Appreciating the intentional slow pace of line art, or going insane drawing dozens of tiny bells in a background piece? Up to interpretation at this point! I'll be taking a long weekend to host a dear friend, be safe stay warm peeps ☺️ #gamedev #digitalart #lineart #solodev #handdrawn

Spent the morning with a coffee, my little fireplace going, updating my design document with the world building and lore stuff I added in as I went through development, and that was such a peaceful start to my morning I couldn't ask for better 😭 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

Wrote 2,000 words yesterday and I'm already at the old word count of my draft I had to delete most of, but I've just gotten to the point where that word count is REALLY gonna explode. Time to have a relaxing weekend before all that! #gamedev #indiedev #writing

How I feel after adding over 600 lines of dialogue to the game #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #visualnovel #vn

Introduce yourself with 4 indie games! This was unreasonably difficult for me to pick...

I updated my Hack-n-Plan for the pre-Alpha phase of Tales of Amythria, and remembered to get my musician access, and he saw my task backlog for the first time As soon as he did, he immediately texted me, "Bro are you ok???" Safe to say I have a lot to do... #gamedev #indiedev

Working more on the tarot cards for the character select screen! Finished "The Warrior" and started work on "The Jester" :D GAH they're just so pretty already I love it!! Still gotta work on the frames lol #gamedev #gameart #digitalart #solodev #visualnovel #indiedev

Working on some rough foundation sketches for background illustrations, and it's my goal to include as many tiny random stories in the background as often as I can 😆 And thus, a dragon throwing a tantrum about leaving town! #gamedev #visualnovels #digitalart #sketching

My 2026 goals feel pretty minimal, but after the chaos 2025 decided to be I think I'm ok with that lol We got: - finish all the books in my TBR pile (only 9 books) - get a steam page and private play test launched for Tales of Amythria - learn marketing?? Yeah that's about it

So I had about 2 solid hours for dev time, figured it would be adding more dialogue. Something nice and easy! Instead, it was 2 hours of bug fixing trying to add a single new QoL feature... Sometimes game dev be like that! #gamedev #indiedev #programming #solodev

Wishing you all wonderful holidays and remember: you are all strong, thoughtful and generally amazing human beings so don't let anyone tell you otherwise❤️ If someone does, sent them over to me Side note: my cookies are decorated with 3% skill and 97% hope.

I hope everyone has a wonderfully festive holiday! Slow down, relax, and enjoy some time with good food and good people, however that looks for you I'm very grateful to everyone on this little BlueSky family this holiday season 😊 #indiedev #gamedev #happyholidays

My days accomplishments! - Wrote approx. 1.5k words of my massive chapter rewrite!! - Played like 6 hours of Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon I got on the steam winter sale... Work hard play hard I guess? #gamedev #TaintedGrail #IMayHavePlayedTooMuchButHolyShitItsFun

Tomorrow begins a busy weekend of holiday prep, but tonight I've got a loooooootta dialogue to implement... On the bright side, this means I get to make myself a delightful eggnog latte! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #needcoffee #visualnovels

Winter Solstice is coming to the burrow! Our free holiday update is now LIVE! 🎁 What’s New? 📖 New story & quests 🎄 Lights & decorations 🧣 Holiday clothing 🥧 Festive cooking recipes 🪑 22 new furniture items 🗺️ Map feature (due to popular demand 🤗)

Our mini festive update has just dropped! 🎁 Seasonal loot chests ✨ New items for your cottage 🧙‍♀️ Witchy winter outfit 🍪 7 new recipes 🌲 Grow your own trees ✅ Steam Deck verified & bug fixes! Thank you for playing REKA 🫶 #indiegame #cozygame

Thought I'd show off how my entire game ticks! I've built the entire visual novel to run off a data table, each asset selected and added for every line of dialogue. It's definitely not the most efficient system, but it works well for my needs! #gamedev #indiedev #Visualnovels #Indiegames

Some background and story panels for Tales of Amythria getting worked on! Super excited to get on with rendering the sketch on the left. #ScreenshotSaturday #Gamedev #Indiedev #Indiegames #Visualnovels #Digitalart

I just had to painfully delete about 5,000 words off my last chapter for the demo, because I realized none of it worked for the plot anymore and I gotta redo all of it The re-work is easily going to be over double the lost word count too.... #gamedev #gamewriting #indiegames #visualnovels

Can you help a girl out and press all the buttons, I really want to make this game dev career work :( #cozygame

Finally #ScreenshotSaturday! Been working a lot on UI layouts and starting some simple fade animations, giving the character selected a card deck feel, and adding a Dyslexic friendly font! Any other ideas for accessibility I should add? #gamedev #indiedev #visualnovels #indiegames

I was actually dreading Thanksgiving because I always get asked by my very "practical job"-having family about my game, but when I talked about it having a demo release date they were all genuinely ecstatic!! And honestly that excitement feels so motivating for me 😭 #gamedev #indiedev

Building up that texturrreeee Background illustration in the works currently! #gamedev #indiedev #gameart #digitalart #solodev

I'm back from my break and super ready to take on development again! Definitely feel so much better after taking a week (a tiny bit over that cause work got crazy), another reminder to my devs to take the time if you need it. Your game will be there when you return 😊 #gamedev #burnout #indiedev

Been a while since I posted screenshots of the game! Releasing in 11 days! Here is a small bit of Santa's workshop. The levels are MASSIVE! Wishlist - and be on Santa's Nice list! :🎅 store.steampowered.com/app/3030650/... #art #3D #digitalart #steam #wholesome #cozy #Christmas #Xmas #November

As a small update to this, I'll be taking the rest of the week off any hard development to rest and be back on my A-game!

