Bit Loom

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💙 Four friends making Glenmara: Still Life Artist 💙 Become a painter on a wee Scottish Isle. 🧑🏻‍🎨 💙 WISHLIST NOW! ✨🎨 http://linktr.ee/bitloomgames

The Bit Loom Team, 4 people smiling and standing in front of a banner saying Glasgow Indie Games Fest.
The PHOGS! are leaping into the air with a cake, everyone is wearing party hats and there is a giant number 5 balloon all made from creative commons clip art!
A still life art composition: A blue glazed bowl sitting on a red brick, an orange and banana inside of it, a blue jug with fishes painted on it
A still life art composition: Mint background, pink platform box in the middle, a blue glazed bowl, a highland cow cuddly toy, a pineapple, a polka dot teapot, a couple of pinecones and a few other things
A man in a blue shirt standing beside a table with two monitors showing a game
Key art for the video game Tray Racers! a group of kids and robots are riding fast down a sand dune on trays. There's cactuses, trees and wind generators about the place. A colourful logo sits at the top centre.
A screenshot from the game PHOGS! It has a primarily pink/purple palette and is a shot of a mattress/pillow fort with a starry sky. There's a blue bear and a moth playing a guitar. There's also a "glorb" in the foreground - a big while glowing ball with a cute happy face on it that rolls around. And the titular phogs - two orange fuzzy dog heads connected with a stretchy wiggly body in the middle.
A photo of 3 people in the McManus museum/gallery looking up at a high platform with realistic replicas of many animals including a bear, a dear and beaver
A photo of 4 people taken in the reflection of a glass case in the McManus museum containing many vintage food packing examples
A farmer from phogs (they have purple skin, a round belly and big hands/feet with only 3 toes/fingers) with a very happy face and a blueberry for a hat, away to tuck into a giant stack of pancakes sitting on the ground in front of them. There's green grass and a pink and green leafy vegetables plant behind them as well as a brown wavey patterned wall.
The artwork for the original soundtrack from the video game PHOGS!, a 2d illustration filled with lots of the fun characters from the game including the yellow phogs (two happy dog heads connected with a long stretchy, wiggly body) with their red and blue collars, a few hidden "boingles" which are tiny blue creatures with 2 legs, one eye and a little pink/yellow/blue point on there heads. Also, a very colourful wizard with a star wand flying in the sky, a purple guy with blueberries on his head playing an acoustic guitar (one of the boingles is hidden in the guitar), some big speakers playing music, and a big smiling sun in the sky. It also says "PHOGS! SOUNDTRACK" and "HENRY PULLAN" at the bottom.
3d game environment. bright pink solid colour background/floor. A yellow drill on top of a brown dinosaur toy on top of an egg, being rotated around the pivot point of the egg in a janky way. There's also a random book behind it all
A game where you can edit and move around different objects to make a scene. James used a few different shaped toy blocks, a pineapple, a spoon, and an orange with googley eyes on it to create a silly character. The video starts with the camera angle offset so it just looks like a bunch of random objects sitting about, then the camera angle moves and everything lines up so the character is revealed ✨. The rest of the video is a timelapse of James making the scene.
a 3d cube with layers of colour (it's really made out of multiple stacked cubes that get smaller in front of each other) wiggling around which looks a bit trippy from the front
An info board that was next to our game phogs in the exhibition, it is also surrounded by a couple other cool phogs mementos we have in our little collection including a crocheted red and blue and a big scarf version of them! The info board reads: "Ever wanted to play as a two-headed dog? Well now is your chance. In this multiplayer puzzle game, you need to work together to solve problems and move obstacles in a colourful and calmingly cosy landscape. Playing with a friend in cooperative mode or as a solo adventure, you need to help the hydra-headed dogs Red and Blue overcome the challenges in front of them. Created as a novel new form of puzzle game based on a physics mechanism where gameplay objects act as they would in the real world, the Dundee-based Bit Loom Games has shown how you can combine imagination and creativity with science and problem-solving. Grab a friend and play together on the same controller or try and solve the puzzles with Red and Blue on your own."
a timelapse of a whimsical 3d scene being created in our game using different things like basic cube/cuboids to make cliffs/water, rubber ducks and sharks, macaroni for "sand", an orange for the sun and an intricate wooden boat as the focal point with a ceramic dog figurine sitting on it
Gameplay from our current project. Top down camera, placing a variety of objects (fried egg, hair bobbles, paint palette, lightbulb, teapot...) in order to spell out "2025", the table/background is a light blue solid colour. At the end a brush stroke video transition reveals a rendered version of the scene in a water colour kind of style.
A composition with two takeaway cups alongside a banana and a pair of binoculars in earthy, chalky tones.
A painterly composition with a mushroom person, glorb, gameboy, bangles, phog, succulent, tiny duck some of which are on a notebook. On an orange background