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@jamessmock.bsky.social and I are doing another round of #RisingTide with our @gutterspace.bsky.social game!

if you have a steam account and want to vote for what games get made next (or make your own game!) sign up and follow them at @blueoceangames.bsky.social

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@jamessmock.bsky.social and I just giggled to ourselves as we walked around a blank level.

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Been a little quiet on here lately, but not because we stopped working. We’re rebuilding, polishing, and preparing for our next trailer!

If you've been following along, come follow our official dev bsky too:
👉 @gutterspace.bsky.social
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The wildest part of my early 90s childhood bedroom was the dizzying array of input devices.

The year is 2030. The Onion is the most respected and accurate news source. Fox News broadcasts exclusively in nursery rhyme format.

Somewhere, deep in a bunker, a journalist whispers, “It wasn’t always like this…”

never use Grok. not ever.

I'm envious of how tight this trailer is. Tells you what the gameplay is and sets the mood so clearly. Very intrigued.

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Thinking a game of Civ 7... let the turns pass while the feelings settle.

Some days it’s about surviving the mood, not conquering the world.

#Civ7 #MentalHealthBreak #TurnBasedTherapy #NeurodivergentDev #CreativeRecovery #BurnoutRecovery #GameDevLife

Depression is sundering my progress and flow.
Time to step back, let it run its course, and come out the other side with some new creative energy.

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advert for Bad Squiddo Games showing Annie (me!), an artwork of a Pulp explorer by maritn whitmore, a shieldmaiden, soviet spotter, vampire queen and jeanne de clisson on a horse.

Could you help us out? It's been one of the quietest months in a decade, and partly I believe it's because people don't know we exist! Hi! I'm Annie! I run Bad Squiddo Games! We hand sculpt & hand cast 28mm scale models of women, critters, scenics & occasionally a man!

www.badsquiddogames.com

pure nightmare fuel.

Donate to Support Tom & James: Keep Gutterspace Alive, organized by Thomas Malmborg We (Tom & James) are raising money to cover our monthly bills that we are … Thomas Malmborg needs your support for Support Tom & James: Keep Gutterspace Alive

Little embarrassed to ask... but I need to raise some funds this month to pay bills now that I'm developing #Gutterspace full time.
Anything helps, and you'll be supporting a queer world, hand-drawn art, and a neurodivergent story.

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Link from Zelda holding up several PNGs of Agumon from Digimon. The caption reads, "it's my mental illness and I get to choose the hyperfixation"

I'm completely normal, I swear #Digimon

Today I'm setting up tile maps in #Gutterspace.

...It's really a birthday gift to future Tom, who will now have a sustainable level construction process.

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Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this?

Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids.

She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms.

Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen.
🧵

😂😂😂

UNACCEPTABLE! #AdventureTime

Converting over a 100 white LED arcade buttons into WS2812b programmable buttons to build a giant robot #altctrl for @sickhouse-nl.bsky.social w/ @leondenise.bsky.social, Wouter van Veldhoven & Vincent Schoutsen.

Work in progress 👀

Gutterspace by Vantablack_Games Use your words!

Didn’t get Steam set up yesterday... $100 barrier hit harder than expected.

But I did update our Itch page and made real progress on our Kickstarter 👇
vantablack-games.itch.io/gutterspace

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vibe

Rough day, will spare you all the story.

Now to 'relax' and play one of my favorite indi games Rimworld, where surely nothing bad, sad, or stressful will befall me.

#Rimworld #IndiGames

Found on IMGUR. Star Trek Voyager meme. At the top, in front of the USS Voyager is a road sign. On the left it says "Cut 5 years off your 75 year journey." that road leads straight. an arrow to the right says "Do a bit of sight seeing, maybe violate the prime directive a bit." Voyager makes a sharp sweve to the right.

I voted for this game! can't wait to play it. Love the vibe.

I had a "Oh no! they did a better dice mechanic than me!!!" moment when I first saw it. 😂

So, I’m watching Halloween 4, and I’m just curious why they used a prosthetic nipple to represent the burns on his right cheek?

Gutterspace by Vantablack_Games Use your words!

Big step today: I’m setting up Gutterspace on itch and Steam.

Ive published games before (mobile) but nothing like this. It’s so exposingly personal, handmade, and us. A little nervous, honestly.

Keeping the momentum up! #RisingTideChallenge

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It's a summonable ally that the players can temporarily control. The game is 2-player with both players controlling the 2-headed skeleton most of the time, but one can jump into these other summons for special abilities.

A frame with purple flowers around around the top has a hand stitched cross stitch that reads “if at first you don’t succeed it’s only attempted murder”

Cross stitch collaborations with @mrstevers.bsky.social are coming out so great!

look what @jamessmock.bsky.social found outside! 😂

Possible #Gutterspace inspiration??? I could totally see a fab hearse becoming a summonable character in the game. Also, I love my city. 🖤

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