When I was a kid I thought this was pretty much all game developers did all day I think normal people would just write a script to place the tiles automatically but I'm weird and enjoy doing this

New cute enemy I threw together :)

I thought the gunsword was too similar to the other projectile weapons so I just made it Cassidy's ultimate from overwatch lol

ok bluesky i need opinions. damage numbers; yay or nay? #gamedev #indiedev

ok bluesky i need opinions. damage numbers; yay or nay? #gamedev #indiedev

Cool scary evil sword that rusts your armor off and summons a ghost that kills you

NEW DUNGEON (finally) FINISHED ! THE CASTLE OF SILENCE, the spookiest level in YANCY yet! Download link for the demo in the YANCY Discord :D good luck beating it! seriously this one is evil

new demo will be out this month

Behold! Enemies that do TWO things!

my new yearly tradition is telling people I’ll have a new demo out in July-August and it taking until October

YANCY's time at GDX 10 is wrapped!!! Thank you so much to @iaalberta.bsky.social for giving my yet another fantastic opportunity to show off my game to so many eager people :) But GDX is not over!!! There's gonna be even more cool games there starting tomorrow so please check them out!!!

Today is the last day for YANCY at GDX! I’m so tired but I’m also excited to get back to deving lol If you’re not able to make it, remember there’s a huge demo on Steam right now!!

Turnout has been really good this year!!! It’s really nice being reminded that people I’ve never met not only like the game, but some of them REALLY love it

gotta lock in

GDX 2025 HAS STARTED AAA If you’re in Edmonton come say hi and die a billion times to my boss fights!!

I AM GONNA BE AT GDX AGAIN THIS YEAR!!! :))) In Edmonton? Come say hi and play my game at K-Days! I'll be there from July 18-24! Every year there's dozens of cool games from in and around Alberta, so if you're in Edmonton and like games, PLEASE COME AND VISIT!!

I'M BACK FROM VACATION CHECK OUT THIS NEW ENEMY I MADE :) I think this guy really demonstrates how much mileage I get out of simple particle effects #screenshotsaturday

NEW DUNGEON READY TO DOWNLOAD AND PLAY ! The Vampire awaits! (she is the best boss fight I've made yet!) I post free downloadable playtests in my Discord, as well as behind the scenes updates and more stuff! discord.gg/RgUessqXnr

I do my best work at 3 AM. Roxy the Witch lives on the south west coast of the throneless country, somewhere remote where people can't complain about her experiments. She detests hard work, and specializes in deadly poisons. #pixelart

I decided the Vampire level doesn't have enough variety so I've added these guys to spice things up. If we get all the audio done + some NPC scripting this dungeon could have a playable demo soon so stay tuned :)

I like how these little wizard dudes came out, simple but good

Ive got some really, really cool stuff in the works that I don’t wanna spoil. I’ll work as fast as I can to get a demo of this dungeon finished so some of you can play it yourselves.

do you guys think this room is too hard?

Not every enemy needs to have their head pop off at half health and shoot homing lasers outta their eyes Sometimes I just wanna make a funny little guy I can put 10 of in a room without an issue. And I wanna call him "HELMORT"

Boring games, insipid, derivative: Ice Sword has a 10% chance to slow enemies on hit My game, blessed, heroic, innovative: Land 5 attacks in a row in the same direction to summon an extremely cool freezing wind that makes enemies more vulnerable to damage

I’m not dead. I have cool new swords to show off soon.

I can shitpost on main. It's allowed.

Mid game boss fight #screenshotsaturday

COOL SWORD. Throw spinning scythe projectile, skilfully stop the scythe on top of enemies for massive damage. ...Except it was WAY WAY WAY too strong. So you have to go pick up the Scythe to throw it again.

I love optional rooms because they let me make evil anxiety inducing room layouts like this. I love making evil shit so much

I woke up at 3 AM and decided to finish the art for this new NPC. Behold! Molly of the Arbalest is a seasoned mercenary looking for easy work in the throneless country. You might be in it for the adventure, but Molly's in it for the money. #pixelart

Sprite sheet for the Harpies. Very very happy with these weirdos.

The addition of the breakable cover mechanic had made this dungeon WAY more dynamic and interesting. The Harpies were really overwhelming before, but now you can split them up for an advantage, and take them out before they break through your cover. It's really fun

I mean yeah I guess that is a pretty weird harpy

Would you be interested in seeing things like sprite sheets, music from the game, etc? I always post the gifs because I assume that’s all people wanna see, but maybe I’m wrong

Now that I'm done building the early game I finally get to make some REAL boss fights. Real EVIL stuff #indiegamedev #solodev

WHAT? That's not very fair. Who made this stupid game?

It’s a minor update but I really like how the finished tileset came out for this dungeon #pixelart

new EVIL room that I made because I'm a SADIST

The HEADTAKER! An executioner's sword, that marks an enemy for death. The marked enemy takes bonus damage, and if you slay enemies in the order they're marked, you'll be rewarded! ...Is "HEADTAKER" a bit too macabre for Yancy? It's supposed to be spooky scary but it's kind of a gruesome name huh

I'm doing a polish pass on one of the first dungeons I designed and I'm impressed, I anticipated needing to redo most of this area. but I think the level design holds up

THE VAMPIRE

WOW I GOT A LOT OF FOLLOWERS OVER NIGHT If you're at all interested in my game, you should go play the demo on Steam!!! (And maybe wishlist it also hehehe) store.steampowered.com/app/1208630/...

Never kill yourself

More cool swords with cool powers from my cool game :)

I'll keep posting cool gifs that never made it here from Twitter

Motivational message to #indiegamedev people: Don't stop working. Keep going, keep getting better, because it would be a shame if you quit before you got the piece of fanart that makes you cry.

I would like to remind the good people of bluesky that my game's demo is available to download on Steam and itch RIGHT NOW!!! store.steampowered.com/app/1208630/... gamesworthjack.itch.io/yancy #indiegames #solodev

My game's main mechanic is that it has a ton of different swords that do different things! You forge swords using a simple crafting system, I have a lot of fun coming up with cool swords and hiding the crafting recipes in the world >:) #indiegamedev #sologamedev #pixelart #gamedev

OKAY here's the gif that Twitter liked so much :)