Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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I made a new font for the first time in a while! MADE IN BRISTOL is a chunky paper cut-out font with no hollow bits, somewhat inspired by Jet Lag: The Game's Snack Zone segments (any fans out there??)
Download here: https://www.fontspace.com/made-in-bristol-font-f165745
It’s time for a “Right To Own” law for games
Yesterday Sony announced that PlayStation games will no longer be available on physical discs after January 2028. Just last week it was revealed that physical editions of GTA 6 will just be empty boxes with a download code inside. Take these two pieces of news together with Nintendo’s introduction of Game-Key Cards and the direction of the games industry becomes clear.
We’re trending towards a time when all video games, even for home consoles, will be digital-only.
What’s the problem?
You might be wondering what the problem with that is. After all, PC gamers are perfectly happy to run all their games digital-only through Steam or Itch. Heck, with a couple of exceptions all Chequered Ink games are digital-only.
There are two major issues here: lack of ownership and a lack of preservation.
Lack of Ownership
These days the whole entertainment industry is trending away from ownership to renting. We used to buy music on physical albums and films on video or DVD. You could listen to them or watch them whenever you like, for as long as you like. If you got bored of it, or you needed to claw some money back in, you could sell a CD or DVD second-hand for someone else to enjoy. Now we have Spotify and Netflix, where you pay monthly and you own nothing.
It’s the same with games. A physical video game is owned by you, to be used whenever you like, and you can lend or sell it to anyone you want. If physical copies cease to exist, or just contain a download key, you are left owning nothing. You can only play the game yourself, for as long as the digital store allows you to access your games – which brings us to the next problem.
Lack of Preservation
Physical copies of games, whether cartridges or CDs, last ages. If you’ve still got 40 year-old carts from your NES there’s a good chance they’re working. As long as you have the physical copy of the game and a working console you can play it forever. If it breaks – there’s some chance you can even fix it.
Digital copies of games will be lost, there’s no doubt about it. Games are getting bigger and storage space is limited. These days we are encouraged to delete the games we already have to make space for new ones!
What happens to your Game-Key Card of Pokémon Pokopia when Nintendo decides to shut down the eShop for Nintendo Switch, like they did with the shops on Wii, Wii U and 3DS? It becomes a useless flake of plastic, that’s what happens.
Digital games will not last 40 years into the future like physicals – you’ll be lucky if they last 10.
What’s the Solution?
The big console manufacturers at Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are not going to save the day. They’ll argue digital is cheaper to produce and that it’s what consumers want (which may be true to some extent). Privately they’re content to destroy the second-hand market and take full control over when, where and how you buy their games.
The solution must come in the form of new laws, giving us the Right to Own, based on the same principles behind Right to Repair laws.
Before the Right to Repair movement kicked off, big tech companies like Apple and Samsung made it difficult to repair their devices without paying them to do it for you. Increasingly, Right to Repair laws are forcing big tech companies to make their devices easier and cheaper to repair.
We need to approach the death of physical games with the same pro-consumer mindset.
If you buy a video game, even a digital copy, you should own it forever. Following this simple principle, publishers and manufacturers should be forced to provide the means to preserve your own games. For example, such a law could stipulate that:
Companies must provide a method by which consumers can back up the game in a playable format (like being able to store the game file on a USB or SD Card).
Games backed up in this way must be DRM-free, so that players can access them even if the digital store goes offline.
If the game becomes unavailable for purchase through digital stores, players should be allowed to redistribute these copies however they see fit.
But What About Piracy??
Yeah, sure, it seems like forcing companies to make it so that users can endlessly produce DRM-free copies of their games might introduce open season for pirates. But here’s the thing: it almost certainly won’t.
It has always been possible to pirate music by copying tapes, CDs and MP3s, and some people do. But most people don’t, and never did, and the big record companies are still here thriving. Same with films, TV shows and yes, video games.
Anyone who buys a DRM-free game on itch.io could share it with whoever they want – the door is wide open for video game piracy already, but consumers aren’t as evil as companies want you to think. Most people are happy to support developers by paying for games, and in quantities large enough to sustain the industry.
