Area 2 of 12 in Undergloam: the Drowned Archive. The way on is the top of a sheer shelf stack, and Soot Claws let Wick cling and kick off walls to climb it. The music is the area's own. Free for Android testers: pikeworks.co.uk/testing/undergloam/?from=bs #gamedev #indiedev
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Phone apps and games, made in Northern Ireland. A short clip from one of them most days. Try them: pikeworks.co.uk/bs
Me at a car boot with a 50p DVD of Inception I already own on Blu-ray. Film Vault keeps your disc collection on your phone so you can check first. Free on Android, iPhone and the web: pikeworks.co.uk/bs 📽️ #physicalmedia
Area 1 of 12 in Undergloam: the Undercroft. A gate that only opens once the room's brazier burns, and the Spark you find nearby is what lights it. One area a day from here, each with its own music. Free for Android testers: pikeworks.co.uk/testing/undergloam/?from=bs #gamedev #indiedev
Plant Vault is a garden journal for your phone: every plant, reminders when watering or feeding is due, frost warnings the evening before. Free to test on Android, and I'd like a few gardeners to use it and tell me what's missing. pikeworks.co.uk/testing?from=bs #gardening
Travel Vault, my travel map app: tap a country, mark it Been, Lived or Want to go, and the count of 200 goes up. Then the towns inside it. In testing on Android: pikeworks.co.uk/testing?from=bs #indiedev #travel
Every boss scene I recorded for the series counted anything that would have hit Wick. All 22 came out at 0. Here are the closest calls, from the Ash Colossus to the First Flame. Every attack warns you first. Free for Android testers: pikeworks.co.uk/testing/undergloam/?from=bs #gamedev #indiedev
Fish Vault, my fishing log app: every fish on a heatmap you can filter by season, and your patterns written in plain words, like your best spot and time of day. It's free with no adverts, and the log stays on your phone. I need anglers to test it on Android: pikeworks.co.uk/testing?from=bs
Fish Vault logs every fish you catch: weight, length, photo, place and time, with a heatmap of where they come from. It's in testing on Android and I'm short of actual anglers. Free to test. Tell me what's missing. pikeworks.co.uk/testing?from=bs #fishing
Three Undergloam bosses whose attacks can be swung straight back at them: the Foreman's slag, the Brood Mother's spores, the Pale Duelist's blades. Free for Android testers: pikeworks.co.uk/testing/undergloam/?from=bs #gamedev #indiedev
Every boss attack in Undergloam has a sign before it lands, and Settings can turn them off. The same seeded Gale Wyrm fight both ways, so the dive is identical. Free for Android testers: pikeworks.co.uk/testing/undergloam/?from=bs #gamedev #indiedev
📽️ Over 5,000 watches logged and rated on Film Vault now, alongside everyone's 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD shelves. Thank you to everyone using it. It's on Android, iPhone and the web at pikeworks.co.uk/bs (and if it's useful to you, ko-fi.com/filmvault)
Compute Capitalist is an idle game where you start at a soldering bench in a garage and build from there. It's in testing on Android, and I need people who'll play for a few minutes every few days and tell me what gets boring. pikeworks.co.uk/testing?from=bs #gamedev
Pagebench today: two PDFs merged into one 7 page file on the phone. It has no account and no server, so the files never leave it. £1.99 once on iPhone, and in testing on Android: pikeworks.co.uk/bs
Undergloam with its touch buttons showing for once, each one lighting up as it's pressed, in the Gale Wyrm fight. Every clip so far hid them, and people asked if it was a PC game. Free for Android testers: pikeworks.co.uk/testing/undergloam/?from=bs #gamedev #indiedev
Book Vault is out now on iPhone. Its Year tab puts every book you finished on one shelf, spines in their covers' colours. Free, no adverts, no streaks. apps.apple.com/gb/app/id6816943583 Readers wanted to test on Android: pikeworks.co.uk/testing?from=bs
