Mr #PitchYaGame

@liamtwose.bsky.social

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#PitchYaGame Creator / Video Games Industry / Indie Game Producer @ Lone Spartan Entertainment / He/Him / Views my own! / Updates + Announcements Only. https://bio.link/liamtwose https://PitchYaGame.com

image of the gachiball dispensors in Gachicon Arcade. With a giraffe plushy resting on top.
Clip from Gachicon Arcade showing a gachiball dispensor in action, coins inserted, dial being turned and gachiball being dispensed.
Image shows an arcade cabinet from Gachicon Arcade, an arcade management game with a test game called Dodge on it. Title Screen, Insert Coin(s) To Play and Credits [0] can be seen on the screen.
Video shows an arcade, focusing on the arcade cabinet being turned on and played. *game shown is for demonstration purposes only.
Clip shows a stock box being perfectly yeeted into a stack of boxes.
image shows a scrolling, endless, to-do-list on the left side, with some of the results on the right. An arcade simulator game in development by Lone Spartan Entertainment. The results show a scene from the arcade above, and a working claw machine being demoed below.
animated clip shows an arcade cabinet with a green screen, next to a claw machine with food plushies. The lights on the claw machine alternating in sequence. While the player is busy playing the cabinet, mashing the controls.
Video shows a retro arcade claw machine, from Gachicon Arcade, an arcade simulator game in development by Lone Spartan Entertainment. The claw machines is filled with Burgers, Fries and Cupcake plushies. The player attempts to grab 3, and finally bags a prize on the 4th go.
image shows a button that says do not press.. clearly being pressed multiple times from Gachicon Arcade. Pressing it appears to change the lighting colors.
old screenshot from Gachicon Arcade showing an old garage, with dark flooring, industrial shelves and all manner of contraptions.
Dark Clip from Gachicon Arcade. Lone Giraffe plushy sat on the shelf. Staring back at the player.
Clip from Gachicon Arcade. The lights are off, which is why it's dark, the weather has turned, hence the foggy atmosphere, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with the giraffe that's sat on the shelf, while I do some restocking.
image shows two claw machines, one with the weird glitched physics giraffe plushies inside, and the next one with food plushies. A green cabinet on the end shows a hiscore table for Dodge. No hiscores. Holding my new giraffe plushy in my left hand.
Image shows a scene with a giant stock box on its side, with 2 wheelie bins in front of a closed garage door.
Same clip as the first one only this time both claw machines are on but the giraffe plushies have all glitched out.
Clip from Gachicon Arcade, an arcade game sim in development by Lone Spartan Entertainment. Shows Gachiball dispensors, two claw machines; 1 open being restocked with open access door, the other full of food plushies with flashing lights. With a green cabinet on the end; dodge, that boots up.
Token space backdrop with sun breaching a planets horizon. Text reads #PitchYaGame IS LIVE, GET PITCHING! With the mascot PYG in the bottom right corner with closed eyes, waving.
Token PYG space backdrop with a planet's horizon being breached by a sun. Text reads 24 Hours till.. #PitchYaGame LIVE. June 5th 2026. Start timings across the world: 12PM BST, 4AM PDT, 7AM EDT, 7AM BRT, 430PM IST, 7PM CST/SGT | 8PM JST/KST | 9PM AEST | 11PM NZST Token PYG mascot with closed eyes in bottom corner waving.
A screengrab of achievements for the #PitchYaGame website. Left side reads "World Domination: Received views from 150+ different countries. The United Nations has nothing on you." "Unlocked on #PitchYaGame Live". Right side: 1. Achievement unlocked: World Domination 2. Achievement unlocked: Globe Trotter 3. Your stats are booming! #PitchYaGame Live is getting lots of traffic. Plus 100K lifetime views.
Map of the world created via MapChart.net with the countries colored in the pyg pink, that we have seen pitches via vs none (noted) in countries in white.
Signature space backdrop of #PitchYaGame, with a planet's horizon being breached by a sun. Text reads "#PitchYaGame LIVE, June 5th 2026" Some of the timings listed, below. STARTS | 12PM BST | 4AM PDT | 7AM EDT | | 8AM BRT | 430PM IST | 7PM CST/SGT | | 8PM JST/KST | 9PM AEST | 11PM NZST |
Old image of early prototyping for Gachicon Arcade.
Image has a space backdrop with a sun breaching a planets horizon, in big bold text. "TeaseYaGame IS LIVE Get Teasing!" Token PYG waving in the corner.
Image reads: "If you’re building a game or have just released one, this one’s for you. We’re inviting developers and publishers to submit their games for free promotion on 80 Level! Apply now for a chance to be featured: https://80lv.co/get-featured-1"
