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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

What a surprise! Thank you tons to @sophiesnothere.itch.io (as well as @digidoggi.tv who was heading there)! Awesome folks both, thank you! ...Wait, this means I actually have to make my idea, oh nooooo~

Cropped order from the Unity Asset Store, showing Pure Nature 2: Meadows purchased today for the sale price. Some sensitive elements are obscured by mark.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The latest Unity Hub update fixes that it reverted your Analytics settings if you logged out (or got logged out) of it. But you still have to go into Settings -> Security and Privacy and turn off "Opt in for analytics" again. #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"Let me see what you have." "A gun!" "*NO!*" #gamedev #indiedev (CW: Guns firing, but no actual violence beyond losing our deposit.)

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A while back I was tinkering with Cuddle picking up and interacting with some objects. I put it aside, as I can't really give it the focus for this coming update, but as a small easter egg you can hand objects to the Kobold and they'll carry them around. #gamedev #indiedev

In-development screenshot of Cuddle Kobold: Just a Bite, showing the milk chocolate-colored titular Kobold inside of an apartment looking up and to the left, wearing a jester hat with bells and holding two differently colored cups in each hand. This wasn't intended as a TADC reference when I made it but hey timing.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I've been fighting Unity joints for hours. I think I finally got a fridge door to *mostly* behave the way I want. It's been an ordeal. #gamedev #indiedev

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Cuddle Kobold: Just a Bite is included in this bundle, and you should get the Supporter Edition with an *amazing hat* if you buy! Oh, yeah, and 395 other games and media. CK: JaB is designed for VR on PC + Quest, but can be played on Desktop Mode and Steam Deck! #gamedev #indiegames

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Cinematic Parallels in the "Holding Treat Up at You" Genre:

A screenshot of the Power of Pride 2026 indie games bundle on Itch.io with Cuddle Kobold: Just a Bite featured on top, with the Kobold (a lizard creature) holding up a big purple glowing gem they like to snack on. Then below that, just after the Transmasc Asset Pack for RPGMaker is Castaway Memories by Ghost Clown, as the figure in the cover art is also set off to the right, and holding up a treat, in this case a rainbow apple or some other fruit. Snack Buddies!

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Cuddle Kobold: Just a Bite New Patreon Post: Let's Catch Up, May 2026 www.patreon.com/posts/lets-c... #gamedev #indiedev #furrygames

Thumbnail for the Patreon update, showing a cluttered kitchen with various decorations and doodads, "Let's Catch Up, May 2026" title, with 3 images, for the Patreon for Setsune Wave at https://patreon.com/setsune as a pink Kobold in the bottom right corner looks at the screen and gestures with an arm raised up at the post title, having also been overlaid in post.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Absolutely. It's all about the end result, sometimes you get there in the silliest or clumsiest ways, but as long as it works and doesn't cause the player problems, it doesn't matter. And when later on you go back to try to make it better, you'll run into this meme: www.reddit.com/r/Programmer...

A comment string in a program warning someone in code: "Dear programmer: When I wrote this code, only god and I knew how it worked. Now, only god knows it! Therefore, if you are trying to optimize this routine and it fails (most surely), please increase this counter as a warning for the next person: total_hours_wasted_here = 254 "

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

VR developers when everything was renamed "Metaverse"

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs "First time?" meme, showing James Franco's character in an old western town with a noose around this neck, looking off at another unseen person presumably also about to be hung and flippantly asking, "First time?"

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

VR Developers: How do you specifically create a bowl-shaped collider for Unity? Are there any tools you use to speed up the process? #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

An overhead view of a bowl in a Unity scene, with 8 box colliders rotated to form a funnel shape, one is currently sticking out more as it's in the process of being more accurately aligned.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I got it! GameObject.FindWithTag is more efficient, but it's also only running 3 times; I was worried it was going to need to look for the pooled object manager with every footstep, but it only needed to look each time an AudioSurface type was encountered. So far so good! #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

It does look better as a proper stopper, I'll leave it that way. Intrusive thought: "Player will think they can pull out stopper now."

