iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

At least close enough right, that’s a relief. Then you get the gems like flashlight on F12, reload on ; or putting an item away on Backspace :D

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I would like to see you losing your mind over Deus Ex default key bindings. Staring with X for crouch :)

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#Blocktober & #ScreenshotSaturday Gyms are incredibly important for level designers. Building just pieces of the level and playing them helps you really feel if the space has good metrics, pacing, and challenging amount of enemies. Never forgetting the @rystorm.com's "Gyms, Zoos, and Museums"

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#Blocktober Let's get this blockout month started! I want to show the onboarding section from the 3D point-and-click game "It's Not You It's Us" that I worked on in spring this year. I wanted to teach the player here that they can push cars, so I put some in the disabled spot.

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Today I finally released a game on Steam that I worked on. Resonance is out now, fully free to play! This is an important milestone that I am really proud of. Now I hope that within a year I can release another. store.steampowered.com/app/2707370/... #indiegamedev #gamedev #gamedesign #steam

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Resonance on Steam

Wield your telekinetic voice in Resonance, a short twin-stick top-down action game. Sweep away enemies, raise and hurl objects, use them as a shield, and escape the dark facility trying to contain you...

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My first #Trenchbroom map, "Base To Hell" is here. Enjoy! www.slipseer.com/index.php?re... Doing #LevelDesign for #Quake is an experience that feels necessary for any level designer out there. There are fundamentals that come out of the tool itself and the active community is extremely supportive.

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Base To Hell

First map I created with Trenchbroom. Completable within 5 - 7 minutes. Enjoy! "Step into the Delta Outpost and discover what in the hell is happening in their basement. Eliminate any resistance." U...

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

„Resonance” will be released on Steam for free on August 29th! In this game you can wield a powerful telekinetic voice to wreak havoc in a fascist prison and break out leaving death and destruction behind! store.steampowered.com/app/2707370/... #indiegamedev #wishlistwednesday #gamedev

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

#ScreenshotSaturday this week for me is a Quake map in Trenchbroom. It feels like every #LevelDesigner should make one at some point. It really helps understand what tools are needed for #leveldesign and how they work.

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Something that made them work better for me though, is placing them in vicinity of the spawn location. Otherwise you end up with a room full of monsters that who knows where and when they teleport.

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Something I'm glad is not a practice in new level editors - spawn pockets. They take quite a bit to setup. #Trenchbroom #leveldesign #gamedesign

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I’m so glad I could be a Level Designer on this project. It was quite different from my previous projects and the amount of features that required integration taught me a great deal and improved my level development pipeline. #gamedev #leveldesign #indiegame

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

In game design classes the amount of times it was written in presentations that „people don’t read” is surprisingly large. But then again, people don’t read :) Makes it all the harder to convey information to people

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

#ScreenshotSaturday As my contribution to the tag, these are parts of the level I am making for a 3D point-and-click adventure about sustainability!

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

See you „resonating” at Digital Dragons Indie Zone!

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Digital Dragons in Kraków, Poland is about to start - I’m very glad to be able to show off „Resonance” at the conference and excited to meet all the people there. „Resonance” is coming to steam VERY soon - store.steampowered.com/app/2707370/...

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Today and tomorrow I am volutneering at @godotengine.org GodotCon in Amsterdam! Come by to say hi if u can!

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

This looks exactly how I would imagine an UntitledGamesEvent to look like. Seems like a great community!

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

We have managed to create something great using the LED Volume. Usage of the virtual environment really allowed us to enhance the vision and storytelling of „Elysian” beyond the capabilities of a physical set. I’m proud of my contribution to it. Check out the full film here youtu.be/X7mu7ezXYtQ?...

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

My game design project has come to an end. In a 7 people team we were tasked to create a Proof of Concept for a game that would spark a conversation about sustainability in a workshop setting. Check out the „It’s Not You, It’s Us” concept trailer: youtu.be/LUiTSrNZARw

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INYIU Demo Trailer

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The LED volume project is coming great together! The environment merged with a set almost surprisingly easy.

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Can’t describe how emotional that game makes me now both during gameplay and out of it. Standing for righteousness all the way!

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The LED volume project needs the virtual environment to enter a drug-induced version. Here's how it's coming along! #ShowYourWork - cause I just finished reading the book, would recommend to any artist.

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Continued to work on the environment for the LED volume. It came out pretty nicely and I got some feedback from an evironment art lecturer, who said it's "a successful work". That comment made me so happy, since now I can say that I can do game design, programming AND visual art. Full-stack dev.

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This is a prototype for "It's not You, it's Us", game for a sustainability workshop. You play as animals helping each other out using their abilities and inspiring others to do the same. This concept aims to provoke a conversation about various ways to contribute to solving sustainability issues.

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Here’s more. As you might notice, there is a crazy idea to make the world spin. I’ll be surely posting how that comes out

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Got my hands on a project for a LED volume together with a group from a different course. The plan is to record two short scenes and provide a virtual production technology for it. I am cosplaying as an environment artist for the moment because of that. See the experimental draft (no lighting):

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Last week I worked on a prototype for a game about sustainability. I aimed to empower the player into engaging in their own community. As a result this is a prototype for "Concrete Garden" where player takes care of a community garden atop their apartment building, which inspires others to help out.

