Dan Marshall
@danthat.bsky.social
Director of BAFTA-winning indie game studio Size Five Games
EARTH MUST DIE | Lair of the Clockwork God | The Swindle | Behold the Kickmen | Ben There, Dan That! | Time Gentlemen, Please! | Gun Monkeys | Privates | Gibbage
www.sizefivegames.com
EARTH MUST DIE | Lair of the Clockwork God | The Swindle | Behold the Kickmen | Ben There, Dan That! | Time Gentlemen, Please! | Gun Monkeys | Privates | Gibbage
www.sizefivegames.com
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Dan Marshall
@danthat.bsky.social
· Sep 28
EARTH MUST DIE
Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE
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Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE
Please RETWEET and WISHLIST
Best Friend of Size Five Games Paul Hoey is doing this and it looks GREAT. If you're in-or-near Dublin, go along!
My show Hive Mind is on again this Saturday in Dublin. An interactive gaming experience whre the audience guided by the host use their phones to control various games. Solve a crossword, balance a see-saw, cplete a quiz and more! #speirgorm Tickets here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/hive-mind-...
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Best Friend of Size Five Games Paul Hoey is doing this and it looks GREAT. If you're in-or-near Dublin, go along!
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Setting up a PSN account for my son.
Everything seems to be in order, just need to choose an OnlineID and WHAT
Everything seems to be in order, just need to choose an OnlineID and WHAT
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Setting up a PSN account for my son.
Everything seems to be in order, just need to choose an OnlineID and WHAT
Everything seems to be in order, just need to choose an OnlineID and WHAT
Setting up a PSN account for my son.
Everything seems to be in order, just need to choose an OnlineID and WHAT
Everything seems to be in order, just need to choose an OnlineID and WHAT
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Setting up a PSN account for my son.
Everything seems to be in order, just need to choose an OnlineID and WHAT
Everything seems to be in order, just need to choose an OnlineID and WHAT
Weird that there aren't dozens of indie Morrowinds. You could probably make Morrowind in half an afternoon, these days.
There should be loads of weird indie Morrowinds about.
There should be loads of weird indie Morrowinds about.
November 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Weird that there aren't dozens of indie Morrowinds. You could probably make Morrowind in half an afternoon, these days.
There should be loads of weird indie Morrowinds about.
There should be loads of weird indie Morrowinds about.
“There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is" is one hell of a quote
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
“There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is" is one hell of a quote
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REMINDER: 'Earth Must Die' desperately requires your WISHLISTS.
Please be amazing and pop over to Steam and drop us a wishlist, each and every one massively helps us out.
THANK YOU.
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
Please be amazing and pop over to Steam and drop us a wishlist, each and every one massively helps us out.
THANK YOU.
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
Earth Must Die on Steam
These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...
store.steampowered.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
REMINDER: 'Earth Must Die' desperately requires your WISHLISTS.
Please be amazing and pop over to Steam and drop us a wishlist, each and every one massively helps us out.
THANK YOU.
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
Please be amazing and pop over to Steam and drop us a wishlist, each and every one massively helps us out.
THANK YOU.
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
Holy wow these visuals are amazing. This is HOT, love it.
Here it Is!
RUIN Ch.0
A Short Narrative Adventure
Please Enjoy, Free, In Browser on Any Device
officialelectric.itch.io/ruin
RUIN Ch.0
A Short Narrative Adventure
Please Enjoy, Free, In Browser on Any Device
officialelectric.itch.io/ruin
November 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Holy wow these visuals are amazing. This is HOT, love it.
REMINDER: 'Earth Must Die' desperately requires your WISHLISTS.
Please be amazing and pop over to Steam and drop us a wishlist, each and every one massively helps us out.
THANK YOU.
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
Please be amazing and pop over to Steam and drop us a wishlist, each and every one massively helps us out.
THANK YOU.
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
Earth Must Die on Steam
These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...
store.steampowered.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
REMINDER: 'Earth Must Die' desperately requires your WISHLISTS.
Please be amazing and pop over to Steam and drop us a wishlist, each and every one massively helps us out.
THANK YOU.
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
Please be amazing and pop over to Steam and drop us a wishlist, each and every one massively helps us out.
THANK YOU.
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
Best Friend of Size Five Games from The Swindle dev team @lottemakesstuff.pink has a new game coming out in 3 hours and it looks AMAZING.
A little bit 'Fights in Tight Spaces', a little bit 'Into the Breach', a little bit 'Devil's Kiss' and visually gorgeous
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
A little bit 'Fights in Tight Spaces', a little bit 'Into the Breach', a little bit 'Devil's Kiss' and visually gorgeous
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
Demonschool on Steam
Demonschool is a new-style tactics RPG where motion equals action. Defeat big weirdos in between the human and demon worlds as Faye and her misfit companions, while navigating university life on a mys...
store.steampowered.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Best Friend of Size Five Games from The Swindle dev team @lottemakesstuff.pink has a new game coming out in 3 hours and it looks AMAZING.
A little bit 'Fights in Tight Spaces', a little bit 'Into the Breach', a little bit 'Devil's Kiss' and visually gorgeous
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
A little bit 'Fights in Tight Spaces', a little bit 'Into the Breach', a little bit 'Devil's Kiss' and visually gorgeous
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
What was the last game that came with a physical map? Did GTAV have one? I feel like it did, but the game world was too big for it to be useful.
