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@bonitaka.bsky.social

latvian game developer/multimedia artist my most recent important game, hate(dot)net: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3659990/hatenet/ play my other games here: https://bonitaka.itch.io/

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fun fact: I started making Leap Year on February 29th, 2024
another fun fact: I've just realized I don't know when to celebrate

28.02.2026 13:48 — 👍 41    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

this was such a nice read! my face lit up when i saw the thunder effects in my playthrough, so cool

19.02.2026 08:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My mind replaying my inconsequential mishap for the rest of the day

16.02.2026 07:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

2026 is a slow start for me, but it feels more like firing up a large engine that will then steamroll on with no stopping.

Lots of bad things happening in the world that make me itch to create art, so that I can begin to stomach it.

10.02.2026 22:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’d say I have quite good patience until I have to deal with people who don’t have any. I really have to try not to tilt otherwise

09.02.2026 20:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🙂‍↕️

05.02.2026 16:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

100%, picked it up during covid and had a fun time bashing my head at it for a while, slowly piecing together some things while accidentally stumbling into the story, then chatting with the discord while they give me little hints. the community kind of becomes a part of the game itself

01.02.2026 12:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

WHAAAT THIS LOOKS SO COOL. THE LITTLE SPLATTER FROM THE COLLATERAL SHOTS…

01.02.2026 09:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I like the spiderweb way… I usually mind map top to bottom but i love this

30.01.2026 20:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

experiencing some kind of horseshoe event where it takes longer for spotify to open and load on my phone than it takes to switch my cd player on and put a cd in

28.01.2026 09:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

was pondering this for a while but i’ve been playing pathologic 2 recently and that game pulls off ludonarrative cohesion so well that this never ends up being an issue

26.01.2026 11:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the screenshake and hit-stop is sooo good

26.01.2026 06:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the trickle down economics are strong with this one

21.01.2026 10:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

sorry i accidentally tossed the wii remote at it my bad

20.01.2026 12:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

❌ locked in ball ✔️ locked in, balling

17.01.2026 14:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

it's painful how relatable the unreal part of this is, no idea what the starfleet thing is but uh. i imagine it sure beats looking at the little spinning thingy while unreal is building

16.01.2026 00:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

i'll be going on with my day, enjoying all the music my library has to offer and then oops. 200 consecutive plays of marrow by meshuggah

15.01.2026 19:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

so true... sometimes someone's just got that silly in them and that's all there is to it

15.01.2026 19:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

damn... putting it on my reading list now

11.01.2026 12:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

this looks so fucking cool wth

08.11.2025 10:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

hey sorry for the really late reply, it's a black notebook with white ink!! The pro is that everything you draw is super cool looking. The con is that white ink pens are expensive and I use like 4 per notebook xd

06.11.2025 09:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

thank you so much for playing :)) I'm so glad you vibed with it

01.10.2025 17:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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hey! I decided to share my most recent game's development notebook with all of its notes and sketches! i scanned each page and put it together in a pdf :)

you can find it on itch here: bonitaka.itch.io/hatenet/devl...

03.09.2025 14:39 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

thank you for playing hate(dot)net. I am so glad it touched you in a sentimental way! loved reading the review ❤️

26.07.2025 09:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Was really nice to come on to your show! Go listen if you wanna know some of the process/philosophy behind it ⚙️✨

03.07.2025 09:30 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The very very start was me playing a ton of games with level editors - Trackmania in particular... I think 7 year old me spent more time making tracks than actually driving them.

Picked up Gamemaker Studio when I was 13 and the rest is history... Now I'm studying game dev and learning more engines!

26.06.2025 18:09 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes!! that would be super cool... ❤️

17.06.2025 18:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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helllooooo! the game I've been putting together since the start of the year is coming to Steam and Itch on JUNE 3RD!!!

Wishlist it on Steam!!!!!! store.steampowered.com/app/3659990/...

#indiedev #psx #gamedev #FPS #indiegame

18.05.2025 19:29 — 👍 20    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

OH I should keep a better eye on my socials- thank you for sharing it! I really appreciate it :D

12.05.2025 13:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A new upcoming bonitāka game: hate.net hello everyone! I've been hard at work putting together a new game - it's called hate.net ! It's a first-person movement shooter set in a game server overrun by bots . I don't want to reveal too much....

a little itch post about my game :} super excited to share more on this soon itch.io/blog/925588/...

15.04.2025 09:31 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1