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Currently tasked with creating a game about sustainability. Our goals? Resonance and Provocation. 1. To resonate with the players on personal level and leave a lasting impact. 2. To provoke the players into engaging in a constructive discussion post-gameplay. Honestly? It’s so hard to figure out.

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

#GlobalGameJam was a blast! We had 9 people, 3 VR headsets, barely any sleep and a vision! We ended creating a great prototype for 2 players that combines VR experience and flatscreen on the same device. The players’ task is to combine their clues and unmask the villain. youtu.be/b4g-M0HAKI4?...

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Keep Dancing and Nobody Gets Murdered - Gameplay Trailer

YouTube video by Michał Pikulski

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Remember that game I created with 10 other developers in May-June called „Resonance”? So yeah, we got nominated for #DutchGameAwards ! The ceremony happened today, we didn’t win (congrats to Final Print team), but it was still quite an achievement for us to celebrate.

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Just to finish up #blocktober I am posting last update on how the Quake level in Unreal ended up! I have discovered a lot of problems in the previous blockouts regarding line of sights, something I severly overlooked. I had to make spaces with event-based logic to always provide visual feedback.

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

#blocktober I want to post some progress on how the Quake level in Unreal Engine is going. I have saw that the hard difficulty and tricky positioning of enemies was causing players to fail. Instead of giving up, they tried again. Now I want to experiment with creating a satisfying challenge.

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

We’re also here! #blocktober revealed already a few people to me and I was really happy to see that happening

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Actually #blocktober is also here! Just search the tag and see what people have posted. We’re just getting started I feel like, but it’s getting there

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

From the very beginning I was set on creating a tower-based level, where player could understand that their goal is to reach the top. Designing the tower offered to experiment with elevator combat as well as vertical navigation and combat. Progression upwards helped player orientation in tower.

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

This was some early progress that I made in initial weeks on the grand hall. I designed it to take advantage of verticality and sidepaths. You can see that I added stairs to the doors at the end. It was a great solution to get player into the room, since the doors are locked without a golden key.

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

#blocktober As part of my first assignment during Year 2 at BUas I have to create a Quake level in an Unreal Engine template that replicated the original game. It is interesting in comparison to Trenchbroom since the freedom of engine allowed me to create breakable columns as a level ingredient.

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

#blocktober As blocktober has oficially started I will kick it off for me with WIP bits of a Trenchbroom Quake level that I picked up to learn how to use that tool.

screenshot from trenchbroom tool showing the entirety of my WIP castle level

screenshot from trenchbroom that shows the sewers below my WIP castle level

screenshot from trenchbroom showing the courtyard in my WIP castle level

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

For 8 weeks I have been working with 10 other developers to create "Resonance". It was a great experience working with such a talented team that was focused on creating a game we like. Play as a super-powered girl throwing and smashing fascists against walls and furniture. Links below!

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I have entirely forgot to keep posting on Bluesky, there was a lot to do. Now I am back with a summary of the previous project and some blocktober stuff to show.

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It has been a fascinating experience discovering what elements of architecture make us feel oppressed, confined and controlled. Research into fascist architecture, psychogeography and design of containment facilities revealed to me how layout can be used both to create secure areas and intimidate.

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

For the concept art I have to thank Quinn van Gorp and Deborah Nannini from the team.

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

For the next six weeks I will be working in on a new game as a level designer. It is going to be a bloody beat’em up where the player can throw fascists around using telekinetic powers of a little girl’s voice. I will be trying to meaningfully create oppressive experience in the levels.

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

It’s so weird coming back to developing in Unity after a year of working in Unreal Engine. A lot of things are simply different. Nothing necessarily better or worse. I miss having construction scripts and child game objects (the way blueprints can) though.

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Finally got to publishing another project of mine: piqulsky.itch.io/razem-rpg For years wanted to create a TTRPG of my own, that could fit my diverse game mastering style. This is a universal modular card-based TTRPG system. For now there’s barely enough on the page, but it will get updated!

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Razem RPG by Piqulsky

Modular card-based TTRPG

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Just published this little thing itch.io/email2game/3... It was lying in my drawer for far too long. Reminded me how much fun one page rpgs are to create. It’s sometimes surprisingly freeing to work with constraints.

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Legendary Heroes by Piqulsky

One Page RPG where characters are already legends

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Michał Pikulski @piqulsky.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Following up on modern games fashion when it comes to publish days - here is the Global Game Jam 2025 game. A month late, but let’s not focus on that. It has not been touched since the jam at all so unfortunately it is still bugged at some points. piqulsky.itch.io/cyberpop-fre...

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Cyberpop: Frequencies by Piqulsky, maronki, SunnySideStudio, BunnyboyCarrot, Fl0uxy

Voice controlled bubble popper.

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