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David Smith

@trigpointdave.bsky.social
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Director at Trigpoint Games. Unreal Engine Programmer (porting), Game Developer, Trail Runner. trigpoint.games

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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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root @freshroots.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Hi, I made a steam page for my game, Soft Ruin. If it seems interesting, please consider giving it a wishlist. Thanks! store.steampowered.com/app/2882230/...
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Spelkollektivet @spelkollektivet.com · 14/08/2026
Help Save the Home for Indie Game Developers For 9 years Spelkollektivet has had more than 700 game developers stay at the co-living & co-working hub, but due to new directives in the local area, the future may be at risk. Read more: gofund.me/f4244d6de #gamedev #indiegames #gofundme
GoFundMe post titled "Save the Home for Indie Game Developers" with a Photograph of game developers working hard in the background. Goal is 750,000 SEK
With a Call To Action of "Donate Now"
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Mischief @mischief.games · 30/07/2026
Welcome To The New Apocalypse
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Anna Hollinrake 🌤️ @annahollinrake.com · 29/07/2026
Hey all! I'm currently on the lookout for a freelance UI artist with experience in Unreal 5. Stylized art preferred as it's for Crescent County! Lmk if that sounds like YOU or SOMEONE YOU KNOW 🌟 #gamedev #indiedev #gamejobs
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Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk · 23/07/2026
From a database to a full-fledged bible! ✨🕺 We've collabed with @eddcoates.bsky.social on the Game UI Bible, a 500+ page hardback adventure through the UI/UX of loads of your favourite games 🎮 Let us entice you with a limited signed bookplate by Edd himself and more below 🔗👇
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 13/07/2026
It's been so nice seeing the excitement for the courses.ramiismail.com program. Genuinely didn't know what to expect, but this is far beyond my expectations. I really hope it helps everyone!
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Levelling the Playing Field - Courses by Rami Ismail
Practical, focused courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - by Rami Ismail.
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Proud to announce the next game Vampirium: 1997 Dracula is king of the United British Empire. Kill his enemies and find your own path through a minimalist immersive sim sandbox. Wishlists and retweets massively appreciated (and, you know, massively helpful) store.steampowered.com/app/4035190/...
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Vampirium: 1997 on Steam
1997. Dracula is King of England. At his command, master your dark gifts to assassinate his enemies and secure his vampiric empire. Infiltrate locked-down locations, adapt and survive in living enviro...
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Myra Cheng @myra.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
AI always calling your ideas “fantastic” can feel inauthentic, but what are sycophancy’s deeper harms? We find that in the common use case of seeking AI advice on interpersonal situations—specifically conflicts—sycophancy makes people feel more right & less willing to apologize.
Screenshot of paper title: Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
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David H @nachimir.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Leftfield submissions are now open for 2026: airtable.com/appIQDFmYU3o...
Photo of the game Bib Goes Home. A small projector on a Mechano stand is doing interactive projection mapping on the pages of a cardboard pop-up book.Screenshot of the game Far From Noise. A Citroen 2CV is balanced precariously on the edge of a cliff. Text bubbles: "(honk honk) HELLOOO?"A screenshot of the game Rhell. A young mage stands in front of some bookshelves and a bed, looking at a spectrral form above.Close up photo of the installation Wobble Garden. LED rings shine in many colours, at the bases of springy conical silver doorstops.
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
In Webdev it's always DNS. In Gamedev it's always FMOD
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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 20/02/2026
Premium is just £2.49 or your local equivalent while we're building out the other modes. Please consider supporting us! Our game doesn't yet pay for its own servers and that would be lovely actually. Daily mode is still free and always will be!
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
He should change his name to Stefan Repro after this
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Hollie Emery 🏳️‍⚧️🌿 @slinkyfishy.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
New Luna Abyss Steam demo just dropped! Please check it out. If you want to help a dev out, please reshare these posts: Insta www.instagram.com/reel/DUqRPIU... Twitter x.com/LunaAbyssGam... Bsky bsky.app/profile/luna... FB fb.watch/FdEr_z_UDh/ Wishlist Now store.steampowered.com/app/1933000/...
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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
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The Game Bakers @thegamebakers.com · 29/01/2026
Time to climb! Cairn is available now. Mount Kami awaits, unconquered. This is what you trained for: fight for every meter of the climb and rise to the challenge.
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
