High ground #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #gamedev

I love developing my game backwards, spending days polishing tiny details before the core gameplay is ready. Here's a rework of the wind gusts and its particles, a bit more subtle, but it now feels more natural and soothing. #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #gamedev

No words needed. I just enjoy looking at this #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #gamedev

Just chilling in a totally normal cave I found. Nothing to worry about #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #gamedev

The first snow. Watch it start to settle #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #gamedev

Making things smooother. Glyphs now fade instead of popping in/out with camera movements, and character's walk is not so jittery too. All that flickering was really annoying while playing. #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #gamedev

Working on cave design. It's pretty hard to make an entrance distinguishable. Trying this moss outline and hanging roots. #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #gamedev

Walking on fresh ice is fun until it isn't #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #gamedev

When spring is finally here, going far from home can be dangerous but fruitful. Sometimes all you need is just a plunge in the river. #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #gamedev

When a storm comes, it's always better to run back into the burrow. It's warm and safe there, and the big flashes won't scare you anymore. It's always better to be safe. #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #gamedev

Winters can be harsh, with freezing temperatures forcing you deeper underground and scarce resources that you had to stock up in advance. #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #gamedev

Also, this funny number follows my games everywhere. Okaay

Denis@denisbondare.bsky.social · last mo.

Making a new game. Very chill. Picking berries, scaring sparrows, stockpiling for winter. Definitely not a horror, and certainly nothing bad is going to happen here 👀 #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

Making a new game. Very chill. Picking berries, scaring sparrows, stockpiling for winter. Definitely not a horror, and certainly nothing bad is going to happen here 👀 #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

188 KB of the game. No textures, no meshes, no sprites, no samples, no assets at all except for the voice-over audio which is +2.8 MB. An experience that is short but complete in every aspect, looking, feeling, and sounding pretty decent, can be condensed in under 3MB. #gamedev #indiedev #horror

Denis@denisbondare.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Phew, just finished my little horror ASCII game! It's a short story about exploring the depths of the Southern Ocean in a submarine. You can play it here (it's free): haldane4.denisbondare.com #gamedev #horror #ascii #indiedev #solodev #retrogaming

Just got my first ever youtube let's play of my game! Someone found the game on reddit, played it 4(!) times to find all the endings, gave me a lot of great feedback, and even made a whole 30min video. This is so cool! youtu.be/1PFEuSDaT_Y #gamedev #horror #retrogaming

An Eerie, Anxiety Giving Text Script Horror Game! | Haldane-4 | Indie Games | PC

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Denis@denisbondare.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Phew, just finished my little horror ASCII game! It's a short story about exploring the depths of the Southern Ocean in a submarine. You can play it here (it's free): haldane4.denisbondare.com #gamedev #horror #ascii #indiedev #solodev #retrogaming

Phew, just finished my little horror ASCII game! It's a short story about exploring the depths of the Southern Ocean in a submarine. You can play it here (it's free): haldane4.denisbondare.com #gamedev #horror #ascii #indiedev #solodev #retrogaming

I'm making a tiny ASCII-style horror story about exploring one of the deepest under-ice cavities in Antarctica alone in a cramped submarine. It gets dark and messy pretty quickly, can't show everything yet haha Would you play this? #gamedev #horror #ascii #indiedev

Is there a way to subscribe to a feed of most popular game jams so I get notifications before they start? Itch io has like hundreds of them and I can't find a way to get notified.. #gamedev #gamejam

Sorry babe, but my Notion 3D Engine stays on #notion #coding

Playing Doom in #Notion after a long day #creativecoding #gamedev

music is code

I gotta get back to work but I keep torturing this strudel snippet #dnb #creativecoding #beatmaking

I keep enjoying using Strudel. Feels like being a kid trying Basic for the first time haha #creativecoding #livecoding #junglemusic

My tiniest task manager. I like the idea of a task bucket, you drop in random stuff you need to do, and when you have time, you pull one out and do it. I just made a small local app for this. Adding tasks is easy at any moment with a hotkey. I really love minimalistic apps haha

I just opened the repo of my tiny horror game that runs in the terminal. You can play it with python. Story: in the 80s, a deep cave was found but couldn't be explored. A robot was sent 3km down. You're the engineer controlling it from the surface. #gamedev #ascii #horrorgame #indiedev

Wanted to try something new. I like that it's that simple, mostly just sine waves, and only 29 lines of code. Shifting arpeggio notes 4 chords behind was accidental, but turned out surprisingly well and I kept it. #strudel #music #livecoding #creativecoding

First time trying Strudel. Spent half a day reading docs and playing around. So fun! Also I love the McCulloch interview, I think it aged so well, go watch it.

If I didn't need to earn money, I'd definitely spend years making hundreds of tiny games alone, hidden in some cave on a picturesque mountain. #gamedev

Apparently, Midjourney is unaware of the "brain rot" term. Who would've thought it'd be the last aesthetic humanity kept organic. The frontier of human culture if you will.