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Samuel Partridge

@spartridge.bsky.social
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Studio lead Tributary Games. I worked on King of the Castle, Over the Alps, Fallen London & Occlude. He/him partridge.games tributary.games

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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh shit I got put on a starter pack of indie horror game makers, erm, ok, right hi everyone, so go play Occlude it’s a really good game with good horror and the people I made it are ace: store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/...
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Occlude on Steam
Occlude is a ritual disguised as Solitaire; a cosmic-horror card game where the rules are obscured and reality is at stake. Play through cryptic challenges to reveal forbidden lore in this singleplaye...
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Chappu @chappuvt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's almost spooky month so time to share my starter pack of amazing horror #gamedev s who don't use AI. If you want to be added it would be awesome if you told me a bit about the cool #horrorgame you're working on✨ Also if I'm following you but you're not in this pack pls leave a comment as well♥️
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another visually striking, good indie that's a tonic to the endless slurry of low effort releases - Another Door by Mizar & Alcor, published by @nomorerobots.io. Lovely animation, a touch of color quantization, but most of all very slick UI design. And a co-op roguelike, what's not to like?
Screenshot from Another Door, featuring slick UI and a main menu areaScreenshot from Another Door, featuring a combat screen with multiple inputs from multiple charactersScreenshot from Another Door, this time with some kind of split screen monster vs a bell section
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Tributary Games @tributarygames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Did you know that we experimented with animated Event images for King of the Castle? We ended up sticking with the static versions, but here's the tester.
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I've seen a lot of AI generated, sexist or otherwise miserable games on Steam recently. I'm going to tonic them by posting more about the weird, cool indies I find. O EMPIRE! WARD OFF THY ROT is a surreal RPG where players travel across a bleak continent. store.steampowered.com/app/4331110/...
A stylised scene from the game. A squared off view, with a tower standing in a field of poppies.A stylised scene from the game. A squared off view of minimalist menu, with a hand showing a wedding ring.A stylised scene from the game. A squared off view of a medeival-ish town with a tiny character in the centre.
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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 04/09/2026
The folks at @aghotspot.bsky.social just released an in-depth interview with @richardcobbett.bsky.social where he talks about his work on Nighthawks. Lots of great insights about his process here, and a lot of peaks into what makes this game unique. adventuregamehotspot.com/interview/71...
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Richard Cobbett – Nighthawks | Adventure Game Hotspot
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I'm not at Gamescom! First time I've not been so in 4 years. To anyone going my only bit of advice is break up your day and get out the Koelnmesse - It's intense, all indoors, so take a break outside, as some direct sunlight does wonders. Plus Cologne is a magic city, it's worth an side-quest.
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Tributary Games @tributarygames.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
You may be cool, but you’ll never be as cool as Rectarune on our Discord, who has made their own cosplay of their Patrician
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I helped out putting together this festival! It's got a great video showcase and a few cracking smaller indies, which I'm particularly proud of having been included. Go check it out: store.steampowered.com/sale/choices...
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Welcome to the Choices Matter Festival hosted by Telltale!
Hello Friends, Welcome to the first-ever Choices Matter Festival on Steam! We're celebrating games of various genres with diverging storylines and critical decisions at the forefront. Festival highlig...
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Sovereign Tower is shaping up really nicely. Exactly the kind of game I adore - You should go wishlist it!
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Francisco González @grundislav.games · 24/07/2026
Final weekend to grab this deal.
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pantaloon | ROLLA OUT SEP 30 🚨 @pantaloon.io · 06/05/2026
NEWS! You hear that!? That's the sound of OFFBEAT; a music-tycoon game from the fantastic @whetstone.games OFFBEAT allows you to hook up kids toys, garden ornaments and kitchen utensils to a sequencer to create glorious electronic music (and export to .wav!) store.steampowered.com/app/4468030/...
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The joy of working in games is seeing something someone else has made and going either “I wish I had made that” or “damn, how did they make that” Then the rarest, juciest joy is finding a game that triggers both. MÖRK BORG Heresy Supreme is one such joy. You’re all sleeping on it, go check it out:
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MÖRK BORG Heresy Supreme on Steam
A desperate attempt to endure the coming Apocalypse in a cursed, unjust dark fantasy world, made only to appease a vain god. Combat is brutal, choices are lethal, and survival is a temporary insult to...
