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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 18/09/2026

Since I recently mostly uploaded to instagram, I hereby pay my duty 🫡 The 3d trackmap I wanted to do since day one (which is a year ago by this point) It reveals the true shape of the track you are racing on, because from within the tunnel its not easy to gauge #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #ps1

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 16/06/2026

This weekend I'll be at Gamers Heaven in Tyrol for the first time. Not with the usual one fame but with a big booth and three of them! Insane - ai hope to see you there! 😊 #expo #tyrol #gamedev

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 03/06/2026

I havent been googling for a while; look how depressing it looks right now o.O and the UI mess with a + button, but also the other buttons to the right additional to the two lower ones... #ui #ux #google #interface #design #flatdesign #monochrome #bigtech

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 27/05/2026

The tutorial is working ok right now, but what the people seem to need is somewhere to practice where to sit in a corner to be fast. That should ease them into their first race which almost everyone just wanted and expected to win.

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 27/05/2026

Staring into the abyss like something is definitely not quite right here. My formula for a smooth curve was not so smooth after all 😅 Working beautifully in the next toot: #bughunt #bugs #blooper #gamedev #indiedev #psx #retro #racinggame

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 14/05/2026

Some duels in the tunnel 1 / 2 Or racing while looking in the wrong direction 😂 #resistanceracing #lowpoly #pixelart #ps1 #y2k #racinf #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 12/05/2026

Crash and burn. Sometimes you risk it, catch fire and run it into the wall. Other times your risk will be rewarded greatly. Lets hope for the latter, no matter what presses down on your heart at the moment. #resistanceracing #indiedev #gamedev #metro #racing #crash #psx #y2kstyle #lowpoly #pixelart

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 03/05/2026

some #screenshotsaturday goodness - I hope at least, it's some goodness^^ it's a long and complicated journey with a lot of bugs, for a slow paced story with fast paced racing Resistance Racing 2k97 - whishlist on steam! #ps1style #2ykaesthetics #indiedev #racinggame #racing #narrative #gamedev

two antigravity racing ships fly through a sewer tunnel, on passes the other on top of each other

three people at a table, one says: they neeed us pilots to outsmart the AI - wake up - the war probably never stopped and we should fix it for them!

looking form the cab of a metrocarriage onto the track in front with a crashed and burning antigravity craft

two antigravity racecraft following each other through a digitally simulated, green, matrix style tunnel

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 03/05/2026

The Vomitizer The Dizzy Inducer idk - what is a proper whacky name for this track? #resistanceracing #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #psx #ps1

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 01/05/2026

I forgot to add a border to the images, but building all the i game ads is a lot of fun :) #ads #indiedev #gamedev #psxstyle #ps1 #xbox #xboxgreen #y2k #aesthetics

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 01/05/2026

Foxxy oversees her ag craft and new promotional poster in the hangar but a new and strange picture showed up on the walls. 1/2 #resistanceracing #psxstyle #y2kaesthetics #xboxgreen #gamedev #indiedev #npc #racinggame

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 28/04/2026

Samantha Fox; callsign Foxxy has a radiating smile, engine and deathly stare if you dont play along her rules. Do not undererstimate her, she is not moody, you just have not earned her trust yet. How donyou do it? Dont ask me, she does not trust me either. #npc #y2k #design #indiedev #ps1 #psx #ps2

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 27/04/2026

Manfred Hogmeister, people would think you call him "Manny" but actually he is calle "Hog" - because he is one. 🐗 #gamedev #npc #resistanceracing #ps1 #racinggame #pilot #indiedev #artstyle #y2k

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 13/04/2026

I moonified my desktop, from the same design in black to one letting the new amazing #moon images shine through :) #artemis #nasa #moonjoy

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 12/04/2026

D: But intelligence has nothing to do with knowledge. You can be very intelligent but know nothing. And such are the people we need for the rocket. Otherwise the knowledge would go to waste. P: You might know a lot, but you are not very intelligent. Because you are down here with us. *shutsthedoor*

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 10/04/2026

Most pilots hang out at Café Stadtpark. It serves as a nice living room for most people who want to get away from the usual rusty metal walls, sit in a rundown room with grimey tapestry and sip on a warm cup of mushroom coffee. #gamedev #indiedev #ps1 #retro #npc #graphics #writing #psx #graphics

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 08/04/2026

conveying danger on the track ahead coherently is not so easy tbh #indiedev #gamedev #ui #userinterface

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 04/04/2026

Quick Pro Tipp for the holidays: if you are on a recipe site (or any site really) with a very pesky cookie banner. (Even our local supermarket wants to send my data to another country [america hgrm] if I want to see the opening times) Just: devtools > view source

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 31/03/2026

Feels a bit strange to do this to your friends, but if it works, it works 😁 #indiedev #gamedev #retrogame #psx #artstyle

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 30/03/2026

Yall - I get it, 3d perspective makes things really weird. I thought this was a perfectly normal sized PC until I sat a character in front of it 😅 #psx #retrographics #indiedev #gamedev #retrogame #resistanceracing

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 25/03/2026

idk why, but the watchmen smiley is there as well

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 18/03/2026

Bow down, to the machine god! This old church, now underground serves as the Resistance hideout and dance club. Tomorrow I will shoot new NPC character pics and I am super looking forward to populate that place :) #indiedev #gamedev #resistance #club #church #psx #ps1 #retro #racing

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 27/02/2026

My daily puzzle game SerpenTiles won "Best Mobile Gameplay" on Reddit's recent hackathon! :) Thanks to everyone who helped me bring this baby to life, with feedback, music and especially hammertime studio for connecting the game to reddits backend 🫶 #award #indiedev #gamedev #daily #puzzle #reddit

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 16/02/2026

Showing my new game for the first time at a con went over well! So maybe maybe, the split between narrative and racing gameplay works out just fine :) I got a lot of valueable player feedback - everybody loved to touch the roomba character for some reason

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 13/02/2026

Running through the cables of the matrix 🌐 in Resistance Racing 2k97 its a bit of an eyesore if you do it for too long - but hey, thats the price of taking part in the resistance #racing #racinggame #psx #ps1 #retro #retrographics #gamedev #indiedev

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 05/02/2026

creating any maintaining my moodboard and anytype database for this project was way more fun than I would've imagined. Usually I wing it, have some browserbookmarks, some images in a folder and ideas in my little pocket notebook - creative chaos rule - but I get it now

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 30/01/2026

After a lot of thinking, I realised, I already have all the variables for good race gameplay. I just needed to use them differently. Only by designing the UI for the "pitch vs curve = heat" of the craft I can mirror that in code now. So what you see is what you get. #racing #psx #gamedev #indiedev

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 26/01/2026

To win the championship is to escape earth. But the game is rigged. Who is to be trusted?

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 15/01/2026

Connections Puzzle #949 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Ey! Perfect in the right order finally :)

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 03/01/2026

the ai is clipping through the track as I created an unvoluntary junction with the track looping back on itself how do you like the music, though? #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #psx #racing #racinggame #retro #retrographics

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 24/12/2025

Fair - what I want to land on is a kind of electric / holographic effect. So either more transparency and fuzzyness, or baking the text into the button sprite and do some animation with that. Like down there with the radiation sign. Some scanlines and or texture through text to not have a blue blob

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 23/12/2025

The first draft of the main menu - it was imperative to start in the tunnels and a round menu just fits and is easy to use with controller eventually. I want to push the menus to be as #diagetic as possible. #psx #ps1 #artstyle #3d #race #racinggame #indiedev #gamedev

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 17/12/2025

The first version for Team: Hampton Systems! They use former tanks as the base for their racing machines. #3dmodelling #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #retrographics #psx #ps1 #racinggame #racetrack #racecar

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 13/12/2025

And here, one with supercharger for some extra acceleration #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #racinggame #psx

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 13/12/2025

Immediate Revision of the "Tinnemann Vette 9-7". The german team is known for its bullyish behaviour on and off the track. Their craft pretty much goes straight only. Break the slipstream if they follow you to avoid damage or get pushed out of the way with force. #psx #retro #ps1 #racing #indiedev

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 13/12/2025

Working on some new shapes for the different teams and to have more diversity in promo materials. These are hard to do in my editor and I need to implement some mirror editing options to easily shape them without counting the transformation steps in my head to keep the two sides equal. #3d #model

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 13/12/2025

Some days I don't have anything to show, other days are like : a new mouse cursor ✨ it's the small wins 😆

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 09/12/2025

I put together a little reel as a look and feel type of appetizer for Resistance Racing 2k97:

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 25/11/2025

It's a bit funny when using a dynamic texture instead of a static, feels like a big achievement :D It works, the framework holds - another feature I had on my mind and theoretic backburner for a long time until now.

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 25/11/2025

Sadly there is nothing in there anyway. I miss the times, where you got a map, some stickers even a manual to read while you were going home or waited for the install to finish. Touchables. The corpo red taking over is funny though^^

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 24/11/2025

Starting with the builders of those vast underground structures, a cult around St. Barbara developed. Some pilots are devoted to her and look for salvation in her arms.

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 24/11/2025

I had a blast showing SerpenTiles at ViennaComicCon - no matter the age, people liked it - except the kids that were on a search for fortnite (as always 😂)

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 20/11/2025

Bc I got asked, I am doing this in @phaser.io with a little magical sprinkle of old version and a lot of elbow grease :)

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Ancient Pixel @ancient-pixel.com · 19/11/2025

You can either give in to the computer- or the more conventional gods. These are your last months on earth, so why not both maybe?

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