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Very Evil Demons ✦ @veryevildemons.com · 13/07/2026

Celebrate International Nonbinary People's Day with a bunch of discounts on a variety of indie games made by nonbinary developers, including Bean To Me! 💛🤍💜🖤 #NonbinaryCodedGames brings together a ton of amazing games made by nonbinary game developers, and we're thrilled to take part! Link below!

nonbinary coded games
july 13 - 20, 2026

celebrating games made by nonbinary developers

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Robin Lawrence ☀️ @restbread.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

had a fabulous time making the poster for this! Dundee is this vibrant in real life actually 💚 get yourself along to the jam if you're free on the 28th!

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Biome Collective @biomecollective.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

🌍 Climate Justice Jam - Dundee Make games about climate justice in a fun, collaborative workshop. No experience needed. Sat 28 Mar, 12:30–4:30pm Creative Central, Central Library Free tickets: events.humanitix.com/climate-just...

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Climate Justice Jam

Do you care about the environment? Do you like games? Join us for our Climate Jam – a three-hour workshop where you can collaborate in small groups to jam!

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 04/11/2025

Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help them survive and fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union. Help them fight back! If you can, any little bit you can donate will massively help their efforts. actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

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Support Rockstar Workers Fighting Unfair Dismissals!

Last week over 30 members of staff at Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar were fired en masse in a “calculated attack on workers”. The IWGB described Rockstar’s actions as ‘the most blatant and rut...

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 31/10/2025

This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity. We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.

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SUMMER ETERNAL @summereternal.com · 30/09/2025

INTRODUCING: Summer Eternal Anthology Volume One. This incendiary tome is part cultural journal, part development diary, part exclusive game reveal. Built by firestarters, for firestarters. summereternal.com/anthology

Summer Eternal Anthology Volume One Book

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Very Evil Demons ✦ @veryevildemons.com · 25/09/2025

If you're at Tokyo Game Show, watch out for demons... We're in Japan for TGS 2025 this weekend! We'd love to chat about our game projects (we're seeking publishers!), and we're also open for work-for-hire. Summon us if you dare... (or just message us) 👹

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 31/07/2025

We are incredibly disappointed by the Labour government's decision to seek advice from such a narrow segment of our industry. You can find our open letter here: www.gameworkers.co.uk/open-letter-...

Open Letter Relating to the UK Video Games Council - full version on our website https://www.gameworkers.co.uk/open-letter-regarding-the-uk-video-games-council/

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Robin Lawrence ☀️ @restbread.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Very happy to have been invited back to my old stomping grounds today to tell Abertay students the good word about co-ops 💖 And it was a real treat to see the games the 3rd year students have been working on this semester!! What an incredibly talented bunch, the future of games is looking bright 🌟

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Matthew Cormack @johnjoemcbob.com · 01/03/2025

Currently prototyping an incremental falling sand game (with wizards) and needed a tutorial, so here's me acting as your most humble vizier in some old school FMVs! 🔊 #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

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Very Evil Demons ✦ @veryevildemons.com · 28/02/2025

Wow, we've just reached one thousand followers here on Bluesky! Thank you all so much for joining us on our journey—we're excited to share more soon about the strange and arcane game projects we've been brewing up...👀

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Andrew Murdoch 🥀🪲 @rosebug.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

untitled voice note recording for a new nameless screamo band from first practice last night. everything will undoubtedly change cause we're just screaming nonsense over it, but didn't expect us to come away with anything demo'd so soon:) soundcloud.com/andrew-murdo...

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Listen to untitled by rosebug #np on #SoundCloud

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish

excerpt reads: "I hear stories about directors who scream at actors, or they trick them somehow to get a performance. And there are some people who try to run the whole business on fear. But I think this is such a joke -- it's pathetic and stupid at the same time.
When people are in fear, they don't want to go to work. So many people today have that feeling. Then the fear starts turning into hate, and they begin to hate going to work. Then the hate can turn into anger and people can become angry at their boss and their work.
If I ran my set with fear, I would get 1 percent, not 100 percent, of what I get. And there would be no fun in going down the road together. And it *should* be fun. In work and in life, we're all supposed to get along. We're supposed to have so much fun, like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. It's supposed to be great living; it's supposed to be fantastic."

