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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam

@katanalevy.bsky.social
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Solo horror game dev / environment artist. Currently working on a secret new horror game. - Dead Format - Daemonologie - Symphony of Seven Souls

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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
To take a break while working on my next game I've been experimenting with creating little Sculpey creature dioramas. The living doll one has a fantastic subsurface translucency to give it a fleshy look but it's so extremely soft it's a bit tricky to not crush forms when working on the other side.
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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 01/05/2026
good tweet
screenshot of a very long rant tweet about the state of technology. Its too long to paste into the alt text
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Can't wait to seeing Hokum tonight! Neon approached me about making a game to coincide with the launch but unfortunately they chose not to proceed. Shame, it would have been a really fun project! Did a quick sketch over my morning coffee to dream what could have been...
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Naming a video game you've completed more than 6 times is trickier:
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a video game has a score of 0/0
ALT: a video game has a score of 0/0
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
A step in the right direction!
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Really awesome to be nominated in the solo dev category for YAGA!
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
QTP with a game that has a 10/10 soundtrack
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I kinda want this the opposite way - the insurance pamphlets posted through my door should look like Vermis or the rulebook for Necromunda if they want me to pay attention.
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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
If you’re part of any creative groups, unions or other organisations in the uk you should be passing news like this along and spreading the world. News like this gets has the chance to be overlooked but if enough organisations kick up a fuss things can change.
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Thanks to the hard work of some incredibly awesome fans of the game, it is now possible to play Daemonologie in Russian, Ukrainian, Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish! steamcommunity.com/games/304814...
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Steam :: Daemonologie :: Translations - Russian, Ukrainian, Brazilian Portuguese and Spannish!
4 new fan translations added
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Dead Format will officially be coming out on the 10th of December!! Explore different eras of horror by watching short live action clips in this first person survival horror game!
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Gare @garejei.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I did a new indie developer interview, this time with Katanalevy ( @katanalevy.bsky.social ), the solo dev behind Daemonologie, Symphony of Seven Souls, Cardiac and the upcoming Dead Format! Read it here: www.gtogg.com/News/en/Insi... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #horrorgame #DeadFormat
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Need something spooky to play this weekend? Honoured to have Daemonologie in this Indie Fears Humble Bundle with this many absolute bangers! www.humblebundle.com/games/indie-...
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Indie Fears Bundle
Expand your spooky season gaming library with the creepiest indie horror games! Each purchase at the price of your choice supports SpecialEffect charity!
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Steam Next Fest starts today and the DEAD FORMAT demo is available to download! Step into various eras of horror including silent gothic and 80s body horror in this first person survival horror.
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The demo for Dead Format is now on Steam! A first person survival horror game that lets you explore various iconic film eras. Also featuring live action film clips with homemade practical fx! store.steampowered.com/app/3399290/...
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Dead Format Demo now on Itch! A first-person survival horror game with live action film clips. It's a love letter to different eras of horror films and inspired by a time of horror censorship in the UK (unfortunately this feels oddly relevant again today).
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I try to get an hour or two of mad scientist time in each week to experiment with some weird idea. This week it's a pint glass full of water with a hydrophonic microphone inside a broken speaker cab and dragging rubber mallets on the side to make some weird creature sounds!
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I'll be attending Glasgow Indie Games Fest on the 9th of August and have Daemonologie playable there! Feel free to come over, play the game and chat some horror! youtu.be/X4kyzvhkWy4
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Daemonologie Launch Date Trailer
YouTube video by Chris Evry | Katanalevy
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Oro Interactive @orointeractive.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Dead Format (formerly known as Video Ghastlies) is shaping up nicely. 🔊All sounds effects are handmade by @katanalevy.bsky.social who even went to his brother's work to record sound samples.
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Environment sound design is one of my favourite aspects of game development! I recorded these sfx of machinery at my brother's work and love layering up the environment with sounds like painting with colours from a palette. #gamedev #horrorgame #indiegame
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Video Ghastlies is my upcoming survival horror game. Explore various VHS worlds as a love-letter to different eras and genres of horror and uncover the secrets of the government trying to ban them. Featuring some live action practical fx filled tape clips! youtu.be/5SZc_Y6ULv8
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
What a wonderful world we would live in if companies would make actually useful error messages in their software and on their sites.
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
My most popular environment packs for UE5 are now on sale for 50%! www.fab.com/sellers/Kata...
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
If you live in the UK and also appalled by the rampant theft of copyright materials to train AI then I encourage you to let your opinions be added to this questionnaire for the Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence: ipoconsultations.citizenspace.com/ipo/consulta...
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Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence - Intellectual Property Office - Citizen Space
Find and participate in activities run by Intelluctual Property Office
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is so extremely useful! All the previous places to look for reference images are completely polluted, we desperately need repositories of non-AI images.
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Heartbreaking news about David Lynch. The first film I saw of his was Lost Highway and it still influences a lot of the things I make in some way. Every piece of art he worked on seems so unique and also uniquely Lynch.
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
So excited to be working with the awesome team at Oro! Their support has allowed me to finally quit my day job and go full-time game dev!! Working on a very exciting new project at the moment and with their expertise we can hopefully see Daemonologie reach more people.
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Instead of spending £300 on a binaural mic for my game dev work, I spent Sunday evening with some rubber ears from ebay, toilet roll tubes, duct tape and milliput to make one myself for under £30.
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Nosferatu on 35mm print has been my audio / visual feast for this year. Sound and set design were absolutely incredible!
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
This could not be more true.
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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
Gold Banner on Red Background:

