Favorite lunch hour break activity - coding and sipping a coffee. ☕️

Progress yesterday- three art fight paintings (done with that now unless attacked, I've done 24 😅). Played through chapter two. Wrote a branch snippet of another chapter.

A few more screenshots of the WiP. Chapter One is readable but still a lot missing. (Backgrounds, for one. It's just... black.😂) Won't have as much to post again, since next is more writing. #indiedev, #interactivefiction,

More early character design work. Good enough for placeholders while I build more of the game and finish writing the story. Many will get tweaks as I polish everything more but getting there! #indiedev, #interactivefiction, #renpy

Since I mentioned #artfight, here are my attacks this year so far for the curious. #artfight2026, #artfight26, #digitalartist

Slowly going through the first three chapters and adding expression changes to the code as well as filling in missing snippits. Then will probably build the game UI and test out how it's looking before doing more chapters. #solodev, #interactivefiction, #indiedev

Slowly working on Venyr expressions. This part always takes so long but is kinda fun, too.

Still working on the newest story, not much to post. Finishing missing snippets of act 1 and writing act 2. Getting the draft playable for testing. Still tempted to make an rpg, but the story needs to be written regardless and players may prefer the same format as before, anyway. #interactivefiction

Started working on the save/load system for the grid game. Wrote another scene for the newest story idea. And made a character info card for one of the characters to put up on #artfight.

The background now looks more like a "spaceship," the bossy mushroom has been replaced by crewmate Chtia who is also now the one who comments on the growing plant. #indiedev, #solodev, #godot

Did some more writing for a new story, and for the grid game started working on a "spaceship" parallax that will be needed for the tutorial/demo/intro area. #indiedev, #solodev

Anyone else joining #artfight2026 ? Give me your tag and I'll add you! #artfight artfight.net/~SketchAndDev

Art Fight

An art gifting game

artfight.net

Spent some time writing today for a new story. For the game I am building: The game scene can now drop "materials". A "crafting station" populates any potion types that the player has enough "materials" for in inventory. The mushroom now specifically asks for *healing* potions. #indiedev, #godot

* Smoothed out some animations * Added an idle "NPC" that interacting with it changes player color and it remembers selection * Edited the backdrop of the game more * added icons that "pop" when discovered and more closely match their effects #godot, #indiegame

One of our boys test playing the game. 🥰 He immediately started hoarding potions to exploit HP increase since I haven't capped it, yet.😂 #indiedev, #solodev

Update on this: multiple enemies now queue, dialogue system more polished, started swapping graphics to check sizes needed, tiles now disappear and some spawn items, more tweaks. #indiedev, #solodev, #godot

Spent some time poring over the script of DotVC trying to decide how to let you "actually" leave Gina behind. Two ideas here - either rewrite the *entire* storyline there *or* she shows up when someone else does but both are more skeptical of you. Leaning toward option two, can't imagine why...😅💀

Alright! I've finally put a starter pack together! Right now it's mostly gamedevs and/or artists! I wanted to collect folks with less than 1k followers who are making interesting things! There's only a handful of people here right now, so if you'd like to be a part of it, please let me know!

Game has a main menu now with some basic instructions, a bossy mushroom you can trade with for a permanent buff, and you teleport back to "main base" when you lose. #indiedev, #solodev, #godot

Progress! Fight tiles now spawn an enemy that attacks you until dead. Item tiles now grant a potion. Next level button only active if no active enemies AND green tile found. #solodev, #godot, #indiedev

Sketching out a mockup of the "room" a bit more, thinking about where UI should go for various pieces.

Progress on a new game. Core gameplay will be randomized tile reveals. For now the tiles only add or subtract hp and flag as "clicked." Game over if 0 hp (grey), win if the "key" is found. (Green) #indiedev, #solodev, #godot

Oof, so long since I posted! Some honesty- I've been wracked with indecision over scope + realistic amount of free time for projects. I have finally come to a decision on a few things and shifted plans for my next projects as a result. I'll post more about that as soon as I polish a few things.

So far it looks like I could get this story working in RPG Maker, but torn on that vs focusing on polishing it into the previous cyoa focused layout and tweaking for smoother Steam deck play, instead. For now I'm writing the rest of the story as that needs to be done either way.✍️

You may be just an ordinary human in an extraordinary world, but that doesn't mean you can't leave an impression 👀 Will you leave the other characters in SPILL THE BEANS better than you found them, or leave a bitter taste in their mouth? 💔☕ #indiegame #indiedev #vn

I am delighted to serve as this week’s host for the official #TurnBasedThursday thread on Bsky! 🙌 ➡️ #GameDevs: post your awesome #turnbased game below – and don’t forget to use the hashtag! ➡️ #turnbased fans: check out some amazing projects below and be sure to comment, like, and spread the word!

Fanart - Mark (Coral Island) I'm doing a series in which I draw non-merfolk characters of CI as merfolk. Male walruses are intimidating and stoic, but also very communal and protective, much like how Mark is towards animals and family. #CoralIsland #coralislandgame #merman #merfolk #sno4wyart

Our game is constantly improving, but there’s still a lot of work ahead to polish every detail #indiegame #gamedev #gaming #ThrowbackThursdays #thevestige

More concept art, trying to get placeholders for characters for now.

Seeing how Venyr looks, testing expression changes. Probably tweak the art a bit later but good enough for now. Now to make placeholders for everyone else and get the story entered to see what else I need.