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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The deer achievement is here by the way: claresescape.com/wp-content/u...

Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kudos to the guy who found me on linkedin this morning to ask for the location of an achievement in Clares Escape. Thats persistence.

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Recovering from a work trip to Les Gets for the downhill mtb. Incredible skill on display and a somewhat rabid crowd.

A downhill mountain biker riding on a trail in Les Gets, France

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Fringe highlight. Watching a guy do 60 mins on a turbo trainer has never been more enjoyable

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Four elderly members of the Kent and East Sussex Morris Dancing Society take to the road to defend Britain from a terrifying threat. ardenmohr.org/stories/the-... What started as the design doc for a video game became this novella instead. #shortstory #writesky

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The Last Line of Defence – Ardenmohr

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

John Clare's grave, sirrounded by school children's midsummer cushions in St Botolph's chirvhyard, Helpston, today, at the JC society festival.

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Inordinately excited about this year's forthcoming John Clare Society Journal, featuring cover art by Tracey Bush, & new writing from @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social, Richard O'Brien - @notrockyhorror.bsky.social - Martin Kratz, Cassie Falke, Jens Peters, & an index of publications, & reviews.

Contents List of the John Clare Society Journal, July 2026:

Trans-species Empathy in John Clare’s ‘The Pettichaps Nest’ and Anna Letitia Barbauld’s ‘The Caterpillar’ by Cassandra Falke

Anxious Tree s Give Leaf: Reading John Clare in Lockdown by Martin Kratz

John Clare Reaches the Pacific, poem by Richard O’Brien

The Phenomenology of Walking in John Clare’s Poems by Xiaoxiao Ma

‘When silence husheth other themes’: John Clare, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and the heath by Jens Peters

An Index of Significant Publications on John Clare, 2023–2025 edited by Andrew Hodgson and Erin Lafford

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The 2026 John Clare Festival is taking place 10-12 July - check it out below!

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Love this. Reminds me of Ball X Pit, different ships with different abilities - like one that fires down from the top, or bounces their shots into the middle. Fun stuff

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I had fun playing through. Works well on steam deck. 👻 Minor thing, Analog stick was fine, but dpad didn’t work properly.

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

After finishing the Captain Scott book - it was time to build my own version of Dundee's Discovery - on suitably icy seas c/o @falconeerdev.bsky.social

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Laying claim to the term 'Slop Bombing'. The attempt to demonstrate knowledge by pasting large amounts of unfiltered LLM copy to a colleague and letting them figure it out.

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

“The snow clothd valley & the naked tree These sympathising scenes my heart can please Distress is theirs—& they resemble me” Emo banger from John Clare for the season johnclare.blogspot.com/2026/01/hail...

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Scenes of Desolation

Hail scenes of Desolation & despair Keen Winters over bearing sport & scorn Torn by his Rage in ruins as you are To me more pleasing then a ...

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Lovely stuff, but after finishing Alien Clay just now, I’d like to see your take on a Nurgle army next please

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Tokyo Game Show was an event. Check out this massive chocobo

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The Ronald Blythe Fellowship is John Clare Society's new scheme awarding a PhD student focusing on Clare a £1000 bursary to support their work. Please pass on - &/or contact me or Honorary Secretary of the Society, Karen Lakey, for further information: johnclaresociety.wordpress.com/contact-us/

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

But when his wife met him near home, he didn’t recognise her. He was convinced he’d married someone else, and they were alive and waiting. He never fully recovered. By the end of 1841, he was declared ‘insane’ and committed to the Northampton General Lunatic Asylum claresescape.com/john-clares-...

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

On this day in 1841 John Clare completed the final leg of his 80 mile walk. He woke delirious with hunger and resorted to eating grass by the side of the road. A coin from a passerby this afternoon enabled the purchase of some bread and cheese.

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I love this! But feel like a ghost shouldn’t block at all, the light could fill them like a lantern

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The third day of Clare’s walk home. His account becomes less coherent and more fearful. He feared losing his way again so stuck close to the Great North Road. Exhausted he slept in a ditch by the side of the road. claresescape.com/john-clares-...

Day three of Clare’s walk shown on a map from Iain Sinclair’s ‘Edge of the Orison’

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

In the darkness he tried to find a more secure place to stay but became hopelessly lost. He stumbled across a toll booth where the attendant pointed him northwards again. Reassured that he was on the right track, he slept in a porch somewhere close to St Neots

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

On this day in 1841, Clare woke in the shed after an unsettling dream. He took to the road but his shoes were falling apart. Hungry, he resorted to begging for any spare change but most passers by avoided him. As night fell, he hid again by the road near Potten, but was unable to stand the cold.

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

This map from Iain Sinclair’s ‘Edge of the Orison’ shows the likely route (dashed). Around 30 miles of walking

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Today in 1841 Clare set out from Epping to walk the 80 miles home. Struggling to find the route out of the forest to the Great North Road, he asked for directions at a local pub. Once the road was discovered, he made good progress to Stevenage. claresescape.com/john-clares-...

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

On this day in 1841, Clare ‘did nothing’… Perhaps he brooded on his escape. (This does get more interesting from tomorrow…) claresescape.com/john-clares-...

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John Clare’s escape in his own words – Pt 1 – Clare's Escape

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

On this day in 1841, John Clare returned to a gypsy camp in Epping forest. The gypsies had previously offered to help him escape from his confinement in Allen’s Mental Asylum (in exchange for £50). But on returning today, he found their camp abandoned. claresescape.com/john-clares-...

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John Clare’s escape in his own words – Pt 1 – Clare's Escape

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Happy birthday John Clare, from the Sunday Express, an actual national newspaper.

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Your post made me buy this. And it's amazingly weird. I don't know how I feel. But it is good.

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Trash blows across a bingo carpark. A morris dancer prepares to defend the kingdom. Good progress on the next game. #screenshotsunday #gamedev

A video game screenshot with a character standing next to a cherry picker saying “it’ll need some power to get this started. But I’m not the techie type”

A screenshot of a video game with a character standing in front of a bingo hall

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Excellent @cymerafestival.co.uk today, in particular the lively workshop on Writing for Videogames with @starkholborn.bsky.social. Just the inspiration I needed to get in gear.

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Excellent work. The Thank Goodness one has been pre ordered!

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Working on game two this weekend. Discovered particle effects - this will only end badly (but also spectacularly).

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

At Games Talks Live in Dundee. Getting inspired for the next game

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I’ve learned when developing for Mac - if you get your app to build, certificates created, app archived, notorized and successfully approved by the App Store - don’t ever touch that Mac or its operating system again. Wrap the machine in bubble wrap and preserve it forever.

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Here’s a wee pup to hang out with in Clare’s Escape. #nationalpuppyday

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Steam Achievements added! A productive evening of scowling at the screen and watching YouTube tutorials.

Screenshot of a list of steam achievements

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GameMaker @gamemaker.io · 16/01/2025

Clare’s Escape is an emotional RPG that tells the true story of the famous English poet, John Clare. In this interview with the game’s developer, we draw light on the game design, inspiration and development. 🔗 gamemaker.io/en/blog/john...

GameMaker - Step Into A Fragmented Mind - Interview with Alex Lee

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

You know you’re a real game when you have stickers

A pile of Clare’s Escape holographic stickers on a wooden bench

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Alex | Clare’s Escape @n0seblunt.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

An updated trailer for Clare’s Escape for the weekend

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