Close enough to #ScreenshotSaturday, been updating the HUD in #DinoCleanup, I’m curious what people think about it! I think it’s a little more obvious and less placeholder-y, but always open to criticism! #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart #gameui #cozygaming #wholesomegames #indiedev

Been busy applying for all kinds of game festivals. Does this trailer make you excited for my game? Anything I should change up? #WholesomeGames #gamedev #IndieGame #IndieDev #MadeWithUnity #CozyGaming

Made this cheeky video stating my stance on AI for my game. To be clear #DinoCleanup does not and will not use generative AI in any step of the development process. I love making art and making my spaghetti code by hand thank you very much 😤 #noai #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #wholesomegames

🚨FROGGONIT IS OUT NOW!🥳 Time to be a silly little frog🐸 Thank you for all the support!💚 🎁 Also, 10% Launch Discount! #indiegames

My #PlayDate game CranKnight is currently on sale for its lowest price yet, get it while it’s hot! If you like Vampire Survivors or roguelike games you’ll love CranKnight! play.date/games/crankn...

Been working on more changes to the overdrive mechanic to #DinoCleanup. Thought it would be cool to have a hover mechanic for these vertical jungle levels. Also new coat of paint for the 🦕 character! 🦖🚀 #gamedev #indiegame #madewithunity #wishlistwednesday #cozygaming #wholesomegames

Not sure if talky-style videos do well on #BlueSky, but wanted to share a little devlog about adding Bruce to my game #DinoCleanup. Shout out to @discoverfossils.bsky.social, the home of the real Bruce that inspired this character in my game! #mosasaurus #gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly

Really excited to show off my favourite mosasaur, Bruce! #DinoCleanup is mostly a #solodev project, but my wife helped out by making this awesome model. Things are still WIP but I love it already! What do you think? #WholesomeGames #gamedev #indiegames #IndieDev #lowpoly #MadeWithUnity

I never said it here, but I got laid off a month ago. This has given me a lot of time to pursue my dream of releasing #DinoCleanup! I thought I'd share the updated #Steam trailer with my recent changes. Thank you everyone for your support! #IndieGame #WishlistOnSteam #WholesomeGames #MadeWithUnity

I'm still ways away from a Steam Nextfest, so here's a WIP anim for the Life Tree in #DinoCleanup. If you fully clean a level you get a special item you can bring to the hub to restore the tree, which unlocks new areas! #WishlistWednesday #WholesomeGames #gamedev #indiegame #IndieDev #MadeWithUnity

Today I want to show off a key character for #DinoCleanup, The Professor! The Professor plays an important role in the story of the game, they give you the vacuum, research goop, and give you upgrades! #WholesomeGames #gamedev #indiegames #IndieDev #PixelArt #lowpoly #ドット絵 #MadeWithUnity #dinosaur

This is SO COOL!

For this #ScreenshotSaturday I wanted to show some mechanics I’m working on for #DinoCleanup! Each type of goop has unique properties, and as you clean it up you can overdrive the vacuum for cool new effects! #WholesomeGames #gamedev #indiegames #IndieDev #MadeWithUnity

Wow, I just got over 300 Bluesky followers, thank you so much! 🥺❤️🦖 I haven’t really done the social media thing before, so it was scary starting from scratch. I’m still learning how this all works, but I really appreciate everyone liking/commenting/sharing and wishlisting my little dino game!

WIP of a little animation for the hat store in #DinoCleanup. In each level you can find hidden golden dragonflies that you can then spend in the hub to get a random hat from Parry the parasaurolophus, gachapon-style! #WishlistWednesday #WholesomeGames #gamedev #indiegame #IndieDev #MadeWithUnity

Happy Valentine's Day! Hoping everyone is having a lovely day with their special someone, with good company, or spending some quality time with yourself! Wanted to spread a little love today with some cute dinosaurs. #indiegames #gamedev #indiedev #wholesomegames #pixelart

