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Mr #PitchYaGame
@liamtwose.bsky.social
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#PitchYaGame Creator / #TeaseYaGame / SMG Studio & Dentsu / Indie Game Producer @ Lone Spartan Entertainment / He/Him / Views my own! / Mostly Updates / Announcements.

https://bio.link/liamtwose
https://PitchYaGame.com
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Matched with this lady on unhinged. 🚩
Pic shows a screengrab from Waterpark Simulator with a lady called Cassandra lying on a lounger with her head rotated 180 degrees.
January 24, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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Excited to start showing more of Gachicon Arcade soon.

Been waiting for the game to be refined enough, i.e. closer to demo/early access stage.

Definitely feel it's getting close.

Hoping people will be pleasantly surprised when MY day to #PitchYaGame finally arrives. 😤😅
Image showing a teaser in-game render of Gachicon Arcade, a future game by Lone Spartan Entertainment lead by @LiamTwose. Image shows a person standing in front of a row of arcade machines; left-to-right: Claw machine with giraffe plushies inside. Green arcade cabinet with no game displayed, Yellow arcade cabinet with a guru meditation error (homage to the Amiga era) and a red arcade cabinet, again with no game on the screen. Logo in top right hand corner reads Gachicon Arcade with a claw machine grabber and a teddy in the center to the side.
January 11, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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Tabs were a mistake. 😶
Image shows a cropped top half of Unreal Engine, with an open project, with 50 tabs open. Much the same issue as when tabs were invented for browsers.
January 8, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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Entering our Sixth year of #PitchYaGame! 😤

2026 dates..
Mar 6th: #TeaseYaGame
Jun 5th: #PitchYaGame
Sep 4th: TeaseYaGame
Nov 6th: PitchYaGame

Remember TYG = casual, PYG = formal. Post anywhere that allows hashtags.

notime.zone/OgiabDrDse-cy 👀📝
Space image with a planet breached by a sun on the horizon. Fireworks on the left. Text reads Celebrating 6 Years of #PitchYaGame. With the iconic PYG waving in the right corner.
January 5, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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Breaking: #TeaseYaGame IS Live! 🚀

Open to ALL games, across the globe.

Time to show the world your #VideoGames! 🥰
Image has a space backdrop with a sun breaching a planets horizon, in big bold text. "TeaseYaGame IS LIVE Get Teasing!" Token PYG waving in the corner.
December 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Breaking: #PitchYaGame IS LIVE! 🚀

It's time, once again, to pitch the world your #IndieGames! 🔥
Image of a space backdrop; with a sun breaching a planets horizon. Text reads #PitchYaGame IS LIVE. Get Pitching!
November 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Make it exist first. You can make it better later.
The "before" image of a working (albeit chaotic) blueprint. The "after" image of a tidied up blueprint, that was previously working (albeit chaotic), following a code review.
September 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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We blueprint and we don't judge.
The "before" image of a working (albeit chaotic) blueprint.
September 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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context: the same post (hence my most viral post ever) got over 740K views on X.

I've yet to break numbers on here.
Image shows the post on X with over 740K views.
September 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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I have an important announcement re #PitchYaGame..
It's with a heavy heart, that after 5 years of incredible pitches.. the time has come. May 26th 2020, the day #PitchYaGame blew up on Twitter, and I'll never forget that day. It literally changed my life, following what was an extremely difficult period of time. We're on Wikipedia, we've had over 90 media articles covering both the event and the games pitched, you've helped PYG trend every time without fail. The world has been blessed with amazing indie game pitches from literally over half of the world. We've changed peoples lives. Deals have definitely been made in the background. So please realise that this was by far an easy decision to make. But, unfortunately the time has come... to remove the count down timer from the front page. I simply can't do it anymore. I'm constantly reminded if how soon the next round is away. So please forgive me, you're just going to have to add it to your calendars. Thank you, and yes, #PitchYaGame is still here to stay (for now at least) with the next round coming up on November 7th 2025. See you then, pitches!
August 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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So grateful for #PitchYaGame 🥰
image shows a screengrab of the historic subscriber growth of the #PitchYaGame substack.
August 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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anyone else out here living life on the edge?
image shows the popup for Unreal Engine when it first loads that tells you how many asset editors were open when the editor was last closed. And whether you would like to re-open them? Options include checkbox for "Remember my choice" and Yes or No.
August 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Giraffabelle
Giraffe plushy on a shelf giving Annabelle vibes.
August 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Just make it exist first, you can make it good later! 🔥 #GachiconArcade #IndieGames
image shows two cross references. Top being a representation of how GA looked in the early days when just making it exist, with placeholder machines and default mannequin. While the image below shows GA as a growing game which is starting to take real shape with actual machines and better character models. Around 9 months of work so far.
August 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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To add extra polish..

