iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our cozy game's 3rd romancable character: Nox A musician who's been forced to work a variety of part time jobs to make rent. Also they can read minds. Unfortunately they can't turn it off... They heard you're a witch. Maybe you'll be able to help them with their problem? #indiedev #cozygames

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In a fever state of 10pm motivation, our cozy game now has dialogue sounds that somewhat adhere to what is being said. Unfortunately this was not what I was supposed to be adding to the game, so despite everything I still have a busy week ahead. #gamedev #indiedev

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's a look at all the different dialogue animations for our cozy game's new character Bubbles: #indiedev #cozygames

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You won't just meet humans working at your witch cafe. Here's Stella / Bubbles, our cozy game's second romancable character. In highschool when Bubbles morphed into an angel, her friends left her. Cel and you stayed. Then you moved away. What happens now that you're back? #indiedev #cozygames

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Updating the mockups for our cozy game's coffee brewing scene! It felt a bit too empty before, does this look any better? (Mockup in grayscale) #indiedev #cozygames

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Running a magical cafe may just lead to some romance as well ✨️ Here's Cel, our cozy game's first romancable character An artist with the ability to speak to animals and spirits. You had a falling out after high school, will you be able to restore your friendship? Maybe more? #indiedev #cozygames

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Nothing hurts more than trying to solve a bug for 3 hours, where button hold interactions only fire the first time, only to find the reason why is because your mouse is broken. Curious what other people's dumb game bug reasons they've encountered lately were? #gamedev #indiedev

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Spent the day bouncing from task to task on my game, so now I have a half coded dynamic audio system, a bunch of new wallpapers, and a reworked brewing mechanic... Here's some of the wallpapers #indiedev

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Learning that I could texture models in procreate has been a gamechanger for getting a hand-painted look on the models in our cozy game. Here's the outside of the players' witch house/cafe #indiedev #cozygames

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The best thing about being an indie dev is deciding to work on art for a day, while pretending the code collapsing down around itself isn't real for a little bit. Surely I wont regret this tomorrow.

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I finally took the time to update the logo and capsule art for my game. It hopefully looks a bit better 😅 Original in comments.

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Perhaps it's the small wins, but seeing the values update for the load system for my indie game finally without crashing on load, brings joy to my heart. #indiedev

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Part of the reason I'm here is to show off my game, sure but the other secret selfish reason is I want to see all the cool games other indies are working on. Show me what you're working on no matter how polished it is! I want to see it. #indiedev

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I've made save systems before, making a save system for a decorating game couldn't be that bad: And now I'm trying to serialize dynamic meshes with custom colors, materials, positions, rotations, and scale... 😭

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The lesson from the last week of working on game dev is always assume the save system is going to explode in your face somehow 😭 #indiedev #gamedev

schedule for game development. w-th original goal canceled to work on save system.

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Answering the important question for our cozy game: Can you pet the cat? ... Well you can try... #indiedev #cozygames

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Top two pet peeves with cozy games that I want to address in the cozy game I'm developing: 1. Can only be hyper positive during dialogues 2. Story feels like an afterthought Help me make my game better! What are your pet peeves when you play a cozy game? #indiedev #cozygames

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Needed a break from the soul draining process of coding a save system, so I sketched up a bunch of wallpapers to decorate the cafe To get away from programming for a bit. #indiedev #cozygames

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Starting to prototypes decoration mechanics for my cozy game. Not sure if I should use grid snapping for placing objects or let the player freely place decorations? Maybe both? Do you have a preference when you're decorating in a game? #indiedev #cozygames

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A behind the scenes look at how we Animated Bristles, the black cat. For our cozy game, Bristles Brews, where you run a magical cafe. #indiedev #cozygames

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In Bristles Brews, you just inherited a witch's cafe, but your boss is an anti-social black cat. 🐈‍⬛ Surely this will go well. #indiedev #cozygames

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A hand animated sprite I made last week, of one of the emotion spirits you can collect in our narrative cozy witch game. #indiedev #cozygames

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Expirementing with new mechanics for our cozy witch cafe game. When you're making an ingredient alters the emotions that were put in. So, even if you don't have all the right ingredients you want for your potion, you can still manage with a bit of creativity ✨️ #indiedev #cozygames

Tea : breaks down emotion into its component emotions.

Sugar: combines emotions into a compound emotion.

Spices: changes an ingredient into a random ingredient not yet present in the drink.

Espresso: +2 to most prominent emotion

Chocolate: +1 to every emotion in the drink

Ice: invers emotion (happy becomes sad)
Milk: rotates emotions according to the graph.

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Don't get me wrong, I love people's polished in-engine prototypes, but what I REALLY want to see is the messy cobbled together paper prototypes that sort of kind of function when you squint at them. Please show me more. #indiegamedev #gamedev

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The decision tree for the Intro and First heart events for our cozy narrative witch cafe game. Not sure if we should lean into or away from the visual novel elements of the game for length and frequency of the events. Let us know which you'd prefer! #indiedev #cozygame

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Devlog week 5: Here's an early peak at the inside of your magical cafe. Don't worry you'll be able to fill it with much better decor when you get some money...

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Devlog week 4: Time to actually be able to do something with your money 🤑 This week's goal was to create a shopping system for our indie cozy narrative game where you run a witch's coffee shop.

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Devlog week 3: Adding the ability to switch views while making coffee. Allowing you to handle some chores while you're waiting for customers to show up. The chore in question this week: Dish washing!

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foxraingames.bsky.social @foxraingames.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Starting to work on my indie game fulltime! A cozy, narrative game where you run a magical coffee shop. Devlog week 2: Added some animations and shaders, a big jump up from the cubes from last week.

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