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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 05/05/2026

And we're positive \o/ Maybe some more people will get to see my little game now 🥹 #IndieGames #horror #cozy #FindThisPixelAnomaly

Screenshot of Steam store page, saying "All reviews: Positive (10)"

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 28/04/2026

What's your favorite anomaly on the MUSEUM map in Find This Pixel Anomaly? Mine is the Mona Lisa portrait with horns 😈 A discreet and funny image anomaly. #cozyhorror #indiegames #FindThisPixelAnomaly

Screenshot of the game "Find This Pixel Anomaly" at the museum map. You can see an art gallery in pixelart. A portrait of the Mona Lisa is encircled to highlight the spot. But she has some devil horns on top of her head.

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 15/04/2026

After the game is before the game...I started a new little prototype. It's a shop simulation where you play as a crow, selling all the shiny stuff like branches, stones, bottle caps ✨ I started implementing an inventory system, picking up items and notifications. #gamedev #indiegames #cozy

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 10/04/2026

Are there any streamers/press who would like to cover Find This Pixel Anomaly? I would happily provide a Steam key :3 If you know any streamers that like anomaly games, please feel free to drop some names, so I can get in touch. #indiegames #horror #twitchstreamer #smallstreamer #gamer #cozygames

Steam Hidden Object Fest / Apr 9 - 13 AT 10 AM PT / Find This Pixel Anomaly / $4,99

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 26/03/2026

Guys, I can't believe it! #FindThisPixelAnomaly will be out 8th April this year!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Perfectly ready for Steam's Hidden Object Fest 🔎 store.steampowered.com/app/3290400/... #cozyhorror #cozy #indiegames #hiddenobject

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 19/03/2026

Woah that was fast 😱 Steam even recommended small optional fixes to improve gameplay 🥹 #FindThisPixelAnomaly #gamedev #indiegames

Steamworks - Find This Pixel Anomaly has been reviewed and no blocking issues were encountered.

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 18/03/2026

It is now in Steam's hands to approve my game for release 🙏 Can't believe I made it this far 🥹 #FindThisPixelAnomaly #gamedev #indiegames

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 05/03/2026

Waiting for the play testers feedback...What else can I do? Mocking up fake Nintendo Switch cartridges 😬 Controls and graphics would definitely work on Switch!

Switch 2 fake cover of my game Find This Pixel Anomaly

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 01/03/2026

BTW, Find This Pixel Anomaly is fully playable on Steam Deck. Steam just haven't reviewed it, yet. 👍 Play the demo now: store.steampowered.com/app/3290400/...

Find This Pixel Anomaly capsule art in a Steam Deck mock

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 24/02/2026

The little imp characters in my game appreciate this wishlist number 😈 You will be rewarded with an achievement if you find all of them in the final game. Wishlist and play the demo: store.steampowered.com/app/3290400/...

666 wishlist entries for Find This Pixel Anomaly

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 11/11/2025

Unfortunately I cannot join #GodotFest but maybe we can get to 600 wishlists for FIND THIS PIXEL ANOMALY nontheless? 🔎 #indiegames #horror #cozy #FindThisPixelAnomaly

Wishlists for Find This Pixel Anomaly is at 578

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 02/11/2025

I've started to implement a debug menu customized for my game. With this I can now unlock Steam achievements and set stats with a single button click or print out store variables 🎉 #gamedev #indiegames #godot #godotengine #debug

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 29/10/2025

"The Room Above" has a nice UI to explain the game mechanics. I definitely need to implement this for #FindThisPixelAnomaly #gamedev #indiegames

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 16/10/2025

Map 3 is done 🎉 That means I already started to build the final map 😱 I will need some play testers soon (anybody up for hard mode? 😬 ). Once we nail the last bugs, the game can be released. #gamedev #indiegames #spooktober #godot

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 12/10/2025

I finally finished implementing map 2 for #FindThisPixelAnomaly 🎉 And even started map 3 😱 Would be crazy if I could finish map 4 before Halloween, but I guess Steam wouldn't be fast enough to review the game anyway 😄 #gamedev #indiegames #hiddenobject #spooktober

Screenshot of the game. You see a clothing store security camera footage in pixelart

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 06/10/2025

Marketing sucks for gamedevs. Keeping track of all the mails I sent to content creators is hard, so I wrote a tool to send & log these. I can even add variables which are replaced in the mail texts. Small docker, only runs on my local machine. Gets the job done, I guess 💪 #gamedev #indiegames

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 22/09/2025

Hey Boon, nice changes! I found some text overlapping its box on /affiliate . I'm on MacOS in Chrome. 1920px window width.

