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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

This game BLEW MY MIND as a kid. It was the first gameboy game I ever beat and it took me ages to do so.

Gamebox Art for the Gameboy version of Mega Man V.

CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Tomorrow is my last day at my current job before starting my first big kid design job in over a year NEXT WEEK! I'm excited to be doing design work again, but even more excited to never set this alarm anymore. Here's to the last time waking up at 4:30am for work! #jobupdate #graphicdesign #newjob

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Happy October! My schedule is about to smooth back out a bit meaning more game updates, more #pixelart, and possibly more streaming in the near future! In the meantime, have a sneak peak of the #kickstarter poster reward by @tinaisoladesign.bsky.social #gamedev #pixelartist #gamemaker #aseprite

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Made some solid strides on the monastery boss room today! Added some pretty cool details :) Tomorrow is my last morning stream for a while. Hope to see you there! twitch.tv/creativewaste at 10am CST! #pixelart #leveldesign #enviromentdesign #gamedev #aseprite @gamemaker.io @aseprite.org

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Started working on a new dungeon area today! Can't wait to populate this with enemies and progress toward the next boss! #pixelart #theoldone #gamedev #leveldesign #dungeon

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Worked on more puzzle interactions today. You can now turn off the fireplace! Wonder why that would be useful :) #pixelart #gamedev #theoldone #puzzles #gamemaker

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Started a new animation to display when items are acquired! Ended by raiding @tayrae3streams.bsky.social Go say hi! twitch.tv/tayrae3 #pixelart #gamedev #theoldone #animation

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Had an incredible stream today! Made a ton of progress on the point & click puzzle. Might finish it up tomorrow! Huge shout out to @qmezu.bsky.social and @eightbitsabyte.bsky.social for sharing their communities today :) Looking forward to another stream tomorrow at Noon CST! #pixelart #theoldone

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Starting to plan out the screen between zones. Sketched out a layout idea today on stream. I wonder how much of this will make it to production! #gamemaker #gamedev #pixelart #cosmichorror #theoldone #animation #design #layout

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Dang it :( This is the main thing I was worried about. I prefer closed weapons, as I'm a battlefield player through and through, but I believe a decision has to be made. How in the world are you going to balance weapons within two distinctly different structures... #bf6 #gaming #pcgaming #beta

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Nope, I'm good. I loved the beta and I'm excited for the game but EA has to prove they can get it over the line first, and following up a wildly successful beta with "Yearly releases like CoD" is NOT the right call. Do better #EA... #dontpreorder #bf6

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Messing around with how to animate this spin attack for our incense burner boss. Lots of smokey, fluid, AoEs are on the horizon. #pixelart #characterdesign #gamedev #animation #bossdesign #aseprite

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Working on a new character. This is not what I pictured when I started, and I assume it won't look like this when I'm done. Also got a ton of help from @grogdev.bsky.social today, adding #IMGUI to a new branch of the game for debugging. #pixelart #characterdesign #gamemaker #gamedev #aseprite

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Post your jank. Your 7/10 games For me, Too Human takes the cake! I LOVED this game and I truly miss the time of jank Co-op action RPGs. Bring back Champions of Norrath and Hunter: The Reckoning too!

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Its HERE! Its LIVE! The Controller Support Update for #TheOldOne 's #steamdemo is now live and after not 1 but 2 emergency hotfixes, we are GOOD TO GO! Head over to the steam page and download the demo now: store.steampowered.com/app/3722010/... #solodev #gamedev #gamemaker #pixelart #cosmihorror

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Today is going to be a big day for #TheOldOne. This will mark the first post #kickstarter update to the #demo build. - New Combat System - Controller Support - Reworked UI - Better Input Detection - Boss Balancing #steam #gamedev #gamemaker #aseprite #update #gamedesign #pixelart #cosmichorror

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Controller Support Progress! Thanks to @grogdev.bsky.social and @jujuadams.com's INPUT, we have basic controller support for player functions in the game :) Now to clean stuff up and rebind player-npc interactions. #pixelart #gamedev #controllersupport #progress #solodev

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Made a new base spell animation today and I have to say, I'm pretty happy with it! I've been making a ton of progress this week. Can't wait to push into the new zone once this new combat is play tested. #pixelart #gamedev #solodev #animation #gamedesign #combat #TheOldOne

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Updated visuals for siphon ability today! And started adding collectible tarot cards :) I'm really happy with how this update is feeling. Next steps are to add knockback and more engaging enemies since everything got quicker. #pixelart #solodev #gamedev #gamemaker #progress

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Testing a new combat system! Player siphons mana from the enemy and uses it to cast spells on a key press. Need to clean up visuals and feedback, but mechanically, it works! #gamedev #solodev #gamemaker #gamedesign #pixelart

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The Major Arcana for #TheOldOne #Tarot deck is complete...for now. Weeks of work and finally, I have a complete set to share. Next step is to get some print samples going while I finish out the minor cards. Ended the stream by raiding @2nerdynerds.bsky.social on www.twitch.tv/2nerdynerds #pixelart

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Arma has been such a big series for me and my friends. Reforger only lost its spot to my gamedev work recently.