Pic shows a screengrab from Waterpark Simulator with a lady called Cassandra lying on a lounger with her head rotated 180 degrees.
Image showing a teaser in-game render of Gachicon Arcade, a future game by Lone Spartan Entertainment lead by @LiamTwose. Image shows a person standing in front of a row of arcade machines; left-to-right: Claw machine with giraffe plushies inside. Green arcade cabinet with no game displayed, Yellow arcade cabinet with a guru meditation error (homage to the Amiga era) and a red arcade cabinet, again with no game on the screen. Logo in top right hand corner reads Gachicon Arcade with a claw machine grabber and a teddy in the center to the side.
Image shows a cropped top half of Unreal Engine, with an open project, with 50 tabs open. Much the same issue as when tabs were invented for browsers.
Space image with a planet breached by a sun on the horizon. Fireworks on the left. Text reads Celebrating 6 Years of #PitchYaGame. With the iconic PYG waving in the right corner.
Image has a space backdrop with a sun breaching a planets horizon, in big bold text. "TeaseYaGame IS LIVE Get Teasing!" Token PYG waving in the corner.
Image of a space backdrop; with a sun breaching a planets horizon. Text reads #PitchYaGame IS LIVE. Get Pitching!
The "before" image of a working (albeit chaotic) blueprint.
The "before" image of a working (albeit chaotic) blueprint.
Image shows the post on X with over 740K views.
It's with a heavy heart, that after 5 years of incredible pitches.. the time has come. May 26th 2020, the day #PitchYaGame blew up on Twitter, and I'll never forget that day. It literally changed my life, following what was an extremely difficult period of time. We're on Wikipedia, we've had over 90 media articles covering both the event and the games pitched, you've helped PYG trend every time without fail. The world has been blessed with amazing indie game pitches from literally over half of the world. We've changed peoples lives. Deals have definitely been made in the background. So please realise that this was by far an easy decision to make. But, unfortunately the time has come... to remove the count down timer from the front page. I simply can't do it anymore. I'm constantly reminded if how soon the next round is away. So please forgive me, you're just going to have to add it to your calendars. Thank you, and yes, #PitchYaGame is still here to stay (for now at least) with the next round coming up on November 7th 2025. See you then, pitches!
image shows a screengrab of the historic subscriber growth of the #PitchYaGame substack.
image shows the popup for Unreal Engine when it first loads that tells you how many asset editors were open when the editor was last closed. And whether you would like to re-open them? Options include checkbox for "Remember my choice" and Yes or No.
Giraffe plushy on a shelf giving Annabelle vibes.
image shows two cross references. Top being a representation of how GA looked in the early days when just making it exist, with placeholder machines and default mannequin. While the image below shows GA as a growing game which is starting to take real shape with actual machines and better character models. Around 9 months of work so far.
Shows a vector graph (feeding an alpha out for use with lerping)
Screengrab of a blueprint (by @LiamTwose) with a logic sequence that determines the action a door should take based on 6 states. 1. [Door IS Locked] AND [Door IS Closed] AND [Door is NOT Ajar]. 2. [Door is NOT Locked] AND [Door IS Closed] AND [Door is NOT Ajar]. 3. [Door is NOT Locked] AND [Door is NOT Closed] AND [Door is NOT Ajar]. 4. [Door IS Locked] AND [Door is NOT Closed] AND [Door is NOT Ajar] 5. [Door IS Locked] AND [Door is NOT Closed] AND [Door IS Ajar] 6. [Door is NOT Locked] AND [Door is NOT Closed] AND [Door IS Ajar]
image shows a screen grab from Gachicon Arcade, with a blue arcade cabinet with a green screen, complete with joystick, and two buttons. A yellow and red machine are cropped to the left and right.
Early look at Gachicon Arcade with whiteboxing and placeholders
Image shows a screenshot from Gachicon Arcade with the GA logo in the top right. With a claw hand and teddy as part of it. The scene shows a person stood in front of one of three arcade machines; a yellow one which shows an error message on the screen. Theres a red machine to the right which is on, and a green one to the left. And a claw machine with giraffe plushies on the far left. On top of the yellow machine is a won giraffe plushy that he has placed on top while he was using the machine.
image shows a screengrab of Dune Awakening from Steam, with only 198.5 hours of play time and 31/73 acheivements.
image shows initial concepts for Gachicon Arcade, complete with UE5 mannequin, grey boxing and placeholders with the sole purpose to get it working first.
picture shows a video preview with a blank screen on the starting frame. time of video is 1:30.