Damon L. Wakes's Blog, page 48
May 25, 2017
Unbound Birthday Giveaway
A really quick update because I’m just about to head off to an open mic night: Unbound is running another birthday-related promotion! This one gives you 15% off their entire fiction list (including Ten Little Astronauts) with code MayDay, and on top of that they’re also giving two free ebooks away with every pledge! Which […]
May 20, 2017
Unearthly Sleuths
There’s a new anthology from JayHenge Publishing, and this one’s all about speculative detective fiction! It’s called Unearthly Sleuths, and it features two of my stories: The Card and Noise on the Wire. The former appears in OCR is Not the Only Font, my flash fiction anthology from 2012, but the latter is a brand […]
May 15, 2017
Spoiler Alert Free Today
Spoiler Alert is free to download in the Google Play store today! If you haven’t heard of it, this is the one-button platformer I worked on a couple of years back and it’s great, silly fun. It’s essentially Mario, but you play the game backwards, stomping crushed enemies back to life and placing coins neatly […]
May 9, 2017
Eagle Island
Back at Winchester Comic Con I was pleased to discover Eagle Island, a procedurally generated platformer with beautiful pixel art and really tight controls. Well, it’s since launched on Kickstarter and I’ve been backing it since the very beginning. I’ve also made an effort to share/retweet any choice bits of news: most recently that there’s […]
May 1, 2017
Ten Little Astronauts at 30%!
Yes! Ten Little Astronauts has reached 30% funding through Unbound. The last little bit of that came very quickly indeed: pretty much just over this past weekend. You can find the update on their site here. If you haven’t pledged already, this would be a spectacularly good time to do so. The book has had […]
April 25, 2017
Free Shipping at Unbound Until April 30th
If you’d like to support Ten Little Astronauts but haven’t already, or went for the ebook and fancy upgrading to a sweet, sweet paperback for super cheap, now’s your chance! You can get free UK shipping (or £4 off international) with the code FREESHIPPING until April 30th. Apologies for the shoddy video quality. I seem […]
April 22, 2017
Craft Keep VR Now Available
Back at EGX 2016 I got involved with virtual reality game Craft Keep VR. A certain portion of the game was already available in Early Access before I even heard about it but over the past few months I’ve been writing story and dialogue and gradually seeing the whole thing take form. At this point […]
April 1, 2017
Announcing Project Pythias
It’s been quite a while since I had a new story to share online. It’s hard to be too upset about that given that it’s primarily down to some recent successes – crowdfunding Ten Little Astronauts takes up a great deal of my time, and I’m currently sorting out a contract for Girth Loinhammer’s Most […]
March 18, 2017
Places to Meet Me this Month
I realise we’re halfway through March at this point, but wow is that second half packed full of things to do! If you fancy meeting me in person, you’ll have plenty of chances over the coming couple of weeks (though it helps if you’re currently in the southern half of the UK). Here’s what’s coming […]
March 17, 2017
Ten Little Astronauts has 125 Supporters!
As promised, here I am picking a name from a hat to determine which of these lucky people get a free, signed copy of Kicking and Screaming: There’s been a lot of interest in Ten Little Astronauts recently and thanks partly to a couple of really good events this month, a whole bunch of those […]