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
How to choose - A convention in Sweden has been playing the same game of King of the Castle annually every single year since launch, multiple tattoos, and a number of baffling family trees
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Hey do you want to buy a video game? You don’t even have to play it, you can just have it in your steam library and look it at. That’s what I do, it’s great. Anyway, go buy our games, the algorithm made them cheaper for reasons, so now you want them more
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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 27/06/2026
Unavowed is 70% off during the Steam Summer Sale! Embark on a party-based, multi-branching urban fantasy game about magic and monsters in New York. It was also an IGF nominee and was called "one of the best adventure games ever made" by PC Gamer. store.steampowered.com/app/336140/U...
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Doing social media for our latest indie release today and I’m like
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Lots of people asking how we made Over the Alps: The Devil's Quill. Also asking why we made it, which is fair enough! So! A brief thread about how I finished off a game I started back in 2013. 🧵 #gamedev
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Over the Alps: The Devil's Quill by Tributary Games
A free, in browser choices matter spy thriller game.
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Little bit emotional this one - the first ever game I made as an indie has been re-released and finally finished with its last bit of content after 6 years. Go give it a spin, it was my entire world for many years. Full credit to the superb team who worked on it. Go look through those credits!
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Can't wait to sign away 30% of every game project I ever will make or have made to help fund this man's next mega-yacht or super-mansion while I count pennies just in order to keep making games. It's just such an honour.
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Ed @edsibley.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
We're in Next Fest! That's one item ticked off the indie studio bucket list. store.steampowered.com/news/app/446...
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OFFBEAT - OFFBEAT is in Steam Next Fest - Steam News
Release your hidden musical genius, and share it with the world!
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Camels are not to be bonded with, apparently
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pantaloon | ROLLA OUT SEP 30 🚨 @pantaloon.io · 11/06/2026
BOXROOM is OUT NOW on @itch.io and Steam! 📦 Organise your library! Build a sanctuary for your games! Revel in the organisation of it all! As always to celebrate launch, 5 keys to win here on Bluesky. Follow and share this, we'll pick winners on June 18th. pantaloon-io.itch.io/boxroom
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Boxroom is coming out on the 11th (tomorrow)! It’s been in release limbo for nearly a month through zero fault of the devs, and from experience that can rough up a game launch. So please, support a fellow indie, give them your support and shout about it!!! store.steampowered.com/app/4335460/...
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BOXROOM on Steam
BOXROOM allows you to design, define and decorate a room - a sanctuary - for your Steam library, and then revel in the organisation of your game collection.
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Tributary Games @tributarygames.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I have a printed copy of this review and keep it under my pillow
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Daniel Fineberg @shedworksdan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Announcing ✨ In The Drift ✨ A dreamy narrative platformer about fixing the internet in space 🌠 Drive across asteroids in your truck, repair old infrastructure, make friends with your crew and find a place where you belong 🌌 Wishlist now on steam! store.steampowered.com/app/4712630/...
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The new Steam Personal Calendar is actually pretty good, there's a few gems in here I've not seen before
The new Steam Calendar feature, but I've added in some stupid, fake titles - Including "Lads On Tour 2: The Boys Go To Prison" and "Assassin's Creed Big Shop". They're mostly unfunny.
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Tributary Games @tributarygames.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Maffman22 has been creating a family tree of his King of the Castle monarchs. It looks very normal and not complicated at all. Why not give him a sub at www.twitch.tv/maffman22, or join in the game to add yourself to the madness?
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giselle @ellipsea.online · 29/05/2026
please play our demo!! I drew so many pictures to make it real!!
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
About to go on an Idiot Safari and read the comments of this Facebook post. Wish me luck
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Tributary Games @tributarygames.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
There's a hotfix up for Occlude 🔥 2.0.3 is out now 🔥 This includes fixes for some issues with the tutorial and the RNG system And if you want to know how Occlude shuffles cards our own @owennewburn.bsky.social has written a post all about the RNG in the game. steamcommunity.com/games/354701...
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Steam :: Occlude :: v2.0.3 Occlude Hotfix
A fix for a tricky little RNG bug
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Everyone at milktooth is so ridiculously talented, lovely and making something so bloody good you're going to want to play it straight away. Go follow them! Get excited! They're good! Really bloody good!
