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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 27/05/2025

Really proud that How Old is James? will be featured on this year's edition of the Steam fest @puzzleshowcase.bsky.social. Thanks for including us @draknek.bsky.social!

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 02/05/2025

🫰 @snappygurus.bsky.social are having me on their Discord today! Luciana from @knpgamestudio.bsky.social and myself chat about our work on Roots of Fury. We'll maybe even show off the new combat update (if the tech holds). 📍 discord.com/invite/fM7G2... 📅 Today at 8:00 PM CET; UTC+01:00

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 19/02/2025

So is Twitter worth it? Eh. If you can keep the effort low and post quick, punchy clips, it’s still got some juice. If nothing else, Tamashika proved one thing: you have 15 seconds to make people care. That’s it. No deep dives. No lore threads. Just get to the point. Good luck out there. 2/2 🧵

A white background featuring a screenshot of Tamashika’s viral tweet, which shows a first-person gameplay clip with stylized visuals. Next to it, engagement stats highlight its reach: 27.1M views, 18K reposts, 156K likes, 38K bookmarks.

Above the tweet, the bold red heading reads “People’s attention spans are fried”. Below, the text states: This isn’t just about Twitter. It’s how all game marketing works now.

A white text box with a subtle patterned background. A megaphone emoji 📢 appears next to the bold red heading: “Fans will market your game for you (if you let them).”

The text explains that you can’t force hype or engineer virality, but you can make it easier for people to care. When players feel involved—whether by sharing clips, interacting with devlogs, or passing on cool moments—they help market your game. But that only happens if you let them in early.

A follow-up to the previous image, with the same heading “Fans will market your game for you (if you let them)” and a megaphone emoji 📢.

The text highlights Tamashika’s viral tweet, saying it wasn’t just a one-off—it became a trend. Other developers started posting their own 15-second gameplay clips, creating organic reach that you can’t buy. The post ends with a shoutout: “Great job, vidhvat!”

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 19/02/2025

Everyone fled to Bluesky, swearing Twitter was dead. The algorithm? Messed up. Engagement? In the gutter. Musk? Still Musk. But then Tamashika drops a 15-second gameplay clip on Twitter, goes viral, and reminds us all… yeah, that site still kinda works. Just not in any way you can predict. 1/2 🧵

A graphic with a textured gray background and a pattern of small cute girly game-related icons. The text reads, “Twitter is still (somehow) a thing for game marketing, and Tamashika proves it.” At the top, a red banner says, “Go follow @vidhvatm on X.” At the bottom, two illustrated hands from the game are pointing weapons at each other—one holding a knife, the other a a gun.

A white text box with a subtle patterned background. A peach emoji 🍑 appears next to the bold red heading: “Early feedback saves your butt.” The text explains that most tweets get ignored, but one viral post can drive thousands of wishlists and sales overnight. Since you can’t predict which post will take off, Twitter only makes sense if you minimize effort.

A continuation of the previous image, with the same layout. The heading and peach emoji 🍑 are repeated. The text presents three green check-mark bullet points:
✅ Repurpose clips you’re already making.
✅ Keep it raw—polished trailers won’t hit like a snappy 10-second gameplay moment.
✅ Use it as a testing ground to see what grabs attention.

The final line reinforces that most posts will go nowhere, but occasionally, one will explode.

A white text box with a magnifying frying pan emoji next to the bold red heading: “People’s attention spans are fried.” The text explains that Tamashika didn’t go viral because of deep storytelling or fancy trailers—it worked because the gameplay was clear in 15 seconds. It stresses that if a game can’t sell its core loop quickly, players will move on.

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 14/02/2025

Most industries don’t market unfinished products. Cars, apps, movies—they all wait until things are polished. But in game dev? You gotta start talking about your game while it’s still a mess. I learned this the hard way. Here’s what I’ll do differently from now on. 🧵👇

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 10/02/2025

How Old is James is taking part in Steam Couch Co-op Fest 2025 🛋️ We really aim for this game to be played as classics such as It Takes Two, Unravel etc. Although playing with friends is not mandatory, just highly encouraged! Support by trying out our demo, and wishlisting if you want to see more ✨

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 22/01/2025

I compared how Severance and The Stanley Parable are basically the same thing. Keep following the downward facing finger 👇

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 05/12/2024

I guess I have a thing for stupidity...

