@richtaur.bsky.social
Friendly neighborhood game dev (he/him) ๐ Wrote How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself: https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/ ๐ท Working on Pixel Washer: https://playacclaim.com/pixel-washer/
these are so cool
03.11.2025 20:24 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Cool thread on finding your creative path โฌ๏ธ
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Pixel Washer WIP - Memory Museum
Pixel Washer - Food Truck Fleet
Pixel Washer - Train Station
Pixel Washer - Big Memory
Please enjoy some exports of freshly squeezed Pixel Washer levels ๐ท๐ซง
#WishlistWednesday #WIPWednesday
thank you for noticing I live for little details like that โค๏ธ
29.10.2025 18:08 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0lol thank you for the purchase that's very generous of you!
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BOO! (the scary ghost kind)
Anyway How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself is 50% off as part of the Itch Halloween Sale 2025:
valadria.itch.io/how-to-make-...
Oops forgot alt text:
A drawing of 2 swords. On the left, most games: a typical (boring) sword. On the right, your game: a ridiculous shark sword with a hat and a little sword with its own little hat! From my book How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself
Haha cool thanks for reading!
28.10.2025 16:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
It's time for your annual reminder to make the weird thing you want to make!
Be weird, have fun ๐ฆ๐ก๏ธ #indiegamedev
Going great. That looks like a good time!
25.10.2025 01:38 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐๐ฅ
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Star Spark's store page is live. Still a lot of work to do, but it's cool to be at this point :D
#GameDev #IndieGameDev
haha hope so too! I'll be here listening ๐ง
20.10.2025 18:05 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Yes, Your Grace
Asgore Dreemurr, King of the Underground (Undertale)
Kingdom: Classic
The only kings we need are the fictional ones in indie games.
Stay safe out there friends #NoKings
To your health and recovery โค๏ธ
16.10.2025 15:57 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Cool new game dev opportunity โฌ๏ธ
15.10.2025 23:11 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0thanks for joining ๐ป
15.10.2025 18:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐คฉ
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My cover illustration for the game Space Jam a New Legacy, which I also art directed and animated #art
Character sheet #art
Screenshot from a pitch for a TMNT point-and-click adventure game featuring April o Neil as a mystery investigator
Isometric pixelart illustration for Minecraft, while I was working at Mojang. This is meant to show off the world and it's thrills. It lives in the how-to-play section in-game
I'm castpixel, a senior illustrator and art director with more than 20 years of experience (ok, it's 21 years). One of the best pixelartists working today. I'm looking for a project.
Clients: WB Games, Minecraft, SEGA, HASBRO
Hire me! I make your game look good.
[ #portfolioday ]
Nobody ever tells us, but this is like 99% of game programming:
13.10.2025 20:30 โ ๐ 43 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 2Great picks! Yeah zircon's got some amazing original music now, really good stuff.
13.10.2025 20:26 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Aww yeah it's got that classic ocremix sound/feel!
"14 years ago" oh my ๐
It's challenging for sure. I sometimes hear about some games getting thousands of wishlists/day and I'm like howwwww ๐
13.10.2025 20:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Some of these songs are so good that I've been listening to them steadily for most of my life:
13.10.2025 01:32 โ ๐ 25 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0So cool!
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New game dev podcast time! Thomas Stewart and I had a great chat, check it out:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Ph... #indiegamedev
Fighting the good fight ๐ช appreciate you
10.10.2025 15:08 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Congrats ๐
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STEAM DEV CHEAT SHEET Quick access to a collection of best practices & magic formulas: STEAM CAPSULE (Your Game) The single most IMPORTANT element since it's seen the most Clear Readable Game name Genre Hook(s) Hire on artist! THE DISCOVERY ALGORITHM Get 7,000+ wishlists before launch Get 10+ reviews ASAP (positive or negative, just need 10) The only punishing review status is OVERWHELMINGLY NEGATIVE (the rest are neutral for traffic) WISHLISTS About 15% of wishlists convert in the first week. ALL wishlisters are emailed at launch. Discount 20%+ to email wishlisters after launch. SALES ESTIMATES FROM REVIEWS One review represents about 20-55 soles. It's the New Boxleiter Number! ~30 is good So 100 reviews = about 3,000 copies sold. TRAILER (Viewers skip through trailers) Start strong Omit intro logos Direct to gameplay 60 seconds or less End with ONE CTA: Wishlist it or buy it Made in October 2023 From the author of How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself valadria.com
Happy 2nd anniversary to the Steam Dev Cheat Sheet ๐ฅ
LMK if any info is out of date! Good luck with your game ๐ฎ
#indiegamedev
Beautiful! I vote for Rydia ๐
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