Niklas Hallin

Art for the game Alrunia and the necro-industrialists in the style of a game cover. It represent a brown and orange landscape of machinery and ruins, centered around a giant skull. Nature has completely overtaken it, however, and the orange is slowly being covered in the greens of vegetation. On the foot of the skull is a beautiful little pond, and in its eyesocket flies a firefly or fairy, in the colors of the titular character. Above all this, the artwork is framed by the title: Alruna and the Necro-industrialists

Cool human-made art ? In THIS economy ? Well, thank @hallinniklas.bsky.social ! He's commissioned me to make art of his up-and-coming metroidvania !

Check it out, it looks absolutely dope ! Thank you again for trusting me <3

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Lol, I've seen people set Speech Volume to 0 in Metroid Prime 4, and turn off subtitles. Turn the obnoxious side-kick into a pantomime character!

Perhaps! Let's DM!

Publishing my first novel felt like a break-up! A big part of my life and headspace up to that point was suddenly over.

Hi, I just looked up what "ych" means, lol, but I sent you a dm about commissions :)

Try the demo of Alruna: End of History

Alruna: End of History is a very unique metroidvania. There's a contrast between our protagonist and the world around him that really makes you feel what the game is aiming for. I never played the first one, but I think I should take a look at it

#indiegame #indiedev

I know. I remember how God of War 2018 made a point of it, and then just went ahead and killed the wolf anyway! Bloodborne has undead monster dogs, but when we get to Elden Ring, the dogs are just normal animals living in the woods...

Hi, I would like to commission you! How can I contact you?

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025). Blood in the snow, but the subtitles says "The sled dogs are unharmed".

I appreciate that someone off-screen makes sure to point out that the dogs alright. 😊

I got commissioned by @hallinniklas.bsky.social to make art of the titular character in his upcoming game Alruna: End of History

I'm pretty pleased with how this came out! I don't often draw stuff like this but I'd like to do it more often.
#pixelart

Hi! I want to commission you and over-pay you! I have an ongoing project for doing that. I sent you an email at mich lms, hope that works. :)

Testing out the optimised particle system by making all enemies explode into gibs
#gamedev #screenshotsaturday

could you help me make my art reach more people?? 🙏🏼😭

I feel like devs and CEOs need to accept that a consequence of using gen AI is that a lot of people won’t like it. That’s just the case as it is and the risks you take

And one other thing: we’re being told that AI is the only way to make games cheaper and faster, to pull us from this precipice of production nightmares the industry has found itself in. That it’s necessary.

We put out roughly 3 motherfucking games a year, not touching the stuff.
Skill issue.

(I tried so hard to get a Taylor Swift quote in there, just to annoy people. I couldn't find a way, but now she's gone and made Fate of Ophelia, which if anything is too on-the-nose!)

Review of Alruna 1 talking about the opening titles, poking gentle fun at them.

Review of Alruna 2 talking about the opening titles, praising them.

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Opening titles for Alruna 1. Quotes from T S Elliot and Mad Max Fury Road

Opening titles for Alruna 2. Quotes from Sappho of Lesbos and Post Malone

A reviewer from Rock Paper Shotgun suggested that the opening of Alruna 1 was perhaps a tad too pretentious.
I made sure to make the opening of Alruna 2 even more pretentious for that guy specifically! 😁

Plant powers rule in this grimdark Metroidvania about reclaiming industrial spaces, and I love the condensed approach to maps that still pack secrets Hands-on | Alruna: End of History is a Metroidvania with blooming good powers

Really enjoyed playing Alruna: End of History - a plant powered grimdark Metroidvania!

Here's a little thought... Historically people (women, really) have been waiting in bread-lines next to eachother, talking about what's going on and why.
But this is America, so the bread-lines take the form of individuals in personal vehicles, and the political energy is just kind of... neutered.

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Screenshot of October Panic. Pixel art sidescroller, friendly-looking, like the Peanuts comics.

Screenshot of October Panic. Pixel art sidescroller, friendly-looking, like the Peanuts comics.

Screenshot of October Panic. Pixel art sidescroller, friendly-looking, like the Peanuts comics.

Screenshot of October Panic. Pixel art sidescroller, friendly-looking, like the Peanuts comics.

Happy Halloween!
October Panic is on like 90% sale and costs practically nothing. It's a sweet little halloween treat!

Save 75% on October Panic on Steam An arcade-style platformer with five levels and no saving/loading. A small trick-or-treat bag packed to the brim with both treats and tricks.

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Screenshot of October Panic. Pixel art sidescroller, friendly-looking, like the Peanuts comics.

Screenshot of October Panic. Pixel art sidescroller, friendly-looking, like the Peanuts comics.

Screenshot of October Panic. Pixel art sidescroller, friendly-looking, like the Peanuts comics.

Screenshot of October Panic. Pixel art sidescroller, friendly-looking, like the Peanuts comics.

Happy Halloween!
October Panic is on like 90% sale and costs practically nothing. It's a sweet little halloween treat!

It's a pretty subtle difference, I'd say. Alruna 1 is very raw and direct, A2 is smoother and more sophisticated. The insanity there is that there are just hundreds of new ideas, new types of platforms, new enemies, excellence in level design. The fourth temple in Alruna 2 is nuts!

Indeed! The Sacrifice of Alruna is that the camera is completely static and there are no parallaxing background layers. That's a pretty big deal for the genre.
But the Insanity of Alruna is pretty much everything else! Sequence-breaking, free movement, gamebreaking abilities. Reckless game design!

Every game I make had one big Sacrifice and one big Insanity.

October Panic's sacrifice is that you can't save and have to play it in one session.

It's insanity is that its five levels are absolutely packed with unique enemy types, movie references and halloween party goodness!

#halloween

Save 75% on October Panic on Steam An arcade-style platformer with five levels and no saving/loading. A small trick-or-treat bag packed to the brim with both treats and tricks.

October Panic is now only 0,99€ on Steam!! 🎃

Super cute, hella challenging but so much fun, go go go grab it!!!

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#IndieGame #IndieDev

Yes, probably! Don't see why not. Text might be a bit small on a small screen, but the game has barely any text!

by Martin Bruckner
#PEANUTS 🎃