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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 4h

Very happy that Cofagrigus is getting a furniture! I havent been able to make a good copy of it.

Ditto making a heart face in front of a sad imitation of a cofagrigus.

tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 01/10/2026

Items modified with Packaging, Cans, or Plastic Jars will appear under an item they’ve been used on. There is no limit on lifespan, nor the amount of plastic jars you can use. If transporting towers of jars sounds fun, maybe wishlist? s.team/a/3119170 #gamedev #indiedev #wishlistwednesday

Screenshot of a pixelart game. Exos, a beetle, looks at their cargo. There is a single piece of lone packaging, along with three pineapples and a dead fish egg. Underneath the pineapples are a plastic jar, some packaging, and a metal can.

Exos is in a shop. There is a tower of plastic jars with a dead fish egg on top.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 26/09/2026

Stupid bsky, needing images bigger than my monitors.

A pixelart map of a moonlike area. There's colorful lichen spots on the floor and branching lichen growing out of stone pillars. Behind a fence are some solar panels with wiring that goes into an alien ship. One beetle talks to Exos, saying "Maybe a third of these ships can still fly."

The same scene as before, except the text now says "But the rest are still great batteries. We have our own little power grid outside the domed walkers."

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 26/09/2026

Hm... Let's try 16x, that'll bump it up to 2432x2336 (agh these numbers awful)

Same jelly red planet
you probably can't tell it's bigger but the filesize should be very fat now, yay for wasting data

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 26/09/2026

New area - the Quinone Crater on Persephone, and Exo's on-planet home. Most of it's lichen farms and salvaged solar panels. There's no atmosphere, so only vacuum-resistant species are allowed. That means this area is only available to Neon, Exos, or Aerin. #indiegamedev #screenshotsaturday

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 26/09/2026

Before/After Selecting an area to focus on is biased towards whether or not it's interactable, AND the direction the character faces now. It's much harder to trap myself between cargo now, so I may not have to worry as much about collision issues C: #solodev #indiedev

Malady, holding a bag of candy while staring and sitting next to another bag in her cargo. She is focusing on the floor below her because she can put the candy down.

Malady, holding a bag of candy while staring and sitting next to another bag in her cargo. This time, a green square shows that she's selecting the bag she's looking at rather than the floor below her.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 25/09/2026

Initial sketch done in Krita, finished in Aseprite. ~1-1.5h, but not sure cause I was setting up a virtual machine at the same time. Prolly could've gone faster if I didn't change directions partway.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 25/09/2026

#1Bit0Ref for @waxingluna.bsky.social's challenge. No refs, including my own, means I don't remember what my own ships look like. Progress gif in reply. Very fun, maybe I tablet better in aseprite than krita. #pixelart #art #ドット絵 #1-bit

A one bit drawing of a manta ray-like ship flying over a star.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 24/09/2026

Garagar, touched up and modified for #pixelplanets by @ekvitki.art. Someone crash landed on Garagar while it was a big ball of primordial goo. The whole planet got contaminated, much like a bad agar plate.

A red, jelly like planet. There's huge mold and fungal colonies growing on it.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 23/09/2026

It was too easy to crash into other’s ships while walking around landing pads. Changed them to be enter on interact instead of collision, and they've got more sensible z-indexing and collision boxes now. #pixelart #indiegame

Malady up against all the ships, showing their interactable statuses.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 22/09/2026

Gitrah's probably the most uptight peddler, but their view beginning ended up more fun than I expected it to be. #indiegame #gamedev

Aji and Gitrah are in a chat together.
Aji: Is it still a sleepover if neither of us got any sleep?
Gitrah's next response is: No. Let's not do that again.

A beetle (Exos) and a plant-lichen (Gitrah) are talking. The conversation goes:
Exos: ...
Gitrah: You can relax. Yes, I am an ambassador and mediator. I am off duty, and I work in a completely different pulsar-region than Kasper. I have no influence on the decisions here.
Exos: So why pose as a peddler?
Gitrah: I am a peddler, and I'm helping a friend who needs a plant.
Exos: What kind of plant?
Gitrah: The kind with leaves and flowers!

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 19/09/2026

Few more sprites for Peddlers between Pulsars. Still playing with numbers, but here they are in use. Packaging makes fragile items more durable. Plastic jars extend their lifespan. Cans reduce fragility and extend lifespan, but canning anything living will kill it. #screenshotsaturday #indiegame

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 17/09/2026

Settled on a way to input NPCs movements. Now the puff who talks about swimming actually swims. #solodev #gamedev

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 11/09/2026

Oh hey! Fontstruct does have kerning! Now I have to do the kerning...

