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https://piouspigeon.itch.io Developing Developer- Playdate, AAA Hablet for Playdate~ out now!

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Caramel the witch visits a tower on her broomstick #pixelart #art

Caramel the witch visits a tower on her broomstick #pixelart #art

Caramel's cozy little home

Caramel's cozy little home

a few enemies (Griffin, Frankenstein's monster, werewolf, mummy, zombie, knight, pumpkinhead, gargoyle)

a few enemies (Griffin, Frankenstein's monster, werewolf, mummy, zombie, knight, pumpkinhead, gargoyle)

a few bosses! evil tree with acorns, spike pendulum, ghost, tiny mushroom, mr and mrs Dracula

a few bosses! evil tree with acorns, spike pendulum, ghost, tiny mushroom, mr and mrs Dracula

Untitled Witch Game
Pico8, 4 colors

[ #pixelart #art ]

07.10.2025 14:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 623    ๐Ÿ” 118    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Melkhiors Mansion - Windows PC Release
YouTube video by BitGlint Games Melkhiors Mansion - Windows PC Release

youtu.be/SI3vzCNtVQY?...
Wow this looks incredible

20.09.2025 21:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Still playing with this, but going in no particular direction. It's just fun seeing the Melkhior's Mansion characters come to life on the PlayDate.

#melkhiorsmansion #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #playdate www.bitglint.co.uk

20.09.2025 19:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 81    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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My game is out today ๐Ÿš›! Haul cargo, meet other truckers, and live the adventure of the open road in Cherry Hill: A Trucking Adventure Simulator on @play.date Catalog: play.date/games/cherry...

๐Ÿฟ To see more, check out the full trailer! youtu.be/_oECyEonn4U ๐Ÿฟ

#gamedev #playdate #indiegame

16.09.2025 20:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 56    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Throwing your kid in a river was the og class mobility

09.09.2025 06:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tonight Iโ€™m rewatching Dreamworkโ€™s Prince of Egypt wowie never realized how stacked this cast was

09.09.2025 06:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
People capable of loving some paintings or etchings or whatever can rarely do this without knowing something about the art-ist. Again, the situation is social rather than scientific. Any work of art is one halt of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you. Does he or she have a reputation for seriousness, for sincerity? There are virtually no beloved or respected paintings made by persons of whom we know nothing. We can even surmise a lot about the lives of whoever did the paintings in the caves underneath Lascaux, France.
So I dare to suggest that no picture can attract serious attention without a human being attached to it in the viewer's mind. If you are unwilling to attach your name to your pictures, and to say why you hope others might find them rewarding to look at, there goes the ballgame right there. Pictures are famous for their human-ness and not their picture-ness.
There is also the matter of craftsmanship. Real picture lovers like to "play along," so to speak, to look closely at the surface to see how the illusion was created by nothing but an unusual human being, with hands and eyes. If you are unwilling to say how you made your pictures, there goes the ballgame a second time.
Good luck, and love as always
K

People capable of loving some paintings or etchings or whatever can rarely do this without knowing something about the art-ist. Again, the situation is social rather than scientific. Any work of art is one halt of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you. Does he or she have a reputation for seriousness, for sincerity? There are virtually no beloved or respected paintings made by persons of whom we know nothing. We can even surmise a lot about the lives of whoever did the paintings in the caves underneath Lascaux, France. So I dare to suggest that no picture can attract serious attention without a human being attached to it in the viewer's mind. If you are unwilling to attach your name to your pictures, and to say why you hope others might find them rewarding to look at, there goes the ballgame right there. Pictures are famous for their human-ness and not their picture-ness. There is also the matter of craftsmanship. Real picture lovers like to "play along," so to speak, to look closely at the surface to see how the illusion was created by nothing but an unusual human being, with hands and eyes. If you are unwilling to say how you made your pictures, there goes the ballgame a second time. Good luck, and love as always K

Kurt Vonnegutโ€™s definition of what makes something โ€œartโ€ is one of my favorites Iโ€™ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.

15.08.2025 07:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3236    ๐Ÿ” 1194    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 29    ๐Ÿ“Œ 66
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I BREAK MY POSTING SABBATICAL TO BRING THE NEWS THAT HABLET HAS PASSED 1000 COPIES SOLD!!!
THANKS TO EVERYONE WHOS AGREED TO MAKE A DEAL WITH THE CONCIERGE!