At the end of your timeline do this to the Alpha. (the alpha is fed into the lerp, fyi)

By adding a little fluctuation at the end, it adds a little inertia / and makes the door not just close / open dead on. 🫡
Shows a vector graph (feeding an alpha out for use with lerping)
July 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Ok. in a bid to share more knowledge.. to code a "swinging door", here's #GameDev logic w/ 6 states inc. Ajar. 🚪

1. Closed, Locked, Not Ajar
2. Closed, Unlocked, Not Ajar
3. Open, Unlocked, Not Ajar
4. Open, Locked, Not Ajar
5. Ajar, Locked, Not Closed
6. Ajar, Unlocked, Not Closed
Screengrab of a blueprint (by @LiamTwose) with a logic sequence that determines the action a door should take based on 6 states. 1. [Door IS Locked] AND [Door IS Closed] AND [Door is NOT Ajar]. 2. [Door is NOT Locked] AND [Door IS Closed] AND [Door is NOT Ajar]. 3. [Door is NOT Locked] AND [Door is NOT Closed] AND [Door is NOT Ajar]. 4. [Door IS Locked] AND [Door is NOT Closed] AND [Door is NOT Ajar] 5. [Door IS Locked] AND [Door is NOT Closed] AND [Door IS Ajar] 6. [Door is NOT Locked] AND [Door is NOT Closed] AND [Door IS Ajar]
July 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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POV: what game you playing?! 🕹️ #GachiconArcade
image shows a screen grab from Gachicon Arcade, with a blue arcade cabinet with a green screen, complete with joystick, and two buttons. A yellow and red machine are cropped to the left and right.
July 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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What a difference 9 months of #GameDev makes..

Make it exist first. You can make it better later. 😤
Early look at Gachicon Arcade with whiteboxing and placeholders Modern day look at Gachicon Arcade with Arcade cabinets, a claw machine and a person playing a machine that's errored out wirh a giraffe plushy laid on top.
July 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Want to see a "real" first-person game in active development? 😎
Image shows a screenshot from Gachicon Arcade with the GA logo in the top right. With a claw hand and teddy as part of it. The scene shows a person stood in front of one of three arcade machines; a yellow one which shows an error message on the screen. Theres a red machine to the right which is on, and a green one to the left. And a claw machine with giraffe plushies on the far left. On top of the yellow machine is a won giraffe plushy that he has placed on top while he was using the machine.
July 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Can't for the life of me figure out why I've not been getting much #GameDev done lately. 🤔 😅
image shows a screengrab of Dune Awakening from Steam, with only 198.5 hours of play time and 31/73 acheivements.
July 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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"Make it EXIST first. You can make it look good later." 🥹
image shows initial concepts for Gachicon Arcade, complete with UE5 mannequin, grey boxing and placeholders with the sole purpose to get it working first. Image shows an arcade, with a customer playing an arcade machine, an out of order machine sits to their right. Another machine sits to their left and a claw machine can be seen to their far left; filled with Giraffe Plushies. The logo for Gachicon Arcade can be seen in the top left of the image, Gachicon written in Orange, while Arcade in a sky blue, with a dark blue bordering. As part of the logo is a claw hand grabbing a teddy. The machine to the right of the customer has an error message on the screen that reads "Software Failure. Press Left Mouse Button To Continue. Guru Meditation #00000004.0000AAC0 (a nod to the Commodore Amiga) Atop the machine the customer is playing sits a Giraffe plushie they must have won (from the claw machine) and sat atop whilst they play.
June 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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When you don't check your video / media before posting. 🫡
picture shows a video preview with a blank screen on the starting frame. time of video is 1:30.
June 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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whoops.. 😅😂
June 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Breaking: #PitchYaGame IS LIVE! 🚀

Time to pitch the world your #IndieGames! 🥳
#PitchYaGame LIVE logo against a space backdrop with a planet breached by a sun on it's horizon. The text reads #PitchYaGame IS LIVE Get Pitching!
June 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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First-ever solo Victory Royale. 😤

Damn.. How do y'all play #Fortnite??!! That S is stressful! 😱
pic shows a screen grab of my first ever victory royale on Fortnite, wearing the Mandalorian skin, complete with jetpack.
May 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM