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Amanita Design 🔧 @amanita-design.net · 08/10/2026

Seventeen years later… The time has come for Machinarium 2 🦾🔧 Wishlist NOW on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1619280/...

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Tom Vian @sfbtom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The latest issue of Edge magazine has something pretty special for us - a 6 page studio profile on SFB Games, covering our 24(!) year history of making games together Huge thanks to @alexspencerdale.bsky.social for making it happen!

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Milktooth | making Bad Magpie @milktooth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

twas' the eve before Bad Magpie's demo, and all through the house, everyone was stirring, especially the mice!!! 🐭 available on Steam and XBOX on PC tomorrow (Thursday 8th Oct) at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CEST. who's going to be the first to collect all the meteorites?!

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Milktooth | making Bad Magpie @milktooth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

THIS IS THE WEEK! The Bad Magpie demo will be available on Steam and XBOX on PC this Thursday at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CEST. Set your alarms now! 🏫explore the school biome 🌟discover 30 shiny meteorites 🐭sow chaos amongst the world’s inhabitants

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Tom Vian @sfbtom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Our games are in the Steam Autumn Sale, including 50% off Crow Country, and 10% off our recently released The Mermaid Mask! store.steampowered.com/developer/SF...

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Shaun Aitcheson @shaunaitcheson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a staggering all-time high 65% off on Steam! 💀⛏️🩸 It's the perfect time to check out our folk horror adventure set on the moors of Northern England. The answers lie in the soil...

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Tom Vian @sfbtom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Our games are in the Steam Autumn Sale, including 50% off Crow Country, and 10% off our recently released The Mermaid Mask! store.steampowered.com/developer/SF...

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Fangamer @fangamer.com · 01/10/2026

Our newest Crow Country shirt is "Mara," illustrated by mushbuh. Available now, along with a deluxe physical edition and much more, in our official collection: www.fangamer.com/collections/...

A closeup photo of Mara, a new shirt in Fangamer's Crow Country collection. It's a black shirt with an illustration of Mara pointing a gun at a long-legged guest in a cute style that resembles simplified toys on a diorama or pre-rendered 3D art from an old player's guide.

A photo of Mara, a new shirt in Fangamer's Crow Country collection. It's a black shirt with an illustration of Mara pointing a gun at a long-legged guest in a cute style that resembles simplified toys on a diorama or pre-rendered 3D art from an old player's guide.

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Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 26/09/2026

Collections of studios owned and run by Black People. I'm sure there are some I missed, so please let me know (please double-check that they are owned by black people), and I will add them. Don't just follow them; check out their games. This list is about equity and ownership. go.bsky.app/4wfgP11

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Adam Vian @sfbdim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

a little look at how we write the script for The Mermaid Mask - I write the script directly into the Unity editor, including the voice directions. Then that gets automatically exported into a document for the actors to read. Then, once we have the audio, we import it back into the dialogue system

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Gregorios Kythreotis @eteogreg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s Sable’s 5th Anniversary! I’ve written some reflections on what the game means to me, and to celebrate I’m delighted to announce that @lostincult.co.uk are reprinting the Sable Design Works Find out more here: www.eteogames.com/sable-turns-...

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Sable Turns Five with a Design Works Reprint

Reflecting on the Five-Year Anniversary of Sable, and announcing a reprint of the Sable Design Works art book.

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Alan Wen @damisanthrope.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A couple months ago I had an interview feature in ImagineFX with SFB Games’ Adam Vian about the studio’s 20+ year history from making loads of flash games to defining its style with the Detective Grimoire series, and you can now read that online www.creativebloq.com/entertainmen...

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"Everyone has a hundred bad games in them, and we did them really quickly": Adam Vian on the creation and evolution of Detective Grimoire

The creative director of SFB Games tells us about developing the studio’s style from Adobe Flash games to The Mermaid Mask.

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Tom Vian @sfbtom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If a human had looked at the two addresses for even one second, they would have realised they're the same and this wouldn't be an issue. Now I have to hope that the google support folks will help me fix this in a timely manner...

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Tom Vian @sfbtom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Google just emailed to say that our entire developer account will be removed from the play store in 29 days because their new verification partner has our business address listed in a shortened form, so it doesn't 1:1 match what's listed on our account. Oh, and I can't edit the address. Cool. Great.

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Adam Vian @sfbdim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you haven't played The Mermaid Mask yet, here's an advert in the form of the Save Data Team's faces during the ending store.steampowered.com/app/1696770/...

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Tasselfoot @tasselfoot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Most of the game submissions we receive these days are AI. That sucks. If you are a dev with a non-AI web-playable game/demo and want 10,000 people to play it, submit to mygame[at]armorgames[dot]com! Possible licensing up to $250 as well!

