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Cameron Rooney

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NZ Game Developer πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ | Programmer, Gamer, Father | Portfolio: theusualcam.wixsite.com/cameron-rooney | All you need is a little Heart ❀️ | 7.8.20

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A doodle titled β€œyeah I love the writing process” and showing four different scenes. A figure hunched over a piece of paper, another hunched ferally over a laptop, a third making a β€œwerk queen” face at a keyboard, and a fourth dissociating in their chair.

A doodle titled β€œyeah I love the writing process” and showing four different scenes. A figure hunched over a piece of paper, another hunched ferally over a laptop, a third making a β€œwerk queen” face at a keyboard, and a fourth dissociating in their chair.

Back at it again in the mines

25.02.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 3114 πŸ” 1041 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 20
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Wow, time really flies when you're having fun in #Crocotile3D
How did it get from 7pm to midnight and I'm still in the mines?

#gamedev #IndieGame #IndieDev #PixelArt #Horror #spooky

20.12.2025 04:58 πŸ‘ 332 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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people often call me mentally insane for the way i make videogames but nothing will stop me now.
🎣🐟 FISH³ WILL GET A STANDALONE FREE VERSION THIS OCTOBER, CALLING IT OUR "FIRST CATCH".
#gamedev #indiegame

27.09.2025 21:28 πŸ‘ 99 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Triple A, here I come, baby! πŸ§πŸ’΅
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

22.09.2025 02:55 πŸ‘ 261 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 1
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I just learnt about the marketing funnel and something called β€œthe rule of 7”..I think I need an extra few years just for marketing!

Anyone else in the same boat?

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamemarketing

18.09.2025 22:06 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0
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it's time for us to tease... a new GAME??? πŸ‘€
check out this video straight from the snoozy mines ⛏️

(πŸ”Š audio ON! Jake cooked here!)
#godot #indiedev #gamedev

17.09.2025 20:41 πŸ‘ 444 πŸ” 81 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 2
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We’re better at making games than social media. Can you help us out and share this far and wide? πŸ™

Strange Antiquities is OUT NOW! πŸ›ŽοΈπŸ“šπŸˆ

#indiegame #indiedev #cozygames #cozy

17.09.2025 13:47 πŸ‘ 299 πŸ” 148 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 52
Mockup of a dark fantasy game UI. On the left, an isometric view shows a tiny hooded figure in a pointed hat standing near a hut with a glowing red bonfire. The scene is painted in icy blues, sandy yellows, and mossy greens, with cliff edges and a shoreline below. On the right, a portrait of a pale witch with large dark eyes, a hat tied with red string on their head, and large metal keys through their cheeks. Below the portrait, an interface bar shows strange symbols and inventory items: a worm shaped like the infinite, a drop of blood, and a potion bottle.

Mockup of a dark fantasy game UI. On the left, an isometric view shows a tiny hooded figure in a pointed hat standing near a hut with a glowing red bonfire. The scene is painted in icy blues, sandy yellows, and mossy greens, with cliff edges and a shoreline below. On the right, a portrait of a pale witch with large dark eyes, a hat tied with red string on their head, and large metal keys through their cheeks. Below the portrait, an interface bar shows strange symbols and inventory items: a worm shaped like the infinite, a drop of blood, and a potion bottle.

You awaken on a white shore, unsure what you’ve lost.

Dark rites brought me, @ratcasket.itch.io , and @puppiesandanime.bsky.social together.

Something stirs. More soon.

#indiedev #gamedev #conceptart

13.09.2025 23:47 πŸ‘ 536 πŸ” 113 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 0

my biggest learning in gamedev has been that 1 second is sooooo long

11.09.2025 17:02 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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recovering from being very depressed these last few weeks, so progress has been slow (also working on stuff I can't show yet)

So here's an art repost from ABYSS X ZERO, with a few adjustments on models + animations since last time!

Music by @ironfairy.bsky.social

#gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #axz

09.09.2025 20:58 πŸ‘ 1208 πŸ” 243 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 5
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Happy Spyro Community Day!
I don't do much with the little purple guy since I've started my own game but he still has a place in my heart!

#spyrocommunityday #spyro #gamedev #indiedev

09.09.2025 14:21 πŸ‘ 134 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I've just launched the Steam page for my new game Factory 95! It's a retro-Windows inspired automation game about making PowerPoints. You can wishlist it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3987250/...
#gamedev #indiegame

08.09.2025 11:03 πŸ‘ 307 πŸ” 87 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 6
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An old VR experiment from 6 years ago. I was fascinated by how some bugs could lay eggs in a hex grid without looking, so I tried it myself by sending haptic vibrations to my butt.
#gamedev #indiedev

06.09.2025 20:32 πŸ‘ 606 πŸ” 153 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 12
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Jagex CEO defends cancelling Runescape Pride events Speaking to GameIndustry.Biz, Jagex CEO Jon Bellamy said continuity and operation of the studio's games 'as apolitically as possible' is a top priority.

