iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Karob @karob.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Is the funny potted plant guy a purse?

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Speedoshi @speedoshi.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

For her neutral-B, she wields a ink-staff For @lambsplash.bsky.social

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Christie 🖤 @ndchristie.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

This system works really well when combined with strong layers. Here the water and dirt are in layer 0, grass layer 1, trees layer 2 and so on. They stack similar to how they would in 3d. If you have to render in a single layer, though, there are better autotile systems like the one in RPGMaker.

Dual Grid pixel art map in 3 layers - dirt/water, grass, and trees on top

duals grid 2d auto tiles showing 15 cells per binary transition

a different autotile system using 6 cells divided into 24 subcells

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I getting big "this is fine" energy from these people.

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Dracamar ✌️ PLAY THE DEMO ON STEAM NOW @dracamar.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Dracamar Demo is now available on Steam, and here’s what players are saying about it! 👀 #WishlistWednesday now and play the demo 🐲🔥 👉 bit.ly/dracamar_steam

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Flashkirby (Art) @flashkirby99.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Enjoying some ghost stories around the campfire, feat @karob.bsky.social's bug trio (and fufu) #artfight2025

Vita and Fufu telling ghost stories to Marche who is definitely 100% not scared, and Kell who is definitely not having her reading focus broken by the events transpiring.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Some concepts for playable bug-themed game characters. The green fluffball is named Fufu. #gamedev #indiedev #art

Three bug-themed character designs. The first has green warrior clothes and wields a large key. The second has pink fashionable clothes and has a large shield and a green fluffball creature. The third has blue robes and wields a kama (sickle) and lantern.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Update: LuaBridge has worked very well as a lightweight alternative to Sol. It's a little more restrictive in its syntax, but compilation is much faster now.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I peeled my way out of bed like one would peel an unripe banana.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I can also hear all those weather effects ❤️

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

At a glance I thought this was the forest floor.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The Discord client increasingly makes me feel like I'm trapped in a gacha game.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

What next? I don't know, but I seem to have parked in C++/SDL/Lua for a serious game project, so I'll be here for a while.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

C++ has been a *nightmare* ahaha, but I think I'm getting the feel for how to use pointers and vectors and such in ways that don't break in amazingly cryptic ways. Raylib and SDL do a fine job I think. And Lua integration is *really nice* for making game changes without having to recompile.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I felt like I was hitting the performance limits of gdscript in Godot, with the fancy things I like to do. If I had more time, I would have probably tried out the C# version of Godot, or even wrote some C++ extensions for myself.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

rust was great to learn and has improved the way I code in other languages, but it felt like it added excessive time and complexity to my game development, especially with the issues I experienced with every game or similar framework I tried in rust.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Monogame was very comfy to build my own game base in, and C# is pretty comfy too. But my pilgrimage was kicked off by wanting a good web export option, which Monogame lacked.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

My pilgrimage: Javascript (pixi.js), C# (Monogame), rust (Bevy and others), gdscript (Godot Engine), C++ (raylib or SDL with Lua integration).

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Sol feels like wild magic. It can do amazing things, but I have no idea how it works and sometimes it bites me.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I've been using Sol for my C++ Lua integration, but the compile complexity seems to be ballooning, so I'm considering LuaBridge or even using the Lua C API directly 😱. #gamedev #lua

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Wow that compressed quite painfully on upload.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

The underwater world of Hydrolines is beginning to take shape. #gamedev #indiedev #hydrolines #SDL

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Oh my goodness look at them go.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I love when combat abilities have extra utility (illumination here).

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

It is somewhat of an extraction game, where you bring your base with you.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

WIP submersible ship. Perhaps the perfect disguise, or perhaps they look like a giant snack. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #hydrolines

A very round underwater ship shaped like a fish. A suited humanoid peers out of a porthole window.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Goodness, what beautiful environment and music.

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Austo @austofrosto.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Another good devlog!! PLEASE watch, like, comment, and share on socials if you can. I try to get videos posted on this channel a lot more views if possible! Edited by @misspelledmoos.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QwW... #indiegame #gamedev #gaming

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Making the ULTIMATE Chao Garden Spiritual Successor [Devlog #1]

YouTube video by Bobo Bay

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

These backgrounds are giving me wanderlust.

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Luna the Runic Pixie 🧚‍♀️✨🌳 @runicpixels.nl · 27/02/2025

I'm excited to share that I've been working on creating some new backgrounds for @terraria.bsky.social! It's been exciting journey to give back to give back to the game that got me into pixel art and game dev! A huge thank you to the awesome community and team!~ forums.terraria.org/index.php?th...

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

That frustration has launched me into a silly journey across languages and frameworks and I don't know how it will end.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I enjoyed working with MonoGame, but I was primarily using it for jam games and got frustrated by the lack of a reasonable path to web builds.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

As a frequent listener of Excursions, this is 🔥🔥🔥.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

C++ and makefiles, however, were not comfy to work with. I miss C# and even rust, haha. I miss good package management and consistent language grammar.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Raylib was very comfy to work with, but I ran into my first bump wanting to get a safe place for the game to store files, such as the appdata folder in Windows. This is a feature of SDL but not raylib.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I'm testing the groundwork for a 2D roguelite platformer. I made this with raylib and C++, but I'm at the point of considering switching to SDL3. #gamedev #indiedev #vanistheris

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

These read so clearly oh my goodness.

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Rappenem @rappenem.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

How to draw a pixel art rock 🪨 #pixelart

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Twelve. Eleven are game jam entries (not mine) and one is Cluster.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Mike Goutokuji with snow shoes. #touhou #art

A lightly dressed catgirl (Mike Goutokuji from the Touhou Project), shivering as she walks across a snowscape in snow shoes.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Big same on the anxiety and misophonia, adding chronic fatigue and various pain. Even when I can do a job, I might not be able to do it in the required timeline or environment or interactive way.

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Karob @karob.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

That's a bit frightening lol. Please don't rediscover your allergy.

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