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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 25/09/2026

GLOW•WORM for #pico8 now with pushable blocks!

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 21/09/2026

added secret passages and glow-seeds!

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 19/09/2026

i worked a bit on GLOW•WORM for #pico8 today. got the movement smoothed out and the glow effect working. it's sort of a puzzle-vania with Snakebird-style movement

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 08/09/2026

My son asked to learn how to make #pico8 games tonight. Proud dad moment! 🤓

Boy sitting at a computer running pico-8

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 06/09/2026

the shadow adds a lot

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 06/09/2026

🐸 'Hop To It' working on a little entry to the #pico8 #Pico1k jam... Z for left leg, X for right leg. Z+X to go straight up.

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 28/08/2026

H ouse | M ountain ------------------- T ree | W ater

H that looks like house, M that looks like mountain
T that looks like tree, W's that look like water

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 19/08/2026

currently working on a DAILY DUNGEON desk calendar. to keep things fresh, there is some kind of twist each day. here's my favorite:

a dungeon layout with the text "Today's Twist: OOPS! all coins" and the map is full of coins.

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 18/08/2026

zoomates is back!! gladdendesign.com/products/zoomates

zoomates is a colorful wooden logic puzzle for all ages. pictured in box with the "Field Guide", rules about which animals can touch each other.

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 16/08/2026

I was reading this to my kids last night and realized it makes for a great parable about AI usage

Creepy Crayon! By Aaron Reynolds, illustrated by Peter Brown

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 16/08/2026

started working on a little castle generator for #picotron

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 10/08/2026

New print-and-play editions of each of the Paper Apps games are now available - 10 random seeds available for each game. Use code PNP20 for 20% off! gladdendesign.com/collections/...

Paper Apps GOLF PNP - illustration of a pencil club hitting a golf ball

Paper Apps GALAXY PNP with an illustration of a pencil spaceship

Paper Apps DUNGEON PNP with an illustration of a knight holding a pencil sword

Paper Apps LABYRINTH PNP with illustration of a skeleton holding a sword

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 07/08/2026

still pretty happy wtih these fake golf course stickers i designed for the Paper Apps GOLF kickstarter

Stickers for pretend golf courses: Old Oak Lake, Royal Coast Ranch, Cherry Prairie, Rabbit Ridge

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 30/07/2026

Paper Apps™ TODO is your pocket-sized productivity pal. How it works: Roll your Pencil Dice™ D6 to pick which task to work on and how long to work on it. Set a timer and get going! → gladdendesign.com/products/pap...

Yellow Paper Apps TODO Notebook. 3x5" with spiral binding

Interior of notebook with Pencil Dice™. There are 6 spots to write tasks and 6 options for how long to work on them.

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 11/07/2026

sometimes you just need the right motivation. i stuck this in my design file today and have been more productive than ever

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 08/07/2026

you can always count on old electronics textbooks to have the goods

Practical digital electronics by Pierre pelloso

Digital integrated electronics by Herbert Taub and Donald Schilling

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 24/06/2026

i liked this Fish Lad

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 17/06/2026

Paper times table contraption that my son and I made this morning

A paper grid with times table values up to 15×15. Two slidable frames give you the correct answer.

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 09/06/2026

saw this on FB marketplace... thinking about a road trip

Facebook marketplace post - $60 - Original oil painting Wizard with a gun, Ft. Collins, CO.

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 09/06/2026

one of my games is in target. wacky!

Pocket Golf Game (licensed version of Paper Apps GOLF)

FORE! The golf course that fits in your pocket.
Roll your pencil die and get the ball to the hole in as few strokes as possible! Pocket Golf brings the excitement of the links to a screen-free notebook experience that you can play anywhere, anytime.
Every copy of Pocket Golf contains three 18-hole golf courses. Each notebook is randomly generated, so no two notebooks are the same!

