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@olov.bsky.social

Illustration and animation Mostly just game things Currently working on: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2646620/White_Hook_River/?utm_source=bskyolov

57 Followers  |  306 Following  |  19 Posts  |  Joined: 14.08.2023  |  2.4443

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Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

08.08.2025 02:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5830    ๐Ÿ” 2196    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 74    ๐Ÿ“Œ 76
Logo for the PC Steam game White Hook River.

Logo for the PC Steam game White Hook River.

I may have made the 3D effect but @olov.bsky.social made the actual graphics for the White Hook River logo! โšก
Thank you Olov! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

White Hook River on Steam
store.steampowered.com/app/2646620/...

#Snow #Fishing #Steam #IndieDev #CozyGames #Horror #PixelArt #GameDesign #GameDev #IndieGame

29.08.2025 06:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
GRODA - Gameplay Trailer
YouTube video by FTEA GRODA - Gameplay Trailer

Gameplay trailer is up! Reposts and likes would be greatly appreciated! #groda #pixelart #unity #indiegame #gamedev #gameplay

23.06.2025 15:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks! That was pretty much what I was going for ๐Ÿ˜„

13.07.2025 06:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Seeing some great FF memes floating around makes me wanna share my old take. Another one of those suplexes!

#pixelart #art #finalfantasy #finalfantasyvi #sabin #shadow #cyan

12.07.2025 19:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 152    ๐Ÿ” 39    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
White Hook River on Steam WHITE HOOK RIVER let's you enjoy ice fishing and calming cold snow. But something seems... strange. Anyway, fish, upgrade, chat and explore. You really needed this break from it all. What all? You are...

New trailer on the Steam page! ๐Ÿ“บ

๐Ÿ˜„ Please check it out!

White Hook River on Steam:
store.steampowered.com/app/2646620/...

#FishingFest #Fishing #Steam #IndieDev #CozyGames #PixelArt #GameDesign #GameDev #IndieGame #PsychologicalHorror

16.06.2025 10:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿฅ‚๐Ÿ˜Œ

05.06.2025 07:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Really cool! Do you know if it's still in development?

27.05.2025 11:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Me (Oskar) and Olov ( @olov.bsky.social ) did a game jam and the theme was "Restore"

We didn't manage a complete game but are very happy with the results of our game "Wave Strider"

We even won the People's Choice Award for Best Art! ๐Ÿ˜Š

The jam:
itch.io/jam/umea-gam...

#GameDev #IndieDev #PixelArt

12.05.2025 07:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

It's-a me!

27.03.2025 07:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿค”
I was thinking... What could you bury under the snow? Rocks, bait, items etc. I think that could be fun exploration.

๐ŸŸ  Please consider wishlisting WHITE HOOK RIVER on Steam
store.steampowered.com/app/2646620/...

#IndieGame #IndieDev #CozyGames #PixelArt #GameDev #PsychologicalHorror #Exploration

26.03.2025 06:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A nice stroll along some powerlines. Experimenting with Level Design.

๐Ÿ”ด Please consider wishlisting WHITE HOOK RIVER on Steam
store.steampowered.com/app/2646620/...

#IndieGame #IndieDev #CozyGames #PixelArt #GameDev #PsychologicalHorror #Forest

25.03.2025 18:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Helt klart!

18.03.2025 12:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Pixel art rendition of a smiling person, arms raised with their head bursting with flames

Pixel art rendition of a smiling person, arms raised with their head bursting with flames

Strong feelings.

This daily theme was emotion, inspired by Egg-head from Disco Elysium. Palette was Autumn Harvest 37 by Mysunnyrose over on #Lospec

#pixelart #art #pixel_dailies

18.03.2025 10:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Pixel art rendition of a blood-stained candlestick

Pixel art rendition of a blood-stained candlestick

New day, old daily. I remember I was happy with how the texture turned out given the small amount of time I spent on it. The theme was Clue, palette is Vigaros 16 by Lizalot over on #Lospec

#pixelart #art #clue

17.03.2025 10:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Pixel art image of sun shining through cathedral windows

Pixel art image of sun shining through cathedral windows

Haven't done any dailies in a long while so here's an old one. Theme was glass. Palette was 'not a Bauhaus, a Bauhome' by Digi over on Lospec

#pixelart #Lospec

13.03.2025 12:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ˜ƒ
Hi, quick intro!
I'm Oskar Wahlstrรถm.

