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@edsibley.bsky.social
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Game design generalist. Studio head at Whetstone Games. Co-chair of IGDA London. The only person who knows the true identity of Vortigan King.

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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thank you for the lovely photos!
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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026
talent is a lie
a cartoon picture of a frog throwing a crooked looking clay vase with the words “talent is a lie, just do it anyway”
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
with a full grown leviathan this is impossible
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Been trying to synthesise an organ that sounds as friendly and warm as the public one in London Bridge Station but nothing is quite right. So fuck it I'm gonna go record the thing myself. It's night so I hope it's quiet enough to get some useful samples!
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
He was one whose power was akin to, and as strong as, the Old Powers of the earth; one who talked with dragons, and held off earthquakes with his word. And there he lay asleep on the dirt, with a little thistle growing by his hand.
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pantaloon | ROLLA OUT SEP 30 🚨 @pantaloon.io · 02/09/2026
Later today the world's tiniest violin hits OFFBEAT in our first major EA Update. Also featuring: - Reverb pedal & EQ! - 11 new jobs! - Desk inventory! - Dorian Mode! - More! Stay tuned this afternoon for the hot new single from @edsibley.bsky.social, too 🎻 store.steampowered.com/app/4468030/...
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Having a good weird time practicing my semi-improv live OFFBEAT set in the middle of the night in an Airbnb in Koln, ahead of playing it to a room full of games biz people tomorrow night. How did we end up here?
Offbeat on a laptop with a keystep pro and an audio interface glowing
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Alpha Chrome Yayo @alphachromeyayo.com · 29/07/2026
Is this good use of free will? Turning a Densha de Go train game peripheral into a sick acid bass controller 😤🚅💨💥
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Alice Nevermore @alicen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Made it to indie co-working at @loading.bar today to witness @edsibley.bsky.social launching early access to his game, Offbeat. Here’s him, announcing the launch in one hour, from the bar, to a bunch of jealous indies.
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
it's out!
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Alpha Chrome Yayo @alphachromeyayo.com · 21/07/2026
making a quick sword slash sound effect with stuff around the house ⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️ (yes I have swords around the house ok)
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
OK! Releasing OFFBEAT tomorrow. If anyone has any advice on how to be calm on the day before release, I would love to hear it.
A cassette box featuring the offbeat key art of a monkey on the cassette and Whetstone Games on the j card.
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pantaloon | ROLLA OUT SEP 30 🚨 @pantaloon.io · 17/07/2026
Fun fact about the number FIVE ✨ Five is the number of days remaining between now and the release of the beat-slinging music production game OFFBEAT! Wow! Stay tuned for more, fact fans!
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Doing the thing 🎹 🖥️ 🙀
OFFBEAT playing on various screens at a convention table
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
There is a certain bleakness in finding hope where one expected certainty.
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The people of Clacton have the opportunity to do something incredibly funny.
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I humbly present a little ditty known to some as FUTURE EGG
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 02/07/2026
Nearly every mobile game I’ve ever worked on is gone, “sunsetted” rather than made playable on current OSes. Their titles mean nothing to recruiters and hiring managers, let alone players. Even if players remember them fondly, they couldn’t play them anymore if they wanted to.
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Alexander Newcombe @alexandernewcombe.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This. Five years of my career are on games that don't exist anymore and four years are on games that were never allowed to exist. 😮‍💨
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
They are beasts as we are beasts. Men are animals that speak.
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is the only time I've ever seen someone articulate the affront I feel when an electric toothbrush buzzes to tell me that I've finished brushing my teeth.
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Laurence Bianchi-Phillips - Hardy Roach Games @hardyroachgames.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Uwah! Now that's a nice thing to wake up. We are funded, took 36 hours. I had no idea what to expect, but I didn't expect things to go this well! But we're not done! As the final amount gets higher, the quality of the print run will improve, and I may even throw in some surprise extras as we go.
Il Fantasma del Giallo kickstarter stats - £3558, 101% funded
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The Fantasma del Giallo kickstarter is up! www.kickstarter.com/projects/har... This is a strange and excellent TTRPG project by my good pal @hardyroachgames.bsky.social. It uses a trick-taking mechanic to tell gruesome, heavy stories inspired by Giallo cinema. Plus, I'm doing the soundtrack!
