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I haven't had work in months.
I'm a good art director, expert pixel artist, and although I prefer to do art, I can also make entire games from start to finish if necessary, as pictured. Not the greatest coder, but I get the job done (like Chapell Roan I guess).

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What's some of your favorite Steam capsule and header art?? Looking for some inspiration for Magefight: Arena!

#indiedev #gamedev

So now I have some permanent metaprogress upgrades.

Its got a little roguelite element to the shmup waves now, but you also get powerups during gameplay like a standard shmup.

I'm definitely leaning far more casual than hardcore here.

#pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #shmup

your moment of calm: sea potatoes! potatoes of the sea!

Strike a note!

#indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev

Oh yeah the map Icons do floaty stuff now!
#gamedev #pixelart

tight closeup of an american crow, with snowflake bokeh scattered in the photo

an american crow dancing around with snowflake bokeh scattered in the photo

an american crow, with snowflake bokeh scattered in the photo walking forward determinedly

snow crow photos! enjoyed how the snowflakes rendered in these shots
❄️📸🪶

a week with a lot of pre-emptions, still quite happy with where this pass left things

Pavel Elagin, Lighting Demo Reel This is "Pavel Elagin, Lighting Demo Reel" by paberu on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Towerborne is out! I spent the last 4 years on this project. I feel very fortunate to have been part of such an amazing Env Team, we made some really cool stuff! Unfortunately most of us are now also looking for work =/

Anyway, I want to share my first ever Lighting Demo Reel!
vimeo.com/1154964572

Ship Spotlight #3 - Cipher

Cipher is a hacker. It starts with the System Override ability that hacks enemies to fight on your side. A boost to Luck upgrades increases the odds of a successful override!

#gamedev #IndieGame #IndieDev #godot #BulletHell #Roguelite

Illustration of peacock fountain, from a 14th-c edition of Al-Jazari’s Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices

アイヌ語では「ウパシチリ（雪の鳥）」というそうです。

The long-tailed tit is called "upascir" in the Ainu language.

#BirdArt
#けつ曜日

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

I've been building a guitar app. 4 modifier buttons combine into 16 chord types - basic chords, the Hendrix chord, jazz voicings. Here's me stumbling through Van Halen's 'Can't Stop Loving You' on mouse & keyboard. Way easier on touch :D
Follow for updates - this is just the start 👀 #OneTouchGuitar

Working on the victory and Game over screens!
#gamedev #pixelart

I swear it seems like there are two gaming industry stories these days:

1. Development team work under harsh crunch conditions to make a game, it underperforms, they’re all fired.

2. Development team work under harsh crunch conditions to make a game, it’s a big success, they’re all fired,

Good words to know, @ellen-friedman.bsky.social. "Gloaming" is too seldom used. "Yclept" is good. "Apricity" is just wonderful.

The new artwork is a great excuse to share this again. 🐻

Mike and Rami Are Still Here Mike and Rami Are Still Here

The latest Mike & Rami episode is poppin way harder than any episode previously, and I have no idea why. Podcasts are so much harder to understand than video game sales

Was it the stupid cold open I did? Was it the prop? Was it posted somewhere? I have no idea, but cool I guess?

mikeandrami.com

The Entire Tech Industry is Screwed YouTube video by Charalanahzard

Another brilliant video from the amazing @charalanahzard.bsky.social on why these AI losers are going to ruin us all...
youtu.be/ifyaI4TOsDM?...

Thanks! Means a lot. It's just great to hear talk of these nuanced design decisions that you never hear or read about.

An ad for McDonald's "Sportsball" Happy Meal, with a picture of 3 little kids joyously playing with colorful soccer balls, basketballs, and baseballs in a white room

In 1990, McDonald's ran a Happy Meal promotion that was apparently created by a smug, insufferable, time-traveling Bluesky poster from 2025!

The power of the fire rod at max strength is unmatched!!
#gamedev #pixelart

I kept seeing something in japanese shmups: bullets are equidistant. So moving up doesn't create clumps of bullets, and moving down doesn't make the bullet stream seem more sparse.

So I mocked it up. Feels very right. It's not for anything, just a proof of concept.
#indiedev

This is so cool and thanks for talking about it. I noticed the same thing and my solution was to parent the bullets to the ship, but you get a side effect of having them...well, travel with the ship, haha. I'm going to look into this. Here's the parenting off/on in my prototype:

List of oft repeated sayings that are actually absolute dogshit:
1. The customer is always right
2. You got time to lean, you got time to clean
3. Everything happens for a reason
4. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

>Wastes 20 minutes drawing a unique bullet for an effect people are going to see for a fraction of a second
>Decides to just recolour the same orb around it's elemental scheme

I need to cut corners more often lol!

columbo but mole

Molumbo