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John Wordsworth

@johnwordsworth.bsky.social
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Game developer & tech leader in Sweden. All about games, TTRPGs, and board games. Former Tech Director at Paradox Interactive. Maths PhD Survivor. OCCULT CLEANUP AGENCY - Wishlist Now! store.steampowered.com/app/5163280/…

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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I had a wonderful time with Mixtape earlier in the year. Zero Company was surprisingly better than expected (even though I’m a tactics fan - and it had a slow start). I’m really enjoying Well Dweller at the moment too! A platformer that respects my time as a player (checkpoints near bosses!).
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Julien Wera @werejul.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Our Viking strategy auto-battlerNorthgard Battlegrounds launches in 3 weeks on Oct 27. We’ve just released a playable demo — try it over here: store.steampowered.com/app/4487060/... #Gaming
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Northgard Battlegrounds on Steam
A city-building auto-battler set in the Viking world of Northgard, where every building you place shapes your clan’s fate. Develop your village, claim the Gods’ blessings, and send your warband to…
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Huh, this looks like it could be a blast! Wishlisted to inspect properly later!
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
😅 Perhaps some things are better left unknown!
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Can’t wait to go to a Suno v6 Pro live concert with my buddies, or chat about their latest album, or read about the cool stuff they do as artists, or hear their new track on the radio and decide I need to hear more from them or… oh - that’s right - I can’t do any of this with endless AI music.
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Was there also a neck tie on a ceiling fan in there?
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That's great to hear - hope you have an awesome time with it! I personally think it shines best in couch co-op if you have offline friends/family to play it with!
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That's awesome to hear - hope you have a great time with your playthrough! I loved how the first was pitched perfectly that it was genuinely fun for all ages and I think this one does the same.
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Minecraft Dungeons II launches in just a few minutes! It's been amazing working with such a talented team over the last few years. They've done such a good job on this awesome game - I can't wait to play it with non-Devs! store.steampowered.com/app/1912410/...
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Pre-purchase Minecraft Dungeons II on Steam
Drop the pickaxe, grab a sword, and charge into a new adventure in Minecraft Dungeons II. Pre-order today and get 2 hero skins, the Twisted cape, and the Twisted chicken pet!
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Marc Watson @marc-irl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dungeons II comes out in like 36 hours and some of my favorite new mobs haven’t even been seen yet 🤭
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Let me get this straight - if Open AI hacks and deletes medical records leading to people dying, or someday hacks a missile system and blows up a town full of people. We just shrug our shoulders and go “eh, AI did it - not their fault”?
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Buoy, this is pretty cool.
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As someone who has played a lot of Resident Evil and Silent Hill over the years, this Tabletop RPG looks interesting!
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Woah - this feels like something I would totally have on my shelf had I known it existed before now. I say we try to get it back on the shelves... Call it extreme if you like, but I propose we hit it hard and hit it fast with a major, and I mean major leaflet campaign.
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I used to play point and clicks, but rarely find them at the top of my play list in recent years… A TMNT themed one would jump straight to the top though! It would be epic!
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For me, this was probably Dungeon Master on the Atari ST. I first played it with my Dad. It was such a good game and still holds up today. Runners up were definitely Sonic, Captain Blood, Civilization and Elite!
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hold on - how did I completely miss the fact that a Resident Evil movie just came out!? And it’s actually… decent… from the reviews? Oh boy - looking forward to watching that! Some great movies on this list - and a few we’ve not seen, so adding those to our list!
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This week on Occult Cleanup Agency for me has mostly been trying to fix up saving / loading. It feels about 90% done now, but saving these little fellas... Custom fractured pieces of broken items... *Shakes Fist*
A screenshot from the upcoming game Occult Cleanup Agency which depicts the player holding a crowbar and in front of them is a box that has been broken into pieces.
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just become your own CEO! Then they will (hopefully) know who you are! :D
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Great idea to have the site 'pre-seeded' with a couple of months of content so there is a bunch to read already. I was pleasantly surprised to see the RSS Reader load a bunch of new articles!