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Raph @eckartg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I started a very wip started pack of worker-owned videogames co-ops ✊️ let me know who I'm missing! #gamedev go.bsky.app/NDdAqko

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Gemma Cooper @xgemgem.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

With so many people making the leap over to Bluesky.. ✨ The UKGI Slack admins have made a starter pack for our community! ✨ If you want to be added, check the announcements section of our slack. To join the slack, click the link for the signup form! ❤️❤️❤️ go.bsky.app/2sha92U

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Stuart Pentelow @stuartpentelow.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Heyo folks, made a starter pack for Scottish Game Dev people just so we're all easier to find! :) (If you want off or want on the list, let me know in a DM or in replies) go.bsky.app/UnvUPJB

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Very Evil Demons ✦ @veryevildemons.com · 31/10/2024

We're all set up and ready to go at the Scottish Games Frenzy in Glasgow! Come try your hand at Bean To Me and Springpong 🌟

An event stand set up with two laptops and an assortment of game controllers. One screen displays the main menu of Bean To Me, and the other shows Springpongs menu.

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Very Evil Demons ✦ @veryevildemons.com · 31/10/2024

It’s time to crack open a refreshing can of beans! Bean to Me, the Mancala-like battle of wits with weird beans and wild strategies is launching on Steam for PC and Steam Deck today! #gamedev #indiegames #beantome #mancala

The words "Bean to Me!" on a checkerboard background with beans flying out in all directions.

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Very Evil Demons ✦ @veryevildemons.com · 30/10/2024

Tomorrow, on the most ghoulish day of the year, we'll be manifesting at the Scottish Games Frenzy in Glasgow! Come along and behold not one, but two of our games - we'll be showing demos for Bean To Me (which also releases on Steam tomorrow!!) and Springpong 🫘🌼 games.creative.barclays/events/sgw/

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Robin Lawrence ☀️ @restbread.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

hello! I'm Robin (he/they), and I'm an artist & worker-owner at co-op studio Very Evil Demons, based in Dundee. I've worked on such things as Kinoko and Pocket Mortys, and now I'm making some other stuff. I like folklore and strange beasts, and hope to one day get lost wandering the moors 🌿

A photo of Robin, who has pale skin and dark mid-length hair bleached underneath. He is wearing an orange corduroy jacket and walking through the woods.

A promotional poster for the game Kinoko, showing the titular character in their red coat and oversized witchy hat, standing in a lush green forest.

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Very Evil Demons ✦ @veryevildemons.com · 14/10/2024

Visit our Steam page and Wishlist us today! If you’re up for a challenge, download the free demo and give it a try for yourself - can you become the brainiest bean strategist with the biggest bean synergies? store.steampowered.com/app/3001670 Full version coming October 31st!

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Bean To Me! on Steam

Use strange and magical beans to bend the rules and chain together absurd synergies in a wild twist on the ancient game of Mancala. Battle your friends, collect new beans, and build the ultimate bean ...

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Very Evil Demons ✦ @veryevildemons.com · 14/10/2024

We’re thrilled to announce that Bean to Me, the single-and-multiplayer Mancala-like game with weird rule-bending beans is coming to this October’s Steam Next Fest which begins today at 10am PT / 6pm BST! #steamnextfest #nextfest #gamedev #indiegames

NEXT FEST
Bean to Me
Very Evil Demons

Check out our game demo during Steam Next Fest.
Oct 14 - 21 at 10AM PT

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Andrew Murdoch 🥀🪲 @rosebug.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

we made a worker co-op! and the worker co-op makes games!! check out veryevildemons.com if yr on the search for co-dev/porting/prototyping! or just want to find out about some evil ol' games 🤠

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Very Evil Demons

Independent worker-owned game studio based in Dundee, Scotland specialising in development, prototyping, porting, and consultancy.

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Robin Lawrence ☀️ @restbread.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

look at this gnome I made for this 🫵

A drawing of a strange little gnome creature. He's wearing an extremely large pointed hat, and has a long moustache.

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Very Evil Demons ✦ @veryevildemons.com · 21/08/2024

We greatly enjoyed partaking in this years #GMTKJam over the past few days! Our offering is Crystals of Runewood, a bite-sized peek into the life cycle of a mid-2000's MMORPG. You can play it in your browser, if you'd like! veryevildemons.itch.io/crystals-of-...

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Robin Lawrence ☀️ @restbread.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

We've gone and started a game studio!! The five of us have been super busy laying the foundations for our co-op for the past few months and we've got something really special going - keep an eye out for some extremely sick worker-owned devilry from your friends from hell 😈🔥

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Very Evil Demons ✦ @veryevildemons.com · 16/08/2024

Something wicked this way comes... The summoning has succeeded; Very Evil Demons have arrived on the material plane! We're a brand new worker-owned game studio based in Dundee. We're open for business, and we have our own devilish projects brewing - stay tuned for more 🔮

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Robin Lawrence ☀️ @restbread.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

it's very nice to see so many friendly faces popping up over here lately! glad everyone's making it off that sinking ship 🌤

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Robin Lawrence ☀️ @restbread.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

it's a really good thing I already had a piercing appointment booked for tomorrow because my goodness, it has been Quite The Week

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Hubworld Scotland @hubworld.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

Tickets for our next event are live! ⭐ 📣 - 6pm / 29th September / 3 Sessions Street - 📣 Thanks to our sponsors we are now providing food completely on the house! Grab a ticket here and we'll see you there ! 🔥 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dundee-gam...