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Il Fantasma del Giallo: The Phantom of the Yellow
Become disgraced actors trapped in a sequence of brutal Neo-Noir murder-mysteries in this cinematic, reality-bending TTRPG.
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I'm enjoying making haunted jazz for this project!
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
look at nice these notebook sprites by @ellipsea.online
a spritesheet showing five frames of an animation of a book opening
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Laurence Bianchi-Phillips - Hardy Roach Games @hardyroachgames.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Thrilled to show off this trailer, it's been a hell of a lot of work. Shout out to the wonderful @edsibley.bsky.social for the music - and if you like that track, you'll want to back for the full OST when this goes live on the 24th! www.kickstarter.com/projects/har...
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Coming soon: Il Fantasma del Giallo: The Phantom of the Yellow
Become disgraced actors trapped in a sequence of brutal Neo-Noir murder-mysteries in this cinematic, reality-bending TTRPG.
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
oh man oh geez oh man
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Tributary Games @tributarygames.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Six years ago a Choices Matter game called Over the Alps released. Stave was formed to make it, it became an Apple Arcade launch title, and it won a few awards. Part of that team went on to Tributary, and when Stave closed we couldn't just let it vanish. So... Re-introducing, OVER THE ALPS! 🧵
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Phrasemaker @thephrasemaker.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Caves of Qud’s Jason Grinblat on Writing a Game Like a Wolfe Novel Caves of Qud is not your usual RPG. Last year it won the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work and the Independent Games Festival's award for Excellence in Narrative. That's an unusual amount of literary credibility to rack…
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Caves of Qud’s Jason Grinblat on Writing a Game Like a Wolfe Novel
Caves of Qud is not your usual RPG. Last year it won the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work and the Independent Games Festival's award for Excellence in Narrative. That's an unusual amount of literary credibility to rack up for a video game, let alone a roguelike. Jason Grinblat, who co-created Qud with Brian Bucklew starting in 2007, has a theory for why. It's no accident that Grinblat names Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun as a touchstone. Both master the art of giving out just the right amount of information for the reader.
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
One of my favourite tracks I've heard from the game so far
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The only real stability is in making your own games industry from scratch
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
We're in Next Fest! That's one item ticked off the indie studio bucket list. store.steampowered.com/news/app/446...
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OFFBEAT - OFFBEAT is in Steam Next Fest - Steam News
Release your hidden musical genius, and share it with the world!
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Laurence Bianchi-Phillips - Hardy Roach Games @hardyroachgames.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Hey mutuals! I thought for Il Fantasma I would ask people I know and respect if they might share a small quote about it (if they like it) that I can optionally use in promo material. If anyone wants to take a look at the Quickstart to decide if they fancy providing a pull quote, DM me!
First two pages of the quickstart. Text:

Welcome to the Yellow

You are now within the pages of Il Fantasma del Giallo. Welcome to Europe. Welcome to the Yellow. 
​This is a magical realist game concerning the horrors of collapsing identity, gruesome violence, uncertain reality, unrestrained vice, and endless layers of corruption. 
​Here, you will take on the persona of one of several Actors who — for various reasons that may become known — are no longer welcome in the epic soundstages of Hollywood, on the well-trod boards of London, or even in the musty, trend-setting basements of any given continental capital. Out of options, every path travelled, every bridge burnt, all but a few friends driven into the hills (or perhaps under them). With no options left, you sign a devil’s bargain. Or at least, it seems like you must have. 
​Sometime in the 1970s (or perhaps the ‘60s), somewhere in Europe, you wake in a bed damp with sweat. The wide-open window and unnervingly wobbling ceiling fan do little to chase the thick, warm air from your pokey room. 
​Aside from your moist bed, the room contains nothing but a rickety chipboard desk, atop of which is a contract. It’s your contract, and you signed it, remember? There’s your signature. It’s even got that little flourish that only you notice. 
