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Daniel Turner
@pointered.bsky.social
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Game Dev and Director at College Fun Games, @collegefungames.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy
Now making our second game, a point-and-click parody of Les Misérables...

Get notified when our Kickstarter launches!
http://tiny.cc/lessmis
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Pocket Gamer Connect London was amazing! So many great devs, loads of people loving the demo, and the awesome AdventureX merch from @yakwaxlips.bsky.social brings all the point-and-clickers
Guy in a blue t-shirt that says 'AdventureX' in front of a banner saying 'Less Miserables'
January 20, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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Really gave me the feeling as a kid you could just type the right code into a Sinclair ZX Spectrum or something and open a portal
Pixel font saying 'You're about to hadk time, are you sure? >Yes No
January 15, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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Presenting, the man, the legend: the heartstruck and ferociously witty Hector Berlioz.

Also occasional composer.
A old photo, painting and drawings of the romantic French composer Hector Berlioz on the left, and a cartoon character in black and white sketch, then in red and brown, holding a baton
January 14, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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So many finished scenes from Less Miserables I haven't screenshotted yet! Clammy is the tester's favourite character so far, should be recording her lines in the next few weeks

#AdventureGame #PointAndClick #IndieGame #ScreenshotSaturday
A dark outside view, with a stone wall and open door on the left, and two cartoon characters on the right, a man in red rags, and a girl in brown rags, and a bucket
January 3, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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Newly repurposed editing PC, going to be doing a lot of video editing in the coming year... Perfect cable management too.
The inside of a PC case, with a visible brown Noctura CPU fan, some blue glowing GPU card, and a lot of dangling untidy black cables to aid airflow
December 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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This potato looks exactly like the Kupier belt primordial contact MU69 Arrokoth

#Space #NewHorizons #Astronomy #Potato
On the left a dusty potato, with two large nodules connected with a thin neck, on the right a similar looking Kupier belt object in greyscale
December 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Three weeks since AdventureX, and the wristband is still on! It's being cut off today though, I sense my marriage is in danger...
A hairy wrist with a very worn, twisted and scuffed looking plastic wristband, green and white
December 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Our hand-drawn point-and-click parody of Les Miserables is having a Kickstarter in the new year, and you can register here!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...

Thanks for hosting, and great to see you at AdventureX!
A graveyard at night, with an old bishop, illuminated by Holy Light from the sky, handing a sliver candlestick to a scruffy dressed and bemused character
December 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Look what our art team drew in my Christmas card! Not entirely sure why there is a dead pig eating a frog? Should I be worried??
A crayon and pen sketch of a beared character in a red santa suit, with a pig eating a frog on top of a wrapped present. The words JOYEUX NOEL are written at the top and there is a green xmas tree to the left
December 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Excellent pub-playtesting session for Less Miserables last night! Great feedback, and a few pints makes testers actions less predictable and better at finding obscure bugs!

#IndieDev #GameDev #PlayTesting
Behind head shot of someone with their hand on a white laptop, playing a game, with a tall mug of beer, and a smaller glass on a wooden table
December 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Check out this handsome coo sticker on my laptop, by the amazing @clasticartistic.bsky.social! Available now in Leith Collective Livingston, Ocean Terminal and Fort Kinnaird, Edinburgh
A white outlined sticker of a handsome orange hairy highland cow, in a line art style, on a white laptop surrounded by a bunch of other colourful stickers
December 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Hi #TeaseYaGame! We are making a point-and-click parody of Les Miserables where you have candlesticks forced upon you! Follow for our Kickstarter launch next year!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...

#IndieGame #AdventureGame #PointAndClick #IndieDev
December 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Watching Funny Face and reminiscing about Paris in the spring time... We took a bunch of photos for Less Miserables here as it will be the opening shot of Act 2 :)
Audrey Hepburn in a brown coat, at the top of Montmartre overlooking the rooftops of Paris below.
December 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Developing a scene: we went from storyboard sketch for the village, to graphite sketch we used in testing for layout and scale, then the final painted scene with layers and dynamic lighting

#gamedev #indiegame #adventuregame #pointandclick #art
First, a paper sketch with a scribbled layout of several buildings in a rectangle, with hasty notes on the side and red areas. Then a black and white graphite sketch of a village with several houses, then a final painted layout of a village, with full colour, warm light coming out from windows and many foreground and background elements.
December 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Mmmmm... New backgrounds...

#IndieGame #AdventureGame #PointAndClick #LessMiserables
A dark village road, drawn with a brightly lit inn on the right (marked with a red arrow) and a character in brown rags
December 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Two weeks since AdventureX! Still on for now, and I swear it doesn't smell...
A slightly hairy pink wrist, fingers curled up, with a green, battered and worn wristband, ADVENTUREX is just about visible in grey text
December 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Yeah! We do this for each character, then base the character design on a mashup of our favourites. It's really fun to pretend you are actually going to get Nick Offerman to do one of your roles!
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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And here's the near finished animation a few hours later!

elenagrossi.myportfolio.com

#IndieGame #AdventureGame #PointAndClick #IndieDev #Animation #Moho
December 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Our animator Elena is amazing. Here's the sketch from the morning...
Quick pencil sketches in black and white of a character jumping out from behind two rectangles, in 7 steps
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Getting final artwork in for this scene for Less Miserables in Act 1, with dynamic lighting and parallax effects! All hand drawn.

#ScreenShotSaturday #AdventureGame #PointNClick #NoAI #IndieGame
A dark inn scene, with wooden beams and grey brick, tables and a bar, in a cartoon style. Four characters, including a tough looking man in rags and a mustachioed gentleman in grey sitting with a cursor marked 'Friendly Patron' on him
November 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Bye bye Christmas pudding mix, now to steam for 4 hours and open up on Christmas Day...
Food: light brown slop with visible raisins, in a white enamel bowl
November 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Can't believe it's been a week since AdventureX! Wristbands still holding up, and yes, I do have a mental age of 14. I will never take them off!
A hand with a yellow and green wristband, saying AdventureX 2025 with faded writing, and beginning to look a bit manky
November 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Saved my battle-worn copy of the AdventureX25 programme! It has notes scribbed from amazing talks, was shoved in various pockets, and used to wedge open the auditorium door so people could breathe! See you all next year?

#AdventureX #AdventureX25
A folded, curled and creased blue printed programme saying 'AdventureX, London 22-23 Nov 2025' and with cartoon characters from various adventure games
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Finally got to see a legendary Jon Ingold talk in person at AdvenutreX yesterday, deftly funny and informative in equal measures
A crowded lecture theatre, looking out over heads to a screen with "It's 2027?" written on it
November 23, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Helped pack 750 attendee bags for @adventurex.bsky.social last night, all ready to go for this morning! See you there...

#AdventureX
Looking down on about a dozen cardboard boxes, stuffed with hundreds of brown paper bags, with AdventureX printed on them
November 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM