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Frankie Hobbins

@frankiehobbins.bsky.social
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Real time art generalist and tech art. Creator of www.squashandspell.com Current looking for new freelance work. www.frankiehobbins.com

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Crafty Pickle Games @craftypicklegames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We've been busy creating 3D models for our latest prototype. Here’s a first look at its main building: the transport depot! What do you think comes next? #gamedev #indiegame #Blender3D
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Crafty Pickle Games @craftypicklegames.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
From a simple blockout to a cosy little house 🏡 A quick Blender timelapse from our upcoming indie game. What should we build next? Follow Crafty Pickle Games on Steam: store.steampowered.com/curator/4534... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #Blender3D
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Loved the demo of @murdermeetcute.com well done @kittycrawford.com and everyone else who worked on it. store.steampowered.com/app/4867250/... #gamedev #indiedev
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Murder Meet Cute Demo on Steam
Look, just because I’m paid to fix computers, doesn’t mean I’ll sit here and listen to your life story. So what there’s been murders? Do I look like a detective?
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Moon Mode @moonmode.com · 04/06/2026
He's got a cold, but he's fairly coherent. It's a video about LANGUAGES after all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRkS...
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MOON MODE: Languages in TIME TO DAWN
YouTube video by Moon Mode
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I've been absolutely ruined by illness the last month so didn't post about it, but somehow I managed to release my second solo game (well, with my mums help) Had a few amazing reviews & now its in the hidden object fest so hoping it will do well. #IndieDev #Gaming #HiddenObject s.team/a/3917020
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Save 40% on Pigeon Hunter on Steam
Pigeon Hunter is classic hidden object game. Find the pigeons and other items in a series of beautiful hand drawn environments. Complete each scene and traverse though a dream like home.
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Steam playtest is live for the hidden object game I’ve been building with my mum! 🔍 I’d appreciate any feedback on this version before I start work on the marketing push. Check it out on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3917020/... #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame #Gaming #CozyGaming #HiddenObject
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Pigeon Hunter on Steam
Pigeon Hunter is classic hidden object game. Find the pigeons and other items in a series of beautiful hand drawn environments. Complete each scene and traverse though a dream like home.
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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
And the Steam page is: store.steampowered.com/app/4293810/...
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Chance on Steam
The property-trading deckbuilder. Chance is strange, dusty board game where you steal land from the bourgeoisie, bankrupt the proletariat, break the rules with unfair chance cards, and discover strate...
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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Got that bug for boardgames? That lust for ludo? Check out my new property trading video-board-game Chance. [very early, sorry for bugs, plz give me your feedback] joebain.itch.io/chance
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Chance by joebain
A property trading boardgame roguelike
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Bill Lowe @billowper.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
hey, I'm working on this! and what a treat it is; a cool ass video game and a team of super talented humans :D plus I can actually talk about it and it won't get randomly cancelled because a shareholder farted or whatever? madness! also yay; Godot! okbyeeeee x
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Whoop Whoop just got my latest game up on Steam. First game with my daughter and now this ones with my mum. store.steampowered.com/app/3917020/... #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame #Gaming #CozyGaming
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Pigeon Hunter on Steam
Pigeon Hunter is classic hidden object game. Find the pigeons and other items in a series of beautiful hand drawn environments. Complete each scene and traverse though a dream like home.
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Crafty Pickle Games @craftypicklegames.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We've just released a free web demo of our first hidden object game on @itch.io, Pigeon Hunter. Find pigeons nestled in a beautiful hand drawn background. Other platforms coming soon! #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame #Gaming #CozyGaming craftypicklegames.itch.io/pigeon-hunter
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Pigeon Hunter by CraftyPickleGames
A short hidden object game with beautiful hand draw art.
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Just pushed a demo of a hidden object game I've been working on with my mum to itch.io craftypicklegames.itch.io/pigeon-hunter #IndieDev #GameDev #CozyGaming #MadeWithUnity
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Pigeon Hunter by CraftyPickleGames
A short hidden object game with beautiful hand draw art.
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#ScreenshotSaturday of my last game prototyping. It turned out to be a lot more fun that expected. Had some great feedback and ideas that will hopefully turn it into something much better than I though it ever could be. store.steampowered.com/app/3816400/ #IndieDev #GameDev #SoloDev #MadeWithUnity
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Building a second Steam page is going a lot faster than the first one 🥳
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Sebastian Boutin Blomfield @sebovzeoueb.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Working on a procedural building generator in order to place structures in the game world and make it more alive! #gamedev #indiegaming #medieval #citybuilder #browsergame #proceduralgeneration
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
That too soooooo looooong 😂
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Finally managed to get on windows app store, apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NBKM... That was more effort than actually making the game!! #gamedev #indiedev
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Squash and Spell : Kids Typing - Download and play on Windows | Microsoft Store
🌈 Fun ABC Game for Children – Learn Letters, Spell Words, and More! Squash and Spell is a playful, educational ABC game for young children who are just starting to explore letters, words, and spellin...
