Ellie
@elliesprites.bsky.social
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Pixel art and video games. 🏳️⚧️♾️
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Dinosaur game! I'm putting it on hold for now, but I had a lot of fun animating all these guys.
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about 1 year ago
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basto
3 days ago
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
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going through a bit of a depressive episode. this will negatively impact my creative output. might step away from social media for a while.
4 days ago
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tired.
5 days ago
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finally got my custom mtg tokens printed!
9 days ago
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starting the day with a little gameboy-style raptor
17 days ago
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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.
18 days ago
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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.
28 days ago
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started a new thing. feeling optimistic. looking forward to sharing it eventually!
about 1 month ago
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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. 🙃
about 1 month ago
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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.
about 2 months ago
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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.
about 2 months ago
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Really questioning things right now...
about 2 months ago
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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.
about 2 months ago
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Can anyone guess what these are for? (it's not a video game)
about 2 months ago
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sometimes i wish the day had a couple more hours in it
about 2 months ago
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maybell🌻
2 months ago
#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?...
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we need more fighting games that let you play as a bird. (literal bird, not a bird person)
3 months ago
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maybell🌻
3 months ago
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...
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Save 40% on the maybell🌻 ULTRA PAK on Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/60904/the_maybell_ULTRA_PAK/
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Monochromesoft
3 months ago
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
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Save 15% on Heatwave on Steam
Heatwave is a fast paced 2d fighting game with multiple fighting styles, characters, and assists to choose from, and a visual novel that details the story of those characters, in a distant, post apoca...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2980420/Heatwave/
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Linker
3 months ago
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!
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Linker Winter Sale 2025 🥶❄️🌨️ by Linker
A bundle by Linker, $20.00 for 8 games
https://itch.io/s/173969/linker-winter-sale-2025-
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Starting a new thread for Critter Roguelike updates. Here's where the game's at right now.
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3 months ago
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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.
3 months ago
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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...
3 months ago
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I know I reblogged this the other day but I'm doing it again because... I mean, look at it. It's so good.
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3 months ago
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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.
4 months ago
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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
4 months ago
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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.
4 months ago
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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!!
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4 months ago
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maybell🌻
4 months ago
mama trees keep you warm and dry.
#screenshotsaturday
merp in merpworld releases in 4 days.
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working on a 4-pixels tall font and feeling like the quote from jurassic park
4 months ago
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sillylittlepyro
4 months ago
#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.
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Monochromesoft
4 months ago
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/...
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sylvie
4 months ago
sylvie.website/vampirewomen...
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Vampire WOMEN Survivors
https://sylvie.website/vampirewomensurvivors/
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Critter roguelike thread: I'm going to be posting smaller updates here to avoid cluttering my entire timeline with them.
4 months ago
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Alright, some people wanted to see the early stages, so here we go. Real-time critter combat, where you don't control your critter directly, but instead give it orders and lead it around the stage.
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4 months ago
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I love how a lot of the things I learned while making a fighting game are translating to my experience creating a roguelike. There are abandoned or unfinished projects, but there's no such thing as wasted time. Everything you learn makes you grow and that's fucking awesome.
4 months ago
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alright, here's some early design stuff. none of it is final at this stage and I'm especially going back and forth on how I want to handle colors for the project as a whole. that said, enjoy my first attempt at a critter evolution line!
4 months ago
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quick question, no wrong answers: do you prefer it when the gamedev people you follow share only relatively polished previews, or do you actively want to see the early steps of a project and its many iterations?
5 months ago
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so tempting to skip prototyping and go straight into making a ton of art. but. I'll be strong and stick with making the game fun with only colored squares and placeholders first.
5 months ago
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maybell🌻
5 months ago
#pitchyagame
a one and a half minute visual novel about angst interspersed with two hours of annoying platforming. i made the art really charming as an apology.
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sylvie
5 months ago
Release!
bsky.app/profile/sylv...
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I wish bluesky had a soft mute option. maybe the person is posting too much and 90% of my timeline being their posts is overwhelming, but I don't want to stop seeing their replies in other posts or not be notified when they try to interact with me.
5 months ago
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okay, I'll give gamedev one more try. just one though. no pressure.
5 months ago
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If you like indie platformers with gorgeous pixel art, incredible gameplay and amazing music, you HAVE to buy Merp!
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5 months ago
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creature collecting rogulike
5 months ago
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quick reminder that I'm available for work. no need to repost this or anything, it's not a proper thing with video and all that. just in case people are assuming my lack of activity here means I'm super busy or whatever. I can always find time for more pixel art if needed.
5 months ago
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WangleLine
5 months ago
Wishlist Vividerie, my crazy bullet nightmare:
store.steampowered.com/app/1769200/...
#gamedev
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My favorite game design thing: animating creatures and programming their behavior. It's so satisfying watching them come to life and trying to make them feel believable, to give the impression that they are more aware of their environments than they actually are.
5 months ago
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🎴squp
5 months ago
It's raining, it's pouring... With
@thewaddle.bsky.social
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#memamorkin
#gamedev
#indiegame
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merpworld's sound design is great, everyone should listen to it
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