Neil Alphonso @thrmoptc - Bluesky Profile

I'm sorry for all the folks affected by layoffs recently. It's not much easier in the indie space and most of us are just getting by. If you are thinking about starting up a studio or going indie, I'm happy to share what I've learned running a small studio for the last 8 years with a remote team.

04.07.2025 16:55 — 👍 554 🔁 110 💬 5 📌 0

Well, it does feel like a decade since then...

02.06.2025 08:07 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT. (Yes really). So I have been working on this as a sort of hobby for 18 months but its become a real thing. I hereby announce: Ridiculous Space Battles, a space auto-battler and spiritual successor to GSB, the first auto-battler (AFAIK) www.positech.co.uk/ridiculoussp...

29.04.2025 15:55 — 👍 85 🔁 33 💬 9 📌 4

I hope to someday meet whoever it was that had Mazzy Star faintly in the background of the cafeteria brawl in Starship Troopers. Whoever you are, you are my people.

17.04.2025 21:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If it's good enough for Mr Wick...

16.04.2025 11:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kids Are United Atari Teenage Riot · Delete Yourself · Song · 1994

open.spotify.com/track/55dPn8...

11.04.2025 13:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

08.04.2025 17:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Had also been binging Gang of Four of late. Meh.

07.04.2025 19:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lance Vance was never to be trusted

07.04.2025 15:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Today's garb. Ominous? Supportive? Take your pic

07.04.2025 15:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Clem! Damn...

07.04.2025 15:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

but was it the guy from Green Day?

21.03.2025 17:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath The Cardigans · Emmerdale (Remastered) · Song · 1994

Hope I'm not jinxing it, but this has been my best visit to Stockholm.
Riding the vibes
open.spotify.com/track/4SbIu8...

23.02.2025 00:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, let's

20.02.2025 20:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

There was a Llama School thing

13.02.2025 07:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A thought, Josh... Are you the maestro behind the Sifl & Olly reference in FO:NV?

13.02.2025 07:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh come on now, these guys

12.02.2025 20:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh man I need to rewatch that. It's the Liquid Television still lodged in my spinal chord

12.02.2025 14:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

They're marching

11.02.2025 14:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've actually found huge comfort in The Absurd.

10.02.2025 19:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Did you go outside to send this? Superb if so.

09.02.2025 21:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

De rien

09.02.2025 20:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Only if I get to slice as well

09.02.2025 17:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Also, still peak

23.01.2025 16:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

O2 Academy you dinosaur

23.01.2025 16:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Sounds like.... Quadringal? I'd expect inheriting talking bollocks from you as an inherited trait

07.01.2025 20:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'd call it a Could

05.12.2024 20:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You have 10 seconds to comply

05.12.2024 20:04 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don't think the friction creep is intentional, more a cause of tiny ROI-based decisions compounding over time. Feel better?

20.11.2024 07:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Gotta friction-creep legacy franchises if you want to later monetise reducing it, to be "fair"

19.11.2024 18:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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