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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 42m

This is the journal from our game "A Breath of Fresh Air", coming soon-ish!

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Stefan Prüss // Clay Crown Games @claycrowngames.bsky.social · 7h

I'm making a classic point-and-click adventure game, retro-style, as if the 90's never went out of fashion. 😎Carefully painted, pixeled and puzzled by human hands. No AI. 🙌 📺Watch the full TRAILER and WISHLIST on Steam.✅👉 store.steampowered.com/app/3057340/...

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Boo-rad Shankar @bradshankar.bsky.social · 23h

Very cool to see this Atlantic Canada Game Celebration on Steam. 🍁 Shoutout to Greyhaven Craft for organizing!

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Steam is running an Atlantic Canada Game Celebration

The promotion spotlights games that are made and/or set in the region.

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something I'll need to think about soon... It'd be cool to have achievements that pointed toward more obscure parts of the demo, maybe even easter eggs. Use it to tease the player with less obvious things.

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The page of our gardening themed hidden object game has been completely overhauled with new art and a new branding. New screenshots too. Can't wait to get a demo live! #indiedev #game

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A Breath of Fresh Air on Steam

Tend to a variety of gardens in a relaxing hidden object game filled with soothing environments.

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The page of our gardening themed hidden object game has been completely overhauled with new art and a new branding. New screenshots too. Can't wait to get a demo live! #indiedev #game

store.steampowered.com

A Breath of Fresh Air on Steam

Tend to a variety of gardens in a relaxing hidden object game filled with soothing environments.

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Been to a big chain grocery and they had Chinese carrots so eerily perfect and identical they might as well have been grown in Toonland.

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Been to a big chain grocery and they had Chinese carrots so eerily perfect and identical they might as well have been grown in Toonland.

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ève la brève @evebolt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I've been really interested in older cars recently and when I saw a Westfalia camper roll by at a stop, I knew I had to draw one like it! With cats, of course 😅 (I could've gone for a more contrasting color for the camper but the one I saw was green so I stayed with that idea)

Watercolor illustration of two cats enjoying a hot drink, one sitting and one standing, in front of a green Westfalia camper van.

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Animating this adorable fluff ball! He's part of the hint system in our hidden object game "A Breath of Fresh Air".

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thanks for taking the time to reply! Yes, it's a hidden object game. :)

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Simon S. Andersen @snakepixel.art · 21/09/2026

Anyway! #pixelart #ドット絵

A pixel-art scene from Street Fighter 3 Third Strike with Lottie the calico cat fighting the character Ruy. She's already cleared the first round with a no-hit perfect. Good job.

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Rebranding "Greenpatch Garden" to "A Breath of Fresh Air". We have two potential direction for the new capsule. What do you think? Also, what do you think is the genre of the game? #indiedev #gamedev

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Rebranding "Greenpatch Garden" to "A Breath of Fresh Air". We have two potential direction for the new capsule. What do you think? Also, what do you think is the genre of the game? #indiedev #gamedev

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Microsoft is building systems designed to deliver ads without disrupting the gaming experience" I've never seen a sentence contradict itself so quickly.

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lasha3D @lasha3d.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It costs $0.00 to support a 28 year 3D artist. 🥹

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Soma @somartist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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sami @samidrawsdogs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Goodbye horsesss

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 16/09/2026

We optimized draw calls by 99% (lol) in Hidden Folks 2 by writing some tools to find all textures used in a level, generate a level-specific atlas, and replace individual texture references with atlas textures. Thread below 🧵👇🏼 #godotengine

Two side-by-side screenshots showing before and after we applied a texture atlas optimization to our game Hidden Folks two, the before showing 13318 draw calls and the after showing 113 draw calls

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Major development for Druid, my WYSIWYG GUI editor : I've got my first working values applied to an object! Here's me setting "color normal" and "color over" values of some boxes so that they react to mouse being over them.

