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Jess @ Sleepy Bears 🐻

@shabrys.bsky.social

She/Her πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ || Indie Game Dev || πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Doing my best to make a career out of this game dev thing... Wish me luck! Also got some games on here: https://shabrys.itch.io/

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Finally got a handle on how foliage works in Unreal! I can't wait to just hang out here when it's done!!

#gamedev #indiedev

05.03.2026 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

S a c r i f i c e
#indiedev #gamedev

29.01.2026 00:12 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The animations get a little quirky at night...

#gamedev #indiedev

28.01.2026 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Greyboxed a cozy little apartment scene to test some new plant sounds!

Now... TIME FOR ART!πŸ˜‹
#indiedev #gamedev

16.01.2026 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Got my garden sounding pretty good today! 🎢

#indiedev #gamedev #UnrealEngine

08.01.2026 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rebuilding one of my projects from college!! 🎧

It's a game where you can make music by planting and tending to a garden!

#indiedev #gamedev

06.01.2026 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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how im walking out of 2025

31.12.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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my wife: honey, did you remember to take your meds?

me:

23.12.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And so I made it into a game! For fans of Adventure on the Atari 2600 and 90s PC adventure games I present to you:

Delilah's Game!

Made in one month for the Metroidvania Jam #30!
#gamedev #indiedev

17.12.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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God Skate Story is gorgeous!

Makes me wanna be a shithead teenager again so I can skip class and hang out with my friends in a place like this

17.12.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Something genuinely kinda sad about becoming a game developer is that I find it really hard to just play games for fun anymore...

To those that have been around these parts longer than I have, does that go away?

Like have you learned to separate playing games for work and playing for yourself?

06.12.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Myst-style navigation in a fully 3D world!!!

This was so much more work than I was expecting lmao
#gamedev #indiedev

05.12.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yes - MS Paint is an integral part of my workflow

No - I will not apologize!

#indiedev #gamedev

01.12.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between β€œshoestring budget” and β€œno expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art

26.11.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 7327    πŸ” 1727    πŸ’¬ 109    πŸ“Œ 91

As a proud Canadian we truly are the working proof that art and capital should not mix.

ART IS FOR THE PUBLIC NOT FOR PRIVATE INVESTORS

27.11.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love the little guys sleeping in the background! πŸ₯°

Really making the most out of that 3D

27.11.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Playing a game on a TV in a game on my TV πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«

#gamedev #indiegame #indiedev

25.11.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So cute! πŸ₯°

25.11.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Okay I think I've landed on the final look for this 90s CGI shader!!

Now to make it into a game!😈

#gamedev #indiedev

25.11.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Working on a shader to emulate the look of 90s pre-rendered graphics in real time!

What do you guys think looks better?

Left = Quantization
Right = No Quantization

#gamedev #lowpoly

20.11.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Got to work on this puzzle prototype some more today!

The generation now makes these random "towers" instead of just a grid. And clicking a tile deletes it and shifts down all the tiles above it!

#indiedev #solodev

25.09.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Starting a new project is always so exciting!

Got a system together this morning that generates a grid of random tiles that you can mouse over and interact with.

Could be the start of a puzzle game who knows? πŸ‘€

#IndieGameDev #indiedev

22.09.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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CHAPTER 2 OF HAMSUMO IS HERE!!!πŸΉπŸŽ‰

On their hunt for the fallen Star, Hamozuna tells the Captain the legend of the Lightning Sumo God. Between the stolen Lightning Blade and the falling Stars, history may be repeating itself... but not if Hamoichi can stop it!

#indiegame #fightinggame #fgc

09.09.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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HamSumo Chapter 2 drops tomorrow!! πŸ‘€

Really happy with how this shot turned out!

07.09.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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HamSumo on Steam BONK YOUR FRIENDS in this action-packed, roly-poly, multiplayer action game! Choose your favorite HamSumo fighter to duke it out with your friends in this adorable PvP arena! Unleash unique and powerf...

Hey HamSumo gamers! Don't forget to leave a review on Steam! Positive or negative the feedback is always appreciated and will help make the game the best it can be!!

store.steampowered.com/app/2561810/...

04.09.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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HamSumo on Steam BONK YOUR FRIENDS in this action-packed, roly-poly, multiplayer action game! Choose your favorite HamSumo fighter to duke it out with your friends in this adorable PvP arena! Unleash unique and powerf...

THE TIME HAS COME!!!

AFTER OVER TWO YEARS OF HARD WORK MY FIRST GAME IS AVAILABLE ON STEAM!!!!!!!!!!

GO HAM SOME SUMOS EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#indiegames #indiegame #IndieGameDev

store.steampowered.com/app/2561810/...

30.08.2025 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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HamSumo on Steam BONK YOUR FRIENDS in this action-packed, roly-poly, multiplayer action game! Choose your favorite HamSumo fighter to duke it out with your friends in this adorable PvP arena! Unleash unique and powerf...

Wishlist HamSumo on Steam pls!!!!

22.04.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's HamSummer baybee!! It's gonna take a lot of work to get my first game done in time for it's release on August 29th, but I'M GONNA DO IT!

And if you wanna get a chance to play HamSumo early, I'm glad to announce that I've registered for Steam Next Fest running from June 9-16!!!

22.04.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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SO I think I might be starting to figure out this whole "Environment Art" thing?

17.02.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Made an official logo for my fiancΓ©'s and I's indie company SLEEPY BEARS!! πŸŽ‰

I've been working really hard on our first game HAMSUMO that's going to be releasing this year and slapping official branding on it has made everything feel so much more real!

I LOVE MAKING VIDEO GAMESSSSSSSSS

29.01.2025 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0