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|~ indie studio director @oddlark.com 🐦‍⬛ ~| |~ technical art is my love language ~| |~ prev. The Gardens Between, Jumplight Odyssey & an unreasonable amount of cancelled projects ~|

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Josh👽🐝 @joshalanb.bsky.social · Oct 19

Hiya 👋 I'm Josh, working on wrangling blobs at
@oddlark.bsky.social 🐦

I specialize in making unique games look and move beautifully in the simplest ways possible and am a recovering (attempted) pro mtg player 🃏🦈.

#GameDev

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Josh👽🐝 @joshalanb.bsky.social · 1d

Had a blast showing Noibs on stage last night, thanks everyone for your support - @oddlark.com is just getting started 💪✨✨✨👍

Josh👽🐝 @joshalanb.bsky.social · 5d

My last two brain cells as I playtest and fix our alpha build before Monday

#MIGW

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Sasha Mutch @sashamutch.bsky.social · 6d

Catch Wyrmspace at #migw this year!

We've got our playable prototype set up at the following events:

👔 GCAP Screen Australia's Local lounge - Oct 8th
📐 Parallels (we've on stage too) - Oct 9th
🎮 Pax at the Kirrip Wilam room - Oct 10th - 12th

Come say hi and get your thinky tactics caps on!

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Ian MacLarty @ianmaclarty.com · 17d

Mars First Logistics, our open world physics game about building rovers and delivering stuff is coming out of Steam Early Access in 2 days with a big update!

Tag your favourite influencial person who you think might enjoy it!

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Josh👽🐝 @joshalanb.bsky.social · 24d

Paralells is my forever highlight of every Melbourne Games Week and I am beyond excited to attend this year as a speaker!

There will be a bunch of behind the scenes stuff+design notes on NOIBS, but even better - the entire night is STACKED with incredible creators:

www.freeplay.net.au/parallels25

Parallels25

YouTube video by Freeplay

www.youtube.com

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Freeplay @free-play.bsky.social · 25d

General tickets for Parallels 2025 are now on sale 🎟️

Speaker and playable showcase line-up on our website 📺

www.freeplay.net.au/parallels25

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Josh👽🐝 @joshalanb.bsky.social · Aug 10

First time painting since... honestly no idea! It was nice to be away from the computer 🐩

An acrylic painting of Josh's cutie dog, Ube

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League of Geeks (LoG!) @leagueofgeeks.com · Aug 5

Hey pals! Here's another job hot off the press for ya! Live now on our careers site. Get in on the ground floor for our next title!

🤖 Technical Artist 🎨

Check it out at leagueofgeeks.com/careers#tech...!

RTs appreciated. Share with your (tech art) friends! 🙏

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Josh👽🐝 @joshalanb.bsky.social · Jul 31

Pretty sure you can just do two aim constraints with the correct offsets looking at each other if your hierarchy is clean-ish

Josh👽🐝 @joshalanb.bsky.social · Jul 25

I'm so glad you're using the cards to house your awesome illustrations 🤩👌

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Josh👽🐝 @joshalanb.bsky.social · Jul 23

See ya Japan 👋👋👋 - overwhelmed with the lovely people and great conversations at BitSummit.

Exhaused but can't wait to get back and focus on getting our game into shape!

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GameFromScratch @gamefromscratch.bsky.social · Jul 22

After over a year in development and a port from #GodotEngine 3.x to 4.x, the excellent free and open source Substance Designer alternative Material Maker is nearly here!

Check out the release candidate of this awesome project.
gamefromscratch.com/material-mak...

#gamedev #indiedev

Material Maker 1.4 is Nearly Here – GameFromScratch.com

The awesome free & open source Substance Designer alternative Material Maker is nearing release 1.4, having been ported to Godot 4.x

gamefromscratch.com

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Dave Lloyd 💾 Powerhoof @dave.powerhoof.com · Jul 10

The Drifter comes out in less than a week :O

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Josh👽🐝 @joshalanb.bsky.social · Jul 8

We're so keen for Bitsummit!!

The @oddlark.com team before vs after attending: 🪩👄👍

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Felix Colgrave @felixcolgrave.bsky.social · Jul 2

Hello, I may have a level of involvement in this! Including but not limited to the trunk pig

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Josh👽🐝 @joshalanb.bsky.social · Jun 30

An incredible thing:

Felix Colgrave @felixcolgrave.bsky.social · Jun 14

Hey I've been working on a thing!

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

WALL WORLD | Teaser Trailer

YouTube video by Felix Colgrave

www.youtube.com

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Liam E 🚲 🦝TANUKI @liambme.bsky.social · Jun 30

BITSUMMIT ATTENDEES!
Introducing "Pon’s Friends!" – the official Denkiworks BitSummit 2025 t-shirts!

If you're interested, please fill out the form linked here:
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS....
(NOTE: T-Shirts will only be available to order for 2 days - closing July 3rd)

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Josh👽🐝 @joshalanb.bsky.social · Jun 30

...can someone PLEASE help me work out if Body Parts count for carry on ✈️ ?!

Oddlark @oddlark.com · Jun 30

We’re bringing Noibs to BitSummit! If you’re also headed to Kyoto, please reach out - we’d love to share what we’ve been working on!

This is Bigby. They'd also like to share important news about their new tail 🤗🍄

Josh👽🐝 @joshalanb.bsky.social · Jun 25

Woo! @oddlark.com will be there for our first Bitsummit too :D

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GHOULISH - Wishlist PARASENSOR now! @ghoulish.com.au · Jun 15

10,000+ Steam wishlists in 7 days since our reveal at Frosty Games Fest! 🤯

We are blown away by the response, thank you so much everybody. We’re a tiny studio doing this for the first time, so your support means the world to us! 💕😈

#indiegame #indiehorror #horrorgames #indiedev

Text reads “10,000+ wishlists in our first week”
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Josh👽🐝 @joshalanb.bsky.social · Jun 14

64 slices is so low for this fidelity!! Awesome job 🤩🤩

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Dave Lloyd 💾 Powerhoof @dave.powerhoof.com · Jun 9

The Drifter is part of #SteamNextFest right now!
Go play the demo and see why Vice said "In just 30 minutes, ‘The Drifter’ showed me that it has what it takes to be among the best in the point-and-click genre." :D

store.steampowered.com/app/1170570/...