iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This 4X game I'm working on is going to be so f'ing cool! But I barely have any time on the side of actually building it to post about it, so it's going to be a weird timeline where it suddenly appears visually quite polished. I am excited tho. #gamedev

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Unnamed 4X space #gamedev still chugging along. Got the race selection screen to "Close enough" state.

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Did some zoom level 800% staring at pixels for a couple days for the unnamed space 4X. Now I have a proper UI style I'm slowly inputting screen by screen. #gamedev

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

#gamedev is honestly brutal. Especially indie. Been doing it as a hobby from 2000, as a job from about 2014. It's a chunk of my life. Thinking about leaving it a lot these past years. The pressure, the competition, sometimes the gamers... its hard. I think I still have a game or 2 in me tho.

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Will have to make a decision soon if this thing is actually going to be my next full commercial #gamedev project. That'll mean choosing a name, making some fancy gifs, posting them around and seeing the reception. If anyone is already following the dev this early and interested, let me know.

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I also did some work on the galaxy map for the unnamed Space 4X game. If you zoom in enough it now shows a minimalistic preview of the star systems. All sorts of non-linear and different zoom speeds per item stuff happening here to make this all fit and look fluid. #solodev #indiedev

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I will not be at Gamescom! If you see someone who looks like me walking around, then do not say Hi! They are an imposter!! ...Or do I quess, maybe you'll make a handsome friend.

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

And the space 4X #gamedev continues. We have a main menu... We might also have a name... but I don't know if this one will stick.

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Unnamed space 4X #gamedev keeps on chugging along. I was annoyed at not having the proper amounts/sizes/colors of moons for the Sol system, so I added a system to draw all that. Rings for the giants as well. You will be able to settle the moons as minor bases/colonies.

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Unnamed Space 4X progressing every day. Doing stuff on the diplomacy screens today #gamedev.

Screenshot of a work in progress space 4X game. An intelligence report on the "Human Republic" is open detailing this factions personality, development compared to the player race and listing their colonies and tech.

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Got to stop using the placeholder races for the unnamed space 4X I'm developing. So preparing the real content by digging into the Lore folder I have for this universe. Stuff I've written way back when. This is getting fun. #gamedev #indiedev

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Well... Building a 4X game is sure testing my UI/UX #gamedev skills. I'm going to have to crunch this all up into a readable glanceable thing.

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Happy to have helped an ever so tiny bit on this one. Awesome that there is a public demo now! It's a pretty wild game, go check it out.

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Seeing a lot of takes about *current discourse* on my feed. I am so glad I'm not understanding any of them. Literally no idea what people are talking about. Was watching a movie with the family, will chill with the dogs in the yard now. Blissfully unaware of *discourse*.

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Not sure what to call this thing I'm #gamedev ing yet. Empires of the Void was the plan, but that's taken. Voidverse Ascendacy The Long Dominion Voidborn Legacy Heirs of the Void Void Hegemony Not sure...

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Unnamed #indiedev Space 4X progressing very well. Did a first graphical pass. Proper star system and UI sprites, dithered planet shader etc.

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Andrew Gillett (wishlist Reality Drift!) @arganoid.com · 03/08/2026

I did a call with Mikk after having been working on Reality Drift for a year, and it was very helpful!

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I do gamedev consulting– design, art-direction, production, QA. I can help where you've gotten stuck. In the field for a decade+, credits include Lead roles on Disco Elysium+ self-shipped titles. Lookie here: milu.cydonian.games #gamedev #indiedev Shares appreciated, want to help more projects (:

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This place though... this place is starting to feel like twitter was for me 5+ years back. Post a gif of whatever you're working on, another #gamedev says "nice!", go and absolutely shitpost in a comment section with your bad humour. Good, human, stuff.

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

LinkedIn is a strange place. There's no humor in it at all. Especially for someone with my North-East European sense of humour. And replying to posts there gets me in trouble way too easily.

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The galaxy is alive with activity. Races are scouting new systems, sending colony fleets, trading with each other etc. #gamedev unnamed for now.

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Progress on the #gamedev . Unnamed 4X project now has preset star systems and named planets.

