Shallow Thinking Games

Hi, I go by Shallow on the internet and I'm a game dev with 25+ years professional experience, formerly employed at such notable companies as Argonaut and Rockstar before embarking on an indie dev quest.

My main project at the moment is not yet formally announced. It is a story-focused first-person exploration game where a survivor of a mysterious apocalypse is scouting a set of a abandoned apartment buildings for supplies. Along the way they find the notes, letters and diaries of the former occupants and learn about their fates and their relationships.

If you're a fan of combined linky things that go to other socials and suchlike here's one: ShallowThinking

The big feature is my itch.io page where you can get various texture sets to use in your own games. There's even some free stuff!

I should wrap this lot up and get them out. Does need another floor/ground or two for utility.

I don't know if there's a one-click solution, my heat-addled brain stopped me looking the error up, and I seem to have worked around it for now by merging problem layers down onto new empty ones. Interestingly the troublesome layers could be pasted into a new file OK and would still cause the error message

A wise man once said, "The hard part about promoting your textures is that you can't just post the textures because then people have the textures already." I'm not sure who that was, but it feels like a deep and fundamental truth.

The itch.io summer sale is coming to an end so at TIME OF SCHEDULED POSTING there is a mere 24 hours left to get these fine products at a discount:

DOOMED DIMENSION: It's a mere 13% off because it's less than a month old. That is more than a dollar off the usual asking price though.

DOWNTOWN DYSTOPIA: 20% off my popular urban texture set. That's a buck off the standard pack. Same % off the complete version.

RIVETS N RUST: Newly added at 25% off, so down from $8 to $6.

Completing my round of itch.io summer sale posts with the Rivets n Rust Texture Pack, currently 25% off. That's almost like getting one of the four colour variants included for free. Hmm, much to consider.

My popular Downtown Dystopia texture pack is now also in the itch.io summer sale at 20% off. If you happened to like that kind of thing. Clicky piccy for page!

Showing off the pleasingly rusty orange version of some of this texture pack for screenshot Saturday, and noting that this new pack is currently in the itch.io Summer Sale with a discount that gives you just over a buck off an already low price.

I make most of the demo screenshots for my texture sets by knocking out a quick non-playable map in NetRadiant and screenshot in Quake 3 because that's actually a pretty quick way of doing this kind of demo environment.

What if I was the sort of buffoon that would put their newest texture pack in itch's summer sale? It's 13% off which is a pretty cursed number, but does give you more than one whole buck off the usual. And you can still pay more than that if you happen to be smart and handsome.

This month's fancy new texture set, Doomed Dimension, can be grabbed from my itch page. They're great for fantasy both high and low, and equally good for disturbing technogothic settings.