Gavin Bowman

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Indie game developer, the programming half of Retro Dreamer since 2007. Mostly busy being a dad or trying to work, occasionally find time for retro gaming.
sitehttp://retrodreamer.com
latest gamehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2157250/Monsters_til_Midnight/

It’s alive! Monsters ‘til Midnight is out on Switch now. 👻✈️

Seeing one of our games on a console still warms my tired ancient heart, big childhood wish fulfillment energy! ❤️

Hey, well it’s been a minute, but Monsters ‘til Midnight will be coming to Nintendo Switch later this week! \o/

Officially announcing Death By Scrolling, of course Mastodon followers have known about it for months. It's the privilege of being on Mastodon.

https://www.grumpygamer.com/deathbyscrolling5/

Death By Scrolling Announcement

Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry

Grumpy Gamer
I think I've over engineered my rpg engine. There are 5 ways to start a quest dialog with an npc when there really needs to be 2. Over time I've realized I only need 2, but 3 others remain for historical reasons. I've failed to follow the advice of when your prototype is done, start over with a clean codebase.

Made a new #weeksauce game jam submission for February.

Star Hustle is, I guess, crazy space taxi. Always enjoyed thrust style games so this one was a blast to make.

Try it in most browsers on itch:

https://retrodreamer.itch.io/star-hustle

Star Hustle by retrodreamer

Weeksauce February 2024

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Got a #weeksauce jam entry in early this month. The theme was remake related, so I did a small Demons to Diamonds inspired single screen shooter.

I had it working with an atari paddle at my end, which was awesome fun, but the adapters didn't seem to work in the web player so it's mouse or keyboard only.

https://retrodreamer.itch.io/rabbits-to-rubies

Rabbits to Rubies by retrodreamer

Weeksauce Feb 2024

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A huge announcement for #TrailerTuesday 🎉

'Monsters 'til Midnight' is coming to Nintendo Switch

Steampunk flavored survival mayhem! ⚙️⏰

#pixelart #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #roguelite
#nintendoswitch

Monsters ‘til Midnight is on sale this week in the Remote Play Fest on steam.

This is probably my favorite promo we’ve been in for this game because it works great on Remote Play, it’s great that more people can experience co-op that way.

Check it out for $2.99 this week.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2157250/Monsters_til_Midnight/

Save 40% on Monsters 'til Midnight on Steam

Use steampunk weaponry to vanquish the legions of evil and survive until the clock strikes midnight! In this fast-paced horde survival game, each powerful upgrade can help turn the tide. Go it alone, or join another player in your pursuit to outlast the inevitable march of time itself!

My friend Miguel has been running a monthly game jam for a couple of years called Weeksauce, and I always felt bad that I never managed to join in.

So, for last month I made a chill little puzzle game. It's playable in a browser, unless you use safari apparently.

https://retrodreamer.itch.io/weeksauce-jam-entry-january-2024

I definitely recommend checking out https://weeksauce.io/ too, it's a nice mellow jam with a nice community. You just try to spend up to 7 days on your game in the month, it's great for old people like me.

Weeksauce Jam Entry January 2024 by retrodreamer

Quack, Quack, Boom!

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Today I discovered I could have been watching Northern Exposure on Amazon Prime for a couple weeks