James Broderick

Bad Grades — LocalThunk Years ago, when I was in what was supposed to be my final year of University, I decided to drop out of engineering. The people were great, my marks were fine. I just didn’t have passion for it and the...

Happy 2nd birthday Jimbo!
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We have a stream schedule for tomorrow! Hope to see you there!

I have it on my TBR, I hear so many people recommend it!

A new blog post, in which I ramble about the process of directing a 400,000-word narrative game (along with 7 other writers) over a 5-year development period...

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Auditions closing on Aug 20th for 25-year-old Seán 👨‍🍳

Would love it if we got more Irish folks auditioning and please do feel free to pass on the word to your acting pals!

#castingcall #ireland #irish #voiceactors #voiceacting #audition #castings

The big news of the day is—Strange Scaffold got a front page spot on Steam! It’s our first-ever publisher sale!!

You can get EVERY GAME we’ve ever made for 60 bucks and I did a bunch of work on the gradients and colors to make it all look pretty!!! Ahhh!!!!
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Valve has now certified The Necromancer's Tale as "verified" on the Steam Deck! As a big fan of the Deck, I put a lot of work into this so it's great to get through this rigorous review process.

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#SteamDeck #RPG

Congratulations! I have it purchased and am looking forward to digging in when I get a chance 😉

Save 10% on The Necromancer's Tale on Steam A story-rich gothic RPG. Master the rituals of an ancient spellbook. Raise an undead army to march against your enemies. Commune with the realm of the dead & struggle with your descent into madnes...

The Necromancer's Tale released today! It's a story-rich RPG that I've been working on for over 5 years(!)

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The game is set in an alt-history 1733, with the player getting sucked into black magic and necromancy.

not going to quote-dunk because i don't think the person deserves it

if you want more 'toby fox' developers there needs to be a support system that catches the 99% of people who will not make the next undertale

failure needs to not be catastrophic to finances for success to be possible

We are now taking requests for pre-release Press Keys for The Necromancer's Tale, ahead of its launch on July 17th.

🙏 RTs much appreciated! 🙏

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The cool Irish grey is so nice to come home to.

The Necromancer's Tale #PitchYaGame - HP Lovecraft meets Disco Elysium in this necromancer origin story. Deep narrative, politics, ghosts, and raising the dead.

Releasing July 2025
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I've entered about 20 lotteries to get a chance to buy a Switch 2 here, I appreciate that the lottery system is great for countering bots and scalping, but boy does is stretch out the unknown waiting time.

I appreciate Nintendo trying to combat scalpers, but NSO subscriptions being the qualifier really screwed me as someone who mostly buys and plays single player games for Switch.

I was brainstorming some game ideas last night that were getting me excited and let me tell you whatever game I make next is going to be absolute dogshit

Save 90% on Undertale on Steam UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

UNDERTALE is on sale for $1.

If you're a bluesky user who hasn't played this game - now is the best time to join the other 99% of people on this website and pick it up.

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Look at me I'm a real dev now I have an ugly blog

Here's my first post about solitaire

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After an appeal from my publisher, Balatro has been reclassified by PEGI from 18+ to 12+

This is a good step from PEGI - bringing nuance to their ratings criteria that used to be 18+ or nothing. I hope this change will allow developers to create without being unfairly punished

What'd you geeeet

It's not a holiday without an airport pint (breakfast optional)

The Fruits of Summer Been working on this track all summer, hence the name. I didn't mean for it to sound so much like

Soundcloud is telling me i've been posting music for 12+ years :O

85 individual tracks over that period.

I wanna get back to it badly.

This was one of my first "oh i actually like this?" songs, even if it's very Sims-like. 12 years old this one, I was 20

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I never completed it, but the writing for some of the side stories was just so good

My new gaming pipe dream will be Lost Odyssey or Eternal Sonata getting a remaster. Those games deserve better than being trapped in 7th Gen.

It was phenomenal, hitting with Weight of the World and Kaine back to back got me good 🥲

The Nier Orchestra Concert having canonical Automata content is such peak video games, I love it.

I'm hoping to get started on Metaphor now soon, I've heard so many good things! Though part of me wonders if I will regret this when we get the classic Atlus "Metaphor ReFantaziLoaded" in a year or twos time and I need to replay to get the true ending...

"So in the TERRIER-VERSE he's alive, but in the PUG-VERSE..."

FF7 Rebirth was a great and wild experience, but now I have to wait who knows how long with all these questions!