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Nice to be able to update some steam screenshots. Little bits of polish over time. The rain animation is nice but a little lost when static. #IndieGames #GameDev #UK

Peveril castle in Castleton, Derbyshire. In 320x200 pixels, aseprite. Three layers of moving rain. That you can't see.

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 03/10/2026

Escape from 8 bit high is out! It's great so far. I've played about 2 hours and the puzzles are absolutely hitting the sweet spot. Very well done. And that's no easy thing! #pointandclick #IndieGames Here are some of the cameos!

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 25/09/2026

Ok yeah. It's incredible. The most multiplayer fun I've had with mates for many years. @househouse.com #Indiegames #PC

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 23/09/2026

Knobbiton. Brownie's home. His mysterious Dutch roommate plays prog metal 24/7. Comes with fridge and vomrat colony! #GameDev #IndieGames #UK

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 19/09/2026

For #ScreenshotSaturday I present the 'Bovriccino' machine that produces a mix of foamed hot meat and ground coffee beans with camel milk. #IndieGames #PC #Pointandclick

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 01/09/2026

The real life inspiration and my 320x200 game representation! #GameDev #IndieGames #Pixelart #Art #Games

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 31/08/2026

"Magic drinks that make you slur... portals into Derbyshire" Not even sure what to do with this. Was just experimenting with a new DAW. Accidentally dropped a point and click banger. #Game #Music #Pointandclick #Retro #IndieGames

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 31/08/2026

Idea for an adventure game while walking back from the pub. 'more unknown voids beneath the surface' ... Sorry what?!? #GameDev #IndieGames

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 28/08/2026

I don't know what AIVA is but it's a piece I knocked up as a pretty simple title theme. If AI is cranking out this rudimentary midi pieces then god fucking help it 🤣 soundcloud.com/brg_rich/tit...

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 28/08/2026

Bit of down time with the family :-) Photo bombed by a seagull.

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 27/08/2026

"If you're going to play your dingley-box, don't forget your thumb condom" Always good advice. 🤣 #Game #Music #GameDev

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 24/08/2026

This is how serious #Trump is taken in the UK. Found in Scarborough in a cheap seaside arcade. I assume a hand comes out and grabs you. It was next to the Peppa pig car too. His demographic.

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 21/08/2026

Gifs are working? #IndieGames #PixeArt #Adventure #Games It's Peveril castle in... Castleton. Wonder how they came up with the name?

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 21/08/2026

Made a random noughties punk song to test out the new DAW. Tried adding some 80s lead over the orchestral theme for my game... did not sound good. Pretty proud of this cheeky little jam though! #Music #GameDev #IndieGames

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 19/08/2026

Screenshot of the day! My 1 year old son is sampled in the music on this scene saying his first 'word' which was... 'dat'. #GameDev #IndieGames

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 17/08/2026

Not in the game but definitely a big inspiration. Our favourite river swimming and walking spot. Simply gorgeous. #Derbyshire

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 17/08/2026

Like this. It has a repetitive cadence to it. Positive comment, expansion on understanding (almost like active listening) and then a question. Ad infinitum. This happened while I was at bastard Lidl

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 14/08/2026

Pulled some proper David Attenborough shenanigans yesterday. Beautiful river picnic without children. Just what I needed. Beer on a string in the river to keep it cool. And no we left no trace of us being there other than a mildly confused sheep.

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 09/08/2026

Ah this is a better example. Think it's been mastered a bit better by my partner in crime since this video but you get the idea.

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 09/08/2026

The church is ambient (off screen). There's a minstrel in a tree, a sentient tree monster who has some doom core guitar songs, an acoustic guitar track i recorded that a guy performs on a stage (with audience singing along). And this - which is early in the game. A goblin minstrel in a tavern.

