Arborlands is intended to capture the spirit of a wild natural world through the eyes of a newly intelligent animal species. #digitalart #gamedevelopement #gamedev #indiegamedev #gameart #nature #animal

Added progress bar to show what task is being performed. Animations aren't quite there yet 😉. #gamedev #gamedeveloper #indiedev #indiegamedev #solodev #gamedevelopment

Planetary Life out now on Steam Early Access!!! The game includes: - Procedural planets 🌍 - Climate simulation ⛈️ - Global disasters 🌋☄️ - Create and evolve animals/plants/fungi 🐟🦎🌱🌴🍄 - Cells 🦠🔬 Link to the Steam page in the first comment (or my profile). #gamedev #indiedev #GodotEngine

An arobrin troop looks out from a wayward outpost... #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev #nature #animal

How going upstairs works in my 2D game.

Protect your code from yourself: Use component tests! 💯

Added another quick sketch arborin to the scene.

Placing an outpost to extend the player's vision range on the map! #indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedev #videogames #strategygames #citybuilder #gamedeveloper

Join the circuit!

Sharing a quick entry from my sketchbook. I'm practicing what small corners of the environment might look like. Pigma ink pen on paper. #sketch | #drawing | #nature | #handdrawing

Spent more time tweaking the water reflections and refractions #JS #JavaScript #WebGL #GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday #IndieDev

I'm preparing for the next angle in the animation set for the main species in #arborlands. This is all 2D so I'm trying to be consistent from angle to angle without being too much of a perfectionist. #gamedev | #animation | #animal | #indiedev

25 Silly Little Seals - A Watercolor Painting 💙

A remote hill... 🏔 #sketch | #drawing | #nature | #conceptart

Showing the rough outline of the process for creating my first building's graphics. Rough Lines -> Lines + Color + Highlights/Shades. This is a simplified timeline of the process, it's not actually completely linear 😉. #graphics | #drawing | #gamedev | #indiegames

Finding hidden creeks in heavily wooded areas is neat. This was one I found last summer. Looking forward to trying to find a few more this year! Hopefully with better lighting next time... #photography #colorado

And old #sprite that's currently waiting to become part of the game... 🌳 #nature | #tree | #gamedev | #indiegames

I heard you like games with isometric square grids… check out Ever War! @700ae.bsky.social

Question for all developers: What do you think are good places to market your games?

My work recently has been mostly refactoring for the upcoming Messenger Outpost feature. I've modified the method of showing/hiding land-tiles to be less heavy and more reusable. Seems to be working! ☁🌞 #gamedev | #indiedev | #programming | #trees

The troop selectors allow you to pick a troop by profession. ⚒ #gamedev | #indiegames | #animals | #pcgames

If you zoom out to mapified mode, you can still see which player inhabits each land tile. 🟩🟨 #gamedev #multiplayer #strategy #citybuilder #indiegamedev #indiedev #trees #nature

You can send your main troop to inhabit a forest. After the troop establishes a local population, it can leave 🌿. (population growth accelerated for dev purposes 😅) #strategy #nature #animal #citybuilder #gamedev #gamedeveloper #indiegamedev #indiedev

Folks, if you don’t know @perafilozof.bsky.social yet, please check him out. He is a diligent documenter and reporter of everything #RTS! If he doesn’t report on it, it probably doesn’t exist! 😉

I run my tests during development, but also every time I reopen Unity. This gives me confidence that I am not re-breaking older code. It's a big help! ✅ #MadeWithUnity #GameDev

I finally got around to making that video I promised to show the different animal states in the game! I mostly looked at frogs here but there are a lot of other animals and/or plants I can show. Trees, for instance, have a ton of options! 🌲🐸 @arborlands.bsky.social @manelcamacho.bsky.social

Just wanted to post this up. I love good and cool art art. This project sounds cool and looks cool. Check them out, it's well worth the time.

Main coloring done on the side view. Still need to clean up some lines, add the secondary fur color, and add highlights/shading. 🎨🖌️ #animation #gamesprite #gamedevelopment #gamedev #adobeanimate #animal #indiedev #indiegamedev

Almost 27 years on and the #starcraft Terran soundtrack is still a supreme masterpiece.

Wow! 150 folks taking interest in this project, thank you so much! Here's a quick motion study sketch!

I’m seeing a lot of despairing messages on bluesky. They range from heartfelt to cynical and grating. I want everyone to know that there is a lot of good in the world. If we keep striving and work with others, then good is an unstoppable force.

Animating sure is a lot of work! Only two more angles to go! #animating #animation #art #gamedev #indiedev #adobeanimate

That's right! Arborlands is being developed for online co-op play with up to 4 players! (as well as solo) #multiplayer #pcgames #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

Some anatomical studies of arborins. They have two opposable thumbs that they can also walk on, so I had to design some special joints. My guiding principle is to have realistic biology that could actually work. #art #sketch #drawing #biology #gamedesign #conceptart

I'm going overboard placing outposts!! 🤪 #gamedev #indiegamedev #gamedevelopement #strategy #citybuilder

Here's a work-in-progress preview of the new messenger outpost building! 📧 #citybuilder #ecosim #nature #indiedev #pcgames

Right now, arborin troops will go around circuits forever 🔁 I will be adding fatigue features that will force them to need rest at some point, though! 😴 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #nature #tree #animals

Ale Abbey is going into early access on Steam tomorrow!! I’m super exited!! ❤️

In #arborlands, a player can create routes with multiple stops. Troops will follow the path to its completion. #gamedev #indiegamedev #gamedevelopment #gamedesign #indiedev

Some more landscape #sketches and an arborin woven home. #gamedesign #nature #landscape #drawing

The player can now see a preview of the outpost's vision range. 🎪. Next, I need to set up the code for the actual placement of the outpost. #strategy #indiegamedev #indiegames #userinterface #pcgames #gamedevelopment #gamedesign

Quick video of the new Cell Stage from Planetary Life game🦠🦠🦠 Link to the Steam page in my bio or in the first comment! #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

A few concept sketches for the natural world of Arborlands. #conceptart #nature #animals #gamedev #indiegamedev #sketch #drawing

Four-player split-screen testing the co-op multiplayer mode in Arborlands. #multiplayer #gaming #videogames #gamedev #indiegamedev

A couple of concept sketches of arborin homes that I recently colored in.

I'm working on the first structure placement mechanic in the game. 🏗 There's more visual feedback and functionality to add, but the snapping-to-map-tile feels about right. What do you think? #gamedev #indigames #videogames

All the way from 🔍 to 🔭 ...and back #map #indiegamedev #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiegames #solodev #strategy #nature #animal #adventure

One from the old vault. Testing shadows and sprite order. #indiegamedev #indiegame #graphics #tree #animal #pcgames #gamedev #gamedeveloper #nature

Some animated flowers I created a while ago. I'm hoping to create an immersive natural world full of species you can discover. #indiegamedev #sprite #animation #flowers #nature #gamedevelopment #gamedev

Here's a series of slowly expanding #procedural maps. The 4 darker green tiles are the player starting points. 🔵🟢🟣🔴 Configurable: -Distance between the starting points -Number of starting points (1 to 4) -Map's margin around the starting points. #gamedev #gamedeveloper #indiegamedev #map #nature