HEY HEY it's NEWS 'O CLOCK. 'EARTH MUST DIE' is coming out on the 27th of Jan, which is alarmingly soon! Please pop over here and wishlist it, and do share if you're able. Thank you. store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
We used to build things in this country
The spaceship from Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
*flying with the snowman when a plane gets in the way* HEY! I'M WALKIN' IN THE AIR HERE!
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Okay this is some strong as hell maths. Can't tell you how much buying the Size Five games helps me out. If you follow me but don't own these yet, please grab them now. It's the *actual best Christmas present* to help keep my weird little company afloat. Thank you.
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Sebastian Aaltonen @sebaaltonen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
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No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen
Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...
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White Paper Games @whitepapergames.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Back in 2011, ROUTINE & ETHER ONE were ideas yet to be realised - our teams hung out on Skype, dreaming up worlds together. 14 years on, we've shared the highs & the lows and we couldn't be prouder of what they've achieved. Congratulations friends 🧡💙 #routine #lunarsoftware
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ROUTINE @routinegame.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
> Booting ROUTINE… > Initializing lunar base exploration… > Available now on Xbox Game Pass, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud and Steam. Only one way forward. ▌ ► Xbox: www.xbox.com/en-US/games/... ► Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/606160/R...
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adam pype @adampype.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
hello bsky! our game was taken down due to a false DMCA which completely killed our momentum at launch. our studio is in a very precarious position right now. please share and spread the word, steam has been little help to our situation. noplayersonline.net/statement
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Christopher Ferris @sweaterparrot.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I should be working on other things but I keep getting distracted by my "the forklift job minigame from Shenmue but an entire game of it" game idea
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David H @nachimir.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
MORSE is out now: store.steampowered.com/app/1976860/... As well as keyboard or mouse, can work with actual Morse keys too; so, backwards compatible with hardware all the way to 1844
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Save 20% on MORSE on Steam
Vanquish the Kaiser's Imperial Fleet using timing, tactics and telegraphy in MORSE, a minimalist strategy game that teaches you the lost language of Morse code. Can you change the world with the push ...
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
It’s funny catching wind that my posts against generative ai have raised a few eyebrows and pissed a few people off. I’d love to be able to give a fuck, but first I’d need to steal a million fucks from other people, and have a machine randomly assemble small parts of those fucks together for me
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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
What I expected from Atomfall was British Fallout. What it’s actually doing is a fascinating verb-based investigative RPG?? You “level up” by exploring, and choosing when and how you deploy information. And when that finally clicked, it produced one of my favorite games in years. Don’t sleep on it
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
If you enjoy Size Five and want to see it survive what is a very iffy time for the Games Industry, please do three things with your Saturday: ✅ Wishlist EARTH MUST DIE ✅ Buy a game on sale ✅ Share these links where you can store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/... store.steampowered.com/dev/sizefive
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Earth Must Die on Steam
These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
EARTH MUST DIE Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE Please RETWEET and WISHLIST
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Distributed Denial Of Silksong
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
@patricio.io Hi, will there ever be another print run of Pixel Spirit Deck? Thanks
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
SIMD stands for Simple Issue, Multiple Dead-ends
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
A fish coughed its way out of the ocean one day and now I have to FIX SIMD CRASHES. MAKE IT STOP
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Andrew Crawshaw @andrewcrawshaw.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
It's the 10th anniversary of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. Here's a thread of images that very few people will have seen. Thanks to the opportunity that Sony Santa Monica gave us, we had the freedom to explore ideas, even if that meant we left a lot of amazing work on the cutting room floor...
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Farleigh Hanchet @farleigh.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
In the wake of the announcement regarding redundancies at Bithell Games please go and follow these wonderful, talented people go.bsky.app/U1R3UmV
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Sad news today. Bithell Games, having been unable to secure a new larger scale project, is reducing in size. This means that eleven jobs are being made redundant. This constitutes the majority of our full-time staff.

