Sam Read-Graves 🌿🎮
@readgraves
“Developer, lecturer, and potential entry-level sociopath.” - Forbes 18+ years Indie Dev. He/Him. Folklore Guy. Writing Horror and making Games. Task Time | Trolley Problem, Inc | Gang Beasts | Mainlining | Dream ReadGraves.com
Three? Is the data better in Leeds?
A three-player co-op detective horror where customers may only be pretending to be human, and one mistake turns the shift into a siege.
As I see so much stuff, and don’t have any dev stuff I can share now we are so far along with Task Time, I’m going to start sharing a cool indie thing every day. I did a few tests today as I’m getting to grips with Buffer. Sorry if I spam trailers over the next few days while I work out the kinks!
An embroidered medieval folk tale about village chores, idle gossip and the sinister secrets hidden beneath ordinary life.
Solid Trailer.
Listening to some old Chilis, Suck My Kiss is a banger. youtu.be/C6jElKMMOWM?...
@crobertcargill.bsky.social and @blumhouse.com have done me dirty with this puzzle. The black is impossible!
How is Shrek 5 still a year and a half away? We need an oddly proportioned version of him in Fortnite asap!
The most unrealistic part of the Matrix is when Trinity meets Neo for the first time in a rave and they just have a casual conversation at normal volume.
While watching #twitch streamers play Task Time over the last week it has been nice dipping back into Trolley Problem Inc. Surprised to see so many people still streaming it!
Looking forward to @radicalforge.bsky.social’s Southfield. Repping the future of UK physics games! A long lineage I’m very proud to be a part of!
Another great night with our environmental artist’s favourite streamer WhatofJulia playing! twitch.tv/whatifjulia
Here is our Task Time Discord if people want to come say hi! -https://discord.gg/5hzGgD5USR
In Task Time's HUD we always have the player's expressive face, inspired by the original Doom (@romerogames.bsky.social). You can't really make it out here, due to the lo-res gif, but we also animate with scaling and other techniques stolen from @kanaratron.bsky.social Bluesky posts!
Over night we peaked at #38 position on Twitch, beating out games like Dying Light: The Beast! Looking forward to seeing what Asia makes of it today!
Was great streaming the game for the past hour, made the front page of Twitch. Solid announcement!
NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT! A Family Friendly, Physics-Fueled FPS Party Game! Over half a million task variations and over 500 unlockable cosmetics and emotes with NO Microtransactions! This is your New Favourite Friendslop! Play the Playtest on Steam Now! store.steampowered.com/app/2182680
New PUNK GAMES INDUSTRY ZINE - The Graveyard of Half-Done Builds readgraves.substack.com/p/the-gravey... Sharing is greatly appreciate!
New PUNK GAMES INDUSTRY ZINE - The Mirage of Success open.substack.com/pub/readgrav... Sharing is greatly appreciate!
New PUNK GAMES INDUSTRY ZINE - The Bouncer Has Moved Into Your Cloud Storage readgraves.substack.com/p/the-bounce... Sharing is greatly appreciate!
I think now that things can be trained ethically the original, unethical, companies need to die out so genuinely useful machine learning tools aren’t seen as theft.
New PUNK GAMES INDUSTRY ZINE - Your Credit Card Hates Art readgraves.substack.com/p/your-credi... Sharing is greatly appreciate!
New RWAC article: You Bought It. They Deleted It. readgraves.substack.com/p/you-bought... This week thinking about @mikebithell.bsky.social's John Wick Hex getting taken down and reminiscing on The Crew. Sharing is greatly appreciate!