iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

some progress and color experimentation

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

our little lost lamp got to enjoy a lonely moment at the beach …

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

it’s because of those spooky ski lift ghosts …

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

sometimes you write for your own sanitys sake

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

accidental super stylish animation preview

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

does anybody has an answer to the age-old question how to signal to the player that you can interact MULTIPLE times with an interaction propt a.k.a dialog?

screenshots from the game night in the woods

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

a strange thing, to discover yourself in the forest (or rather a test model of yourself)

a character stands in a light flooded forest, looking at a version of themselves

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

got hit by some inspiration yesterday and worked on a quick 3D vignette 😌an infinite escalator

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

video quality is not good, so here's also a picture

colorful tree shadows in a sunny environment

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

the effect is projected by a decal, and divided by three layers. I added some chrommatic abberation for artsy fartsy purposes, but also to emulate light bending at the edge of leaves

three textures, showing leave shadows in various detail and blury-ness levels

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

the shadows in question. they look so painterly!

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

a few weeks ago I saw some very peculiar tree shadows on the wall of my house, which had very visible layers - I had to recreate it!

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Heart Drive got nominated along other great projects at the German Dev Days ✨😊

list of games nominated for best prototype at the german dev days

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

lighting and material test I'm trying to replace some pure gradient texturing with more handpainted textures, but I need to make them generic so I can reuse them a lot

screenshot from unreal engine, showing some random models and materials

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

not many posts from my side here lately haha, but I'm working on so much cool shit for Heart Drive! anyways, here's the boring new idea of a VHS menu

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

HEART DRIVE got nominated by @derdcp.bsky.social for Best Prototype! 🫠🎉 #derDCP

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

still has to be tested out with real gameplay a lot. I'd hate to create an effect players will despise

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

experimenting with a CRT shader that emulates more the VIBE than anything technical correct 😅

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

pictures like these are 👨‍🍳<3

different part of a building are labled with their corresponding building terms

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I love the research part for art so much! always learning so much about tech/plants/buildings/history/people :D

google search results for "dot mask crt"

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I'm turning 30 soon, which means ofc I build a generator so you can create your very own version of me! :D -> polygonas.itch.io/build-a-jonas playable in browser, but only on PC (cause responsive UI is hell)

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

"All You Can Steal" is a 60-second-heist game @nadtsu.bsky.social and me worked on for #GlobalGameJam last week!🫳🖼️ you can download it now via Itch.io :) -> polygonas.itch.io/all-you-can-...

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

🙋.....................................................................🙋

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

this could be ✨ your ✨ mess -> store.steampowered.com/app/3997390/...

picture of the game emberlands desktop village over an excel sheet

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

finally got around adding different village LOADOUTS slots🙏 no more destroying a village just to experiment :) #EmberlandsDesktopVillage #indiegames

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

would be so funny to make a game gender selection, but it's a range value

a triangle, displaying texts "none", "girl", and "boy" on its corners

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I know I'm finally a proper game developer because I have like seven game engine versions and one to many source control programs on my computer

a snapshot from the windows taskbar, showing multiple unity versions

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

made made that much pixel art in my life, but in WarioWare its so much fun

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

here's a small behind-the-scenes of the project. you can make graphics, animate them, make music Mario-Paint-style and then do the whole programming! it was pure magic for me back then 🪄

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I don't know how many people know the *fantastic* DS game "Wario Ware: DIY" where you can make your own 3-second games? my very first video games arose from it, and even 15 years later I could make an Into The Emberlands Wario Ware game with it, on an DS emulator

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

this is how the tables look right now. they don't do a BAD job looking like tables - but hard edges are not really my style, and they suffer from "I have no time for this model right now"

wooden tables, rendered in a simple cartoon style

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

this table uses a very quickly painted tilable texte (VERY quickly 😅) I more or less just slapped over it. Nothing revolutionary, but I need to find more art approaches that let me cut corners with style and more reuse stuff.

snapshot of a texture that looks a bit like wood

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

looking into some texturing approaches to slap some more colors onto a model that'd look too flat when I texture them only with gradients

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

thanks for all your lovely feedback ❤️🌺 can‘t wait to show you more of our strange new game.. 👀 store.steampowered.com/app/4162340/...

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

also added a ripple effect for funsies :D

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

for my work-work project I have the problem that players often misplace tiles because the ortho perspective makes it hard to SEE where your grid is, relative to other tiles and layers. So I tried to give it a bit more "weight"

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

experimenting with adding better minigame(s) to the catching part of the fishing 🤔would enable the possibility of different minigames for different hookables/fish in the world. also easier to add upgrades (slower lockin, bigger zone to hit etc.)

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

my girlfriend showed me a website for geological maps, and it just looks so darn cool

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

it's been hours for me, so if anybody can help me post something on reddit with these rules, and a auto-play video with sound comes out, that would be so helpful 😩

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

HEART DRIVE is a fast spin on the cozy fishing game genre! #pitchyagame Catch giant fish from the top of your car, upgrade your equipment and help three friends uncover the mystery of an ancient machine god 🚗🎣 Wishlist ❤️ -> store.steampowered.com/app/4026760/... #gamedev #indiegame

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