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 09/08/2026

I’m making a point & click comedy adventure set in a fantasy world / the Peak District. The puzzles & story are done — just a few songs left for me to write and check, while sound designer Jono Richards is working on the ambience/sound design #GameDev #IndieGames #PointAndClick

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 23/07/2026

This plasma breathing swan was the idea of a player of the first game who won a 'treasure hunt' contest in a steam update. She is called 'Bitch Swan'. Now she has lots of wonderful plasmatic sound and animations. Not to be messed with. Nice to involve the players in #GameDev #IndieGames

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 20/07/2026

We ( @jonorichards.bsky.social ) have been working on this for nearly two years. Much like the spoon of power... it's taken a lot out of us. But It's in stupendously good shape. We're on the home strait (pun intended) #GameDev

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 19/07/2026

A 24 hour Shrubbery. All day, all night. If you need a potted plant? Sorted. It's 3am and you're gardening, where else is there to go? This guy know business. #GameDev

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 12/07/2026

Middle aged men watch telly at night outside #WorldCup

Group of chiefly middle aged men stare at a telly in the garden

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 10/07/2026

One of the more bizarre scam messages I've had on my music/game account in the last week. #Music #GameDev

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 26/06/2026

Nice free game coming for my #pointandclick friends here

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 14/06/2026

'Keep politics out of games' No. Fuck off.

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 11/06/2026

If you think you've had a bad day. Just think of this snail on my bin who, against all the odds, got shit on by a bird. A bird. His arch nemesis. Imagine a lion taking a shit on a gazelle. Such a demeaning power move. #Nature #Thursdays

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 06/06/2026

CEO, animator, dream weaver, programmer, artist, most humble developer. Brownie #GameDev

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 06/06/2026

It may be grim, but you think of these things when you have kids. I wrote a song for my daughter about being bold, strong and sceptical. Gods forbid, if I die tomorrow, at least I'll have a digital storefront preserving a message to my child. Genuine thought, sounds like a 1980s sci fi film.

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 03/06/2026

After a lot of head scratching following a dug out channel we finally found this. The angle lined up with the ditch that ran all the way down the hill and into the valley. Probably been sat there for 100/150 years.

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 03/06/2026

Few nights camping in the #Derbyshire peaks. Found this big fenced off hole in the ground after following some very old (industrial) train tracks up a hill in the middle of nowhere. Narrow gauge. Would be for small mining trains like the ones round where I grew up. Everyone got nettled and mad at me

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 31/05/2026

After nearly 2.5 years, my first game just hit 20 Steam reviews. 19 positive. 🥹 Best feeling in the world. People I've never met played and enjoyed this crazy project I built while learning game development from scratch. Today was the day!!! #gamedev #indiedev #Steam

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 27/05/2026

So er… apparently the demo is live 😅 It’s a brutally difficult little physics lander game where you pilot a very unstable capsule and try not to immediately crater into the moon. Free demo’s up if you want to suffer productively. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart #physicsgame

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 26/05/2026

Can't chill without a bastard peacock up in yer grill

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 25/05/2026

The room ambience is layered from Jono’s incredible soundscape work, and the music is my own Irish bouzouki recordings. Amazing how much audio can completely transform a space. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #gameaudio #sounddesign #ambient

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 18/05/2026

Still got it #Besiege - The hot air balloon is a LOT easier than manually creating an attack helicopter gunship with balanced COM/Ballast and weight but... I did enjoy it the hour of nerdy tinkering. Still a great game!

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 18/05/2026

There's nothing I love more than writing silly songs for #IndieGames "I came here from the steel city to a pub that wor' a bank the art styles very amateur and the animations wank" #Inspired

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 13/05/2026

When you're the artist of a game and you have a habit of using every colour imaginable even in 320x200... It's always cool to see it on different monitors and devices. My monitor is from Temu so.. pretty much everything looks better. No regrets though. Ultra wide is a workflow dream.

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 12/05/2026

Same #Hair Any good strange/Alan crossover puns or bits? I'm too ill to be funny

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 11/05/2026

If you go back to the 'scene of the crime' and ignore the games clear direction to move onto the next act. You get some very aggressive bobbies. #IndieGames

A wizard shows concern as the house he was in is now cordoned off and police officers patrolling outside in glorious 320x200 resolution ultra colour pixel art

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 08/05/2026

Writing colloquial #derbyshire dialect into my script. Awaiting playtest messages about typos. Not this time lads... not this time. #GameDev

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 07/05/2026

I slipped on a banana skin and made 'StarThug' #rockets #space #reddwarf #accidental

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 05/05/2026

Down in the living room with a Samsun meteor crying with laughter... 11pm. Few beers deep. This is where this was all improvised. And it's still in the game. What an intro! #GameDev #MorganFreeman #Temu #Version #Indie #Games

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Beardy Ramblin Games @richbrown.uk · 02/05/2026

Accidentally made pausing my game make the rocket MORE dangerous. keeping it maybe. #GameDev #IndieGames #ScreenshotSaturday

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