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 27/08/2025

Thanks to my lovely wife I now have an appropriate hairstyle in Story of Seasons Grand Bazaar 🥹 Didn't like the default styles so she bought me the DLC 😭

Screenshot of the Grand Bazaar Player figure

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 22/08/2025

Got a new pin at GamesCom ☺️ It's my favorite Hazbin Hotel Song 🎶

A red arrow with the text „You‘re a loser baby „

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 22/08/2025

On my way to GamesCom Cologne. If you see this pin, it's me 👀 #FindThisPixelAnomaly

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 20/08/2025

Got a super sweet comment on my game #FindThisPixelAnomaly 🥹 Thank you so much!

Junebug 5 hours ago

really love this game, it's very cute and creepy, and much harder than i thought it would be at times! i also love how the dog and the clock strikes are so simple yet so good at jumpscaring me every single time lol xD

one question though, every so often on a playthrough all of the cameras will start glitching for several seconds at a time until the timer is up and theres no way for me to report it as an anomaly. is there something that im just
missing/not thinking of or is it just a mechanic to up the difficulty?
either way, its an incredible game and i find myself coming back to it often <3

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 18/08/2025

Pimped the addon's GitHub README a little bit. Pictures are worth a thousand words 😁 #godotengine #godot #gamedev

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 13/08/2025

Creating functions on the fly in Godot! 💥 Reddit user siwoku had the idea and newold25 and me added some features 💪 You can even create get/set variables with this addon. Find the code on GitHub: gist.github.com/NickHatBoeck... #gamedev #indiedev #godot

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 12/08/2025

Dev Challenge: Implement a farming sim clock interface within 1 day. Features: Time, date, season, year. Text will turn red at 1:00 am, like in Stardew Valley. Finding the day of the week (Mon, Tue, ...) for given date, season and year was the hardest part. #gamedev #indiegames #godotengine

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 07/08/2025

Vector2 exports aren't that complicated but somehow I never got familiar with these 😅 That's why I prefer an enum export with UP, RIGHT, DOWN, LEFT. @export var direction: Direction2D.Directions #gamedev #godotengine

Screenshot of the described enum dropdown in Godot. Options are Up, Right, Down, Left

Code screenshot for the described enum export in Gdscript

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 28/07/2025

Tried to get into developing a Godot addon to help me with my story heavy game. It's an UI to create events (like open a dialogbox, conditions, move an npc), which will then be converted to JSON. #gamedev #indiegames #godotengine

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 14/07/2025

I just recently learned how to use Tweens in Godot. I often use it in combination with fading in/out nodes via the modulate property. What I didn't know is that you can use sub properties like the alpha value of the modulate property. So you can just write "modulate:a" 🤯

Screenshot of gdscript code snippet:

func do_animation() -> void:
var tween = create_tween().set_loops(4)
var animationSpeed: float = 1.0
tween.tween_property(self, "modulate:a", 0.0, animationSpeed)
tween.tween_property(self, "modulate:a", 1.0, animationSpeed)

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 12/07/2025

I didn't know that custom BBCode effects in Godot are pretty easy to implement oO All that it takes is a script extending RichTextEffect. Here is an example script, that prints the text between [highlight][/highlight] in a color I set in an autoload "Utils" script. #gamedev #GodotEngine

Gdscript code:

@tool
class_name RichTextHighlight
extends RichTextEffect

var bbcode = "highlight"

func _process_custom_fx(char_fx) -> bool:
char_fx.color = Utils.HIGHLIGHT_COLOR

return true

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 11/07/2025

I just LOVE Godot's built in BBCode effects like this text shake 🤩 #gamedev #indiegames #GodotEngine

Animation of a text box showing up. Text says "FIIIIIIIIIIILLMOOOOOOOOOOOORE". The text is shaking, like the person it says is screaming.

