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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie

@greyalien.bsky.social

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Indie developer since 2005, owner of Grey Alien Games. Working on Forbidden Solitaire (watch the trailer!) Creator of Ancient Enemy, Shadowhand, Regency Solitaire + more. Retro games fan. Please buy my games. Thx. https://www.greyaliengames.com/

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · Feb 3

NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!

A 1995 CD-ROM. A game buried for a reason. You flip a card. The screen glitches. Something is watching.
Forbidden Solitaire—a dungeon horror from the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline.

store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...

With @slicknicklives.bsky.social

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 11h

These days on console, I'm more of a "save game" then "suspend" kinda guy. Can't trust the console won't lose power or game stops being suspended for some reason (happened to me with Elden Ring due to an update and I lost 20+ hrs!)

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah I can adjust it but I have another sale in Nov timed to perfection and there must be a cooldown between both.

Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 12h

Just realised I set up my next sale for the same week as the Steam Next Fest. Noooo. That's probably a bad idea right? Even the week after could be bad if people are still playing demos.

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#TurnBasedThursday - Turn-Based Game Showcases @turnbasedthursday.bsky.social · 1d

Great games in last week's #TurnBasedThursday showcase!

🛡️ Free multiplayer grand strategy w/ a demo
🔺 Upcoming jRPG w/ an arcade-style battle system
👁️ Sentient AI escape simulator w/ 96% 👍 reviews
🏀 Turn-based tactics basketball playtesting on @itch.io

& many more! ⤵
#Gaming #TurnBased #IndieGames

Feudums, by @kalamonastudios.bsky.social

Ctrl Alt Deal, by @onlybymidnight.bsky.social

Hoop Dungeon, by @murthynikhil.bsky.social

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 1d

Some late bloomers. Maybe a bit like me.

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 1d

Autumn colours in the garden plus cat.

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 1d

This is for our internal level editor, it's not a public thing which is why that dialog+font is awful haha.

Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 1d

Proud of this code which took ages to do. Basically when we run the automated tester on the levels it can detect bugged layouts that could previously slip through (there are none in our previous games, don't worry.)

LAYOUT BUGGED! A suitlock has a key under it and there are two or more of the same lock.

Solution: Move keys out from under suit locks OR make all suit locks same value OR change one lock type to a different lock type.

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 1d

Some late bloomers. Maybe a bit like me.

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 1d

Autumn colours in the garden plus cat.

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 1d

Also like why not the last one? Ok I bought it and didn’t read it for a few years because I was really sad to was the last one. So if she is that emotional about it then maybe that’s the reason but er I doubt it. She also clearly didn’t understand any of the messages in the books.

Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 1d

Well that's something I guess.

Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 1d

They should spin up a subsidiary with that name just so you can keep it.

Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 1d

Did you at least have it with gravy, maybe some peas, and er sausages?

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 1d

Yep we do!

Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 1d

I love Peggle.

Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks! I hope so. Let’s see…

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's only really properly sinking in now that Forbidden Solitaire has really big potential.

I'm so used to having lower/realistic expectations for the past 20 years that it's hard to let go of that and go "HOLY HECK! THIS IS GONNA BE AMAZING" but yeah it is.

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 2d

If you are waiting for Forbidden Solitaire, how about trying out one of our other solitaire games.

- Regency Solitaire 1 & 2 have a nice story.
- Shadowhand and Ancient Enemy have a story and also solitaire combat and RPG-style stats.

store.steampowered.com/developer/Gr...

Steam Developer: Grey Alien Games

All games that Grey Alien Games has created or published.

store.steampowered.com

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t count the games I worked on at BFG. Well it was only two. One was cancelled and the other was a team effort. Also I was part of the Eets Munchies team for a while.

So I guess I prefer to include games that I coded/designed for the most part.

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 2d

New Patreon Post: Turning Eyeballs into Wishlists: 600,000+ YouTube Views in 5 Days

www.patreon.com/posts/140569...

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 2d

Ha, well we'd certainly be happy with 1-10% of Balatro.

Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 2d

It is fun, a blast in fact! There's still plenty of slog at points though, just code/game design can be like that. But I'd still rather be doing this in my own home than any number of other things.

Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! Well it's still only a potential payoff, but it's looking good.

Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah sorry about that