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Ewan McKenzie

@ekenz.bsky.social

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🎮 Indie game developer 🐮 Working on Go Kart Island 🔗 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3749790/

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · May 28

🚨GAME ANNOUNCEMENT🚨

Go Kart Island brings open-world karting to Steam later in 2025!

Help Lachlan the highland cow achieve his dream and become GO KART CHAMPION. 🐮🏆

PLEASE wishlist, repost, like & all that. THANKS! ❤️

store.steampowered.com/app/3749790/...

#gamedev #indiedev #gaming #indiegames

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · 15h

Me going through thousands of Twitch pages and emailing people that might play my game

a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder

ALT: a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks! 🥹🤩

Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · 2d

Time to dust off my old memes and take them head on!

Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · May 29

Step one of the #marketingmasterclass is you must create beef (pun intended) with the biggest dog in the yard, just like in PRISON. With that said, #MarioKart cow - there's only room for one of us. COME AT ME "COW"ARD.

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

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A man sees a picture of the Mario Kart cow and is like "absolutely not", but then sees the FABULOUS Lachlan from Go Kart Island and gives big approval.

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · 2d

📣 BIG ANNOUNCE 📣

Ma go kart game is coming to Switch on 9 January 2026! 🙌

Literal childhood dream stuff making a kart game on a Nintendo console! Big ups to @ant-workshop.com for handling the publishing, always liked those guys.

HYPED 🥳

#indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · 6d

That's just what zebras look like m8, clearly you've never been on safari

Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · 6d

✨NEW CONTENT UPDATE!✨

Sure you love the Go Kart Island demo, but have you ever wished you could play as a Zebra and race around a hotel? Well now you can! 🦓 🏨 ✅

Patch notes for 0.3.0 linked below!

📝 tinyurl.com/4wymfnrk
🎮 s.team/a/3749790

#indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · 11d

Here's 4 screenshots for #ScreenshotSaturday where you're NOT a cow. 🚫🐮

Go Kart Island launches on Steam 10th November!

👇 Demo and handy wishlist button available
🔗 s.team/a/3749790

#indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · 14d

🚨LAUNCH DATE ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

Go Kart Island will be released on Steam on 10th November 2025!

That's like a month and a half away... I better finish it I suppose.

Also NEW TRAILER below, and ANOTHER announcement soon 👀

🔗 s.team/a/3749790

#indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · 21d

Keep your eyes PEELED (that sounds painful) over the next couple of weeks for exciting news... but in the mean time you'll have to settle for a new demo update.

Patch notes for 0.2.5 linked below!

📝 tinyurl.com/5byeetrp
🎮 s.team/a/3749790

#indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · 23d

Descriptive git commit messages are always helpful 📯

Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · 23d

Testing what happens when you interact with this obstacle when in different states. Worked out PERFECTLY.

👇 Play the Go Kart Island demo and smash that wishlist button RIGHT HERE 🥳

🔗 store.steampowered.com/app/3749790/

#indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · Sep 6

It's #ScreenshotSaturday so here I am to get more go kartin screenshots direct to your face.

👇 Play the demo and smash that wishlist button RIGHT HERE!

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#indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · Sep 3

HIRE THIS WOMAN DO IT NOW AND GET GOOD ART FOR YA' GAMES

Paula Lucas @paulalucas.bsky.social · Sep 2

Welp, I've just found out that my role has been made redundant 🫠... So I will be looking for work!

If anyone is looking for a 2D/3D Generalist or Art Director for games (particularly specialising in stylised projects!) please shout! From concepts > modelling > animating thru to implementation 💛✨

Cute cartoon car brightly coloured and stylised with an ice cream on top of it

Still frame from a 3D stylised crow model, a non-humanoid vtuber from my own design.

Illustration piece of a dark woods, in greyscale.

Still image of a gif, of a stylised Bearded vulture in low-poly 3D. Designed, rigged, animated by myself.

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · Sep 1

1. Click the "add online multiplayer l" button
2. Click the "fix all bugs" button
3. Build to all consoles

You've got yourself a cross platform multiplayer game! Easy peasy.

Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · Sep 1

Made the mistake of reading a reddit thread about the Silksong pricing which had a take along the lines of "devs don't need dev kits anymore cause UE5 has a build to console option already in it" 😬

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · Sep 1

Officer Lumi gets LASERED in an old fashioned police stand off

👇 Play the Go Kart Island demo and smash that wishlist button RIGHT HERE 🥳

🔗 store.steampowered.com/app/3749790/

#indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · Aug 30

Another #ScreenshotSaturday, another selection of actual non-moving PNG screenshots for your eyeballs, don't say I don't treat you.

Play the demo and smash that wishlist button RIGHT HERE 👇

🔗 store.steampowered.com/app/3749790/

#indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · Aug 29

Farmer Ham has delicious pizza revenge after being YEETED 🐷🍕

#indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · Aug 26

Better watch out, the Go Kart Island Go Kart Gang (GKIGKG for short) is in hot pursuit. DON'T MESS WITH THE DUCKS. 🦆

#indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · Aug 25

There's a new Go Kart Island Demoo update out! And here's the new trailer, cause why not post it again?

Patch notes for 0.2.3 linked below!

📝 tinyurl.com/3zucja6w
🎮 s.team/a/3749790

#indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · Aug 24

I made a new ✨short✨ trailer for Go Kart Island!

So if you're anything like me and years of mobile phone scrolling have eroded your attention span to basically zero, this should satisfy your easily distracted needs. 🥳

#indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

🔗 s.team/a/3749790 🔗

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · Aug 23

Redid my Steam page yesterday and took a bunch of screenshots in the process, so why not share them for #ScreenshotSaturday? 📸

Check out the new page and throw me a wishlist if you're feeling generous! ❤️

#indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

🔗 s.team/a/3749790

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · Aug 22

Where you going, bro?

#indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · Aug 19

Classic. I feel like I've had 2.5 days worth of tasks on my to do list for the last 3 weeks. IT NEVER ENDS 😫😂

Ewan McKenzie @ekenz.bsky.social · Aug 19

Me after a day of "making a quick new trailer" where I spent 0 seconds making a trailer and 8 hours fixing bugs

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

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