Daniel Turner

We are running a Kickstarter in Spring for our adventure game Less Miserables, be first to hear when it goes live by following it here!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/collegefungames/less-misearbles-a-point-and-click-parody-of-les-miserables

#Kickstarter #IndieGame #IndieDev […]

A screenshot of a phone playing the soundtrack to Star Trek II, Wrath of Kahn, James Horner, Gensis Countdown

Soundtrack for when you need to get shit done.

Save 60% on The Protagonish on Steam A short adventure game, where you don't control the adventurer. Play the side characters in a medieval village, and decide to help or hinder the adventurer in their mysterious quest.

Get our short point-and-click game where you don't control the adventurer for less than a dollar! Just a day left on this sale!

store.steampowered.com/app/2994780/...

#AdventureGame #IndieGame #SteamSale #PointAndClick

🚨LAUNCH DATE ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

Go Kart Island will be released on Steam on 10th November 2025!

That's like a month and a half away... I better finish it I suppose.

Also NEW TRAILER below, and ANOTHER announcement soon 👀

🔗 s.team/a/3749790

#indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

If you're cancelling Game Pass today, grab a cheap indie game or two, and then put the rest of the money toward supporting indie games media by subscribing to your favourite podcasts/websites/etc.

Latest backgrounds are looking aaamazing!

Today, the energy price cap set by Ofgem goes up yet again.

¼ of your bill was taken as profit by energy companies in 2024 — an average of £416 per household.

Families are squeezed to pad the pockets of shareholders.

🧵 Here’s how the public has been turned into a cash machine.

The #AdvX25 Steam Event will run 19 Nov - 2 Dec!

With new & past exhibiting games, many of the best narrative experiences will be on sale with great deals!

Check our '25 exhibitors: adventurexpo.org/exhibitors

Scroll to the bottom of the page for our newly announced 2025 'Honourable Mentions'!

Save 60% on The Protagonish on Steam A short adventure game, where you don't control the adventurer. Play the side characters in a medieval village, and decide to help or hinder the adventurer in their mysterious quest.

Our first game is now on sale for less than a dollar!
Much cheaper than buying EA Games!

#SteamAutumnSale #AdventureGame #PointAndClick #IndieDev

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A hand holding a spread of 'top-trump' style cards, each with a person from the French Revolution. Marie Antionette in blue is pictured with stats for Style, Charisma, Power and Agility

Yes, our next game includes a card minigame with figures from the French Revolution, and yes, we made a physical version to test balance this weekend!

#gameDev #cardGame #indieDev #AdventureGame #FrenchRevolution

Edinburgh Zoo warns of problems importing rhinos and elephants Rules around bringing animals to the UK from the EU have tightened since Brexit.

Another wonderful benefit to Brexit. No more FILTHY European-born rhinos. BRITISH RHINOS FOR BRITISH ZOOS

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

YouTube video by Cressup Ranking EVERY Monkey Island Game with YakWaxLips

Some Friday fun for you!

Adventure game YouTuber YakWaxLips & I ranked every Monkey Island game in the series - do you agree with our hot takes?

We also spoke about his new adventure game merch store!

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@legendofmi.com @mixnmojo.com @yakwaxlips.bsky.social @scummbar.com

On a wooden table, two magazines, light debug++ and dark pixel-art cover of debug on top

Two Debug magazines arrived this week! Regular, and the I-can't-believe-it's-actually-free indie industry focused Debug++

www.teamdebug.com/plus

EXCLUSIVE: Edinburgh University axes Honours course after week one of teaching By Lucy Frewin and Maryse Bots

Edinburgh University cutting their only Queer Spaces course, a week after it started

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I'm beyond excited to announce that we’re funded! Thank you so much to everyone who backed! Let's not just bring Broken Relic to life but make it the best adventure game it can be! You are the best!!!

brokenrelic.com/kickstarter
#adventuregame #indiegames #pointandclick #pixelart

I didn't take many pictures, but DICE Dundee was a hell of a thing: so many amazing people there

Be part of the movement. Scottish Greens.

We're building a movement to fight back against the ultra-wealthy and protect our planet from the climate crisis.

Be part of the movement. Join the Scottish Greens.

💚 greens.scot/join

Tickets for AdventureX, the narrative gaming expo in London, are still on sale for this November! www.adventurexpo.org

Greens will protect families with introduction of rent controls Greens will protect families in Edinburgh with introduction of rent controls Lorna Slater, the Scottish Green MSP for Lothian, has urged all parties to back the introduction of rent controls and st…

This Bill is only happening because of the Scottish Greens, who introduced it to ensure that rent controls and new rights for renters were at the heart of the legislation.

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Not staying for the DICE Dundee day?

This is a wonderful call to pretentiousness

Heading to Dundee tomorrow for the DICE Europe fringe event, some great looking talks, say 'Hi' if you see me!

Be Pretentious! Games, Art history, and Dialectics. I'm Fallible Things, I've been co-hosting [local gamedev meetup] for the last year, but that's been going on for 15 years beforehand. I make games too, b...

Blog Post: "Be Pretentious! Games, Art History, and Dialectics" #gamestalkslive
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UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation Analysis reveals ‘privatisation premium’ of £250 per household per year paid to owners of water, rail, bus, energy and mail services since 2010

We hear a lot about privatisation, but rarely are the numbers laid out so starkly: £193bn paid to shareholders and private equity firms, a £250 premium for every citizen. Only Russia, Hungary and the Czech Republic have shed public wealth faster than Britain www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

What would improve the tiniest Game Boy? Color! AncientJames, who made computer Lego bricks into actual computers and helped us all run Doom on our Thumbys, has found a great 0.42-inch color screen that perfectly swaps in for the monochromatic orig...

www.theverge.com/gadgets/7792...

A very fluffy looking mushroom: white and orange with lots of tiny fur-like threads in a big ball, held between fingers

I love this time of year: lion's-mane mushrooms, locally foraged in Scotland!

a screenshot of the afternoons schedule for the Dundee game day showing my panel at 3:15pm

On Thursday there's a fringe event for DICE happening in Dundee.

I'll be hosting a panel on developer survival and success with speakers from Double Fine, Vivrato and Keelworks.

If any friends are going, please let me know so we can grab a coffee! ☕

Bringing Paris to Less Miserables It was something we talked about at the very first stages of the game: we had to do a field trip to Paris! It would give us a chance to see the real places we wanted to have in Less Miserables, while capturing the visuals and feel of the place.

More on our field trip to Paris!

https://www.collegefun.games/blog/bringing-paris-to-less-miserables-game/

#GameDev #AdventureGame #PointAndClick #LessMiserables

Tom Hardwidge – Curses, cats and AdventureX 2025 | Adventure Game Hotspot The acclaimed indie writer/designer/actor adds “AdventureX director” to his credentials, and chats with us all about the upcoming event and his own current games.

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Our amazing co-organiser @tallstorygames.bsky.social was featured in an interview with @cressup.bsky.social on @aghotspot.bsky.social today! Tom tells all about AdventureX and his own game dev projects. Worth a read!

TICKETS AVAILABLE: adventurexpo.org

Someone wearing a blue t-shirt, with AdventureX written on it, and great illustrations from 6 recent adventure games

Thanks @yakwaxlips.bsky.social ! T-shirt arrived super quick from the store, and now I'm all ready for AdventureX 2025 with some amazing illustrations by @avivor.com !