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Lur Noise @lurnoise.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The first chapter of my comic Ekphrasis is now available on my itch store ~* lurnoise.itch.io/ekphrasis-1

Cover of the comic, depicting some dandelions growing besides a white concrete wall at sunset.

Comic page, showing some sort of control room inside a dome.

Comic page depicting a stream, flowing between some brutalist stones along a prairie. Fish swim on it.

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 30/09/2026

Have been desperate to for years, hopefully soon!

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 29/09/2026

Sounds wonderful, wish I could have been there!

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 29/09/2026

Oh that's really cool, glad they got exhibited. The art book is one of my favourites.

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 29/09/2026

It's definitely in that vein of Bande-dessinee sci-fi, which is absolute catnip for me.

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 29/09/2026

Criminally undervalued game in a world where so few games come as close as this does to that Ueda melancholy magic.

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 29/09/2026

Andrey Surnov's concept work for Jusant in my brain again this morning. Can't think of a game set among ruins that made me more desperate to see more of its world. So few games manage such an original and rich aesthetic, so sad the team never got to make more.

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 28/09/2026

I occasionally let myself think about my next game as a special treat

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Organic Matters - We Make Games @organicmatters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey folks! Not in a position to hire *yet*, but looking for folks to keep in mind who are particularly good at UI art/design! Must have previous XP in making UI for games (even jam games). So if that's you, please send me a link to your portfolio/work so we can keep it on file. NO AI. <3 🎨 ~ ÚMK

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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 28/09/2026

🌟 Presenting the LudoNarraCon 2026 Official Selection 🌟 🎮 51 narrative indie games 🗓️ October 8–15 PT on Steam 💙 Supported by @jacobgeller.com, @lookingfor.game, @remapradio.bsky.social & @thisweekinvideogames.com 🌐 More info at bit.ly/FTLNC2026 📬 Sign up for our newsletter to stay updated!

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 27/09/2026

Loads! A few ones that spring to mind are: - Sprawl Trilogy, William Gibson - A Closed and Common Orbit, Becky Chambers - Austral, Paul McAuley - Blackfish City, Sam J Miller - Revelation Space Books, Alastair Reynolds

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 24/09/2026

Science-fiction is a pretty broad genre. In space? Probably not. But other kinds could definitely work. But I am a bit worried that the series will dry up quickly if it is mined for ideas or developed too rapidly, given that we’ve had 2 in 2 years.

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 24/09/2026

I’ve written before about the architectural poetics of Silent Hill (though it was a long time ago!) and it’s great to see Screen Burn building on that. Here’s an old piece of mine if you are interested- www.killscreen.com/basements-ba...

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The Basement's Basement

Silent Hill’s such a screwed-up city even its buildings have issues.

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 24/09/2026

One scene in particular, when the “rain” begins at the start of part 4, escapes the realism that muffles the game to instead provide a deeply (and darkly) poetic image. The violence implied by the architecture finally being realised. The structure can no longer hold, a leak becomes a cascade.

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 24/09/2026

But, while it takes its time to get there, Townfall builds on this architectural foundation by connecting it back to the world we live in. Townfall’s structures reflect real structural issues, and its “monsters” are just your fellow sufferers—turned monstrous by those same structures.

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 24/09/2026

Silent Hill has long been a series about the horrors of institutional architecture—apartment blocks, schools, hospitals, prisons, hotels—its horror is the long corridor of locked doors. At first I thought Townfall had missed this aspect by choosing a Scottish island setting.

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 24/09/2026

Silent Hill Townfall is tame at first, its opening village chores a little too dry, but once part 4 begins it locks-in on a kind of architectural horror that makes real the implicit hostility and structural violence of pebble-dashed council flats and damp-cornered shopping centres. Powerful stuff.

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Gregorios Kythreotis @eteogreg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s Sable’s 5th Anniversary! I’ve written some reflections on what the game means to me, and to celebrate I’m delighted to announce that @lostincult.co.uk are reprinting the Sable Design Works Find out more here: www.eteogames.com/sable-turns-...

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Sable Turns Five with a Design Works Reprint

Reflecting on the Five-Year Anniversary of Sable, and announcing a reprint of the Sable Design Works art book.

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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 22/09/2026

ICYMI, @jumpovertheage.com shared their mood board for Signet City 🏙️ Packed with gorgeous references, it includes the two main textures of the game: grain and ink ✒️ See the inspirations that helped shape Signet City below Don't forget to wishlist the game on Steam! 🍄 bit.ly/SC-Steam

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Signet City - Signet City: Observing the City - Steam News

Welcome back, residents. This month, Gareth continues to explore the inspirations behind Signet City, this time showing various visual influences that have inspired them. The photo above is of…

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 22/09/2026

That’s Titan! There’s a lot of artistic liberties they take with the depictions and then a magic space orb terraformed them all and gave them 1g gravity somehow so you’d be forgiven for not recognising it 😂

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 21/09/2026

I actually wrote a bit about that in Heterotopias a long while ago

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 21/09/2026

I do think that it’s relative limited nature was what inspired so much investigation and intrigue around it. There were so many gaps to fill in!

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 21/09/2026

These screenshots are as old as my entire game dev career 😵‍💫

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 21/09/2026

Destiny 2 reaching into the vault gives me hope that I will see my beloved once again…

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EoinBT @eoinbt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Please watch this show. Top three of all time for me. Maybe top two. Oh God, maybe No. 1.

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 20/09/2026

Fully expecting this to be my second consecutive GOTY from this team. Can’t wait!

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 18/09/2026

Signet City is doing things a little differently—failure is still a factor, especially partial or mixed failure/success. But I’m also working around full failure being replaced by an action being impossible to attempt. Hard to explain but will show more next year!

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 18/09/2026

Working through the autumn resonance trilogy: [x] Star Wars: Zero Company [x] Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy [ ] Control Resonant

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 17/09/2026

Second one is really good and adds a lot to the worldbuilding and lore. It goes to some pretty dark places though, be warned

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 17/09/2026

I’m very close to the finish I think, and yeah I agree the way it picks up on similar structures to the previous games is really fun. The drip feed of horror is great and systemically satisfying too

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 17/09/2026

I hear it is also quite popular, despite being so obviously their side project

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 17/09/2026

Yeah the way they do shallow water is very impressive. I’m a huge fan of the mosaic/tile materials and how they form a key motif

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 17/09/2026

It definitely develops in a way where it slowly becomes a Plague Tale game in a really fun way. So much so that it’s necessary to have played both previous ones to get the most from it. And for what it’s worth i’ve found the combat just as characterful and distinct as the sling-play

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 17/09/2026

I have a soft spot for the Plague Tale games and am having a great time with Resonance. Like the rest of the series it fires its characters down a grim and gorgeous spiral, marked with inventive encounters. The art direction is as standout as ever, blending classical motifs with some very cool ideas

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 17/09/2026

An excellent and thoughtful piece on failure in RPGs, which I got to contribute some words to: "I'm putting you through failure in order to give you something that I think you will enjoy. I try to earn that trust from the player."

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 16/09/2026

Thanks so much, CS 2 was partially made during my own post surgery hell so I can relate. Hope it improves soon! Also: Jusant is such a comfort game for me, I must have played it through 7-8 times and it still draws me back. Thank you for your part in creating it.

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 15/09/2026

I go on about Tetsuo but Bullet Ballet is just as gorgeous and I love Snake of June too.

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