Rachel Watts
@rachelwatts.bsky.social
🧩 Marketing @draknek.bsky.social 🎙 Co-host @indieventurepodcast.co.uk 📘 Author of COCOON: Design Works @lostincult.co.uk 📝 Tired ex-journo @ Thinky Games, PC Gamer, RPS, GamesRadar+, Edge etc. 📧 rachelwatts150[a]gmail.com she/her/ace
Heya! Press Friends! If you'd like a review code for He Who Watches, hit me up! 📧 rachel[at]draknek.org
Draknek & Friends@draknek.bsky.social · 2h agoWe have an announcement! He Who Watches by @danga.games will launch on September 2nd! 👁️🏹 A first-person puzzle game about walking on walls, manipulating gravity, and discovering secrets! store.steampowered.com/app/1070500/...
🔴🟡🔵 BIG WALK 🔴🟡🔵 Out now on Steam, Nintendo Switch 2, and PlayStation 5. Hooray!
In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...
Here's what we came up with for @gamemakerstoolkit.com's GMTK Game Jam with the theme of Count Down. Countipillar! It's a rhythmy puzzle platformer about setting timers on elements of the puzzle so that you can collect all the fruit! #gamedev #indiedev #gmtk
And so well deserved!! I really liked Type Help, but I LOVE The Incident At Galley House. It's a fantastic mystery game, so engrossing and the aha! moments hit HARD. Utterly brilliant. store.steampowered.com/app/3641000/...
The Incident at Galley House on Steam
In 1936, something terrible happened at Galley House. Decades later, with a strange contraption that reveals echoes of the past, you must uncover the truth behind this grisly mystery.
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Robin Ward@eviltrout.com · 2w agoWe released The Incident at Galley House a week ago, and it's been a wild ride: * Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam in 48 hours * We recouped our entire development budget * At peak, 2500 people were playing at the same time!! Thanks to all the detectives out there for making it a big success.
Just a reminder I made a 90 minute music video mixtape (that I spent wayyyy too much time on) that is perfect to chill / work to and I highly recommend you check it ouuuuuuuuuuut www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnSY...
Wax Heads Good Game Dev Club Mixtape
YouTube video by Wax Heads
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So after a busy week at Develop, I thought it would be a great idea to start Incident at Galley House last night and played it for four straight hours. Thinky puzzle fans eating GOOD this week.
The Mermaid Mask is currently my GOTY. Great mystery, fantastic characters, (voice acted!), haunting music, gorgeous art, its funny but also VERY creepy at times, like it really is the full package. Magic, mythos, mermaids - I can't gush about it enough.
We hit Overwhelmingly Positive on steam in under 48 hours! Thanks so much to everyone who gave us a good review. I was able to take a break last night and watch some streamers and it made me so happy. There's nothing better as a developer than seeing people enjoy your stuff.
Recorded possibly the most chaotic episode of @indieventurepodcast.co.uk yesterday. I fear we reached new overstimulated highs @sevenoutoften.co.uk @greenlady17.bsky.social
This was a lot of fun! Everyone was so lovely 🥰
Brilliant Indie Treasures@brilliantindietreasures.com · 3w agoIf you weren’t able to attend this year’s Brilliant Indie Treasures, or just want to play them a bit more, you can check out the games in our steam fest! #indiegames store.steampowered.com/curator/4599...
Team Draknek will be at Develop Brighton this week! We're part of Brilliant Indie Treasures with a demo for Dittori, and we're also nominated for Best Small Studio at the Develop Star Awards! Let's goooo✨️
seeing tokyo godfathers reference footage that they shot for the animators and satoshi kon himself is the reference model for hana. He looks so happy doing it too
✨ NEW EPISODE✨ This week is all about life sims (a.k.a. Rebecca's life sim TED Talk)! We chat about the current state of the genre and get into our thoughts on Paralives! Listen wherever you get your podcasts! indieventurepodcast.co.uk/podcast/epis...
Just wanted to make another shout out to @smestorp.bsky.social ‘s 868-BACK. I wasn’t as addicted to a game in YEARS. Crunchy, special, surprising and … funny to say this about a very difficult game, but also cozy and friendly? Recommended store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/...
868-BACK on Steam
868-BACK is a computer-hacking strategy roguelike game where your mission is to dismantle capitalism one server at a time! Use hacking powers to fight enemies, steal the servers' data, and face increa...
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Two weeks until The Mermaid Mask sets sail! ...wait, do submarines normally have sails?
We are thrilled to share that we have bundled The Séance of Blake Manor with folk horror narrative-driven adventure The Excavation of Hob's Barrow. Read all the details and buy the bundle: https://bit.ly/3SEvIqK
I made a game for the #thinkypuzzlejam6! kasiski.itch.io/rejected-hero This was my first experience with PuzzleScript and wow! If you're keen on making a puzzle game but get overwhelmed with engines, check it out. After just a few minutes tinkering around, I was in full mad scientist mode. So fun.
Rejected Hero by kasiski
Play in your browser
kasiski.itch.io
I will be at Develop this year with Draknek & Friends!✨️ It's my first time attending, and I'm really looking forward to chatting with industry folks! Let me know if you're going! Let's chat🥰
Develop:Brighton 2026@developconference.com · last mo.There’s only TWO WEEKS TO GO until Develop:Brighton 2026 and it’s shaping up to be one of our best years ever! Which talks and speakers are you looking forward to? Check out the full agenda here: www.developconference.com/conference-p... #DevelopBrighton #DevelopConf
New free puzzle game, from @leslo.bsky.social, @bnhw.bsky.social, @patattiemurray.bsky.social, and me! draknek.itch.io/all-the-gold... Made for Thinky Puzzle Game Jam 6.
All the Gold in Fort Locks by Draknek & Friends, Le Slo, Murray Somerwolff, Benjamin Davis
Steal the gold with the magical power of... opening doors!
draknek.itch.io
🚨NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 ------------------------------------- ⚰️ I SHALL NAME THE DEAD⚰️ The Nameless Dead cannot be buried, their remains pile up in a mass of indignity. You have crawled from the gutter to name them. Explore the cemetery and uncover their names before the Worm eats your insides.
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!
🎉New episode!🎉 Ahh we're halfway through the year! So, as is tradition, the gang discuss their favourite indie games of 2026 (so far) and their most anticipated games releasing in the second half of the year! Listen wherever you get your podcasts! indieventurepodcast.co.uk/podcast/epis...
New job!! I'm now the marketing manager at Draknek & Friends! Whoop! Marketing folks, I am now ✨ONE OF YOU✨Let's gooo!
Thank you @theartbookguy.bsky.social for sharing!!✨️
The Artbook Collector@theartbookguy.bsky.social · 2mo agoGaming moves on to Cocoon! It's puzzle game with worlds within worlds that I've found hard to put down. There's no book for it right now, but Cocoon: Design Works from @lostincult.co.uk arrives later this year to dive into the development and design of the game!
The Virtue and a Sledgehammer demo is incredible. It's about mothers, daughters, rage, memories, ROBOTS ughhh ITS SO GOOD. I knew I would like it, but this is now my most anticipated game of 2026. Peak Deconstructeam and Selkie Harbour. store.steampowered.com/app/3743260/...