So.... Turns out burn out is real y'all! Remember to take rests and actually stick to a schedule that allows that for you. Don't be like me lol #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #creatives

Kickstarter pre-launch page is now LIVE!! 💖🌟 www.kickstarter.com/projects/cup... Please follow us on Kickstarter and wishlist Dream Hollow to help us make this game a reality🙏 #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

Ahhhh the wonderful time of year where I, as a creative person with limited time, figure out how to get 10+ crafts done for holiday gifts, AND work on my game to meet deadlines. If anyone's got a spare time turner that'd be great! #art #crafts #gamedev #holidayprep

I've done so much art and writing that I'm now excited for my day I spend in engine working on code, when the last few months I've dreaded working in engine. Game dev really is just a wild pendulum huh #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

Figured since ChatGPT is trending, I would say that my works and projects are NEVER made with any form of generative AI at any point. Not the conceptual phases, not the writing or editing phases, coding, nowhere. I was put on this earth to create, and I refuse to ever lease that out to a robot.

I had my first chapter reviewed by several author friends of mine, and it came to glowing reviews!! Especially happy it was compared to Stardew Valley and Legends and Lattes in quality and comfort/fun 🥳😄 Excuse me while I ride this high for the next few days! #gamedev #visualnovel #indiedev

Have a tarot card design for #ScreenshotSaturday, as a treat #gamedev #indiedev #visualnovel

In my happy place! Game art, apple cider and spooky horror game streams 😄😄 Hope everyone having a great Tuesday! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #visualnovel

When I write for Tales of Amythria, I never realize how much it feels like processing some of my own stuff through characters Unfortunately this leads to my crying at my own descriptions of grief and loss 😭 #gamedev #gamewriting #indiedev #visualnovels

Super excited to try this out next month!! #indiegames #visualnovels

Who wants to join my support group for all those victimized by anti-aliasing on transparent pngs For no reason, definitely didn't spent a half hour troubleshooting a solution on this today... #gamedev #indiedev

Back from camping and ready to continue development!! Lots of edits to the script, art assets and implementation to gear up towards the demo release. While making time for fun fall-time activities hehehe I'm also planning longer dev log posts on Tumblr! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #visualnovels

Going MIA for a spot of camping for the next few days 🌲😊🍁 Talk to y'all very soon!

I finally got my dialogue system to be a lot more flexible and allow for much easier implementation of branching choice paths! Only took like 8ish hours to figure out I just needed to tweak one line of code, after trying a ton of more complicated solutions 😭 #gamedev #indiedev #programming

Future me is gonna LOVE that sleep deprived me is about to do a bunch of narrative editing and writing I just know she is so stoked about this #gamedev #indiedev #gamewriting

The Life Blood Demo is up!! I cannot wait to see what you all think! If anyone is looking for some games to stream tonight or through the week, go check out Life Blood! We will share them round 🩸 store.steampowered.com/app/2629670/... #indiedev #indiegame #twitch #gamers #streamers #soulslikes

What's everyone picking up on this beautiful Steam Autumn Sale?? I grabbed a copy of Year Walk and Along the Edge! Some good spooky, supernatural games for spooky month 🎃👻 #Steam #AutumnSale #Indiegames

Today, I made a solid asset list and schedule of release for the demo (to be announced!) and spent a few hours experimenting with some art style shenanigans that proved unnecessary in the end lol Bit of a mixed bag all together #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #visualnovel

I braved through my cold-medicine induced brain fog to sketch some ideas for the intro of my game demo! To reward this monsterous effort, I will now be comatose in bed 😂 #gamedev #indiedev

Right when I get a consistent schedule again I get sick whyyy So many ideas, so much time, too much cold medicine to make it work

I think this will be my last week of everything being crazy and chaotic (at least on a personal level)??? Which just means Tales of Amythria will finally be back on a regular dev schedule! I'm so excited to have time and energy again •́⁠ ⁠ ⁠‿⁠ ⁠,⁠•̀ #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

I present for your Caturday pleasure, my two dumbasses

How's everyone's week going? I hope you're taking care of yourself even if things feel hard or exhausting😊 it's been so busy this week with the GDoC expo and my normal schedule that game dev has taken a back seat, but that's ok since I'm learning and resting which is progress! #gamedev #indiedev

I'm so freaking excited for this game, I loved the demo and Strange Horticulture!!