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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Great day at the SGDA Games Day in Dundee today! Talks from whole range of speakers, inc Charles Cecil! Sneak peak of our new cover art on the big screen too... #GameDev #SGDA #GamesDay #Dundee

Slide showing a black Sinclair ZX81 and Charles Cecil MBE against a blue balckground

A big TV screen showing dark dramatic character art for 'Less Miserables' and a smaller screen below with the start screen for the demo

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Finally made pilgrimage to Norham Castle this weekend which Turner painted many times. Another great example of how his style changed, plus bonus picture of how it looks today! Now next to a sewage outlet!

Norham Castle: Sunrise, c. 1798 - classical style painting with washed out colours, depicting a river with cattle? and a ruined castle on a hill framed against a pale sky

Norham Castle, Sunrise, c.1845: same scene as before, but in impressionistic style, messy blobs of colour, showing reflection of sunrise in the river with shadow of the castle in the middle, and cattle in the water

Norham Castle (actually from the other side of the river) a photo, 2026. Dark grey plants and bushes on both sides of a deep blue river, and tiny silhouette of a ruined castle on the far right hill

Norham castle: photo from close up, showing pink/brown crumbling walls of a ruined castle with grass at the front and against grey clouds

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You should definitely inform the officer of the watch before you attempt anything like this

A screenshot from OG The Secret of Monkey Island, with Guybrush Threepwood, in a cannon, about to launch himself from a boat across blue water to a green Monkey Island

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh my god. I would be intrigued by a Christopher Nolan directed version of 'Allo 'Allo, but suspect this is not real :(

Image of text: an ebay description: Item description from the seller
The Allo Allo Complete Series DVD Box Set is a cult classic British sitcom directed by Christopher Nolan. Running time 40 hours and 13 mins approx

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Pretty much how I felt coming from academia into gamedev

It's Donald Glover! OMG he looks so young! Walking happily into a room with boxes of pizza, only to react with horror at the discovery that everything inside is on fire. Classic meme

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Love this. It always amazes me that Turner went through this. He had to perfect form, perspective and landscape before being able to reduce it to a pure impressionistic expression

JMW Turner: The Battle of Trafalgar, as Seen from the Mizen Starboard Shrouds of the Victory. A classical style painting, busy with lots of ship masts, many sailors on a deck and smoke from battle

JMW Turner: Snow Storm, Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth: swirls of dark and light grey and brown sea and rain? in a storm surround the outline of a paddle steamer in the centre

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sometimes I suspect Elena's favourite part of character design is researching hats... There's definitely a theme to this one! Wishlist 'Less Miserables' and find out the final design! store.steampowered.com/app/4090610/Less_Miserables/

Hats. A lot of pictures of hats. Photo art against a white background, especially ladies hats with a distinct cake/pastry theme

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Well, that's not going to make a lot of wine...

A hand, holding a very tiny bunch of very tiny dark purple grapes

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My local indie book shop @argonautbooks.bsky.social now has a computer games section?? Nice!

Low down book shelf, showing various titles of video game books, including Press Start - Erwan Cario, Jacob Geller - How a Game Lives, Indie Game Works and Edward Ross 'Gamish'

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Was just thinking this week about Fate of Atlantis and the couple of scenes where you were plunged into near darkness and had to solve puzzles... Gave us ideas!

Screenshot from Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis showing the verb and inventory, but mostly a dark screen, with a small triangle of blue and red colour and a ladder and the 'Touch' verb instead of 'Look'

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Progress shots from our historical comedy adventure game, 'Less Miserables'! All hand-drawn, fully voice acted, featuring songs, child labour and a horseless-horse! Wishlist today! store.steampowered.com/app/4090610/... #IndieGame #IndieDev #PointAndClick #AdventureGame

Watercolour style painting of Notre Dame, and brown coated cartoon character out front

Green park square, with a hobo on a bench, and a tall serious looking policeman next to a brown coated bearded character

Inside a blacksmiths, with forge, anvil, something covered in a blanket next to a brown coated, bearded character, and a blacksmith with lots of pockets and tools saying 'Ah! My greatest creation!'

Bearded man in rags, reaching up to the sky, with rain falling against dark cobbles

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Forget your oldey timey EDMs and Mumford & Sons Ltd. knockoffs, let me show you want's really hip in music now.

A very old, worn brown book spine, with the embossed title 'Modern Music'

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

How could you throw this out on the street? Yoink!

A DVD boxed copy of 'Allo 'Allo held in a hand with a blue carpet

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Fun and characterful recording of my favourite piece of Rameau (and soundtrack to part of our game) but also fun drawing from period cartoons on the album sleeve!

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Yeah, yeah, I saw The Odyssey, it was great. But I also rewatched Cowboys & Aliens this week... WTF!

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Minor scale issue in testing this mechanical character, but I'm digging the Howl's Moving Castle vibe here...

Cartoon mechanical legs, over a small cartoon character with beard and old coat, and a watercolour city backdrop

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Brilliant Indie Treasures was Brilliant! Thanks so much to all the volunteers at @brilliantindietreasures.com for pulling off another great event, and being a highlight of Brighton and Develop! And thanks to everyone who played 'Less Miserables' and won the card game!

Ballroom and chandelier, filled with people playing videogames!