Games were at their best when there was a physical map to cross reference. Do we know what the last game to have one was?
Games were at their best when there was a physical map to cross reference. Do we know what the last game to have one was?
November 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
What was the last game that came with a physical map? Did GTAV have one? I feel like it did, but the game world was too big for it to be useful.
Games were at their best when there was a physical map to cross reference. Do we know what the last game to have one was?
Games were at their best when there was a physical map to cross reference. Do we know what the last game to have one was?
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Good that they're openly acknowledging that the AI industry is a bubble, though. That seems healthy, good for them.
Bubbles are fine, right? Bubbles just go on forever, right?
Bubbles are fine, right? Bubbles just go on forever, right?
November 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Good that they're openly acknowledging that the AI industry is a bubble, though. That seems healthy, good for them.
Bubbles are fine, right? Bubbles just go on forever, right?
Bubbles are fine, right? Bubbles just go on forever, right?
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Counterpoint: Size Five Games will be absolutely fine 👍
November 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Counterpoint: Size Five Games will be absolutely fine 👍
Went for a walk and as I snooped in all the windows on my way round I saw one family has their Christmas tree up and the whole living room decked out and let me tell you the involuntary SCOFFING noise that erupted out of my mouth-
November 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Went for a walk and as I snooped in all the windows on my way round I saw one family has their Christmas tree up and the whole living room decked out and let me tell you the involuntary SCOFFING noise that erupted out of my mouth-
Counterpoint: Size Five Games will be absolutely fine 👍
November 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Counterpoint: Size Five Games will be absolutely fine 👍
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All awards are worthless but some are more worthless than others.
November 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
All awards are worthless but some are more worthless than others.
There is now too much Star Wars to contain in a single human brain www.youtube.com/shorts/nYrTr...
Is Ahsoka dead by the time of The Rise of Skywalker?
YouTube video by Star Wars Explained
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
There is now too much Star Wars to contain in a single human brain www.youtube.com/shorts/nYrTr...
When mom says to let your little brother have a turn on the Master Sword
www.eurogamer.net/i-think-thes...
www.eurogamer.net/i-think-thes...
November 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
When mom says to let your little brother have a turn on the Master Sword
www.eurogamer.net/i-think-thes...
www.eurogamer.net/i-think-thes...
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I've said this before, but Clockwork God was in development so long I just needed to get it out, but even in 2020 any sort of sequel was a mad gamble. As we got closer to announce I should have just changed the lead character names away from Dan and Ben and made it standalone. Didn't consider it.
November 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I've said this before, but Clockwork God was in development so long I just needed to get it out, but even in 2020 any sort of sequel was a mad gamble. As we got closer to announce I should have just changed the lead character names away from Dan and Ben and made it standalone. Didn't consider it.
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PROTIP: doing an indie game sequel in 2025 is a fucking mad gamble. It's been a mad gamble for yeeeears but you need to have made a blistering hit of Hollow Knight proportions to even consider it.
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
PROTIP: doing an indie game sequel in 2025 is a fucking mad gamble. It's been a mad gamble for yeeeears but you need to have made a blistering hit of Hollow Knight proportions to even consider it.
PROTIP: doing an indie game sequel in 2025 is a fucking mad gamble. It's been a mad gamble for yeeeears but you need to have made a blistering hit of Hollow Knight proportions to even consider it.
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
PROTIP: doing an indie game sequel in 2025 is a fucking mad gamble. It's been a mad gamble for yeeeears but you need to have made a blistering hit of Hollow Knight proportions to even consider it.
Proud Dad moment as the Christmas decorations have gone up in town but I haven't had the heating on yet 💪💪💪 then I realise why, and that kind of takes the shine out of it tbh
November 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Proud Dad moment as the Christmas decorations have gone up in town but I haven't had the heating on yet 💪💪💪 then I realise why, and that kind of takes the shine out of it tbh
I'm at a restaurant and a kid about 16 years old just came up and ordered some food and "two Cobras" and the guy behind the counter served him two Cokes and let me tell you the AWKWARD SILENCE of that transaction was just *phenomenal*.
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I'm at a restaurant and a kid about 16 years old just came up and ordered some food and "two Cobras" and the guy behind the counter served him two Cokes and let me tell you the AWKWARD SILENCE of that transaction was just *phenomenal*.
Think you might have answered your own question in the opening paragraph there, mate
metro.co.uk/2025/11/14/g...
metro.co.uk/2025/11/14/g...
November 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Think you might have answered your own question in the opening paragraph there, mate
metro.co.uk/2025/11/14/g...
metro.co.uk/2025/11/14/g...
Feels like there was a full 20 years of my life where games were constantly asking me to traverse some goop in a sewer by using crates as stepping stones then suddenly one day it never happened again. Weird what you get nostalgic for, isn't it?
November 14, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Feels like there was a full 20 years of my life where games were constantly asking me to traverse some goop in a sewer by using crates as stepping stones then suddenly one day it never happened again. Weird what you get nostalgic for, isn't it?
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)