iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Everytime I get a good routine going, productivity is increasing, I GET SICK It's just rude at this point

Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Made progress the past couple weeks on writing the final demo chapter 16 new branching paths added for a SINGLE character's perspective. There's 6 playable characters all together, and I'm maybe only half way to finishing one... #indiedev #gamedev #visualnovels #vndev #indiegames

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I have not been feeling any super strong motivation to work on my game lately, I'm trying to combat this by writing a short to do list the day before and finishing those small tasks bare minimum. I finished them all, and even did some extra script editing. I guess it works?? #gamedev #indiedev

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Excuse the bad photo, but I'm so excited to be getting closer to a steam capsule look I couldn't stop to export a better quality! I think I've got some more fine tuning to do still, testing text logos and whatnot, but it's almost there! #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #indiegames #solodev

A top down view of a grove of birch trees, a shadow of a four winged dragon casting onto the green and gold grass below. Pages of a journal fluttering down.

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Anyone else really struggle with drafting the Steam page write ups?? I feel like I've never thought of my game once trying to phrase this in a way people would be interested in 😅 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

Photo of a laptop with a draft of my game's steam page, "About the Game" section, where I anguish over describing and pitching my game to players.

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Had a bug in my settings menu that has been there for MONTHS. I've avoided touching it because I absolutely dreaded the process to fixing it. Took me less than 5 minutes. Completely threw off the rest of my day #gamedev #indidedev #solodev #gamedevthings

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Back from a camping trip today! Realized I had a medical problem going on the whole time, so getting back into the game dev swing might be a bit of a slow endeavor while recovering But, I showed off my game to family and got so much encouragement it really was a big boost 😭💕 #gamedev #indiedev

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Ya know, I started Tales of Amythria initially because I landed in a rough spot for hiring juniors in the games industry. If it was going to be unstable, I may as well learn new skills and make something I was proud of. I'm so sad and angry the industry is still at that point today.

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

After so much work, I actually finished all the in game UI elements this month! Now all that's left is the main menu, and LOTS of importing and fiddling in engine.... Sneak peak of main menu progress! It's so rough still but I'm excited anyway #gamedev #indiegames #solodev #visualnovel #gameart

Heavy work in progress photo of the main menu/title card screen for Tales of Amythria. Including a green banner housing the button selections, overlooking a valley with jagged mountain ranges, a large oak tree in the foreground. Remnants of a campsite sit below it.

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Alright, last day of Next Fest, as per usual here's my small 🧵 on the demos I tried out and absolutely loved! • • • • • #indiegaming #indiegames #steam #nextfest

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Found a couple great game demos from #Nextfest, super excited to play them, and I'll be sharing what I play obviously! I don't love that I now have to dig through every steam page for genAI usage, but it does make the genuine ones stand out so much more to me at least... #indiegames #indiegaming

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JB @jaybeeretro.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Reminder from Shigesato Itoi: Touch grass.

Itoi: "If you don't experience things outside of gaming, your ability to truly engage with games will fade..."

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Playtester ↗ @playtester.io · 14/06/2026

An indie game where you loot, fight, and extract in the Gyldenmist. - Combine class skills, talents, and gear - Fight creatures and rival Gyldhunters - Extract to return with your haul Try the demo: playtester.io/mistfall-hunter #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

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Cup Dragon Games @cupdragongames.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Dream Hollow is a hand-drawn cozy horror game about a little girl trapped in a haunted storybook forest. Here's 25 seconds of gameplay from our upcoming demo!! #indiedev #indiegame Follow our Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cup...

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

So my bf got me Paralives because I had been basically drooling over how fun it looked for almost a week, and I have now given up any hope of being productive this weekend lol Sorry life, but I simply must build a little seaside cottage for 9 hours

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

An end of month update on my progress! So, I didn't end up reaching my (very lofty) goal of finishing all the intro illustrations. And that's ok! It's been a big and stressful month, and I still made progress regardless, a lot of it! Small 🧵👇 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #indiegames

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

In a turbulent time in general, little things like a book I've been waiting on for ✨MONTHS✨ to come out is probably the best feeling! If you haven't read the first book, "When The Moon Hatched", I definitely recommend! Made me cry so obviously it's great 😂 #books

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

#screenshotsaturday returns for Tales of Amythria! This month is all about the big illustrations of the life of the character you pick to play the game as. Enjoy me slowly losing my mind over hundreds of roof shingles! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #indiegames #visualnovel

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

So it's been a minute, I haven't shared a lot lately, mostly due to a lot of life stresses piling up all at once. Things are starting to calm down now, and I wanted to give a production Timeline update on Tales of Amythria! 🧵🧵 #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #visualnovel #steam

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Touching grass for a bit of a break 😊 I kind of want to hide tiny frogs in my games now, as a little developer signature lol

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Dora B @heyitsdora.com · 09/04/2026

Me to my game devs: You need to rest. You need to have downtime and work-life balance. You need to set boundaries for yourself and be a human outside work. My brain: Not you, though. Me: Oh, God, of course not me. Haha. Can you imagine?