It’s extremely easy to pirate old NES and GameBoy games, but Nintendo still sold millions of copies of “Virtual Console” games on Wii, Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. People are still paying extra for the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack to access Nintendo 64 games.
Piracy is a non-issue, based on the gut-feelings of publishers. People who want to spend money on your game will buy it, people who don’t won’t.
Conclusion
If the games industry bigwigs want to phase out physicals, they’re going to have to give us ways to truly own and preserve the games we buy. If they won’t do that willingly, we’re going to need laws to force them (and fast).
Launching a 10,000 Game Assets Pack
Get all 10,000+ Chequered Ink Game Assets in a single download, for commercial use in all your projects. Includes thousands of sprites across a variety of genres as well as hundreds of sound effects.
💝 Contents
4,708 HD Graphics Assets
4,574 Pixel Art Assets
792 Audio Files
35 Models
1 Font
Plus more assets as we release them in future!
🎨 Details
Contains all of our freely available Game Assets across a variety of genres including Platformer, Adventure, Puzzle, RPG and Board Games.
Contains exclusive extra assets & variations only available in this pack.
All assets share a consistent colour palette and style.
Commercial use in an unlimited number of projects.
100% human-made, no AI 🚫
New content will be added free to all existing customers as we release new packs.
📝 License
You may use these game assets for ANY and ALL uses including commercial use, with or without giving credit, except that you may not sell or redistribute the unaltered assets as your own game assets.
🎉 Thank You
Your support will help us to continue making game assets, fonts and games in the future. By grabbing this pack, you also get access to exclusive content not found anywhere else on our website.
available here: 10,000 Game Assets by Chequered Ink
We were working on this the whole of this calendar year! We hope you find it useful :)
I'm making a little game about a Jackdaw who saves his autumnal forest buddies from capitalist resource extraction. Here he is swishing his little sword. 🐦⬛⚔️
The beginnings of a little autumnal world, made in GameMaker.
Graphic design is our passion. If it's yours too, why not grab our All Fonts Pack today? $19 for 1200 fonts for commercial use!
What if all the battles in an RPG were based on the risk-reward mechanic of Poker Dice?
Starting a new series of blog posts over at Chequered Ink: Game Ideas we have, think would be cool, but don’t have the time, resources or skill to make. Feel free to use them in your own creations. First up, Poker Dice RPG!
Nildigo is part of the Tiny Teams event on Steam all this week! And you can now download a free demo to try the game yourself :) Nildigo on Steam
Big news! You can now buy fonts & font packs directly from our shiny new shop on our website :) this includes browsing and buying each font individually for commercial use directly from us for the first time ever https://chequered.ink/shop/
Nildigo has been selected for this year's Yogscast Tiny Teams event!
We've been selected for Tiny Teams 2025! Catch your favourite Yogscast Streamers (maybe) playing Nildigo, plus we'll be releasing a free demo for you to try it yourself :)
Our friends over at Moonana Games have released an update for Keylocker on Steam! Lots of interesting new content including romances, jam sessions & black holes :O
Our anniversary sale ends in just 3 days - it's your last chance to get our All Fonts Pack (1200 fonts for commercial use) for 90% off!! Use them in game dev, logos, websites, artwork, music albums, physical merchandise, etc. with no subscription! ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack
10 Years of Chequered Ink
Chequered Ink is 10 years old today! We founded the company on June 18th, 2015 and since then we’ve made hundreds of games, thousands of fonts, game assets, logos, websites, music, board games, card games and more. We couldn’t have done it without all of your support, so thank you to everyone who has followed us or helped us over the last decade, we’ve got a bunch of good news to celebrate:
Anniversary Sale
To celebrate ten years of indie games by Chequered Ink, we want to give you the chance to play as many as possible! That’s why you can get up to 50% off on our games on Itch.io and Nintendo Switch. Make sure it's started in your region before you buy!