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How very exciting! Very cool to see that you have RSS support so I can immediately pull your articles into my natural place to read news :). Looking forward to digging in for a good read later.
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 14/09/2026
It's TIME! TO! GET! HYPE! Today, I get to proudly unveil Steam Hype, the project I've been working on with the help of @hookshot.media for the past two and a half months. A new PC gaming site which aims to demystify PC gaming, cut through the 100+ daily releases and spotlight indies as much as AAA
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Steam Hype
Steam Hype is your go-to destination for discovering the latest, greatest, and most talked-about games on Steam.
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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My time at Unity is coming to a premature end, with our consulting team being dismantled. That means that ✨Sparkling Code✨ is available again for all your C++, performance, graphics and gamedev needs, now with premium Unity expertise too!
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Super excited for this to release in just TWO WEEKS now! The team at Mojang are lovely, smart and delightful to work with and they've built an excellent game that's a lot of fun. If you're looking for a family-friendly, co-op, Diablo-esque ARPG to play in the coming weeks - you should check it out!
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thanks for the kind words sir! Can't wait to share more of the game with you (and the rest of the world). Huge thanks for the re-share - much appreciated!
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Occult Cleanup Agency A deductive, paranormal, cleaning sim releasing 2027. Investigate the scene. Solve the mystery. Clean away all evidence of the horrors that occurred. Golden Idol + Power Wash Sim + X-Files. Wishlists and reshares massively appreciated! store.steampowered.com/app/5163280/...
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Occult Cleanup Agency on Steam
Grab your camera, pack your power-washer, and clear off the caseboard - you’re back on the nightshift for the Agency and it’s your job to investigate, catalogue, and then meticulously clean away the r...
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
All right, here's the first call out. Within hours of me publishing an incredibly in-depth piece on CMON's finances, which covers a multitude of stock exchange filings from across several weeks, this article appeared on @tabletopgamingnews.bsky.social: www.tabletopgamingnews.com/cmon-is-suff...
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CMON Faces Make-or-Break Moment as It Warns of "Prolonged Structural Downturn" - TGN - Tabletop Gaming News
CMON has issued a stark warning about its future, telling investors its core business is stuck in a "prolonged structural downturn" and still burning through
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Excellent to hear! My MacBook is for “thinky / clicky games” and my desktop PC is for “heavy / action games” and it’s rare I cross that over - so many games get passed over for me if there is no Mac version. Excited to see more of Vampirium!
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Have seen the posts before but only just today took the time to look into Vampirium: 1997. It looks super interesting and something I want to sink my teeth into! Also nice that it looks like a macOS build is on the cards, because this is exactly the sort of game that should play well on a laptop.
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I love that show and adore how they handle the passage of time between seasons, it’s wonderful. (I want to run a D&D campaign like that some day!)
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
That’s good to know! My PC is 3 years old but still pretty decent. Gah - they both look so good, it’s gonna be a tough choice which to play first!
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I will be picking up one of these two as soon as I’m done with Zero Company, but they both look great - so it’s a difficult decision! Blood of Dawnwalker feels like a very ambitious project - do you think it would be better after a couple of months of bug fixing, or is it already pretty solid?
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Amy Pearson @amypearson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Doodling our Occult Cleanup Agency protagonist. Cosmic horrors come in all shapes and sizes I guess ♥️ Steam link for more info! store.steampowered.com/app/5163280/...
Chibi style character illustration. The Occult Cleanup Agent has her Agency approved bucket and considers a gloopy entity.
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Word of warning for anyone using Project Auditor. Unity memory usage ballooned up to 48GB for me when running the full audit - so maybe run it in stages! I also wonder how many small performance issues will be fixed automagically by CoreCLR, like unboxing in string interpolation and the like.
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Upgraded Occult Cleanup Agency to Unity 6.6 yesterday. For the first time in a while, I'm excited by the updates. Project Auditor and Unity CLI are great. Not got faster shader builds working yet, but hopefully soon. Then CoreCLR is just around the corner... store.steampowered.com/app/5163280/...
