Abysm today: more shaders work, and some progress on the new capsule, including a scaled up version of the effigy. It's #followfriday, so follow maybe? Or better, play the demo and wishlist at store.steampowered.com/app/4025180! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #aseprite #cthulhu #bevy

Abysm today: Wrote a simple material shader in an attempt to crate a simple light effect, and determined that this was the wrong tool for the job. Started modifying the 2d light crate I use, which was surprisingly doable. Play the demo on Steam? #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #showmethursday #bevy

Abysm today: Playing around with a new shader, which I'm not very comfortable with. It's janky still, and doesn't interact with the lighting system, but it's progress nevertheless. It's #WishlistWednesday, so wishlist Abysm maybe? store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Abysm today: added a small bit of behavior to my new monster and played around with adding a bit of personality to the new capsule, comments welcome! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #indiegame #pixelart #capsuleart #puzzlegame #game #boulderdash #supaplex #lovecraft #cosmichorror #cthulhu #bevy

Abysm today: Started implementing the basic behaviors of the final monster, and a new environmental effect to go with it. Can't really show much of the current works since it's end game content, but here are the latest code stats: #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #indiegamedev #game #bevy #rustlang

Abysm today: Finished up enough of my new monster to bring it into the game. It still doesn't actually do anything, but it is cool to see it... just outside this #screenshot :-) Play the demo? store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #showmesunday #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #puzzlegame #bevyengine

Abysm today: More animation pixeling... getting really close now, gonna be time to make that final level any day. Also cleaned up the lines on the tentacle in the new logo, in preparation for adding it to the capsules. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #puzzlegame #thinkygame #cthulhu #bevy

It's #ScreenshotSaturday, how about this one from Dans, a chamber in episode 2 of Abysm, my Sokoban+gravity puzzle game with a cosmic horror atmosphere? If you think it looks interesting, play episode 1 for free in the Steam demo: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #indiegame #puzzlegame #pixelart

Abysm today: Further progress on pixeling, started and finished animating a new part of my monster. Also played around a bit with ideas for new #SteamCapsuleArt. What do you think? #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #puzzlegame #followfriday #lovecraftian #animation #bevy #steamdeck #demo

Abysm today: Today I finished up the detailing of my latest piece of animation for the most ambitious piece of pixel art I've made for the game. A few days of work left, but I think it'll turn out nice. Play the demo? store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #bevy

Abysm today: Moved on from shading the last major piece of animation of the game to adding a layer of detail. Some necessary but minor things remain to animate, though nothing like this. Today is #WishlistWednesday: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #aseprite #bevy

Abysm today: Keeping up the pixel work on the new monster. It's bit of a slog, but I'm getting used to it, and I'm making progress. It's #TrailerTuesday and appropriately enough it just so happens that my game has one of those: youtu.be/51oyuSWYDPw #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #puzzlegame #bevy

Abysm today: Pixeling, but also made sure that the game defaults to larger text sizes on the #SteamDeck. It's #DemoMonday and mine contains the first out of the four episodes of the final game, essentially my "Knee-Deep in the Dead": store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

Abysm today: Working on animating an outline... not quite done but I think the problem is solved, rest is "just" hours. It's #ShowMeSunday, how about taking a look at my demo? store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 This is a #screenshot of a chamber called Brunn. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #bevy

Today is #ScreenshotSaturday and this is some of what I've been working on: a small part of a monster animation for my action/puzzle game Abysm. Details need a bit of care still. Play the demo maybe? store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #aseprite #animation #pixelart

Abysm today: Started with my monster animation and spent some more time on the logo, putting more emphasis on the lower curve to make it fit better within the space. This might be it for the logo, at least for now. #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #steam #capsuleart #logo #indiegames #pixelart #bevy

Abysm today: Avoided the monster animation work I should be doing and played around with the logo instead. Interested in a game inspired by Boulder Dash and cosmic horror? Play the demo and wishlist the game on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #cthulhu