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

More #tarot design updates today on stream :) These were a blast, and I can't wait to finish out the #majorarcana soon. Ended by raiding @ezthedev.bsky.social www.twitch.tv/developerezra #pixelart #gamedev #solodev #gameart #cosmishorror

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Happy #porfolioday! I'm a #solodev and #pixelartist working on my first game. Before this, I worked in the marketing industry as a designer for 10 years. #gamedev #pixelart #cosmichorror

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

We got the kiddos a new pool today. Thankfully it's only 150° outside. Looking forward to 80° weather again.

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

#promosky I'm Shphrd, streaming on twitch.tv/CreativeWaste. I worked in the marketing industry as a graphic designer/art director for a decade. After a lay off last June, I'm building a game, called #TheOldOne. Recently fully funded on #Kickstarter! Follow if you like #cosmichorror & #pixelart!

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The Kickstarter is complete! 115% Funded! Got the base designs for the major arcana laid out during stream today :) Make sure to give me a follow over at twitch.tv/creativewaste to follow the progress from now until launch, next year! #kickstarter #indie #gamedev #solodev #gamemaker #pixelart

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Made some card progress today! About halfway through the Major Arcana at this point! 18 hours left in the Kickstarter if you wanna grab a physical tarot deck and support an #indie #eldritchhorror inspired #pixelart game. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cre...

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

There are 20 hours left to back #TheOldOne! If you haven't had to chance to check it out yet, head over to the link below and support this little #indie #cosmichorror project! Kickstarter Link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cre... #solodev #gamemaker #kickstarter @gamemaker.io @aseprite.org

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Happy to share! Here are some screenshots of my game, The Old One! You play a wizard with old man knees that can't jump, so you teleport to traverse a cosmic horror inspired world. I'm solo developing it as my first game and it is fully funded on Kickstarter!

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Worked on two new rooms today on stream! A cozy den with a fireplace and a cramped smithy. It's fun to design a room and have it start to rework the lore I've written, haha. Please drop a follow: twitch.tv/creativewaste #pixelart #gamedesign #gamedev #solodev #pixel #art #leveldesign #twitch

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Good stream! Say hello to The Painter. This mysterious artist from beyond the void is responsible for the art you will see in the monastery. Zero red flags here! Ended by raiding @qmezu.bsky.social www.twitch.tv/qmezu #characterdesign #pixelart #solodev #TheOldOne #gamedev #aseprite #cosmichorror

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Had another productive stream yesterday! I'm getting more comfortable with these interiors, me thinks. You still have time to back the game if you want to: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cre... #pixelart #theoldone #leveldesign #gamedev #solodev #indie

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Made a ton of interior detail progress today! This was a lot of fun! I love @aseprite.org so much! Ended by raiding @ezthedev.bsky.social twitch.tv/developerezra #pixelart #solodev #aseprite #gamemaker #twitch #livestream

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Made a lot of progress on the Monastery today! This area will house multiple interior rooms, a garden, and the catacombs! #pixelart #TheOldOne #gamedev #solodev #aseprite #gamemaker

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Now that the original funding goal has been met, time to show off the first stretch goal! If we can raise another $1k, my good friend YurGurTech is going to be in charge of the soundtrack! Check out his work here: open.spotify.com/album/05d8u5... #kickstarter #music #funding #goal #indie

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Jokes on you :P The stretch goals have been posted! Well, the first one at least.

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

WE DID IT! The Old One has reached its funding goal and we still have 12 days left! Thank you so much to the 121 people that have decided to back this little passion project and I am thrilled to be able to focus my time to make this a reality! #kickstarter #funded #goalreached #solodev #gamedev

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Worked a little more on the Monastery today! Started building out some interior areas as well! Kickstarter is now 92% Funded! #pixelart #TheOldOne #leveldesign #gamedev #solodev #gamemaker #aseprite

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

The bats FINALLY have a death animation. Now killing those little jerks will feel a little more satisfying. #pixelart #pixelanimation #gamedev #solodev #indie #game #TheOldOne

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

VERY early animation test for the new enemy. I might end up giving him a longer weapon so the strike can get away from hit big ole head a bit. #pixelart #animation #characterdesign #idle #attack #theoldone #solodev #pixelanimation

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

New Enemy design in the works! Kickstarter is now 85% funded! Kickstarter Link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cre... Ended by raiding @grogdev.bsky.social so go say hi! #pixelart #monsterdesign #enemy #characterdesign #theoldone #solodev

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Stream went well today! The Kickstarter is now 80% funded! Kickstarter Link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cre... New Art HYPE! Started working on the next zone in the game so get ready for new enemies, NPCs, puzzles, and bosses in the coming weeks! #pixelart #gamemaker #kickstarter #leveldesign

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

While scrolling through my #kickstarter for #TheOldOne, I spied something under similar projects :) Congrats to @annahollinrake.com and the #CrescentCounty team for 162% funded! #indie #gamedev is such a cool space!

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I keep trying to post 4 games I'm looking forward to for the #xboxshowcase today only screenshots of @stateofdecay.com keep showing up. Oh well. #stateofdecay3 #copium

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CreativeWaste Studio | Making The Old One! @creativewaste.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Happy Saturday everybody! The #kickstarter is almost 80% funded in less than a week! I can't believe we've made so much progress in a short amount of time. If you haven't had the chance, check out the campaign and help make this happen: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cre... #eldritchhorror #pixelart

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