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✦ Art Director & Co-Founder @RobustGames , creating @LocoMotiveGame ✦ Prev: Witchbrook, Wargroove, Starbound & More! ✨Wishlist!

London, UK
Joined January 2011
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Hi, i'm making a comedy adventure where you have to solve a murder aboard a steam train..
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PSA: If you're looking for a monster-collecting RPG with heart, soul and a distinct lack of controversy - you need to check out Cassette Beasts.
@ByttenStudio
CASSETTE BEASTS 📼 MULTIPLAYER UPDATE OUT NOW!
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We're blown away by the reaction to Cassette Beasts! Thank you to everyone who has played so far - we hope you're enjoying your adventuring! 📼 #gamedev
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Hi, i'm making a comedy adventure where you solve a murder aboard a steam train.. It's voiced by a professional cast and coming out later this year!
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I'm making an adventure game where you solve a murder aboard a steam train, all with beautiful hand-drawn pixel art and animation! link is in bio✨ #screenshotsaturday #indiegames #pixelart #ドット絵 #gamedev
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so i'm making a murder mystery game - with tons of hand drawn animation, bespoke cutscenes and even close-ups. Please wishlist it so I don't regret my choices, lol🙏
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3 years
Indie game credits be like
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2 months
Hey Twitter, would you play *this* game?
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6 years
#Wargroove just launched on Steam, Switch and Xbox! Here's the moment we hit that big red button!! 🎉
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Quick little art exercise, will do more if people like. #pixelart
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9 months
Hello, can you wishlist my silly murder mystery game? It's currently ranked #332 in wishlists on Steam, but it'd be crazy if we reached that top 300! link below👇
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1 year
in my murder mystery adventure game, you play as.. 📝 Arthur - the paper pushing lawyer 📕 Herman - a washed up crime novelist 🔍 Diana - an undercover rookie spy Who's your pick?
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6 years
Think we did pretty well yesterday ❤️
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4 years
Very proud to announce.. Loco Motive ! A short point & click adventure game, made for #AdvXJam in 2 weeks A murder mystery-comedy, full of deadly surprises, larger than life characters & yes, the occasional blood fountain🩸 Play it here!
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4 years
The new visuals are in and looking good!🤩
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i'm making a comedy adventure where you solve a murder aboard a steam train, and it's very nearly done! Lemme know if this sounds like your kinda thing, or tag a friend who'd be into it! ;)
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6 years
Hey #MeetTheDev , I'm Adam Riches and I've been an artist/animator in the games industry for about 4 years now. During that time I've had the amazing opportunity to work on a few things you might've heard of! 💕
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4 years
Happy weekend! here's some more progress on the point & click adventure i've been working on! (click for full size ♥️) #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart
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Adam Riches
4 years
We've been working hard on #witchbrook for quite a while now, super excited to share more! Super proud of our art team @stephcask @AbiChicharo @_t3nshi @rosiedeux @RyanAPage - Super talented people, check 'em out!✨
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🎶 We’re making a potent witchy brew 🎶
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The indie game I'm making and three of the inspirations behind it.
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ICYMI i'm making a 1930's point & click adventure game called @LocoMotiveGame . It's full of humour, charm and lovely hand drawn animation!🚂💨 #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #pixelart
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2 years
Cool! @IVSoftware (indie legends behind Prison Architect) just announced a space game, and I nearly spat my tea out when I saw the placeholder space men sprites they were using...👀
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5 years
Got my #Aseprite shortcuts hooked up to this Stream Deck for work. Should hopefully lead to quicker pixel arting! ✏️
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2 years
@max_oats don't forget the publishing house, porting studios and marketing team, subsequently reduced to a footnote in the original twitter thread lol
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1 year
🪞We added working mirrors to our murder mystery adventure game! Any guesses how it's done?😉 #screenshotsaturday #indiegames #pixelart #ドット絵 #gamedev
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2 years
My name's Guybrush Threepwood, and I want to be a pirate!💖 #MonkeyIsland #pixelart
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4 years
A small update on the point and click i'm working on with @gamedevjoe for #screenshotsaturday - Been tidying up a lot of pixels, and the visual look of the game is really coming together now! #indiedev #pixelart
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4 years
I forgot to share some work in progress from the point and click adventure game I was working on earlier in the year. In this short game you crash your ship at an intergalactic rest stop..
