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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 12/09/2026

You can use graph paper for designing levels so you can keep everything on a clean, measured grid... or NOT. It's like jazz

RunMan Turbo level design sketch on graph paper with many lines that DO NOT ALIGN with the grid

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 18/08/2026

Always important to stress test your hardware

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 14/08/2026

RunMan Turbo is bringing people together, winning hearts and minds. We can restore balance in our communities, we can heal a fractured world, if we all just remember what is most important in life: running really fast and doing wallkicks in video games

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 12/08/2026

19!? That is way too many. I could manage like 3 or 4 maybe?

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 07/08/2026

You thought I stopped working on RunMan Turbo?? RunMan Turbo will never become a casualty in the carnage that is The Games Industry. RunMan Turbo is manifesting everything good and fun about video games. RunMan Turbo is coming to your town! Soon. To rock your socks off. Indie games forever

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 21/07/2026

When someone asks me what my indie game "design pillars" are

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 10/05/2026

I have no opinions on Mixtape, but I am extremely intrigued by this person's throwaway notion that any digital media that has volume controls can be considered a video game

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 01/05/2026

THEY COULD NEVER MAKE ME HATE THE PROCESS. Sixers in seven

A drawing I did of Joel Embiid putting his body on the line and the city on his back

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 30/04/2026

So it grows... I had a previous version of this game where I used separate sprites for bodies and limbs and animated them all dynamically, but it felt weirdly lifeless. Hand drawing every frame instead gives the characters more personality and allows for the right goofiness

RunMan sprite sheet with more characters

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 17/04/2026

Joe & Mac pixel art is underrated

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 11/04/2026

Pretty sick of booting up MTG Arena and seeing TMNT everywhere

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 08/04/2026

The beginnings of what will grow into a massive sprite sheet of all RunMan Turbo characters. I will never split it into multiple files. It will become tens of thousands of pixels long and tall and loading it will bring my computer to a crawl. These are some of the secrets to my process

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 30/03/2026

Someone on Discord shared the secret song @maddymakesgames.com and I recorded for RunMan: Race Around the World, that only plays when you collect every gold medal:

Ok I haven't listened to this in at least ten years... we absolutely crushed it and this is one of the greatest 100% game rewards of all time. Just one man's opinion

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 18/03/2026

Watching the 4yo play Yoshi's Story on the Switch virtual console N64, and this game looks way better in HD than it did on chunky CRTs back in the day. Like there are always those examples of how pixel art looked smoother and more considered with the scanlines and all... this is the opposite

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 17/03/2026

What happened to indie games? This a 9 person team shipping on 5 platforms. The dream was to make fun weird stuff on your own, free from the constraints of The Industry. Now people just spend money to chase money and guess what, the whole thing is rigged and set up for you to fail like it always was

Reddit post about an indie game team with an underwhelming launch

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 12/03/2026

Glad to see people dragging Valve for this... $100k is peanuts, and what this really says is like 100,000 games on Steam basically made no money at all last year. And of course a small handful of games at the top made 100x what the others did

Valve says 6000 games made over 100k on Steam in 2025

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 22/02/2026

Gamers these days are ridiculous. So entitled and needy, so quick to flip out over the smallest little thing. And you have to explain and hold their hand through everything like it's the first game they ever played in their life. Look at this. No respect for the hardware, no respect for the craft

A nine month old baby chewing on a NES-style gamepad

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 08/02/2026

Tonight football season wraps up, but HUGBY SEASON HAS JUST BEGUN... next stop is Awesome Con in Washington DC, March 13-15!! Come out and play the game critics are calling the definitive touchscreen teddy bear football arcade experience of this generation awesome-con.com/video-gaming...

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 25/01/2026

Ok I was the one talking smack all week like this was just gonna end up as a dusting. I am the one who invoked the snowy wrath of God. It was me. My bad

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 22/01/2026

T&C Surf Designs: Wood & Water Rage, another obscure classic I wish indie devs would rip off and turn into a whole genre

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 11/01/2026

Cousin Rob playing maybe my favorite game in #MAGFest, Vestigial

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 10/01/2026

Hugby finding fans at the #MAGFest indie arcade... "That's football baby"

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 09/01/2026

The continuing MAGFest adventures of Cousin Rob

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 09/01/2026

The #MAGFest indie game dev meetup is the same as every other indie game dev meetup: I'm the tallest person here

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 08/01/2026

This is now the Cousin Rob MAGFest thread, deal with it

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 08/01/2026

This is my cousin Rob playing Hover Burger at MAGFest. It rules

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 08/01/2026

REAL LIFE, COME TO THE INDIE ARCADE AT 2PM #MAGFEST

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 08/01/2026

Choo choo y'all it's a beautiful day to ride the train down to DC and tear things up at MAGFEST

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 07/01/2026

Printing Hugby stickers to bring to @magfest.org, LFG

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 05/01/2026

MAGFest this week! I'll be in the Indie Arcade debuting the Hugby cabinet!! Hugby is a teddy bear football game where you draw your own plays. I originally built it as a mobile game, and it has been reborn as a premiere arcade experience. It's adorable af and always surprises people with its depth

Two folks playing Hugby against each other. One covers his eyes and looks away during his opponent's turn.

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 19/12/2025

RunMan: Race Around the World is seventy-five friggin percent (75%) off for the Steam Winter Sale: store.steampowered.com/app/2466160/... Keep the change, ya filthy animals!!

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 16/12/2025

Playing this guy a lot, his name is pronounced like "Eugene"

Magic the Gathering card. "Ugin, Eye of the Storms"

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 13/12/2025

Don't worry babe I made dinner

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 12/12/2025

It's the biggest gaming night of the year... Hugby playtesting

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 13/11/2025

Fun time at @phillygamemechs.bsky.social last week showing off the latest Hugby build (made in Love2D) and a new experimental art project I'm working on that's like a dynamic interactive painting. Shoutout to our new venue @indyhall.org it was my first time there and wow what a cool place!!

Me explaining the intricacies of Hugby strategy

Me showing off a mini version of my new interactive art piece

Cool folks playing indie games at Indy Hall (Hugby is at the back end of the table)

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 11/11/2025

Sneak preview of the potential roster for RunMan Turbo... yes RunMan Turbo is still happening, of course it's still happening. RunMan? People love that guy

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 18/10/2025

I can report many, many other Philadelphians had the idea to write "Go Birds" on their signs

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 18/10/2025

Greetings from the birthplace and reigning hotbed of American democracy

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 21/09/2025

Eagles fans halftime message re: Kevin Patullo

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