Dan Thomas
@heydanthomas
I help games businesses navigate growth... or something. 💖Co-director @ Limit Break Mentorship 🌿 COO @ Apparance 😻Growth @ IMPRESS 🎮 #GamesIndustry 🚐 #Vanlife 🏚️ #BarnLife 🚵 #MTB 📍Wales, UK
So many people get caught up trying to be on the bandwagon for the "next big thing in games", they forget to focus on things THEY most love themselves. Been there, struggled with that. Allow me to refer you to this Mr Bingo piece...
New hobby, hitting the "this looks like AI slop" button on all of LinkedIn's own ads 😈
Slaters gonna slate. In case you were wondering (they weren't), slating a roof is really effing hard. Probably one of the most difficult jobs of the build so far. #BarnLife
Equal parts devastated and relieved Develop is over. Loved hanging out with great people but rest is nice. 📸 Went for a walk on the beach Thurs morning and found an abandoned @gibiz.bsky.social token
I have been running purely off solar power (+generator backup) since April 2025. This is what that looks like for the 3 of you that might be interested. About £150 worth of diesel in the past 15 months.
Half way through the year and this is interesting. This is the first year since 2019 that Steam's revenue _might_ not increase year on year. I mean, it's still a huge number and not at all relative to the insanity that is investment in games (or lack of), but still interesting.
6am on a Saturday has become a regular thing for me in old age. Good morning early crew, What's on the agenda for today? Ima be building a roof 🏚️ #BarnLife
Ugh dunno why they uploaded so dark... Here's hopefully better versions
More #IndieDevs should let @noaksey.com, @kiddesimo.bsky.social and me graffiti their games 😎 These look so rad in The Quiet Things by @silverscriptgames.bsky.social
Phew, I knew this would be a rare tangle with "the feels" but oof and grrrrr and ahhhh is the only appropriate review of this stunning piece of real life story telling. More people need to share their stories like this. Amazing work by @alyxjones.bsky.social and @silverscriptgames.bsky.social ♥️
Saturday morning shopping trips look a bit different these days... Never expected to be excited for buying stone lintels 😅 #SelfBuild #BarnLife
For those who don't subject themselves to my LinkedIn waffle or whose algo has spared them... I've joined the Killer Filler crew helping with bizdev and marketing. I love how focused the proposition is: Incredible shortform video for between your main games marketing beats 🎮🎥 LETS TALK?!
There's bluebells in the woodland next to our field and this year they've breached the boundary. Good.
Woodland update: Back in December, my wife and I planted a small woodland. Here's a Rowan tree busting out some new leaves. Good work little tree 🙌 #BarnLife
Coming out of the long weekend with a tasty serving of procedural generation at @everythingproc.bsky.social Excited to be repping @apparance.bsky.social 🙌
🎉It's @everythingproc.bsky.social soon! 🥰Hang out with tech artists, programmers and tools devs in beautiful Breda, Netherlands 🤓Learn runtime procedural generation at the @apparance.bsky.social masterclass 👀Discount: EPC2026_APPARANCE www.everythingprocedural.com#masterclasses #GameDev #ProcGen
Starting the day with some early morning tree care. Putting down these wool mulch mats to help the saplings not have fight the grass for nutrients. Only 1000 more to go before spring really kicks in and makes this job even harder...
Late to the party as always but really enjoying Tinykin by @splashteam.bsky.social. Super chill collect all the things 3D platformer with a gaggle of lil friends with different abilities. Super polished, not too taxing but really satisfying and fun.
Some of you may recall that back in November, we planted a small woodland on our field. Well, I have never been so excited to walk around a field and look at sticks in tubes as I was today... 🌱 First signs of growth!
I don't know who cares, but this morning I found two more frog breeding sites in the ditch alongside the field. So that's nice. Stay tuned for more froggy updates as we slowly claw our way out of winter 🐸
I haven't played any NextFest demos yet. But I did find evidence the frogs are out of hibernation (or "torpor" for the nature nerds). Spring is springing and I think we all need some of that, eh? What's your favourite Spring marker? 🐸
One of the first video games I loved. You play as a bin man. We got a bit more ambitious with our gaming fantasies since then eh? It blows my mind how far games have come and what a privilege it's been to see almost the entire evolution of an industry.
Dug a trench today lads. Also, the wife just dropped our 12 month #BarnLife summary video on YT: youtu.be/ST2EOwN6Uqo
Let's go! #PGConnects! Having used the weekend to recover from last week's trip to London, I'll be back on the train first thing tomorrow 😅