This is a humorous visual where a Venn diagram combines categories of “butter,” “knife,” “butterfly,” and “fly” into overlapping sections. Each intersection is cleverly represented by an object (e.g., butter knife, butterfly knife) that fits both categories. The humor lies in how unrelated these items are, yet the diagram forces them into “logical” combinations

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 27/11/2024

The oil always finds a way. Feeling like that guy from American Beauty who’s in love with a plastic bag. I should watch that movie again sometime…

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 26/11/2024

posting this here as a reminder to myself to always say this to smug people being nosey.

This is a four-panel comic with two stick-figure characters interacting. Here’s a description of the panels:
1. Panel 1: One character is sitting on a couch, holding and playing a flute. The other character walks in, looking surprised, and says, “What the hell are you doing?”
2. Panel 2: The character with the flute replies, “I’m learning the flute.” The standing character laughs and asks, “Haha! Why?!”
3. Panel 3: The flute-playing character looks shocked and worried as the standing character crosses their arms and smirks.
4. Panel 4: The flute player, now very serious, grabs the other character’s shirt, leans in, and asks, “You’re not familiar with doing whatever the f*** you want?”

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 26/11/2024

This is very neat to me, just to kinda help me remember just how much the difference actually is.

The image contains a comparison of the magnitude of a billion versus a million, framed using time measurements. It does this with various time units:
• 1 million seconds = about 12 days
• 1 billion seconds = about 32 years
• 1 million minutes ago was approximately 2 years ago
• 1 billion minutes ago was the year 114 AD
• 1 million hours ago was the dawn of the 20th century (1901)
• 1 billion hours ago was around the time the first modern humans walked (141,000 years ago)
• 1 million days ago was around 700 BC
• 1 billion days ago was 2.7 million years ago.

The background is dark, with a futuristic digital design.

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 24/11/2024

Arcane finale binge session with the guys would’ve been a failure if it weren’t for this bad boy 🍕 Desecration complete this on this leftover morning…

Homemade pizza with a cheese base, artichokes, chilli flakes and mortadella

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 21/11/2024

𝙋𝙤𝙠𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙣 𝙭 𝒮𝓉𝓊𝒹𝒾𝑜 𝒢𝒽𝒾𝒷𝓁𝒾 Check out more below 👇

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 21/11/2024

Wealth is an existence based on love, respect, honesty, and freedom to grow without pressure, fear, or competition. • Quote in video by Dr. Nicole LePera • IG reel by @momentary_existentialism • Illustrations by Dávid Pogran • Audio is generated by Al #ThoughtfulThursday

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 19/11/2024

love this, keep at it. for some reason also made me think of this meme

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 18/11/2024

#MusicMonday 𝙄𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙮 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨. After four decades, the enigma of “The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet” has been unraveled. In the 1980s, a German teenager recorded a song from the radio onto a cassette tape, but the artist and title remained unknown 👇

A grainy black and white photo of three people standing in what looks like a recording studio. They all feature mullet haircuts and are working on some music together. The walls feature posters with German words written on them.

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 16/11/2024

Check out some screenshots from our game #ScreenshotSaturday

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 15/11/2024

This can’t be a conversation with an actual person, right?

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 13/11/2024

she works hard for the money.

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 12/11/2024

𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨, 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 (𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟔), 𝐎𝐢𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐯𝐚𝐬

George Condo, Big John (2006), Oil on canvas

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 11/11/2024

MutedArtistPlayer spent 230 hours on recreating Howl's Moving Castle in Satisfactory. Legend.

A replica of Howl's Moving Castle in the game Satisfactory.

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 11/11/2024

PSA: The PIZZAWRMR by Pizza Hut is not, I repeat: is not compatible with your Nintendo Switch console.

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 10/11/2024

dali was there first 🫠

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shevadelic @howoldisjames.com · 10/11/2024

does teaching the algo actually work here? 🖥️ Game dev 📜 Wordplay 👨‍🍳 Cooking 👾 Indie games 🎼 Unconventional music 🎪 Offbeat content 🧠 Mind-bending novels 🧘‍♂️ Mental wellness 🍑 Kinks #promosky

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