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David Thatcher
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I make video games, as Giraffe Cat! I made The Sirena Expedition, which is out on Steam and Nintendo Switch:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1957300/?snr=1_5_9__205
https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/the-sirena-expedition-switch/
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The Sirena Expedition is going to be on sale over the Halloween period! But when, and how much?! I got a little help from a certain someone to explain the details.

youtu.be/BpSZwrx_rlA
The Sirena Expedition - Halloween 2024
YouTube video by Giraffe Cat Games
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This week's #RandomGameSaturday is Zool for the Mega Drive! This port of the ST/Amiga game features a short comic in its manual.
November 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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gathered together some of my old games that had fallen off the internet
smestorp.itch.io/lots-of-mich...
lots of michael brough games by Michael Brough
collection
smestorp.itch.io
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
In a number of Heavenly Sword's cutscenes, Kai seems to be staring at something that isn't there. Originally she had a small blue 'sprite' that would fly around during her gameplay segments. It was even in some early versions of the cutscenes, before being removed entirely.

youtu.be/XVlaIoYSerc?...
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
A couple of games for #RandomGameSaturday! NHK Tensai Bit-kun Gramon Battle and Graffiti Kingdom. The latter is the sequel to Magic Pengel: The Quest for Colour (which wasn't released in Europe), the former is based on the Japanese TV show Tensai Bit-Kun, and uses the same character-creation tech.
November 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
It's #RandomGameSaturday time! Here's Snoopy Concert for the Super Famicom. This Japan-only release was designed for the SFC's mouse peripheral, and is a collection of sub-games and minigames where you mostly control Woodstock directly, and use him to give orders to Snoopy, point-and-click style.
November 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM
It's #RandomGameSaturday. Looney Tunes Space Race for the Dreamcast!
November 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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🚨HALLOWEEN SURPRISE DROP🚨
INTRODUCING THE BRAND NEW DEMO (and keyart) FOR TÖLT - THE NEXT GAME FROM ENIGMA|STUDIO.
DEMO AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD RIGHT NOW!
enigma-studio.itch.io/tolt
OÍCHE SHAMHNA SHONA DAOIBH, A CHAIRDE CAPALL🎃
October 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Steam Scream IV is now live, so you can pick up The Sirena Expedition for 99p, which is probably cheaper than a Mars Bar these days! Check it out on Steam and Itch:

store.steampowered.com/app/1957300/...
giraffecat.itch.io/the-sirena-e...
Save 80% on The Sirena Expedition on Steam
The Sirena Expedition is a short PSX-style horror-platformer in which you explore a mysterious underwater facility.
store.steampowered.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It's been two years since the release of The Sirena Expedition on Steam, and to commemorate this, the game will be 80% off in tomorrow's Steam Scream IV sale! What better time to pick up the game that the most recent Steam reviews have described as 'Nice' and 'deu mais raiva que vontade de jogar'?
October 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
It's #RandomGameSaturday! Did you know the Japanese release of Jumping Flash! 2 came with a second disc containing the European release of the first game? I didn't! I also can't find any reference to it online. Was the European release so different from the JP one that it warranted re-release?
October 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Looking for a party game that combines social deduction with the pleasant absurdity of rating animals, films, and the weather on a scale of ★ to ★★★★★? And it's just a simple deck of cards? AND it's live on Kickstarter now?!?! Guess what, STARFRIENDS has launched! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...
Starfriends: The 5-Star Game About What Everyone Else Thinks
A party game where you get into your friends' heads. Kinda like a blend of Wavelength and Letterboxd that fits into a deck of cards.
www.kickstarter.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I'm away from my games collection at the moment, so here's a photo from my phone for #RandomGameSaturday: Croc 2! This one fixed a lot of the original game's control issues and introduced larger stages, but ended up being more punishing, in spite of (or perhaps because of) giving you infinite lives.
October 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This #RandomGameSaturday is the Mega Drive port of Corporation. I've not played this version, but I played it on Atari ST a lot as a kid. It was ahead of it time, but kind of in a bad way; a first-person-shooter with weird mode-switching controls for movement and shooting that felt really clumsy.
October 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Hey! The Sirena Expedition is on IMIRT's Steam curation list of games by Irish developers: store.steampowered.com/curator/4145.... Lots of really cool stuff on there!
Steam Curator: Games From Ireland
Games developed in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, from Irish creators, or playable in the Irish language (Gaeilge).
store.steampowered.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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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

Please RETWEET and WISHLIST
September 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
#RandomGameSaturday. It's OutRun 2 (and OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast)! I'd been looking forward to Sumo's port of the arcade sequel for a while, and I was super into it. It felt like the first game to make Ridge Racer's drift mechanics feel more friendly, but still rewarding to pull off well.
September 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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After over 2 years cooking in Steam Early Access, Mars First Logistics 1.0 is finally here!

Engineer your little rover and deliver lots of silly stuff!
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This week's #RandomGameSaturday is R:Racing for the GameCube. Which means it's also Pac-Man Vs!
September 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This week for #RandomGameSaturday, it's the Patapon trilogy on PSP!
September 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of some Charlie Kirk highlights
September 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I feel like I'm going insane; Kirk was a fringe right-wing commentator (or at least he was fringe a couple of years ago, not so much any more), why on earth does Starmer feel like he has to issue a weepy statement about his death?
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch statements on X on the killing of Charlie Kirk
September 11, 2025 at 8:10 AM
It's #RandomGameSaturday, and here's Tech Romancer for the Dreamcast! Classic Capcom fighting game, with big mechas.
August 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
This week's #RandomGameSaturday is Panekit, a Japan-only PS1 game where you build modular vehicles in order to complete tasks. Similar to Mars First Logistics, but 24 years earlier!
August 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM