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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I wanna win a free year! also, entirely unrelated, here is a poem!

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Seeing this bumper sticker is EXACTLY how I wanted to kick off my pride month. #HappyPride

A heartfelt confession of a sexual encounter printed on a bumper stickler.

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

My husband @jamessmock.bsky.social is crazy talented and I am loving the newest character to the game. More details coming on the official @gutterspace.bsky.social page soon, but for now I just wanted to share this awesome #illustration. 100% human art.

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I think maybe its time for some legos

a box of yet to be opened legos, hoarded by a hobby procrastinator.

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

This hurt SOOOOOOOO bad when it happened. But 3 days later it's painless with just the two blisters. My husband got fresh aloe on it pretty quick and I think it helped it to heal so well

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Sick of AAA games not living up to hype? You can decide what gets made next! Watch the trailers of over 400 indie games and vote on the top 10 and top 50 you want to see made. Winner gets up to 300k in funding! blueoceangames.com/challenge/vo...

A pizza shark and Little Malma are telling people to vote for Gutterspace https://blueoceangames.com/challenge/voting

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

12 hours done, 12 more to go.

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I made a game today to help make me feel less helpless about what's going on. Featuring untrained potatoes. #IceOutNow #Ice #GameDev #DevLog

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I'm marathon making a game in protest because I don't know what else I can do. ...This mob is called "Untrained Potato" #AbolishICE #GameDev #DevLog

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I still get the same joy from getting code to work then (1993-ish) that I do today. #DevLog #IndieGameDev #DevLife

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

This is my absolute favorite costume I was ever a part of from a few years ago @jamessmock.bsky.social as Crow, @seattledad.bsky.social as Mike, and myself as Tom Servo. So much fun. Happy Halloween!!!

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

My #VHS effect for @gutterspace.bsky.social did not work EXACTLY how I wanted... but I'm still into it. What do you think, keep it? adjust it? toss it? #DevLog #IndieGameDev #MadeInGodot #Godot

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Zapp is a very sleepy 11 year old puppy. @weratedogs.com

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Our #Poetry collection is growing! The #Gutterspace game has 11 poems in total (so far) and we now have 3 posted as coloring book pages in the collection. Now back to regular #gamedev work.

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Anyone put out a demo for their game recently? What the experience been like and what did you learn from it? Any tips? things to avoid? We are going to start a limited demo of Gutterspace and I was curious. #GameDev #WIP #DevLog #IndiGames #Godot

A proposed menu screen of a demo for Gutterspace. The scene is a lake and tree lined coast with pink floral trees. A character in a blue knit sweater and a lemon for a head waits nearby.

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

New art! Keeping busy while we wait for voting to start. If you haven't already please sign up for a BOG account so you can vote on the 29th! And if want to get your game funded look out for the next competition! its not as intimidating as you think. blueoceangames.com?ref=cncj8xig #DevLog

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Today I'm setting up tile maps in #Gutterspace. ...It's really a birthday gift to future Tom, who will now have a sustainable level construction process. #IndieGameDev #GameDev #DevLog #WIP #GodotEngine #Tilemap #LevelDesign #IndieDev #Gutterspace #IndieGame #BuildInPublic #MadeInGodot

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

look what @jamessmock.bsky.social found outside! 😂 Possible #Gutterspace inspiration??? I could totally see a fab hearse becoming a summonable character in the game. Also, I love my city. 🖤 #DevLog #IndieGame#GameDev #IndieDev #QueerGames #SalemMA

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Starting the day with some good old-fashioned code cleanup in #Gutterspace. 🧹 Removing the last traces of our old dice system (RIP DCE 💀🎲) In lieu of a related visual here is something @jamessmock.bsky.social drew! #IndieGameDev #DevLog #GameDev #IndieDev #CouchCoop #WIP #Gutterspace #HumanArt

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Not the 'lava lamp' like motion I want yet... but good enough for a stopping point. @jamessmock.bsky.social invented and hand-drew a really 🔥 character, and I want to do them justice. #Gutterspace #GameDev #IndieGameDev #MadeInGodot #HandDrawnArt #DevLog #CouchCoop 🎮 #RisingTideChallenge #IndieGame

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Any guesses what this new #Gutterspace character might be? Hint: I have no bones, I have no glass… just heat, motion, and sass. Reveal coming later today (if it works 😅) Art by @jamessmock.bsky.social #IndieGameDev #GameDev #CharacterDesign #DevLog #IndieDev #MadeInGodot #InDev #HandDrawnArt

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

🎥✨ Just got Glowy's movement + basic FX working. They are one of the summonable allies tied to the poems in #Gutterspace. More importantly did the core code for summoning. It's been a fun day! #devlog #indiedev #godotengine #2Dgame #gamedev #pixelart #shader #lighting #animation #gutterspacegame

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Didn’t win the @blueoceangames.bsky.social #RisingTideChallenge, but Gutterspace lives on! Just got couch co-op (wish we showed it in the trailer) working and finishing animating our first 'summon' James drew 👇 #Gutterspace #IndieDev #Godot #CouchCoop #QueerGames #IndieGameDev #devlog

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The kids are watching over our VHS collection while @jamessmock.bsky.social reorganizes.

Three well behaved murder dolls guard a VHS collection.

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Nosey litter f'ers who want to see more can visit our booth live in Salem MA at Garson Super Slice's EDM night 9PM-12 May 17th! @salemma.bsky.social

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Come see us at our first booth in Salem MA! May 17th 9-12PM @salemma.bsky.social

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

My partner @jamessmock.bsky.social was told this jacket was offensive... but in a post skibidi rizz world, what does anything really mean?

A super cool back jacket with white bold lettering stating the 100% unoffensive question "Whose Jizz is this?" on it. Something we have all asked ourselves.

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Just found out its #NationalPoetryMonth. At almost 40 I'm finally processing my childhood through poetry. So here we go! and thanks to @boston.gov for letting me know its poetry month!

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This heart was created by @jamessmock.bsky.social for a game we were working on together, but it never made it in. So happy it found a new home in my latest project.

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

To be led by a fool, is to be controlled by the opportunist who control that fool - Octavia Butler

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Tom Smockborg @tomtheborg.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Had an argument spiral out of control with a family member... so I wrote a poem about it where the syllables line up to the Fibonacci sequence! (1-1-2-3-5-8-13-21-34)

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