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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 18h

We just added an Excessive Blood slider to Forbidden Solitaire (will appear in a future update). No you can't turn it off or make it green because it's baked into too many backgrounds + it's a horror a game. This affects particles only.

Excessive Blood slider shown on options page. Tooltip says "Adjust the amount of extra blood! (Default = slider left)

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Walked back from town over a wooded hill.

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cuteness detected. Someone is fast asleep.

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Enjoying Plague Tale Resonance thing. Looks fancy. It’s basically tomb raider. But more linear.

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

DLC ANNOUNCEMENT! Just when you thought the card-flipping horrors were over... new secrets are unearthed. Introducing a brand new story-driven DLC, Forbidden Solitaire: The Discarded! Please wishlist and share: store.steampowered.com/app/5238350/... New levels, enemies, jokers, sigils + more!

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Beat Zelda: echoes of wisdom. (Great game!) Now playing Metroid Prime Remastered.

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Still playing that monster game. It’s decent.

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Found a new dopamine generator. Monsters are Coming.

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My favourite flower photos from the last couple of months.

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hollyhock enjoying the interludes of sun.

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Found one of my favourite ever games in the "computer game shop" at @retrocollective.co.uk . Turrican II. It rocked on both C64 and Amiga.

Jake holding a boxed copy of Turrican II in front of a row of software on tape and disc with a CRT in the background playing videos of computer game adverts from the 1980s.

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Do I want to go to a conference about how to destroy my career? No thanks.

Hi Grey Alien Games,

As a game developer, I want to invite you to the first AI Gaming Conference taking place virtually this month starting September 10th. We're in an era where game prototypes are made in 2 days, playable builds within 2 weeks, a demo in 1 month, and a Steam launch in 3 months. And we're showing developers how!

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Solitaire! Though I think Forbidden Solitaire is a bit more fun simply due to having a mouse!

Solitaire running on an apple ii. There’s a green screen sitting upon two disc drives. It’s showing a traditional solitaire layout and you have to type in commands in order to move the cards around which seems a bit laborious.

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I would like to get a 6128 one day. Saw this one at @retrocollective.co.uk yesterday.

“Jake is great” repeated down the whole screen on an Amstrad monitor behind an Amstrad 6128 8-bit computer.

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Coming to Steam TOMORROW - the latest instalment of the weirdly addictive un-hidden object game, Clutter, we publish for our friend Puzzles by Joe! wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/4457030/... #puzzle #indiedev 🔃👍

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