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Wishlist Mega Drill on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3967560/Mega_Drill__World_Domination We're a small start up #indiedev studio. Most of our games are free and can be played on itch. https://small.itch.io

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Mouser (Super Mario Series) - 2026 Rough Clay Model
#art #fanart #supermario #mario #Mouser #artSKY #sculpture

06.02.2026 15:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 92    ๐Ÿ” 25    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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I've built a struct based UI making system in Game Maker and it allows me to easily do funky things like that. ๐Ÿ˜

#gamemaker #gamedev #indiedev

04.02.2026 21:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I've built a struct based UI making system in Game Maker and it allows me to easily do funky things like that. ๐Ÿ˜

#gamemaker #gamedev #indiedev

04.02.2026 21:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cuphead for the Nintendo Game Boy. A mockup made before I tried using GBStudio, so I had to wing it in terms of what could be displayed on the system without big framerate dips

01.02.2026 19:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 244    ๐Ÿ” 54    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Photo Version

01.02.2026 14:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Nova-box is proud to present After the Wane, the studio's next game, which will be released on Steam at the end of 2026. โœจ

The studio will use rotoscoping for the first time to enhance key moments in the story. Here is the teaser! ๐Ÿ’ƒ

๐Ÿ‘‰ Wishlist the game: store.steampowered.com/app/2742720/...

27.01.2026 15:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 219    ๐Ÿ” 99    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 19
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Making good progress on our game about nature observation. Still needs a lot of polish but the core mechanics are almost all there!

#indiedev #gamedev

26.01.2026 20:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A bit of a process behind the sound design! ๐Ÿ”Š

Big thanks to @rathaelos.bsky.social for providing the sick animation! #sounddesign #gamedev

26.01.2026 21:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 510    ๐Ÿ” 102    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Merci!

27.01.2026 01:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Making good progress on our game about nature observation. Still needs a lot of polish but the core mechanics are almost all there!

#indiedev #gamedev

26.01.2026 20:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿฅต

26.01.2026 20:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 102    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Being a Warner movie, my feeling is that Warner did a Warner and forced George Miller to do a movie he did not want to do because they wanted to capitalize on Fury Road's success.

Everything in Furiosa is just a wink to Fury Road. Down to using Fury Road footage in the credits.

26.01.2026 14:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Loved Mad Max : Fury Road so we watched Furiosa and boy! This was NOT good! That's disappointing.

26.01.2026 04:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So.. still crabby?

25.01.2026 19:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Day 11: 2025/07/06 - 10h

Finally got a rough easing transition working for the dialogue system. Broke lots of things in the process so it took a long time. There's a lot of optimizing and cleanup to do, but it WORKS. I'll polish more later.

#gamedev #gamemaker #pixelart #indiegame #gamedev

25.01.2026 18:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Letโ€™s answer some important questions โœจ๐Ÿ”‰๐Ÿ’ฅ

#chipzel #readingcomments #chiptune

23.01.2026 17:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 247    ๐Ÿ” 51    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I can't remember if I ever posted this one, it was given as a print with the first orders of my artbook at the time

23.01.2026 16:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 208    ๐Ÿ” 32    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A crow kicks a small ball of snow. They then start rolling it into a larger ball while saying "trust the process...". They kick more snow into a pile and stick a branch in repeating "trust the process" to itself. They place small stones. They say "Phew!" and stand back to look at its creation, which we see now is a mess of a project that looks somewhat like a melted bird. The final panel the crow says "haha it's terrible".

A crow kicks a small ball of snow. They then start rolling it into a larger ball while saying "trust the process...". They kick more snow into a pile and stick a branch in repeating "trust the process" to itself. They place small stones. They say "Phew!" and stand back to look at its creation, which we see now is a mess of a project that looks somewhat like a melted bird. The final panel the crow says "haha it's terrible".

Finished is better than terrible #oldknees

23.01.2026 16:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8414    ๐Ÿ” 2006    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 39

Well thank you! I appreciate the comment.

23.01.2026 16:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Splash screen and map of our game "Greenpatch Garden".

Splash screen and map of our game "Greenpatch Garden".

Working with my girlfriend on a game about maintaining gardens and observing nature because this is what the world need right now. ๐ŸŒณ

23.01.2026 13:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a group of care bears are standing in a line ALT: a group of care bears are standing in a line

๐ŸŒธHey good morning folks! What are you up to?๐ŸŒบ

(๐Ÿ˜…Lets pretend the world is an happy place for a sec, I could use the good vibes rn)

23.01.2026 13:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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17th Colossus
Vampire Survivors
#pixelart

22.01.2026 16:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 543    ๐Ÿ” 88    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Day 8: 2025/07/02 - 11.5h

Got branching dialogue working, and added the continue (spinny shell) sprite.

I managed to get talking portraits to animate when the text is typing, then switch to the idle animation, but there's some bugs to squash.

#gamedev #gamemaker #pixelart #indiegame #gamedev

22.01.2026 20:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Personal challenge of not using single pixels in the piece.
Very interesting problem-solving. #pixelart

21.01.2026 16:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Day 6: 2025/06/30 - 8h

Improved the environment visuals & added new NPC (Douglas) & portrait expressions.

Also started learning about Chatterbox & Scribble libraries for their potential to build a more powerful dialogue system in the long run.

#gamedev #gamemaker #pixelart #indiegame #gamedev

20.01.2026 21:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 43    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Testing the Bog Tile for #AvanteAtlantis

#indiegame #gamedev #pixelart #turnbased #strategy #steam

20.01.2026 12:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 56    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cecil: This Behemoth is about to kill us! Kain, my faithful Dragoon friend, what do we do?!

Kain: ... ๐Ÿ‘€

Cecil: Kain... no

Kain: .....*crouch*

Cecil: NO

Kain: ...

Cecil: Kain, I swear to god...

Kain: ...

Cecil: ... please don't jum-

20.01.2026 07:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 101    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Over the weekend Forbidden Solitaire's Demo has received praise from players, critics and developers alike - in addition to becoming Steam's #1 'New and Trending' Demo with >9000 downloads and counting!

The team thanks you for all the kind words and support!

๐Ÿ’ฟPLAY NOW: tinyurl.com/ywj43ptj

19.01.2026 18:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Small isometric point&click mockup
Made for NOPโ€™s PixelEncore

19.01.2026 19:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 71    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dropping in another old mockup. Had an idea, what if Tomba in a fully #pixelart render

19.01.2026 19:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 335    ๐Ÿ” 54    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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