๐ŸŽฃ
I'm the creator and game designer of White Hook River, which you can check out and wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/2646620/...

โ„๏ธ
I'm also the founder and owner of Frostspektrum and I work with some incredible collaborators!
#IndieDev #IndieGame

11.03.2025 07:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wasn't able to put together any motion visuals today. I'll show off another one of @olov.bsky.social creations instead ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

This is concept art for White Hook River.
WISHLIST NOW RIGHT HERE! -> store.steampowered.com/app/2646620/...

#IndieDev #IndieGame #Aurora #CozyGames #HorrorGames #Fishing

05.03.2025 12:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŸ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿก๐ŸŸ๐ŸŽ‰

04.03.2025 12:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I (Oskar) am so happy to have access to an awesome artist, collaborator and co-conspirator in the form of Mr Olov Engman! @olov.bsky.social

He digitally paints, creates pixel art AND animates said pixel art for White Hook River!

#IndieDev #IndieGame

Behold one of his creations!

04.03.2025 12:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ‘€

03.03.2025 12:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐ŸŽฃWe are hard at work changing the perspective from strict 2D into more 3D (keeping the Gameboy-ish retro vibe!) but here is a short teaser of things to come (no sound though). ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

White Hook River WISHLIST TODAY!
store.steampowered.com/app/2646620/...

#indiegame #indiedev #cozygames #pixel #gamedev

21.02.2025 06:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Shoveling snow is a planned feature ๐Ÿ˜„

WISHLIST White Hook River NOW!
store.steampowered.com/app/2646620/...

White Hook River is developed in snowy northern Sweden ๐Ÿ™‚
#indiegame #indiedev #cozygames #pixel #gamedev

20.02.2025 08:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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One of our main mechanics in WHITE HOOK RIVER is ice fishing! โ„๏ธ๐ŸŽฃ

store.steampowered.com/app/2646620/...

#indiegame #cozygame #pixel #indiedev #gamedev

19.02.2025 08:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sneak peek at our upcoming change in perspective.
We're going 2.5D while keeping that retro vibe. Check our soon to be updated Steam page to see old screenshots.
store.steampowered.com/app/2646620/...

#pixel #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #2.5D #snow #cozygame #steam

18.02.2025 15:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
White Hook River on Steam WHITE HOOK RIVER let's you enjoy ice fishing and calming cold snow. But something seems... strange. Anyway, fish, upgrade, chat and explore. You really needed this break from it all. What all? You are...

We're developing White Hook River!
Check out what it is and wishlist it at:

store.steampowered.com/app/2646620/...

17.02.2025 14:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Istรคllet fรถr rymden: jorden.
Istรคllet fรถr snabba bilar: stanna kvar.
Istรคllet fรถr att posera fรถr fotografer vid koncentrationslรคger: dela andras smรคrta.
Istรคllet fรถr att gรถra barn med mรฅnga kvinnor: ta hand om andras barn.
Istรคllet fรถr personlig rikedom: leva enkelt ihop.

24.01.2025 18:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 218    ๐Ÿ” 44    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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Pixel art piece of tangled cables with light coming from above. The bottom displays a humanoid body hanging above the ground tangled in cables.

Pixel art piece of tangled cables with light coming from above. The bottom displays a humanoid body hanging above the ground tangled in cables.

I might start uploading dailies now and then, for the heck of it. Today was #tangle

#pixelart #lospec #pixel_daily

29.10.2024 13:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Final Fantasy VII
Warcraft 2
Chrono Trigger
Tactics Ogre
Baldurs Gate 3

17.09.2024 06:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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