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Ricky Haggett

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Makes games at Hollow Ponds. FLOCK / I am Dead / the Wilmot games / Loot Rascals / Hohokum / Frobisher / Super Exploding Zoo / Tenya Wanya Teens / Wiiild Rumpus! Reluctant grasper of nettles. He/him Icon by Richard Hogg, header image from Flock

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mmm the bottom bit makes it look like it. I want that orange colour so much: going pen shopping nowww...

06.03.2026 12:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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That Paper Tigre (never used one) has reminded me that I need to restock my Pentel sign pens. This pink one is dry but I can't bear to throw it away.

06.03.2026 12:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Now here are 7 PENS.

1. Paper Tigre pen (orange)
2. Paper mate flare (black)
3. Twisbi Eco
4. Kaweco Skyline
5. Micron (Orange)
6. Le Pen (olive green)
7. Self built dip pen with nib shaped like a pointing finger

3 & 6 are my current favourite children

06.03.2026 11:46 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1

yeah I almost never use the blues except the really light blue, turquoisey one.

06.03.2026 11:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Various colours of Paper Mate Flair pens

Various colours of Paper Mate Flair pens

06.03.2026 11:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Lord Nelson was 5ft 6in. His statue is 17ft 4in.
That’s Horatio of 3:1.

01.03.2026 20:59 πŸ‘ 456 πŸ” 118 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 4

yeah I remember Socrates! Mexico 86 was the first World Cup I was properly aware of (and I had the sticker book)

06.03.2026 11:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this reminds me of the best joke I ever made up:

Which Greek philosopher invented studs on football boots?

Soccercleats

06.03.2026 10:51 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

kenco is very funny!

why do you want your grapes tepid and not chilled???

06.03.2026 10:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

spit them into the toilet of course!

06.03.2026 10:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

oh man, I'm really sorry to hear this, and glad it's in remission. Huge ooof! Welcome back! <33

06.03.2026 10:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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We worked on this quietly for 3 years with our heads down. Now you can play it for free. Our goal is monthly updates going forward.

store.steampowered.com/app/1397790/...

10.02.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 119 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

Cherry tomatoes yes. Nothing too big though.

06.03.2026 09:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow I think I've only ever had about half of these! WTF is a Tangelo??

06.03.2026 08:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A 3x3 grid with 9 different images of a single grape

A 3x3 grid with 9 different images of a single grape

06.03.2026 08:53 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

No Kitty I need 9. In a grid ideally.

06.03.2026 08:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Some excellent picks here! Yeah grapes have to be on the list right?

06.03.2026 08:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What are everyone's top 9 fruits to eat in the bath?

06.03.2026 08:28 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1

Oooh!

06.03.2026 08:07 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

sorry this is one of those annoying, no-content, clickbaity posts buttt...

... fans of the work of Richard Hogg are going to be real happy at some point in the future.

05.03.2026 23:28 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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I made Moss Moss, a #pico8 game about mossing the world and finding secrets. Hope you enjoy β™₯

noelcody.itch.io/moss-moss

04.03.2026 17:10 πŸ‘ 277 πŸ” 83 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 9

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

05.03.2026 04:33 πŸ‘ 4364 πŸ” 1798 πŸ’¬ 101 πŸ“Œ 30
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Building a new Flash I don't know where to start with this but yeah I'm making flash if flash was built in 2026. I'm making it compatible with Linux,Mac, and PC. If you'd like to support this project I've started a patreo...

Spread the word, an ACTUAL replacement for Flash is on the horizon! Go support this project NOW!!!!!!!!

bill.newgrounds.com/news/post/16...

04.03.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 2361 πŸ” 1227 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 70
A pink banner hanging from a footbridge over the canal. In yellow writing it says

* TURN THE TIDE *
    VOTE GREEN
    IN HACKNEY

A pink banner hanging from a footbridge over the canal. In yellow writing it says * TURN THE TIDE * VOTE GREEN IN HACKNEY

Canal, footpath, boats, trees, sky

Canal, footpath, boats, trees, sky

2nd sunny bike ride down the canals and round Victoria Park this week.

Spring! Hope!

05.03.2026 10:00 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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04.03.2026 06:52 πŸ‘ 8689 πŸ” 3259 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 46

I know this isn't what you asked, but for certain values of painterly, I might consider doing all the animated objects for a 2D game entirely in 3D these days, and doing 'clever shader magic' to bed them into the 2D backgrounds.

03.03.2026 21:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

.. in some cases we would draw solid coloured rectangles and only store the edges as images. It seemed easier to solve the 'pack lots of art into sheets' problem than any of the other possible problems we could tackle (esp on PS3/Vita)

03.03.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hohokum has a ton of hand-drawn (flash) animation, all in 4096x4096 spritesheets ;)

We worked with Andreas Loew who made TexturePacker to integrate his tech directly into our engine, so we could use all his packing tricks as seamlessly as possible. We chopped a bunch of images up to optimise and...

03.03.2026 19:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Wilmot!

03.03.2026 15:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

it's so, so good. I've played it a LOT since getting it.

03.03.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0