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JSRVarma - Solo Dev

@dantecross.bsky.social

He/him. Indy sff Author ⭐ Indy TTRPG content ⭐ pixel art ⭐ Light Youtuber ⭐ cozy vibes ⭐ lots of nonsense ⭐ Former Lead Designer @Roll7 ⭐ Former all seniorities designer @Ubisoft https://beacons.ai/jsrvarma

1,114 Followers  |  672 Following  |  481 Posts  |  Joined: 02.11.2024  |  1.7189

Latest posts by dantecross.bsky.social on Bluesky

#ScreamJam entry complete and entered! I'll post a link tomorrow when you're allowed to vote >.>

16.10.2025 19:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Last week we went to @phantompeakuk.bsky.social and handed out these tourist trail cards to the residents. I made some for a friends birthday now I guess it’s tradition XD

16.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
What even is Game Design?!
YouTube video by Other Pixel Games What even is Game Design?!

I didn't forget to upload this at lunch time, nope, not me, dunno who it was, probably you.
Check out this new video chatting abotu the game design discipline!
youtu.be/kfuu_aIq09w
#youtube #indiedev #gamesindustry #gamesdesign #newvideo

15.10.2025 19:13 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chapter 14 - Strength And Dexterity - Blade Song A fraction of a second before Meliana shouted ‘Mark’ Teth was moving. He darted forward and slammed his sword down towards Cal who side stepped it and lashed out with his own weapon. Cal’s blade hit h...

Frustrated former drunk vs aggressive over the hill adventurer, who will win in the brand new chapter of Blade Song that just dropped over on #RoyalRoad!
Read Chapter 14 now!
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1310...
#swordandsorcery #indieauthor #lightnovel #webnovel

13.10.2025 13:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Started the #screamjam today! Had a really strong idea from the off and got plenty done. Planning done, character in, proc gen level set up, energy and food sister in, among other stuff.
#indiedev #gamedev

10.10.2025 18:34 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Quickfire Games Industry business terms #educational #gamedev #3dgamedevelopment #business
YouTube video by Other Pixel Games Quickfire Games Industry business terms #educational #gamedev #3dgamedevelopment #business

Check out this quickfire explanation of 10 game dev business terms.
youtube.com/shorts/qSCCg...
#gamesdev #business #youtube #newvideo #shorts

08.10.2025 11:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just realised that the famed szeth son son vallano line is not actually the opening line of the stormlight archive 😅 there’s a whole prelude chapter before it. #stormlightarchive

06.10.2025 21:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chapter 13 - The Party - Blade Song Chapter 13 - The Party The journey back to town took far longer than the one to the forest. With only one horse and Kaila not willing to ride with him, they went on foot. She told him that she could...

BLADE SONG CHAPTER 13 NOW LIVE ON ROYAL ROAD!
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1310...

#webnovel #indieauthor #royalroad #serialnovel #fantasy #dnd #swordandsorcery #13unluckyforsome

06.10.2025 12:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An idea I’ve been mulling around for the first lines of a #darkfantasy revenge novel. Expanded today to the short prologue that can be found as a free update on my #patreon.
www.patreon.com/posts/140462...
Background art belongs to sareanaddict on freepik.com
#snippet #revenge #indieauthor #fantasy

04.10.2025 21:57 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Where are you going with this?
YouTube video by Other Pixel Games Where are you going with this?

Follow along as I continue to learn to code and make pixel art!
youtu.be/Ud6L92yIFvU

#youtube #pixelart #coding #gamedev #indiedev #newvideo

01.10.2025 13:05 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Chapter 12 - The Sleeping Necromancer - Blade Song Chapter 12 - the Sleeping Necromancer Cal prepared to strike, but as he stumbled and struggled back a step he noticed that, though it was stood ready to attack, the wolf skeleton… didn’t. After a paus...

A brand new chapter of Blade Song is now live on #RoyalRoad! Meet The Necromancer!

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1310...
#indieauthor #fantasy #swordandsorcery #dnd #serialbook

29.09.2025 15:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And with that I have a basic outline for the next arc of Blade Song which I will write in november!

28.09.2025 20:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

With National Novel Writing Month coming up in just over a month Im starting to think how Im going to do it this year, now that the company no longer exists.
How are you going to do it? Just a spreadsheet? Or are you forgoing it altogether?
#writingcommunity #writerscommunity #indieauthor #nanowrimo

28.09.2025 19:35 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
that moment when you think you're done and you hit a soft lock "Well %£$" #gamedev #gamejam #gmtkjam
YouTube video by Other Pixel Games that moment when you think you're done and you hit a soft lock "Well %£$" #gamedev #gamejam #gmtkjam

That moment in a game jam when everything breaks
youtube.com/shorts/_iO6Q...
#gamejam #youtube #newvideo #indiedev #gamedev

26.09.2025 12:59 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

First character in a while. It’s kinda cheating but I put the artwork for screamjam together early since I’m using it as an opportunity to focus on coding (and if I hadn’t don’t this I woulda just got free assets anyway)

24.09.2025 15:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Hook shot, bombs, magic and a fun lil space man!
YouTube video by Other Pixel Games Hook shot, bombs, magic and a fun lil space man!