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
My new top tip for indie developers is don't try and publish anything though Microsoft Partner Center 👎
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Crafty Pickle Games @craftypicklegames.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
#ScreenshotSaturday of our recently released game, Squash and Spell : Kids Typing. #indiedev #gamedev #kidsgaming #educationalgames #familygames #typinggame #preschoolgames #edtech
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Can someone who knows what they're talking about recommend which iPhone I should get to test and push an app to the apple app store. I'm in the UK and want cheap mixed with easy. Thanks! #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I still feel like a fraud when I make a post on my @craftypicklegames.bsky.social account and say "we" when it's only me there 🤔
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Bill Lowe @billowper.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
mucking about with pixels and colours and stuff #gamedev #unity3d #trenchbroom #retroart
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I came up with a workflow for getting lots of #b3d #geonode objects such as trees into #unity with each one being a prefab. I used a proxy object in blender and baked object position into the UVs. A unity script gets the unique UV positions to place a prefab there on start. #gamedev #indiedev
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Making things wobble is so satisfying 🤓 #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I finally hit release today on the game I started last year for my 3 year old daughter then decided to finish and ship! It's been a lot more effort than I thought it would be getting a 'simple' game out on Steam and Mobile. Big respect to everyone else who's doing or done it 💖 #indiedev #gamedev
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I dont think I could have slept at night if I'd not put that in
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Total coincidence but it just so happens that vanilla newt is my favourite ice cream flavour 🤤
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Crafty Pickle Games @craftypicklegames.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
#ScreenshotSaturday Testing our early years alphabet game before release on the 28th. Running great on the #steamdeck! 🤩 store.steampowered.com/app/3387970/... #indiedev #gamedev #kidsgaming
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Crafty Pickle Games @craftypicklegames.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
We're pleased to announce Squash and Spell will be released on Steam on the 28th of May! 🥳 Android and Windows Store to follow shortly after. #KidsGames #GameDev #IndieDev
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Bill Lowe @billowper.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I made a thing! "Texture Browser" is a Unity editor tool for... browsing and using textures! Inspired by @joewintergreen.com 's tool for UE, I made this for myself to work with Realtime CSG. You can find it on Itch & GitHub! billowper.itch.io/texture-brow... #gamdev #unity3d #indiedev
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Texture Browser for Unity by Billowper
old school texture browser for Unity
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Therése Pierrau @tpierrau.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
New artwork uploaded! This one is from my personal project Nordendal, see the full res version up on my Artstation: tpierrau.artstation.com
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I'd love some feedback on my colourblind mode. I'm not really sure what colours to pick, or maybe I need more than one mode. Or maybe I should just let uses deactivate certain colours. Maybe the grass needs to change colour too 🤔 #Indiedev #Accessibility #Gaming #GameDev
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Screenshot Saturday post of a prototype I was working on earlier this year, need to wrap up Squash and Spell and get back to it ASAP!! #ScreenshotSaturday #indiedev #gamedev
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This is me 👇 Started off as a fun side project for my daughter but then as work got harder to find I decided to finish it off and get it on Steam. Proud to have this as my first solo project & I hope some other parents get some enjoyment out of playing with their children. #GameDev #IndieDev
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Can anyone offer advice how to do pre development market research into games which cross genres. For example I want to make a deck building, bike racing dating sim but would like to attempt to predict sale figures. #indiedev #gamedev
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
That's me! When they say we they mean me, I mean I mean I.
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
@noblesteedau.bsky.social Thank you so much for the steam library template photoshop file. 😍
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Anyone else in #Gamedev use #Blender for planning DIY projects? Heres my pergola build from a couple of years ago. I even used blender to plan the paving stone layout pattern 😎
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A quick #blender geometry nodes setup to get particles similar to the ones I made in #unity for Rallyallyally store.steampowered.com/app/1830540/... I take it a bit for granted now but love having the power geometry nodes gives us. #techart #indiedev #gamedev
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
oldschool foliage vertex painting in #blender. This was such a pain to do, everything had to be done in the correct order then use script to finish it off, tweaking iteration was very slow. If I were doing it again now it would be so much simpler in geometry nodes. #techart #gamedev #indiedev
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Just found all my hairy heart and rallyallyally stickers, do you want them @ohcripes.bsky.social ?
A few Hairy Heart and Rallyallyally stickers scattered on a wooden table
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
More of my environment work from Game of Thrones: Tale of Crows. #Techart on this project was from from the excellent @bobacupcake.bsky.social #gamedev #blender #unity
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Throwback to my first #Blender plugin, an anim scrubber like Maya. I developed it into some crazy system for activating motion lines, moving and mirroring keyframes while in the the scrubbing mode, although I've never convinced anyone else to give it a try 😅 #techart #animation #indiedev
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Demonstration of the movement system from (the unfortunately cancelled) Before, I set it up in #Blender to measure the distance travelled for each locomotion animation then adjusted the framerate so each animation was at the same speed. Then in #Unity.... #indiedev #gamedev #techart #animation
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
combination of the last two posts in #unity fully janking out 😂, I was trying to do a little colab with @ptrefall.bsky.social but stopped shortly after this for some reason or another, I think we both got busy with other stuff... #gamedev #indiedev
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
yo @jacrossiter.bsky.social are you still using that exporter plugin?
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Anyone know if/how you can have 2 LTD companies on steamworks? I started a new one for small #solodev #indiedev games but already have one setup for a previous team project. Have messaged support so will update when I get a reply, but I'm keen to get started. #gamedev
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Prototype of shader based wobble in unity. #gamedev #indidev #unity #techart
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Quick #blender geometry nodes prototype for making ruined walls. #techart #gamedev
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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
well done @tobsprgames.bsky.social for offering to pay for the time taken on the art test stage here www.artstation.com/jobs/8Y91 #indiedev
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ArtStation - 3D Blender Artist at tobspr Games
Hello there!We're looking for a freelancer to help us out with the 3D modelling of Shapez 2 assets. If you'd be interested, please fill out the form attached.As this is a freelance position, you can w...
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