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24.02.2026 08:24
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Glad to know you're out now!
Quick quality-of-life update for Pocket Kitten now available!
mellowminx.itch.io/pocket-kitten
If you're tired of collecting coins dropped by fish, you can place a chest to automatically collect them for you.
The treasure chest has been really fun to draw and code into the game, and I'm looking forward to creating some cosmetic skins for it too!
Fish poop coins in my game (sound on)
TrueRef art contest. Start date, January 5th. $500 cash prize. End date, March 5th. The theme is the phrase "aggressively pro artist."
New art contest! 🔥
TrueRef is hosting an art contest to design our first t-shirt. It felt more fun than a normal contest, so here we are!
✨ Prizes: $500 // 1 Year TrueRef+ // Free Shirt
✨ Ends: March 5th
✨ No weird thing that says we own all submitted designs.
Info: trueref.io/pages/truere...
Still so excited for everyone who showed up to this yesterday! It was stunning to see a sea of creatives overwhelm that tiny hearing. We had an overflow room of artists and the line for 30 second public commentary literally had to be cut off!
You made a huge difference
yesterday.
Thank you!
Feel free to suggest cute pet fish names if you want to add to my pool of randomly-generated names! <3
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- The names are also part of the breeding mechanics... So for example, a fish named Pineapple can have a child named Banana... or the child can be named Pineapple Jr.... and the grandchild could end up as Pineapple the Third. (Suffixes added automatically up to the 10th!)
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- In-game screenshot function so you can photograph your fishbowl or save the family tree view
- You can name your fish or let it have a randomly-generated name. The generated names are randomly picked from a pool of names which I have grouped by themes like fruits, etc
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Totally unnecessary features I spent the last several days adding to my desktop pet fish game itsy bitsy fishy:
- In-game generated family tree view so you can see your fish's parents and grandparents
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It's so cute!!
Helidiver chopper I made for Choppa: Rescue Rivals! (wishlist it on steam so you can go diving🙂link in bio)
#lowpoly #pixelart
Working on a fishtank option for my desktop pet fish game itsy bitsy fishy <3
The fishtank looks so simple but it took me so many tries over a couple days to get it to look just right and match the style of the fishbowl too!
#cozygame #virtualpet #godot
At first, I thought I could just rotate the hue of HSL colors and call it a day. Since then, I've learned about perceptual color spaces, OKLCH, Bezold-Brücke effect and I still can't always get good programmatic palettes 😅
But I built Color Palette Pro to help get us halfway there: colorpalette.pro
A peek at my spaghetti code! The baby fish randomly inherits traits from its parents, with a chance to inherit recessive genes. It will also become a carrier of its parents' recessive genes. There's also a chance to mutate and get a random color. #godot
3) A few of the children of the two orange fish inherit the black color.
2) Select two orange fish from among their children. They still carry the gene for the black color and can pass it on to their children.
Virtual genetics demo!
1) Start with a black fish and an orange fish. Their children will mostly look like them, but mutations (random other colors) can also happen.
mellowminx.com
#cozygame #virtualpet #womeningames #SEAgamedev #gamesfromSEA #godot #gameart #indiegame
So excited to develop breeding mechanics for my desktop pet fish game "itsy bitsy fishy"!! Baby fish will usually look like their parents but have a chance to randomly get other colors <3 I love breeding in pet games so it's always been a dream to have it in my own games too. mellowminx.com
screenshot of an image galleries filter options.
I am very proud of my filters for our new, much improved, free art reference gallery for trueref.io. Coming soon!
Japanese people being silly.
Oh my
Although the vast majority of contributors are busily working on Godot 4, a small problematic group refuse to stop improving Godot 3
They've been working hard on the newest (oldest?) feature branch: #GodotEngine 3.7. Read all about it in our latest blog post:
godotengine.org/article/dev-...
Feed fish to make them grow bigger... or smaller... or change appearance entirely! Coming soon to mellowminx.itch.io/itsy-bitsy-f... <3
Working on goldfish varieties in my itsy bitsy fishy desktop pet game... coding randomized type/pattern/colors! <3 mellowminx.itch.io/itsy-bitsy-f...
Hey guys
Just saw this cute tutorial series by @mellow-minx.bsky.social
on making a desktop pet fish game.
Do check it out, she's a really talented person, and I love playing her games (so check those out too)
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
This is so kind of you, thank you so much!!
Finally finished my cozy gamedev tutorial for beginners! As an amateur coder... if I can cobble together a small simple game that works, then so can you. 😌 Here's the full tutorial playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Running a Remote Studio When Everything's On Fire
📢SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT
@prettysmart.bsky.social - Creative Director, Miko Charbonneau
Running a Remote Studio When Everything's On Fire
Tune into this talk for an honest and uplifting discussion of how you can make it on your own despite the many challenges.
#gamedev
Coming soon: an itsy bitsy fishy that lives on your desktop! It doesn't do anything aside from eat and look cute. 🐠🫧 Want to try it already? (Windows/Mac/Linux demo) DM me.
P.S. I'm also working on a youtube tutorial to make this game on Godot!
#gamedev #indiegame #virtualpet #desktoppet #cozygame
Psst! Huy! You! Hey you!! Do you wanna be a part of the Southeast Asia Games Onward 2025?!
Sign up while there's still time!!
Content Creators: tinyurl.com/SEAGO2025Con...
Come be a part of #SEAGO2025 !!