It became clear leading up to the release of our most recent game that we were not immune to the challenges faced by many game development teams seeking funding partners in 2024 and 2025. We’ve fortunately been able to communicate these challenges ahead of time, and work with affected staff to ease departures as much as possible via severance packages.

It’s important to state that this was an incredible team of exceptionally talented people. If you’re a developer reading this, and you’re hiring; anyone among those affected would be a great addition to your studio, please reach out if we can help to put you in touch.

This news will not impact the availability of our existing self published games and ongoing support for them. We are incredibly grateful for our audience, and hope that your interest in our work follows individual team members as they head into other roles.

Bithell Games was always defined and elevated by our people. Today we 
are less.

-   Mike Bithell
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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Deep breath. ✨ Mindset GO! is in soft launch now! ✨ 🔵 iOS: mindset.game/app/ 🔺 Android: mindset.game/app/ 🟨 ... Or web: mindset.game Mindset is a new smart casual puzzle that tests 👀 observation and 🧠 logic. Install! Play! Share! ENJOY. And let me know how you get on. Big day. More to come... 🔮
A release image for Mindset GO! It says "Mindset GO! Out Now!" next to the Mindset logo, a modified Venn diagram. Below, a cat lurks by some sortable shapes. There are cats in the game; also shapes.
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David H @nachimir.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
It's the last week to get your submissions in for Leftfield 2025. They close on Friday 1st of August: airtable.com/appIQDFmYU3o...
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Renaming my toilet the Payment Processor
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Have they invented super coffee yet I need some
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Ziz Simoens @zizmakesgames.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
it is now my turn for the "role at risk" post www.linkedin.com/posts/esimoe...
Screen shot of a linkedin post about needing new work with a photo of ziz and her dog zuli
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
deeply upsetting to open monday dot com on a saturday
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The text reads: "House of Leaves is about a descent into madness involving a structure that seems to endlessly expand, change and defy rationality, which makes it exactly the same as that game you've been working on"
The word House and the word game are written in blue.
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KrisWB 🌱 @kriswbennett.co.uk · 24/06/2025
A new VR game from the Manifold Garden devs was just announced by @playstation.com Hotel Infinity from Studio Chyr @chyr.bsky.social & @studiochyr.bsky.social is about navigating the plausibly impossible - Mind-bending - Roomscale-first design - Navigate impossible spaces - Solve enigmatic puzzles
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Writing a tool for a designer and resisting the urge to name a field 'Macguffin'
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David H @nachimir.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Leftfield submissions are now open for EGX London, Oct 24th-26th: airtable.com/appIQDFmYU3o...
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
TRON: Catalyst is out now store.steampowered.com/app/3025590/... (Consoles coming online shortly) It’s been a journey, we couldn’t be more excited to join you again on the Arq Grid.
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TRON: Catalyst on Steam
The Arq Grid stands on the brink of collapse. With your Identity Disc and Light Cycle, fight to escape by wielding the power of the Glitch loop. Electrifying action and a rich story combine in a new a...
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Anna Hollinrake 🌤️ @annahollinrake.com · 17/06/2025
Just 4 hours to go! Every Kickstarter pledge bring us a little closer to our true dream for the game: @benstarr.bsky.social making motorbroom sounds with increasing bafflement and incredulity 🙏🙏
An image of a motorbroom from Crescent County with voice actor Ben Starr's face badly superimposed on the windscreen. It features a screencap from a coversation saying 'ben starr: broom noises' and 'oh I'll do it'. The bottom says 'Broom Starr Mode*'. *Also this is very much a silly joke
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
27 hours left on Feeling Broomtastic's Kickstarter. At £90k they're going for voice acting too!
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David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Changing the UE5 editor splash image to show random quotes like 'perfection is the enemy of done', 'ship it already', and 'having the best code in the world doesn't make a good game'
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