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1 year
What a surreal 48 hours.. hello to all you new followers, and big thanks to everyone who wishlisted the game so far!
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Hi, do you like murder mysteries steam trains slapstick comedy point & click puzzle solving beautiful hand animated pixel art fully voice acted dialogue?? then I have a game that's made just for you!!
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6 years
So working on #Wargroove was tons of fun! I tackled a bunch of environment pieces, such as this background for the custom content menu. Set in the Heavensong forge, it features Koji fixing up his puppet pal, Tenko! #pixelart
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Adam Riches
8 years
Finished animating this scene that appears when you fix your ship in @StarboundGame ! #pixelart #gamedev #animation
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Adam Riches
6 years
Shoutout to @PeanutButterGmr & crew for their #Starbound HC series! Really fun watching you have a blast & discovering the game as you go. When you work on a game, its rare to experience it in the same way. Watch out for fall damage! 💕
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4 years
This is gonna be a niche tweet but in 2009 I did a big graphical overhaul of a lil 2D space game called Space Station 13. Thought i'd have a little fun seeing what it might look like with 10+ years of pixel arting practice.
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2 years
Update: @IVSoftware have not only apologised but worked hard this morning to make things right, and I'm happy to say that we've both reached an agreement where both parties are satisfied. All is good, everyone! ✨
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4 years
Sharing more progress from the point n' click adventure game i'm working on! Some environment work from early on in the game (click for full image)
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2 months
my #indiegame pitch in 5 words or less.. "steam train murder mystery"
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Jón - making Tiny Tires 🚗🏁 Wishlist now!
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my #indiegame pitch in 5 words or less. “tiny cars. big objects.”
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2 years
It's always satisfying getting to render a bunch of food in pixel art, let alone a full pantry🤩 #gamedev #pixelart
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Adam Riches
8 years
Yesterday we watched a final cut of the #starbound 1.0 launch trailer. 5 yrs of hard work shone throughout! #proud
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8 years
We're selling well, people are very positive about the game, but the quality workshop mods are proof we've made it!
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3 years
Announcement: Tomorrow is my last day at @ChucklefishLTD ! For the last 7 years I've had the opportunity to work on really cool games with some of the most talented & hardest working people I know. I'm now leaving to pursue my own projects! Excited to share more, but for now...
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Final VS Prototype 🧀
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6 years
Been keeping a secret the last few months, but excited to say I've been working with @Coatsink & @RawFury on 👑 Kingdom: Two Crowns, the upcoming sequel to New Lands. Here's a peek at some overhauled environment art I've made so far. Lots more to come! 💕
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Woah! We hit another huge wishlist milestone for @LocoMotiveGame today - A staggering 75,000 wishlists! Thank you everyone, please keep wishlisting our silly murder mystery game as we race to the finish line!✨
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Adam Riches
5 years
Just got a very special #wargroove delivery in the office 👀
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9 years
Me testing out #minecraft on the #Hololens prototype... http://t.co/z7LUao2VDx
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3 years
I forgot to tweet this but - our unannounced game is funded and we have a publisher! The contract is signed and we're already in the middle of our first sprint. This is all i can say right now but we're excited about it!
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Adam Riches
7 years
When I haven't drawn in a while, I love to get back into it by sketching out real dumb looking monsters. 😄
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6 years
Had the pleasure of demoing @StarboundGame on #Xbox at the @ID_Xbox event last week! Yes it's still coming, and yes we're super excited!