Abysm today: Pixeling my monster and getting very close to the point where I need to start animating it, which will be hard. Played around a bit with a new game logo and, while I'm not quite there yet, it could be made to work: #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #steamdeck #bevy #steamdemo

Abysm today: Further pixels placed on my new monster. After the feedback I got on my Steam page yesterday I started with updating the tags. Speaking of Steam, please wishlist the game: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #indiegame #puzzlegame #boulderdash #bevy

Having Chris Zukowski of How to Market a Game and @indiegameclinic.bsky.social review my Steam page and provide actionable advice is just fantastic, especially when I end up slightly toasty! youtu.be/8gY9SU9ShOw?... #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #marketing #steam #capsuleart #roast

Abysm today: More pixel work on my new monster, making progress but the finish line is still some way off. Tweaked the UI nav highlight, made the thumb stick dead zone configurable, and released a new version of the Steam demo: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #bevy

Abysm today: In #aseprite detailing the enemy I'm working on, which revealed issues with the composition, leading to more detailing... Today is #DemoMonday, play the demo on Steam maybe? store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 Scratch 3, one of my experimentation chambers: #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Abysm today: Making progress in #aseprite. This is the original Kúklos, the final level of the original jam version of Abysm. It was retired since it was very timing sensitive and stopped working as the physics system changed. #ShowMeSunday #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #puzzlegame #bevy #solodev

Abysm today: Pixeling, trying to lock down the design of the final boss. Play the demo and wishlist on Steam maybe? store.steampowered.com/app/4025180/... Today is #ScreenshotSaturday, this one is from episode 3: #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #hobbydev #puzzlegame #boulderdash #thinkygame #bevy

Abysm today: Cleaned up the line work in some of my capsule art, and (hopefully) finalized the design of the final chamber. Now it "just" needs implementing. With font size settings text like this can now work better on small screens like the Deck: #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #screenshot #bevy

Abysm today: Released a new version of the full game to testers, and spent some time on the final level of the game. The demo feedback has mostly been handled, time to finish the full game. But more feedback is welcome :-) store.steampowered.com/app/4025180/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #bevy

Abysm today: Fixed cloud sync between Windows and Linux, which stopped working at some point. Expanded font size configurability from in game content to the menus. It's #WishlistWednesday, so maybe play the demo and wishlist at store.steampowered.com/app/4025180/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Abysm today: Tweaked player/enemy collision detection to be more forgiving, then released a new minor version of the demo with the quality of life improvements that have accumulated. Got this beautiful piece of fan art from one of my kids: #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #hobbydev #puzzlegame #bevy

Abysm today: Finished popup text work, added ability to navigate menus using thumb stick, and added the ability to optional change slider text as the value changes. Play the Steam demo maybe? store.steampowered.com/app/4025180/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #gameui #puzzlegame #rustlang #bevy

Abysm today: More demo feedback handled, made sure story and hint popups can be dismissed with a key, as well as repeated with a different key. Play the demo and wishlist the game on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #puzzlegame #wishlist #steam #demo

Abysm today: Handled demo feedback, including fixed UI images, improved button highlighting, ability to play using thumbstick, and chamber improvements. Play the demo and wishlist the full game on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #puzzlegame #steamdemo

Abysm today: Shrunk the splash image and, after demo feedback, made sure that gamepad back buttons works in the menus. More feedback will be incorporated into the game over the next few days. Play the demo and wishlist on Steam? Link in profile. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #ui #bevy

Abysm today: Released the Steam demo and the got some feedback for the todo md file kept in Git that I use to track issues and work items for the game. Play and enjoy the demo, then wishlist the full game: store.steampowered.com/app/4119340/... #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #steamdemo #bevy

The Steam demo of Abysm, my atmospheric pixel art physics-based puzzle game, has now been released. Download, play, enjoy, and wishlist the full game! store.steampowered.com/app/4119340/... #steamdemo #release #indiegame #indiedev #steamgame #wishlist #demo #steam #windows #linux #steamdeck

