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BotHacker - Pixel Art Indie Game @bothacker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I can't prove it... but I think this child is a puppet.

BotHacker - Pixel Art Indie Game @bothacker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Got something in the mail! One of the many games I missed out on in my youth. #megaman #gba #megamanbattlenetwork #RPG #JRPG

A red Game Boy Advanced SP displaying the start screen of Megaman Battle Network.

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BotHacker - Pixel Art Indie Game @bothacker.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Example of an attack that doesn't hit right away. Currently it's setup to take two turns, but it can also be set to deploy and land in a later turn independently. #gamemaker #indiegame #screenshotsaturday #BotHacker #pixelart #robots #postapocalypse #RPG #fakemon #turnbased #gamedev #retrogame

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BotHacker - Pixel Art Indie Game @bothacker.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This tool doesn't directly modify the files themselves but will print a string of data in my intended format. It's technically not readable in this state, but the nested arrays keep the data block from being too massive (mostly for my own mental health), and the code unpacks it on load.

code showing terrain types and battle backgrounds keyed to specific indexes.

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BotHacker - Pixel Art Indie Game @bothacker.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Testing status effects. I realized I had so many that in the unlikely chance they all were applied at once they'd overflow off the HP bar. What do you think? #indiegame #gamedev #BotHacker #robot #RPG #creaturecollector #1v1 #fakemon #monstertamer

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BotHacker - Pixel Art Indie Game @bothacker.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Ooooh no. I did not think this through. I think I get why this isn't done now. #gamedev #indiegame #BotHacker

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BotHacker - Pixel Art Indie Game @bothacker.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I finished the battle screen background. This is going to be for the tech campus interiors. I'm not positive how many of these I'll need in the end, but probably one more for the underground and another for concrete floors. #pixelart #BotHacker #indiegame #rpg #battle #turn-based #gamemaker

shows a carpeted hallway strewn with debris. The walls and ceiling panels look battered and worn.

Same as previous image but with bots and UI.

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BotHacker - Pixel Art Indie Game @bothacker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

So someone on reddit sent me this photo of them playing BotHacker on their steamdeck and I'm blown away it just works. I didn't even consider that as a platform at this stage and yet, it does! #indiegame #BotHacker #itch.io

Shows a picture of the screen of a steamdeck with BotHacker running.

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BotHacker - Pixel Art Indie Game @bothacker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Getting around to doing another background. This is going to be an interior for the abandoned tech campus. I anticipate I may to change how I handle offsets for bots so I can keep them consistently on the ground. #pixelart #BotHacker #indiedev

A wireframe of a hallway. pixel art in different colors. There is also a transparent overlay of two bots facing off and the UI and health bars.

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BotHacker - Pixel Art Indie Game @bothacker.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

OOPS ALL ROBOTS! Check out this new 1v1 'monster'-tamer! Free Alpha available now! bothackergame.itch.io/bothacker @itch.io #indiedev #indiegame #BotHacker #rpg #creaturecollector #monstertamer #robots #scifi

two robots face off. one is beefy biped. The other is a sphere of clumped together CRTs with grinning faces.

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BotHacker - Pixel Art Indie Game @bothacker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Here's the pixel art version of Daemon. I am so pleased it turned out as I had in mind! #robot #gamedev #BotHacker #indiedev #gamemaker #pixelart #haunted #demon #art

The player side view of Daemon. Slightly larger and viewed from the other side (though it isn't obvious based on the mass of shapes.

On the left is Imp, A monitor with a grumpy face sits on a stack electronic boxes, a speaker and wires. On the left hovers a terror. A loose sphere made of monitors speakers, cables and bent antenae like spiked bug legs. Some of the many CRTs show static, while others show laughing faces with sharp teeth.

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BotHacker - Pixel Art Indie Game @bothacker.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Bot sketches. The first is Daemon, upgrade form of Imp (my avatar). The second is Cogsworth, a robo-butler! I've draw both before but I needed more detailed sketches and the player-side angle before I move on to the pixel art. #sketch #conceptart #indiedev #gamedev #robots #BotHacker

front and back of two robots. The first is a spherical conglomeration of CRT screens, speakers, and bent antennae. The second is a dumpy barrel shaped little fellow in a tuxedo with little tails. It holds little hands at rest across it's rounded torso. Colored version.

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BotHacker - Pixel Art Indie Game @bothacker.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

VFX shader work for self-destruct. I want to change how I'm doing the overlay on the bots to allow shadow/rim light but current don't have a method for doing alternate versions for foreground/background (just inverting sides) #screenshotsaturday #robots #indiegame #BotHacker #pixelart

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BotHacker - Pixel Art Indie Game @bothacker.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Sketches of the Sonar and Lidar (the Radar line). I had some bad ideas I needed to get out before it worked. #sketch #conceptart #indiegame #BotHacker #bots #robots

several sketches of robo-turtle with big dish on back. various scifi greebles.

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BotHacker - Pixel Art Indie Game @bothacker.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Various Bot sketches. Some I used to make sprites. most of these were just feeling out the ideas. #sketch #conceptart #indiegame #BotHacker #bots #robots

multiple little bots. several walk around on bug legs. a number look like broken computers with angry faces.

several sketches of bots. clunky looking guys with treads or feet or clampy claws.

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