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Occult Cleanup Agency on Steam
Grab your camera, pack your power-washer, and clear off the caseboard - you’re back on the nightshift for the Agency and it’s your job to investigate, catalogue, and then meticulously clean away the r...
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is all I can think of whenever I see the images going around about the upcoming Apple Launch event...
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Heh, to be fair - about 40% of every cup of coffee I have is milk. That's gotta count for something! But yes - I'm trying to lower my dose over time so I don't have to worry about morning headaches if there is no caffeine 😅.
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A couple of weeks ago, after dinner, I realised I had only drunk coffee / cold brew / Coke Zero from 9am to about 9pm. That fits 'normal quantity'... right? (I now have some decaf beans that I switch to in the evenings xD)
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Oh, that’s right - we now have a first trailer for Occult Cleanup Agency! Check it out! Please share and wishlist as we make our first push at sharing the game we’ve been working on. It’s hugely appreciated, and we hope you will enjoy it when it’s released!
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Jeff Tanton - Wishlist OCCULT CLEANUP AGENCY 📸👻🪣 @jefftanton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Immense gratitude for all the love this got. Couldn’t have hoped for a better start! We have LOTS of content to share so let me know if there’s anything you want to see more of 📸👻🪣
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Needed a couple of M3 nuts with M3.8 bolts for a 3D printed project. And now, as is tradition, I have a box of about 7 million little nuts and bolts and I will use about 4 of them every few months…
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
But I also enjoy doing it as a creative outlet! Some people draw, some write - I throw worlds / mechanics and game ideas down, even if I rarely end up sharing them!
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I get stuck in the same trap with my own board games and TTRPGs. For me, I think that it’s (a) you end up extra critical of your own work and see the problems, and (b) I think most great games start with a mediocre prototype with one or two cool bits and grow - it’s hard to get through that bit.
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WatcherDM (He/Him) @watcherdm.com · 30/08/2026
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a... New ttrpg review podcast!
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All Systems Nominal
Games Podcast · Updated Monthly · All Systems Nominal is a podcast about science fiction tabletop roleplaying games, focused on smaller independent TTRPGs.
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I can't imagine having a Gamescom ruined by having your equipment and copies of your game stolen. It's stressful enough being there pitching or showing off your game, so this would be devastating. Feel terrible for everyone who was affected.
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I don’t want to become too obsessed with watching the numbers, but after announcing Occult Cleanup Agency on Steam yesterday, I couldn’t help but make a little Stream Deck widget to keep track of the Wishlists! store.steampowered.com/app/5163280/...
A photo of an Elgato Stream Deck with a custom plugin that shows the number of Wishlists of Occult Cleanup Agency on one of the buttons.
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Jeff Tanton - Wishlist OCCULT CLEANUP AGENCY 📸👻🪣 @jefftanton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
OCCULT CLEANUP AGENCY - a deductive 📸, paranormal 👻, job-sim 🪣 - Investigate sites of recent horrors - Solve the mystery of what occurred there - Clean all traces of it away so nobody finds out Golden Idol x Power Wash Sim Releasing in 2027 - wishlist now store.steampowered.com/app/5163280/...!
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John Wordsworth @johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Very excited to share that we have now have a Steam page for our game - Occult Cleanup Agency! We're still a long way from release, but it's great to start talking about our paranormal cleaning-sim & investigation game set in the 1990s! (Yes, we're old). store.steampowered.com/app/5163280/...
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Occult Cleanup Agency on Steam
Grab your camera, pack your power-washer, and clear off the caseboard - you’re back on the nightshift for the Agency and it’s your job to investigate, catalogue, and then meticulously clean away the r...
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Jeff Tanton - Wishlist OCCULT CLEANUP AGENCY 📸👻🪣 @jefftanton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Heading to Gamescom with @amypearson.bsky.social to talk new studio and new game! Mutuals hit me up. It’s been too long since we ate battered foods in the shadow of a Castlevania cathedral together.
A screenshot of an unannounced game. It is first-person. A room of floating furniture is bathed in an eerie green glow.A screenshot of an unannounced game. It shows a caseboard full of questions and paper and puzzles. There are spaces for Polaroid slots and missing words to fill in.
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