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3 months
Thanks to everyone who came to say hello and try out @LocoMotiveGame at the @BarclaysGames event yesterday!
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3 years
Hey! We're making a freaking videogame! It just got announced on the Nintendo #IndieWorld ! Been keepin this quiet for some time but we're working with @ChucklefishLTD to bring a modern point & click adventure to you in 2022!🤩
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Adam Riches
8 years
Over 62,000 concurrent #starbound players right now! 5th most played on the entire Steam store! Whoop!
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7 years
Today I captured @ChucklefishLTD 's tallest and shortest employees measuring up against one another, and it is perfect in every way ☺️
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2 years
I have finally reached the highest tier of @aseprite layer organisation - colour coded perfection 🌈
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10 years
Here's an interior environment, a town store in our upcoming Pirate Game! :D #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #pixelart http://t.co/JI1ouFfC0l
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3 years
Here's a couple candid shots of @LocoMotiveGame running on a #SteamDeck 😉(thanks @sibachmann )
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4 years
Biggest surprise of the #AnimalCrossingDirect was the implementation of the new UK points based immigration system. What a game changer!
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@GIBiz Headline should be "interviewing one (1) diverse candidate for each opening is unworkable" because what they're saying is actually much worse.
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Was gonna try another gamejam in November, but we ended up way too busy! Figured i'd share the mockup here. It was gonna be a little adventure game all about space diplomacy! #pixelart
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Cheeky weekend work in progress to the interrogation scene in @LocoMotiveGame #screenshotsaturday #gamedev
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2021 recap: I can't believe all of this happened in one year.. Feb - Our game jam gets picked up in mainstream press April - Start pitching a commercial version of game jam May - Signed a deal! June - Development begins Dec- Announce our game to the world on a Nintendo Direct
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Happy #screenshotsaturday ! We've been experimenting with a new lighting renderer, it adds great atmosphere to this murder mystery comedy adventure!🩸 #indiegame #PixelArt #GameDev
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I had a lot of fun drawing/animating this atmospheric tech lab for @StarboundGame #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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It was an incredible honour to appear in a Nintendo Showcase, even if we both looked like we'd never sat in a chair before😅 #NintendoSwitch #IndieWorld
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11 months
Happy anniversary to Return to Monkey Island! Here's some fan art I made to celebrate the launch last year. #MonkeyIsland #ReturntoMonkeyIsland #pixelart
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6 years
It's been an amazing first weekend, #Wargroove has already officially covered the cost of development! - We've also been looking at all your feedback since launch, and will be making some quality of life changes to the game. See the blog for more details!
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i know you're busy but we're only a few hundred wishlists away from a *gigantic milestone* - so please wishlist my murder mystery train game, thank you!
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4 years
Some more pics of my lil' cocker spaniel puppy, Benji! He's nearly 4 months old now!
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Happy #InternationalDogsDay everyone! If you're new here you may not have seen our adorable office dogs! Meet Iorek, Tolstoy, Paóirse and Benji, who are all getting extra special treats and belly rubs today 🐶
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A huge (and free!) DLC for #Wargroove came out on Thursday, and I wanted to share some of my work on it. One of the first things I created was this huge paper world map you traverse during the new Co-op Campaign. It came out rather good! #pixelart
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3 months
Big milestone this week - Loco Motive is now fully voiced with over 8,100+ lines of dialogue! ✨
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2 years
They're placeholder but maybe replace them before announcing your game publicly guys. Or at least ask if you could borrow em ☠️
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8 years
UK peeps! Check your local #GAME store for digital copies of #starbound *AND* the wonderful #stardewvalley ! 🎉
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8 years
Also added new clothes to @StarboundGame 's character creator. Check out this hoodie & ripped jeans combo!
