souls lost at sea

Kiki the Nanobot ❤️

@arcampbellwrites.bsky.social Hey, I apologize if this is weird but - are you the Andrew Campbell who created Battle Girl? If you are, I would LOVE to talk to you about its development.

I should add to this that even if you're low on cash, consider reaching out if you're an indie game dev and you're having performance problems. Every skill I have is teachable, and I don't have infinite free time to talk, but I might be able to give optimization advice with a little context!

Happy to announce that we will be hosting our first SOUPJAM on Itch starting next month! If you're interested in the SOUP-like microgenre of art-games then this is a great opportunity to make some SOUP of your own! Together we will teach the world to SOUP! itch.io/jam/soupjam2...

The last person who emailed me for optimization help on their game was pleasantly surprised and ended up working with me for _several months_ and getting lots of stuff done at a good rate, and was able to have larger levels with more stuff in them, JUST SAYING 😉

I have received devastating news.

I'm going to attempt to post more about things I'm up to! We'll see how long it lasts this time '^^ Here's a quick post about how entities are structured in Wizwag (link in reply)

happy Friday new Joshua Morse fusion album just dropped 🎶 joshuamorse.bandcamp.com/album/wavefo...

Finally got to try this out - it's awesome!!! It's exactly what I wanted.

This is exactly what I was looking for to practice piano without looking at the keys. I haven't tried it yet but I'm excited!

I put a lot of hours into Duskers and I still play it occasionally. I want more games like that. Frantically typing into comms as my slow, dumb drone baby is gunned down. FTL is one of the only things that felt similar to me. I feel like the format could work in other settings though, too.

I’m still available for some work this month and next if anyone needs help with game performance or iteration times, etc. ^_^

"my vibe coded Flutter game where you give me your email in order to play clunky backgammon with ai generated women runs slow on da mobile devices uwaaa" - upwork people

i regret to inform everyone that going for one (1) embarrassingly short run after ~6 months improved my burnout and general hopelessness substantially overnight

i've spent way too much time on this the past few days '^^ but it now has a more mature room authoring setup including walkboxes (all in Aseprite), simple cutscenes, large rooms with camera motion (not shown), and other bits and bobs

went on the other site for about 5 minutes and the entire "for you" seemed specifically demographically targeted to make me despair. not doing that again!

make video game

This was one of my favorite games of 2025!!! A super tight, excellently designed puzzle game filled with lovely moments of insight, cute and clever mechanics, and maximum charm..

(crawling out of my game dev hole real quick) OH RIGHT my upcoming wash 'em up Pixel Washer is part of the #BIGSpringShowcase TOMORROW! 8AM Pacific 🐷🫧 Cute piggies and relaxing gameplay comin' atcha store.steampowered.com/app/2572060/...

more fooling around with the "possible" side project lmao. everything will remain temp art and temp voice probably until you can play through the entire thing...

went to bed at a nice, healthful time of 2 AM only to toss and turn until like 4:30 ~_~ how am I supposed to be game dev extraordinaire without my beauty rest huh?

underground art is important (and important to ME personally) but a world where nobody ever gets a big budget to take a big weird swing is still massively depressing

yesterday i did some preliminary test sketches for a possible side project

Daikon's 2nd game, Chico's Rebound, launches March 26 2026! When a mysterious tower appears in the forest, Chico and his friend Beeatrice go exploring. Master block breaking challenges and environmental puzzles! Wishlist now on Steam or Nintendo eShop! 🐿️🐝 #indiegames #nintendoswitch #trailer

It seems as though the demo isn't reaching a lot of people. Maybe our game is lacking in appeal...? If you haven't yet, please check out the Dawnthief Demo and leave some feedback in the steam discussions. It's hard to know what we're missing otherwise. Thanks in advance.

Okay this feels good rn

My county has unveiled a proposal to build multiple data centers with onsite gas power plants less than a mile from my house >_< We can't afford to move unless my family of 3 moves into our cars lmao. Ughghghgh

The only thing that would make OpenEmu better for Mac users would be if there was a Steam Deck build and you could mirror your saves + ROMs over WiFi or something 👀

Started playing Willow for NES yesterday afternoon which led to a Willow movie night because no one else in the house had seen it (?!?!). It was nice 😌 we had jam and biscuits

I would love a game structured like "Typing of the Dead" but for piano proficiency :')

Experimenting with a different status bar style. All the rooms in the game already had a 32 pixel buffer for the old one to sit over, so I figured it'd be nice having this new one let you see what's behind it now. #BUDD #gamedev

related: just one more collab bro just one more tie in bro the next one will give us so much exposure (tm) bro i swear just one more integration and we'll become solvent bro

Rosa

🎉🎉 Happy 40th Anniversary of The Legend of Zelda series!! 🎉🎉 Here's a repost of a bunch of my Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past sprite redraws

Taking a day off finally! Eating rice & broccoli and playing "The Farmer Was Replaced" - I keep wondering if I'm missing something in the early game because it has never seemed worth it to do complex pathing or deep decision trees before cactuses?

The video game industry decided to discontinue their product, the video game, in exchange for trying to make Fortnites. They have in recent years found out this doesn't work, so they have pivoted from making Fortnites to making ????????????????? nothing I guess

drilling down into the snow ☃️ #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #platformer

Does anyone know if any production music for Pepper Ann was licensed? Or was all of it bespoke? I'm struggling to find any good info on this.

oh i always suspected it was backlit and in-camera! this is really neat, it's the first confirmation i've seen of how the technique is achieved.

American life is full of humiliation rituals for commoners but I think filing taxes is pretty high on my list. Quadruple-y so if you're a 1099 worker.

Was randomly checking my itchio and noticed people have downloaded PQ93 over 16,000 TIMES?!?! And now I feel guilty for not making it better. :') In fairness it was a random side project in college _and_ it's free but WHEW

show idea: Hannibal exactly like Hannibal 2013 except all the food is stuff like pizza rolls, frozen pot pies, fried bologna sandwiches etc.

Under the Island is FINALLY OUT! After more than 7 years of development, the journey comes to life today ♥️. Huge thank you to everyone who supported the game along the way! Enjoy the Launch Trailer Shop Links in the comments 👇

metal textures solid

Cool World (1992) art by Barry E Jackson #mondaymotivation

Migraine for 2 days so far 😵‍💫 it's slowing me down a bit! Blerghhgh. finally let computer update to Tahoe - holy crap what a lot of wasted screen real estate, ugly radii mismatches and uglier borders >.<

I had a very nice Valentine’s Day and only worked for a few hours, making this possibly the closest thing to a day off I’ve had so far in 2026 ❤️