For this #WishlistWednesday let’s do a deep dive on our pterodactyl friend Pteri! Pteri drops you off at the start of each level, and picks you up at the end. He’ll save you if you fall off the stage, and there’s a button to call him if you get stuck! #WholesomeGames #gamedev #indiegames #IndieDev

I know water levels aren’t always peoples’ favourite, but I’m trying to find ways to make them fun in #DinoCleanup. I like that there’s hidden layers under the water to hide more goop hehehe #ScreenshotSaturday #WholesomeGames #gamedev #indiegames #IndieDev #PixelArt #lowpoly #ドット絵 #MadeWithUnity

Not much to share for #DinoCleanup on this #WishlistWednesday, but thought I'd show a closer look at our triceratops friend Cera. They tend to the big tree in the centre of the hub (more on that later). #WholesomeGames #gamedev #indiegame #IndieDev

For this #screenshotsaturday I thought I’d show off some changes to the first level of Dino Cleanup. There’s more tweaks I want to do, but I think it’s really starting to come together! #WholesomeGames #gamedev #IndieGame #IndieDev #MadeWithUnity

Surfs up! 🧼🦖 Manifesting warmer weather during this crazy polar vortex 🥶 I thought it'd be cute if the little dinosaurs you save got floaties when you were on the water. 🛟 What do you think? #gamedev #IndieGame #IndieDev #lowpoly #PixelArt #MadeWithUnity

Dino Cleanup just hit over 400 wishlists on Steam, a big part thanks to the amazing people on Bluesky! This is a game I've wanted to make for a long time, and is a mostly #solodev project I work on in all my spare hours. Your early support gives me the strength to continue on, thank you so much! 🦖❤️🥺

I just updated the Steam trailer for Dino Cleanup with some of the recent changes I’ve been making, thought I’d share it here too! 🦖🧼 #IndieGame #lowpoly #PixelArt #ドット絵 #Steam #WishlistOnSteam #WholesomeGames #MadeWithUnity

Here’s another level I’m working on. I really wanted to make a level centred around a giant dinosaur, so I came up with the idea of scaling giant trees to clean the back of a giant sauropod 🦕 How’s it look so far? #gamedev #IndeGame #IndieDev #lowpoly #PixelArt #MadeWithUnity

Started working on a cave level for my game! 🍄 Just focusing on the look of things right now before I expand on mechanics. I'm pretty happy with how it's looking so far, what do you think? #gamedev #IndeGame #IndieDev #lowpoly #PixelArt #MadeWithUnity

Testing out adding a little train of the dino friends you save in Dino Cleanup. Been reworking the hub level so I thought this would be a fun touch while you’re running between levels! #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart #lowpoly #dinosaurs

Happy #screenshotsaturday! Here's some WIP of the overdrive upgrade, which super powers the vacuum for a limited time. Thought it would be fun if it let you blast through obstacles you otherwise couldn't traverse. What do you think? 🌪️ 🦖 #indiegame #indiegamedev #gamedev #madewithunity

Took a little web dev detour for Dino Cleanup and ended up making a little interactive website for it, let me know what you think! Back to working on the game now, I’ve got big changes in the works! #WishlistWednesday #indiegame #indiegamedev #gamedev #webdev dinosire.com/dinocleanup/

Spent the holidays looking through websites on @neocities.org and I looove the old school art pieces people are making. I had so much fun I ended up making a page myself, check it out below! 🦖 🔗 ⬇️ dinosire.com

The time has come to nominate your favorite games from the past year for the 2025 @play.date Community Awards! Nominations start now and close on the 22nd of December, so get to it! The form can be found here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Join our community Discord here: discord.gg/zFKagQ2

Please consider voting for CranKnight in the 2025 #playdate community awards! I had so much fun making CranKnight and iterating on the awesome feedback from everyone, I hope you had just as much fun playing! If so, you can vote here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #indiegame #solodev #roguelike

Currently visiting Japan and I’m loving this little dino logo in the National Museum of Nature and Science, lookit his lil arm! 🦖 🇯🇵

