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Owen Canavan
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Lead programmer at Gambrinous. Writing all the bugs for Guild of Dungeoneering, Cardpocalypse and Eyes of Hellfire
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Owen Canavan @oscan.net · Aug 27
We released a game!
You can play the game!!
Your friends can play the game with you for free!!!
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Colm Larkin @gambrinous.com · Aug 27
ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome to the Lodge!!

Eyes of Hellfire, our co-op gothic horror experience is now available on Steam Early Access!

If you buy a copy, up to 4 of your friends can play free via the friends pass!

🖥️https://store.steampowered.com/app/1724030/Eyes_of_Hellfire/
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Owen Canavan @oscan.net · 5d
welp, time to try and remember weird build requirements for projects I haven't touched in years...
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Úna-Minh 🔥 Play Eyes of Hellfire! @unaminh.bsky.social · 6d
You've heard of nepo babies but have you heard of a nepo daddy? 😆

Article in Variety just went out about our game!

variety.com/2025/gaming/...
‘Game of Thrones’ Star Liam Cunningham on Becoming ‘Nepo Daddy’ for Blumhouse’s New Gothic Horror Game ‘Eyes of Hellfire’
"Game of Thrones" star Liam Cunningham is a self-proclaimed "nepo daddy" thanks to his child's new Blumhouse Games title, "Eyes of Hellfire."
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Colm Larkin @gambrinous.com · 15d
Very nice to see Eyes of Hellfire hit 'Very Positive' on Steam today with our 50th review. Thanks for playing everyone!
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outliersocial.bsky.social @outliersocial.bsky.social · 23d
Today's the day, Mars Attracts hits Steam in a few short hours!
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Alien 👽 @earthtolydia.bsky.social · 25d
I have no idea what you’re talking about @blumhousegames.com I’ve never taken a shady deal in my life 👀

But also Eyes of Hellfire is SO fun!!
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Blumhouse Games @blumhousegames.com · 25d
The Host's deals are too good to resist... right @earthtolydia.bsky.social & @thehotcross.bsky.social?

One copy, up to 4 friends. Who will you betray? 🔥 Play Eyes of Hellfire, available on Steam.

🎞️: https://www.twitch.tv/earthtolydia | https://www.youtube.com/@thehotcross
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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 27d
We have a Steam page for our game! It's a mahjong-inspired deckbuilder with A LOT OF BIRDS! If you have a Steam account and hit the wishlist button - you will have my eternal gratitude 🙏
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
Sparrow Warfare on Steam
Lead a feathered rebellion in the bird-filled deckbuilder SPARROW WARFARE! Combine your tiles to free birds. Unlock wildtiles to craft riotous combos. Take down the fiendish Storyteller for the libera...
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Craig Breathnach - Writer @craigbreathnach.bsky.social · Sep 8
Thank you to @oghamsmith.bsky.social for getting us across the line!

#irishgamedev #speirghorm #irishcreatives #gamedev
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Chris Murphy @oghamsmith.bsky.social · Sep 8
Proud to be the 600th follower!
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Owen Canavan @oscan.net · Sep 5
Steamworks site not loading. Is it Silksong O'Clock again?
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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · Sep 4
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!
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Owen Canavan @oscan.net · Sep 2
No Man's Sky might be running out of names. Planet Frank.
A screenshot from the game No Man's Sky, showing a planet with a randomly generated name called Frank
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PAUL CONWAY @doomcube.bsky.social · Aug 29
A nice preview of @blakemanorgame.bsky.social on The Guardian website today.

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/a...
The Séance of Blake Manor – a gothic horror that explores the creepier side of Irish mythology
Developer Spooky Doorway is building a detective mystery full of Victorian spiritualism and pagan traditions, creating a lingering sense of dread that is hard to shake
www.theguardian.com
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Owen Canavan @oscan.net · Aug 27
We released a game!
You can play the game!!
Your friends can play the game with you for free!!!
gambrinous.com
Colm Larkin @gambrinous.com · Aug 27
ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome to the Lodge!!

Eyes of Hellfire, our co-op gothic horror experience is now available on Steam Early Access!

If you buy a copy, up to 4 of your friends can play free via the friends pass!

🖥️https://store.steampowered.com/app/1724030/Eyes_of_Hellfire/
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Úna-Minh 🔥 Play Eyes of Hellfire! @unaminh.bsky.social · Aug 27
*Deep breath* #EyesofHellfire is officially in EARLY ACCESS. You can play it RIGHT NOW. Can't begin to express the immense pride I have in our indie team. To create something and release it is such an achievement.

