Dan Thomas 🚐

#gamesindustry growth advisory, bizdev, ops and marketing… or something 🤷‍♂️
Fractional COO @apparanceuk | Co-director @LBMentorship | advisor @impressgames

[Dan Thomas 🚐 @DannyT]

It's far from perfect, but LinkedIn has become my social media hangout of choice in the wake of X/Threads/bsky/Mastodon fragmentation.

Come find me waffling all things #GamesIndusty over there: https://t.co/S5n9pvwbsi

[Ashley Gwinnell @ashleygwinnell]

Should you make a Winter Holiday update for your indie game? 🧐

Will your community return for festivities? 🎅❄️

Let's look at some fabulous examples from @PounceLight, @TravRestGame, @SandCastlesSt, @DigVRgame and dive into the numbers to decide!

🔗👉 https://t.co/1cViRPQYuY

[Sam Swain ➡ 🦋🐘 @ga5p0d3]

Behold... Apparance Town Toy! Tinker with a tiny town. Fiddle with procedural forests, towns, and skyscrapers. Free download, link below. #ScreenshotSaturday #ProcGen

[Dan Thomas 🚐 @DannyT]

If you're releasing a game in 2025 and are overwhelmed with the prospect of having to tackle creator outreach... 👇👇👇

[Ashley Gwinnell @ashleygwinnell]

OMG!

@impressgames has been awarded funding to develop Launchpad – a creator discovery & outreach tool for indie #gamedev-s! 🚀✨

A free Early Access programme starts today! 🆓 🙌

If you're launching a game in 2025, apply below and I'll be in touch! 😇

https://t.co/ZgeJ9AZg18

[Dan Thomas 🚐 @DannyT]

The crossover you never knew you needed @NinjaTheory @PowerWashSim #Halloween

[Dan Thomas 🚐 @DannyT]

Leaving my field and heading to Guildford on Friday to deep dive all things @ApparanceUK with @ga5p0d3 followed by some spooky Halloween funsies 🎃

If anyone's about and wants a #ProcGen nerd out, give me a shout. Might even treat you to a spooky pumpkin-spiced latte!

[Dan Thomas 🚐 @DannyT]

@Tylru @UnrealEngine Nice! Please try some Busta Rhymes next👀

[Dan Thomas 🚐 @DannyT]

@RomerosSoldier Hey Chris, I'll need you to follow me so I can DM you deets, thanks 🙏

[Dan Thomas 🚐 @DannyT]

👀 I’m looking for Indie devs/pubs/marketers releasing in 2025, I have something super stealth and VERY cool to invite you to...

Who do I/should I know?
If that’s you, say hi (reply or DMs are open)

RTs and rec's appreciated 🙏

[Dan Thomas 🚐 @DannyT]

I *think* I'm just about on top of this now. If you reached out and haven't heard from me, it's because of Twitter's barmy messaging rules because I'm not verified/premium 🤷

[Dan Thomas 🚐 @DannyT]

I've not been active on Twitter for a long time, because all it showed me was ads and anger. The past few days, being connected to so many #IndieGameDev folks has been a real welcome palette cleanser.

I've seen so many cool games that weren't on my radar 🥳

[Dan Thomas 🚐 @DannyT]

I was expecting like 20 people to notice this. I've got 90 replies and a similar no of DM's 🫠
Just to temper expectations, this IS cool and I'm hyped for it, but I'm not giving away wads of cash or anything.
We just wanna help lil games get noticed, and this'll help. Back tmrw😴

[Dan Thomas 🚐 @DannyT]

Oof, I stupidly posted this in multiple places and it's getting better reach than I'd expected 😅

Bear with me peeps, I will get back to everyone.

If you don't have DMs open, you'll need to follow me, soz.

[Ashley Gwinnell @ashleygwinnell]

#SteamNextFest can be overwhelming for a lot of indie game developers...

...but does it have to be? 🤖

I build marketing tools like Coverage Bot to help on the community-side! 💚

#indiedev #gamedev

[Dan Thomas 🚐 @DannyT]

All the juicy details on Sam's TL:
https://t.co/7KemTLKkaO

[Sam Swain ➡ 🦋🐘 @ga5p0d3]

Day four in our scene tools building adventure, today is Handles: In-world editing controls for speedy and intuitive level layout, iteration, and tweaking.
📣 Let us know what you'd like to see added to our town building experiment next!

[Dan Thomas 🚐 @DannyT]

Me: Hey @ga5p0d3, #gamedevs keep asking about artistic and level design control with #ProcGen. What can we do about that?
Sam: Give me some @KenneyNL assets and hold my beer...

[Dan Thomas 🚐 @DannyT]

How it started:

[IMPRESS 💜 indie games @impressgames]

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us for the IMPACT! Pitch Up! Practice event in Bristol this week! 💜👏

Pitching to publishers can sound scary, but we hope we were able to give you the right support to nail it and showcase the best of your project! 💪

#IndieGameDev #indiegame

[Sam Swain ➡ 🦋🐘 @ga5p0d3]

Miniature towns exploration, day three. More town variety, more parameters to control, and also forests!
#ProcGen #GameDev @ApparanceUK #UnrealEngine #Kenney

[Sam Swain ➡ 🦋🐘 @ga5p0d3]

Following on from yesterdays first steps exploring artistic control of procedural scenes, we add hero buildings and automatic terrain surface effects and foliage. 🏦🏨🌳🌲

[Dan Thomas 🚐 @DannyT]

We've been discussing artist control within procedural systems *a lot* lately.
This will be a fun one to follow 👇
#GameDevelopment #UnrealEngine

[Sam Swain ➡ 🦋🐘 @ga5p0d3]

A common issue we encounter with our #ProcGen clients is the level of control available when working with procedural systems. Join me as we experiment with various ways artists can influence and interact with a procedurally generated scene using Apparance in Unreal...