Screenshot of preview window in fonstruct. It has a few T* pairs and many *j pairs, with only a few with kerning set.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 09/09/2026

#wishlistwednesday and for everyone new from a starter pack, hello! Peddlers Between Pulsars is a lil pixel game where you play as an alien merchant who works with other peddlers to get things done. Maybe wishlist if that's your thing? s.team/a/3119170

Malady looking at a gold nugget shaped like a dinosaur. It costs 50 monies and she has 0, so she will not be able to buy it.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 02/09/2026

Oh no, it looks like the Alexus One is bullying Malady. I borrowed a ship from Alexus 2040 by @romainmacre.bsky.social because I have no aggressive ships, and cause it's a fun game.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 02/09/2026

Post something random or you'll have an awful September.

An adafruit feather and an OLED display on a breadboard that says "Oh no"

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 30/08/2026

(Indulgent doodle) Malady's friend, Aiyo, welds underwater. I started daydreaming about what their welding protection would look like, so I doodled it.

A digital drawing of a vaguely mollusk-like thing in the darkeness, holding a black rod that's lit up and staring with three eyes behind some sort of helmet.

The same mollusk as before, except in better lighting. This time, it's visibly a clam with tentacles, and the tail is flared out in a semi-squidlike fashion. It is holding a box that says "POWER"

A screenshot of Aiyo's house in-game. Aiyo is staring at the screen, and Malady is looking at the welding equipment behind them.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 28/08/2026

Finally polished the image in my game that singlehandedly caused the most burnout. I've been using the rough. But Gitrah's intro uses that screen, so I want a polished version when I update the demo. New pic, old pic, screenshot #pixelart #solodev #gamedev

A pair of blue spiral galaxies colliding with a starry region between them. There are a few sparse stars and way too much dithering.

The same galaxies as the previous picture, except with less stars, less dithering, and overall less polished color transitions.

A screenshot of a game with the galaxies a background. A route is charted across the galaxies to a pulsar-region called Kasper.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 25/08/2026

Another planet. This one ended up way nicer than the concept doodles. It's named "Garagar." #pixelart

A planet that looks like a bunch of mold growth.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 22/08/2026

Some new planets for a second region. Planetary rings are a pain in pixel art, and I'm glad I only put them on one planet. #screenshotsaturday #pixelart

A blue planet with a thick, silvery pink planetary ring. There's a greenish nebula in the background.

A small, backlit green-blue-pink planet in the same green nebula.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 20/08/2026

Ever write a line that changes its meaning b/c of game mechanics? I meant to give Gitrah a few days of insomnia (which is bad already), but RNG + travel paths at that point in the story means they'll likely skip over a week of sleep. (Also hello everyone from the anti-AI starter packs!)

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 24/07/2026

Someone dumped a controller in the thrift shop, so I can finally add controller compatibility. Most of the work was displaying controls on remapping. #indiedev #gamedev

Screenshot of the remapping screen with a keyboard. The inputs use text to display which buttons are mapped.

Screenshot of the remapping screen with a controller. The inputs use little icons to display which buttons are mapped.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 13/07/2026

Rough practice piece. I saw a pic of some balconies, and I thought they'd look nice in tilesets. Better than the block buildings I was trying before. #pixelart

Two apartment-like buildings with balconies on them.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 05/07/2026

After getting into a rabbit hole, trying out Allegro, loving how it handles fonts, and finding a plugin that lets Godot use fonts in the same manner... I remembered that my only multicolor font was designed for 1x, not a zoomed in pixel game. Welp, at least it was fun? #screenshotsaturday #solodev

Exos looks at sand, but the description reading of 'Sand composed of "tasty" materials' is written in a different color.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 28/06/2026

Weather's been... interesting this year. But maybe I'll end up with potato fruits? (I have no idea why it's decided to grow AND flower in summer)

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 25/06/2026

Fought the engine a chunk, gave up, and made a whole separate font. But I got outlined text looks less like a blurry mess now. Old on top, newer on bottom.

The words "agricultural produce" is highlighted twice. On the top, they're highlighted in a multicolored green with darker pixels around the edges, making it look blurry. On the bottom, the words are in a solid blue with less holes, making them easier to read.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 19/06/2026

For all my effort, silliness is why the gold dinosaur nugget might end up being my favorite item in the game.

Malady is looking at a "Gold ore: A gold nugget of the most ideal shape." It is shaped like a dinosaur.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 17/06/2026

Somehow, this is one of the more relatable things Gitrah has said.

A screenshot of a pixelart game where a plant-lichen is talking to another plant-lichen. Gitrah is talking to another lichen, saying "...To prevent overstimulation, I am to stay on a plain diet of big brained fish."

