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@lootdonkey.bsky.social

We're Gareth and Ben, two game developers joining forces to make stylish games. Itch.io Page - lootdonkey.itch.io/fool-king Discord - discord.gg/GngG8PfNw4 Email - info@lootdonkey.com @spudonkey.bsky.social‬ @benmcinnes.bsky.social‬

347 Followers  |  2 Following  |  87 Posts  |  Joined: 04.05.2025  |  1.6366

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Thank you!

05.12.2025 11:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Photo of the Fool King booth at Playtopia.

Photo of the Fool King booth at Playtopia.

Booth is all set up and ready to go!

#playtopia2025 #indiedev

04.12.2025 21:50 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

*People’s

04.12.2025 15:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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@playtopia.bsky.social booth is all set up.
Looking forward to seeing peoples impressions!

04.12.2025 15:26 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The Fool King giveth no easy victories… 😆

03.12.2025 11:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The crafting continues!

02.12.2025 21:56 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Fool King logo printed and layered to give a 3d effect.

The Fool King logo printed and layered to give a 3d effect.

Ben is getting crafty for our Playtopia booth!

02.12.2025 17:14 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

You too!
(Although it will be Ben as I (Gareth) am stuck in the cold damp UK 🥲)

02.12.2025 17:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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We are going to be at @playtopia.bsky.social this week and holding a Fool King tournament!
There may even be a prize for whoever can retain the throne...

01.12.2025 17:24 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
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My skellybob army grows!

28.11.2025 18:23 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Thanks! & yeh all of the units are now gonna be sprites as well as some of the environment dressing.
We really liked the direction of the portraits from the first build and wanted to lean into that as is a strength of @spudonkey.bsky.social & means we can hopefully get more juice and character

28.11.2025 09:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Converting some more skelebobs, get some interesting half way stage ones 😄

27.11.2025 11:55 — 👍 22    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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Starting to build out our skelebob army…

26.11.2025 21:10 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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The hardest part of creating VFX is picking the best music to play while creating the preview vid for the rest of the team…

25.11.2025 18:19 — 👍 18    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 0
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Fool King v0.1 is now available on Mac!
https://lootdonkey.itch.io/fool-king

#indiedev #gamedev #roguelike #strategy

23.11.2025 07:50 — 👍 18    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Since everyone enjoyed the original UI process video so much😆

https://lootdonkey.itch.io/fool-king

#indiedev #UI #process #gamedev

22.11.2025 12:01 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Now the cat is finally out of the bag we can start to share all of the process videos and such we have been hoarding 😆

https://lootdonkey.itch.io/fool-king

#process #gamedev #indiedev

21.11.2025 07:06 — 👍 27    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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We are a micro studio & need your help spreading the word about Fool King!
In return your faithful companion could be immortalised in game.
Please repost, comment & follow us to enter, winners to be chosen next week.
Extra points for playing the game & joining our discord 😉
#indiedev #gamedev

20.11.2025 10:05 — 👍 16    🔁 10    💬 3    📌 3
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We just pushed a major update for Fool King yesterday!
Featuring an art overhaul as well as mechanic changes.
Try it for free at - lootdonkey.itch.io/fool-king

#indiedev #gamedev #roguelike #autobattler

19.11.2025 09:05 — 👍 27    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
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We just pushed a major update for Fool King yesterday!
Featuring an art overhaul as well as mechanic changes.
Try it for free at - lootdonkey.itch.io/fool-king

#indiedev #gamedev #roguelike #autobattler

19.11.2025 09:05 — 👍 27    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
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Fool King by Loot Donkey Claim the throne in this tactical auto battler!

We just published the latest update to our prototype on itch.
Involving a massive art overhaul and mechanics shake up -
lootdonkey.itch.io/fool-king

18.11.2025 17:00 — 👍 26    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 3
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Fool King by Loot Donkey Claim the throne in this tactical auto battler!

We just published the latest update to our prototype on itch.
Involving a massive art overhaul and mechanics shake up -
lootdonkey.itch.io/fool-king

18.11.2025 17:00 — 👍 26    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 3
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Who will you be?
https://lootdonkey.itch.io/fool-king

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #itchio #foolking

07.09.2025 09:02 — 👍 37    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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Some process for the Fallen Queen shop character.
https://lootdonkey.itch.io/fool-king

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #itchio #foolking

06.09.2025 07:03 — 👍 39    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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The Shield Goblin, quite the plucky fellow.
https://lootdonkey.itch.io/fool-king

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #itchio #foolking

05.09.2025 07:06 — 👍 90    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 0
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The Catapults

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #itchio #foolking

04.09.2025 09:05 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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The Catapult Goblins

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #itchio #foolking

03.09.2025 09:05 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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[Devlog] Choices, choices and The Fallen Queen (0.0.10) Hola, tis I Gareth. Ben is unavailable for this dev log so you have my rough approximation with an arty centrally aligned one instead... We have had another busy week tinkering away on Fool King and a...

New Fool King Devlog -
Choices, choices and The Fallen Queen (0.0.10) lootdonkey.itch.io/fool-king/de...

03.09.2025 13:08 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Axefolk

#indiedev #gamedev #axe #indiegame #itchio #foolking

02.09.2025 05:02 — 👍 23    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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New mysterious shopkeeper ✅
More character customisation options ✅✅✅
Choose your opponent in the updated progression screen ✅
Some bugs fixes and rebalancing ✅

Go check out the latest Fool King patch 0.0.10!
lootdonkey.itch.io/fool-king

01.09.2025 19:39 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

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