Another screenshot of the same bottle, this time with the cork stopper plugged more traditionally into the top of the bottle rather than inset.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Yes I thought of the obvious thing. This feels like giving up.

A screenshot of Cuddle Kobold: Just a Bite showing a bottle-shaped vase, with a cork stopper plugged inside it to explain why you can't put things in to the obvious gap.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Me adding a generic random piece of decor: "Yes, this will have so many needless functions and secrets most players won't find, ha ha!" Me adding a shiny gold key: "Eh, I can't think of anything for that to do, it'll just be decoration." #gamedev #indiedev

A cropped screenshot of Cuddle Kobold: Just a Bite showing a shiny gold key hanging on key hooks on the wall by the front door.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Didn't quite make it for the day, but here's the Holiday Catch-up for Cuddle Kobold: Just a Bite's Bonus Update, talking about progress and what I'll be doing next! Read it here! ⤵️ www.patreon.com/posts/holida... #indiegame #furrygame #gamedev

Thumbnail for the Patreon update, "The Holiday Catch-up: The Bonus Update and More" by Setsune Wave at patreon.com/setsune, advertising 6 images over a screenshot of the Kobold wearing an inflatable ring that looks like a pink frosted donut, in front of a deck porch that overlooks a sunset ocean.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Super cost-effective and talented maker for game character models, Vtuber avatars, and more! Both myself and a friend have employed her and been very happy with the results! #gamedev #indiedev

Kobold model created by Feravel for Cuddle Kobold, a fantasy anthropomorphic green lizard / dragon shortstack smiling at the camera and doing a casual peace sign / V gesture.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I'm in one of your other packs, may I still apply, or is that being greedy?

Cover Art for Cuddle Kobold! Just a Bite, showing a thicc green shortstack kobold holding up a glowing purple gem, over a blue-faded view of a nighttime apartment.

A slightly out-of-date pixel art close-up designed for the game Rulent Tower, a closeup of familiar-seeming chipmunk "cheeks" with an emerald green insert under her teardrop tail and a bow on her butt. The screen is patterened with snowflakes and the text below reads "Merry Christmass!" and "Setsune" with a heart. The gem is animated with a sparkle in-game.

An overview of Mary Ann's castle room and grounds inside her "apartment" in Rulent Tower. A grassy area with a target and a "wanted" sign, an arched stone window, and a pathway leading to a more interior section, with stone floors, and furnishing such as a canopy bed and... an outhouse? Every pixel was drawn by me and it maxed out the GB Studio tile limit at the time.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

New Patreon / SubStar post, a preview video with some of the changes upcoming to Cuddle Kobold: Just a Bite's long-overdue bonus update! ...Why is the thumbnail a basketball? www.patreon.com/posts/just-b... #indiegame #gamedev #vr

A purple VR hand holding a basketball in a simple digital apartment, to the right two refrigerators, as one often has in their kitchen.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Unity Animation Editor tamed, Kobold Headpats animation (minus some automatic stuff) achieved.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Made a peephole by gluing a customized reflection probe to it. It's not an elegant solution, the better method would be to modify a shader to inject the cubemap, but I don't know how to do that at the second. But I do know how to glue a custom reflection probe to the door. #unity #gamedev #indiedev

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

It might be Bluesky compression, but the grayscale changes the feel to harsher and darker. A lighter shade for the middle grays may help, but my suggestion would be to pick a Super GameBoy-like palette to make your promotional default. It'll set a unique tone. I went kinda retrowave with mine.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I've thought about how to best to implement redecoration in a VR game, and I think I've figured it out: The Furniture Gun. BANG BANG BANG! Three piece suite. #gamedev

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Good thing I'm not developing a VR game in Unity 2022 or anything! Now I can't have access to the update to "com.untiy.xr.openxr"! (Oh, also "XR: Fixed issue where Quest Link would fail when using DX12 and single pass rendering." I'm sure that's no big deal FOR A VR GAME.) #gamedev #indiedev #vr #xr

Screenshot of Unity version changelog highlighting the XR update of "com.untiy.xr.openxr" [sic]

