Robin Lawrence ☀️

hello! I'm Robin (he/they), and I'm an artist & worker-owner at co-op studio Very Evil Demons, based in Dundee. I've worked on such things as Kinoko and Pocket Mortys, and now I'm making some other stuff. I like folklore and strange beasts, and hope to one day get lost wandering the moors 🌿

Celebrate International Nonbinary People's Day with a bunch of discounts on a variety of indie games made by nonbinary developers, including Bean To Me! 💛🤍💜🖤 #NonbinaryCodedGames brings together a ton of amazing games made by nonbinary game developers, and we're thrilled to take part! Link below!

had a fabulous time making the poster for this! Dundee is this vibrant in real life actually 💚 get yourself along to the jam if you're free on the 28th!

🌍 Climate Justice Jam - Dundee Make games about climate justice in a fun, collaborative workshop. No experience needed. Sat 28 Mar, 12:30–4:30pm Creative Central, Central Library Free tickets: events.humanitix.com/climate-just...

Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help them survive and fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union. Help them fight back! If you can, any little bit you can donate will massively help their efforts. actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity. We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.

INTRODUCING: Summer Eternal Anthology Volume One. This incendiary tome is part cultural journal, part development diary, part exclusive game reveal. Built by firestarters, for firestarters. summereternal.com/anthology

If you're at Tokyo Game Show, watch out for demons... We're in Japan for TGS 2025 this weekend! We'd love to chat about our game projects (we're seeking publishers!), and we're also open for work-for-hire. Summon us if you dare... (or just message us) 👹

We are incredibly disappointed by the Labour government's decision to seek advice from such a narrow segment of our industry. You can find our open letter here: www.gameworkers.co.uk/open-letter-...

Very happy to have been invited back to my old stomping grounds today to tell Abertay students the good word about co-ops 💖 And it was a real treat to see the games the 3rd year students have been working on this semester!! What an incredibly talented bunch, the future of games is looking bright 🌟

Currently prototyping an incremental falling sand game (with wizards) and needed a tutorial, so here's me acting as your most humble vizier in some old school FMVs! 🔊 #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Wow, we've just reached one thousand followers here on Bluesky! Thank you all so much for joining us on our journey—we're excited to share more soon about the strange and arcane game projects we've been brewing up...👀

untitled voice note recording for a new nameless screamo band from first practice last night. everything will undoubtedly change cause we're just screaming nonsense over it, but didn't expect us to come away with anything demo'd so soon:) soundcloud.com/andrew-murdo...

once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish

I started a very wip started pack of worker-owned videogames co-ops ✊️ let me know who I'm missing! #gamedev go.bsky.app/NDdAqko

With so many people making the leap over to Bluesky.. ✨ The UKGI Slack admins have made a starter pack for our community! ✨ If you want to be added, check the announcements section of our slack. To join the slack, click the link for the signup form! ❤️❤️❤️ go.bsky.app/2sha92U

We're all set up and ready to go at the Scottish Games Frenzy in Glasgow! Come try your hand at Bean To Me and Springpong 🌟

It’s time to crack open a refreshing can of beans! Bean to Me, the Mancala-like battle of wits with weird beans and wild strategies is launching on Steam for PC and Steam Deck today! #gamedev #indiegames #beantome #mancala

Tomorrow, on the most ghoulish day of the year, we'll be manifesting at the Scottish Games Frenzy in Glasgow! Come along and behold not one, but two of our games - we'll be showing demos for Bean To Me (which also releases on Steam tomorrow!!) and Springpong 🫘🌼 games.creative.barclays/events/sgw/

Visit our Steam page and Wishlist us today! If you’re up for a challenge, download the free demo and give it a try for yourself - can you become the brainiest bean strategist with the biggest bean synergies? store.steampowered.com/app/3001670 Full version coming October 31st!

We’re thrilled to announce that Bean to Me, the single-and-multiplayer Mancala-like game with weird rule-bending beans is coming to this October’s Steam Next Fest which begins today at 10am PT / 6pm BST! #steamnextfest #nextfest #gamedev #indiegames

we made a worker co-op! and the worker co-op makes games!! check out veryevildemons.com if yr on the search for co-dev/porting/prototyping! or just want to find out about some evil ol' games 🤠

look at this gnome I made for this 🫵

We greatly enjoyed partaking in this years #GMTKJam over the past few days! Our offering is Crystals of Runewood, a bite-sized peek into the life cycle of a mid-2000's MMORPG. You can play it in your browser, if you'd like! veryevildemons.itch.io/crystals-of-...

We've gone and started a game studio!! The five of us have been super busy laying the foundations for our co-op for the past few months and we've got something really special going - keep an eye out for some extremely sick worker-owned devilry from your friends from hell 😈🔥

Something wicked this way comes... The summoning has succeeded; Very Evil Demons have arrived on the material plane! We're a brand new worker-owned game studio based in Dundee. We're open for business, and we have our own devilish projects brewing - stay tuned for more 🔮

it's very nice to see so many friendly faces popping up over here lately! glad everyone's making it off that sinking ship 🌤

Tickets for our next event are live! ⭐ 📣 - 6pm / 29th September / 3 Sessions Street - 📣 Thanks to our sponsors we are now providing food completely on the house! Grab a ticket here and we'll see you there ! 🔥 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dundee-gam...

I know folks in the games industry are curious about unions and don't know where to start, so I spent a good portion of Friday writing up an intro guide. It includes information for Australia, Canada, Croatia, Finland, France, Ireland, Malta, South Korea, Sweden, UK, and USA.

I think I'm going to use this Swordtember to brush up on my pixel art! I also intend on being incredibly liberal with my definition of 'sword' lol Here's sword #1: Witch 🔮

We the IWGB Game Workers recently released the results of our Dundee game workers salary survey! We worked so so hard on this and I am so proud of what we've achieved - this will help game workers fight for what we deserve ❤️✊ You can see the results here: docs.google.com/presentation...

@gamedevlist.bsky.social hello, I'd love to be added to the game dev list! 👋

oh my god my SSD died on my work PC this morning so I moved to another PC in the office to work from until it's fixed you'll never guess what has also just happened to that PC's SSD too

hello new social media!! i'm andrew, a gameplay programmer in dundee, scotland i like pixel platformers, obtuse jrpgs and screamo here's me by a fire (didn't start it)

Robin (my name!) -> robin redbreast (the bird) -> redbreast spoonerisms (kinda) into restbread! 🐥

a day by the sea 🌊

🧡💙 We are Hubworld Scotland! 💙🧡 A new home for games industry events in Scotland starting off at our base in Dundee! We're the team behind the #DundeeGamesMeetup and we have got a lot of fun plans for the future! Follow along and be a part of our community!

Aaand now on Bloosky: My chat with Fireplace Games yielded a whole second article and restored my faith in studios a bit. You can work sustainably even as a small company! https://www.gamesindustry.biz/en-garde-developers-on-the-challenges-of-founding-a-studio-early-in-your-career

Crit failed my literal first roll in BG3 LET'S GOOOOO!!!

I'm so happy with what we've done in the IWGB Game Workers. It's kind of amazing.

Spent the weekend in Amsterdam! It's real nice there huh 🌞🌞🌞

Hi bsky and hello #gamedev ! I'm Robin and I'm a senior artist at Pocket Sized Hands, based in Dundee ☀️ I'm also the Dundee regional coordinator for the IWGB Game Workers! I like horror and romance and making weird stuff 🌹🔪💘