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SLUMPS // A Pocket Full of Slagford @slumps.net · 25/08/2026

Statistics say people who read are really smart and sexy and stuff. You should try it out on this article from The Guardian about A Pocket Full of Slagford (feat. me) www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

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A Pocket Full of Slagford – a retro-futurist take on Thatcher-era northern England

Developer Patrick Grant was born in Australia and lives in New Zealand, but a childhood of British TV inspired him to set a comedy game in a bleak vision of the north

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Watched The Odyssey on the weekend and I really don't see why there was such a hullabaloo about the casting. I thought Jackie Chan's performance was very sincere and did you know he does his own stunts?

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I have to stop living in denial and move on. It's time to put the greatest sticky note companion I have to rest. It hasn't been able to stick to my monitor for months. When I was lost in Blender space this was my guiding light. It will be dearly missed. #b3d #blendertips #RIP

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Putting the fear of God in my new MX Master by introducing it to the exhumed remains of its grandfather and its deteriorating, weird uncle.

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Babe wake up there's a new Butthole Surfers album

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

If you're trawling through the Next Fest demos make sure not to miss Moldrise. It has such a great revolting atmosphere and acts as a stark reminder to always wear footwear when showering at hostels. store.steampowered.com/app/4519130/...

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MOLDRISE on Steam

It started in your foot. Now it’s in your head. All that remains is the command: GO UP. Meet strange neighbors. Make bad trades. Every ascent teaches you what you should have done differently.

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

is it worth the risk of Joker style mouth lacerations?

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Cool! But I think you missed some games 🙃

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Shape Sender Deluxe ⭐️ by Dead Teapot @deadteapot.games · 07/06/2026

We have 2️⃣BIG 📢 ANNOUNCEMENTS ‼️ 1️⃣Shape Sender Deluxe is coming to Switch, Steam, & Epic Games Store, later this year; 2️⃣ We just dropped a MASSIVE demo update with a LEVEL EDITOR & LEVEL SHARING! You can now make and share levels with your friends! 🎉

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SLUMPS // A Pocket Full of Slagford @slumps.net · 14/03/2026

This is what the brand new 'oi!' button does and I'll never change it. #indiegame #pcgaming

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I used to love living near the sea, up until yesterday when a seagull took a colossal (and I mean colossal) shit on me as I was getting into the car to go have a nice restaurant dinner.

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SLUMPS // A Pocket Full of Slagford @slumps.net · 16/02/2026

Check out the new psychofraculating screen effects for moments when you're messing with the world and sticking things where they shouldn't belong #indiegame #puzzle #godot

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Years ago I was playing through a massive collection of old games of wildly varying quality from a CD called Over 1000 Games for Windows. Just last week one of the developers of said games emailed me and it prompted me to write a blog post about that experience. ptgrant.com/i-played-ove...

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I played Over 1000 Games for Windows - ptgrant.com

Well, actually it was only 748, but that's still a lot. Back when I was a wee lad with a gimped home computer and a different definition of "fun", I owned this CD that was stocked in bargain bins acro...

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I really loved Judero and now the same devs are crowdfunding their next game. If this is going to be like being inside a Dario Argento movie, I'm in.

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I was on my best behaviour... but like a reflex my body let out a loud dismissive horse sound when that terrible Aliens reference happened. We get it. The hot grandma from that movie is also in this movie (when she probably shouldn't be).

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Watched Avatar. Half way through I realised that Jimmy's pulled a fast one on us and he's actually just made the second movie again. Looks cool though, once you get past the sensation that you're watching a game cutscene.

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SLUMPS // A Pocket Full of Slagford @slumps.net · 05/01/2026

Honestly mate fair play, I'd do the same if I had loads of money. #lifegoals #indiegame #godot

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

2025 was the year I learned how to properly tie shoelaces (at age 30). What ability will I unlock in 2026? Finally find a way to memorise how many days are in each month? Be able to wash the dishes without getting my shirt wet? Find a hat that really suits me?

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I picked up Astro Bot recently and I'm close to 100 percenting it, which I almost never do. It's just so great. I know it won goty last year but I think it should also win again this year.

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SLUMPS // A Pocket Full of Slagford @slumps.net · 07/12/2025

I've been doing some concepts for future areas of the game! This is a special location I'm calling Sewer Henge, for obvious reasons. Rubber boots recommended. #gamedev #art #procreate #adventuregame

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I can't play any new games from the NextFest when I'm still catching up with my backlog of every game ever made chronologically. I'm up to this little underground game called FFIX for PS1. How come no one told me this was so dang charming?

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Every time there's a new Godot release I think that's cool, but I don't need to upgrade - I've got everything I could need. Then I look through the new features and very quickly think ooh yes I could use that. It's a dangerous game. godotengine.org/releases/4.5/

godotengine.org

Godot 4.5, making dreams accessible – Godot Engine

From mind-blowing effects now made possible by the stencil buffer to accessible descriptions of your GUI elements that opens up the possibility for people with disabilities to play your game — we are ...

