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Daniel J. Menezes

@danjohnston.uk
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Making game assets, fonts & tutorials. 🎨🖌️ Creator of Gyro Boss 🛸 3-time winner & former host of the GMC Jam. chequered.ink

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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 4h
Our September sale for our All Fonts Pack is coming to an end - just 10 hours left now to get 1200+ fonts for commercial use for only $19! #GameDev #Fonts ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack (tbh the exact time may be different in your time zone idk how itch works)
All fonts pack - 1200+ font styles mega pack - 90% off. With a big timer thing saying 10 hours left.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 26/09/2026
Worth giving Case a follow for human-made sound effects! #gamedev
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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Alternatively, you could use WordArt

I'm not even joking!
This is literally cooler, aesthetics be like that

AI art is so rancid it caused a cultural inversion
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 23/09/2026
Check out some of our best fonts for Halloween to make your spooky game dev projects (and other things) over the next month or so! chequered.ink/the-best-fon... 🎃
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The Best Fonts For Halloween
Whether you're looking for something child-friendly, or something positively terrifying, you're bound to find something to use in our list of the best fonts for Halloween!
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Chequered Ink @chequered.ink · 23/09/2026
🍂 Here's a list of our best autumnal fonts for use in your projects over the next few months!🍂 chequered.ink/the-best-cos...
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The Best Cosy Fonts For Autumn
Now that autumn has arrived, and the cold long nights are drawing in, you're probably looking for a few cosy fonts to warm up your designs!
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 23/09/2026
Check out some of our best fonts for Halloween to make your spooky game dev projects (and other things) over the next month or so! chequered.ink/the-best-fon... 🎃
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The Best Fonts For Halloween
Whether you're looking for something child-friendly, or something positively terrifying, you're bound to find something to use in our list of the best fonts for Halloween!
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 20/09/2026
The 60th (!!!) GMC Jam is taking place next month, put it in your calendars now and start getting hype for it 🥳 I'm definitely going to enter this one, it'll be the first time in a year I've made a game 🫠 forum.gamemaker.io/index.php?th...
The GMC Jam 60 logo, a bunch of colorful jam jars orbiting around a galaxy like cloud.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 20/09/2026
The 60th (!!!) GMC Jam is taking place next month, put it in your calendars now and start getting hype for it 🥳 I'm definitely going to enter this one, it'll be the first time in a year I've made a game 🫠 forum.gamemaker.io/index.php?th...
The GMC Jam 60 logo, a bunch of colorful jam jars orbiting around a galaxy like cloud.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows a brain. The brain is saying "I'm 30 and YOUNG! I only recently fully developed!"
The second panel shows a heart. The heart says "I hear ya! I can keep going for DECADES more!"
The third panel shows a spine's face. It weakly says, "I am old".
We zoom out and the spine is using a walker. It continues, "so very old".
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 18/09/2026
12 days left to get our All Fonts Pack 90% Off - all human made and you keep your license to use the fonts in pretty much anything you want FOREVER including game dev, videos, logos, physical merch etc. It's a massive bargain vs. licensing this many fonts elsewhere! ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack
The winnie the pooh bored vs. suave meme, the bored pooh has the caption: paying adobe or monotype or whoever $$$ for fonts. The suave pooh has the caption 1200+ fonts for commercial use FOREVER for just $19
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 18/09/2026
12 days left to get our All Fonts Pack 90% Off - all human made and you keep your license to use the fonts in pretty much anything you want FOREVER including game dev, videos, logos, physical merch etc. It's a massive bargain vs. licensing this many fonts elsewhere! ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack
The winnie the pooh bored vs. suave meme, the bored pooh has the caption: paying adobe or monotype or whoever $$$ for fonts. The suave pooh has the caption 1200+ fonts for commercial use FOREVER for just $19
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 14/09/2026
What's happening with the AI bosses really is not that they're scared AI is advancing too quickly (it's still glorified copy-paste) but that they're running out of money, running up against opposition, and they're stalling so their investors don't have them whacked.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 11/09/2026
Just over 10 years ago I made this tiny game called Gyro Boss where you dodge wacky weapons on a fixed circle. It got 200k+ downloads and to this day it's the only game where I get random people come to me and say "I used to love this game!!" I wanted to do something for its anniversary...
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 13/09/2026
Allison made a new game for the gm48 - it's an incremental game where you smash road signs to (eventually) earn trillions of pounds! ci.itch.io/graphic-de-s... #gamedev
Graphic De-sign. The left side of the screen is a shooting range where british road signs with numbers on fly around while you shoot them, when you do they explode into money.

