Forces of Good

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The Signal From Tölva, an eerie tale of robots looking for the secret of a glitch-haunted world, is -50% off. Explore with your vision modes, navigate impossible mazes, battle with religious robotic sects, and discover if the planet can be turned off and back on again.

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Fan Art - A short film about a fan with a dream (voiced by me) is now on YouTube. youtu.be/JdizzeRugZA

Please check out my friend @forcesofgood.bsky.social's new album! If you have played any of the Big Robot games, like Sir, You Are Being Hunted, Tolva, or Light, you will have heard his sound before, and this is some of his best work: forcesofgood.bandcamp.com/album/flare

Andy, my friend and comrade of thirty five years and composer of soundtracks for all the Big Robot games, has produced a new album.

My New Album! forcesofgood.bandcamp.com/album/flare (with Phil Collins inspired cover. No haters....)

@suedehq.bsky.social Amazing to see one of my favourite bands in Folkestone last night. The guys smashing through 21 songs. Brilliant set and great energy.

🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party now has 55,000 signatures! Let’s get the 100,000 needed! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Hello and Season's Greetings. I've released a new/old song for Christmas. A 165bpm technicolour bang. I hope you enjoy it. forcesofgood.bandcamp.com/track/mornin... youtu.be/gIj87wYHF1I

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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

I made a video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeHU...

stop thinking right now

Also! Sir, You Are Being Hunted is on sale in the Steam Autumn sale, and there is no more autumnal experience than fleeing between the hedgerows chased by tweedy British robots. And hey, it's a game you should probably own if you like anything I have ever done.

If you prefer bluer skies, there's always our future sci-fi option.

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★★★★ #FolkestoneTriennial 2025 - Landscape, seascape, art lovers' escape: this locally rooted festival brings home many but not all global concerns, says Mark Sheerin @criticismism.bsky.social #CreativeFolkestone theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/...

Some tracks from 'Art of the Dead' have been used in a lovely film about the 2025 Folkestone Triennial. Better still, if you are thinking of going, this film helps you take you own tour :) www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/folkestone-t...

Some would say, ok my accountant says, we need cut corners, make more profit! It’s not in our DNA, we’re makers, creators. We haven’t changed anything since we started. If I could just ask one favour please, tell a friend about us. Thanks

Well worth 5 minutes of your Sunday morning

Bit harsh....

The Big Robot games are discounted now, again, because Steam Summer Sale! store.steampowered.com/developer/bi...

Here's a link for our oddball combat space-mystery The Signal From Tölva, it has lovely art, charismatic robots, the very best robot sound-effects, and some non-euclidean impossibilities. store.steampowered.com/app/457760/T...

New album out today. It's prospective soundtrack music from a creative project currently on hold. Stumbled across the tracks and loved how they worked with each other. Listening back, it's an unashamed love letter to Fennesz, SAW II Aphex, Abul Mogard etc. forcesofgood.bandcamp.com/album/art-of...

"I've got a brand new content harvester"

My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.

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A quick reminder of what today is really about: Russia threatens Europe. America is gone. It will not save us. Britain and Europe must work closely and with trust, on defense and everything else, in order to counter the Kremlin threat.

Labour's base-punching strategy reminds of the Seinfeld episode where George is so obsessed with making Jerry's girlfriend like him (she clearly hates him) that he neglects his own girlfriend (who does like him) and she leaves him

No Bandcamp email from me today, but fine electronic music wares are available for perusal and purchase at my colourful webpage. Please excuse the headshot: forcesofgood.bandcamp.com

(#1) Remembering JG Ballard who died on this day in 2009. Easily the most original and influential writer of post-War fiction. A surrealist who used words rather than pigments. If only he’d given a lecture at the www.bis-space.com on the exploration of inner space! @mbonsall.bsky.social

One of the most wonderful people in my life is @forcesofgood.bsky.social, who recently wrote some music which accompanied a video (in thread) about the saving of Derek Jarman's Dungeness cottage. Check it out on Bandcamp. forcesofgood.bandcamp.com/album/the-su...

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This is very urgent. The UK government is planning to change copyright law. If you are an artist, author, musician or work in the creative industry please read this. www.chrishaughton.com/blog/ai-and-...

The BIG ROBOT games are all on sale via Steam this week! Please buy them! store.steampowered.com/developer/bi... Hunt robots! Be hunted *by* robots! BE a robot (sort of)! And even temporarily hypnotise whirring hunter-killer robots with a special flashlight! Yes, all your robo-fantasies are HERE.

The sick town of England Why are 13,000 people in Dover too ill to work? By Jacob Furedi www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

Me, falling out of my chair after staring at their games for a decade "My god, all the BIG ROBOT games they, they- holy shit they each have a BIG ROBOT in them"

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