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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

South of the March demo v0.1.5 is up! More self-voicing stuff in this one (like text-to-clipboard, which will help with NVDA use), plus fixes for a few long-standing bugs that have been haunting me for ages. www.smallgraygames.com/blog/9-20-26

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South of the March Demo v0.1.5 Released

South of the March Demo v0.1.5 on Itch.io and Steam.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I just saw a guy lamenting the state of "American indie cinema" because it now produces people like Zach Cregger instead of auteurs like Todd Solondz and Vincent Gallo and you know what I agree I want to see Vincent Gallo's Resident Evil.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

South of the March demo update 0.1.5 is coming very soon, next couple days. I hope you're ready for an update that has: - Not all that many changes - Which took me way too long to do

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Robert / Zeboyd @zeboydgames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

With the Zeboyd bundle, you get This Way Madness Lies, Cosmic Star Heroine, Cthulhu Saves the World & BoDVII, Cthulhu Saves Christmas, and Molly the Werezompire. 75% off right now in the Steam Party-Based RPG Fest! Further discounts to complete your set! store.steampowered.com/bundle/53253...

This Way Madness Lies (81% off)
Cosmic Star Heroine (81% off)
Molly the Werezompire
Cthulhu Saves Christmas (81% off)
Cthulhu Saves the World & BoDVII Double Pack (75% off)

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think Zach Cregger should be legally allowed to kill exactly one fan during each stop of the Resident Evil press tour as long as he uses a gun from the games to do it.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I need a dev alert system that starts going off every time I've spent too much time trying to do something a smart way and forces me to stop thinking about it and do it the stupid way I thought of first.

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 10/09/2026

I don't know if I'll be able to get it into October's Next Fest, but the store page for the game I've been working on has been approved. #gameDev #godotEngine #noAI #indieDev Wishlists are appreciated if that's your jam.

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Torchlike on Steam

A tense first-person dungeon crawl where a single dying torch stands between you and the darkness.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I have no real opinion on the Zelda remake, but I am excited for the possibility of a new generation of "Zelda is the boy" troll posts that make a subset of people go insane.

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Ephiam @ephiam.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

🗓️The official FREE DEMO for Last Days of Tsufana will be hitting both Steam and ITCH on SEPTEMBER 16th! ✨Mark those calendars and GET WISHLISTING!✨

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've been doing a Flonase spray for the last couple days, and for some reason it smells exactly like the stuff I used to spray on Warhammer minis to make the super glue dry faster, so it's triggering some kind of scent memory that makes me think I'm doing something extremely harmful to my brain.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Lament Configuration is not a great name if you want people to play with it. If I were the Hellraiser guy, I would call it the Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Cube Edition.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I just saw a "start building early" hustle culture slop post about the IRL economics that will inevitably bloom from the new GTA. Truly grim stuff.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

GTA 6 discourse is fun because every clip I've seen from it includes a caption like "these graphics bro no way" and I have absolutely no idea if they're impressed or complaining.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

One thing I like about the animated Resident Evil movies is that they continually retread the "are they really zombies?" and "shoot them in the head" stuff despite there having been years if not decades of widely-publicized zombie outbreaks.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm working on some new features for self-voicing in South of the March, like some additional UI beeps and boops and some special tutorial pages that only appear when it's active.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

1% of game dev is doing all the programming and design and writing and art and music and stuff, and 99% of it is figuring out why one line of text moves five pixels when you open the menu but only every second time you do it.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Wrong Turn and its many stupid sequels are not readily available to stream, which I find frustrating because it's hard to imagine something more destined to be on Tubi.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

How many flock cameras would we need to strap together to build a viable bridge? This may be a way to restore our crumbling infrastructure, let's meet in the middle.

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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 16/08/2026

Hey! Are you an indie dev who doesn't use gen AI and have a game you're currently promoting? I'm looking to make a starter pack and you could be in it! Reply below with a link to your game 👇 go.bsky.app/78u8M6Y

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We all hate expository dialogue, but I just watched the new Captain America and there's a scene where he does something weird with his robo-wings and an onlooker basically goes "he got stuff that lets him do that in the show you didn't watch" and I was like, you know what, fair.

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Burger Snail @surlaw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I feel incredibly guilty asking for help but I'm putting a bundle up on @itch.io to help pay for my upcoming and previous surgery costs. I'm still too new at my job to have any paid time off, so it's been tough. Anything helps and hopefully the games bring you joy. itch.io/s/197788/its...

