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Solodev currently making the rhythm-roguelike game Cantale

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Working on something small this week, just comparing some different animations for hitting a note. Still need some more practice with unity's particle system.

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiediv

31.01.2026 16:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hidden amongst the bushes, Gus the rat can be found offering the player a wide variety of powerful items.

(Just don't let his perceptive eyes fool you)

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

17.01.2026 15:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Working this weekend on overhauling the custom music in my game

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

15.11.2025 17:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I have nothing else to show this week so please accept one pixel art drawing of corgo from my game Cantale.

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #art

08.11.2025 18:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Working on the main menu and the character select screen in my rhythm-roguelike game Cantale.

Now like all good roguelike games, you can set your seed for different runs!

#gamedev #solodev #roguelike

02.11.2025 14:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Just showing off a little animation for opening and closing the minimap in my game

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

18.10.2025 17:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Probably 90% of my artistic ability lies in copy paste and Kritas default brushes, but at least I can make this wood background texture in a few minutes.

#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

04.10.2025 14:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 17 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Happy #screenshotsaturday! Here is a WIP of my new title screen, still want to add a little bit of animation and tweak some colors. Stay tuned to find out what lurks on the island in my game Cantale ^_^

#gamedev #indiedev

27.09.2025 12:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 14 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Added custom note colors last night! Now the player can pick one color and the game will automatically assign four contrasting tetradic colors for the notes and buttons. Sorry to anyone who really wants a rhythm game with only four bright pink buttons.

#gamedev #screenshotsaturday #indiedev

20.09.2025 13:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 19 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This was also the only time I have ever used recursion and had an actual reason to do so, look at me using my fancy computer science degree

14.09.2025 16:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Took me playing some other rhythm games to realize I somehow never even thought to give the player a grade for each battle they complete. So we have that now!

#gamedev #roguelike #indiedev

14.09.2025 16:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you so much to everyone who helped me reach 100 followers! You guys all help me get a little bit closer to my dream of working on games full time, and I am excited to get to know more of you awesome folks in the bluesky gamedev space <3

09.09.2025 23:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Work in progress of the minimap button and so far so good (Pray for me its the first time I have had to deal with render textures or color formats)

#gamedev #indiedev

08.09.2025 23:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This probably applies to a very niche community, but to anyone making rhythm games/anything very time based in unity DEFINITELY try to use dspTime instead of deltaTime. Makes it so much easier to then scale objects by the bpm of your song/beatmap.

#gamedev #solodev

01.09.2025 14:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 21 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Take a look at the inventory screen for my main character Jessie!

#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

30.08.2025 18:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A very minor change but adding feedback when the player is holding a note helps a lot

#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

02.08.2025 14:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wish I got to add more this week but at least we now have a nifty little bar at the bottom of the screen that shows your song progress.

#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

05.07.2025 21:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 20 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Update: the poison now poisons on hit

#gamedev #screenshotsaturday #indiedev

28.06.2025 17:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Added tooltips for items yesterday. Now if I can just get this to work with 999 of an item, I will call it good.

#gamedev #indiedev

25.06.2025 16:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is my kind of idea and Im glad that we share the same vision.

21.06.2025 17:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Finally adding customizable keybinds to my game which I should have learned how to do a while ago.

I feel like not many rhythm games let you do it, but now everyone gets to make their own control scheme, no matter how terrible it is.

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

21.06.2025 17:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 19 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No #gamedev updates today since im graduating from university tomorrow.

Wishing everyone the best of luck in their awesome looking games!

10.05.2025 15:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A friendly reminder to those showcasing your game to write the CORRECT controls for the player. Not making that mistake again (hopefully)

#gamedev #solodev #screenshotsaturday

03.05.2025 21:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Been doing a lot this week adding controller support, updated map generation, and animations. Yet all i really have to show off is this battle start sign...

#gamedev #screenshotsaturday #solodev #roguelike

26.04.2025 17:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks man! ๐Ÿ™

22.04.2025 18:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Im a solodev and would love to be added if there is still any space available! Sending good thoughts your way for making the starter pack <3

21.04.2025 18:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Being able to work on my game for school assignments is wonderful but having to actually justify my old janky map generation in 5 page paper format is hurting my soul.

#gamedev #solodev

19.04.2025 16:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I can only imagine how bad a complex animation graph would be. As if my own code wasn't enough of an eyesore beforehand.

16.04.2025 17:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I'm not sure how similar the process is in other game engines besides Unity, but are there people that actually enjoy trying to debug state machines?

Theres a reason I stay as far away from them as I can...

#gamedev #unity

16.04.2025 16:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This #screenshotsaturday I wanted to share a couple of the other map locations that the player can find in my game Cantale.

#gamedev #solodev #roguelike

12.04.2025 16:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0