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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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Chequered Ink @chequered.ink · 8h
You have until the end of today to get our All Fonts Pack 90% Off - that's 1200 fonts for commercial use in game dev, web design, logos, videos, merch - basically whatever - for just $19! ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack
90% Off all fonts pack - 1200 fonts for commercial use - last chance banner.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 8h
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 · 21h
Option 4) they saw the Green performance at the locals in May and people like Streeting decided they'd rather mive 1% back to the left than lose their cushy jobs at the next election
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 28/09/2026
Heartbreaking to scroll around this map in satellite mode and impossible to understand how anyone with access to it can deny what's happened here at all
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 28/09/2026
it's funny to see in such a stark format just how many things they won, over the last decade by just cheating and it was fairly obvious to any idiot they weren't winning fairly but they were just allowed to do it all anyway.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 27/09/2026
I think SNP, PC and Green are all being under-predicted here.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 26/09/2026
Yeah it's not great, and basically floods the world with more cheap plastic tat we don't need too.
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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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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 26/09/2026
Basically yes? But not so much a scam as just The Way The World Works™️ A whole bunch of even legit recognised brands just have their things made in the same factory and then a different logo stuck on them. These cameras are probably from an Alibaba seller that lets you custom the logo or something
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 26/09/2026
The handle doesn't lie
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 26/09/2026
👀 🕶️ 👀 🕶️
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 26/09/2026
I'm not 100% certain he said he wouldn't tbh. Would be pretty easy to answer her first question by saying "no, I will never do anything with the Sun newspaper" but it takes him ages just to get to "I won't do any *special* interviews" - what's special? What's normal? What does that mean?
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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 · 19/09/2026
Haha thanks hope you enjoy using them!
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 19/09/2026
Well you have to present a credible alternative. Seat might've gone Reform without the Polanski surge (i.e. with the Ramsay/Chowns leadership option)
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 18/09/2026
Both leaders were doing / are doing a good job. So the Greens lose a couple of council seats in conservative areas, but quadruple their membership and won a westminster by-election at the same time? Sounds like a win to me.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 18/09/2026
E.g. if you have a small team of indie Devs, up to 20 of them can have the ttf/otf font files on their pc for making things.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 18/09/2026
Sure! You can use the font in as many commercial products as you want and sell as many of them as you want, e.g. you could make 100 games and sell them to 1,000,000 people. The second part refers to how many devices you - the creator - can install the font files to do your work.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 18/09/2026
None that have been developed specifically with hyper legibility in mind - but there are a bunch of ordinary, readable sans serif fonts in there (although the vast majority of the pack are display fonts better for logos and stuff than long form text)
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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 · 17/09/2026
This looks super cool, saved to play later!
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 14/09/2026
Round of applause for the choice of thumbnail on this link
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 14/09/2026
I don't think there's any fair way to fund politics from public money, but I'd be in favour of a straight cap per individual so that parties are basically funded by their members and supporters.
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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 · 13/09/2026
Lord McSweeney absolutely would be there as pure 100% messaging to anyone who gives a shit about ever having a nice govt again: fuck you, you're not going to get it, look how we can do whatever we want and you can't stop us.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 13/09/2026
What a mess FPTP makes of the results. Greens above LD on vote share and 60 seats behind.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 13/09/2026
Ah yes it's that time of year again!
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 12/09/2026
The commentariat have decided that's what they want so they're pretending it's already here.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 12/09/2026
Sick and tired of evil billionaires using their autism as an excuse to do bad things. What about the 99.9% of people with autism who aren't funding neo nazi parties? Will they be given a platform to talk about their politics?
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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
I remember they announced ages ago (excitedly) that they would be using a lot of gen AI going forward. Sad times. I think it went largely unnoticed until the recent showcase.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 11/09/2026
Following you now because I want to see some robots sparring
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 11/09/2026
If I aged one year for every prototype I've made to procrastinate my main projects I'd have the Guinness world record for oldest man alive
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 11/09/2026
I don't know the context but I like the bottom left most visually
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 11/09/2026
But life is hectic these days! I guess, who says I have to release something for its 10th anniversary?? 11 or 12 can be perfectly special numbers, if that's when I happen to have time to make something actually GOOD 😅
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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
Really just depends on how big the stage is. If the players can get really far apart it has to be split screen. If they're always kinda close and you can just zoom out a bit (like smash bros) then shared screen is cool.
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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
That is fair enough, starter packs can definitely result in a sudden splurge of content
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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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