The right hand side of the screen has UI which also looks like road signs, showing money, a timer, full screen / windowed option, volume and a button to click to start/end each shooting round.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 12/09/2026
Our most downloaded game asset pack by far is our 400 sound effects pack, it's now being used by over 20,000 people!! I've been working on another SFX pack since they seem to be in high demand, but work is slow going these days 😅 #gamedev ci.itch.io/400-sounds-p...
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400 Sounds Pack by Chequered Ink
Free for Commercial Use
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 11/09/2026
Just over 10 years ago I made this tiny game called Gyro Boss where you dodge wacky weapons on a fixed circle. It got 200k+ downloads and to this day it's the only game where I get random people come to me and say "I used to love this game!!" I wanted to do something for its anniversary...
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 11/09/2026
I'll save you a click because the headline and image got me: No, it's not a video game master collection. It's just some lil trading cards with art from the games on them.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 11/09/2026
Last month I made this pack of game dev assets with money, cards, tickets and other things you might find useful! chequered.ink/money-more-g...
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Money & More Graphics
High resolution sprites for use in your games and other projects - there are a total of 121 sprites in this pack.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 05/09/2026
Creating this no-ai indie games starter pack is one of the best things I ever did on BlueSky. Lots of great developers in here, making things with their own hands, some of whom I might not have found otherwise!! go.bsky.app/78u8M6Y
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@SoliSolstice

what blows my mind about everybody neglecting human experiences in favor of being on their phone 14 hours a day is that like 95% of you suck at being on the phone. can’t post for shit, 100 unread wikipedia articles in your tabs, getting groomed on discord. you are not good at it
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Chequered Ink @chequered.ink · 08/09/2026
New Free Assets - previously exclusive to our big asset pack, you can now get these wholesome trinkets 100% free for commercial use in your games! #GameDev
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Wholesome Trinkets Pack
Cute sprites for use in your games including animals, food, gems and other graphics.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 08/09/2026
Our All Fonts Pack is on sale again until the end of September. Over 1200 fonts for commercial use in game dev and other projects, pay once use them forever, just $19! ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack
a pink banner reading 1200+ font styles. it is surrounded by the names of fonts in many different font styles.A blue banner reading Commercial Use. It is surrounded by even more font names in different styles.A green banner reads Includes Our Most Popular Designs. The names of some of our most downloaded fonts are included: Vermin vibes, distortion dos, candy beans, chopsic, gang wolfik, sheeping dogs and Voice In My Head.An orange banner reads 'With A Vast Range Of Vibes' it is surrounded by even more examples of our fonts.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 08/09/2026
This is correct, anyone saying otherwise is being a curmudgeon for the sake of it. 😜
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 08/09/2026
Well, when I found out they were making yet another Zelda OoT remake I was sceptical but that game looks fucking phenomenal
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 08/09/2026
Our All Fonts Pack is on sale again until the end of September. Over 1200 fonts for commercial use in game dev and other projects, pay once use them forever, just $19! ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack
a pink banner reading 1200+ font styles. it is surrounded by the names of fonts in many different font styles.A blue banner reading Commercial Use. It is surrounded by even more font names in different styles.A green banner reads Includes Our Most Popular Designs. The names of some of our most downloaded fonts are included: Vermin vibes, distortion dos, candy beans, chopsic, gang wolfik, sheeping dogs and Voice In My Head.An orange banner reads 'With A Vast Range Of Vibes' it is surrounded by even more examples of our fonts.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 08/09/2026
Now all caught up with adding people to these two packs after being away over the weekend. Even more great humans to follow making games with their own hands and brains!
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 05/09/2026
Got a really busy couple of days ahead (all fun stuff) so I'll go through the rest of the replies to the no-ai starter pack post on Tuesday or something!
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 05/09/2026
I've finally decided to stop adding devs to the first pack and create a second one. The first one now has 300 great developers in it, and I don't want people to be too overwhelmed after clicking "follow all", so I've started a second pack here: go.bsky.app/xozdCt
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 05/09/2026
Follow everyone in these too - you can never be following too many creative and wonderful humans. Your bsky experience will be better for it I promise
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 05/09/2026
Creating this no-ai indie games starter pack is one of the best things I ever did on BlueSky. Lots of great developers in here, making things with their own hands, some of whom I might not have found otherwise!! go.bsky.app/78u8M6Y
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Chequered Ink @chequered.ink · 25/07/2026
We have literally just gone on image flip and made like 7 of these because we A) need money B) want you to have 1200 fonts for commercial use for just $19 ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack
The car veering off the highway meme. The left road is AI GENERATED TEXT, the right road is 1200 COOL-ASS FONTS, the car is veering right and has the caption: YOU, I HOPE.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 01/09/2026
Our All Fonts Pack has become hugely popular mostly by word of mouth, and we thought - how can we get more eyes on it AND repay the people who help us? So now we're opening an affiliate program (trial for September only atm!) so you can earn commission by sharing it! chequered.ink/afp-affiliat...
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AFP Affiliate Sign-up
Our famous All Fonts Pack, which contains over 1200 fonts for commercial use, has proved to be a huge hit with designers. Now we're giving you a chance to earn...
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Nana Moon { game dev } - WISHLIST BATHORY @moonana.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I know these were just on sale but Anglerman needs emergency surgery so I'm extending the pack sale for a few days!! 😭😭 Share this post to help out, every like matters! Get the packs here for $10 each, if we can sell 200 it pays for the surgery: itch.io/s/197592/161... #gamedev 🎮 #ttrpg #vtuber
its a picture of anglerman looking sad and some text explaining his situation of how he needs an emergency surgery :(
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Chequered Ink @chequered.ink · 02/09/2026
Get all 1200+ of our fonts in one pack for full commercial use in game dev, board games, ttrpgs, art, graphic design, web comics, physical merchandise, websites and so much more! Currently 90% off - just $19 - until the end of September 🥳 ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack
Chequered Ink All Fonts Pack written in a chalkboard style with little hearts, stars and squiggles around it. A huge pinkish-red label in the top left says 90% Off.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 02/09/2026
These kinds of headlines always make it sound like there's incredibly fierce competition in the games industry - which obviously there kind of is - but it will absolutely be the case that the vast majority of these games perform poorly because they are just low effort slop of one kind or another.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 01/09/2026
Our All Fonts Pack has become hugely popular mostly by word of mouth, and we thought - how can we get more eyes on it AND repay the people who help us? So now we're opening an affiliate program (trial for September only atm!) so you can earn commission by sharing it! chequered.ink/afp-affiliat...
chequered.ink
AFP Affiliate Sign-up
Our famous All Fonts Pack, which contains over 1200 fonts for commercial use, has proved to be a huge hit with designers. Now we're giving you a chance to earn...
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bitebitebited 🐰🏡 indoor animal @bitebitebited.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Sneaking in one more for #InverteFest right before it ends. Behold my bookish bug #fakemon !! (dex entries in the comments 🐛📖) #pixelart #ドット絵 #pokemon
Three pixel art fakemon are pictured:

