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Alan - Fool’s Metal

@alanpickled.bsky.social
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New Zealand indie game dev. Making the game Fool’s Metal, a cartoony platformer where you smash your way through destructible levels. store.steampowered.com/app/4523390/…

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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I threw away last week's biome and replaced it with a new palette and new sprites. Honestly, it seems throwing away things I've made is like half the process... #gamemaker #gamedev #indiegames
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you can see it, you can very much destroy it #gamemaker #gamedev #indiegames
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
dropped a new funky Fool's Metal trailer (the game with the big guy destroying entire levels with his overwhelming presence) #gamemaker #gamedev #indiegames
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Playing around with a new biome with a new palette. Keeping all the same destruction of course. #gamemaker #gamedev #indiegames
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Time for some new explosions art #gamemaker #gamedev #indiegames #pixelart
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Been working to make sure everything interacts with absolutely everything. #gamemaker #gamedev #indiegames
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Making games is all about combining one stupid idea that shouldn't work with another stupid idea that shouldn't work. Point in case. #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Any more mechanics I should steal from Raiders of the Lost Ark? #gamemaker #gamedev #indiegames
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Experimented with new attack animations this week. #gamemaker #gamedev #indiegames
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Enough destruction for one week. #gamemaker #indiegame #gamedev
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This whole "domino" mechanic thing has really made making levels fun again. #gamemaker #indiegame #gamedev
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Been toying with a new “domino” mechanic. At least that’s what I’m calling it for now. #gamemaker #gamedev #indiegames
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Imagine this …but like with Crash Bandicoot music. That’s the vibe I’m going for. #gamedev #gamemaker
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A humble first attempt at a trailer for my big fella break things game Fool’s Metal. Will keep iterating constantly over time and always in search of feedback. #gamedev #gamemaker #screenshotsaturday
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Toying with unconventional environment manipulation stuff in Fool’s Metal. Players always understand they can break/explode anything, harder to wrap head around hooking and moving things around. #GameMaker #GameDev
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Was starting to feel a bit creatively tired working on Fool's Metal so I decided to try make things that are just silly and fun for a bit. So now, you can turn into boulder. #GameMaker #GameDev
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Still early days but I feel like I’m ready to start sharing what progress is looking like on my new game, Fool’s Metal. #GameMaker #GameDev
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Got two games promoted in the Made in New Zealand 2025 Steam event this year. Fool's End 50% off for the week (it's biggest sale ever), and the messy Infernal Cleaner splashing around in there. Both proudly made here in Auckland NZ. Cool to be involved alongside so many sick NZ-made games. Chur.
Green graphic with snippets of the Fool's End Steam capsule art (shirtless man swinging pickaxe over lava) and the Infernal Cleaner Steam capsule art (Victorian clothed man spraying water from a skull-infused hose).
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Our cursed janitor simulator Infernal Cleaner has escaped the dungeons of Hell and made it into the ANZ Indie Showcase tonight. Cheerio.
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
This is a first. Was wondering how far Infernal Cleaner gameplay could push it before the social media censor hammer smacked down. Guess I know now. #indiegame #gamedev
Screenshot of an iPhone screen showing a TikTok video, all blacked out with “Removed for violating community guidelines” in the centre of the screen.
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Thought it'd be fun to try remake my apartment's patio tiles in Substance Designer this afternoon. #gameart
Photo of a tiling patio floor. It consists of 3x3 square tiles with diamonds in the corner of each 3x3 section. Has dirty/mouldy patches.3D render of the same tiles but in a rounded cylinder.Same 3D material but this time rendered onto a plane.
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Began sculpting a rock material in Zbrush today for my next environment piece. Very therapeutic way of creating stone materials. Will update progress on the environment here as it starts becoming a real piece...
Digitally sculpted greyscale rock wall, with lots of rugged rocks and bubbly mortar.
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Finally stopped tinkering and decided my new environment piece was good enough to share on Artstation. www.artstation.com/artwork/8BnReO #gameart #unreal #indiedev
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Steeling myself to post this latest environment project on Artstation. Some more lighting touches then I think it will be good to go.. #ue5 #gamedev #unrealengine
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Infernal Cleaner @infernalcleaner.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Stuck in Hell, but here to wash. #gamedev #indiedev
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I think it’s time there’s a “Cleaning” tag on Steam. There’s a Dwarf tag, Underground tag, Cooking tag….but no “Cleaning”…. Powerwash Simulator alone justifies it. #indiedev
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Best gameplay screenshots for Infernal Cleaner I've taken so far. #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity
Using a skull-infused hose to clean blood off dungeon walls in Hell.Dungeon in Hell filled with blood and chopped limbs.
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I don't even know if i can even begin to explain this one. First time I've sung in an English accent for a game....first songwriting credit too I guess... #gamedev #indiedev
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
serious question, can you consider a game with this much blood a cozy game? #gamedev
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Just launched the Steam page for the new game I’ve been building with the Sponge team - Infernal Cleaner. It’s a chill firstperson cleaning sim. But you’re washing blood and grime off torture chambers in Hell. It’s messed up, that’s the charm. #gamedev #indiedev
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Getting Steam Deck Verified was always a personal goal with Fool’s End. It wasn’t big enough for Valve to bother looking at when it launched, but a year later, they quietly gave it the green light.
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Alan - Fool’s Metal @alanpickled.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I make games. The first one I ever released is called Fool's End and it involves mining, land mines and ... I think that's all the type of mines it includes.
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