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Orlek @orlek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just a little bouncy cat. #indiedev #gamedev #clipstudiopaint

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r1kGAMES @r1kgames.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Did you know our retro rpg Destiny Spire is out now on Steam?! Check it out if you’re interested in retro rpg vibes, an intense fast paced active time battle system, and challenging mazes to navigate. Not sure? Try the demo! Steam page 👇 #rpg #indiegame #jrpg #pixelgames #retrogaming

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We've been struggling with the splash screen for a while, we wanted to update it and make it more dynamic. After a lot of sketching and talking we figured out we could simply make it like a game level. #gamedev #indiedev #gamemaker

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Cat design clearly needed more work. Look at this guy now! 🙀 #indiedev #clipstudiopaint

A cartoon illustration of a black and white rex cat sitting, looking up and two study of the head in a different angle.

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Alfred Reinold Baudisch @alfredbaudisch.com · 11/09/2026

The coolest bundle you've ever seen! Presenting... the 3D Pixel Art Tools Bundle! Get 3 unique tools at once for a single price: - Pixel Art Studio for Blender - PixZels - Puck's Pixelizer #blender3d #pixelart #itchio #blender

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Evolution of the UI for *A Breath of Fresh Air. Small things make a big difference. #indiedev #gamedev *previously Greenpatch Garden.

Old vs new comparison of two version of the same UI for the game A Breath of Fresh Air.

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Why so much wasted space on the right side of the old version?" UI was ready for a third object to be added but it was not auto-resizing. Now the system can accommodate a third which, with the compact design, doesn't add much to the width of the whole.

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Evolution of the UI for *A Breath of Fresh Air. Small things make a big difference. #indiedev #gamedev *previously Greenpatch Garden.

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Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Our feature artist/reference today is this RUN CYCLE BREAK DOWN by the talented Yoh Yoshinari (who I can’t find a social media account for -if you know it please add comments so I can retweet with a link in the future).Such a fantastic BALANCE of WEIGHT and FLOW here! #anime #animation #2danimation

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Body Harvest N64 Not a racing game but you do go through time and get to drive a wide variety of vehicles. There's a part in 1990s Russia where you harvest shotgun shells from zombies using an actual harvester. That was quite something.

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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

pico8 has never once prompted me to use an LLM, which i fucking hate, instead of doing the activity that i adore, that i built a life around, that i have worked really hard for a very long time and gotten very lucky to have the privilege to do !! i like my job!! i dont want a robot to do it!

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Discovering the band "I Monster". This one is so very good : www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKUb...

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Lust for a Vampyr

YouTube video by I Monster - Topic

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Progress on WYSIWYG ui editor for Game Maker : That stuff is really hard! List is automatically built based on selected object's public values. Select a target then enter a new value and then the tool will crash because that's where I'm at now. #indiedev #gamedev

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Values passed to the modifiers are Strings so it doesn't sit well with many modifiers. I also don't very much like the default asynchronous prompt box but it was the quickest way to get to this point. Might make a custom input text box later but THIS IS HAAAAAARD!!!

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r1kGAMES @r1kgames.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Our retro rpg Destiny Spire is almost here. Check out our Steam page and wishlist the game now! Steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/3369150/... #rpg #jrpg #indiegame #retrogaming #dragonquest

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emma @emmagamedev.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

textures i painted with gouache vs. model i used them for

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A new day of #indiedev! What's on my plate today : writing, coding, drawing? * Check notes * Accounting??? Oh no...

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"I would usually charge $1 000 for this job but since it's you it's going to be $10 000."

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Small is Beautiful making Mega Drill @smallisbeautiful.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A new day of #indiedev! What's on my plate today : writing, coding, drawing? * Check notes * Accounting??? Oh no...

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r1kGAMES @r1kgames.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Our RPG Destiny Spire comes out next week. Check it out and wishlist if you like: -Retro RPGs -Active time battles -Pick your own party -Challenging labyrinths -Combat you can’t just mash through -games where your only destination is fantastic adventure #rpg #jrpg #indiegames #8bit #retrogaming

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