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@hempuli.bsky.social
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Working on a Halloween thing
a black screen with the text LOL SKELETONS written in faux-gothic letters. The options NEW GAME and LOAD GAME are under it, with a pointer pointing at the former
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🆑🆎
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm surprised at how nice these floating platforms ended up looking on first try
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I've been preparing fresh chanterelles for freezing lately and Fondue has realized that she likes them and has nabbed a couple from the pan. Here's her realizing that I put a lid on the pan (the stove is not on & she doesn't go there when the stove is hot). I gave her one tiny chanterelle later
Fondue the cat standing on an induction stove looking sad; next to her is a pan with a lid & cooked mushrooms in it. The stove is not on
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pretty happy with this enemy design for ESA 2
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Added a mining elevator to Planet Keke, and initially copied the code for it from a metro train along with its movement. Whee!
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Added a little radar to Planet Keke to make the player need to check the map a bit less often
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Updated the camera system in Planet Keke so that the photos are square-shaped and the planet rotates along with your targeting reticle. Thanks for people in my stream chat for suggesting these changes!
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Coded a tutorial message for an indicator that warns you about imminent crashlanding, and had a scenario where the tutorial first triggered as I was flying into the sun
A rocket is about to fly in the sun, and an unhelpful info prompt turns up that warns the player that there's an obstacle ahead that they should avoid
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The map in ESA2 needs a boundary, and the intent has been to put asteroids there. I ended up coding a little tool to automate the process somewhat and I'm glad I did because otherwise I would've had to place ~2500 asteroids by hand. It was still a hefty process though
A grid with mysterious light red blobs present at the bottom-left corner. There's also a faint silhouette of a spaceship in one of the grid cells
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I pixeled that kinda crummy skull monster back in 2015, now I'm finally getting to create the actual bossfight. Animating the boss properly is gonna be a bit of a pain for future me
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I made a small 2-page comic where I tried to cram in as many badly-translateable Finnish phrases as possible. Read here (explanations of the phrases at the end): www.hempuli.com/comic/?title...
Two people talking. One says: "Our situation is on a horizontal plank. If the liverleaves got involved, we'd be taken by barley bread. We wouldn't be able to keep our surface unless we were visited by an enormous doughnut."
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I gave Baba a Baba #baba
Baba, dressed as a sheep, looking at a pet Baba in the game Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Designed a little boardgame at Nordic Game Jam last weekend and now made a little mushroom-themed set for it (box illustration not mine): hempuli.itch.io/nothing-boar... I should probably come up with a new name for it...
A boardgame board made of green hexagons, with a bunch of wooden mushroom pieces on and around it. A metal box next to the board with an illustration of a porcini mushroom and the text 'NOTHING BOARDGAME 2026' on itA boardgame board made of green hexagons, with a bunch of wooden mushroom pieces on and around it
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Would you still love me if I was a WIP giant worm in a sci-fi metroidvania??? #esagame
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Went to Lux Helsinki yesterday and they had this really cool mycelium made out of optic fiber cables
Blue-coloured snow, with lights and mushrooms made out of optic fiber cable crawling within and around itA Massive network of fiber optic cables forming a cool illuminative pattern in snow, originating from an electronic box and with the cables terminating into little mushrooms. Cityscape and onlookers on the background.
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I try to avoid posting too many spoilers to ESA2 as dev progress posts, but have this at least #esagame
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I made these enemies for a past iteration of ESA2, and it's nice to return them to the game! #esagame
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I made a bunch of very silly wordplay comics: www.hempuli.com/blog/index.p...
Will Smith watching from a window, saying "Your judgement is at hand"
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
New fight in ESA2 #esagame
Environmental Station Alpha 2 protagonist fighting a blue fly, with projectiles flying everywhere
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Drew a tiny silly comic: www.hempuli.com/blog/index.p...
Creepy monster in a robe
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
the shading adds a lot
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I didn't finish anything for Ludum Dare but made a tiny boat scene
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
This has been floating in my brain for a bit
Moominpappa looking ponderous and saying "Just according to suunnitelma", with the text "Translator's note: suunnitelma means plan" in parenthesis at the top, in reference to a classic meme about a Death Note anime translation
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Hmm, I can't immediately think of much stuff that I posted on Twitter that didn't end up in the game. The specific scenes shown weren't from any actual levels but just setups to let me pull off whatever I wanted to showcase in a given post; example of one such case below
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The cats
The cats Vilma and Fondue are chilling on a bed with a pinecone/-branch bedsheet
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Fondue the cat lying on bed, looking sad and worried
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
There's a good number of possible reasons but she also just defaults to looking sad/worried
Fondue the cat looking worried under a chair
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Fondue is worried about everything
Fondue the cat with her usual expression of permanent worry
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Testing a system for spreading out the cards by holding middle mouse button (or D) for easier legibility (thanks to @saacool.bsky.social for the feature request)
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Working on a system to highlight possible card placement in A Solitaire Mystery
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Took some photos at a lake a ~week ago and was especially happy with this one
Pier and lake at night-time; the lake is completely still, and mist can be seen above water. A treeline can be seen across the lake, as well as some reeds next to the pier. Despite it being night-time, glow from the sun can be seen behind the treeline, colouring the scene shades of orange and grey
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
At this point I don't think I'll even try to justify why these are here #esagame
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Been tinkering with this old 2015 project to get it eventually released; it's so nice to occasionally get to do this kind of low-stakes nonsense level art. Sure floating houses whatever
Characters hanging out on a floating island comprised of ground, mushrooms, and some wooden structures
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Pretty happy with this card art I made for an upcoming guest solitaire in A Solitaire Mystery
Pixelated playing cards in stacks, showing the cards King of Rabbits, Jack of Carrots and Jack of Ferrets on top
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
(and yes, I've made silly photoshops of this)
Fondue the cat photoshopped into a literal cheese fondue bowl
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Only a couple days left (hopefully) for Fondue to get her cone of shame off!
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Pretty happy with the camouflage effect! #esagame
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Implemented a new solitaire where at first the cards have ambiguous suit & value, and you need to move them around to reduce their options until they resolve into specific cards (the two-letter combos are to help identify cards before they resolve)
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
WIP crab walk from today's stream #esagame
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Implemented a new solitaire for Solitaire Mystery; create circuits with the cards to gain access to more cards
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Oh right, Bluesky wants GIFs to be posted as videos:
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I stream work on ESA2 every Thursday; the project pretty much died for several years due to Baba and I restarted it from scratch when returning to it, but for the past ~2 years it's been progressing at a steadyish-but-slow pace
ESA2 protagonist fighting a giant frog in a watery cave
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Fondue looking very cute
Fondue the cat looks at you while sitting on a rug, looking sad and thoughtful
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Vilma joined us for a game of Arcs
Vilma the cat standing on a chair with her forepaws on the table, looking at an unfinished game of the boardgame Arcs
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
you might've seen this already, but the park near me had a whole bunch of inkcaps last fall and I'm happy I got photos of them!
inkcap mushrooms on green grass
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Streaming ESA2 dev for 2 hours, then testing hot sauces with Saacool: www.twitch.tv/hempuli #streaming
A cardboard rack with 10 Melinda's-brand hot sauce bottles
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
...And here are some vaguely fern-esque(?) plants?
Plants with no flowers but plenty of leaves
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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Made a family of flowers with large, blue flowers but barely any leaves
8 flowers with large blue-violet petals but very very few leaves
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