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Michael Eaton

@wookbee.bsky.social

Updates on my game development projects! Game Design Student @ Abertay. Designer & Programmer @riverboatgames.bsky.social ⛵️ https://linktr.ee/wookbee

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That moment you find out you've won DARE Academy...

Congratulations to our DARE Academy 2025 winners - Riverboat Games! 🏆

Their game Galactic Postal Servitude wowed the judges 💫👽

Read more 👇

abertay.ac.uk/N2Yx

#DAREAcademy #DAREAcademy2025 @riverboatgames.bsky.social

03.10.2025 13:07 — 👍 21    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 3
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Dundee! We’ll be at Dundee Contemporary Arts today from 12-4pm for the Drop in and Play event, where we’ll be showcasing our Dare Academy game Galactic Postal Servitude!

The event is free and no ticket is needed, all ages welcome!

We hope to see you there, more info on the event in the replies!

30.08.2025 10:09 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Care for a cracker? ✨️

We always make sure our employees are provided with an adequate amount of nutrition. Keep up the good work and you might get some water too!

#IndieDev #GameDev #DAREAcademy #DARE2025

25.07.2025 14:04 — 👍 24    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Is that a Gleeble...? On a TV screen? Wearing a suit??? ...🛸📺

Introducing your new manager - Boss Gleeble! What could he possibly get up to around the Post Office 👀📦✨

#DAREAcademy #DARE2025 #IndieDev #GameDev #AbertayUniversity #Gleeble #GalacticPostalServitude

17.07.2025 10:14 — 👍 30    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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We've been hard at work updating all the menus for #DAREAcademy, here's a little before & after to show the glow-up ✨
#DARE2025 #GalacticPostalServitude #indiedev #gamedev

16.07.2025 14:21 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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We just hit 200 followers on Bluesky! 🥳Just in time for our audio/narrative designer Josie’s 21st birthday! 🎉 🍰

15.07.2025 13:05 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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It's time you finally got rewarded for all your hard work! One of the new features being worked on at #DAREAcademy is unique ending sequences based on how well you perform. 📦

Can you guess which ending this is from...? 👽✨️

#GalacticPostalServitude #indiedev

14.07.2025 14:56 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Our business cards have arrived!! 😎 #DAREAcademy #AbertayUniversity #gamedev #businesscards

10.07.2025 12:15 — 👍 23    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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Here's a sneak peek of a brand new feature that's being put together!

Maybe you'll be able to lend them a hand (or two)......? 📦✨

#GalacticPostalServitude #indiedev

08.07.2025 14:31 — 👍 18    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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🎉 I'm thrilled to share that the Riverboat Games team and I are DARE Academy 2025 Finalists! | Lucinda Shale 🎉 I'm thrilled to share that the Riverboat Games team and I are DARE Academy 2025 Finalists! We've been selected as one of six teams to develop our game prototype further over the summer with...

We can finally announce that Riverboat Games is a DARE Academy 2025 Finalist! 🎉

A huge thanks to everyone who’s supported us so far. We’re so grateful—and just getting started.

Keep an eye out for new features, characters & more coming soon! 👀
www.linkedin.com/posts/lucind...

07.07.2025 11:32 — 👍 20    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
Agent Squidge Splash Screen - title Agent Squid Licence to fail. Squidge floats amongst a chaotic array broken and breaking objects

Agent Squidge Splash Screen - title Agent Squid Licence to fail. Squidge floats amongst a chaotic array broken and breaking objects

An anthropomorphic cat gazes at an beautifully rendered island landscape. Screenshot from the game Shore Leave.

An anthropomorphic cat gazes at an beautifully rendered island landscape. Screenshot from the game Shore Leave.

A pine marten with a huge sword strapped accross it's back looks at a fantasy village. A screen hot from the game The Chronicles of Marten.

A pine marten with a huge sword strapped accross it's back looks at a fantasy village. A screen hot from the game The Chronicles of Marten.

First person view down a cavern made whose walls appear to be the inside of a human brain. The cavern is decorrated with houshold items. The player's hands are silhouetted against the scene. A screenshot from the game synaptic.

First person view down a cavern made whose walls appear to be the inside of a human brain. The cavern is decorrated with houshold items. The player's hands are silhouetted against the scene. A screenshot from the game synaptic.

A thread to celebrate the 3rd Year Professional Project games our students at @AbertayUni delivered this year. I'm linking to a dozen in the thread but all 31 can be found on our showcase page here:

itch.io/jam/professi...

Please, get in touch if you want to mentor next year.

27.06.2025 14:50 — 👍 47    🔁 33    💬 1    📌 3
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Galactic Postal Servitude by Riverboat Games, Alexander Thomson, Wookbee, LucindaGames, Fraser Neilson, Ciaran Turnbull, Breaaadbin, ajlochrin Do your part and make your planet proud, human!

Galactic Postal Servitude by @riverboatgames.bsky.social‬. Scan and send packages, detect illegal items, and do your part to make your planet proud in this point-and-click game of deduction!‬
riverboatgames.itch.io/galactic-pos...

27.06.2025 14:50 — 👍 18    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0
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Agent Squidge by Brain Leak Studios, LesserGoldfish, spudsrlife, Darius Paduraru Available for Windows

Agent Squidge by @brainleakstudios.bsky.social . Couch co-op infiltration fun. Play as the best of the worst and steal data from an evil corporation. Stumble around levels, solve puzzles and avoid getting caught. Mentored by Team Terrible:
brain-leak-studios.itch.io/agent-squidge

27.06.2025 14:50 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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The trailer for Galactic Postal Servitude is out now!!!!
📦👽📽️

Check out the release here:
riverboatgames.itch.io/galactic-pos...