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2 years
Update: @IVSoftware have not only apologised but worked hard this morning to make things right, and I'm happy to say that we've both reached an agreement where both parties are satisfied. All is good, everyone! ✨
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2 years
Cool! @IVSoftware (indie legends behind Prison Architect) just announced a space game, and I nearly spat my tea out when I saw the placeholder space men sprites they were using...👀
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Thanks to everyone who shared and commented on my earlier tweet. We received over 500+ new wishlists in the last 48 hrs, which is a great result!♥️
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Hello, can you wishlist my silly murder mystery game? It's currently ranked #332 in wishlists on Steam, but it'd be crazy if we reached that top 300! link below👇
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1 year
want to see if this keeps up over the weekend, but people.. the last 48 hours is already crazy to look at?!📈
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4 years
I place and rearrange squares until they either please me or make me want to cry. Whichever one comes first.
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Poorly explain what you do for a living.
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1 year
📢 I'm incredibly proud of the game we've been working away on all this time.. And now the first playable demo of @LocoMotiveGame on Steam is live *all week* for #SteamMysteryFest ! ➡️Play the demo:
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📢📢📢 AAAALL ABOARD! The 1st playable demo of @LocoMotiveGame on Steam is here! 🚂Meet a train full of quirky (and suspicious) passengers 🕵️Uncover a deadly mystery 🔎Solve satisfying point-and-click puzzles 📣Share your feedback ➡️Play the demo:
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We want Loco Motive to be more accessible, so @gamedevjoe has spent some time adding the following accessibility features! ⏪ Subtitle Speed Settings 🗨️ Subtitle Backing Settings 🗚 Bigger Text Size Settings 📛 Display Speaker Name Option 📑 Dyslexic-Friendly Font Option
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I've been working on a fun side project over the holidays with my two brothers. Classic point and click adventure games are my all time favorite genre, so I'm making one for fun! #pointandclick #adventure #aseprite
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2 years
How it started vs How it's going👏
@LocoMotiveGame
Loco Motive - Wishlist Today!
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We thought it'd be fun to compare our first internal playable build to our latest. Really cool seeing how far we've come in a year! #pixelart #gamedev #screenshotsaturday
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okay they're even plastered all over the steam store page. This is a proper studio and everything who should know better than this😬
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3 years
It would mean a lot if you would wishlist @LocoMotiveGame ! By wishlisting you can keep up to date on the game’s development via our Steam blogs and find out as soon as the game drops! RTs appreciated💖 🖥️ PC 🎮 Nintendo Switch
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5 years
The one silver lining tonight✂️ #TheBeardIsOff
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8 years
I'm representing #starbound at tonight's @GoldenJoysticks ! We're nominated alongside #stardewvalley ! Wish us luck!
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How it started How it's going
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The Sketch >> The Final
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6 years
I'm helping out with #Wargroove at the moment, expanding on @viiolaceus ' beautiful #pixelart backgrounds! Here's a time-lapse showing one of the trickier ones I've worked on so far:
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2 years
@studioanisa They all spun the wheel together and it landed on "Sci Fi man in the future" "GUNS" and "big horror vibes"
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4 years
So today marks my 6th year at @ChucklefishLTD ! I've just updated my site with all the #pixelart & animation I've made over the last 6 years, on projects like Wargroove, Starbound & more! Slowly adding to it, but please take a look & share if you like it! 🥳
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8 years
Late entry for yesterday's #miner @pixel_dailies ! He keeps on swinging, but he'll always be just out of reach.. #pixel_dailies #pixelart
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8 years
Been working on some neat staff weapon abilities. Now you can rain fire down on your enemies! #gamedev #starbound
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8 years
Here's a high res shot of Evan's amazing Novakid ship that he built for us out of #lego ! *cough* @LEGOIdeas ;D
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8 years
For fans of the original @StarboundGame human armours: They're back via merchants, who will occasionally sell them!
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5 years
My secret santa really delivered this year! This amazing skateboard deck, featuring pixel art I made for #kingdomtwocrowns @Coatsink @RawFury ♥️
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