First case in Shadows of Doubt hit a brick wall slowly. Took too long exhausting social leads before snooping for footage, found it 4 hours too late to catch the thief on camera. But then I caught a break: someone got murdered! Now I can claim I'm prioritising.

Fire alarm beeping about low battery. Text on it warns to cut the power to the whole room before detaching or it might kill me. Somehow my two problems are that this thing has both too much and not enough power.

Oh hey, we're nominated for 3 Golden Joysticks! • Best Storytelling • Best Self-Published Indie Game • PC Game of the Year Vote here: gamesradar.com/goldenjoystick… All I'll say for us is: it would be pretty funny if a game called Tactical Breach Wizards won a Storytelling award.

I continue to be on there.

Executive Demon Prince again this year. Cats went on a rollercoaster of emotions when I emerged with wings.

Just fyi I am now posting stuff on Bluesky that I am not posting here, such as cat: bsky.app/profile/pentad… .

We have a new update ready to test! Adds a Save Slots system, and makes it much easier to jump to previous levels to get confidence goals you missed, or play them in new ways. Care to help us test it? store.steampowered.com/news/app/10438… .

Also, we're on BlueSky now! bsky.app/profile/breach… .

Solitomb is *HERE!* 🎉 ⚔️ krajzeg.itch.io/solitomb ⚔️ Stack cards into combos, fight monsters, add new abilities to your build and emerge victorious (eventually)! Please share this to help spread the word, and enjoy the game! 🤗 #pico8 #gamedev #indiegame

Rambled about where I am mentally, 3 months on, and how I'm thinking about the next thing. youtube.com/watch?v=jWgIvv… .

Our quality of life update is now live for everyone! Adding Save Slots and improving mission select: store.steampowered.com/news/app/10438… .

Valve now let us beg for your Steam Awards vote in one category of our choice, a nice idea that I think is a bad thing overall! Here's a post about why, in which I still beg for your vote but complain the whole time I am doing it: store.steampowered.com/news/app/10438… .

I'm not meant to tell you this, but for another 24 hours you can get: 🧙‍♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards at 20% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/Ta… 🚀 Heat Signature at 60% off! store.steampowered.com/app/268130/Hea… 🕵️ Gunpoint at 60% off! store.steampowered.com/app/206190/Gun… .

If you have a Steam Deck or use a gamepad, we've got an update we'd love you to test! Here's how to opt-in: store.steampowered.com/news/app/10438… We redesigned the UI for a new optional mode that lets us accommodate bigger text, and gamepad controls for targeting direct attacks are nicer now.

We'd love to get some more eyes on our new Steam Deck & gamepad-friendly UI and controls! People haven't found enough problems yet! Here's how to get it: store.steampowered.com/news/app/10438…

Tactical Breach Wizards is 20% off in the Winter Sale, and our Steam Deck & Gamepad Update is now live for all! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/Ta… Also we have Community Items now, in case you want a cool old lady or an awful Traffic Warlock as your Steam Profile background.

Nominees for best thing I did this year: 🇨🇦 Became a Canadian citizen 💪 Started a workout regime & stuck to it ♟️ Finished designing a board game 🧙‍♂️ Released Tactical Breach Wizards 🐈🐈‍⬛ Adopted 2 mini scamps to protect me from intruders The winner's probably obvious.

On the #GameMakersNotebook, Trent Kusters chats with Tom Francis 🔜🪦 (Gunpoint Heat Signature Tactical Breach Wizards) about going from games journalism to game dev, ideas on challenge and difficulty, weaving gameplay with narrative, thoughts/advice on playtesting, and more! Episode link👇🎙️