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Just realized I haven't posted in a minute... I'm still alive! Just got a new work schedule and have been working most spare moments on Tales of Amythria when I can to avoid burn out ☺️ Fingers crossed for a very exciting announcement in a couple months though! ° ° ° ° #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Working on some background panels today ☺️😌 Also, how are people getting such smooth videos with this angle??? #gamedev #solodev #digitalart #lineart #visualnovel

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I've officially written 3/4 of the branching paths for the final demo chapter! .......On 1/6 of the characters...... I've written so much my software struggles to load it all at once 😅 and there's still so much left to write ° ° ° ° #gamedev #gamewriting #visualnovel #indiegames

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Finally have something to show off for #screenshotsaturday! Working on a new character's sprites! She's actually the first person I designed for this game, and it's so wonderful to start to see her come to life! Also some new UI layouts, still tinkering with designs. #gamedev #indiedev

A screenshot of a pause menu, showcasing four illustrated tabs in the upper right corner, with four more unfinished green buttons in a list format on the left.

A neutral expression of a new character sprite, a woman in a red cardigan and wild curly red hair pulled into a messy bun.

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

You could say I've been spending a bit of time on UI assets.... This is only one of my files, I have 2-3 others for different sized assets used as needed #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #VisualNovel

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Me nudging my UI slightly to the left My game: "so you have chosen.... Death"

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I'm finally home after a month away house-sitting! Very happy to be back to my space, gonna take a couple days of R&R before fully getting back into the swing of things for the game!

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All Will Rise by Speculative Agency @allwillrise.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

💫 2 STRETCH GOALS ACHIEVED 💫 Can you believe it? We’ve just gone past the first 48 hours of the All Will Rise #Kickstarter, and we’ve already unlocked the first two stretch goals! On to the next one: The River Goddess! Link here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe... #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I know I could get brushes to do this faster, but I just LOVE the feeling and look of doing these forests by hand 😅 Working on an interactive fantasy map! Thought it would show off locations and give background world lore better than exposition dialogue. #gamedev #digitalart #indiedev #solodev

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

February is cursed I swear to God 😭😭 (Minus my bfs birthday we love that for him)

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

So I'm house sitting, and brought my laptop and stuff to work when I had time, right? Turns out one of the cats I'm watching here as well REALLY likes to sit exactly on the laptop when in use. Fully ignores it otherwise. We'll see what I get done this week 🤣 #gamedev #solodev

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Sketch vs Final! Finally getting around to making the full screen illustrations of the intro scenes for the game, I wanted them to feel loose and like you're peaking into a memory. #ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #Indiedev #solodev #DigitalPainting #DigitalArt #art #sketch #visualnovels #vns

A large, dead tree in a night-time glade covered in strands of silver bells. Left half the screen is the rough sketch of the environment, and on the right half is the final illustration.

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Appreciating the intentional slow pace of line art, or going insane drawing dozens of tiny bells in a background piece? Up to interpretation at this point! I'll be taking a long weekend to host a dear friend, be safe stay warm peeps ☺️ #gamedev #digitalart #lineart #solodev #handdrawn

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Spent the morning with a coffee, my little fireplace going, updating my design document with the world building and lore stuff I added in as I went through development, and that was such a peaceful start to my morning I couldn't ask for better 😭 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Wrote 2,000 words yesterday and I'm already at the old word count of my draft I had to delete most of, but I've just gotten to the point where that word count is REALLY gonna explode. Time to have a relaxing weekend before all that! #gamedev #indiedev #writing

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Introduce yourself with 4 indie games! This was unreasonably difficult for me to pick...

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I updated my Hack-n-Plan for the pre-Alpha phase of Tales of Amythria, and remembered to get my musician access, and he saw my task backlog for the first time As soon as he did, he immediately texted me, "Bro are you ok???" Safe to say I have a lot to do... #gamedev #indiedev

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Working more on the tarot cards for the character select screen! Finished "The Warrior" and started work on "The Jester" :D GAH they're just so pretty already I love it!! Still gotta work on the frames lol #gamedev #gameart #digitalart #solodev #visualnovel #indiedev

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Working on some rough foundation sketches for background illustrations, and it's my goal to include as many tiny random stories in the background as often as I can 😆 And thus, a dragon throwing a tantrum about leaving town! #gamedev #visualnovels #digitalart #sketching

Sketch of a mountain side landing, where a dragon pulls against the reigns as its rider desperately yanks the other way. A well behaved wyvern sketched into the foreground.

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

My 2026 goals feel pretty minimal, but after the chaos 2025 decided to be I think I'm ok with that lol We got: - finish all the books in my TBR pile (only 9 books) - get a steam page and private play test launched for Tales of Amythria - learn marketing?? Yeah that's about it

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

So I had about 2 solid hours for dev time, figured it would be adding more dialogue. Something nice and easy! Instead, it was 2 hours of bug fixing trying to add a single new QoL feature... Sometimes game dev be like that! #gamedev #indiedev #programming #solodev

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Chappu @chappuvt.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Wishing you all wonderful holidays and remember: you are all strong, thoughtful and generally amazing human beings so don't let anyone tell you otherwise❤️ If someone does, sent them over to me Side note: my cookies are decorated with 3% skill and 97% hope.

Close up of a cookie with frosting, some colorful sprinkles and a very ugly blue line in the middle.

Several more cookies with different "designs" if you want to call it that.
Most are sprinkled with random sprinkles but my fav is one with a gummy bear train on sprinkle rails, with some white smoke sprinkles and green upside down ghost sprinkles from halloween used as trees.

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Erin | Boscirus Studios ✨🐲 @boscirusstudios.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I hope everyone has a wonderfully festive holiday! Slow down, relax, and enjoy some time with good food and good people, however that looks for you I'm very grateful to everyone on this little BlueSky family this holiday season 😊 #indiedev #gamedev #happyholidays

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