#GalacticPostalServitude

29.04.2025 13:11 — 👍 23    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 3
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1.0.0 - Beta! Hello! It's finally time for the Beta launch of Galactic Postal Servitude! Building GPS over the last few months has been a hectic experience full of ups, downs, and of course many, many parcels. The....

The Beta is now out and available for download!
You can find our final devlog and download at the link below, please enjoy! :)

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riverboatgames.itch.io/galactic-pos...

24.04.2025 17:02 — 👍 16    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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0.6.2 & 0.6.3 - Polish, Animation, and Bugs Hello! Easter break is already over and so we're back updating GPS! Entering into the final sprint the game is mostly complete, so we're now working on adding the finishing touches and squashing any r...

0.6.3 is now out!
Our first major build after the Easter break, you can find out all about it in the devlog linked!!

riverboatgames.itch.io/galactic-pos...

16.04.2025 18:09 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Two screens are better than one

25.03.2025 12:14 — 👍 16    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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0.6.x - Feautre complete! Hey all! Welcome to 0.6.x, in these versions we've significantly cleaned up the game, focusing largely on tutorialisation and polish of existing features. We've improved the office space, the intro cu...

0.6.0 and 0.6.1 are now out!

Please enjoy a feature complete version of the game as we head into the easter break!

#gamedev #indiedev #games #gamesdevelopment

riverboatgames.itch.io/galactic-pos...

01.04.2025 18:43 — 👍 25    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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Chronicles of Marten - Test build by Snotling Studios Explore, overcome obstacles and fight your way home!

ATTENTION ALL SNOTLING FANS ‼️

Our Alpha build is now available to download on itch! We would love for you to try it out and provide us with feedback! ❤️

There is a few secrets to find so happy hunting! 🔎

Stay snotty x
-Team Snotling

snotling-studios.itch.io/chronicles-o...

27.03.2025 20:12 — 👍 15    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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0.5.0 - New menus and audio! Hello! Another week, another update! No major gameplay changes this time around but with art and audio updates the environment is really coming together. Speaking of audio, this is the first patch tha...

Welcome to 0.5.0!
Big updates to the room and new audio included!

Shipping now!
(Free postage included!)

riverboatgames.itch.io/galactic-pos...

20.03.2025 15:20 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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0.4.0 - The second play party build! Hello! Yes we skipped 0.3! We messed up in the naming conventions and as a result had to skip it, very annoying but we shouldn't do that again. This is the version of the game being submitted for the....

0.4.0 is now out!

Check out the devlog!

riverboatgames.itch.io/galactic-pos...

12.03.2025 14:52 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Sneak peek of the upcoming stamp mechanic currently in development 👀📦

06.03.2025 22:46 — 👍 16    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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0.2.1 - The biggest update yet! Hey! It's been a while since the last update, but not without reason, 0.2.1 is by far the largest update GPS has received since start of dev! From the journal being revamped to an entirely new deconta...

0.2.1 is now out! And it's out biggest update yet 👀
Check out all the info below! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

riverboatgames.itch.io/galactic-pos...

06.03.2025 15:21 — 👍 15    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Galactic Postal Servitude: Prototypes by Riverboat Games, Essith, Wookbee, LucindaGames Prototype builds of Galactic Postal Servitude!

Our latest build is now available on our Itch page!

Version 0.2.0 contains our first playable build which features a cleaned up environment, bug fixes, a new scoring system, and more! ✨

riverboatgames.itch.io/galactic-pos...

28.02.2025 12:53 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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NEW GAME!!! 📦🚁🐸

Deliver packages as Buggo the Frog in their Helihopter.
Have been working on this demo over the holidays.
Please PLAY or I sad :(

tarasophiedev.itch.io/helihopter64

#godotengine #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #gamedemo #godot #madewithgodot #n64

10.01.2025 14:09 — 👍 108    🔁 34    💬 6    📌 0
Firing a laser at an incoming missile.

Firing a laser at an incoming missile.

Flying close to the sun, with a heat warning displayed.

Flying close to the sun, with a heat warning displayed.

Receiving an incoming message notification.

Receiving an incoming message notification.

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Overhauled the UI, added a dialogue system, and now a sun will spawn at the centre of the system! #indiegame #gamedev #space #pixelart wookbee.itch.io/interstellar...

15.09.2024 11:47 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Update 1.0.1 Toggle window. Added stamina. Overworking now happens when you have no stamina, instead of having too much fun. Fixed some typos in the readme. Renamed hunger to nutrition. Music now shuffles instead....

1.0.1 released for .GIFotchi! Added stamina, toggling the window background, music controls/shuffling, & more! wookbee.itch.io/gifotchi/dev... #virtualpet #idlegame #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame @itch.io

26.06.2024 14:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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.GIFotchi by Wookbee A virtual-pet style game with the latest .GIF and MIDI technology! Available for Windows

Released a Released a 90s/early 2000s shareware inspired virtual-pet game on
@itchio.bsky.social! wookbee.itch.io/gifotchi #indiegame #gamedev #virtualpet

03.06.2024 23:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Interstellar Dominion 2 - Teaser Cinematic (Unity3D Space Combat Game)
Music: Madness Steeps, Alexandr Zhelanov. https://soundcloud.com/alexandr-zhelanovhttps://wookbee.itch.io/project-id2 Interstellar Dominion 2 - Teaser Cinematic (Unity3D Space Combat Game)

A short teaser cinematic from the opening of Interstellar Dominion 2! youtu.be/KHmv0x0H8uQ #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

08.01.2024 18:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Project ID2 (WIP) by Wookbee Space combat with a permadeath campaign, skirmish mode, and local multiplayer.

A page for Project ID2 has been released, follow for future news & releases! #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity #unity3d wookbee.itch.io/project-id2

03.01.2024 12:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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