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Tony Gowland
@tonygowland.bsky.social
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Indie dev making games & chatting about the games industry. ex Rockstar & Activision, now MD of https://bsky.app/profile/ant-workshop.com
Our latest game: https://bsky.app/profile/tonygowland.bsky.social/post/3lp7gpkckgc24
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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · May 15
Into the Restless Ruins is a deckbuilder in the Scottish highlands, where you create a dungeon then battle through it.
Out now on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, and Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/2877770/...
tonygowland.bsky.social
Nice sunrise in Edinburgh this morning.
November 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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They're the same picture.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVHO...
Starmer apologises for leading pupils in 6-7 dance
The prime minister performed a version of the viral dance with primary school children, before being told it was not allowed.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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shallowthinking.bsky.social
The Brutal Base texture pack is OUT NOW for all your grimly concreted environment needs!

shallowthinking.itch.io/brutalbasepack

80 authentically 90s/00s diffuse textures plus extra FX stuff in three formats to meet your needs, great for retro stylings.

#indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #gameassets
Brutal Base Texture Pack by Shallow Thinking Games
Retro texture pack in the style of 90s/00s shooter games.
shallowthinking.itch.io
November 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
tonygowland.bsky.social
All awards are worthless but some are more worthless than others.
November 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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tametick.bsky.social
Announcing my pagan trading game Prophet Margin
Wishlist now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3624110/...

Sharing appreciated!
Prophet Margin on Steam
The Gods hunger for tribute! Build settlements and weave trade routes, feed temples and earn divine boons in this Eurogame-inspired strategy game.
store.steampowered.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
tonygowland.bsky.social
I love my Steamdeck but anyone pretending the experience is as normie-proof as a console needs to give their head a wobble.
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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What the Rt Hon gentleman does in the privacy of his own home, etc
Except from the transcript of a parliamentary session that is quoting Ben Goldsborough as saying "I do enjoy watching streamers such as BarbarousKing both creating the “Grand Poo World Trilogy”
November 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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ekenz.bsky.social
IT'S NON-STOP TODAY.

Launched 4 hours ago and now the game is in Animal Fest. So go buy it, and other games with animals. 🦆🦉🐘

You like animals, right? Of course you do. Otherwise you'd be a SICKO.

🔗 store.steampowered.com/app/3749790/

#indiegames #indiegaming #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
tonygowland.bsky.social
YOU! Go check out Ewan's karting game, it's a load of fun.
ekenz.bsky.social Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · 15d
✨ GO KART ISLAND IS OUT NOW ON STEAM! ✨

I started making this in 2019 so it has been a long time coming!

There's a 20% launch discount (base price is $9.99 / €8.99 / £7.99) for two weeks.

Please check it out and leave a review if you like it! ❤️

#indiegames #indiegaming
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
tonygowland.bsky.social
Got given a new mug this morning
A mug featuring a hand drawn picture of a garden bird with a speech bubble saying “tosser”
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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tonygowland.bsky.social
Touch my game (this is life)
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Touch my game (this is life)
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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ekenz.bsky.social
Two days till launch and the Mayor has filed an injunction to rename the game to "Mayor E.O. Kart" 😟

Apparently the E.O. stands for Elected Official 🙄 Curse you Mayor, this is not the time!

Wishlist and try the demo now!
🔗 s.team/a/3749790

#indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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jlukeroberts.bsky.social
Geoffrey Chaucer's Mediaeval Festivitye! linktr.ee/jlukeroberts
November 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
tonygowland.bsky.social
Now you can touch our game! (on PS5)
EU: www.thegamecollection.net/products/int...
US: www.amazon.com/Into-Restles...
Into the Restless Ruins box art
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
tonygowland.bsky.social
Plummeted to being 7% up on 3 months ago.
eurogamer.bsky.social Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 18d
In case you missed it, Grand Theft Auto 6 has been delayed again. And Take-Two's stock plummeted as a result www.eurogamer.net/as-gta-6-is-...
GTA6 key art showing the two male and female protagonists having an edgy cuddle on the bonnet of a car. A graph of share prices behind shows a cliff-like drop in value.
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
tonygowland.bsky.social
Lord grant me the confidence of a student who will argue the nuts and bolts of how games companies work with someone who's been in it for quarter of a century.
November 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
tonygowland.bsky.social
Good news for people at the TIGA awards tomorrow night: my kilt still fits!

Bad news for people at the TIGA awards tomorrow night: see above
November 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
tonygowland.bsky.social
There should be a law fully banning dream sequence levels in games.
November 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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lol Bafta for some reason promoting an interview I did over 10 years ago where I talk about how great Twitter is for chatting to devs. Anyone who doesn't check the date on that is going to think I'm full of shit.
October 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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thoughtrise.bsky.social
thinking about potato house this halloween
a post showing a bowl of candy with a single potato in the center with the text: Tonight kids chose potato more than 25 times, each time triumphantly proclaiming to friends and family, "I GOT A POTATO!" One kid shouted, "A potato, just like last year!" and another group said, "Oh, youre the potato house? You're legends!" This has become an unexpected and joyful tradition. Kids are given the free choice and over and over again they choose Potato. My friends, every day you are given a choice. I encourage you: choose potato
October 31, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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sliwinski.bsky.social
Streamers, we're celebrating our legacy games. Form is below. You got your choice of award-winning platformer, prescient stealth game, prescient visual novels, cyberpunk solitaire and... um, ominous math-based survival board game???

You got choices, details below 👇

🟥🤫🚆☣️🃏🪐
bithellgames.bsky.social Bithell Games @bithellgames.bsky.social · 29d
Send us a key request for the game(s) you'd like to share with your audience using this form:

forms.gle/redadEHeKNnT...

If you can't stream/post within the exact week listed, send us a request anyway. We'd rather you post at a different time than not at all!
A poster for Bithell Games' Legacy Games Celebration. Six games are listed with the dates of their features in the celebration beside them: Nov 3 - Nov 9: Thomas Was Alone Nov 10 - Nov 16: Volume Nov 17 - Nov 23: Subsurface Circular Nov 24 - Nov 30: Quarantine Circular Dec 1 - Dec 7: The Solitaire Conspiracy Dec 8 - Dec 14: The Banished Vault Additional text at the bottom reads: Steam key requests open now. The background shows Rob from Volume.
October 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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over 30 seconds in to the trailer before it lets me know what sort of game it is. Mad.
October 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
tonygowland.bsky.social
At the moment I'm reading The 7 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and reading the description of Blake Manor it sounds weirdly similar (even down to the victim being called Evelyn).
jasonschreier.bsky.social Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 29d
If you, like me, are a fiend for deductive narrative games (Obra Dinn, Golden Idol, etc) then you must check out the tremendous The Seance of Blake Manor (out today), which has become one of my favorite games of 2025. Only caveat is that I ran into a few nasty bugs www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATH_...
The Séance of Blake Manor | Release Date Announcement Trailer
YouTube video by Raw Fury
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Oh no, Eurogamer :(
October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM