Clinton Shepherd

Dead Static Drive | Coming to PC and Xbox Grab your bat, steal a car, and take your chances against the unearthly horrors found along Route 666. This is Dead Static Drive.

It’s true, here’s our exciting news! Dead Static Drive is coming out on NOVEMBER 5TH! This year! Next week, even.

Yee—and we cannot stress this enough—haw 🤠

www.deadstaticdrive.com/releases

oof! Note to self, don't post a 384x384 size images to Bsky as it scales horribly when viewed in the timeline

Screen shot of a pico8 prototype showing a green field covered in a hex grid with 6 blue banners with different symbols down one end, and 6 pink banners with different symbols down the other. Small little 3 pixel high people gather under each banner. At the bottom of the screen there is a information window for the currently selected pink banner. It shows some unknown stats, a small portrait of a cross-eyed noble in a white wig, with the text "Marque De Foolhardy. Must move towards enemy" and then the letters of the alphabet from A to W (as a way of measuring how many letters can be displayed in a single line on that part of the screen)

I'm mostly just mocking up visuals and working out the layout at the moment, but I've started tentative steps towards my next little #pico8 project; an attempt to revisit a board game prototype I made about ten years ago that I originally didn't think would work digitally, but now...

Malys left Early Access today! I’ve learned so much on this project, and been able to do a lot of very hands on work which has been a delight. ❤️

Big love to Summerfall’s brilliant team. To make a game like Malys in 13 months is a wild achievement and you should all be very proud 🕯️🕯️🕯️

A small bag of coffee, branded “Mosaic” and labeled as being single origin

A: So we kinda fumbled that last one, but we need to name another coffee. What you got?

B: “Mosaic”, sir.

A: Ah! Many different flavours coming together to create an amazing coffee. Fantastic!
What sort of coffee is it?

B: Single Origin?

A: …this is why people think we’re wankers

Thanks so much for playing! It’s was awesome watching you play through the game (and yeah… Daily Assault is kind of brutal 😅)

YouTube video by AchieGameDev Turn Based Tower Defense? | The Bridge | PICO-8 Game

Turn based Tower Defense? 🤔

Indeed after the weird twist of Monsters are Coming! Rock and Road let's check out a #pico8 twist on the genre by @foolhardygames.bsky.social! It also got a daily mode for absolute gamers!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTMC...

#indiegame #retrogaming

It’s finally happening… I’m installing Linux

Terra Firma 2 is in Steam Next Fest 🌱

If you like simulation games, then we definitely recommend jumping into the demo and sculpting your own environments!

#simulator #sandboxgame #terrafirma2 #nature

I’m working on PROJECT NIRVANA, a prototype for a souls-like inspired by Buddhist mythology and meditation.
I’ve been learning Unreal, 2D / 3D art and combat game design from scratch, so THINGS WILL BE SCRAPPY! But I want to start sharing my dev journey, so let's go!
(1/3)

Sledge Australia is hiring for the first time in *years*, if you know anyone who would be interested please pass this on (engineering, animation and production roles)

careers.sledgehammergames.com/search-resul...

… filled with donkeys that keep trying to bite you when you’re not looking

Compared to horses, probably not that common at all?
But there is absolutely a community of donkey owners out here in Aus. Like I’m pretty sure my mum subscribed to a monthly newsletter from the Donkey Society of Victoria

Growing up we had a donkey as a pet… it’s like having a stumpy aggro horse you can’t ride nor stand near

Photo of a bag of coffee beans. Text on the bag reads “Orthodox” followed by the sentence “Endless possibilities in coffee”

A: What we calling our new wanky overpriced coffee?

B: “Orthdox”, sir

A: Love it! It sounds strict, traditional, singular. Do we have a slogan?

B: Not yet sir

A: Ah well, just slap something vaguely relevant on there. Can’t see how we’d fuck this up now…

#CafeNarrativeDissonance

Screenshot of the main menu from the game The Bridge. The new "Daily Assault" game mode is highlighted and the tool tip at the bottom of the screen says the players high score for 4/10/2025 is only 468 (with the game ending before the charges are all placed)

Screenshot of the Results screen from the game The Bridge. The new "Share Skill" ability has been picked up by the Pink Crew member and has randomly given all the crew members the ability "Infini-Blast" ability

There's x2 new Game Modes, Nightmare (extra hard mode), and Daily Assault (a daily challenge that defines specific order of skill drops and enemy spawns).

The Mimic and Share Skill abilities I did a while back are finally in, which will absolutely cause chaos ...and probably wont break anything?

Just put out a little update to "The Bridge" as there were a few extra features I thought I could squeeze into my #pico8 cart!

You can check it on...
Itch; foolhardygames.itch.io/the-bridge
Lexaloffle; www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=148...

It was delicious… also, entirely coincidentally, I have taken tomorrow off from work

Decided to grab myself a cheeky Sunday evening beer without paying attention and…

Recently added these carriable dodecahedron shaped objects to the game. They can roll like a ball or sit steady like a cube, cast interesting shadows, and interact with different player powers. Lots of fun things you can do with them!

YouTube video by LastofAvari The Bridge /// Pico-8 Adventures

The Bridge /// Pico-8 Adventures ::: A #Pico8 #towerdefence inspired #turnbased #shooter #indiegame by Clinton Shepherd @foolhardygames.bsky.social #indiedev ::: It's time to banish the demon hordes!
» www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i3k... «

Thanks for playing!

The Case Against Gameplay Loops

a good game design post
blog.joeyschutz.com/the-case-aga...

That is exactly the info I was after! It looks like I overlooked an issue that could cause the mouse and keyboards controls to not play nicely together. There should be a fix up on both Lexaloffle and Itch now, let me know how it goes. Cheers!

Ah! Thanks for letting me know, I’ll go check it out see if I can repro it. Can I ask if you were using the mouse controls?

Yeah, it was nuts! Though I’m still not sure if it was the grenades that ultimately gave me the edge. Or if it was my incredibly lucky draw that let me upgrade and improve most of my kit multiple times

"The Bridge", my short, arcade-y, tower-defense-like is now up on @itch.io for anyone to play; foolhardygames.itch.io/the-bridge

Use your limited crew of three to defend against an ever encroaching enemy until the infernal BRIDGE can be destroyed!
#pico8 #gamedev

It’s a RGB30 from PowKiddy, very neat little handheld

I have been enjoying a lot of rad #pico8 games lately, but “From Rust to Ash” has been an absolute standout. I also had to share my first successful run as I felt I needed to record this achievement somewhere! 😆

We just dropped the Terra Firma 2 Demo on Steam!

Jump in today and check out:
✅ 7 Campaign Missions
⛏️ Sandbox Mode

It's your turn to control ecosystems! 🌍

#sandbox #indiegames #simulation #nature