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

What the hell is this, Unity? After 2023 being abandoned and Unity 6 having issues for ages, now us "peasants" aren't allowed access to 2022 updates for our existing builds? unity.com/releases/edi... #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

Screenshot of the Unity Download Archive, showing a green infobox next to the 2022.3.63f1 update released on June 5th, 2025, reading "Enterprise and Industry only", with the tooltip "This version offers the advantage of 3-year support, providing extended stability and reliability exclusively for Unity Enterprise and Industry users"

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Since I dug it up, here's Steamed Hams but it's Isometric Exercise. Probably my most complex and favorite voxel piece. I did a LOT of rewatching to catch all the little details. You can view it in live 3D here, but it's missing some of the shader effects: skfb.ly/6wupD #voxel #magicavoxel #voxelart

An angled isometric diorama of the Kitchen from the "Steamed Hams" Simpsons short, Superintendent Chalmers has opened the door and is glaring hands-on-hips at Principal Seymour Skinner, who is pretending to stretch his calf on the open window's sill, as smoke pours out of the oven next to him.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I'm also looking for short-term work to make ends meet: -Writing (Comedic and Soft Tones are my best area, but I'm flexible) and Proofreading -Pixel Art and Voxel Art (especially low-spec, such as these GB Studio examples) -GB Studio Development SFW or NSFW* #gamedev #gbstudio #pixelart #forhire

A collage of various examples of pixel art, voxel art, and writing, primarily oriented around low-color resource-limited productions such as Rulent Tower made in GB Studio, and the VR bonus made for Oculus (now Meta) Quest. A voxel rendition of the "Isometric Exercise" scene from the Simpsons "Steamed Hams" sequence is also present in the corner.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I remembered the NES/Famicom d-pads didn't just have the little triangles, but proper little arrows, that might work even better than what I suggested. Hope I'm not sticking my nose in too far, sorry!

Close-up of a Famicom controller directional pad, featuring a plus-shaped black cross on a circular cross embedded into a bronze-gold plate, the d-pad labeled "Controller" with four cardinal arrows and a circle divot embedded into the plastic.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Forgive the sloppiness, I'm drawing this with my finger in the back of a moving car, but little inset arrows with the negative space might give it a bit of the d-pad feel you want? Only if you want to go that route, of course.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

This was actually an issue when I started colorizing Rulent Tower for GBC support. Previously I picked a sort of vaporwave palette, suddenly I could make things all the colors. (Or most of them, GBC is real bad at yellow.) And I had no idea what color Rulent Tower actually was. Red? Blue? Purple?

Screenshot of Rulent Tower's prior version in Super Game Boy color mode, a pixelated overhead view of a small fox woman standing in front of a building, all washed over with the same variations of purples and pinks.

Screenshot of Rulent Tower's current version in Game Boy Color color mode, a pixelated overhead view of a small fox woman standing in front of a building, this time with the building soaked in reds, the parking lot in blues, the sidewalk and street in front in grays with blue highlights.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I love YouTube Shorts because it lets me easily watch all these Blender tutorials about uhhhh... Well at least I can see the view counts! #gamedev #indiedev #blender

A cropped screenshot of YouTube Shorts for a Blender tutorial channel, showing unobvious thumbnails to a newbie and no titles, only the view count.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

It's funny I can't find anything that is literally... two bars and some non-skid pads on it. Yes, I can just improvise something probably, but I don't want it to soak up the heat, I want minimal blockage of the vents and intakes, and most importantly I want long arms hugging laptop. Wouldn't you?

Marketing image of a laptop stand, advertising "Easy to Assembly: High-quality aluminum alloy", with example rods of aluminum, and an illustration promoting their shorter screw length and quality.

Marketing image of the same laptop stand, advertising "Laptop Never Slides & Rocks: Long arms hugging laptop" showing the gripping pads and hooked ends to help keep the laptop in place.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

90's Cartoon Analog Horror but right before a particularly tense scene the characters pause to insist you put on your special 3D glasses #gameidea #gamedev

Packaging from Kellogg's Rice Krispies cereal promoting the new Yo, Yogi! cartoon with included 3D glasses, the younger Yogi with a twirling hat saying, "Hey, Hey, Hey Kids! Watch me in 3-D on NBC! The 3-D action starts when I spin my hat! See details below..." while holding up a pair of cardboard 3D glasses with one lens much darker than the other.

