Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie

@greyalien.bsky.social

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Indie developer since 2005, owner of Grey Alien Games. Working on Forbidden Solitaire (watch the trailer!) Creator of Ancient Enemy, Shadowhand, Regency Solitaire + more. Retro games fan. Please buy our games. Thx. https://www.greyaliengames.com/

Jake sitting in an old wood panelled room on a stool. There's a fireplace next to him. Exposed rafters in the ceiling and some old stone windows with a view of trees outside.
C64, 1531, Quickshot II (rattles), Original PSU, Sega RF lead. Composite to SCART cable (video still looks poor) Modern PSU by Electroware Keycap puller (because some keys were in the wrong place!) S-video cable by Retro Computer Shack (works best with composite AND S-video plugged into SCART adapter) C64 dust cover by Sew Ready Datasette dust cover by Sew Ready 1530 drive belt replacement (not used so far) Head cleaning kit + demagnetiser (tried to use, no success) 1530 Datasette in box in "good working order" SD card reader and 2GB SD card C64c Cream SD2IEC Commodore 1541 Disk Drive Emulator Cassette to userport SD2IEC adapter. Epyx Fastload cart. 8 in 1 Deadtest cart Chip lifter, IC extraction tool, Headband magnifier Multimeter (faulty) Multi test cart inc. DeadTestMAX Repair kit (RAM chips, Multiplexors, sockets, lead solder, braid, flux pen, solder sucker, ceramic tweezers) Lumafix64 (applied it and tuned it) New S-video cable with resistor (can't really tell a difference from other S-video cable) Cheetah 125 Joystick (also used on Spectrum) Arcade-R joystick PS1 controller adapter. Programmers Reference Guide (used) S-video port adapter with chroma hi jumper
A path running next to an avenue of very old trees. sunlight dapples the path and it’s still quite green despite being a very dry summer.
A Japanese rice farm. It’s misty.
Jake sitting in an ornate metal chair inside a large sort of conservatory with many plants behind him.
Large magenta holy hock flower.
Seafront with large tower in distance. Faint pink glow on horizon.
Jake sitting no an ornate stone bench with and old wall behind him. He is slightly obscure by long grasses in seed in the foreground.
Greek style statue of the Huntress and a white fluffy cat sitting on our lawn. there are many plants in the background and some potted plants in the foreground.
Jake sitting in an alcove of a gate pillar for an Elizabethan manor house. There's some kind of giant bird statue on the top of the pillar.
Jake sitting in a ruined alcove within the ruins of an ancient castle in Devon.
A path winds into the woodlands. it’s surrounded by exotic plants. Very nice.
Minterne Gardens bridge at the end of a lake.
Jake sitting on a toilet (fully clothed) which is outside in a pile of rubbish.
Jake sitting in a castle window that has bars in it. It's a bit dingy and looks like a prison but was actually a gatehouse and small canon were used to shoot out of special slots at invaders.
Greek style statue holding a water jug in one hand and a small bowl in the other
Jake sitting on a wooden seat made from two circular chunks of a large tree trunk.
Feet in pink plastic foot spa and it has a special niche for their phone. "Relax, soak, and scroll with a built-in phone holder - multi-tasking made easy!"
Jake sitting on a bench in front of Buckfast Abbey. It's a "modern" Abbey completed in the first half of the 20th century. There's no one else in the photo.
Jake sitting on a bench surrounded by a huge green hedge.
Resident evil Ridge racer type 4 Die hard trilogy Tomb raider Crash bandicoot Blood Omen Legacy of Kane
Jake sitting on some stone steps of a medieval guesthous. There's a cool wooden structure including a roof over the steps. I guess it keeps the rain off them so they aren't slippery.
Jake sitting on a wooden bench in a medieval guest house. Behind him is what looks like some kind of sink or maybe even toilet hole in the windowsill.
Fluffy white cat sitting on green lawn
Black gas powered BBQ on our patio with garden behind it.
A graph with key points labelled 0 to 5 as it ramps up to the right. Title is Wishlists, Every Little Helps.
A deep red rose.
An extremely green lawn that is practically a monoculture.
Leon looking at his own name badge on his ancient dilapidated desk.
White fluffy cat sleeping on patio.
And hand completely covered in huge coloured gems that all look the same. It's placeholder art before we added in the final gems.