Small Gray Games

@smallgraygames

Indie game dev. Made The Idle Class, The Salt Keep, and currently working on South of the March. South of the March: The Salt Keep: smallgraygames.itch.io/the-salt-keep Patreon: www.patreon.com/smallgraygames

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Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· Jul 12

I've been watching wholesome Gene Autry cowboy movies from the 30s/40s. One thing I like about them is when the posters make him look like he's the king of hell for some reason.

A poster for "The Singing Cowboy." It's all in reds, oranges, and yellows, kind of fiery, with blown out whites. Gene Autry is playing a guitar with a grin, overlooking a chaotic scene.

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· Jul 11

This was a deeply stupid movie.

Poster for Faces of death. It's got Dacre Montgomery's face in black and white with a red x over it, Barbie Ferreira visible within it.

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· Jul 3

Entry number one trillion in the "why are we funneling the entire economy into AI" question: today I tried to google famed Korean folk singer Im Jiehoon.

google search for "im jiehoon." The automated AI result responds by welcoming me, seemingly thinking that I am Jiehoon and was simply introducing myself to it.

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· Jul 1

Checking the trending to try to figure out what you guys are talking about. I think I've got it.

#4 trending is "Teddy Roosevelt"
#5 trending is "Music Challenge"

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· Jul 1

Geralt from The Witcher giving a thumbs up

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· Jun 21

Vincent Price staring up at a painting of himself and getting scared is peak cinema.

Poster for The Haunted Palace (1963) starring Vincent Price, Debra Paget, and Lon Chaney. Shows some lady strapped to a torture device of some sort at the bottom of a wooden platform in a dungeon.

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· Jun 17

South of the March v0.1.3 is up! Mostly bug fixes and some accessibility updates in this one. Steam: s.team/a/4628420 Itch: smallgraygames.itch.io/south-of-the...

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· Jun 13

I was gonna post that tweet where somebody says what a weird coincidence it is that a guy named Odysseus ends up going on an odyssey but I couldn't remember it so I googled it and then this happened and I got so mad I gave up

I googled "crazy that he named him odysseus" because I thought the tweet was something like that and the AI overview responded "it truly is" as I was just talking to it about an incredibly stupid opinion I have

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· Jun 12

I hope you guys like not losing progress, because an autosave feature is incoming for South of the March. #indiedev #indiegame #turnbased #rpg #visualnovel

South of the March system menu showing a few saved games available for loading. The top save is labeled "AUTO."

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· Jun 11

Revamped the statuses overlay in combat, so now you can see who has each status as well as what they do.

Statuses overlay in South of the March shows a list of active statuses with descriptions and icons signifying which player or enemy has them.

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· Jun 11

Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems right before the end

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· Jun 9

You know what you need to do.

Youtube thumbnail showing a Bloodborne protag fighting the Amygdala boss. It reads "Amygdala, No Hits Taken, Melee Only"

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· Jun 5

The official South of the March demo is now available on Steam and Itch! It's got exploration and mystery, a diverse cast of characters, and JRPG-style turn-based combat in a dark fantasy world. Try it out, and please let me know what you think! #indiegame #rpg #turnbased #indiedev #fantasy

A shopkeeper named Gytha saying "Don't much care how he sees it. My kitchen, my call"

A combat screen showing players Gemma and Cyrus in 2D turn-based combat set against a group of three bandits.

A overworld map showing a forest area with map nodes on one side and a list of points of interest on the other. One called "Buried in the mud" is selected.

A game screen showing a rope bridge stretching over a river on one side with navigation options on the other. The opton "Look at the river" is selected.

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· Jun 2

I've watched that movie 100 times! This guy, with the mohawk. He's the Nickelodeon pedophile??

Scuz from Return of the Living Dead. He's in the back of Suicide's car all dressed up in punk gear, with sunglasses and a mohawk.

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· May 30

This is a hell of a cover, straight into the queue. I feel like a lot of low-budget horror underestimates how much weight something like this carries when you have little else to go on. Like I recall watching this one (not bad!) based on this image alone.

Movie poster for the 2019 film Rot. Shows a stylized grotesque drawing of gigantic man with an open mouth, a much smaller woman dressed in blood-spattered white struggling between his huge teeth.

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· May 30

Bloodborne runs at 30 FPS. South of the March? 120 FPS. I'm not saying it's four times better. I'm simply making an objective technical observation.

Dev window showing performance stats for South of the March. It's running at a buttery smooth 120.5 fps. Sure, it may be on a screen with a static image, but that's really not the point, is it?

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· May 26

I'm an indie dev currently working on South of the March, a hand-drawn RPG that combines visual novel exploration with turn-based combat in a dark fantasy world. Wishlist on Steam: s.team/a/4628420 or Itch: smallgraygames.itch.io/south-of-the...

A combat screen showing three wolves on one side. They're facing off against the protagonists, Gemma and Cyrus, who seem to have already taken some damage.

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· May 26

It has Dick Miller the youngest I've ever seen him. In true old movie style, he's only 31 but already looking at least 50.

Dick Miller in A Bucket of Blood. He's messing around with clay and looking worried in the way Dick Miller kind of always did.

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· May 26

I put this on expecting to ignore it as a background movie while I worked, but I ended up watching intently. Very fun.

Poster for the 1959 Roger Corman movie A Bucket of Blood." The tagline says "You'll be sick, sick, sick--from laughing!"

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· May 22

Got right to the point.

Picture of the TV watching "Land of Bad." A woman in military fatigues behind the title is saying "that bad?" in subtitles.

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· May 18

I saw a Korean movie about this issue. Solution unclear, but at least it's the sink, could be worse.

A shot from the movie "The Hand." Shows a gnarly-looking hand coming out of toilet.

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· May 14

Literally

Christopher Moltisanti from The Sopranos

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· May 5

I periodically get these "ending explained" emails from Netflix, and they're invariably for movies with endings so straightforward that I almost can't imagine what a person would even say when asked to explain the ending.

Email subject reading "Spoiler: 'Apex' ending explained."

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· Apr 25

You need to invest in the muscle digging tool.

Big weird plastic blue thing full of knobs that you can use to get at all your various muscles.

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· Apr 23

The Steam page for South of the March just went live moments ago! It's an RPG that combines visual novel exploration with JRPG-style turn-based combat, all done with hand-drawn art. Check it out, wishlist on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/4628420/...

A store page showing a wide variety of stats and upgrades, plus items available for purchase. The shopkeeper at the top of the page says, "yes, miss?"

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· Apr 20

This is the first that comes to mind, but it's genuinely impressive in the sheer quantity of ways it fails to pay off. There are *so* many threads carefully set up and then confusingly abandoned that it almost feels like they're trying to do some kind of intentional Brechtian alienation.

Poster for the Netflix movie The Open House, starring that guy from 13 Reasons Why.

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· Apr 18

I feel like this email is making fun of me.

An email I received today, subject line: "Opportunity to Acquire Domain Name BestSwords.com"

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· Apr 18

Not live yet, but it's coming.

South of the March page on Steam. It shows one of the early screenshots (a bridge crossing a river), short description of the game with title art, and Small Gray Games as Developer and Publisher.

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· Apr 17

It's weird immediately seeing "Reese Witherspoon sucks" news because I watched Freeway for the first time literally last night and laughed stupidly hard at this scene.

Small Gray Games@smallgraygames· Apr 15

This is fun. I am both grinding and surviving, exactly as the title promised I would be.