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ian @ianatherton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pretty happy with this title card now, which will be the template (I plan to make a full painting) for the final box and booklet cover art. Any feedback 👍 #MarasAbyss #art #indiedev #pixelart #gamedev #gameboycolor #gameboy #modretro #chromatic #rpg #roguelike #traditionalroguelike #dungeoncrawler

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ian @ianatherton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#MarasAbyss #ScreenshotSaturday #gameboy #gamedev #indiedev Sometimes I wonder if the chance of slimes splitting is too high, as this 1 slime fight turned into a slimepocalypse for their people... #roguelike #rpg #retro

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ian @ianatherton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#MarasAbyss Unique font hype!! Also, here's kind of a sped up starting experience, this is how quickly you can get into a random world and start dungeon diving! #gameboycolor #roguelike #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #rpg #retro #modretro

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ian @ianatherton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#MarasAbyss Title screen improvements! - it feels cool when I get any kind of lighting effect working on game boy #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gameboycolor #roguelike #rpg #gamedev #pixelart #retro #modretro are there enough flames, skulls, and bones? #halloween 💀

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ian @ianatherton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The new biomes have made the overworld more dangerous but this seed rolled pretty cozy! However the seed name was not cozy sounding: "CURST GORE RIFT" (using words in a list instead of numbers for our seed like .hack) #gameboycolor #gameboy #indiedev #roguelike #cozygames #cozy #gamedev #pixelart

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ian @ianatherton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#MarasAbyss #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #pixelart #gamedev #gameboy #gameboycolor #roguelike missing some broom art, but I'm loving flying around the overworld!! Added a quest for Witch's to get a broom, and a raft quest for the other classes. There's also teleporters to get around the continent.

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ian @ianatherton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

youtu.be/f-pFpELeGHU Hey everyone! Fresh video on Mara's Abyss development, it's been a very fun project cramming so many roguelike features into an 8bit machine! #gamedev #indiedev #gameboycolor #gameboy #ModRetro #roguelike Kickstarter soon! Looking for testers and publishing/cart printing advice!

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Mara's Abyss: Open World Roguelike for Game Boy Color! Dev Log 3

YouTube video by Ian's Game Development

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ian @ianatherton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Here's a little bug/feature - fire is sometimes not the fiery color I intended? #indiedev #roguelike #gameboycolor #gameboy #gbdk #c #pixelart I think this happens sometimes because of the limited number of palettes (colors on screen) It's a pretty fun puzzle working within the limits though.

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces." - Carl Sagan

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ian @ianatherton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Dragon is incomplete, but looking kinda 帅, bottom UI row much cleaner, nice xp bar, life and danger indicators - finding that balance between useful and sleek. #turnbased #roguelike #marasabyss #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #fantasy #rpg #steam #gameboy #gameboycolor

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.” — Jacob Bronowski

A black and white portrait of Jacob Bronowski wearing round glasses, a suit, and a patterned tie, holding an open copy of his book, The Ascent of Man.

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ian @ianatherton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Quality of life feature: you can now preview stat changes for all equipment you find. Anyone want to test the game? #screenshotsaturday #turnbased #roguelike #marasabyss #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #fantasy #rpg #steam #gameboy #gameboycolor

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ian @ianatherton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Mara's Abyss WIP: Let me know your thoughts and critiques. It's made with gbdk and C. All art by me. The game has been starting to become fun, and the overworld load times are finally under control! #gbc #gameboy #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #c #programming #pixelart #roguelike #procedural

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ian @ianatherton.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Work in progress gif of my gameboy color game Mara's Abyss - A fully featured mystery labyrinth (roguelike) with pets, permanence, bosses, an overworld, multiple classes etc. #indiedev #gamedev #gameboy #gameboycolor #gbc

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ian @ianatherton.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

All that twitters is not bold.

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