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 10/07/2025

Daaamn, I really think this is getting somewhere 🥹 Animations are so much fun! #indiegames #gamedev #godotengine

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 09/07/2025

I missed on so many cool effects, because I couldn't get my head around Tweens in Godot 😱 I was stuck using the AnimationPlayer for anything moving 🙈 #gamedev #indiegames #godotengine

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 07/07/2025

Playing around with animation stuff in Godot. People tend to concentrate on game graphics, so I try to improve my UI. But it feels like there aren't a lot of examples or tutorials on this kind of stuff. Do you have any recommendations? 🤔 #gamedev #uidesign #indiegames #godotengine

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 14/06/2025

Say Happy Birthday to the birthday girl 🥳

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 29/05/2025

I just couldn't warm up to Storybook 😖 , that's why I started to build my own Vue playground. The goal is to have a collection of smaller components, that can be shared among other projects via npm/yarn. #webdev #indiedev #vuejs

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 14/04/2025

Just get the first object you get out of any of these two functions. Save this object in a "pickedObject" variable. Whenever the cursor moves, pickedObject's position is also updated. When you put the object down, reset pickedObject by "pickedObject = null".

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 14/04/2025

After that I added the first object to be moved: A 16x16 sprite of a dog bowl. ↔️ The bowl is a StaticBody the cursor's Area2D can detect on layer 12. Two functions of the Area2D come in handy here: - get_overlapping_bodies () - get_overlapping_areas()

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 14/04/2025

I sorted my feature list of complexity and priority in order to get a working prototype as soon as possible (this will help me stay motivated). 💪 I started rendering the 16x16 grid and a cursor, which can move inside this grid. The cursor is a Area2D which can detect bodies and areas underneath.

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 14/04/2025

I need to implement a build mode for my #PuppyRescue simulation and I was like super scared to even start because of all the features I needed. So I started breaking it down to smaller pieces. Here's how I did it 🧵 #gamedev #indiegames #godot

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 10/04/2025

Doing some hard work in #Locomoto 💪🚂

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 09/04/2025

I've been working on some UI things lately. Tried out a cooldown effect with shaders. #gamedev #godot

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 24/03/2025

We did it guys 🥹 500 wishlist entries!! Thank you so much, I'm beyond grateful 😭 #gamedev #indiegame #FindThisPixelAnomaly

500 wishlist entries for my gameFind This Pixel Anomaly

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 19/03/2025

Didn't know what to do last evening, so I just pixeled some Digivice like device with some crest inspired floppy disks and threw an animation on it 🤷‍♂️ Maybe one day I will be able to create a Digimon World like game 🥺 #Digimon #Pixelart

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 18/03/2025

What a fun little game made with Phaser JS! dailydungeon.net

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 12/03/2025

It's time for #WishlistWednesday ! Feel free to share your #indiegame projects below 💪 I start with #FindThisPixelAnomaly - An investigation game where you have to monitor surveillance camera footage to spot anomalies in cute pixel art 🔎 But beware - too many anomalies will end the game.

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 11/03/2025

I'm so proud of my #gamedev journey so far. That's why I wanted to treat myself and bought these wooden pins. We have the #FindThisPixelAnomaly logo and two doggos of my game #PuppyRescue ☺️ #solodev #gamedevjourney #indiedev #somethinggoodeveryday

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 10/03/2025

Started working on a blog redesign 💅 It's been a while since I worked with pure WordPress templating. Still thinking about adding English translations, though...🤔 All gamedev stuff I post about is in English but I feel much more confident writing in German. 😵‍💫 #webdev #dark #ui #wordpress

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 08/03/2025

Woah, what's THAT? This thing has a lot of...eyes?! You'd better grab a flashlight as soon as this intruder causes mischief in the next update 🔦 #FindThisPixelAnomaly #indiegames #indiegame #investigation #pixelart

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Nick @nickhatboecker.de · 04/03/2025

Are you a fan of anomaly games but too scared to play them yourself? FIND THIS PIXEL ANOMALY does not have jumpscares or violence but a tense atmosphere with a spooky tone & cute pixel art. Play the free demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3290400/... #FindThisPixelAnomaly

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