06.08.2025 17:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you! ๐Ÿซกwill do

16.07.2025 14:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks for the heads up! Hmm if youโ€™ve just started please try deleting the save data and start a clean save, maybe something got corrupted when the save was created, lmk if that fixes, and if you have a crash log on the screen send a screenshot if you get a chance

09.07.2025 21:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hablet patch 1.15:

Fixed duplicate buildings appearing and disappearing.

Fixed placing a building too fast causing a crash.

Entropy system update, if one building is dilapidated, it will continue to erode until it is ruined before a new building will erode.
Submitted to catalogue and Itch!

29.06.2025 17:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

if i do sufficiently thorough people watching, i'll finally figure out how to be

28.06.2025 19:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In an old interview once featured on the Pac-Man fansite, Pac-Land, Toru Iwatani expressed interest in creating games that make people cry.

He elaborated that he would like to envision a dramatic game that would provoke emotions beyond what gamers (at the time) were used to.

21.06.2025 15:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 65    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Unpopular personal take.

Given the, like, hundreds of great looking indie games I want to play, I'd happily pay the same asking price of the longer version of the game for one that is no more than 4 hours long.

17.06.2025 16:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 106    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Working on adding more info to the town labels...
Now you can see how many turns before babies are due! in a 4X game!!๐Ÿคช
#IndieGameDev #tilesettuesday #gaming

16.06.2025 21:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The return of the $70 video game has been a long time coming Top-end game pricing has never been lower when measured in constant dollars.

arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/...

09.06.2025 19:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Indies would love, (and be exponentially more impacted) by your 60$ ^^ vote with your wallet.

09.06.2025 19:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

- games are more expensive now to make than ever
- Obsidian doesnโ€™t really do layoffs or crunch. They treat their employees well and find new projects for them.
- Game Pass is always an option
- Game studios are in HCOL locales
- $80 should be the norm for full-length AAA-budget games.

09.06.2025 15:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

did not buy a treat and was richly rewarded with free office cupcake

04.06.2025 19:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Back on this PlayDate project. Graphics are starting to appear from pixel supremo @craigstevenson.bsky.social and I've started work on the robot interface sub game. The game is called Zyphatron.

#zyphatron #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #playdate www.bitglint.co.uk

31.05.2025 18:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 40    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Yay Hablet mention!
Saturday edition should really be on here too, one of the all time greats for sure

27.05.2025 21:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In the meantime you can try deleting your save data and restarting and see if that fixes if you dont have too many days to lose!

23.05.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hmm Iโ€™ll take a look, thanks for the feedback! No pressure but if you want to send your save data that would be incredible.

23.05.2025 18:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
One week to go. Season 2. Prepare yourself (and your Playdate)

One week to go. Season 2. Prepare yourself (and your Playdate)

ONE week to go until Season TWO.

๐Ÿฃ Make sure to pre-order so you're there from the very first moment: play.date/s2

๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™€๏ธ Then, update your Playdate to be 100% ready for all the new goodness: help.play.date/update

๐ŸŽ LET'S DO THIS

22.05.2025 20:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 130    ๐Ÿ” 25    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Visual development art by Paul Felix for Lilo & Stitch (2002), dir. Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois

22.05.2025 01:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4001    ๐Ÿ” 1027    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22    ๐Ÿ“Œ 34
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If youโ€™ve already got Hablet from piouspigeon.itch.io/hablet
Grab the free update to unlock shiny buildings, new dialogue and bug fixes!

21.05.2025 19:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

<3

21.05.2025 16:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hablet is a daily-habit, city builder where you spend a few minutes every day to build building a little town with the help of the enigmatic Concierge! Careful though, let time slip by and the city will begin to fall to ruin.

play.date/games/hablet/ ๐Ÿ—๏ธ

21.05.2025 00:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Video Upload Take 2 ๐ŸŽฌ๐Ÿคž

21.05.2025 00:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 36    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Hablet is out now on #playdate Catalogue!!
#gamedev #indiedev
play.date/games/hablet/

20.05.2025 17:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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