Rob Madden

We're absolutely thrilled that Pine Hearts has been nominated in the 'Award for Accessibility' category at The Debug Indie Game Awards! 🏆🎉

Good luck to our fellow nominees! What an incredible line up 💚

A Steam Deck handheld device featuring key art from Pine Hearts on the screen. The Pine Hearts Logo covers the rightmost side of the device. Text below reads: "Steam Deck Verified!"

Pine Hearts is officially Steam Deck Compatible!✅🎉
Now you can explore the great outdoors wherever you are 🏕

We've also added a small sprinkling of quality of life updates, you can read more about it in our community post below! 👇

📝 store.steampowered.com/news/app/178...

Thanks! He's called Keepsy and is the mascot for our publishing label Little Nook

You're only getting one of the highest rated Switch games of 2024 for basically nothing. Just sayin 😁

A hand holds up a Nintendo Switch in front of a Christmas Tree. Pine Hearts is running on the Switch.

It's your last chance to grab Pine Hearts in the Nintendo Holiday Sale! 🎄🎁
Explore the great outdoors while staying cozy inside 🏡

A Christmas scene featuring a tree being decorated by characters from various different Hyper Luminal Games projects.

Happy Holidays from all of us at HLG! 🎄❄
We've had an incredible year, with the release of Pine Hearts, celebrating our 10th Birthday, and collaborating with our amazing partners. We hope you have a restful break and look forward to seeing you in the new year! 🌟

The Best Switch Games Of 2024 According To Metacritic 2024 was a great time to be to own a Switch, as compilations of classic games, captivating indies, and first-party titles from Nintendo were some of the best-reviewed games of the year on that platfor...

What a way to end the year! Pine Hearts among amazing company in @gamespot.com Best Switch Games of 2024 ❤️

www.gamespot.com/gallery/the-...

😻

Hey drop me in! ❤️

Our first Starter Pack was super popular, so we've created

'Thunderful's List of Totally Awesome Indies #2'!

go.bsky.app/QeWoy2N

Comment below if you're an indie developer or studio that hasn't yet been included in one of our packs, and we'll get you added.

Don't forget to reshare! 💖

Technically it should be #webmsaturday 😅 and thank you!

Are we doing #screenshotsaturday on Bluesky? I think we should do #screenshotsaturday on Bluesky 😊

#pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

Some lovely local Dundee devs have just launched their next game! Go check it out!

📢 EEEP!!! MYTHWRECKED is OUT NOW

After *3 years* my next indie game (following Röki) is OUT NOW on Steam, Xbox and Nintendo Switch...

🏝️ Explore a secret island
⚡️ Meet the gods of legend
🔎 Uncover the truth, behind the myth

Best of luck Alex!

Pixel art of a a domed, blue cloud with a rainbown halo. Skulls shape the cloud, curtains and a windown frame the view.

That cloud

I'm pretty new too so still learning! But yeah exactly you can't really just scale pixel art in the scene - because then your pixel scale becomes inconsistent and you have pixels of different 'sizes' and it can look a bit odd. So you have to author assets knowing ahead of time what scale they are!

Unity takes care of most of it! There's some setup required to make sure your pixel scale is consistent and crisp across resolutions.

Really mooding up the lighting 😋 Gotta love that soft bloom!

#pixelart #indiedev #gamedev

I’m back from my break!! It was longer than I thought it would be, anyway…

Here is the long awaited starter pack 3!

If anyone wants to join it, just ask in the comments below. There is PLENTY of space! 🥳😎

#indiegame #indiegamedev #gamedev #videogame

go.bsky.app/Dz7R41d

Hey can you add me in please? ❤️

The Games Accessibility Starter Pack is now so big, it's in volumes! That's more than 150 people passionate about, working in and doing the most to improve games accessibility!

Volume 1: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Volume 2: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Messing around with a bit more post-processing and added in a few extra details 😊 I want to get a slightly textured look to sit alongside the clean large pixels.

#pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

Thank you! ❤️

This was me trying to compose a little scene primarily to test out some of the kit but also to play with lighting a little.

I love how 'modern' soft lighting can look against 2D pixel assets 🤤

#pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

Any cool and creative devs that want to join, let me know!

(There’s so many devs I follow that I still need to add rn it’s not even funny) #gamedev

go.bsky.app/5uZHVx6

I'd like to think I'm both cool and poggers 😎

Starting to build a little kit to bash a level together with. You can take the developer out the 3D but you can't take the 3D out of the developer 😅

#pixelart #indiedev #gamedev

Wholesome Indie Dev ☕🎮 Join the conversation

Are you a #gamedev making a cute, relaxing, cosy, or wholesome game? Come join our cosy corner! ☕

There are plenty of spaces, so if you'd like to me added, feel free to reply to this post and share what you're working on!
go.bsky.app/RkeKvHh

#indiedev #indiegames #wholesomegames #gamedevs

Hey yeah this is right up my street can you add me please?