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I just looked for it and within 5 seconds of skimming through gameplay I heard the noise haha

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

haha it's iconic! And since revisiting a lot of games from 90s/00s I'm hearing that sound everywhere

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Recently been working on some screen and particle effects! Does anyone recognise that swoosh sound? #indiegames #VFX #screenshotsaturday

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SLUMPS // A Pocket Full of Slagford @slumps.net · 16/08/2025

Let me show you a very special prop from our game, and walk you through how it was made (please don't tell others my secret technique) #indiegame #gamedev #b3d #3dart #shadowwizardmoneygang

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I've been doing some baking in Blender

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Picster (Raffaele Picca) @picster.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I am currently looking for more playtesters for the next playtest round of the Engraving Demo! If you like Horror Adventure games, check out the link below! And if not I would really appreciate sharing this post ✌ steamcommunity.com/games/261665... #indiegames #GodotEngine #horrorgame

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SLUMPS // A Pocket Full of Slagford @slumps.net · 21/07/2025

What's a point & click game without cursors for pointing and clicking? Figured these should be pre-rendered sprites to fit with the crunchy 90s aesthetic - what do you think? #indiegame #b3d #retro

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Music for this boring-ass N64 game has no right to be this funky fresh. youtu.be/iZ4M_0_p9Io?...

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Bonus Stage | Lode Runner 3D OST

YouTube video by Keiki Ch. 🍭パンケーキ🍬

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Which for me is about once a week when I fat finger the file explorer and move a folder into another folder and have no idea where it went

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I searched for "frog with gun" on Temu and discovered this cool new character. When is he coming to Fortnite??

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

GDQuest is great, that's what I got started with. The paid classes are well worth it.

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

If you want the TLDR, I had memories of playing fun games from this CD as a kid, but now I've revisited I don't know what I was on about. Out of the 748 games there is only one worth playing. Indie's Desktop Adventures.

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I've played so many 90s shareware indie games now, my mind has been truly warped and I don't know what is "good" or "bad" any more. At some point I'll probably write something longer about this arduous and pointless journey.

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

#775GamesForWindows 748: "Volutare 3D" - Bela Von Hoffman I've got an important update. The game? It's about flipping cubes, it's not good, who cares. All this time I've been saying I was reviewing 775 games, but somehow I miscalculated and there's only 748. This is how it ends.

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

#775GamesForWindows 747: "Stellar Explorer" - TCI Corporation I've played so many of these 90s spaceship OS simulators now, and they're almost all the same. The difference with this one is they take away weapons in the shareware version so it's unwinnable.

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

#775GamesForWindows 746: "TC Space Fighter" - Anthony Carin I'll never know what this is because opening it immediately locks up the system. Another thumbnail-sized game, I'm sure it was great.

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

#775GamesForWindows 745: "Sky Maze" - AxySoft Play as a little yellow guy collecting all the little yellow bits on a level and avoid the various bad guys running aimlessly around. There are powerups that let you kill the baddies for a short time. So it's Russian 3D Pac-Man.

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

#775GamesForWindows 744: "Shuffle Board 3D" - Walter A. Kuhn Never tried shuffle board in real life, but I'm not good at this at all. Is it normal rules that if your puck is in a scoring zone but has one pixel over the boundary, it's worth 0 points??

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

#775GamesForWindows 743: "Pong 3D" - Jesse Johnson Yep it's pong. You could argue it's 3D. Love the MS Paint art. The computer isn't very good at its own game, but I still think it's pretty fun.

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

#775GamesForWindows 742: "TC Virtual Ping Pong" - Anthony Carin The worst case of "game for ants" yet. Had to blow up the screenshot because it plays at 256x256, of course resizing windows is a feature only for registered players. It's too small to even know if it's fun.

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

#775GamesForWindows 741: "NanoCore" - Paul Keet Hey, this game is actually delivers on being 3D. It's basically a themed BreakOut in 3D space, which is cool and all but honestly it's hard to judge depth, making it worse play.

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

#775GamesForWindows 740: "Master of the Maze" - Spice Software I think this was meant to be a very funny joke. That's the map under the compass. That layout means that every direction you face looks identical. There are no exits to this maze, this is shareware purgatory.

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

#775GamesForWindows 739: "Magic Balls" - Agentix Software It's a match 3 game. One with a design flaw. You can only make moves on highlighted balls, and there is nothing that ever shuffles or moves the board down. This means you just go through the moves and then it's game over.

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

#775GamesForWindows 738: "Lunar Basketball" - P.S. Neeley A game about shooting hoops on different planets with different gravities. Kind of a fun idea but it actually sucks and plays horribly.

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

#775GamesForWindows 737: "Lost in a Labyrinth" - Zane Rathwick Looks like it might have been cool if it actually worked.

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