Abysm today: Finished a new episode 4 chamber, Kúklos, five to go. Then I rebuilt it again (#screenshot) when I realized that there was a problem. Such things happen... all the time. Did some preparation for the Steam demo release tomorrow. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #puzzlegame #wishlist #bevy

Today is #WishlistWednesday and tomorrow is Steam demo release day for my game. Abysm is an atmospheric pixelart physics-based puzzle game. Check it out and wishlist if you like what you see: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180/... #indiegame #steam #steamdemo #wishlist #puzzlegame #thinkygame #game

Abysm today: Looking beyond the demo I made a prototype of a new ep4 level. It doesn't work yet, but that's likely to be fixable. #Wishlist Abysm on #Steam, demo in two days: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180/... #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #indiegames #puzzlegame #pixelart #bevy #rustlang

Hey, two days until I plan to release the Abysm demo on Steam, follow the link in my profile to wishlist. It's a atmospheric pixelart physics based puzzle game, and today is #TrailerTuesday, so check it out maybe: youtu.be/cGBTVUz529E?... #indiegame #puzzlegame #boulderdash #supaplex #pixelart

Abysm today: Did a bit of testing and some tweaks to the call-to-action part of the YouTube trailer that will be released once the #Steam #demo is available. Like many other games, the dev+test versions of Abysm has debug visualisations: #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #puzzlegame #bevy #rustlang

Abysm today: Tidying up bits and pieces for the release of the #SteamDemo, hope to go on Thursday the 6th. After some final polish the main menu for the demo now looks like this: #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #steam #puzzlegame #thinkygame #hobbydev #solodev #pixelart #gamedemo #bevy #rustlang

Abysm today: After a long day of playing around with various ways of building the game there is now a version that works both on a #Linux desktop and on the #SteamDeck. The #SteamDemo is getting close. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #puzzlegame #pixelart #supaplex #screenshotsaturday #bevy #rustlang

Abysm today: My #Linux demo build works on the #SteamDeck, and on my Ubuntu machine, but in the latter case only if not launched through Steam. Not having much luck in fixing that so far. This is the current final version of my logotype. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #puzzlegame #bevy

Halloween is coming soon, What if you'd play a game that is Creepy & Cute Filled with Spiders and Snakes? Wishlist on my profile #gamedev #godot

Abysm today: Started work on building the Abysm #SteamDemo for #Linux inside a #Steam SDK container. Finished my new logotype for Steam and in-game use. Yesterday I missed #WishlistWednesday, so, please: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #steamdeck #bevy

Abysm today: The #gamedemo build got approved, which is good, but I also learned that while the #Linux build works on the #SteamDeck it doesn't on Ubuntu, so... been digging into that. Made som progress towards a logo, still work in progress: #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #hobbydev #bevy

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Abysm today: Slow day, some store page improvements, a bit of pixel pushing for some ancillary graphic design. Tried a bit of chamber design but got nowhere. Another screenshot from the #SteamStorePage today. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #hobbydev #puzzlegame #pixelart #bevyengine #bevy

Abysm today: Finished a new level, Brunn, as a replacement in episode 2 for one which got bumped to episode 4. Six more levels to go. The demo page was approved, now just waiting for approval of the #steamdemo itself: store.steampowered.com/app/4119340/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #bevy

Abysm today: Started a new level and implemented a temporary slow-motion functionality to make it easier to perform timing sensitive moves. #Wishlist on #Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #hobbydev #puzzlegame #pixelart #retrogame #bevy #rustlang

Abysm today: Spent way too much time making the mouse cursor change when hovering over an interactive image in the menus. Submitted the #gamedemo for #Steam review(!) Tweaked a couple of levels after some valuable feedback. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #hobbydev #screenshotsaturday #bevy