Touching grass for a bit of a break 😊 I kind of want to hide tiny frogs in my games now, as a little developer signature lol

Me to my game devs: You need to rest. You need to have downtime and work-life balance. You need to set boundaries for yourself and be a human outside work. My brain: Not you, though. Me: Oh, God, of course not me. Haha. Can you imagine?

Just realized I haven't posted in a minute... I'm still alive! Just got a new work schedule and have been working most spare moments on Tales of Amythria when I can to avoid burn out ☺️ Fingers crossed for a very exciting announcement in a couple months though! ° ° ° ° #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

Working on some background panels today ☺️😌 Also, how are people getting such smooth videos with this angle??? #gamedev #solodev #digitalart #lineart #visualnovel

I've officially written 3/4 of the branching paths for the final demo chapter! .......On 1/6 of the characters...... I've written so much my software struggles to load it all at once 😅 and there's still so much left to write ° ° ° ° #gamedev #gamewriting #visualnovel #indiegames

Finally have something to show off for #screenshotsaturday! Working on a new character's sprites! She's actually the first person I designed for this game, and it's so wonderful to start to see her come to life! Also some new UI layouts, still tinkering with designs. #gamedev #indiedev

You could say I've been spending a bit of time on UI assets.... This is only one of my files, I have 2-3 others for different sized assets used as needed #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #VisualNovel

Me nudging my UI slightly to the left My game: "so you have chosen.... Death"

Thought my coffee mug was fitting for working on some mountains today! ° ° ° ° #gamedev #indiedev #visualnovel #fantasymaps #digitalart #solodev

I'm finally home after a month away house-sitting! Very happy to be back to my space, gonna take a couple days of R&R before fully getting back into the swing of things for the game!

💫 2 STRETCH GOALS ACHIEVED 💫 Can you believe it? We’ve just gone past the first 48 hours of the All Will Rise #Kickstarter, and we’ve already unlocked the first two stretch goals! On to the next one: The River Goddess! Link here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe... #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev

I know I could get brushes to do this faster, but I just LOVE the feeling and look of doing these forests by hand 😅 Working on an interactive fantasy map! Thought it would show off locations and give background world lore better than exposition dialogue. #gamedev #digitalart #indiedev #solodev

February is cursed I swear to God 😭😭 (Minus my bfs birthday we love that for him)

Cat tax of the criminal

So I'm house sitting, and brought my laptop and stuff to work when I had time, right? Turns out one of the cats I'm watching here as well REALLY likes to sit exactly on the laptop when in use. Fully ignores it otherwise. We'll see what I get done this week 🤣 #gamedev #solodev

Sketch vs Final! Finally getting around to making the full screen illustrations of the intro scenes for the game, I wanted them to feel loose and like you're peaking into a memory. #ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #Indiedev #solodev #DigitalPainting #DigitalArt #art #sketch #visualnovels #vns

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