Made a little video giving an overview of Dino Cleanup, what do you think? #indiegame #wholesomegames

Here’s some of the friends you’ll make in my wholesome dinosaur game. What do you think? Any other dinosaurs I should add? Going for a late-Cretaceous ish vibe. #indiegame #dinosaurs #wholesomegames #n64 #papermario #psx #pixelart #ドット絵　#friends #madewithunity #lowpoly

Messing around with adding a little hat store. The idea is to exchange secret golden dragonflies in each level for a random hat, gachapon style (but no duplicates). I need to add many hats still, and animations haha #indiegame #wholesomegames #hats #pixelart #dinosaurs #unity #collectible #gachapon

🚨The Catalog Fall Sale wraps up tomorrow morning at 10AM PT!! Snag some classics + fan-favorites at a great discount before it's too late ⚡ play.date/games 👾

Everything’s better with hats! Made this lil witchy hat for my game 🧙‍♀️ The idea is to make these unlockable after getting enough secret collectables hidden in each level. What hat should I add next? #indiegame #dinosaur #witch #halloween #spookyseason #hats #nomicrotransactions #unity3d #pixelart

🎃 👻 CranKnight is on sale for two weeks starting today! Get it for 20% off! 🔥 💀 #playdate #playdateconsole #solodev #indiegame #fallsale

🍂 🎃 CranKnight is part of this sale! You can get it for 20% off RIGHT 👏 NOW 👏

Here’s a new concept level for Dino Cleanup I’ve been cooking up during the Halloween season. It was a ton of fun arranging all the awesome new 3D assets my wife cooked up. What do you think?🎃🪦🦖 #indiegame #gamedev #halloween #spookyseason #madewithunity #platformer #pixelart #dinosaur #graveyard

Here’s a sneak peak at a spooky new level I’m adding to Dino Cleanup, I’ll post a longer vid soon! 🎃 🪦 🦖 #indiegame #halloween #spookyseason #dinosaur #madewithunity

Thought it’d be fun to try playing my game Dino Cleanup on a CRT since I’m going for a retro aesthetic. It’s kinda hard to capture the magic of the CRT but I hope some of it comes through in this video! 🦖 🧼 📺 #retrogaming #indiegame #screenshotsaturday #y2k

Just published a trailer for CranKnight showing off all the features! Let me know what you think, and I’d super appreciate a like/share! 🙏 ⚔️ ❤️ youtu.be/iXTKtK056aY?... #indiegame #playdate #gametrailer #roguelike #roguelite #vampiresurvivors

I’m finally getting back to working on my favourite little dinosaur game, Dino Cleanup! My wonderful wife made tons of level assets so I’ve started reworking all the levels. What do you think? #madewithunity #indiegame #dinosaur #gamedev #lowpoly #pixelart #platformer #collectathon

For one week only, CranKnight is on #sale for $4 on the #playdate Catalog! Buy now while it’s hot! 🔥 ⚔️ 🔥 play.date/games/crankn... #indiegame #solodev

Had a lot of fun making another concept scene in #aseprite. This time I tried to make something in a medieval faery story style. What do you think? #pixelart #gameconcept #conceptart #indiegame #solodev #fantasy #faery #fairytale

BIG updates to the catalog version of CranKnight are live! 💀🐌 A new “Challenge” mode has been added to the game, with scoreboards! Test your mettle and see if you are the best CranKnight across the land! Whatever you do, don’t touch the snail. #playdate #indiegame #solodev #1-bit

Did a little art exercise/concept in the #gameboycolor style in #godotengine today, had a lot of fun. Gotta get used to using colours again after doing so much black and white art lately lol (P.s. if you can’t tell, Gojira is my favourite band) #pixelart #indiegame #ドット絵 #gojira

I’m working on another big update that adds a “challenge” mode to the catalog version of CranKnight with official Scoreboards! In this mode enemies score you points, and you can layer additional challenges to score even higher! #playdate #indiegame #roguelike #challenge #cranknight #solodev

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