@heydanthomas
I help games businesses navigate growth... or something. 💖Co-director @ Limit Break Mentorship 🌿 COO @ Apparance 😻Growth @ IMPRESS 🎮 #GamesIndustry 🚐 #Vanlife 🏚️ #BarnLife 🚵 #MTB 📍Wales, UK https://heydanthomas.com
A photo of a field covered in tree saplings with wool mulch mats
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...
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They've clearly never been in the same room as you
"Hi I'm Tommy, I work in video game AI-but-not-doing-bad-AI-I-have-been-doing-this-decades-before-gen-AI-but-someone-needs-to-understand-it-and-it-can-be-good-but-idiots-do-bad-things-I-support-artists-and-devs-please-dont-hate-me-i'm-tired"❤️
📢 #IndieDev and publishers: Don't use Google Drive/Dropbox for your Presskits.
😻Press Kitty by @impressgames.bsky.social is FREE
☑️Imports from Steam making it super quick
☑️Presents in a proven and expected format
☑️looks beautiful
☑️indexable by search engines (unlike folder shares)
No brainer
Key art for Tinykin showing the main portagonist on top of a pile of one-eyed, brightly coloured Tinykins
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.
i cannot emphasise enough how much i love this approach
💰THE OUTERSLOTH CONTRACT 💰
We just released the FULL contract and terms that all our games sign!
We hope this challenges the status quo of what you see out there.
In a nutshell:
💸 Pre-recoup 50/50
💸 Post-recoup 15/85
💸 Terms after 7 years
www.innersloth.com/the-outerslo...
🌳 Planting a woodland from scratch 🌳
This week's #BarnLife video distils weeks of hard graft in the mud and cold, down to 11 minutes of cheery timelapse. Yay YouTube 😅
youtu.be/4vRBt3iXUtM?...
A photo of some frogspawn in a grassy pond
Frogspawn update! You can see they'll be tadpoles any day now 🐸
supporting nice people doing good things in the games industry is neat!
@limitbreak.co.uk still needs your support to make our 8th year BIGGER AND BETTER! if you are able to sponsor, do reach out to @heydanthomas.bsky.social or consider volunteering as a mentor when applications open soon™
Hello Bluesky. I'm working on an animated short and just launched a Kickstarter for it. Please take a look and share with anyone you think will like it! 🙏
www.kickstarter.com/projects/alt...
I bought some Hyper X something something wireless headphones last *July*, largely based on the touted long battery life.
I have charged them twice since then.
So that's impressive.
Sunday #BarnLife video. Cladding the tool barn and we gamify getting a bunch of tasks we've been ignoring done...
youtu.be/fSi8CudTjt4
"I think they're trying to tell me something"
The magazine is literally called BUSINESS FOCUS and there's you giggling at the spikey rocket ship arrangement.
I sometimes feel sorry for accountants and other proper professionals that have to work with games peeps😅
Thank you people of Gorton & Denton 🙏
Well done Greens, incredible effort 🎉
I watch on YT, but for your ego's sake. It's a fun break from the otherwise non-stop death knell of other games industry media. Two old hands chatting shit each week is welcome respite.
Will you sign up to become a mentor and/or mentee with Limit Break this year?
What area do you already/want to specialise in?
Have you been part of LB before and are coming back?
Amazon having a totally normal one.
Got a public list? Cool, we're going to allow anyone to see your home address, kthxbai 👍
Oh, you make games do you? Well, what are you working on right now? I suppose you'd like to exhibit it at a cool games event in Bristol later in the year?
Answer these questions and more (and asked a lot less aggressively) in this great questionnaire, and then maybe I'll play your game at Impact!
I come bearing SENSITIVE INFORMATION including our past #SteamNextFest numbers
Share if you appreciate graphs
#gamedev #indiedev
Investing in fixed-assets (mainly buildings) is a go-to tactic for gov funded initiatives. It's because it moves money around the balance sheet rather than actually investing in people and can be paraded as investment in X sector.
I think we'd struggle to find a more deserving team. Well done all 🙌
TIL Iceland have made the gender pay gap illegal 🎉
Which seems significant but also poses the question, who would argue against it and why isn't it a ubiquitous law internationally? 🤔
A photo of a tree sapling in a plastic tube showing tiny buds of growth
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!
We are so excited to have been announced as a finalist for the Diversity and Inclusivity award at the @ukieofficial.bsky.social Video Game awards!
We love the work that we do. It's such a boost to our morale when we see individuals and organisations celebrating the work that we do. Thank you! ✨
Help me out and pop over to the not-worst-but-still-bad-place and share this plea for support for @limitbreak.co.uk
We've had some AMAZING businesses and individuals step up to keep the program alive but I'd love to see a bit more to fulfil our potential🙏💖
www.linkedin.com/posts/heydan...
So good. A scene that makes me want to rewatch the entire show from the beginning to get a suitable build up to that moment.
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 🐸
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A bad drawing of a venn diagram with two circles overlapping, things I like to do and things in good at. But there's another disconnected circle, things that make me money and a disconnected wobbly shape, things I do. It's titled venn diagram of my life
Oh no