After sunset on the beach, blue fades down into yellow, over a silhouetted pier

Lights on the pier, and across the sea road and busses after dark

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

On the train to Brighton for Develop and Brilliant Indie Treasures! Planning to avoid the football later, but have a secret hipflask of good whisky for the beach instead... Say hi!

View of a train window, with blurred trees zooming past, blue train seat and laptop with a hand-drawn computer game

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Have a new demo of 'Less Miserables' to play at @brilliantindietreasures.com in Brighton tomorrow for y'all Develop bound, with the Heads Off! card game playable for the first time! brilliantindietreasures.com/ #GameDev #IndieDev #Develop

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Impeccable vibes and great games at Glasgow Indie Games Festival yesterday, where else can you play Morse under a palm tree?? Thanks so much to everyone @glasgowindiegamesfest.org who helped organise! #GIGF

A palm tree, and head of a person with black headphones playing 'Morse' with a pink one-tone art character against a black background

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Ta Mike, Vampirium '97 looks amazing! We're making a parody adventure game called 'Less MIserables' only a teaser trailer for now... store.steampowered.com/app/4090610/Less_Miserables/

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I found the secret to keeping slugs and snails off the courgettes: grow them 6ft up a pebble dash wall! #Gardening #Edinburgh

Ikkle Courgettes! And orange flowers, and green lefy leaves against a pink wall

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

GTA 6 'Ultimate Edition' is just a paper code in a box? Pfft. The Deluxe edition of 'Less Miserables' has > The actual game on a DVD! > Paper Manual! > 'Heads Off' Card Game! > Poster & Postcards! > No accusations of union-busting! Which has better value, huh? www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...

A game box, held in a hand against a blue background, with the title 'Less Miserables'

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Yes! Grapes are growing in Edinburgh! But will they ripen?? Watch this space... #Gardening #Scotland #Vines

ikkle ikkle grapes growing on a stem, green against green vine leaves and fingers holding them

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Got to see one of my favourite paintings (Norham Castle Sunrise, Turner) in person today at the National Gallery, Edinburgh. Worth zooming in for...

JMW Turner's 1845 masterpiece, Norham Castle, Sunrise. Almost totally abstract oil painting, a blurry blue blob in the centre of a white/blue glow in the sky (gentle yellow hint of dawn) and possibly a deer reflected in the water in the centre of the picture. A magical, misty, ethereal painting, like 40 years before 'impressionism'

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The keytar has come out. Today is serious business.

A keytar, two octaves Rockband style, next to a big midi keyboard, and a rack mounted Yamaha MU90R sound module

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

One scene in our game has a coach. Elena had a 33 page document researching the most appropriate for 1830s rural France, and how our characters needed to engage with it. Doing this with AI instead means you think the detail, characters and story don't matter, which means the game doesn't matter.

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Finally got my Yamaha MU90R out for some classic midi / synth music making

Dark photo, of a hand playing a midi keyboard, balanced on top of a Yamaha MU90R tone module, glowing green screen, with a laptop screen in the back right

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is ours until our character artist can draw a real steampunk horse...

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Bonjour #PitchYaGame! 'Less Miserables' is a comedy adventure game, set in the French Revolution: all hand drawn and fully voice acted like a theatrical production! Wishlist and play the demo today! store.steampowered.com/app/4090610/...

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

We storyboarded every scene for our game by hand, with the whole team - so many choices are made at this stage, can't be outsourced!

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Since you were all so lovely, my daughter drew more from memory!

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Behold! A seedy back alley! Not the kind of place you'd normally run a nursery, unless something dodgy was going on inside... #GameDev #IndieGame #IndieGames

A dark, cobbled alley, with a sign reading 'back alley daycare' and an arch to a brighter street ahead...

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Well, I tried, but I'm worried it doesn't quite fit in with the rest of the aesthetic??

A beautiful, watercolour style painting of Notre Dame, warm from the summer sun, a bearded cartoon character in a long brown coat, and a terrible, scribble of a drawing of a maybe a horse with mechanical legs?

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This is why I'm not drawing any of the art assets for our game.

A very badly drawn pencil sketch of a horse? With some kind of mechanical legs, and mouth that looks like a spanner for some reason?

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The kind of weather in Scotland where you lean out of a window and sing 'Who Will Buy This Beautiful Morning'

Part of the record cover for 'Oliver!' the musical, and a record of it with a red label spinning on a record player

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

And this is us in outside the shop in Paris that was the inspiration for Les Miserables! Victor Hugo saw a poor man steal a loaf of bread (and get arrested) right here and came up with the character of Jean Valjean

Overexposed white buildings in a Parisian street, lots of bikes, a zebra crossing and a old timey Boulangerie shop with 4 tired people standing outside

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

THIS WEEK I HAVE MOSTLY BEEN PLAYING... PROMISE MASCOT AGENCY

The character 'Jessie' from the Fast Show: scruffy clothes and trash in front of a wooden latrine

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Polls are open across the UK! Go vote! If you want to protect Britain's nature and green spaces, vote Green! #UKElection #VoteGreen

A sandwich board sign saying 'Vote Scottish Greens: With your vote the Scottish Greens can beat Reform in Scotland' next to an old sandstone(?) brick wall

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