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 07/06/2026

The queer gamedev urge to make pride flags when placing randomly colored objects... #indiegame #gamedev #pride #pridemonth #aroace

Neon is floating in Svarogi's lab. On the left, there's table full of beakers with the liquid inside them corresponding with a rainbow. In the middle, there's beakers corresponding to the asexual and aromantic flags.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 05/06/2026

"If start drawing OCs again, I'll probably drop all my non-undead chars. Except Pan Pan, he stays." "Who's Pan Pan again?" "The pan with the pan as a hat. The cannibal bread?" "HE WAS A CANNIBAL?!" "Yeah? He's a bread that eats bread." (reposting old art) #pixelart

A storefront labeled "Pan's Pans," where a bun with a copper pan hat is selling bollilos, batards, boules, and bagels.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 31/05/2026

All my OCs with 3+ legs. It was supposed to be a quick silly doodle, but I had fun, so I ended up working on it a bit more. ...Also I see a whole pile of things I want to improve on, so maybe I'll doodle them more since PbP is going to have less art for a while.

A really big beetle looks at a three legged green humanoid thing and a big, kind of gecko faced red thing.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 25/05/2026

No gen ai in anything, and proud of it. Down to be added if there's room, but saving to browse later anyways.

5 characters saying no genAi was user in writing, code, audio, art, or anything.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 24/05/2026

When you scare an NPC so much, they despawn

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 23/05/2026

Lichens are kinda hard to pixel. Maybe I should've tried a few more variants before locking myself into this design... #pixelart #indiedev

A variety of pixel lichens with wooden legs. There's a cup shape and a horn shape with two more mushroomy variants.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 20/05/2026

Added a tiny bit of juice. Items have an animation picking up/putting down.They have a big animation if they're going to and from your cargo. This is very safe. #indiegame #peddlersbetweenpulsars

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 16/05/2026

Even if the other plants don't do well, the elephant garlic never lets me down.

A bunch of freshly harvested garlic plants, drying on a bucket.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 14/05/2026

okay last one, if this doesn't work, I give up, 8x, transparency

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 12/05/2026

The next character to get their lab set up is Aiyo, Malady's friend. They specialize in something like materials science, so no beakers for them. #indiegame #gamedev

A three eyed clam-snail looks at another clam snail. It is sitting next to a pile of silicon boards. Around the room is two puddles of seawater, an industrial 3d printer, and various tools for working with metals.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 09/05/2026

Finally, the most important researcher in my game has a "lab". They've got a strange way of arranging things, but it's quite sensible for her. Wanna take a guess why? #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

Neon, the gas ring, is talking to Aji, a three headed plant. Grow trays and lab equipment are placed in concerning positions across a mountain. Text reads "Neon: I am confused. Why is all your equipment not in a building?"

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 07/05/2026

Dumped a lab asset pack on my itch - some basic tiles and a pile of equipment and machinery. It focuses on things I wanted to see in asset packs while making my own game. Maybe someone else is also looking for a 16px eyewash station? tararntula.itch.io/lab-tileset-16 #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev

A pixel art map of two labs. One has a light floor, one has a dark concrete floor. Various tools are on desks of two variants - brown ones topped with white, and white ones topped with black.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 04/05/2026

WIP for PbP, but might be an asset/tile pack. Lab equipment is cool, and I want to see more variety of it in games. Alt text has the list of equipment. Any suggestions for what else might be interesting to add?

Various machinery tossed onto a spritesheet. From top to bottom, left to right: large centrifuge, open and closed autoclave, thermometer, test tube tray, instrument tray, bunsen burner, open and closed small centrifuge, monitor on wheels, seed starting tray, hydroponic seed starting tray using rockwool, fancy spectrograph, scale, soldering iron, wall temperature control, crucible, tongs, monitor, keyboard, microscope, fume hood, another keyboard thing, electron microscope.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 02/05/2026

Me: The interior should be a library for blind beings that rely on smell and touch. They can see when they eat, so there should be labels as well. The beds should be comfy medical beds. ...At least I'm the one causing my own headaches? #screenshotsaturday #indiegamedev #peddlersbetweenpulsars

A pixelart interior with a greenish pink tileset. There's a questionably arranged wall of shelves with colored cylindrical things on them, and some labels. One of the cylinders is on the counter with some paper and a three-wheeled, reclining bed.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 28/04/2026

Cleaned up Gitrah's ship! Working on more of their story, and that means I want a finalized ship layout for them to have cutscenes in. #pixelart #indiegame

A ship interior, with mechanically leafy walls and a glowing nodule-like floor. There is a lichen-mushroom thing in the middle.

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