Using @valheimgame.bsky.social as a case study for my game mimicing their dungeons, where they teleport you up 2000ft, instead of creating a new level. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #indieart #gamer #art #procreate #artwork #concept #dev #art #coding
Barter Creative
@bartercreative.bsky.social
VFX Artist / Artist / Indie Game Dev / Currently making - "Life at the end at Bort"
Have 4 Realms, with 17 different level rewards setup for my indie game. Procedurally generated dungeons, and room rewards. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #blender #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #art #unrealengine #artwork #concept #dev #art #coding
My Indie game now auto swaps floor textures using a flipbook. Long term this will make the whole dungeon use only one 2k texture. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #art #procreate #artwork #concept #dev #art #coding
Made a line up/queue system for my indie game, where all the characters order, and then move to a table to "eat their food" #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #blender #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #art #procreate #artwork #concept #dev #art #coding
Built a scalable dialogue system, where you get dialogue that only gets triggered once the character likes you a certain amount. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #blender #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #art #procreate #artwork #concept #dev #art
Just before i go back to working on my indie game for the next 2 years, have one of the cooler screenshots from our game jam game! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #blender #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #artwork #concept #dev #art #gamejam #shader
I finally finished the bug fixes for my game jam game, it was a great time working on this for the last month with some friends! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #blender #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #artwork #concept #dev #art #gamejam #shader
I Like Trains - Oh not this much - BigModeGameJam - Trailer2026
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Working on a way to process 2d VFX elements into cellshaded textures so they can match the style of my game, tested it on a game jam! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #blender #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #artwork #concept #dev #art #gamejam #shader
Poster we made for our game for the #bigmode2026 game jam! Was a fun time getting this game out in 10 days with our small team! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #blender #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #artwork #concept #dev #art #gamejam #jam #gamejam
Still talking a bit of a break from my indie game to do a yearly game jam. Worked on some idle animation for a living train today. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #blender #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #artwork #concept #dev #art #gamejam #jam
Taking a break from my indiegame to do a game jam, starting to prep for it by remembering how to do things like this with the camera. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #blender #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #artwork #concept #dev #art #gamejam #jam
Continuing to work on the storage in my indie game! Where the weapons now auto sort on the shelves so you can organize your weapons! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #blender #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #art #procreate #artwork #concept #dev #art
Getting the guns, I modelled, set up to be on the shelf in my indie game. Still have to make 20 more, but got a good chunk complete! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #blender #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #art #procreate #artwork #concept #dev #art
New Mini-verse storage concept art for my indie game, a container that can fit objects of any size, but stays light weight and easy to move! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #blender #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #art #procreate #artwork #concept
My store in my indie game, you can now order items and they get dropped off by a drone in a box! Progress! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamer #ui #ue5 #blender #independentdev #unrealengine #indieart #game #gamer #drone #code #userinterface #art #precreate #userinterface #dev
Continuing to make the store in my indie game get better and better! Still a LONG way to go, but its starting to get there! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamer #ui #ue5 #blender #independentdev #unrealengine #indieart #game #gamer #drone #code #userinterface #art #precreate #userinterface #dev
Beginning to work on the store in my indie game as follows. A. Store auto-populates B. Some items don't unlock until certain conditions C. The items get delivered via drone. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamer #ui #ue5#blender #independentdev #unrealengine #indieart #game #gamer #drone #code
I finally have mocked up a concept art for my indie games store UI that I don't hate. Anyone else hate the UI part of Indie-Dev? #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamer #devlog #ui #ue5 #digitalart #blender #independentdev #unrealengine #indieart #gamer #3dart #art #code #UI #Design #interface
First test of ordering things at a kiosk and they get dropped off by a drone in my indie game! Not bad for an initial set-up! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamer #devlog #ui #ue5 #digitalart #blender #independentdev #unrealengine #indieart #game #gamer #3dart #art #modelling #drone #code
Sometimes I get bored or doing indie game dev and try to redraw Victor from arcane to brush up on my art skills. Gonna post the timelapse in comment if anyone wants to see the process! #arcane #victor #colortheory #art #artist #jayvik #netflix #gloriousevolution #artist #noai #digitalart #conceptart
Meet Borb! When you order supplies in my indie game someone needs to deliver that supplies. Borb will deliver it with a lack of smile! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #blender #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #art #procreate #artwork #robot #conceptart
I continue to work on concept art for my indie game while relaxing at night. Have two updated zombie concepts. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #blender #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #3dart #art #procreate #digitalartist #artwork #robot #zombie #art
Using one texture to drive every single muzzle, tracer, and shell in every gun in my indie game. All in one 1024x1023 texture. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamer #devlog #ui #ue5 #digitalart #blender #independentdev #unrealengine #indieart #game #gamer #3dart #art #modelling #zombie #code
Rocket launcher is working! This marks the end of the weapon coding for my indie game, on to refinement, and then the next task! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamer #devlog #ui #ue5 #digitalart #blender #independentdev #unrealengine #indieart #game #gamer #3dart #art #modelling #zombie #code
Fine tuned the Melee and weapon switching code today, the mechanics in this game are finally starting to feel like a proper game! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamer #devlog #ui #ue5 #digitalart #blender #independentdev #unrealengine #indieart #game #gamer #3dart #art #modelling #zombie #code
Finished all the concept art, for the bots in my indie game, today. Check out this incredibly poorly programmed bot family #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #blender #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #3dart #art #procreate #digitalartist #artwork #robot
More Concept art behind the scenes for my indie game as i continue to plug away at a TON of coding in the spare hours i have! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #blender #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #3dart #art #procreate #digitalartist #artwork #robot
Working on a lot of BTS stuff these days that isn't too fun to showcase, so have 3 more zombie concepts for my indie game. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #blender #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #3dart #art #procreate #digitalartist #artwork #textures
A little bit more work today on some of the weapons in my indie game! 100% of the textures in the game are hand drawn. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #blender #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #3dart #art #procreate #digitalartist #artwork #textures
Made some homemade explosions for the grenade, in my indie game, this weekend. Cool to see explosives finally! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamer #devlog #ui #ue5 #digitalart #blender #independentdev #unrealengine #indieart #game #gamer #3dart #art #modelling #zombie #cod #digitalart #code