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 04/09/2023

I know folks in the games industry are curious about unions and don't know where to start, so I spent a good portion of Friday writing up an intro guide. It includes information for Australia, Canada, Croatia, Finland, France, Ireland, Malta, South Korea, Sweden, UK, and USA.

A drawing of a bunch of hands coming out of the earth holding a banner that says Game Worker Solidarity on it.

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Andrew Murdoch 🥀🪲 @rosebug.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

I think I'm going to use this Swordtember to brush up on my pixel art! I also intend on being incredibly liberal with my definition of 'sword' lol Here's sword #1: Witch 🔮

A sword resembling a cauldron, with a blade made of bubbling goop, a hilt made from twisting branches, and a newt's eye pommel

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Robin Lawrence ☀️ @restbread.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

We the IWGB Game Workers recently released the results of our Dundee game workers salary survey! We worked so so hard on this and I am so proud of what we've achieved - this will help game workers fight for what we deserve ❤️✊ You can see the results here: docs.google.com/presentation...

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Jaime Cross @speedyjx.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

The IWGB Game Workers has released a Salary Survey for Dundee, the home of the Scottish Game Dev scene, after months of collective effort from workers there. It's confirmation on what a lot of us expected: massively underpaid relative to the rest of the UK. docs.google.com/presentation...

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Dundee Salary Survey Presentation - 2023

Contents Page Intro to Survey Results - General Overview Results - Gender Results - Job Roles, Experience, Disciplines Results - Living Wage Results - Remote, In Office,Hybrid Results - Pay Rises Resu...

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Robin Lawrence ☀️ @restbread.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

@gamedevlist.bsky.social hello, I'd love to be added to the game dev list! 👋

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Robin Lawrence ☀️ @restbread.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

oh my god my SSD died on my work PC this morning so I moved to another PC in the office to work from until it's fixed you'll never guess what has also just happened to that PC's SSD too

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Andrew Murdoch 🥀🪲 @rosebug.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

hello new social media!! i'm andrew, a gameplay programmer in dundee, scotland i like pixel platformers, obtuse jrpgs and screamo here's me by a fire (didn't start it)

an innocent looking man standing in front of a building fire under blue emergency vehicle lights

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Robin Lawrence ☀️ @restbread.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

Robin (my name!) -> robin redbreast (the bird) -> redbreast spoonerisms (kinda) into restbread! 🐥

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Hubworld Scotland @hubworld.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

🧡💙 We are Hubworld Scotland! 💙🧡 A new home for games industry events in Scotland starting off at our base in Dundee! We're the team behind the #DundeeGamesMeetup and we have got a lot of fun plans for the future! Follow along and be a part of our community!

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Malindy @yourkyotowife.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

Aaand now on Bloosky: My chat with Fireplace Games yielded a whole second article and restored my faith in studios a bit. You can work sustainably even as a small company! www.gamesindustry.biz/en-garde-deve…

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En Garde developers on the challenges of founding a studio early in your career

For many, it was the surprise of the Future Games Show: En Garde, a colourful fencing action game that pits you against…

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Robin Lawrence ☀️ @restbread.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

Crit failed my literal first roll in BG3 LET'S GOOOOO!!!

A screenshot from the game Baldur's Gate 3, showing the results of an Investigation roll - a natural 1 on the D20; critical failure.

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 02/08/2023

I'm so happy with what we've done in the IWGB Game Workers. It's kind of amazing.

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Robin Lawrence ☀️ @restbread.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

Spent the weekend in Amsterdam! It's real nice there huh 🌞🌞🌞

A selfie photo showing two people smiling at the camera in front of a canal lined with trees, boats and houses in Amsterdam.

A photo of a canal on a sunny day, lined with trees and greenery.

A photo of two plates of poffertjes (small Dutch pancakes), topped with syrup, bananas, and blueberries, with a cup of coffee on the side.

A photo of a bridge arching over a canal in Amsterdam.

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Robin Lawrence ☀️ @restbread.bsky.social · 24/07/2023

Hi bsky and hello #gamedev ! I'm Robin and I'm a senior artist at Pocket Sized Hands, based in Dundee ☀️ I'm also the Dundee regional coordinator for the IWGB Game Workers! I like horror and romance and making weird stuff 🌹🔪💘

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