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Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 9h

Impressive capitalism speedrun, just completely skipped the start-up step of 'idealistic new company that throws money at creatives' and went straight to 'anyone who pays a creative on the way to making bank is a fucking idiot' within like a day of existing.

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Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 9h

Clearly struck a chord, though.

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Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 9h

652, yeahhhhhboyyy!

a man in a yeah boy-eee shirt is holding a sword

Alt: a man in a yeah boy-eee shirt is holding a sword

media.tenor.com

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted to announce that EARTH MUST DIE is available in English, French, German and Simplified Chinese.

I've never localised a game before and BOY is it quite the journey/ headache. The number of things that can go wrong with all your UI is ASTONISHING.

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...

Earth Must Die Demo 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

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 1d

WAIT WHAT'S THIS?

💿There is a demo live for EARTH MUST DIE!

🕹️This gives you (most of) the tutorial section for the game! Have fun, and if you haven't wishlisted the full game yet DO THAT NOW PLEASE it really really helps us out.

Enjoy!

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...

Earth Must Die Demo 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

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 20d

Every time I watch ALIEN I am transfixed thinking to myself "there's no way they've left themselves enough room to get the third horizontal line in that E without it looking like a squashed-in mess!" but no, every single time there it is, and it's beautiful. Most tense part of the movie tbh.

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Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 7d

Hooray, thanks!

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Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 7d

All the Size Five games are on sale! So yeah, if at least 349 of you could buy Lair Of The Clockwork God at a wildly reasonable 65% off and give it a positive review, that'd be *lovely*.
And while you're there, may as well buy all the others for a few quid more!

store.steampowered.com/dev/sizefive

Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 11d

One nice thing about EMD coming out is that I'll be able to stop nagging people to give LOTCG a Steam review!
That said: give LOTCG a Steam review! COME ON, we only need a paltry 349 more to hit the big 1K, let's get that done before EMD comes out!
store.steampowered.com/app/1060600/...

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Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 9d

Likewise! A really fun session and you nailed every line brilliantly!

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Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 10d

Ah ok, ty. ICO have now said (abbrev.): "Earlier this year we announced an investigation into how Imgur uses children’s information and its approach to age assurance. We reached our provisional findings on this investigation and we issued a notice of intent to impose a monetary penalty on 10th Sep"

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Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 11d

EARTH MUST DIE 🌍💀
Very proud of how this turned out - looks and sounds beautiful, great cast doing sterling work, and imho it's funny and clever too!
Please WISHLIST and SHARE!
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

youtu.be/RtgXzAiGw-I...

Earth Must Die - Announcement Trailer

YouTube video by No More Robots

youtu.be

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Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 11d

Fuuuuck, seems like imgur just blocked all UK users rather than try to comply with the Online Safety Act. The government really have mass-enshittified the internet for us with that one.

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Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 11d

Oh. Okay, good! You know what, Dan? You're a cool guy. (And you're good at adventure game making.)

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Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 11d

Exactly which part of this do you disagree with, DAN?

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Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 11d

100% accurate.

Evil Sarkastodon @billthecat.club · 11d

Ben is a cool guy and good at adventure game making

Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 11d

EARTH MUST DIE 🌍💀
Very proud of how this turned out - looks and sounds beautiful, great cast doing sterling work, and imho it's funny and clever too!
Please WISHLIST and SHARE!
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

youtu.be/RtgXzAiGw-I...

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Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 11d

And yes, I absolutely will flip to nagging you all to give Earth Must Die a Steam review the second it comes out.

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Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 11d

One nice thing about EMD coming out is that I'll be able to stop nagging people to give LOTCG a Steam review!
That said: give LOTCG a Steam review! COME ON, we only need a paltry 349 more to hit the big 1K, let's get that done before EMD comes out!
store.steampowered.com/app/1060600/...

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Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 11d

EARTH MUST DIE 🌍💀
Very proud of how this turned out - looks and sounds beautiful, great cast doing sterling work, and imho it's funny and clever too!
Please WISHLIST and SHARE!
store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

youtu.be/RtgXzAiGw-I...

Earth Must Die - Announcement Trailer

YouTube video by No More Robots

youtu.be

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Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 12d

THIRTY SECONDS (plus a little bit)!

Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 12d

FIVE MINUTES (or so) until we announce a new game!

Come, watch along.

www.pcgamer.com/tokyodirect

PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct 2025

Tune in on September 28th for PC Gamer’s inaugural PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct. Broadcasting from Tokyo Games Show, expect to see the latest trailers, world ...

www.pcgamer.com

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Anisa Sanusi @studioanisa.bsky.social · 12d

It’s today!!! Our game reveal is happening today at 5pm UK!!! PC Gaming Show TOKYO DIRECT BAYBEEEEEEYYYYY!!!!

>>> www.youtube.com/live/2AD-WSC...

PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct Sunday September 28. 9am PT. 12 Noon ET. 5pm BST.

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Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 12d

Waiting for the announcement of the new Size Five game at 9am PST / 5pm BST www.pcgamer.com/tokyodirect like

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Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 12d

Yesssss, my young apprentice's Passive-Aggressive Force powers are growing.

Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 13d

One of my favourite passive aggressive things @timegentleman.bsky.social taught me is when someone asks you something in an email thread that you've already told them, you copy-paste the exact text from the earlier email mid-sentence and make it purple so it's clear it's been pasted. Bliss.

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Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 14d

I think of the dead/dry/pupal period as being between GF and S&M S1 (followed up quickly by Blackwell, Nelly Cootalot and *ahem* BTDT etc). When they went from being a thriving AAA genre to a thriving indie genre. The dead decade was mainly failed attempts to hang onto the AAA status.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 14d

WHAT? Like a team up? No More Robots and Size Five Games teaming up together, like in that episode of He-Man where Skeletor and He-Man had to work together?

Oh, alright then. SEE YOU SUNDAY.

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 14d

Hey @danthat.bsky.social, shall we announce a new video game on Sunday?

www.pcgamer.com/tokyodirect

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 14d

Sunday, 9am PST / 5pm BST

www.pcgamer.com/tokyodirect

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