Shallow Thinking Games

UK based games idiot. Former AAA design minion attempting solo indie dev. Tiny plastic guys enthusiast. He/Him. https://linktr.ee/ShallowThinking

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I love making oldschool textures and I have a couple of packs out now:

Downtown Dystopia has 100+ textures ideal for low-def exterior urban environments. Concrete, brick, cement, floors, doors, and more. May be used in commercial and non-commercial projects. No GenAI, human-edited from photo source.

I also have a free pack:

For all your grimly concreted environment needs. 80 authentically 90s/00s diffuse textures plus extra FX stuff in three formats to meet your needs, shamelessly influenced by early Doom/Quake games and great for retro stylings. Free!

You can grab either or both from my itch page.

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Back on the texture set grind.

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Reminder that my original posts are going to be on my host blog @shallow-thinking-games going forward.

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It's the end of the month and it'd be nice to round it out with a few more sales if you fancy some nice commercial-use textures for your projects! Rivets n Rust evokes 90s base maps, Downtown Dystopia's a bit more modern urban. Both packs include a commercial use license for game devs but you can just as easily use them for your Quake maps or what have you.

You can get these packs from my Itch page!

Feel free to give me a follow there if you like (even if you don't fancy either of these in particular.)

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I'm moving over to doing most of my original posts about new dev on the root blog @shallow-thinking-games to make it easier for anyone that follows back or gets there via likes/comments to see my stuff.

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Got myself added to a couple of indie dev starter packs on Bluesky over the last week or so and got a lot of genuine-looking followers out of it. One for indie developers with followings under 1k, and one for AI-free devs. Only a few obvious ragebait grift/psyop bot accounts, but it's not like you're going to get away from those anywhere.

My account is @/shallowthinking if anyone else is over there too. I generally post more there, and you'll find the packs in my recent reposts.

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I'm moving over to doing most of my original posts about new dev on the root blog @shallow-thinking-games to make it easier for anyone that follows back or gets there via likes/comments to see my stuff.

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Some people said you can only make brown places with my new texture set. Those people were wrong.

(You can if you like though.)

Rivets n Rust Texture Pack by Shallow Thinking Games

Retro texture pack in the style of 90s/00s shooter games.

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Rivets n Rust is my new (old) retro style texture pack for constructing rugged bases, complexes and starship interiors in an early 2000s graphical style. Is it a bit Quakey? It might be more than a little. This is another authentic upcycled pack, originally created in 2002, but carefully retouched and expanded with new and reimagined textures for this release.

The Commercial version: 300+ files mostly either 256 pixels square or 256 pixels on the long edge. Core set of wall and floor styles in four different colour variations can be mixed and matched, plus a selection of colour combos. Additional textures for light panels with images for emissive/additive stages, buttons, pipes, doors, sludge/slime as well some dirt and rock. More stuff than would fit on the preview sheets! Images with transparent sections are included both as transparent PNGs and opaque textures with separate masks. Includes a commercial use license.

A demo file is also available containing a selection of 60+ image files from the main set. The demo pack is free for non-commercial use only.

Rivets n Rust Texture Pack

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Another upcycled texture release is imminent! Heavily inspired by the base maps of yore, Rivets n Rust releases tomorrow!

If you're enthusiastic about impatiently refreshing pages or reading this in a far future time: https://shallowthinking.itch.io

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I've dug through the archives once again and have been tidying up and expanding another set of authentic oldschool textures for release. This set includes at least two distinct shades of brown!

(Editor's note: It's not all brown.)

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My new game texture pack is now live for purchase! Downtown Dystopia has 100+ textures ideal for low-def exterior urban environments. Concrete, brick, cement, floors, doors, and more. May be used in commercial and non-commercial projects. No GenAI, human-edited from photo source.

Downtown Dystopia Texture Pack by Shallow Thinking Games

Retro style urban texture pack for building modern cityscapes.

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I can't really do an "it's payday, why not treat yourself!" post since it doesn't really work that way for many of us in indie dev but you can go and take a look at these whenever you like.

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My new game texture pack is now live for purchase! Downtown Dystopia has 100+ textures ideal for low-def exterior urban environments. Concrete, brick, cement, floors, doors, and more. May be used in commercial and non-commercial projects. No GenAI, human-edited from photo source.

Downtown Dystopia Texture Pack by Shallow Thinking Games

Retro style urban texture pack for building modern cityscapes.

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On Sundays we muck about with DOOM levels.

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My new game texture pack is now live for purchase! Downtown Dystopia has 100+ textures ideal for low-def exterior urban environments. Concrete, brick, cement, floors, doors, and more. May be used in commercial and non-commercial projects. No GenAI, human-edited from photo source.

Downtown Dystopia Texture Pack by Shallow Thinking Games

Retro style urban texture pack for building modern cityscapes.

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Tuesday will be textures day as I'll be putting these up on my Itch storefront! 100+ images for dressing your levels as horrid modern urban environments.

If you are an impatiently-pressing-F5 enthusiast: shallowthinking.itch.io (Don't play that game though, it's a trap!)

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The thing about promoting a texture pack is that you can't just post the textures from the texture pack because then people will already have the textures from the texture pack, and they won't need to buy the texture pack to get the textures.

Most perplexing.

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I've been working on another texture pack to get a few bob coming in while I continue to work on my game in the background, and also because editing textures from photo source is fun! When you make asset packs it's important to try them out so you spot anything that looks dodgy or find things you missed.

I knocked up a quick tunnel scene in half an hour and sussed out a few things that I can add to improve the utility of this set, even though it's only using a half dozen of the 100+ images in the pack.

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On Sundays we muck about with DOOM levels.

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OOOOPS guess who screwed up and put a Sunday post for this blog on their host blog that I wasn't planning to post on. Should have left that account with the ridiculous name it originally had...

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I've been editing textures from my photos and having to cut out some bits of graffiti, even though aesthetically I'm perfectly fine with it. If I don't people will think I'm making an extremely lazy joke; one of the local taggers goes by "GMan."