Tom Sennett

@tomsennettgames

Award-winning indie game designer, web developer, and artist from Philadelphia (he/him). RunMan, Deepak Fights Robots, One Million Stars, Hugby, and more

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Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· 1d

Always important to stress test your hardware

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· 5d

RunMan Turbo is bringing people together, winning hearts and minds. We can restore balance in our communities, we can heal a fractured world, if we all just remember what is most important in life: running really fast and doing wallkicks in video games

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· 7d

19!? That is way too many. I could manage like 3 or 4 maybe?

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· 9d

RunMan Turbo proof of life

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· 12d

You thought I stopped working on RunMan Turbo?? RunMan Turbo will never become a casualty in the carnage that is The Games Industry. RunMan Turbo is manifesting everything good and fun about video games. RunMan Turbo is coming to your town! Soon. To rock your socks off. Indie games forever

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· 29d

When someone asks me what my indie game "design pillars" are

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· Jun 9

Ogmo sighting in the playroom @maddymakesgames.com

A child's toy I drew legendary indie game icon Ogmo upon. Also, a child, and some other stuff

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· May 10

I have no opinions on Mixtape, but I am extremely intrigued by this person's throwaway notion that any digital media that has volume controls can be considered a video game

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· May 1

THEY COULD NEVER MAKE ME HATE THE PROCESS. Sixers in seven

A drawing I did of Joel Embiid putting his body on the line and the city on his back

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· Apr 30

So it grows... I had a previous version of this game where I used separate sprites for bodies and limbs and animated them all dynamically, but it felt weirdly lifeless. Hand drawing every frame instead gives the characters more personality and allows for the right goofiness

RunMan sprite sheet with more characters

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· Apr 17

Joe & Mac pixel art is underrated

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· Apr 10

Pretty sick of booting up MTG Arena and seeing TMNT everywhere

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· Apr 8

The beginnings of what will grow into a massive sprite sheet of all RunMan Turbo characters. I will never split it into multiple files. It will become tens of thousands of pixels long and tall and loading it will bring my computer to a crawl. These are some of the secrets to my process

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· Apr 3

RUNMAN TURBO LIVES

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· Mar 30

Someone on Discord shared the secret song @maddymakesgames.com and I recorded for RunMan: Race Around the World, that only plays when you collect every gold medal:

Ok I haven't listened to this in at least ten years... we absolutely crushed it and this is one of the greatest 100% game rewards of all time. Just one man's opinion

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· Mar 28

Spot on from @fishwithlasers.bsky.social mokkograd.net/posts/2026-0...

So, releasing a videogame on Steam in 2026 isn't really just about making the game itself and trying to get games media to cover it. It involves an entire mountain of arcane systems and social norms you have to navigate, social systems you need to engage with, that only care about the engagement and not the content of said engagement and because it is so opaque, there's no way of knowing if your poor sales are because you made a mistake, or because you were just unlucky.

But, since we've all been turned into financial actors and the "Indiegames community" has been turned into a marketing phrase, we don't see other developers as potential allies in navigating this system. They are our enemies. Flooding Steam with their games, playing the algorithms, exploiting loopholes, not playing fair at a game that no one understands the rules of.

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· Mar 18

Watching the 4yo play Yoshi's Story on the Switch virtual console N64, and this game looks way better in HD than it did on chunky CRTs back in the day. Like there are always those examples of how pixel art looked smoother and more considered with the scanlines and all... this is the opposite

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· Mar 17

What happened to indie games? This a 9 person team shipping on 5 platforms. The dream was to make fun weird stuff on your own, free from the constraints of The Industry. Now people just spend money to chase money and guess what, the whole thing is rigged and set up for you to fail like it always was

Reddit post about an indie game team with an underwhelming launch

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· Mar 12

Glad to see people dragging Valve for this... $100k is peanuts, and what this really says is like 100,000 games on Steam basically made no money at all last year. And of course a small handful of games at the top made 100x what the others did

Valve says 6000 games made over 100k on Steam in 2025

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· Mar 5

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· Feb 22

Gamers these days are ridiculous. So entitled and needy, so quick to flip out over the smallest little thing. And you have to explain and hold their hand through everything like it's the first game they ever played in their life. Look at this. No respect for the hardware, no respect for the craft

A nine month old baby chewing on a NES-style gamepad

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· Feb 8

Tonight football season wraps up, but HUGBY SEASON HAS JUST BEGUN... next stop is Awesome Con in Washington DC, March 13-15!! Come out and play the game critics are calling the definitive touchscreen teddy bear football arcade experience of this generation awesome-con.com/video-gaming...

Tom Sennett@tomsennettgames· Jan 25

Ok I was the one talking smack all week like this was just gonna end up as a dusting. I am the one who invoked the snowy wrath of God. It was me. My bad