iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Been a minute since I posted, had to rewrite a bucket of code for my indie game, but started today getting the weapon attacks as V1s #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #art #procreate #artwork #concept #dev #art #coding

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

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

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

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

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

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

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

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

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

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

a screenshot from an indie game jam game, of a character standing inside a container, as a giant train stares at her from the sky, the train has glowing orange eyes, and the character is textured to look cellshaded and cartoony.

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Here you can see it turned off. so the black 'cellshading' lines only get added on the interior of the VFX if you want.

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Here for visualization, The right is luminance matte of the vfx, and the left picks any edge that separates luminance and makes it black. If its on the edge of the element though, you can toggle it to ignore this effect. since its not seperating two luminances anymore, but one luminance and nothing.

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Flipbooking them! I'm running the VFX element through an expression to split any element into 3 sections (Shadows/Mids/Highlights) then it constants all those 3 items into any color you want and adds a black edge in-between each divided section. This was the "Jump smoke" flipbook!

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

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

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

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

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

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

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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

An opened and closed concept art of a box for a indie game, the box shows a forcefield that objects have to pass through to enter the box. It looks like its made of steel, but with a light blue hue added.

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

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

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

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

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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

Concept art of a delivery robot for my upcoming indie game 'Life at the End at Borts' The concept art shows an orb shaped robot with a claw attached to its base, and two thrusters on either side of it to help it fly.
It has a soft futuristic white look to it, and his emotions seem very apathetic.

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

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

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

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

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

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

Concept art of four robots each with a slightly different design. Each robot is the part of a fictional robot family in the indie game 'Life at the End at Bort' Each of them have a different design like speaking, grabbing, shooting, and showing. The robots have a white metallic futuristic sheen to them.

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

First character sheet of the 4 playable characters in my indie game! I like to get rough sketches done before diving into the 3d Modelling, as then I have reference! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #blender #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #3dart #art

4 different hand drawn characters, with descriptions about them written on the drawing, each character is a different color palette, and is a reference to a character that will be playable in the indie game they are in.

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

There are 17 zombie types in my indie game, I originally drew quick concepts of each one, and today I spent the morning fine tuning one of them! Meet the spider zombie #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indie #devlog #gameart #ue5 #digitalart #blender #conceptart #digitalart #indieart #gamer #3dart #art

An old and new concept art of a zombie character for a indie zombie game. The zombie has spider like characteristics, and also a description of what features make it stand out against the normal zombie character. The zombie has leathery skin, and it almost feels like its falling off the characters body.

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Gotta do a bit more fine tuning to the 3Dmodel! but here is a first look at the basic zombie for my game! I am happy with the progress! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamer #devlog #ui #ue5 #digitalart #blender #independentdev #unrealengine #indieart #game #gamer #3dart #art #modelling #zombie

A 3D zombie modelled for an indie game. It is a first look of one of the main generic zombie enemies for the game. The Zombie has hand drawn blood, and rigid bumpy modelled skin.

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Did more 3D modelling over the weekend, and finished up 4 new guns for the game, here is a finished look at the rocket launcher for my game! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamer #devlog #ui #ue5 #digitalart #blender #independentdev #unrealengine #indieart #game #gamer #3dart #art #modelling

Hand drawn textures on a 3d modelled rocket launcher, the style is very cellshaded inspired in its look, with dark lines on the corners, and very popping shades and colors.

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Took a break from coding today to do some asset modelling, as only one gun model in my game is currently good quality. Here is V02 of my AR. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamer #devlog #ui #ue5 #digitalart #blender #independentdev #unrealengine #indieart #game #gamer #3dart #art #modelling

Shows an old version of a in game gun asset, and a new upgraded model as well, V_01 was a placeholder AR model, and V02 is a more highquality, but still low poly, version of the AR.

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The first #cod zombie game had a setting where sometimes the zombie would enter a crawl state instead of dying, implemented that in my game today! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamer #devlog #ui #ue5 #digitalart #blender #independentdev #unrealengine #indieart #game #gamer #3dart #art #zombie

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

The animations aren't in yet, but getting the characters to have a version of path tracing so they track the playable character feels great. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamer #devlog #ui #ue5 #digitalart #blender #independentdev #unrealengine #indieart #game #gamer #3dart #art

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Finally have the Respawn system fully set up for my game! I think this officially wraps up the bulk of the playable character settings! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamer #devlog #ui #ue5 #digitalart #blender #independentdev #unrealengine #indieart #game #gamer #3dart #art

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Got the health stuff working for my indie game, so body shots do 20 damage, and headshots do 100 damage! Also have made each gun's damage amount editable! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamer #devlog #ui #ue5 #digitalart #blender #independentdev #unrealengine #indieart #game #gamer #3dart #art

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

More Game Updates. Made a system where ammo autogroups together when it drops on the gorund. this will help avoid having to scavenge an entire field, and you only have to pick up one pile per ammo type. #gamedev #indiedev #independentdev #game #indiegame #artdev #artwork #indieart #ue5 #unrealengine

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Barter Creative @bartercreative.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Have made it in the game I'm working on where the amount of bullets left in a pick up turns into smaller and smaller objects as the pile gets smaller. Here is me testing the shotgun shells. #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #indieart #artist #ue5 #unrealengine #coding #blueprints #testing #art #artist

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