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
Nobody Asked For It; Everyone Hates It
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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Absolutely disgrace. Years of trying to lock kids up for Napster, discontinuing movies because of music rights, YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR promo bullsh*t and they're ready to give it ALL away to big tech billionaires
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Some experimentation with water-based practical fx today and it's ridiculously addictive and fun!
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Absolutely surreal moment to see my own game appear, even for a second, on a @jacobgeller.bsky.social video!!
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 08/12/2024
Oh, this is really sad. CDRomance were a legit great resource for fan-translations, romhacks, etc.
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I've started building up my physical bookshelf of ref books over the last few years, but this looks like a great collection too!
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Having some fun building and painting a miniature graveyard set and then playing around with lightning and fog effects! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJMT...
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Graveyard Miniature Set Screen Test
YouTube video by Chris Evry
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Waited 22 years since I first saw The Thing on VHS, to finally get to see it on the big screen tonight!
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Working on some c o o l stuff for this #ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev #UE5 #Blender
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
As I’ve been saying for over a year: If your business model doesn’t work without violating the law, you’re not in business — you’re in organized crime. Great reporting by @elainelow.bsky.social. theankler.com/p/tv-writers...
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TV Writers Found 139,000 of Their Scripts Trained AI. Hell Broke Loose
It's 'organized crime,' says one, as scribes from Shonda Rhimes to Robert King face a system where studio policy and law remain murky
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I use Designer for 75% of the scene with tiling textures and decals but some assets just require their own #SubstancePainter texture sets. #UE5 #ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Video Ghastlies will be a love-letter to classic trashy horror! So I'm having a blast learning some special fx techniques and experimenting with shooting live footage to go with the game. Running the whole thing through my VHS hardware several times. #gamedev #horror #vhs
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Josh Scherr @joshscherr.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
An addendum: another reason I dislike the word "content" is it turns art into something *pushed* on you rather than something you *seek out.* Acclaimed animator Don Hertzfeldt sums it up better than I can:
Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but when I was a teenager, I took the train to go to the record store to find rare stuff. Spotify is way more convenient, but that wasn’t the point. The point was to get out and to feel like you’re hunting, to feel like you’re living your life. I’m going to the movies, I’m going to this show. What streaming has done—it’s very convenient, but it’s taken the feeling of going hunting and turned it into we’re all just being fed. We’re all farm animals that are just being fed, and we’re being fed content. You can just stay home. Just stay home. We’ll just feed it to you. No wonder everyone’s depressed.
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
My pipeline is one from all 4 corners... Can we just make a new X-up system so everybody is wrong and then force every bit of software to use that same new one?
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Video Ghastlies is my latest solo horror game dev project started two weeks ago. It is inspired by an era of censorship during the 80s in the UK. Instead of any formal dev log I'm just going to post snippets as I go along. All raw work in progress. www.youtube.com/watch?v=waev...
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Video Ghastlies 2024 11 19 12 56 16 01
YouTube video by Chris Evry
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
First nights of the crisp winter air is the perfect time for some night photography around Edinburgh. What a weird mix of gothic, industrial and 80s business buildings this city is. Lumix G7 & Panasonic 25mm f/1.7 Prime, 1/4 Black Mist Diffusion Filter
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Completely agree and fuck factors as well. I've had water pouring into my bedroom for the last 5 weeks and James Gibb factors are just dragging their feet because they don't want to pay for the repairs.
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
If you see this post a monster!
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Katanalevy - Dead Format on Steam @katanalevy.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
100 reviews milestone and 97% positive! Thank you everyone that has played Daemonologie and especially those that take the time to leave a review. It really is a huge help for smaller solo devs.
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