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Leah @missantique.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Last, but certainly not least, our dearly departed murder victim: Captain Magnus Mortuga #detectivegrimoire #themermaidmask

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Tom Vian @sfbtom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hey UK folks, Currys has the Zelda 40th Switch 2 console up for preorder RIGHT NOW www.currys.co.uk/products/nin...

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inkle @inkle.co · 11/09/2026

🎙️ Call for voice actors! 🎭 We're looking for two lead voices for our next game. - One male and one female, vocal age 40 to 60 - Cornish / Welsh / South-West England accent If that's you, please send an acting sample to info@inklestudios.com, marked “casting call”. (Paid, ofc) <3 RTs!

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Patrick Stewart's Witty 'Acting' Moment

ALT: Patrick Stewart's Witty 'Acting' Moment

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Tom Vian @sfbtom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm still going to enter the actors for every voice acting award I can, every one of them deserves it!

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Adam Vian @sfbdim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Mermaid Mask has been nominated for TIGA awards in four categories!!

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Tom Vian @sfbtom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Alright, wish us luck! 🤞

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LGR @lgr-yt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Time to blast demons with cookware on LGR! youtu.be/KA5uZw3oWXs Checking out the 1999 Easy-Bake Kitchen CD-ROM playset! I've always found these 90s keyboard attachments charming and this one takes the cake in being the most oddly alluring. Also you can use it to play Doom so that's enough for me.

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1999 Easy Bake Kitchen PC Keyboard Playset

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Adam Vian @sfbdim.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Crow Country intro starts with the current year and then counts down to 1990, which means the intro takes slightly longer to play through each year

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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 05/09/2026

A girl betrays a friend. A daughter betrays a mother. A sister betrays herself... 1000xRESIST is 40% OFF right now on Steam and Nintendo Switch 2.

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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 05/09/2026

Creating this no-ai indie games starter pack is one of the best things I ever did on BlueSky. Lots of great developers in here, making things with their own hands, some of whom I might not have found otherwise!! go.bsky.app/78u8M6Y

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Anna Hollinrake 🌤️ @annahollinrake.com · 03/09/2026

Looking for someone who can do rigging and animation for a some ad-hoc work on Crescent County! If you are that person, or know of that person, please reply or DM me 🙏

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LGR @lgr-yt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is amazing! SimCopter had a great soundtrack by Jerry Martin but the game’s files were highly compressed. So LucasVB got in touch with Mr. Martin and he was able to find most of the original high quality tracks! Awesome to hear “Hangar” in such clarity after 30 years archive.org/details/SimC...

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SimCopter original soundtrack (high quality)

SimCopter is a somewhat obscure game released in 1996 by Maxis, the studio behind the SimCity and The Sims franchises.In the game, the player controls a helicopter pilot in various missions across a c...

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Milktooth | making Bad Magpie @milktooth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

WHAT AN ABSOLUTE HONOUR THANK YOU SO MUCH AGHSDJHWJSH

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Adam Vian @sfbdim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If anyone's interested, I posted a whole bunch of my work-in-progress diagrams for The Mermaid Mask over on my old tumblr account: adamvian.tumblr.com

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Nana Himuro / 氷室ナナ @himuronanart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

As requested by my followers, I drew Grimoire and Sally in my style! I'd like to dedicate this to @edwyntiong.com, the voice of Grimoire himself, for making my TMM streams unforgettable and following me on multiple platforms. I hope I can chat in depth with him someday😊

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Tom Vian @sfbtom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Mermaid Mask is back on -10% sale on Steam, but even better is the Detective Grimoire Series bundle: since the previous 2 games in the series are -80%, the whole bundle is nearly half price overall Over half of all TMM sales have been through this bundle! store.steampowered.com/app/1696770/...

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Adam Vian @sfbdim.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

some early character drawings for The Mermaid Mask

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Adam Vian @sfbdim.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Darkstalkers

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Tom Vian @sfbtom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Already got both Detective Grimoire and Tangle Tower? Then the bundle acts as an extra 10% off The Mermaid Mask, as a thank you for being long-time players!

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Adam Vian @sfbdim.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

very early designs of some of the characters from The Mermaid Mask, including one who was cut (although I suppose they were replaced with Mariana Moon)

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 25/08/2026

Today I woke up and felt like doing something a little crazy. Here it is; Kenney Game Assets All-in-1 is 75% off and just $4.99 for a limited time only ✨ Download everything I've made in a single package! kenney.itch.io/kenney-game-...

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Korina ✨🐛 @shikaboom.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

So cute!! These Detective Grimoire and Sally amigurumi just arrived They're a little post-campaign treat for myself ❤️ Made by ChrisisArtStore on Etsy 🫶

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 23/08/2026

120 of 2026's best PC games, ordered according to a weighted Steam community rating, skewed slightly towards popularity. It's a wonderfully diverse mix, and with only ~5 big AAA games in there.