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Hearing a baby coughing with COVID while some drunk wanker is shouting about his poor arm having an ouchy was diabolical.

Also had a tough guy escorted by police threatening people, but moaned like an alpha male when needing a cannula.

Nurses are truly amazing people ❤️

Just out of hospital, spent 12 hours trying to keep my temperature below 40. Not fun. Seeing 10% of the people around me suffering horribly while waiting for treatment, listening to other people come into an emergency department with a sore toe was spectacularly frustrating.

Sorry for the inactivity, I'm still working away at Five Arcade, just struggling to post because of mental health related shenanigans. I shall return next month with a new trailer and a demo 🌷☘️❤️

Thank you, I appreciate that. Yeah I'm finding it really difficult, especially the imposter syndrome stuff, I constantly wonder if I'm "depressed enough" to warrant help, which makes things worse... hopefully things will start making sense soon 🙂

Thanks Craig, that really means a lot. I've hit a bit of a low point but hopefully I'll be back soon. Seeing messages like this does bring some joy 😀

I found a depression therapy group in my town and decided to go. I've been so scared to go outside, to socialise, to be myself. I'm tired of being scared and alone so just need to be brave and hobble into an unknown building with unknown people and admit I can't do this alone anymore.

10 minute Leon.

If anyone is curious as to why his feet are covered by leaves and stuff it's because leaves represent the fact that I can't draw feet well.

SILKSONG! This game helped me out after burning out a bit last year. I hope you enjoy it. Try hard to turn off the game dev part of your brain while playing or you might find yerself thinking things like "Oh, I should do a particle effect like this in my game". No! It's time to rest!

Light Yagami from Death Note holding an apple in a field

Hiya all. I'm still working hard on getting my demo out but needed a small break so watched some Death Note which obviously meant I needed to take a break from watching Death Note to draw Light. So now I'm off to take a break from Drawing Death Note to watch Death Note.

#art #digitalart

Haven't posted much progress lately, but I've been working hard on Steam page prep and haven't had much exciting stuff to show.
This Volt Blade is cool though. With special move limits turned off it's a nice zone clearing device for when I just wanna test some stuff out 😈

#gamedev #indiedev #godot

A vaguely-Link-to-the-Past tileset for a top-down, 2D video game.

I'm as done with this tileset as I can be today. Time to put it aside until tomorrow. For now, though, it's grilled cheese time.

#gamedev #indiedev #jbth #pixelart

Enjoy your work. I think I'll do the same until my demo is ready. I always love seeing your work but it's your character that makes you awesome.

I hope you have loads of fun and I'll see you when you are back. 🌹☘️🌷

Look at the little arcade machine playing a heart pounding game of Pondle, or is is Pongle...whichever one doesn't mean the thing it clearly means. Pong. No! Ssssshhhhhh!

Title Screen Reveal! There's a little jingle as well 😀

Wishlist Now (if ya fancy it, it's really good I swear): store.steampowered.com/app/4241600/...

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev

haha I can now blame you for the nonsense I will soon publish 😂

I think we can all agree that I've outdone myself with the sheer artistry of this gif! There is so much raw emotion. And the questions it raises!

Ahh, someone please stop me from writing...

"But, when you try and create something with all these elements and you are a single game dev person, like a puddle of mud things get a bit blurry."

a quote from upcoming dev diary

"When you employ a person who is spectacularly crafty with art, and another who is a pragmatic with code, a third who is tuned up in music, a fourth who is an eloquent writer, a fifth who doesn't know when to end lists, a sixth begging the fifth to get to the point"

I've played this game more than I can count and simultaneously not enough 😀

haha what a title!

I could probably cut my explanation down to 10 pages 😂

Yep.

I really hope you got some respite.

Stay safe and try and be kind to yourself (advice I keep trying to adhere to)

🌷

Refactoring is always a good time 😀 I hope everything still works

It is spectacular. I haven't updated in a few years but last I checked they offer lifetime updates so you get the latest version for no extra cost...

As I was writing that it occurred to me how stupid it is that this isn't the standard model anymore 😒

Code: Several variables storing bullets called: HandWaveBullet, SwordBullet, and ShieldBullet.

I'm going to start a thread about the greatest things about being a Solo Indie Developer.

First and most important, there is no one to question you when you make unmistakably genius and sensible and good looking decisions like naming swords and shields: bullets.

#solodev

My girlfriend and I are working together on @on-together.bsky.social today! 💚 This is so cute!

I love that you can buy FL Studio and then own it. No subscriptions or anything.

No need to apologies...unless you are the one who put the bin there! 😅

haha that's awesome. I will definitely consider the £5.55 approach, it's definitely the best option thus far.