Illustration of the Bots Master cartoon, based on a toyline that included their own variant of 3D glasses to wear during special segments of the cartoon. "Free Inside, 3-D Glasses" to the right with an illustration of them.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

New Patreon & SubStar Update post talking about the last month, some 2025 plans, and baby steps into Ren'Py: Pick your preferred platform: #gamedev #indiedev #furrygame www.patreon.com/posts/patreo... subscribestar.adult/posts/1576360

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Okaaay I did the responsible thing. Here's the example I sent. Left side is a particle system using the material Sprite-Lit-Default, and the right Sprite-Unlit-Default. Starting in Unity 6, the "Lit" version started showing over meshes (a plane and cube here), but not Unlit. #gamedev #unity3d

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Itch.io Autumn Sale has been rough so far. I wasn't expecting a lot, but it does seem like I've pretty much hit saturation on Just a Bite. Which is fair, it's a slight thing, there's tons of opportunities to get it for free, it was in the Queer Games Bundle, and not everyone needs a special hat.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

(glares) We meet again, my eternal temptation. #unity3d

Unity Asset Store Image of Modern Loft Full Pack by PolyBox, depicting a very modern and angular-looking loft apartment with white, wooden, and brick walls, a somewhat open floor plan, a lounge area with sofa and TV, and wooden floors.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I'd like to be added please! I'm developing a chill-out sandbox VR game with a fantasy friend, which I'm stuffing full of mini-games and secrets. I also dabble in GB Studio game development on the side, making Game Boy games!

Screenshot of the player holding up a star-shaped Christmas cookie in front of a brown kobold wearing bunny ears. To the left is a partially-visible Christmas tree with gifts below it, and behind them is a "Dragon Panic" arcade game unit and a view of the snowy weather outside.

Screenshot of Rulent Tower, a low-color Game Boy Color game featuring the protagonist looking over the edge of the tower's rooftop, at the retrowave setting sun and seaside skyline. To her right is a golden beach with a distant beach chair and umbrella, and a small line of footprints leading off the side of the screen.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Nobody's biting on my game's sale, that's a shame. I removed the Funny Number goal and increased the discount to 70% off for the Supporter Edition with Hyperkobold Hat. So if you like scurrying from size-thieving shortstack scalies and casual Christmas vibes, the sale ends soon! #indiegames #furry

Screenshot of Cuddle Kobold: Just a Bite, featuring a short thicc Kobold with purple and yellow scales looking up at the player holding up a golden Supporter hat.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Cuddle Kobold: Just a Bite's Supporter Edition is on sale for 55% off!! Collect Glowies at night to feed your Kobold, or she'll shrink you down to snack size! Daytime is chill space, with secrets to find! Works on PC, VR, Meta Quest, and Steam Deck! setsune.itch.io/koboldjab #indiegame #furry #vr

Screenshot of a pink Kobold wearing a Leprechaun hat, looking intently at a candy cane. Beside is a Christmas tree, and in the back is an apartment wirh a pool table ans scoreboard visible. Captioned "Celebrate Appropriately-Timed Holiday Festivities!"

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Let's try out Bluesky's new Animated GIF support! Cuddle the Kobold really wants to show you the letter "R"! (It might be part of "Happy New Year", I went to rerecord this and could not find the scene file.) #gamedev #indiedev #kobold

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Ah, some old #gamedev notes. ...Hang on. (checks date) ...Where's my check, Content Warning?? (/j) #gaming #contentwarning

Screenshot of Discord chat from 08/23/2023: "Player has a face, but it's a text canvas the player has to enter characters into to make a face themselves." Then an example, then "Even better, they can edit it in real time." Then a streamer supposedly saying "Sad scene, hang on chat..." and editing it to a crying one.

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Setsune (GameDev) @setsunedev.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

How dare y- No actually that's fair.

Holding a questionable purple shake up to a Purple and Gold Kobold inside of a kitchen

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