slightly painful to type with glass slivers in my finger (that i got from playing with broken glass so its my fault but still this is a productivity setback)

all i want to do is animate right now but i KNOW its because im procrastinating what i should be doing (writing)

dialogue system #gamedev #ps1 #godotengine #indiedev

someday 💕

King Carrot is here! Do not get too close to his crop kingdom or he will peck at you with his big carrot nose! Im afraid it might be too noisy? Maybe I will simplify the leaves on his back. #pixelart #gamedev

If steam has mature content filters it should have Gen-AI content filters. I shouldn't need to scrutinise every new game I look at to see if it's an affront to art or not.

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Fun fact: They did this exact same thing in 3D with the characters in Vagrant Story All you have to do is duplicate the model, offset it by a few onscreen pixels, and set it to fullbright/tinted. The lit character model hides the polygons of the secondary mesh, giving a nice rim light

🗣️ HAPPY AAPI MONTH 🗣️ what better way to spend it than playing a game about generational trauma, motherhood, a pandemic, and so much more? we're so happy that 1000xRESIST is part of the first-ever AAPI Steam Sale, running May 1-10. 💖 SALE: tinyurl.com/AAPISteamSale

It's okay to create at your own pace. Everybody has different life circumstances that allows them to create at a faster or slower pace and that's okay! It also means you shouldn't compare your output to someone else's.

My art has value!! Your art has value!!! If you enjoyed making it, it doesn't matter where it goes or if anyone else likes it. It's important and valuable to make just because it is fun and improves your day/week/life/whatever.

just a normal vampire hangout with my sisters! something new for me, i thought i would try mixed media! background is a photo taken by me, rasterized to 200x200px and all 14 colors from the #sepiaqua palette, then i pixelled me and my vampire sisters into the scene! #ドット絵 #pixelart

Aaand Daemith's route is ✨finished✨ With that, I think... I think it's done. 65k words, which makes EnchanteX the longest thing I've ever written. Of course, it hasn’t been edited, proofread, tested, or fully illustrated yet, but at least it sort of exists now 🥹 #vndev

once i have some more time and rest i'll write up a more proper post mortem about everything that went wrong. i swear this game really didn't want to get made. even minus the executive dysfunction i had to replace my stylus & deep clean my keyboard. great way to ruin the flow haha

i did it, i made a game (badly) (so, so very badly) but i learned a lot, through tears and not a lot of sleep. it's tough because i thought i had planned things well, but then unfinished tasks from days when i couldn't lock in added up really badly at the end. (1/10)

really struggling with the "just give up already" stage of first game / game jam i have Something, but it's not what i wanted to have, and the deadline is ticking

Meet Ivy - a peculiar girl(?) made of marble and vine. Despite her circumstances, she seems rather. . . friendly? for Ivy in the Well - a suspenseful GL visual novel in development 💚 #visualnovel #monstergirl

I've moved my workflow from illustrator over to blender, and simply adore how joyous it feels to design icons now

hey look at my fonts in these cool games: ninja gaiden, ball x pit, titanium court, cadence of hyrule... these fonts could be in your cool games too because you can buy them off me and they are not expensive chevyray.itch.io

Just a lil' assassin sketchy warm up 🗡️ #art #characterdesign #visualnovel #vndev #solodev #indiedev #sketch

also yes i've been quiet um uh ahaha (dealing with the consequences of poorly planned scope and impending deadline)

bottom eyelashes are my fav thing to draw ever i explode if i don't draw them

ngl i am not the most confident in my art for the mer jam project. i feel something cute and pretty would be the best fit which isnt my best work. but i'm just gonna do some style studies and lock in since i want a few projects under my belt before i try working with others

I ✨love✨ showing off indie games!! Genuinely, the best part of what I do is how many times I hear "I've never heard of that" or "what is that" and I get to enlighten someone on a cool vibeo gane they otherwise might have missed! 🥹🙌🏼

writing the narrative for a game is really some if you give a mouse a cookie bullshit

did my brainstorming session today and the answer is apparently gay and also riddled with puns

It’s lesbian visibility week and I am once again asking that y’all view my black lesbians!!!!

I'm back to working on my game (yay) these are just headshots, but I'm thinking of doing this art style for dialogue sprites 🤔 #mintdude_YUNOandDAWN #gamedev

designing some small playground equipment at the moment, and I think my favourite may be this small swing with working pendulum physics

Bloom was accepted into this year's Power of Pride Bundle! I'm so excited to have Bloom be a part of something that supports Queer creatives ❤️

we'll see how long i can go without having to draw horses for this game when two and a half characters in it are horses

i've entered the bargaining stage of game jam. i will buy myself tomodachi life if i finish this fucking visual novel in time

Just overhauled my font Gentry Society and added improved language support! 😁 v3x3d.itch.io/gentry-society New languages: Cyrillic Support (Russian, Ukrainian, Etc), Polish, Turkish & Norwegian. 💕 #pixelart #ドット絵 #gamedev #indiedev

Made a lot of progress on "The Witch is No Good for You" CGs this morning! 🥀 Meet Anh (he/him), a dryad scholar and Allin's best friend. He's a breath of fresh air and provides comfort in the aftermath of the Witch's destruction. He's also very calming to draw >w< #VNdev #art #illustration

🌿 Et le grain mourut Devlog #4 (Thread, or read in full here: fuelli.itch.io/elgm/devlog/...) #renpy #vn #vndev #devlog #gamedev #visualnovel #indiedev #ocsky #artsky

Some hand-drawn UI elements: the backgrounds, icons and arrows were made in Procreate (as the entirety of the game's assets) 💀✏ If you get to play the build, you'll see how much more satisfying they are in game thanks to our programmer Julien's animations and @marinahascoffee.bsky.social's sfx 🩶

inversion of the idle genre would be to make a game where you micromanage absolutely everything. it's a turn-based simulation game and if you don't instruct a character to breathe during their turn they just die

really hate region-locked genders

based on The Lantern Bearers by maxfield parrish ✨ #witchhatatelier

need more romantic realizations where the person goes "he's dumb as shit" (shoujo sparkles)

The prophecy cannot be stopped

here it is on the ayn thor too :) got it recently and it's made it so much easier for me to play the visual novels in my backlog. also i loved the effort y'all put into your devlogs for this game! they helped me feel way less overwhelmed starting my first game jam

our silly little jam game is out! 🖤

my first swing may be moody and hopefully have some body horror but i'm planning on doing mer jam after this 😭 and i don't think i'll be sticking with the horror tone for that, at least so far. who knows

i know its something i'll tackle when i get there but i do feel anxiety when it comes to "the first project" yeah, it doesn't set the tone for everything i make in the future, but it still is going to be people's first impression of me as a creator for awhile and that's scary! #vndev

Check out this dynamic 3D speech bubble system in Godot, built for the visual novel "Paper Thin" by Alex Shearer and the Debt Detectives team. 💬 See how they made it: jettelly.com/blog/paper-t... #godotengine #gamedev #indiedev

yaoi visual novel where you romance chinese celestial entities. call it Man Date of Heaven

negative reviews when the visual novel protagonist isn’t a self-insert:

super sick style and vibe u.u

haven't posted this before so just wanna show the WIPs of these 2 tested colour on the sketch assuming i'd redo the lines later but rye turned out flawlessly damn it so now I have to keep those and clean them up 😔 am I complaining? yes but also no because I love him #art | #ocsky | #vndev