bookwurm - a small worm with a book on its back and reading lights on the ends of its antennae.

snugabug - a figure is covered in a blanket and sitting on top of an open book

elemenopede - a large centipede made mostly of books
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 31/08/2026
Latest energy bill from EDF drops into my inbox - with a link to have it analysed by their new "AI bill explainer". That could be a static html page at fucking most but it's not like the bill is complicated in the first place. Am I going completely mad??
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 31/08/2026
This is the only social media platform I like and its vibe coded ass goes down every few minutes, how long til they start shedding users en masse when the app is so unusable??
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 29/08/2026
Pokémon peeve: in newer games a lot of decision-making around which Pokémon get which abilities, moves & types seems to be based on balancing competitions rather than biology/lore. Example: every fan favourite starter Pokémon getting Protean. It only ever made sense on Kecleon.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 28/08/2026
Three days left to get our pack of 13,000 human-made game dev assets for just $10! Every sale helps us to keep making more sprites, sounds and fonts in future: ci.itch.io/all-game-ass...
The trade offer meme, on the left it says I receive $10, food, bills paid. On the right it says you receive 13,000 hand-made game assets.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 28/08/2026
Three days left to get our pack of 13,000 human-made game dev assets for just $10! Every sale helps us to keep making more sprites, sounds and fonts in future: ci.itch.io/all-game-ass...
The trade offer meme, on the left it says I receive $10, food, bills paid. On the right it says you receive 13,000 hand-made game assets.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Right now the government is putting our communities, our water security and our climate ambitions second to the demands of tech giants. It's time to slam the brakes on water-guzzling, energy hungry datacentres.
Greens call for temporary ban on new data centres
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 28/08/2026
I don't know if people here like carousel posts, but I made this guide for tools I use to create game dev assets! Posted on Instagram / TikTok, which I am incredibly bad at, so hopefully it will help some of you here instead 😅 #gamedev
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 27/08/2026
How I make our free game assets - pixel art edition! Hoping to make a bunch of RPG monsters at some point in the future and started with this dragon just so I could make the video 😅 #gamedev #pixelart
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 27/08/2026
How I make our free game assets - pixel art edition! Hoping to make a bunch of RPG monsters at some point in the future and started with this dragon just so I could make the video 😅 #gamedev #pixelart
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Sol's Atelier 🏖️ Elfie: A Sand Plan 🐘 @solsatelier.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Felt like sharing this starter pack again today. go.bsky.app/78u8M6Y
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 26/08/2026
The last time I did any proper game dev was November last year when I entered the GMC Jam with "Let Me Just Use This For A Second" (it won!!). Maybe the next game I make will be for GMC Jam 60 in October...
A little scribbly guy standing in a park surrounded by roads in top-down view. He is holding a barking dog above his head.The same scribbly guy in a field holding a pencil above his head. He has drawn the word cat crudely on the ground with an arrow pointing to a tree in which there is indeed a cat.A scribbly guy using a fishing rod on a pebbly beach. There is a fish on the ground next to him.The world map of the game, showing various forest and town areas. The drawings the player makes on the ground using the pencil also appear on the map.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 25/08/2026
All the biggest announcements from Gamescom Opening Night Live aftermath.site/gamescom-openi...
keoff geighley
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 25/08/2026
I made some free templates & instructions for making your own Zines. Let your community print-their-own, make them as freebies for events, or sell them as merch! Perfect for board games / TTRPGS, video games etc. Templates are afdesign, PDF, PNG, PSD & SVG chequered.ink/how-to-make-...
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How To Make Your Own Zines
Zines are a fun way to share things you love with your community. You can make print-your-own Zines for your players, take them to events or even sell them as...
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