Support Indie Games. Play Eyes of Hellfire!

store.steampowered.com/app/1724030/...
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Len Cunningham @lenhaunts.bsky.social · Aug 27
Today is the day our game, Eyes of Hellfire, launches in early access. 🎉
To mark the occasion I thought I might share a bit of a thread 🧵 plotting some of the milestones of development of the game from a narrative design perspective.
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Owen Canavan @oscan.net · Aug 27
Delaying the game 10 minutes because of Silksong
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Úna-Minh 🔥 Play Eyes of Hellfire! @unaminh.bsky.social · Aug 27
so... we're not delaying our launch because of #silksong, which means we're still super hyped for our game #eyesofhellfire that comes to early access later today 🔥😱
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Úna-Minh 🔥 Play Eyes of Hellfire! @unaminh.bsky.social · Aug 27
today #EyesofHellfire goes into Early Access. not quite yet but soon. Immensely proud of our team. it's no easy feat.

all wishlists, shares and luck appreciated. Gambrinous is a small indie team in #Ireland bringing the real #HellfireClub to life!

store.steampowered.com/app/1724030/...
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Jo Lammert @jolammert.com · Aug 27
Love when devs share some of the behind-the-scenes progress of a project. Can't wait for folks to play Eyes of Hellfire later today! store.steampowered.com/app/1724030/...
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Owen Canavan @oscan.net · Aug 24
We're releasing Eyes of Hellfire in early access this week.

To quiet the internal screaming of "OMGITSNOTREADYTHEBUGSTHEBUGS!!" I've been looking back at the progress of development. Here's the first video of a playable prototype I have saved, from Oct '23.

A lot has changed but the core is there
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Owen Canavan @oscan.net · Aug 24
Whilst I'm the eternally anxious sort that will never be happy that the games we make are in a state to release, I'm proud of what the team has managed to put together with the resources available.

Hopefully we'll have many more development adventures to come.
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Owen Canavan @oscan.net · Aug 24
Being something I was tinkering with on and off, I managed to get this all working by Nov '24... eventually.
An image of a player characters incorrectly rendered normal map, resulting in psychedelic rippling patterns.
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Owen Canavan @oscan.net · Aug 24
I solved this by rendering the character off screen then applying that render to a sprite, which can sort with the scene.
From that render I also pull the real-time normals from the character and use that for the 2D lights shading.

Not advisable for your first 3D project? 😅
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Owen Canavan @oscan.net · Aug 24
In June '24 I experimented with 3D characters. There were some... teething issues.

Doing 3D in a 2D world presented some sorting issues. Also 3D models don't work with unity's 2D lights, which we were using with sprite normal maps for directional shading.
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Owen Canavan @oscan.net · Aug 24
At first we tried 2D animations, in Feb '24.
Character animations rendered out to sprites, for 8 directions (although we just did 5 and flipped horizontally).

Being a '2D studio' this is what we were most comfortable with, but it'd be a massive asset headache to deal with and not very sustainable.
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Owen Canavan @oscan.net · Aug 24
By Dec '23 we decided to try out free moving players within room sections, which was an obvious improvement. But this would require animations that we weren't initially planning on.
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Owen Canavan @oscan.net · Aug 24
We started out with static characters, just teleporting from section to section. Very tabletop.

Because that's how we started prototyping, in Tabletop Simulator. Here's a shot from back in June '23, using Mansions of Madness room tiles.
Screenshot from Tabletop Simulator of an early prototype for Eyes of Hellfire, using room tiles from Mansions of Madness
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Owen Canavan @oscan.net · Aug 24
We're releasing Eyes of Hellfire in early access this week.

To quiet the internal screaming of "OMGITSNOTREADYTHEBUGSTHEBUGS!!" I've been looking back at the progress of development. Here's the first video of a playable prototype I have saved, from Oct '23.

A lot has changed but the core is there
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Úna-Minh 🔥 Play Eyes of Hellfire! @unaminh.bsky.social · Aug 22
ARGH! I can't believe that our Irish game #EyesofHellfire is going into Early Access NEXT WEEK! But what a thrill to reveal our EA Roadmap right now 😱

It all feels SO REAL.

#gamedev #ireland
Eyes of Hellfire Early Access Roadmap graphic featuring steps for what's next, coming soon and future additions including more monsters, two more scenarios, save games and languages.
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