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It's the "Help me pay my medical bills" bundle by Super Walrus Games

A bundle by Super Walrus Games, $14.98 for Kaiju Big Battel: Fighto Fantasy, Walthros: Renewal+

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

One of the most satisfying things in game dev (and all programming) is when you're adding a new feature and it ends up being easy because you designed something to be flexible a long time ago even though you didn't have a particular reason to at the time.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I finally watched Quantumania. I truly don't understand why they couldn't just recast Jonathan Majors. In the scheme of MCU continuity dilemmas, it seems like a very small issue that they could easily write around with "I dunno he's different now due to quantum whatever."

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I went on the “movie woke score” site last night. They knock points from Parasite for “representation in casting,” which is conceptually pretty funny to me.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I watched this a few weeks ago, and while I didn't even especially like it, there's a line where a young criminal guy basically says the Mark Wahlberg "it wouldn't have gone down like that if I was there" 9/11 thing, but about the crucifixion of Jesus. I've been unable to stop thinking about it.

Movie poster for "A Good Woman is Hard to Find" showing star Sarah Bolger holding a hammer. The tagline says "there are no limits to a mother's love."

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

If a movie is a shark movie, it should be direct about that in the synopsis. No "something deadly is in the water." I'm going to watch it either way, just don't have me thinking there's something cooler than a shark in there.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Momo walks around the world. Frontiers cannot bar her.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I opened a Threads account to take advantage of the extra channels on Buffer. This is the first thing I see. Not sure if this is gonna work out.

Some account called "p1mentality" posting "Hustle = Success"

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Saying "Google it" will not be the thing that gives me away. They'll have already seen me hunched over on the sidewalk outside a Millennial brewery, expired collagen dripping from my face like fat running off a steak, screaming the questions of half-remembered Buzzfeed quizzes at passing youths.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I turned on a movie called "Git Along Little Dogies," thought briefly about how there was a time in my life where I wouldn't even have thought of Git (the version control system), and felt a genuine sense of loss.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I just added an RSS feed to my blog (for game updates and just random writing). Any ideas what to do with this thing? www.smallgraygames.com/feed.xml

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Typical of Rolling Stone to ignore the actual song of the summer, which is the Korean trot throwback "Mi-cheo Mi-cheo" by Dino of hit kpop group Seventeen (in character as his variety show persona Picheolin). www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh_D...

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피철인 (Picheolin) '미쳐 미쳐' Official MV

YouTube video by HYBE LABELS

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Important update on my journey through 1930s cowboy movies: Roy Rogers sucks and Gene Autry is the superior singing cowboy, despite the fact that he can't act and also sucks.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I saw a post the other day suggesting people use free tier Buffer to schedule posts, which I think might help my inability to stay on topic. That said, it publishes to three networks, and I basically only use this one. Of these, any thoughts on which (if any) would be worthwhile?

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

South of the March demo v0.1.4 is out! This one's got a ton of new features, most notably a complete overhaul of the self-voicing system. Check out the blog for an overview of the big stuff and full patch notes for everything else. www.smallgraygames.com/blog/7-25-26

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South of the March Demo v0.1.4

South of the March Demo v0.1.4 on Itch.io and Steam.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

One of my most-watched actors of 2026 is a horse.

letterboxd entry for Champion the horse. I've seen him in five films. He's Gene Autry's horse. Is it really the same horse every time? I don't know.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I find it genuinely shocking that not one person even tried to make a modern-setting Lysistrata in the mid-2010s.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I've been watching wholesome Gene Autry cowboy movies from the 30s/40s. One thing I like about them is when the posters make him look like he's the king of hell for some reason.

A poster for "The Singing Cowboy." It's all in reds, oranges, and yellows, kind of fiery, with blown out whites. Gene Autry is playing a guitar with a grin, overlooking a chaotic scene.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

You always hear cowboys singing about the lonesome trail, yet they seem to be socializing at the old saloon all the time.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I think there should be an automated system in Hollywood where if "social media" appears in a script in any capacity, it's instantly shoveled into an incinerator along with all attached producers.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

When a candidate seems bad, it's important to overlook it because there's an election coming up and there's no time to replace them. Even if that last part isn't true at all, you can just wait long enough, and then it will be.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Untrue. All video games are about holding a sword, and the only genre distinction is whether or not the thing holding the sword is a mech and/or robot.

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I want at least one person to be realistic and say "every single one of my past lives was as a newborn that died from some pre-modern newborn problem."

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Small Gray Games @smallgraygames.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Every movie should start with an arbitrary medium-loud sound so that you don't discover a few minutes into a tension-building action intro that your volume is set to 1000db.

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