As a former Jagex employee, and a very proud queer person, this is deeply sad to see, extremely tone deaf and either grossly naΓ―ve or wilfully deceitful.

I know a good majority of the actual team working there fought against this & were ignored.

www.gamedeveloper.com/business/jag...

05.09.2025 13:07 πŸ‘ 111 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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Deathless
"Body is just a shell, sword will keep life forever."
#oc #art #illustration #conceptart #characterdesign #swordtember #Swordtember2025 #dnd #ttrpg #gamedev

04.09.2025 15:53 πŸ‘ 738 πŸ” 176 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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I can die in peace now as a game dev. πŸ™

Not only did I make something people are loving, but also something that is used to build family memories.

Forget sales figures, this is the real trophy for life. Top shelf. ❀️😭πŸ₯Ίβ€οΈ

#GameDev #TurnBased #IndieDev

03.09.2025 10:03 πŸ‘ 313 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1
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Character select vfx for Nitronauts. Frame by frame so you can tell what's happening. No transparency, no shader. Details in the description
#gamedev #indiedev.

01.09.2025 19:31 πŸ‘ 192 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0
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We've been quietly plugging away at #nightmareoperator, and we're intentionally holding some cards close to the chest.

Still, we want to show off some of the cool polishing we've been doing. Here's an example: smooth volumetric fog transitions.

#screenshotsaturday
#gamedev

01.09.2025 00:09 πŸ‘ 163 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

every time i ask some non-gamedev friends to playtest something, they always say something like "i hope i was useful, i feel like i was just playing the game..."

sweetie thats your job!!!! i need your normie eyes!!!! your normie gamer eyes!!!!

31.08.2025 11:27 πŸ‘ 580 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

I once spoke with a gamedev who had worked on a big AAA game you might've heard of.

Steam feedback on the game had some users shredding an update. They were saying the dev behind feature A was an idiot, meanwhile comparing it to feature B, clearly made by a genius dev.

They were ofc the same dev.

30.08.2025 08:00 πŸ‘ 117 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Finally, figured out how to bring this gem of an experience to a modern machine and you can run it while you work!

#madewithgodot #dvdlogo #gamedev #indiedev

29.08.2025 17:51 πŸ‘ 1008 πŸ” 142 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 12
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After 5 YEARS of work, it's happening - THE KNIGHTLING IS OUT NOW!!!πŸ˜­πŸŽ‰πŸ›‘οΈ We couldn't be prouder and can't wait for the world to jump, slide and adventure through this colorful new world we built!✨ #indiedev
πŸ–€Steam: sabr.gg/4dkjyZy
πŸ’™PlayStation 5: sabr.gg/4djxwL2
πŸ’šXbox Series X|S: sabr.gg/3WJndce

28.08.2025 13:00 πŸ‘ 330 πŸ” 125 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 22
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water and evil water
#pixelart #gamedev

27.08.2025 14:03 πŸ‘ 82 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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Wanna see how our game looks behind the scenes?

Here’s how we see a level of Shroom and Gloom in the Unity scene view while we’re developing the game.

#gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity #gamedevelopment

26.08.2025 08:33 πŸ‘ 271 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tonight's progress.
Still no working UI or mechanics... just over polishing the flare over function.

But I had to know the limits of Level Sequences so I can make future plans. So. I pushed it as far as I could for half a second of animation.

#CherubDev #GameDev #UE5

25.08.2025 07:51 πŸ‘ 167 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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You wanted bigger maps?

We got bigger maps πŸ˜ƒ

Huge update coming end of next week. Stay tuned!

#indiegamedev #gamedev #unreal #steam #boardgame #turnbased #tactics #strategy #game

24.08.2025 14:07 πŸ‘ 55 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Throwback to when this happened…The culprit has since been removed ❌🐸❌ #indiedev #devlog #gamedev

22.08.2025 22:18 πŸ‘ 728 πŸ” 75 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 1
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My PS1 game running on Sega Dreamcast. 🀯

This is not a port, this is a PS1 emulator for Dreamcast called "Bloom" written by Paul Cercueil.

#ps1 #segadreamcast #dreamcast #gamedev #indiedev

22.08.2025 00:39 πŸ‘ 225 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1
Tumblr post with the text 'Love is in the air? wrong. evil skull'. There's also a picture of an evil skull that's on fire. It's super sick. Way cooler than love.

Tumblr post with the text 'Love is in the air? wrong. evil skull'. There's also a picture of an evil skull that's on fire. It's super sick. Way cooler than love.

18.08.2025 20:58 πŸ‘ 1550 πŸ” 678 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 9
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> starts direct by asking why gamedev is so hard
> say your game is basically mario kart
> beat the allegations
> elaborate for 45 minutes
> $10 cheaper than mario kart world
> leaves

19.08.2025 14:15 πŸ‘ 2031 πŸ” 501 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 20