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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 20/08/2026

Can't believe it took me so long to make a working title screen for the game!

Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 20/10/2025

Happy Halloween from Yokai Park! I wanted to properly show off these amazing new fall/halloween themed assets from @assetquest.bsky.social 🎃🦇 #indiedev #gamedev

Happy halloween from yokai park! a picture of pumpkins, spooky trees and other halloween assets

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 17/10/2025

Yokai Park coming soon on steam! You can wishlist now ^^ store.steampowered.com/app/3826820/... #indiedev #gamedev

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 17/10/2025

Really exciting news y'all! Yokai Park is officially coming soon on steam!👀🎉 It's been a lot of work to get here, and lots more to come~ store.steampowered.com/app/3826820/... Wishlist now on steam~ #indiedev #gamedev #simulationgame #yayyomg

Yokai Park Coming Soon On Steam - Wishlist Now

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 14/10/2025

Introducing these amazing icons for Yokai Park from @foxxdrive.bsky.social! Video under the cut to see them use~ #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

Five beautiful oni icons showing different expressions. Love, anger, surprise, happy, sad!

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 01/10/2025

What do you mean making unlockable keychains that move with your camera isn't the best use of my dev time? #indiedev #gamedev #yokaipark #simulationgame

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 03/09/2025

Started my settings menu and added some UI scaling and other options~ #indiedev #gamedev #yokaipark

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 03/09/2025

Had some fun making a possible logo today for the game :3 #indiegame #indiedev #yokaipark

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 30/08/2025

No one make fun of him, he's doing is best to clean up this park. #indiedev #gamedev #yokaipark #skeleton

a skeleton holding a comically large pile of trash named "Tiny Tomson"

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 13/08/2025

The girlies in Yokai Park just want one thing.. and it's big soda.🥤🥤 #indiedev #gamedev #cozygame #yokaipark

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 16/07/2025

Had the 3D guest effect hidden in the video, but its quite cute all together i think!

still image of the guest showing the 3d model too

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 16/07/2025

👀✨Finally happy with this cutaway and CCTV effect so you can watch your guests and creatures go about their day~ I find it very calming to watch them mill about #indiedev #simulationgame #tycoongame #cozygames #gamedev #devlog

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 08/07/2025

🌳✨ New trees have sprouted in the park! ✨🌳 Thanks to some awesome asset work by @assetquest.bsky.social, Yokai Park is looking more beautiful than ever~ I'm so happy with these new trees, and more to come! Which one is your favorite? #indiegame #cozygame #gameart #gamedev #indiedev #yokaipark

A japanese maple, wisteria, and cloud tree!

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 08/07/2025

I have some really exciting updates on the game to share will y'all! Here's a sneak peek showcasing the first pass flow of constructing a building that requires it~ Anyone peek the new asset look in there 👀? #indiedev #gamedev #yokaipark

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 06/06/2025

🌸 Making improvements to placement! Added an optional grid indicator for players, and now you can hold Ctrl or long-press to snap objects right to the edge of their grid square—super smooth and satisfying. ✨ #yokai #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity #featureupdate #devlog #cozygame👻🦊

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 03/06/2025

✨Creatures are starting to get unique behaviors! Mothman 🦋 now flies up to tall perches and hangs out before fluttering back down. ^^ He’s the first in the game with a flying behavior (though he’s still a bit clunky in the air)! #indiedev #gamedev #yokai #mothman #unity3d #cozyhorror #devlog

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 03/06/2025

Been doing a lot behind the scenes including: 🧠 Guest thoughts system 📦 Smoother item placement 🪟 Cleaner, integrated popups — they’ve got a new pager-style look! #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #gameui #uipolish #devlog #yokaigame

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 30/05/2025

Started writing documentation for how to use DUM to make dress up games ~ sometimes dev is just writing and taking screenshots >< www.melon3.com/dum-document... #indiedev #solodev

screenshot of a website showing how to use the DUM tool

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 29/05/2025

DUM (Dress Up Maker) is now available for free beta playing on itch io! melon-3-studio.itch.io/dum Join me if you want to make cool dress up games :3 #gamedev #dressup #DUM #DressUpMaker #indiedev

