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Samantha Mackenzie Greer

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Making trailers. Making comics. She/her Comic: https://iteatsplanets.com/ Trailer Portfolio & Contact: https://sammgreer.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sammgreer Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/samanthamackgreer Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SamMGreer

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · Jan 28

IT EATS PLANETS is now publicly available to read!

A queer, sci-fi comic about heists, ancient evil and fighting to survive on a dying planet. New pages every Thursday.

Please kindly check it out, give it a read and share it

🔴 iteatsplanets.com 🔴

A three armed woman in a prison jumpsuit with a mullet walks in handcuffs along a metal walkway away from armed guards in futuristic, padded armour and helmets that completely hide their faces. Behind the woman the title "IT EATS PLANETS" is emblazoned in bright red. At the bottom the author's name "Samantha Mackenzie Greer" is written in red too.

In the background is a landing pad with a large, well used helicopter with fumes falling from its exhaust pipe. Above them is a dark sky of green clouds though a parting reveals the void of space where a ringed gas giant is silhouetted against a red sun.

A blueish, gloomy derelict factory floor with an avalanche of garbage in the foreground and sides of the frame with a sliver of floor space guiding the eye under a concrete bridge and past heavily graffitied columns, to a large, towering machine and altar at the centre. A person in a poncho sits there, waiting beneath the collapsed ceiling where far above we can see towering pipes of extraction criss crossing to form a dark, steel sky.

A comic page. A vertical panel on the left side which depicts a mysterious person in a poncho coming down the steps of a trench and alleyway carved out of rock, covered in graffiti and with pipes criss crossing above.

On the right are a panel of this person rustling under their poncho and a second panel show them looking up some small orange case with a relieved smile, held in the hand of a previously concealed third arm. A third panel shows them concealing this object, their attention drawn to something off panel.

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 1h

I played Monkey Island on a controller, it all checks out

Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 1h

those are actually part of the point and click genre

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Zalmon ザモン @zalmon.bsky.social · Feb 6

マッハはもっと、車輪はない、汚職は変わってない
More machs, fewer wheels, just as much corruption.

Art of futuristic race car and its pit crew
未来型なレーシングカーとピットクルーの画

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 17h

timeline harmony

Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 18h

aw man, I gotta get a wee team going

Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 19h

So glad Absolum is bringing back the Halo days of giving you wee guys you feel obligated to look after and get as far as possible

Absolum screenshot showing the player with a hired mercenary NPC at their back called Philibert

Absolum screenshot showing the player teamed up with a goblin named Zorga

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 1d

Deffo the Japanese. Delivery is better, feels more authentic. Really nails that occasional quintessential uncanny Silent Hill quality too. Really good stuff

Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 1d

Played a couple of hours of the full game there and it is a delight

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 1d

Absolum having a character who is both a punch lass AND a big sword gal, is a revolution in the Laser Targeted At Sam genre

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👽 Anna Fitzpatrick 👽 @blackmotheyes.bsky.social · 3d

Girl, just text her! What’s the worst that’s gonna happen????

A green lesbian furiously texts her crush, her inner goblin burned away and transformed tries to stop her. The green lesbian pauses over the send message button which she then dramatically presses, her frantic missive sending.

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 2d

New Page day!

A full pager that's red as hell, showing the world outside the prison of Quod-Quell.

What viewers don't see is the many pieces of paper where I've tried to sketch out a rough map of the planet's orbit so these kinda views are (hopefully!) consistent.

🔴 iteatsplanets.com/page/55 🔴

Two prisoners stand at the edge of a metal walkway of a large industrial structure, one over the railing upon the precipice. Beyond them the ocean meets the horizon, stained by a blood red horizon. Behind the clouds, a dark sky is host to the red tinged silhouettes of a nearby gas giant, its rings and a moon with artificial lights upon its surface.

The prisoner on the precipice says "Nobody gets out."

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Moo Yu (Mythmatch) @oneofmoo.bsky.social · 1d

HOT TAKE: Sometimes, I feel like the people saying this mean why isn't anyone with lots of power covering my game. When smaller folks ARE covering indie games and you're not uplifting them. You just want others to lift you up without giving back to the community.

Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 1d

“Why isn’t anyone covering our indie games?”

1. The gaming press has been decimated by business suits, and the whims of an uncaring search engine behemoth
2. Doing the job means you get death threats and harassment
3. There are more games released in 1 week than there were in entire months in 2015

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 1d

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 1d

I wasn't in love with SoR4 but the demo for this was soooo good. Really think they cooked with this one

Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 1d

No, we are not. Thankfully, there are other places to buy... 👀

www.loaded.com/silent-hill-...

Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 1d

The same pressures that have you desperately trying to make a success out of your game are the same pressures that have driven games media into the ground. It's all victim to the same economic crisis. There's no conspiracy, no lack of interest. Everyone is just broke af

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 1d

Look. I totally get the despair and frustration. But every couple of weeks someone else is asking "where's press coverage for indie games?" and like, have you been under a rock? It's been torn to pieces my dudes! The devastation of games media has been widely talked about!

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Oscar TK @mroscartk.bsky.social · 2d

Wonderful words from @schillingc.bsky.social in this Absolum review, cutting to the heart of why this unique mix is really something special.

Hades meets Street of Rage in this wonderfully fleet-footed beat 'em up that I'm pleased to say is more than just a thrilling throwback

Absolum proves the arcade beat 'em up and the run-based game are a perfect pairing.

www.gamesradar.com

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 2d

A ceasefire (that doesn't even seem to be being honored by the IDF) doesn't mean you get to suddenly make up with Microsoft.

BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 2d

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done!

Read more: loom.ly/TsJOHwo

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done! The BDS movement calls on our millions of supporters worldwide to escalate pressure to end Israel’s genocide and its decades-old regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and ill...

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Mike Diver @mikediver.bsky.social · 2d

Pre-orders for Aliens: The Video Games aren't too far away now.

The book is laid out - I've the proof to look over, this weekend.

When this is up for pre-order, please forgive me banging on even more about it. I'm hugely proud of it. I hope Alien likers who aren't even into the games can enjoy it.

The cover of Aliens: The Video Games. It's a book that I wrote, which is published next year, around the time of Aliens' 40th anniversary. I'll be 46 then. Fucking hell. As well as words by me, the book also has a foreword from Andy Kelly, author of Perfect Organism: An Alien Isolation Companion, and interview contributions from Lewis White and Richie Shoemaker. Clarence Lim contributed some photography, and the cover is by Samantha Mackenzie Greer. Two dozen new interviews in here, as well as loads of archive material.

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 1d

Well now I know what tonight's after work plan is

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 2d

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done!

Read more: loom.ly/TsJOHwo

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

loom.ly

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