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Tributary Games @tributarygames.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This weekend we'll be playing Amberspire, by @nictringali.bsky.social, with a touch of @hollynielsen.bsky.social for good measure. It's a dice rolling city builder with mad world-building and factional politics. And we think you'd absolute love it: store.steampowered.com/app/3350750/...
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Save 10% on Amberspire on Steam
A science fantasy dice city builder. Construct buildings, manage resources, and build in harmony with an alien ecology. Beneath the glow of a gas giant, Amberspire will grow and prosper into a flouris...
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
To the drag queen who came bursting out of the London Marathon to say she loved our greyhound 1) how did you have the energy to do that mid-marathon, incredible 2) you looked amazing where is your show and can I take my dog
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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Wishlist here! store.steampowered.com/app/3350750/...
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Amberspire on Steam
A science fantasy dice city builder. Construct buildings, manage resources, and build in harmony with an alien ecology. Beneath the glow of a gas giant, Amberspire will grow and prosper into a flouris...
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Behind the scenes pitch for a feature in KOTC - where players would build a castle over multiple reigns. Was cut in descoping, which now means there’s no castles in a game called “King of the Castle”. Woops.
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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Weekend bump for this!
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Why do all my models wear helmets? Yeah, lore reasons. Nothing to do with how painting little tiny bloody heads makes me lose the will to live
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Tributary Games @tributarygames.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The War Of The Kings, a special KOTC event, is running at 1PM EST with four fantastic streamers. Who will you join? The proud Counts: twitch.tv/thriftytokens The zealous Grandees: twitch.tv/2slow2serioustv The strong Chiefs: twitch.tv/biowolf42 The dastardly King: twitch.tv/mrkaji
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Richard Cobbett @richardcobbett.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Being a writer is starting an update with "I don't really have anything to talk about" and then writing more than 2000 words about writing in-game news stories that nobody will read. www.kickstarter.com/projects/753...
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Update 89: If It Bleeds, It Leads · Nighthawks - The Vampire RPG
Greetings, all. Please pardon the recent quiet - it’s not for a lack of working, just that we’re now firmly in the part of the game where the big features and cool design things are all done and locke...
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Rarely do I finish a book and wish I could wipe my memory clean to read it again. I had it today with Robert Jackson Bennett’s first two Shadow of the Leviathan books, both of which I devoured in under a month. If you’re a fan of fantasy - especially Tchaikovsky or Wolfe - I can’t recommend more!
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Renee Good believed in kindness, volunteered her time and talents, saw value in all beliefs, and her final words were “I don’t hate you” to her murderer. Now her name is being dragged through the mud. She’s more Christ-like than anyone in that evil administration. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Renee Nicole Good: Christian work of woman shot dead by ICE agent
Becca Hainsworth shared a room with Good during one of her stays in Northern Ireland and said her soul is crushed at the loss of her friend.
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Everything Bruno touches is pure gold! Whether it's a sprawling behemoth like Fallen London or a focused indie project just starting out, if you want words what are good, go hire Bruno.
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
It's insane how much my indie career has been making prototypes and pitches for titles that have never seen the light of day. Here's a peek behind the curtain: A strategy title called City In Flames we worked on back in 2024. Got close, but no publisher would have it. #gamedev
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas everyone. I know it’s not the easiest time for everyone, especially when so many are so outwardly, overly joyous (especially us god bothering types) So if you’re not having the best day, know that I’ll be thinking of you today. I hope we all find some form of peace, however small.
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Owen Newburn @owennewburn.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Fun fact, this building is weirdly important to the @tributarygames.bsky.social lore. Me and @spartridge.bsky.social basically learned to code in the Cruciform building.
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Yes, all my design proposals have themed header images. Yes, it is weird and annoying. No, I will not stop
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Tributary Games @tributarygames.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Thanks to Steam Replay, you really can guess what we've been playing a lot of this year...
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Having worked with the superb @sallybeaumont.bsky.social on Occlude and KOTC trailers and recently meeting @stanwixbuster.co.uk then been genuinely emotionally crushed by his work, I'm extremely proud and happy for both of them for this - Well deserved you two.
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Samuel Partridge @spartridge.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I had a day off and spent it painting Little Dudes. Fuck making video games this is the most satisfying thing in the world to do.
A painted 40k miniature
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