Dan Marshall

Who do you appreciate most out of the three, would you say? If you had to pick a "best"?

No plans yet, we'll have those conversations after launch :)

Genuinely no idea! We haven't had that conversation. It's one for @mikerose.bsky.social 👍

(8/10, which is the best score for games and you know it)

Review: Earth Must Die To take back his already stolen throne, VValak has his eyes set on Earth, and not in a good way (obviously). Here's our full review.

www.dualshockers.com/earth-must-d...

"... an unapologetically hilarious and campy sci-fi romp adventure with perhaps one of the best playable villains in recent memory... Size Five Games has knocked it out of the park yet again."

(8/10, which is the best score for games and you know it)

Review: Earth Must Die To take back his already stolen throne, VValak has his eyes set on Earth, and not in a good way (obviously). Here's our full review.

www.dualshockers.com/earth-must-d...

"... an unapologetically hilarious and campy sci-fi romp adventure with perhaps one of the best playable villains in recent memory... Size Five Games has knocked it out of the park yet again."

Notification from Disney+ "Because you watched Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back we think you'll enjoy Star Wars Return of the Jedi"

Very astute of you.

Yep, this is it. Do it.

Thank you :)

A very clunky programmer art version of a spaceship interior

One other Earth Must Die thing from the archives - because I love seeing other people's WIP stuff, and I think it's good to expose what a mess games are for the longest time:

Here's what EMD looked like when @mikerose.bsky.social agreed to give me money, and how it looks now.

Never give up.

A selection of wannabe VValak faces

A selection of VValak garments

VValak designs

VValak costume designs

For Earth Must Die, VValak was super easy to design. I knew what I wanted, he was sort of a pastiche, it was no issue. @2dforever.com conjured up some faces and some robes, and it was all locked in pretty quickly.

His sidekick Milky, however, was a CONSTANT MASSIVE PAIN.

This is a critical part of EMD's design, to keep things tight, fun and forward-focussed, rather than sprawling back-and-forth.

Led to its own design problems though, with testers confused why they can't leave an area, reporting it as a bug etc. Going against the grain has its costs.

Yes.

YouTube video by GameTrailers Worming From Home - Official Announcement Trailer

A third worm game has struck the internet www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf9t...

There are definitely one or two designs where you've got justifiably frustrated with me and thrown a wild card or two at it ;D

A mix of @2dforever.com, @seddidiot.bsky.social and @raquelsketching.bsky.social, based on Tom's concepts and art style :)

When you get an email from a youTuber asking for Steam keys these days, Gmail's auto response thing immediately suggests "How much do you charge?" as a top response.

This is where we're at 👍

A very clunky programmer art version of a spaceship interior

One other Earth Must Die thing from the archives - because I love seeing other people's WIP stuff, and I think it's good to expose what a mess games are for the longest time:

Here's what EMD looked like when @mikerose.bsky.social agreed to give me money, and how it looks now.

Never give up.

Should point out: the sweeping majority of this is an ever-patient @2dforever.com constantly bashing out incredible designs to appease an irritating man who doesn't know what he wants but will know when he sees it (me). A largely thankless task, but one that turned out beautifully. Thanks Tom!

That morning, Martha bounded into the studio "Got it. I'll do her Northern!" she said. "Like a medieval peasant girl" and holy shit it was PERFECT. Martha just made every single line SO much funnier, it was a joy to watch. She was incredible.

Anyway, that's how Milky happened: slowly.

I had a meeting with the amazing Martha Howe-Douglas about who Milky was, and what we needed from the voice.

Milky is subservient, but forceful. Quiet, but firm. I'd been back-and-forth over it *so many times*, and on the morning we were due to record I still had no idea what she'd sound like.

Eventually, we got there. Had some arguments with @timegentleman.bsky.social about arms, that kind of thing.

THEN we had to work out a voice. Normally when I write characters I have a 'voice' in mind. Something I'm functionally copying off to get everything consistent. For Milky there was NOTHING.

The first iteration of Milky model.

The second main iteration, with a robot face

Anna's Milky concepts

More Milky concepts

We had various different Milkys in game, but they never quite sat right with me. She felt too harsh, not soft enough.

When @seddidiot.bsky.social came on board one of her first jobs was to throw out even more ideas.

I have more concept art for Milky than anything else in-game.

Initial companion sketches

Initial Milky designs

More Milky designs

EVEN MORE Milky designs

This is mainly (entirely) my fault, because I didn't know what I wanted.

Initially we didn't even know she was a robot. It was quite late in the day that we decided she'd be his nursing bot from when he was a child -we liked how pathetic that is- so the 'milk vessel' thing came much later.

A selection of wannabe VValak faces

A selection of VValak garments

VValak designs

VValak costume designs

For Earth Must Die, VValak was super easy to design. I knew what I wanted, he was sort of a pastiche, it was no issue. @2dforever.com conjured up some faces and some robes, and it was all locked in pretty quickly.

His sidekick Milky, however, was a CONSTANT MASSIVE PAIN.

Thank you :)

I did it wrong in the credits of EMD as well, just to annoy you.

I spelled your name wrong on purpose, come at me

AAAAAARGH Alastair this is brilliant news! Well done.