​It’s an employment contract — a lucrative deal with a new Italian studio set to produce a conveyor belt of new horror and thriller pictures for the continental market, one film after another. It’s an actor’s dream, the closest you might come to security in the smoking ruin that is your career. Too good to pass up. Nobody else had even heard of the studio. Lucky you.
​What did happen to that little career of yours? You can’t seem to recall just now. There are vague shapes and shadows, faces and names, flashes of feelings…bad ones. But it's probably not important. Right now, the important thing is to make films and make money. 
​You’re an Actor, after all.
You’re In the movies.
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
someone's taken jon hostage and this is his attempt to signal that someone is holding a gun to his head
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Els White @elskwhite.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
put my life into spreadsheets this is my right click -> sort
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
THIS GAME RULES
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Summer Laverdure @summerlaverdure.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
this game is so cool, its basically mario paint music making (with more notes/better instruments) as a job simulator i love it i got to make music for a ghost wedding 😍 i didn't record the video but luckily the game exports your music to WAV i hope they could add a lower octave, it would help ngl
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
OH MY GOSH one of our heroes has found out about our game, 🖤
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Laurence Bianchi-Phillips - Hardy Roach Games @hardyroachgames.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
We're at about three and a half weeks till the Il Fantasma del Giallo kickstarter launches (June 24th), so let's talk game stuff. Over the next few weeks I'll give previews of each of the Archetypes. This time: the Inquisitor. As this is the first one, I'll add a bit about how Archetypes work!
3D render of a man in the shadows smoking a cigarette and reading from a notebook
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Whetstone Games / OFFBEAT out now! @whetstone.games · 01/06/2026
If you're some kinda music dork and want to know how we're handling the audio backend in OFFBEAT, here's a blog post! www.whetstone.games/blog-1/pure-... It barely scratches the surface :)
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Pure Data — Whetstone Games
This post is about the tool OFFBEAT uses to generate and manipulate audio. If you’re making a platformer, every game engine has ready-made tools for handling collision and gravity. But it turns out,...
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
the OFFBEAT public demo is out! 🙉🎹🎶 ⏬⏬⏬ 💹📈💹 if you take a look, I'd love to hear what you make!
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Whetstone Games / OFFBEAT out now! @whetstone.games · 07/05/2026
OFFBEAT is on Rock Paper Shotgun! Whoa!! Thank you @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/make-actual-...
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Make actual songs with singing garden gnomes in Offbeat, a jobbing composer sim that doubles as an audio production tool
Offbeat, a jobbing composer sim that doubles as an audio production tool, has been announced for early access release this year.
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Whetstone Games / OFFBEAT out now! @whetstone.games · 06/05/2026
Announcing OFFBEAT! This is our debut title, a music-tycoon game where you build a recording studio and record real, actual music using a variety of unlikely objects. WISHLIST IT HERE: store.steampowered.com/app/4468030/... #indiegame #indiedev #microstudio #musicproduction #diy
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OFFBEAT on Steam
OFFBEAT is a music-tycoon game where you build the recording studio of your dreams. Collect and upgrade increasingly strange musical objects, complete jobs for cash, and record real, actual music.
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Murray Somerwolff @patattiemurray.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
🚨🚨🚨ANNOUNCEMENT!!!🚨🚨🚨 WAX HEADS IS OUT!!! Our cosy-punk, puzzle narrative record store game is finally out on PC / Switch / PS5 / Xbox This game is our love letter to music, to the way it connects us and a celebration of human made art. We hope you enjoy it ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuAm...
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Wax Heads - Launch Trailer
YouTube video by Curve Games
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Some assets Giselle has made for OFFBEAT so far: - a singing garden gnome - the glorious key art below - several cigarette-smoking pigs - the most delicious vintage sequencer you've ever seen - the legendary Tiger-01 cat piano - a sky that will make you ask "what colour is the sky"
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Here's what we've been cooking ✨🙊🎙️
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
👀👀👀🙈
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
We might have something interesting to say over the next few days :)
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Whetstone Games / OFFBEAT out now! @whetstone.games · 27/04/2026
Whetstone Games is Ed, Ivan and Giselle. We have a handmade, DIY ethos, and we want to make you laugh. Debut announcement coming soon.
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