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 02/06/2026

excited for the second printing of Zoomates to arrive! so proud of this little game/object

various photos of packaging for the zoomates wooden puzzle game - text bubble states: "zoomates coming soon"

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 30/05/2026

i don't know what a Geyer Instructional Nasco Cone is, or what it does, but i now need one

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 29/05/2026

🪐 SUPER SOLAR SYSTEM SYZYGY Will you be able to align the planets before they fall into the sun? Second entry for #TweetTweetJam Play here: beepyeah.itch.io/super-solar-... In 496 characters of #pico8 code:

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 27/05/2026

🔵 🔴 🟢 Dotful Dodger My entry to #TweetTweetJam 11 Play it here: beepyeah.itch.io/dotful-dodger ( #pico8 code in following posts)

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 26/05/2026

Isle of Man ahh pizza

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 15/05/2026

FYI for bluesky friends! 26% off Paper Apps games (and more) for the next few days. Stock up for this summer's travels! Your password to the Fun Fortress is: SUMMER26 → gladden.fun

START OF SUMMER SALE • 26% OFF • USE CODE 'SUMMER26'

PORTABLE POCKET FUN • image of paper apps games • FUN CODE 'SUMMER26'

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 15/05/2026

Also featured on the Home Screen today in the New Games We Love collection!

Surrounded by monsters? Slide into
'em! Swipe to slide tiles and send yourself crashing into enemies-just make sure orcs and Minotaurs aren't attacking from behind.

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 14/05/2026

RogueSlide was featured at the top of the Games tab on the App Store today! apps.apple.com/us/app/rogue...

RogueSlide - A monster-killing sliding puzzle

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 13/05/2026

RogueSlide comes out on mobile tomorrow! Pre-register for iOS or Android here: rogueslide.beepyeah.com

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 07/05/2026

So cool to have my Paper Apps games be part of this display at Powell’s Books in Portland! Thanks for the feature @powells.bsky.social

Display of various game books at the end of an aisle

Close up of Paper Apps games: DUNGEON, GALAXY, LABYRINTH

To-do notebook displayed in another area!

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 05/05/2026

Some good stuff I saw at the thrift store

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 05/05/2026

Got two Sid Sackson books today. One with a very fun surprise inside the front cover!

Beyond words and card games around the world. Two books by Sid Sackson.

Stamp that says: from the personal collection of Sid sackson

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 04/05/2026

making a little progress

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 04/05/2026

'Leaving the Party' brough-like for introverts. #pico8

a green figure looks longingly toward the exit as other figures try to close in. chairs and other bystanders block the way

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 04/05/2026

Reminds me of when I saw Smooth Indiana™ airbrushed on the side of a carnival ride

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 04/05/2026

I’ve been porting my game TOGGLE•BOT to GBDK. Here it is running on actual hardware! #gameboy

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 01/05/2026

🌈 did you know? ⭐ i made a @play.date game last fall. it is a decently fresh take on the sokoban genre of puzzle game where you and the level can invert. if you're a dateplayer, you should give it a try! → play.date/games/toggle...

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 30/04/2026

don't make me recite invictus

email asking if i'm still the owner of Tom Brinton

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 29/04/2026

"Collecting the most score is the meaning of life for the HIGH SCORE CHASER. No one knows where he finds the score or what he does with it. But he cannot stop chasing it!" My submission to #famicase 2026!

Famicom cartridge with an illustration of a man running with numbers in the background. Text: "HIGH SCORE CHASER" "Collect the most score!"

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 28/04/2026

i found this old Bookmobile for sale and now I want to turn it into a board game store on wheels

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 27/04/2026

⚔️ Slide-em-up dungeon crawling! 👻 RogueSlide is coming May 14th for mobile. Daily Dungeon mode will be free, with more modes unlockable. Pre-order for iOS or Android here: rogueslide.beepyeah.com

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 17/03/2026

🚩 Announcing: STACKROBATS 🚩 Grab the trophy by performing fantastic feats of puzzle-y prowess! 30 levels, playable in browser #pico8 #thinkygames #puzzlegames Let the show begin: beepyeah.itch.io/stackrobats

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Tom Brinton @brin.town · 13/03/2026

🎪 Almost ready to raise the big top! Just finishing up Stackrobats, my circus-themed puzzle game for #pico8. Planning to release next week. 👀

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