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Jonathan Burroughs

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Co-Founder & Director @VariableState.com - Award Winning Game Studio • Currently working on @DeepestFearGame.com and @PolarisPvE.com • Designer & Writer • WGGB Award Winner • BAFTA Member • Previously: DeepMind, Rare, EA

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29.05.2025 17:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

you don’t want to miss this 🌊

29.05.2025 17:10 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

The folks at @futuregamesshow.bsky.social will be featuring @deepestfeargame.com in their upcoming FGS Live From Los Angeles event. We’re delighted to have a chance to talk more about our ground-breaking new horror title.

29.05.2025 17:05 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

save the date! 🙏

29.05.2025 17:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Don't miss our interview with @variablestate.com‬ about the sci-fi horror FPS with a retro-future aesthetic set beneath the ocean - @deepestfeargame.com‬.

See it at FGS Live From Los Angeles which follows our main show!

📅 Saturday, June 7
⏲️ 2.30pm PT | 5.30pm ET | 9pm BST | 10.30 pm CEST

29.05.2025 16:30 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 2
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POLARIS™ on Steam Team up and take flight in this sci-fi co-op shooter with fully destructible environments. Soar through dynamic open levels using powerful abilities, master advanced weapons and vehicles, and lay wast...

It’s quite possible this game already represents too much value for money. And yet we continue to add things.

09.02.2025 21:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
09.02.2025 21:42 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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POLARIS™ on Steam Team up and take flight in this sci-fi co-op shooter with fully destructible environments. Soar through dynamic open levels using powerful abilities, master advanced weapons and vehicles, and lay wast...

$10

06.02.2025 18:13 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

buy polaris an drill stuff in planes

06.02.2025 18:12 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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POLARIS™ on Steam Team up and take flight in this sci-fi co-op shooter with fully destructible environments. Soar through dynamic open levels using powerful abilities, master advanced weapons and vehicles, and lay wast...

you can too

06.02.2025 18:11 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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drillin

06.02.2025 18:10 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 2
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Colin Farrell's transformation into the penguin is remarkable

27.12.2024 09:59 — 👍 6674    🔁 689    💬 83    📌 16

I’d like to know this too!

28.12.2024 08:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wondering who I have to slip an envelope full of twenties to for a remake of House of the Dead: Overkill

28.12.2024 00:53 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 6    📌 0

Nice! I do think the Hotswap mechanic which was the centrepiece of the single player gameplay deserves to be used more widely.

15.12.2024 14:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Technically my first shipped game was Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban on GameBoy Advance, but I was only QA on that whereas I was a proper mission builder / level designer on Modern Combat.

15.12.2024 11:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Save 70% on Last Stop on Steam Last Stop is a single-player third-person adventure set in present day London, where you play as three separate characters whose worlds collide in the midst of a supernatural crisis.

Last Stop’s on sale at the moment if you want to check it out!

store.steampowered.com/app/1122690/...

15.12.2024 11:26 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Game devs, post your first shipped game and your latest shipped game.

15.12.2024 11:25 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1

Would love that!

14.12.2024 19:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you thank you thank you!

14.12.2024 14:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
DEEPEST FEAR™ | Horror FPS | Gameplay First-Look | 4K 60fps
YouTube video by DEEPEST FEAR™ - The Game DEEPEST FEAR™ | Horror FPS | Gameplay First-Look | 4K 60fps

📽️ 6 minute gameplay first-look

🔗 Store link in thread... 👇

#ScreenshotSaturday
#GameDev
#IndieGame
#IndieDev
#Gameplay
#FPS
#Horror
#UnrealEngine
#UE
#UE5

Cc @unrealengine.bsky.social @madewithunreal.bsky.social

14.12.2024 14:46 — 👍 14    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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Deepest Fear World Exclusive Reveal Trailer – PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted 2024 Turns out it was never safe to go into the water. From Variable State, creators of Virginia, this first-person horror set in a subaquatic facility blends ele...

Holy hell, Deepest Fear looks incredible.

06.12.2024 17:25 — 👍 49    🔁 3    💬 7    📌 1
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#ScreenshotSaturday #IndieDev #IndieGame #GameDev #Steam #Unreal #Multiplayer

07.12.2024 16:24 — 👍 43    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 2
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#ScreenshotSaturday #IndieDev #IndieGame #GameDev #Steam #UnrealEngine #Unreal #Horror

07.12.2024 16:20 — 👍 18    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
DEEPEST FEAR™ | Horror FPS | Worldwide Exclusive Reveal | 4K 60fps
YouTube video by DEEPEST FEAR™ - The Game DEEPEST FEAR™ | Horror FPS | Worldwide Exclusive Reveal | 4K 60fps

DEEPEST FEAR™ is a sci-fi horror FPS with a retro-future aesthetic. Deep beneath the ocean, a secret has been unearthed which throws mankind’s future into jeopardy. Fight your way to the heart of a sinister project and uncover a mystery both deeply personal and terrifying in its implications.

05.12.2024 22:17 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 6
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A look at all the concepts I explored for GameDiscoverCo, all the way up to the final brand.

So cool to see @gamediscoverco.bsky.social become *the* source for games industry analysis and insights, and get namedropped on my favourite podcasts 😁

#logodesign #gamesindustry #branding

16.11.2024 21:03 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

You can now follow @variablestate.com on Bluesky!

17.11.2024 15:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Virginia on Steam Virginia is a single-player first-person thriller set in a small town with a secret. Experience a missing person investigation through the eyes of graduate FBI agent Anne Tarver.

Hello! VariableState.com is now on Bluesky.

In case you don't know us, we're the creators of VIRGINA.

store.steampowered.com/app/374030/V...

17.11.2024 15:48 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 2
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Being cloned all the time is hard on the mind, which is why
@polarispve.com pilots undergo rigorous psychological testing on a regular basis to maintain a baseline for fidelity. 🧵 1/5
wishlist it here! store.steampowered.com/app/2482850/...
#gamedev #indiegames #animation

25.10.2024 19:01 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Quite the few things have gone into the game since the start of the Playtest!

Check out some of the things that have been introduced!

#Indiegame #IndieDev

16.11.2024 20:32 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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