iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 20h

one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yeahhh arbitrary inconveniences to get you to pay :/ I guess with Gitlab their paid option simply includes a bunch of stuff we don't need or want. I wish they had a basic option that just hosts your files and that's it but oh well, easy to self-host and at least we get to control where our data is

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It feels weird to complain about since they do give us the option to self-host (without licensing cost!) and that is really great, but I am puzzled by how they came up with their pricing.

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We're using @gitlab.com and it has very generously been free so far, but now after some changes they want ~$400/month which seems... quite steep? So instead of doing that we're self-hosting it now for ~$10/month.

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Greg Lobanov @greg.style · 14/08/2026

When a menu has a neat little tween. Or a character has a funny little animation. Somebody out there spent days making that little detail perfect. And when you’re playing a game you’re blasted with like 50 of these little things per minute. Games are so rich with human life! It’s awesome!!!

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Wholesome Games @wholesomegames.com · 06/06/2026

THIS WINTER: Croakwood is a relaxed and creative town building simulation game about frogs, nature, and an ancient forest. Coming to Early Access this Winter! #WholesomeDirect2026 🐸 Guide the growth of the community 🏡 Design and decorate 👀 Learn about the frogs

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Since you still don't seem to know who your users are: it's the creative people you're trying to replace with bland slop.

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

We announced our game, City of None, more officially! check it out!

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Texel Raptor @texelraptor.com · 01/04/2026

You might have noticed that we love frogs, and we think that you might love frogs too. Thus we have decided to take the bold leap to become a fully frog-centric development studio. As a first important step we're officially rebranding Parkitect to Frogitect. We hope you enjoy this new direction 🐸

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Texel Raptor @texelraptor.com · 13/03/2026

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Texel Raptor @texelraptor.com · 06/03/2026

Hey! Parkitect is free to play on Steam right now until March 9th! We're also giving the Booms & Blooms DLC away for free on Steam until March 9th - and you get to keep it afterwards, so make sure to go grab it if you don't own it already 🙂 Have fun everyone! store.steampowered.com/app/453090/P...

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

A new game that captures the feeling of classic SimCity would really be amazing

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I worked on some new rain effects. Everything covered by a roof stays looking dry 😊 #techart #gamedev

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Come try a first demo of Croakwood and lots of other great games at Vancouver Game Game Garden this weekend!

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Ka Teixeira @bitmoo.com · 18/09/2025

Hey hey I can finally share what I've been up to which was creating concepts and models for the Dinos & Dynasties Parkitect DLC! 💖 Had a blast working on these, we hope you all enjoy! :D (tried making a quick shrine to display my Minotaur son 😆) (ps: Parkitect is on sale, 60% off!! 👀)

Screenshot from the Parkitect game, a stylized minotaur statue in a shrine-like altar with flowers and other ancient Greek decorations

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Texel Raptor @texelraptor.com · 17/09/2025

Surprise, we just released a new deco-focused DLC for Parkitect! Dinos & Dynasties adds two new themes (Dinos and Ancient World) and three new attractions. There's also a free update that adds a cheat menu for sandbox mode. Get Dinos & Dynasties here: store.steampowered.com/app/3919200/...

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Finally reached my favorite part of development: polishing the object placement animations 😊

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

New devlog! I wrote about the challenges we encountered with pathfinding and character movement in Croakwood and how we solved them: www.texelraptor.com/blog/croakwo... #gamedev

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Really enjoyed your streams! Both sounds great

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I wrote a devlog post about rendering in Croakwood: www.texelraptor.com/blog/croakwo... #gamedev

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Reminded of this important document, as true today as it was TEN years ago. Entitled "Look, I made you a little graph about Game Development" #gamedev #indiedev

A graph. "Confidence in Quality of Game" on the Y axis, "TIME" on the x. The line starts out confident but by the end is fucking all over the place.

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Super nice! I was toying around with doing this over the winter holidays but couldn't quite figure out how to get imgui working😅

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

We recently worked on peeking into houses a lot, making sure it's working smoothly and adding some animations for polish 🏡 #gamedev #indiedev

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Texel Raptor @texelraptor.com · 29/11/2024

Surprise! We released a free update for Parkitects 6th anniversary today that adds a new custom campaign editor. Can't wait to see what it'll be used for :) youtu.be/LBrVtP3lKi0?...

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Free Update Showcase | Parkitect 6th Anniversary

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Nope never applied, as you said wasn't aware and looking at it now due to how international we are we probably wouldn't have been eligible unfortunately (could argue for 50% located in Germany maybe but not majority). And sure! Maybe at Gamescom or so, would be nice :)

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Yes! Our team is working remotely from all over the world but I'm from Germany.

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The idea for the carriers in Parkitect 100% comes from Settlers, the other building game series I love a lot besides RCT (you might also see some influences in our current project). And similar thoughts about RCT1-2 vs RCT3 lead to the decision to continue working on that prototype.

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Ohh fascinating! That's such an interesting parallelism of thoughts and events. Being disappointed with that mobile game they went with is what caused me to tinker around with a tiny coaster prototype, similar to the one you currently have.

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Hey, first of all thanks! And sorry for interjecting, but I got really curious by this popping up in our mentions and your profile haha Do you mean BlueByte was interested in doing a RCT game with resource transportation?

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Would love to join if there's still a spot 🙂

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Ambroise Niflette - DEMO OUT NOW ! 🔍🍎 - Topotes Studio @lestopotes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

👀 Please take a glimpse at what we've been working on these past months ! We had some presence on other socials, but it was about time we showed Ambroise here ! 🍎 🔔 Stay tuned for some more little detective news ✨ #gamedev #indiegame #cosygame #wholesomegame

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Added some wave effects when building/deleting something in the water 💧 #gamedev #indiedev #techart

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Sounds like a perfect fit for @texelraptor.com , we're working on a game about building a beautiful town that makes your little frog villagers happy 🐸

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

@texelraptor.com supports Linux with Parkitect and also intends to do so for the next game

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Beastieball @beastieball.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

We just released our dream game. BEASTIEBALL is available now on Steam!!!!!!!! A volleyball sports anime RPG where your sports team creatures can become friends... or something else!

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I wrote a new devlog entry about the water in Croakwood and how the shoreline effect works: www.texelraptor.com/blog/croakwo... #indiedev #gamedev #techart

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Ohh thanks! It's all quite custom so I'm very happy you like it 😃

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Jonas Pfeiffer 🌿 @polygonas.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

spring flowers 💐older project, where I tried to push natural wind as far as I could! #techart #gameart #unity3d

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Nina K 🐟 @ninaklos.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Jellyfish shrine 🪼 (2022) #techart #art #unreal

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Sebastian Mayer @sebioff.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Hi! I'm Sebastian, a programmer making creative management games with @texelraptor.com I've worked on Parkitect and our current project is Croakwood, a game about building a nice town for little frogs 🐸 I really like making games with lots of tiny people running around 😅 #indiedev #gamedev

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Ricardo Juchem @ricardojuchem.com · 09/11/2024

If you are a UI designer [or lover], have a blast with the Game UI Database. www.gameuidatabase.com A lot of inspiration well organized in categories like Buttons, Menus, Items, etc. You can search by game genre, aesthetic, color code, among others. A must have on the bookmarks. #gamedev #ui

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Asher Zhu @vuthric.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Hi, you may have seen my concept video of the physically correct slime before I'm releasing a new trailer about the slime's game designs this month - I quitted my job to turn the idea into a real game Just moved to bsky, follow me to keep up with the journey of the 🟢! #gamedev #techart #indiedev

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