Today was just tightening up some menu and HUD elements. Started the Steam process for Moonbeam Mayhem! Want to get a basic little landing page up. Then playtest on Itch and see if I can get some feedback. No new game stuff, so here's a skeleton we drew for promo! #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

Was thinking about Moonbeam Mayhem as a possible title for this small shmup spin-off of Witchling Grove? #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #wip

eemster bnuuy 🐰🌈✨ #pixelart

Alexus 2040 is a 'hard retro' space shooter for mobile. - Randomised progression - Original power-ups to stack - Bosses - Paint your own spaceships App Store: apple.co/4fLrHHw Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/d... #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #indiegamedev #AppStore #arcade #pixelart

I'm finally pretty happy with the lighting effect. I've got nice dithery-pixel chunky light cookies. Next I can play with the ambient light to really drive home things like your lantern flash. Starting to look like a real game! #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #shmup #screenshotsaturday

Still kinda just messing around with light, stars, and clouds. Needs work of course, some bugs. I think I might move to dithery light cookies instead of the hard edges on lights. Its a little bit magical though. #shmup #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #wip

Briefly messed around with a lighting concept. I didn't like it until the stars got a full-bright treatment. Probably too noisy for this project but its kind of neat. #pixelart #shmup #indiedev #gamedev.

Some juice work today. A jitter on hit enemies, some screenstop when you get hit, and screenshake when defeating large enemies. Looking at the gameplay the lantern crash is still slightly confusing. I'll do that tomorrow. #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #shmup #wip

Alright, the Witch's mechanics are in-game! Ready a Hyper shot by not firing for a few seconds. Hyper shots pierce enemies and destroy enemy bullets. Your Lantern Crash recharges over time. It destroys bullets in its radius, and Dazzles enemies! Now,🍎JUICE🍎 #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #shmup

OK, cooking on something. Wanted a twist on a Bomb mechanic. As the Nightwatch Witch, you've got a Lantern. It destroys enemy projectiles when used, and I think it'll Dazzle enemies rather than damage them. #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #shmup

OK, worked a bit more on my sand for yesterday's #pixeldailies Plopped it into my village tileset. faultbox's monsters for scale/reference. Not sure what to do for today's Farm theme. Maybe tilled rows or something? #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev

Alright, little more tuning on wave timings. Game is finally starting to feel how I wanted it to! I was a little nervous for a while I couldn't make a randomized shmup interesting enough. Existential dread has abated slightly, and now I can work MORE FUN. #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #shmup

Today was tightening up wave spawning so we could do more concurrent waves. Looking much more like a #shmup! Waves are randomly composed from applicable spawnGroups I have predefined, so its a bit tricky to make sure they all fit nicely. Fun challenge though! #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev

bumped up the view height a little to give us some more maneuver room. Feels pretty good! Need to get the chaff enemy spawn density up a little but feels good on the minibosses. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Figured out some cool shot pattern stuff like bullet hell spokes. Getting closer! Happy with most of my systems and starting to shift into creating content for the game.🔮🧚 #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

Loot Frog is a demo incremental bullet hell idler where you smash pots for gems, upgrade gear and abilities, explore varied biomes, and dive deeper into cult-filled chaos. Play the demo: playtester.io/loot-frog #IndieGaming #GameDev #Gaming #IndieDev #IndieGame

Two scenes share the same stage 🔆

I'm developing some game design axioms. #1 - Flying Castles are fucking sick. Rygar, Secret of Mana, Dragonlance. All sick, all have flying castles. ActRaiser gets bonus points for you starting off in the flying castle. #gamedev #indiedev

Golden Axe (1989) by SEGA for arcade, Mega Drive and Master System.

Okay, these two shmups here look EXTREMELY legit from the trailers, but have four user-reviews between them. What gives? store.steampowered.com/app/2262880/... store.steampowered.com/app/3091520/... I swear, every time I go looking at Steam for more than five minutes I dig up something cool.

OK! Worked on some enemy variety a bit. Big mobs of weird floaty guys you can push around with shots, chasing Vampire Moths, strafing Eyebats and classic dive-attacking birds. This is with a lot of the volley metaprogress upgrades :D #pixelart #shmup #gamedev #indiedev

Starting to look a little more like a shmup! Improved my spawnGroups concept so multiple groups can be clustered together. Did a big AI/Behavior overhaul where Behaviors can be sequenced and completed by the Actors. Next I have to make that scriptable! #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #shmup

OK! Basic bullet feels good, think that's locked down. Some hemming and hawing with the UI, but I think I'm gonna keep it super minimalist. Might make some elements oscillate for enhanced spooky. Working on Familiars (who'll be equipable options I think) #pixelart #shmup #indiedev #gamedev

