Mairi Spaceship Nolan 🚀✨ (she/her)
@mairispaceship.com
🕹️ Puzzle Game Designer #boardgames #videogames ✍️ Escape Industry News & The Escape Roomer 🧩 TERPECA & ER Champ UK Ambassador 🏢 Studio Manager @ Draknek, Director @ HEFT & others mairispaceship.com
After @glasgowindiegamesfest.org and @developconference.com back to back I am but a shell of my former self, but it was very nice meeting people at both 🫶
Hi folks! I'm Alan and I run Draknek & Friends, where we make and publish lovingly crafted puzzle games. Draknek is on Bluesky at @draknek.bsky.social and you can check out all our games at www.draknek.org
Draknek & Friends
Lovingly Crafted Puzzle Games Since 2013
draknek.org
Missed a Saturday day ticket? Get yourself down to the GIGF Afterparty this Saturday ! 🎮️ All our festival games (Plus a few extra!) 🎵 Music performances 🏆️ Our Best in Show Award Show ❤️ BYOG (Bring your own game !!)( Laptops and handhelds only!)) 🎟️ Tickets glasgowindiegamesfest.org
Aliens are here and for some reason the gang has been chosen as representatives of Earth to communicate with them. Now they just need to figure out what the hell these aliens want before the trigger happy military initiates an interstellar Armageddon ... Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
Puzzle Designer / GM: @mairispaceship.com Solvers: @mikecollins.bsky.social, Jon Saunders, @armchairescapist.bsky.social Episode Art: @domjordan.bsky.social Editor: @armchairescapist.bsky.social Listen now: linktr.ee/theinfinitee... #podcast #escaperooms #comedy
I'll be here with Dittori! Come say hi :)
Draknek & Friends@draknek.bsky.social · last mo.We're really excited to announce that Dittori will be taking part in the @brilliantindietreasures.com showcase at Develop Brighton on the 15th July, 4pm - 8pm! Tickets are available on the door for £4 I hope to see you there!
Two lovely people teaming up to make awesome things!!! Check it out 🤩
gina 🐸@ginaloughlin.bsky.social · last mo.@willloughlin.bsky.social and I are TEAMING UP and forming @lockinaudio.com ✨ we can help out with sound + music + implementation for games and like working with cool teams on projects that are full of heart 💗 check out our website and if you like what you hear, honk at us 🪿 lockinaudio.com
What an awesome surprise - a wonderfully thoughtful, insightful and cool video about Wax Heads. I love critical analysis like this cause as an artist making stuff, it's the highest compliment for someone to examine and critique your work in such depth! (Plus gives me loads of food for thought)
Chris Franklin@errant-signal.com · last mo.I liked Wax Heads and managed to put some thoughts together on it
Not me trying to cram 2.5 weeks of language practice I did not do into the 30 minutes before my lesson.
illomens.itch.io/no-one-is-go... this "helped" me realign my brain after 12y of intermittent hobby gamedev where most of what I read on the topic had a business pov. I believe that this mindset would help others create more games akin to rectangles with feelings rather than [industry template].
NO-ONE IS GOING TO BUY YOUR GAME by ill omens
A Manifesto For Making Games
illomens.itch.io
We're really excited to introduce @rachelwatts.bsky.social as Draknek & Friends's new Marketing Manager! 🎉 You may also know her as the co-host of @indieventurepodcast.co.uk, the author of COCOON: Design Works, and the previous editor in chief of @thinkygames.com Welcome to the team, Rachel!
Wake me up when someone makes a deck-like roguebuilder
I LOVE niche industry gossip. Like, I've been sitting in an airport at the same table as a delegation of people from an industry I've never even heard of, and in the last hour I have become incredibly invested in their politics like she said WHAT at the conference. I need to know more.
Here's the June edition of Thinky Third Thursday, the monthly roundup of thinky puzzle games that have caught our eye: thinkythirdthursday.com/june-2026 This month we're highlighting nine upcoming games with demos in Steam Next Fest!
Thinky Third Thursday - June 2026 (Next Fest highlights)
Monthly game recommendations from the puzzle experts at Draknek & Friends
thinkythirdthursday.com
I have completely repainted my room so perfectly my landlord will never know I am a silly billy who scratched the paint with my silly little picture frames (Unless you are my landlord reading this in which case I did no such thing the walls are perfect and untouched I did not even breathe on them)
Today it is 43 years since Sally Ride became the first woman and lesbian astronaut to visit space! She's without a doubt my favorite astronaut, and truly an icon
"So, if I use ChatGPT you think less of me?" Yep. Hope this helps.
The good thing about moving to an absurdly warm country is being able to cut the 20-something jumpers I bought when I lived in a cold country, down to maybe maximum 2.
"Game dev is one of those jobs you only do when you really want to. It's not going to make your parents proud, you're unlikely to get rich in an industry that lays off people for making superhits, and its a demanding & confrontative job. Why would you let a machine do the thing you're here to do?"
Austin Wood@woodwould.bsky.social · 2mo agoI spent the last few months talking to over 30 game developers about generative AI. It began as a sort of interview survey but became a pretty comprehensive collection of arguments against the technology altogether. www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so...
I'll be at GIGF26 with He Who Watches! See you all there 👋
Glasgow Independent Games Festival@glasgowindiegamesfest.org · 2mo ago“He Who Watches” by @danga.games is the latest game from thinky publisher @draknek.bsky.social, an atmospheric first-person puzzle game about spatial reasoning and shifts in perspective🪞 Use every surface and flash of inspiration to reach the centre of the labyrinth at GIGF26 🔐 #GIGF26 #indiegames
A new Dark Gary has been chosen for the ages 🫡
Gary J Kings 🎮🎞️ Game Trailer Maker@garyjkings.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy Dark Gary era has ended thanks to @mairispaceship.com's birthday events, she is the new Dark Gary. Please reach out to her for all of your Dark Gary needs. Now begins my Light Gary era.
Given all of the recent genAI discussion, I wish to repost this.
Super excited to be a guest on the Inventures podcast - in which we talk about our dream experiences, if budget was no object! Coming out soon! www.youtube.com/shorts/Z0E4A...
Inventures Episode 5... coming soon 👀
YouTube video by The COGS Lab
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I just released the third edition of my puzzle book LOK, currently only available as a free PDF version, but soon also in the printed book format. Read more about the changes here: letibus.itch.io/lok/devlog/1...