Fillo is out now on iPhone. Its Best value counts the fuel it takes to drive to a forecourt: in Belfast the nearest pump lost to one 4 miles off that still saved £1.63. apps.apple.com/gb/app/id6817496061 Drivers wanted to test on Android: pikeworks.co.uk/testing?from=bs
Armchair Sudoku can play the sudoku from your newspaper now: photograph the page, it reads the printed numbers on the phone and checks there's exactly one answer, then the hints show you where to look. The page in the clip is a made-up one. Free on Google Play: pikeworks.co.uk/bs #sudoku
Meme Skies: a close shave past a tower is a third of the flow bar, and a full bar starts Brainrot mode, six seconds of double coins with a rainbow trail. It pays to fly too close on purpose. In testing on Android: pikeworks.co.uk/testing?from=bs #gamedev #indiedev
Boss 21 of 22 in Undergloam: the Pale Queen, the last of the trials. Glass spears from the roof, her train along the floor, then a fall that sends waves both ways. Tomorrow is the last boss. Free for Android testers: pikeworks.co.uk/testing/undergloam/?from=bs #gamedev #indiedev
Bounce Billionaire: the Neon Duplicator ball splits on its 8th peg hit, and the Multiverse Splitter relic makes every split three balls, so one cannon shot ends up as a handful. In testing on Android: pikeworks.co.uk/testing?from=bs #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday
Boss 20 of 22 in Undergloam: the Mirror Twins. Two knights pass a light between them and only the lit one takes damage, faster in the second phase, so the fight is mostly watching the light. Free for Android testers: pikeworks.co.uk/testing/undergloam/?from=bs #gamedev #indiedev
📽️ In Film Vault you can keep a Buy List of the 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD releases you're after, turn the alert bell on for any of them, and check the Deals tab for UK price drops. Free on Android, iPhone and the web: pikeworks.co.uk/bs #physicalmedia #bluray #4kuhd
Clementine today: the demo Lisbon trip, four people, nine bills in euros and pounds. Bill by bill that's six payments to settle; with Fewest payments switched on it's three, and everyone still ends up owed exactly the same. Free, in testing on Android: pikeworks.co.uk/testing?from=bs
Boss 19 of 22 in Undergloam: the Pale Duelist. Three lunges in a row, a fan of blades to swing back at her, and a stance where any hit gets answered, so that part is just standing still. Free for Android testers: pikeworks.co.uk/testing/undergloam/?from=bs #gamedev #indiedev
Lantern Lake: winter on the mountain tarn. The ice comes in, you fish down through a hole, and the Burbot turns up, a winter-only fish in the game as in real life. Every species has its real field marks. In testing on Android: pikeworks.co.uk/testing?from=bs #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart
Boss 18 of 22 in Undergloam: the Hollow King, in three forms. The first is a shadow of Wick, so the answer is the dash jump and the Spark from range until it bursts into the second. Free for Android testers: pikeworks.co.uk/testing/undergloam/?from=bs #gamedev #indiedev
Compute Capitalist: came back to a save after a week and got the Touch Grass achievement, plus a reminder that offline storage fills up. Eight hours to start, never more than a day, so a week pays the same as a day. In testing on Android: pikeworks.co.uk/testing?from=bs #gamedev #indiedev
Boss 17 of 22 in Undergloam: the Ash Colossus. The fist lands on a marked ring and sends a wave along the floor, so the window is jumping the wave and hitting the fist while it rests. Free for Android testers: pikeworks.co.uk/testing/undergloam/?from=bs #gamedev #indiedev
📽️ People using Film Vault have now logged over 20,000 films across their 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD shelves and watchlists. Thank you to everyone using it. It's on Android, iPhone and the web at pikeworks.co.uk/bs (and if it's useful to you, ko-fi.com/filmvault)
Boss 16 of 22 in Undergloam: the Twin Hounds, a pair sharing one life. One circles while the other leaps or rushes, so the trick is jumping the rush and sparking whichever is nearer. Free for Android testers: pikeworks.co.uk/testing/undergloam/?from=bs #gamedev #indiedev