 👍 Sounds intriguing, hope you make good progress through the rest of it as well!

The triumph of that bottom left title 😅

Best Bluesky content

None of the talk about how harmful social media is for kids balances that with a discussion of how useful and beneficial it is for them. It helps with loneliness, is a source of friendship and of information, and helps them find solace when their ‘offline’ lives are harmful or miserable. 1/4

I have a feeling people won’t like him but he’s probably one of my favorites so far 🥹🐟

#whimsical #cottagecore #frog #christmasvibes #christmas

And Eccles 👇

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I'm Getting Real Tired Of Not Being Able To Trust That A Video Game Doesn't Have AI Crap In It - Aftermath It sucks that players are having to scour every asset and line of dialogue

As usual, @aftermath.site gets to the heart of the matter. aftermath.site/the-alters-a...

A screenshot that says Congratulations! You've completed the Hidden Books Game from National Book Tokens. Underneath that is an illustration of a cluttered living room decorated for Christmas with two inconspicuous but actually very annoying books about the sea on an occasional table.

Those bloody seas...
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A wintry aerial photo of snow-covered trees. Photo by @gabrielalenius on Unsplash

A white box with a bright red label that reads A Very Merry Christmas Murder. It photomagically hangs in the air in front of some colourful Christmas fairy lights.

A cheerful mystery ideal for Christmas with the family! With evidence in the style of 'The Night Before Christmas' and a sprinkling of snow, A Very Merry Christmas Murder is the sweetest game you'll play all year!
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#christmas #holidays #ShopIndy #noAI

An illustration of this year's game. Text says: "Hidden Books Game is BACK! Play at nationalbooktokens.com" and "Win £500 to spend on books".

Booklovers, your favourite game is back! 📚🔎

Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).

Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR

Crooked Cross by Sally Carson For a novel first published in 1934, Sally Carson’s Crooked Cross feels remarkably timely, charting, as it does, the rise of Nazism in the early 1930s, the falling apart of a country’s fundamental …

New on the blog today, I've written about CROOKED CROSS by Sally Carson.

A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚

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Ten excellent novellas I highly recommend There’s something very satisfying about reading a whole book in one or two sittings on the same day, especially when time is tight. I’ve always been fond of novellas, which often offer the best of …

New on the blog today, I've written about ten excellent novellas I highly recommend.

Featuring books by Anita Brookner, William Trevor. Muriel Spark and many more! #BookSky #Novellas #NovNov 💙📚

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Quite a fitting announcement for Halloween methinks...Very thrilled to be back for my 4th @davekki.bsky.social live-action video game! It's been such a joy filming and recording with Tim, Lynda and Rachel again! And no spoilers about the demo but the game's shaping up very nicely indeed! 🎮😍

Delighted to announce the return of Klemens Koehring as Doctor Franz, the therapist’s therapist, in The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2! ❤️🛋️

Klemens is also the first person to play the Dekker 2 demo outside of us D’Avekkians and it was lovely to watch him enjoying it :)

Let me tell you a story (before the ship explodes):

Ophelia, played by Sydney Skye. A young woman with long brown hair sits on a dark leather couch. She is holding her hands out in front of her and wears an expression of anguish.

Detective Dune, played by Harry Bradley. A bearded man in shirt and suspenders (braces) holds up a photo he's taken from an open briefcase. The photo is in shadow but he seems pretty excited about what he's found.

Marianna, played by Aislinn De'Ath. A woman with cascading red curls poses on a green leather couch in a a black lace dress. The room is dark but her face and arm are caught by the falling light.

Killian, played by Paul Baverstock. A man in a bright red lumberjack shirt is hunched tightly against the arm of a green Chesterfield sofa. He's staring directly at you but has one hand on a gramophone that's partly hidden in the shadows.

We’ve added 7 new screenshots from Dekker 2 over on the Steam and PlayStation store pages :) Here are 4 at random (as that’s the Bluesky limit!)

#indiegames #fmv #indiedev #mystery #gamesky #videogames

Limited edition of the Folio Society's A Christmas Carol, illustrated by me. It's bound in red leather with embossed gold wreath and lettering, and the box is lined by and illustration of a snowy night time Dickensian city scene. Surrounded by stuff on my desk (pens, glasses, glue etc).

The standard edition of the Folio Society's A Christmas Carol illustrated by me. The book itself featured a view of Scrooge in a long black coat with a top hat and red scarf from the back, surveying the snowy London skyline. The slip case is green and has vignettes of relevent scenes and motifs in the style of Georgian wallpaper. One of the vignettes is a circular cut out, so when the book is in the slipcase you can see Scrooge's head through it. Surrounded by the loads of rubbish I have on my desk.

An illustration from the first stave of A Christmas Carol. Scrogge is sat by his fire eating his gruel when across his large but shabby drawing room, Marley's ghost appears.

An illustration of the fourth stave, featuring Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas yet to come (who is a Victorian widow in high mourning, completely draped and almost invisible in black net and bombazine). They are in a graveyard, which is based largely on St Cuthbert's Kirkyard in Edinburgh. She points to his grave, and he looks at it in horror. There is a smaller gravestone to his right, capped with snow which features a skull in bas relief and the words 'MOMENTO MORI' in a motto scroll over the top. The moon shines from an Atkinson Grimshaw-esque greenish winter sky, illuminating the dome of St Paul's Cathedral.

The big thing I did this year and haven't been able to say much about up until now is that I was SOMEHOW asked to illustrate the new Folio Society edition of A Christmas Carol, introduced by Simon Callow. Bit of a dream job. www.foliosociety.com/uk/a-christm...

Always be asking the important questions…

I wrote a very brief history of ghost-hunting for The Conversation. There are some...errr...interesting debates happening in the comments. 😂