Wrote some `shotPattern` data structures so I can have alternating fire patterns and stuff. Too many bullets? Too many bullets. Tempting though lol. #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #shmup

Found this game I worked on as a kid and managed to get the source code to build! It was based on a kind of 1-2 bit style and had some light Metroidvania and eco-sim elements. It was almost done and pretty playable, might toss it up on itch.io. #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

Onward we go. Got enemies in spawnGroups for max shmup feel. Need some spacing and alignment but basics roughed in. Some powerups like a screen clear bomb and lightning ball orbitals. These enemies were designed for zelda-like, gotta rethink. #shmup #pixelart #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

I was messing around with this for a bit. Top down 360 shooter, but with the idea that your hoverjet has a dedicated Flight/Hover mode. Cut to hover and you just skim over the land surface and be hit by ground weapons. Flight takes you high and you can bomb, but consumes fuel #indiedev #gamedev

Was working on this project for a while. Core concept was Nuclear Throne type presentation, but moment to moment combat that feels like Halo. There's stagger mechanics on weapons too, kind of based on old doom's "painchance". Shotgun has a high stagger rating. #indiedev #gamedev

Very quick experiment looking at some shmup sections for Witchling Grove. Might spin it off to be its own thing? Some scrolling night sky cloud sections? #gamedev #indiedev #pixdelart

A couple friends and I made this a few years back. Not available on Google Play any more, mostly due to google nuking my developer account into the sun. I did end up benefiting from that class action against google on behalf on indie developers so I still won. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Working on a world map for Witchling Grove. Want it to look like a little model/miniature world. I think the map will just be a single screen, like this. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

#gamedev #itchio #devlog #pixelart

decided to join @shrimpknight.bsky.social’s #fruityfebruary event! ヾ(•̀ ヮ <)و day 01- pomegranate day 02- strawberry day 03- orange [ #pixelart •• #ドット絵 ]

Doodled some weapons today to shake off some creative rust. I can't draw straight lines even on grid paper. #arrrrrrt #illustration

"Fumble charts are unrealistic and break my immersion!" Meanwhile, on Earth, Battle of Aqaba: "Lawrence was nearly killed in the action after he accidentally shot his camel in the head with his pistol." #ttrpg #osr

Made a fun cover image for Metalbound. Tabletop and photography are two things I don't really do so was fun to dip into. theinfamousmrmeow.itch.io/metalbound

Kartomancy started as a jam game and refused to die. I’ve put up a $3 Supporter Edition on itch for anyone who wants to help it grow and get updates throughout its development. Free version’s still there too! theinfamousmrmeow.itch.io/kartomancy #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

I've been going back and forth on doing a World Map for Witchling Grove. I checked an item off of my bucket list recently by make a Super Mario Kart-like, so now to start on another: A world map in the style of Yoshi's Island Title Screen. #gamedev #indiedev

This realm with Boomshrooms and Ghosts is pretty intense. You can interrupt a Ghost's attacks, so the strategy seems to be keeping pressure on the ghosts and just diving over the shrooms until they're packed tightly for a chain explosion. #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

Finally set up biomes properly for Witchling Grove. Biome data gets pulled in from LDTK, and gives data on Monster Inhabitants, scatter tiles, and tree types. #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

Testing the Gloomshroom! Bursts on death like the Boomshroom, but with a lingering sporecloud instead. Evil creatures are immune, but you'll be slowed and damaged in it! #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

The witchling can now hold 3 spells at a time in Witchling Grove! Makes exploring the areas a little more useful now, since you can bank a lot of firepower! #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

Sprucing up the UI in Witchling Grove #indiedev #pixelart #gamedev

Oh hey, I'm up to 300 followers. Nice to meet you all! In celebration, here's what happens if you spawn 300 Dhampyrs in Kartomancy. #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

Managed to create a script that would zip the game build output into the same .zip recursively, then upload that to Steam/Itch. #JustBuildPipelineThings #gamedev #fail

Not that exciting, but just rigged up a script that publishes Witchling Grove to Itch.io 's web-playable and downloadable channels, and also uploads a new build to the Steam `development` channel. Feels great to push one button to get to playtesters! #gamedev #indiedev

Some silly character doodles for Kartomancy. Was fun to do. Akuma Frankenstein is hilarious to me. #art #indiegame #gamedev #doodle

So I'm thinking Witchling Grove will get a hand-made overworld, then stick with the procgen dungeons/groves. We're doing it friends. We're going full mode 7. #gamedev #indiedev

After her brief cameo in Kartomancy, the Witchling is back to work in Witchling Grove! 🧙‍♀️ Rigged up a new death sequence that's a little more clear! #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #gamemaker