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Been sitting, making game for 2 days. Starting to feel like a #gamedev again. Feels good!

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Another bonus with making games that actually speak to your personal interests is you won't feel your soul draining into the cold dark empty void between galaxies... bit by bit... month by month... never to be seen again. Don't ask me how I know.

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I have a Super Nintendo from about 1994 and a PSX from a little later which both boot up and play their games with 0 issue. Sad how young people are so used to not owning things long term, tech dying in 2 years, servers going offline etc. Some of them can't even imagine a different world.

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Hey #gamedev and #indiedev folk. My new portfolio website is finally done: milu.cydonian.games Based on this page, would you hire me if you were looking for help? :) Took some work. Tried to word everything in my own voice, yet still market myself enough (I usually don't). Wondering if it worked.

milu.cydonian.games

Mikk Luige — Game Dev Consultant

Design, production, and technical consulting for indie teams shipping their next title.

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Slowly easing myself back into #gamedev after a bit away on another project. What's changed in a year?

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Hey #indiedev s who use #gamemaker! Been away for a bit and have a question: How much effort is it currently to make a 3D game in GM Studio 2? I have a game plan that is mechanically relatively simple. Choice is to hook 3D onto a GM project, or learn an engine I've used much much less like Unreal

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Finally deleted my twitter account. Could not in good conscience give Musk any more ad revenue or the Kremlin bots sprouting imperialism any more attention. Bit sad to lose all the connections and friends tho. At one point had 6k followers there. Gonna take a while to rebuild.

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

@buyfromeu.bsky.social Much appreciate the follow, I'm very pro the movement and trying to sort my personal and work lives out to give as little money as reasonable to the US. Switching everything I can without too great effort for European or especially Estonian stuff. Keep up the good work!

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I'm still here. Will get back to gamedev soon. :) Have been very busy with non #gamedev real life stuff. Some good, some bad, but everything is looking up and the future is bright. Since I don't have any screenshots again yet, here's a pic I took on a nice walk in the old town yesterday:

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I think my Eastern European sense of humor might not quite match up to yours bsky. But we can work on that. ;) Love all the rest of being here besides that. Theres's a wholesome vibe of even such a joke post only getting nice "of course everyone who worked on the game is a gamedev" replies.

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🎮🕹 I know the label #gamedev is tough to define. What do you need to accomplish to call yourself one? Are QA gamedevs? Is the marketing dept? For all gamedevs suffering from Imposter syndrome I leave you these words: Are you even close enough to a gamedev to have imposter syndrome about it?

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

🦋 I like everything about this new place except for one thing... How hung up people are about twitter. My feed is full of posts that are screenshots from or descriptions of twitter "Look how bad it's gotten!" We're here for a reason folks, let's leave the old place behind- stop bringing it here.

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Oh, you're a game designer? Name all game mechanics.

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

#pixelart from some place different... What kind of game do you think this would be from?

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hey #indiedev and #gamedev crowd! I would love to rebuild my network here, so if you recognize me from that other place, please give me a follow and say hi! (Random vid of Voidspeed attached for visibility.)

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Small #gamedev #indiedev update on Voidship: Redux. Today I was working on controls for the resource scanning UI. Thought I'd add some visual juice as well while I was at it. I think it looks pretty nice now!

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Been less active on the #gamedev front for a year. Getting back into it now. First up is finishing Redux edition of Voidship. (store.steampowered.com/app/2315110/...) Lots of new content+ Its fully controller playable for steam deck/consoles. Testing WIP battle controls on the tutorial battle:

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

@benjaminrivers.bsky.social Hi Benjamin, any chance I could get added to your indie devs starter pack? Thanks :)

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

I have another joke about #gamedev on the works as well, but I can't release it yet because my marketing department says I need 5k more wishlists for steam sales to potentially recoup the joke writing expenses. Shouldn't have hired so many writers...

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Milu (aka Mikk Luige) @cydonianmilu.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

I have a joke about #gamedev too. I could tell it to you, but honestly it'll probably take years and we'll never finish it because somewhere in the middle I'll come up with a much better joke and start telling you that one instead. Which also won't get finished because of this other new joke...

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