When I was younger I thought art was a viable career but that I didn't make any money because I was bad at it. It didn't help that I mistakenly believed that all the cooler, better artists I followed were making a living out of art and that if only I could be that good, I would be too.

I'm adding a secret move that most people will never see, and it's by far the longest animation in the game so far. I could be using this time to finish the last few levels, but... it's going to look really cool... I want the cool move to be in the game. 🥲

Alright, time to share what I've been working on! Still a ways to go, but here's a quick look at where it's at right now.

gaming hot take: limited lives are good because replaying earlier levels after you game over forces you to better your fundamentals instead of just grinding against the latest problem area until you get through

Owned this game as a kid and had no idea it was a bootleg. I love how swinging your sword in the air slows your fall - it doesn't make much sense but it feels great. I'm not a big fan of double jumps but I love it when games find more interesting ways to give you more precise aerial control.

New game is going well. Happy with the animations I've made so far, and looking forward to working on level art soon. It's something I'm not as good at as characters, but I want to use this as an opportunity to improve.

I've always loved motion inputs in fighting games and I've always wondered why you don't see them elsewhere. When done right they really help you feel like you're controlling your character beyond just a simple button press.

...okay, maybe I can allow myself to work on a game for a little bit. While being aware that: It will not be profitable. It will not be popular. It will not be groundbreaking. But it might be fun, and it might be cute, and it might be artistically fulfilling. That should be enough.

This is Spark, from the fighting game I worked on last year. He was a charge character and I believe I finished implementing him mechanically, but since I still had to clean up most of his animations I never got around to sharing any clips of him before I decided to stop working on the game.

tiny dragon.

dear world: please let me have more free time so I can make a cool video game. thanks.

hot take: Skyrim looked good enough. We don't 3D need games to be any more realistic than that. Stylistic experimentation is great, but please stop making games require more and more expensive hardware just for the sake of "realism". We had enough realism fifteen years ago.

today in stupid gamedev ideas: "I should make a city builder"

no offense but if your game is about a dude with a gun then I don't want to play it

trans day of visibility post

The "Fighting Dinosaurs" as gen 2 Pokémon sprites.

finished the whole crew. probably gonna do some enemies next, i don't think i'll go past arc 2 cause honestly those are the only 2 games i like

going through a bit of a depressive episode. this will negatively impact my creative output. might step away from social media for a while.

tired.

finally got my custom mtg tokens printed!

starting the day with a little gameboy-style raptor

to all my mutuals, I'm sorry I haven't played your games yet, they all look really good but I haven't been gaming much and when I do it's the same handful of comfort games from the 90s that I have already played for thousands of hours each.

told a friend I was working on a new game and he asked "what does the dragon do in this one?". I answered his question, and then I realized that I hadn't said anything about this being about a dragon. I'm just that predictable I guess.

started a new thing. feeling optimistic. looking forward to sharing it eventually!

finally made enough money to earn a couple months of not having to worry about having enough money in the next couple of months. then unexpected expenses came up and I'm back to not having any savings. 🙃

Haven't officially started a new project but I messed around with a different way of doing dungeon generation and it turned out great. Three months ago I wouldn't have known where to start with something like this, and this time I just sat down and did it in a few hours. Learning rocks.

Huge thanks to everyone who weighed in on the game in the past few days. I think I'm going to be officially stepping away from the still unnamed critter roguelike game. It's been a lot of fun to work on, I learned an incredible amount and I'll definitely be taking that with me on future projects.

Really questioning things right now...

I think I need to get more people to try out my game, but I'm not sure if I should post it publicly or not, or how much more to add or polish before I do.

Can anyone guess what these are for? (it's not a video game)

sometimes i wish the day had a couple more hours in it

#portmaster enjoyers: Merp in Merpworld is now available as a free, fully-featured, ready-to-run download. (i did this because free ports require much less user effort. 💗) portmaster.games/detail.html?...

we need more fighting games that let you play as a bird. (literal bird, not a bird person)

happy winter sale. ☃️ get your lovers what they really want: the newly released Merp in Merpworld + beloved og satryn deluxe bundled together. store.steampowered.com/bundle/60904...

You can get Heatwave for a discounted price on both steam and itch until January 5th! It's the perfect time of the year to play my queer visual novel fighting game, as the majority of the story takes place in December :) store.steampowered.com/app/2980420/... monochromesoft.itch.io/heatwave

I'm kinda swamped irl rn, so I almost forgot this, but all my games are currently on sale on itch for the winter sale!! 50% off, and you can get everything in a bundle for $20! Or you can also wait a few days for the Steam winter sale if you want Elephantasy/Flipside on there without getting a key!

Starting a new thread for Critter Roguelike updates. Here's where the game's at right now.

In about two weeks I'm going to spend two more weeks without really being able to work on my game. I know from past experience I tend to lose interest in projects if I go that long without working on them, so I'm curious what's going to happen this time. I hope it survives, I really like this one.

Pondering a change to my game that would require me to scrap a third of the work I've done, and what I would be replacing it with would be ten times harder to do. But it would make the game more fun...

I know I reblogged this the other day but I'm doing it again because... I mean, look at it. It's so good.

I'm really bad at asking for work, but I'm great at actually doing the work. So if anyone needs a pixel artist who is really good at animating little guys or whatever, uh, hit me up.

irrational fear: if I don't start posting the names of my creatures online soon, Nintendo is going to shadow drop a new Pokémon game and they'll have all the same names and designs and everyone will think I copied them

I feel like we need a word to differentiate "indie games" made by studios that sell millions of copies, and "indie games" made by a handful of people who will be lucky if they ever get a thousand sales.

Merp is out!!! I got to make some art for it and it was a really wonderful project to work on, @maybell.itch.io is the best. If you're at all into platformers I definitely recommend it!!

mama trees keep you warm and dry. #screenshotsaturday merp in merpworld releases in 4 days.

working on a 4-pixels tall font and feeling like the quote from jurassic park

#PitchYaGame sillinder's somewhat uneventful tuesday is a pseudo3D platformer that follows a silly robot that can hit their head in very beneficial ways, bouncing and sliding through a surreal and cheap landscape filled with unreasonable people (unlike sillinder) sillinder does this every day.

Heatwave's last major update, will be available on NOVEMBER 12!!! It will also be releasing on steam then as well. Most notably, it will contain a ~100k word visual novel story mode, and 4 new "secret" characters, along with balance changes, and bug fixes. ❤️ store.steampowered.com/app/2980420/...

Critter roguelike thread: I'm going to be posting smaller updates here to avoid cluttering my entire timeline with them.