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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Check out this cool new OC that I just stole! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvU1...

Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I hate when youtube presents me with the dilemma of "I want to click on that thumbnail, but I don't want the algorithm to know that I want to click on that thumbnail."

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I'm loving all of the de/recomps we've been getting recently. The triple a industry may be burning down. But small devs have way better tools than ever before, and player have more ways to play old games than ever before

A screen shot of a the pokemon gen 1 recomp, moded to be a 3D voxel game, showing an NPC saying "Technology is incredible!"

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Here's my sumbision for GMTK's 2026 Game Jam, the theme was "Countdown" and I took it very literally. #indiedev lordlaneusgmailcom.itch.io/count-downes...

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Available for Windows

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I wonder how many people on the carnivore diet are just ideologically incapable of admitting they have a gluten sensitivity

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It's always nice when computer code is just a grammatically correct English sentence. but I think this instance was particularly satisfying example #indiedev #programming #gnomecop

$A screen shot of some gdscript in the godot editor it reads: func there_is_a_soft_reset_input()->bool: if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_select")\ and Input.is_action_pressed("ui_accept")\ and Input.is_action_pressed("ui_cancel")\ and Input.is_action_pressed("ui_up")\ and not (Input.is_action_pressed("start")\ or Input.is_action_pressed("ui_down")\ or Input.is_action_pressed("ui_right")\ or Input.is_action_pressed("ui_left")): return true else:return false$

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

still experimenting with the art style for battle sprites in #gnomecop but I think It's starting to come together #indiedev

battle sprite for Jeffery. A weird flower plant guy

in game art work for Mega-Chicken. A giant round chicken

battle art for Sacci, a refference to Brazillian mythology

Wolthug. A piglike wolf with a hat for a note

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I finally sat down and listened to some #kpop, and I'm really disappointed that it's just sounds like regular pop music, but with lyrics in a language I can't understand.

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Why are helicopters so much safer at the end of video games, than at the beginning of them?

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Holy crap. My speed run got verified after 5 months, and I'm officially a world record holder for Shadows Over Loathing, any% (prologue) category. The achievement was more from opportunism that skill or dedication, but it's still really cool. www.speedrun.com/Shadows_Over...

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

America vs Australia was a really hard Where's Waldo #worldcup

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

What fun is a monster collecting RPG if the player never gets a good sense of the ecosystems they're disrupting? #gnomecop #indiedev

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I'm making my life so much harder trying to keep save files human readable, but if want to prioritizes rewarding curious players, then making it easy for them to edit their saves seems like it will be worth all of the finicky file IO #indiedev

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Watching the world cup really makes me appreciate just how badly Americans lawyered football to create the NFL

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

at least when it's such a small pallet, and resolution, you can almost just brute force the process.

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I think anything made for N64 these days counts as a tech demo

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

have you seen the guy on youtube who's porting Mario 64 to the GBA?

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Because we have better tools that let us make even more amazing things! There are plenty of people making new stuff for old system though which is cool in the same way that painting a giant photo realistic portrait with a ball point pen is cool.

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I'm making a retro monster catching RPG in godot, and can't stop thinking about the poor bastards at game freak who had to do all of this in assembly. Making games is hard!

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The moon under the bridge is gorgeous

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

representing the minutia of everyday life is key to making a game feel cozy #indiedev #gnomecop

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Currently running around the map, bumping into literally every npc in the game I'm developing, because I just changed a line of code, and now need to make sure they are all properly tagged as tangible. #gamedev

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

If you aren't breeding you own species of bee, are you really committed?

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Trump loves inflation... Of course he does, number go up

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

AI should only ever be used for stuff to tedious to make a human do.

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I've been trying to use Instagram reals for about a week now, but I just can't get addicted. Constantly re deciding if I want to skip stuff every few tenths of a second would be stressful enough without the watchful eye of the algorithm pressuring me not to linger on the wrong thing for too long.

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

But if The Jungle Book was based on a book, then why didn't they call it The Jungle Movie?

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Moving is super stressful, but smashing an old guitar in the woods, and then duct taping all of the pieces to trees really helped

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Thumbs up buttons are so much less intimidating than a heart button. I see a lot of posts that I think deserve a like, but how many really deserve a love?

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

minimalism isn't an excuse to be lazy, but it sure does help mitigate scope creep. #gamedev

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Still working on a vertical, slice, and I just hit the point, where my really cool, amazing prototype for a game, suddenly crossed a line and became a kind of lame, and bare bones actual game #indiedev

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

enlightenment is the best form of realizing you were wrong.

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

hurray! the new apartment has internet now

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I'm glad. Default cube always seemed lonely

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

"I thought I was doing you a favor, but this was actually fun." Might be the best playtest feedback I've ever recieced. #indiedev

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Beta version of the intro cutscene for a pokemon inspired indie game I'm working on. #gnomecop #blender #animation

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Reminder that while it may seem like most people are idiots, in actuality everyone is an idiot most of time. Being smart consumes finite mental resources, and all of us are having a busy day, so I'm just gonna spend the rest of the morning on autopilot.

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I made a pixel art version of my house as an art test for my game #indiedev

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

One of the coolest parts about making a game with super low res graphics, is that means the file size is really small,and I can just litter my desktop with entire back up copies. #gamedev

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a better result is the definition of practice.

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

It's still to early to really being worrying about this, but I animated an intro cut scene for my pokemon inspired, retro rpg project #gnomecop #indiedev

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Filip Gronowski @filipgronowski.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Speels for UNDYING KNIGHTS game #indie #pixcelart #knights #medieval #indiegamedev #gamedev #platfrom #figthing #steam store.steampowered.com/app/4001660/...

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I like reality, I just wish it weren't so expensive

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Republicans are historically okay with socialism, so long as it supports the automotive and oil industries

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Pope Laneus @laneus.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The secret is autistic hyper fixation!

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