live to draw for all the hyper niche indie games it's your only purpose in this world

Platform infrastructure and orbital railguns were next on the list for the #NovaSquadron visual overhaul...so I figured why not do both at once, by calling in a little help from above? #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Karazinevian reverse swept wing "nKZ - 90" cruising #gamedev #ACECOMBAT #indiegame

Happy Halloween!!!!!!

More PS1 texture drawing, I think I'm getting better at this. Still not at the level of quality I'd like though. It's all still vector, except for a little grunge texture overlay! #gamedev #gameassets (will be released as CC0/public domain textures when done)

Thank you very much everyone, 'overwhelmingly positive' is absolutely unreal to me. I started making game assets when my games were failing, I thought I'd never get back to actual game development but here we are. Thank you for every kind comment, review and all the feedback ✨

My silly naval combat game, Waves of Steel, is 50% off for the Steam holiday sale! Build your own warship, go to ramming speed, and kickflip over torpedoes! store.steampowered.com/app/1482750/...

I mentioned Bladestorm in my sales roundup - arguably the last of Koei's Kessen series. Waves Of Steel is a heartfelt tribute to their Warship Gunner games. You'd think a WW2 naval combat game would be (ironically) dry and slow, but nope, they were wacky as hell and WoS doubles down on that.

BlueSky, this GIF is ELEVEN KILOBYTES, how and why did you compress it that much okay we're trying again but with it 10x upscaled. 2700x3150 GIF.

For today's #NovaSquadron post, it's the holidays, so I wanted to do something a little special. We have an early Christmas present from us to you: AWACS Storm Chaser smiling. #pixelart #screenshotsaturday

Brioche the Doughmancer 🫓

I can confirm, I am a feral little goblin

so I've been working on something for the upcoming Screenshot Saturday, and I can't really expect you lovely folks to be normal about it, because even the rest of the devteam aren't being normal about it

The most powerful narrative device a game can deploy is "throw you back to the main menu but it's different"

Two lifelong Ace Combat fans give their thoughts on the announcement of Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve with 30 years of context. This is one of the most extensive articles we have ever written about this series. #ACECOMBAT #ACECOMBAT8 #WingsOfTheve #flightsim

We are cooking :)

lamer screenshots

Some cool screenshots I took to start a train with other devs on the evil website :)

Just adding a new menu to #NovaSquadron ...wait, is that a save select screen? Why the heck would a roguelite flightcade game need multiple save slots? What the hell are we cooking in 0.5.0?! #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday (yes that's Fenrir's canon name)

Despite everything, i'm still just working on my game. (I've added a newer hud tracking box as well as multiple other changes I cant exactly remember)

Okay, now that we've got a trailer for Ace Combat 8 (no, really! go check it out! it's awesome!) I wanted to make a thread talking about how it affects Nova Squadron's development. The short answer: It doesn't affect it at all. The long answer: 🧵 1/6

Read more about Nova Squadron: www.skywardfm.com/co... 2/2

Not even Jovian warship energy shields are safe from the unyielding power of pure burst mass. The swing-wing Valkyrie has had a significant impact on Nova Squadron by @claradoth.bsky.social. #indiegame #flightsim #NovaSquadron 1/2

yes, AWACS is single yes, she’s bi yes, both player characters can romance her

Meet AWACS Storm Chaser, the lady who says things like "Nova One, Fox Two!" and "Bifrost's laser's about to fire, everyone get to cover NOW!" during missions in #NovaSquadron. Interests: - fashion - radar maintenance - playing support characters #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #oc

a fun fact about the Nova Squadron official Discord is that I have literally no idea what is happening at any given point

What if I made a PS2 game and just hired actual stunt performers to do FMV cutscenes www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR35... (this was apparently how they "storyboarded" the cutscenes, but just, stop there! it was already cool!)

okay so remember how I said you weren’t prepared for the moustache right before I unveiled Öz? … you are not prepared for the eyeliner

WAIT THAT’S ME I’M IN THERE

One last bit of #NovaSquadron global UI work before I can start declassifying the features I've been working on for the past few months: I've always wanted to make one of these silly little fade-to-black effects #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

I m ade my fun touys fight eachother in furbal.. But in a serious note, I've actually being using Unity Visual Scripting for most of the Project and I've finally just started converting things to C#, this was part of it so the game can actually run. I'm really proud on how well it turned out.

Every super productive week should be followed by a super horizontal weekend 🙌🏻

Happy #Tanksgiving everyone! Here's those extra reinforcements you asked for. I mean, more tanks are always better, right? #gamedev #indiedev

I've been so busy with #NovaSquadron 's menu and subsystem overhaul that I haven't posted any gameplay videos for months, so here, as a treat for us both - the beginnings of some new, fancy, cel shaded explosions! #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Got something new in the hangar #gamedev #flightsim

I've fixed most of the depth fighting issues with distant trees, so now you can have a whole lot more trees #gamedev #flightsim

i need to draw this old man sooner or later

oz my beloved

Introducing the man who's been giving you briefings in #NovaSquadron the whole time, Commander "Öz" Özdemir (and his moustache!) Interests: - watching everyone come back from a mission alive - mecha anime - facial hair #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #oc

you are not prepared for the moustache tomorrow

An update on the Indie Highlight Series. Where are we now? How does this work? An open invite to indie developers creating flight action games! #indiegames #indiedev #flightsim Read more: www.skywardfm.com/po...

you might be wondering what I'm currently doing on #NovaSquadron, and well I'm sat here with Aseprite open, pushing the individual pixels of a magnificent handlebar moustache, while the other half of my brain is busy wondering "how can I make a flightcade game play like a shmup"

Does the story of Ace Combat 04 still resonate today? T.J. "Millie" Nightwolf takes a critical eye to an Ace Combat series classic. #ACECOMBAT #flightsim

A recent revisit to Thunder Helix by @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social reminded us of its surreal search and rescue mission. This video shows what players are in for. #flightsim #indiegames

I bet this isn't surviving social media compression in one piece, but #NovaSquadron 's buttons now 'fizz' when you hover over them! Lots of little floaty particles drifting around as an extra visual indicator of what you've got selected. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

And here she is again, but without the CRT filtering! #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #oc (it feels really weird using that last hashtag but...yeah, I guess this is my first ever OC?! If only Baby Clara knew what she'd be doing in a few years...)

I've had to keep most of my top-secret #NovaSquadron work under wraps for the last few months, but I can finally start declassifying some of it now that we have...pixel art?! Introducing the first member of Nova Squadron, callsign Fenrir. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

I have somehow managed to scope-creep my silly aeroplane game into a situation where I (software engineer with no drawing background) need to learn anatomy. Not sure how I did that. 0/10. Do not recommend.

I genuinely do not know where the public perspective of #NovaSquadron as the gayest flightcade game of all time came from. 0.4.1 has, like, three characters, and they only talk about mission objectives. At this point I'm just going along with it #gamedev #indiedev