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 24/05/2025

Helped my friend learn the basics of blender today and made this lil guy as a quick example for her #blender #indiedev #doodle #lowpoly

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 13/05/2025

Sometimes the monsters you make aren't quite the monsters you meant to create. #GameDev #IndieDev #Yokai #RiggingFails #Unity3D

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 07/02/2025

After a little #gamedev break, I'm back! Implemented what I lovingly call "wiggle mode" which is just picking up and moving creatures :3 #indiedev #solodev

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 04/01/2025

Added the functionality to make certain parts of objects spawn at random with their own rarities like the lily pads and mushrooms on these logs! #gamedev #solodev #indiedev

A screenshot of a game showing six logs and six ponds. The logs each have a different amount of mushrooms on them and the ponds have different amount of lily pads.

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 24/12/2024

These guests are absolutely obsessed with buying tacos #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 12/12/2024

Also I forgot how fun flavor text can be!

Window of Skeletacos with flavortext "They don't know a lot anymore, but they sure do know how to make a mean taco!"

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 12/12/2024

Been working on a lot of backend stuff, so nothing too flashy to share in my recent #gamedev journey, but guests will now go to open shops~ I'm honing the guest behavior little by little #indiedev #solodev #devlog

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 01/12/2024

Animating the emission color to make the lights turn on and off with the shops! #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #unity

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 30/11/2024

Designed out the basic shop base for drinks/food stalls the guests use. I'll add to these to make each one look specialized to its offerings! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #indiegame

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 26/11/2024

A friend told me he liked to see what he was buying from menus, so I added a little preview in the form of a tamagotchi-like! and Yes - there will be unlockable skins #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #indiegame

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 24/11/2024

Creatures now spawn with randomized traits that affect their behaviors! 🍖 Ravenous creatures eat more, more quickly, speedy ones go faster etc~ #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 23/11/2024

11/22/2024 #indedev #devlog Got in three things tonight in Yokai Sanctuary #gamedev! - Food crates to access the food resource - Implemented the concept of gates on enclosures, and placing this gate - Added a salt line "invisible" fence Two crates, one filled with meat and one filled with rocks

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 22/11/2024

Creatures will now consume the food in their enclosures 🥩🥩 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame the mothmen hunger..

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 21/11/2024

Here's my demo reel of DUM - my Dress Up Maker #indedev tool designed for artists who want to make a dress up game~

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 18/11/2024

Game my website a little makeover to be more games focused! www.melon3.com #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 17/11/2024

New yokai in progress alert! Started adding nurikabe tonight! #gamedev #indiedev #妖怪

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 16/11/2024

11/15/2024 #gamedev log: Been quietly in the tank working on creature behavior! They now have needs and will act upon their environment based on them ^^ I can also tweak the defaults to make some creatures like certain things more, for example the kappa love bathing! #indiedev #indiegame

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 12/11/2024

Yes!! He's the second monster to make it into the game, good choice~

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 12/11/2024

Hi there! Would love to get to know some of y'all, let me know if you're a fellow #gamedev or #indiedev, or maybe just someone who likes those things! Comment with your favorite yokai/monster and maybe it'll make it into the game~

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 12/11/2024

Devlog 11/12/24 - stayed up too late getting the first pass of my creature intelligence in! It has a long long ways to go, but they're making decisions based on their environment and needs and that's so cool to me!

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 11/11/2024

Starting to take a crack at my creature AI using the Sims method laid out by @gamemakerstoolkit.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gf2... Awesome video I'm leaning on it heavily and giving myself lots of internal debugging tools while I implement #gamedev #indiedev

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 10/11/2024

After fighting with the NavMesh all night I finally got my placeholder guests in and walking around! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 09/11/2024

Having an EXTREME amount of fun with this user interface work for yokai sanctuary! totally inspired by old nokia phones, nintendo DS etc from growing up~ #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 08/11/2024

#Gamedev tip! If you find yourself doing the same action over and over while developing, make your life easier and make yourself custom tools! Pretend you are your own end user /continued

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Melon3 Studio 🍈🍈🍈 @melon3.com · 07/11/2024

My way of finding joy is by putting in my first "real" piece of UI, in the form of a vintage phone as a the shop menu. I may or may not have plans to add phone charms 👀 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #ui

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