New video about my continued coding journey now live!
youtu.be/sN3OsWvYvYM

#youtube #gamedev #indiedev #coding #unity #educational #gamesindustry #gamedesign #newvideo

24.09.2025 11:14 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Chapter 11 - Canyonvue Town - Blade Song Chapter 11 - Canyonvue Town Present Day When they arrived in Canyonvue town the morning after an evening of stressing about what the following day might bring, and a night dreaming about the things he...

Chapter 11 is now live on #RoyalRoad!
Time to meet our first new companion!

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1310...

#serialnovel #fantasy #indieauthor

23.09.2025 10:53 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This time I've played it for about 5 hours and I have almost caught up with my 17 hour save, like wtf...
I think it's cos i'm playing much more aggressively. I'm sure in my past playthroughs I would have done a lot of avoiding and hitting only when I am safe. now though... SLASH SLASH SLASH!

22.09.2025 20:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So I decided to restart hollow knight recently. I played it ages ago for about 17 hours, and then suddenly stopped, then every time I've tried since I've got an hour in and stopped or I've tried my old save and just been awful.

22.09.2025 20:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Woo! Another hundred followers and I got that gorgeous '.1' next to my follower count.
thank you everyone for following me, I genuinely appreciate it.
❤️❤️❤️❤️

21.09.2025 15:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

😮 I’m 1 follower away from getting that little .1 in my followers 😮

20.09.2025 11:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chapter 10 - The Jail - Blade Song Chapter 10 - The Jail 5 months and one week Earlier “Do I really have to wear these on the way there?” Leni asked, holding the shackles that Cal had handed her up in front of him. It was the morning...

New Chapter of Bladesong now live on #royalroad!
From next week onwards we’ll be down to a regular once a week schedule.

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1310...

#fantasy #indieauthor #webserial #webnovel #dnd

19.09.2025 19:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I really need to pay closer attention to the scheduling cos this went up at midnight not lunchtime XD

19.09.2025 07:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chapter 14 - Strength and Dexterity | Stargazing-Dragon Get more from Stargazing-Dragon on Patreon

14 chapters of Blade Song now live on #patreon! That's 4 weeks and 5 chapters ahead of #royalroad!
only £3 for the first 25 people, then £5 after that, unless you want extra lore, then its £7

www.patreon.com/posts/chapte...
#fantasy #indieauthor #magic #epicfantasy #highfantasy

18.09.2025 12:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chapter 9 - Adventurers - Blade Song Chapter 9 - Adventurers The ride across the state of Westcoast continued peacefully. Outside the walls of Westridge they travelled past farmland and into rolling planes. They were unable to travel d...

New episode of Blade Song live on #royalroad!

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1310...
#indieauthor #fantasy #dnd #epicfantasy #hero #lightnovel #webserial

17.09.2025 18:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
How I did TOTALLY AVERAGE in my first solo GMTK Game Jam!
YouTube video by Other Pixel Games How I did TOTALLY AVERAGE in my first solo GMTK Game Jam!

Brand New Video about my "recent" experience taking part in the #GMTK2025 #GameJam

youtu.be/7AnBli0e8jw

#youtube #newvideo #indiedev #gamedev #gamesindustry #coding

17.09.2025 11:24 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Chapter 8 - Melt - Blade Song Chapter 8 - Melt The red white and gold horse let out a snuffling breath at Cal and nodded it’s head, almost as if to say ‘what are you waiting for, come on over’. Cal wasn’t sure how he interpreted...

New chapter of Blade Song up on both #RoyalRoad www.royalroad.com/fiction/1310...

And #patreon www.patreon.com/posts/138898...

#indieauthor #fantasy #epicfantasy #dnd

15.09.2025 14:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just watched the new #crowdcontrol on #dropout and the way @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social at the end was shaking his head just screamed “I’ve lost too many game changers to think I have any chance of winning a dropout.tv game” XD
Was great though! Looking forward to next episode

12.09.2025 12:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Was really enjoying #LiesOfP right up until I had to kill a friend because I left a gold coin on a tree and couldn’t say ‘be right back I can get that for you’ now not sure I’m gonna complete it cos I know I will have to kill another friend because of it.

11.09.2025 20:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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