All Fonts Pack Sale
Our hugely popular All Fonts Pack is back on sale for a month!
Get all 1200+ of our commercial use fonts for just $19 – That’s a whopping 90% off!
The sale lasts until July 17th, 2025.
Free Games Pack – 110+ Games for Free!
We’ve bundled up 112 jam entries, HD remasters of older works, experiments, hobby projects and small works, in a wide variety of genres and styles, across a decade of output.
These games were all originally released separately, but you can save yourself a BUNDLE of time and download all 110+ in one pack now!
New Game: Decadence
It’s silly. It’s self-indulgent. It’s a brand new mini game from Chequered Ink!
Play the ultimate card game for FREE now in your browser. Try to collect 20 pieces of gold before your opponent, or deplete their HP, all while activating weapons and spells inspired by 10 years of Chequered Ink games!
Greatest Hits On Tape
Back in March we launched pre-orders for the Chequered Ink Greatest Hits Tape!
This little keepsake contains 10 of our most popular games and 1200 fonts, wrapped up in one neat little launcher on a cassette tape-style USB stick.
For those of you who ordered a copy, they should start shipping between July 1st and July 15th, just in time to enjoy our month-long anniversary celebrations!
Wishlist Nildigo on Steam
In case you missed it, we’ve recently launched the Steam page for an exciting new game called Nildigo.
It’s a mine-sweeping puzzle roguelite with frantic cash-grabbing game play. Grab the money, avoid the Nils, make trillions of dollars before the board explodes.
Coming in 2026, add it to your wishlist on Steam now!
Thank you all!
We want to say a heartfelt thank you to all of you for 10 years of your support, we couldn’t have made it this far without you. We’re excited to bring you more wacky, silly & useful things over the next decade as well!
All the best, from Daniel & Allison.
We’ll be at Impact! Indie Games 2025, in Bristol on the 22nd May, showing off Nildigo, a spicy but zen roguelike puzzle game. Come along, play Nildigo, and meet us both – Expo Pass tickets are free! impress.games/impact/2025
Screenshots of Nildigo in action - uncover the $1 cells, locate Multipliers to send your bank balance into orbit, using disposable Powers, run-wide Perks, and game-altering Permanents to defeat Nildigod and make your profits soar:
Visit the Power Grabber on weekday boards to accrue new tools and win big. Spend your winnings at the weekend Perk Meet, where over 200 Perks are available at random. And browse a 60-page magazine with hints, tips, tech, everything you need.
Sick and tired of looking for commercial use fonts? As game developers and designers ourselves, we know how difficult it is to find fonts with flexible licensing for all your needs: graphics, broadcasting, print materials and web.
Our All Fonts Pack contains all 1200+ fonts we've ever released for commercial use, with one of the most generous font licenses you will find on the internet.
It's a no brainer for saving money for your business whether you're an artist, a web designer, a game developer, an author, or anyone else who makes use of fonts on a regular basis.
This pack is usually fantastic value - 99% cheaper than licensing each of our fonts individually, but now it's even MORE affordable. Just $19 for small businesses until the end of this week. Don't miss out on this opportunity!
All Fonts Pack by Chequered Ink
1200 Fonts for Commercial Use
Do you struggle to find commercial use fonts for your designs? Whether it's simple graphic design, websites, games or merchandise - you can get all 1,200 of our fonts for commercial use in one handy bundle at a massive discount in our May Day Sale.
All of the fonts you see here in the pictures and many more are available in a wide variety of styles, and you can use them for pretty much anything!
You just download the pack and install them on your PC and Mac, and you can begin using them in your favourite programs like Photoshop, Microsoft Word, Affinity Designer etc.
Bring your designs to life with Chequered Ink's full library of fonts this year.
Our All Fonts Pack is back for $19!
Our All Fonts Pack is back on sale! 1,200 fonts for commercial use for just $19 in our May Day Sale 🌷 Use them in your games, videos, logos, artworks, etc! It's an extremely affordable way of getting tons of fonts in different styles in one go :) ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack
