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Romain Macré - Wishlist Alexus 2040 on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 7h

A view of the second boss in Alexus 2040. Demo coming in October. Wishlist on Steam. It helps me as a developer: store.steampowered.com/app/3584730/... #WishlistWednesday #shmup #indiedev

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 1h

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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Lay @awfukellay.bsky.social · 18h

My submission for @ekvitki.art pixel planets collab. Emes-274 a rocky world with a science orbital station and an icy moon, that might hold clues of an ancient alien civilization. #PixelArt #Pixelorama

Pixelart drawing of Emes-274 a purple planet with spiral clouds and an icy blue moon.

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RatteJak @rattejak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Little Cormorant Hunt 29/09/26 - 18 colours

Pixelart illustration of a black bird bursting from the sea after catching a fish. The scene is dissected into two parts, the bird's body beneath the water and its head poking out into the sky above with a fish. The underwater section is dark purple and filled with bubbles and swirling currents. The sky is light greenish blue with many fluffy clouds. The feathers on the bird's wings are scaled with lighter tones, resembling the scales of a fish.

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Crim Reaper @crimreaper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seiryū (青龍 Qīnglóng) - Bluegreen Dragon of the East, Deity of the Spring

A Long Chinese dragon holding a water orb and floating around a valley of high mountains. Its head resembles a sakura tree and there are clouds flowing from its body as a mane

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Dayna @girlypopmagik.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#pixelplanets entry for @ekvitki.art Talinore (48x48) and its moon Nai (16x16) A purple gas giant in a perpetual state of combustion. Gases from its core leak into its own atmosphere where they react, leaving behind a trail of burning fire as it orbits its star. #pixelart | #ドット絵

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 29/09/2026

Oof, a leaky planet. But the art is great!

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 29/09/2026

Am tararntula on discord, that'll probably be the best place things don't get lost.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 29/09/2026

Forgotten Island's a pretty good movie! Whoever did the marketing and trailers for it did an awful job, though.

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Jil 💚 making OrbOrbMagi @jil-hue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm working on a small tarot-tool and thought I could upload the deck I converted to textmode via lvllvl for others to use They come in 320x480 px #gameasset #indiegamedev #textmode #tarot jil-hue.itch.io/textmode-tarot

Queen of pentacles tarot card in textmode

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 27/09/2026

Dithering and rain AND legibility, very nice

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 27/09/2026

I... I never noticed you could type in there. I just assumed 1000% was the max That changes so much

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Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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

Mood. I don't think I can even write a changelog for my upcoming demo update. One of my old commits just says "dolphin" I started keeping track outside of commits noticing that xux;

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

Thankfully, none of them are for sale (They're just there cause I think distributed energy storage/generation is cool)

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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

Oh wow that's stupidly big, but not blurry. Tysm! It's kind of counterintuitive because it doesn't fit on my screen, so I can't view on my OS/aseprite without it blurring anymore -_-

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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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MatchaJoeJoe @matchajoejoe.games · 26/09/2026

lil lava planet for @waxingluna.bsky.social’s #1bit0ref challenge and @ekvitki.art’s #pixelplanets collab cause I wanted to do both and decided to combine em

1 bit pixel art orange lava planet on a gray background

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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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Tom Voros @tom.voros.ca · 25/09/2026

Congrats to the team at @fallosophygame.com on the launch of #Fallosophy today! 🥳 Check it out on #Steam if you're up for a challenging new #pinball adventure! ▶️ store.steampowered.com/app/3989550/... Also available in a bundle with Pinball Spire! 👀 #indiegame #indiegames #gamedev #gaming #games

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Use just two buttons to climb a colossal pinball table spanning the history of western philosophy. Fallosophy is a minimalist game that turns pinball into a quiet struggle against gravity. No score. N...

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

Night owl: having a hoot in the corner with a juicy mouse

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

I don't hold conversations well on bsky/mastodon but... Posting all the time without holding a conversation, how does that not get boring?

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

It looks so smooth! Do you animate without using onion skinning, or did that just not show up in the progress capture?

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Dayna @girlypopmagik.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

no way dayna making 2 posts in one day? whaaaa !! that's right !! i spent some time (~5 hours) this evening and made a quick anim for @waxingluna.bsky.social 's #1bit0ref speed paint challenge !! #pixelart | #ドット絵 | #animation | #1bit

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

Ah, that's great! Still down to test, though I'll probably record it now - schedule's not gonna be as flexible for a while.

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

Thanks! I look forward to seeing the other things people come up with too.

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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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Lay @awfukellay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Markarian's Chain. #PixelArt #Pixelorama

Pixelart drawing of "Markarian's Chain", a trail of galaxies in various sizes and shapes that stretches across space in a spiral, colorful stars fill the space between, the text at the top reads: "Despite The Vastness Of Space, Galaxies Still Hold Hands".

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

/sees all the smudges and sighs Yup, scaling by multiples of 4 doesn't seem to help

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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

Hopefully you'll see them around in screenshots more, now that the characters go under them instead of jumping on the roof.

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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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Waxing Luna @waxingluna.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I made this for the very talented @ekvitki.art 's #PixelPlanet collab! This is planet Arachne, a small ice planet that was hit by a rock from comet Minerva, leaving a #spider web pattern across her surface. The rock contained life that evolved into a species of space faring spiders. #ドット絵 #pixelart

An Arachneian spider explores space, using her webs to anchor herself. The planet Arachne is behind her.

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

I love the idea of spiders flying through space by ballooning as well. Looks great!

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

I'm not a stream/video person, but your threads and posts put a lot of good games on my feed that I don't get to see otherwise.

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The Traveler [COMMS OPEN] @ekvitki.art · 16/09/2026

I am here to announce that I am hosting an open collab! The theme of this collab will be planet sprites! Any may contribute, and all whose submissions meet the requirements of the prompt will be feature on my personal website! (ekvitki.art). Accepting submissions ending on Sep 30th! ⬇️Rules Below⬇️

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マニアニ/Maniani @maniani0122.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Gundi👁️

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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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ShoriMP @shorimp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Alolan Exeggutor, where spriters go to test their mettle #pokemon #pixelart #exeggutor #alolanexeggutor

Pixel art of the Pokemon Alolan Exeggutor, on an outdoor pathway with palm trees in the background

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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 · 19/09/2026

Never liked Coyote or Roadrunner, watched it anyways. Had a good time, and now Foghorn Leghorn's my favorite Acme character.

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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 · 13/09/2026

Or... younger me could try another program (that's how I ended up using garageband) I use FL studio now, and I've begrudgingly learned about about plugins and soundfonts and mixing and blah. But I'd still prefer to focus less about stuff that wouldn't be written on sheet music.

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tararntula - Peddlers between Pulsars @tararntula.com · 12/09/2026

I wanted something like this so badly. I don't dislike LMMS, but the default sounds are... clicky? and I didn't know how to fix/work with that at all.

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