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Dan Marshall

@danthat.bsky.social

Director of BAFTA-winning indie game studio Size Five Games EARTH MUST DIE | Lair of the Clockwork God | The Swindle | Behold the Kickmen | Ben There, Dan That! | Time Gentlemen, Please! | Gun Monkeys | Privates | Gibbage www.sizefivegames.com

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Tom Waterhouse@2dforever.com · 6h ago

A picture of Zool. Anyone remember Zool? Did anyone actually like Zool? I thought I did until I played it again. Cool character, great product placement(?!), awful game.

Zool hanging off a Chupa Chups lolly
Dan Marshall@danthat.bsky.social · 9h ago

This is an awful thing I've noticed I do, and it's of value if you're making game trailers. There's a strong chance I'm not even clicking your thumbnail anymore unless I've vetted it by previewing the timeline. I feel like it's probably sensible to consider editing your trailer accordingly.

Dan Marshall@danthat.bsky.social · 9h ago

This is a bit of an aside BUT I'm shocked at the number of trailers I'm 'watching' by dragging the cursor across the timeline in youTube preview and looking at the thumbnail to decide if the trailer is worth sitting through an advert for. Suspect I'm not the only one and I suspect trailers...

Dan Marshall@danthat.bsky.social · yesterday

The very first thing that happens when you fire up Final Fantasy 7 Remake, even before any splash screens or menus, is you get an urgent looking popup that reads ❗ You are now able to claim your revival earrings

Johnny Barnstorm@johnnybarnstorm.bsky.social · last wk.

There's a bit in Earth Must Die where you have to convince a ship full of humans to vote to run the ship they're travelling on into the sun. You do it through xenophobia, folksy posturing and a catchy slogan and I feel like that might be the best political satire I've seen in ages

Scene from the human ship in Earth Must Die where the evil alien is standing in front of a tweed suit with a hat holding a pint of beer to look folksy
Dan Marshall@danthat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Game dev is weird because some days you get more of a feature done before lunch than you did in the entire of last week. Making games continues to be *really hard* most of the time (except today when it was fine).

Dan Marshall@danthat.bsky.social · 4d ago

Blimps are so handy for signifying that a story is taking place in a parallel universe. You open a scene in iconic London but holy fuck is that a *blimp*? and you know you're in a parallel universe. Easiest shorthand ever. I think Fringe did it?

Audrey Farnsworth@audipenny.bsky.social · 5d ago

Batman the animated series made me believe in a formative manner that there’d be a whole Fucking lot more goddamn blimps in my life. But there’s almost no blimps. Every time I see a blimp, I gasp. I shouldn’t have to gasp. Blimp should be around for my life. Where blimp

Dan Marshall@danthat.bsky.social · 5d ago

If they're doing this (and let's be honest, they are), I think we need to push for a commitment to supply 3rd party industry bodies with full source code, assets, materials etc for purposes of preservation. Our post release pipeline needs to change.

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · 5d ago

Sony vows to press on with discless plans, saying "digitalization is progressing" across all media despite heavy protest from players www.eurogamer.net/sony-physica...

Dan Marshall@danthat.bsky.social · 5d ago

If they're doing this (and let's be honest, they are), I think we need to push for a commitment to supply 3rd party industry bodies with full source code, assets, materials etc for purposes of preservation. Our post release pipeline needs to change.

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · 5d ago

Sony vows to press on with discless plans, saying "digitalization is progressing" across all media despite heavy protest from players www.eurogamer.net/sony-physica...

Dan Marshall@danthat.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is great. This is so helpful because instead of just fixing the problem of climate change we could all get a sauna and live with it. Perfect solution, good job. Is there an issue that saunas are made of very dry wood when the wildfires catch up with you, do we think? Or is that fine?

Headline: repeated use of saunas could help people cope better in heatwaves
Dan Marshall@danthat.bsky.social · 6d ago

It's weird that AI data centres are buying up all the consumer computer components they use to make Playstations, like they're buying Nvidia graphics cards from PC World. It makes more sense in my head that they should build their own one giant RAM and leave our loads-of-little-ones alone.

Dan Marshall@danthat.bsky.social · last wk.

Godot's rise is something I've seen a lot of behind the scenes lately. If you're a jobbing coder, it's definitely worth spending some evenings getting to grips with it so you can slap it on your CV. Lots of indie/ AA titles are gravitating towards it.

Game Maker's Toolkit@gamemakerstoolkit.com · last wk.

Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%

Pie chart showing game engines used to create 10,511 GMTK Game Jam games in 2026. Godot has the largest slice with 47%. Then Unity with 34%. Other with 11%. Game Maker with 5%. And Unreal Engine with 3%.
Dan Marshall@danthat.bsky.social · last wk.

Godot's rise is something I've seen a lot of behind the scenes lately. If you're a jobbing coder, it's definitely worth spending some evenings getting to grips with it so you can slap it on your CV. Lots of indie/ AA titles are gravitating towards it.

Game Maker's Toolkit@gamemakerstoolkit.com · last wk.

Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%

Pie chart showing game engines used to create 10,511 GMTK Game Jam games in 2026. Godot has the largest slice with 47%. Then Unity with 34%. Other with 11%. Game Maker with 5%. And Unreal Engine with 3%.
Dan Marshall@danthat.bsky.social · 2w ago

When you first meet this character, Bond is getting off the back of a cargo plane. The man grumbles "You're late." to indicate what a no nonsense hard ass he is MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU THINK I WAS FLYING THE PLANE? I was on the plane. Its take off and landing times were NOTHING TO DO WITH ME

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · 2w ago

IO Interactive has shared more development insight about arguably the stand-out character in 007 First Light: James Bond's mentor figure, John Greenway. https://bit.ly/4gJ2Jfk