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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

My old pals just launched a big update for Dung Ho!, a kinda not realistic dung beetle simulator. Give it a shot with your friends! Fight pirates, climb a tower to heaven, kill God! I donno, they did a lot. store.steampowered.com/app/4133210/...

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Team up with up to 5 friends in this scientifically accurate-ish co-op adventure. Play as dung beetles trying to roll your precious dung ball safely home. The wildlife is dangerous, but your friends m...

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Everyone! Go buy the game 9 humans made without AI! Please! My friends and I made something cool. Released today. store.steampowered.com/app/4133210/... #indiedev #gamedev #

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Dung Ho! is a co-op physics game where you and your friends are dung beetles rolling a (dung) ball into a hole.

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Hokay I didn’t post here for a long while. Been working on a game with some friends! youtu.be/Jl8pF_Ln8Ak?... It’s a game about rolling dung. It’s huge actually, for a team of less than 12. Play it, wishlist, all that jazz! #indiedev #gamedev

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Dung Ho! Official Trailer

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I’m definitely not just posting to figure out who are b_o t~s and who are cool people who I would never block! If you’re a #b come on down and share this cool thing! #gamedev #solodev #games #art

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I also love being reposted by bots on a social media platform. If you’re a bot, repost this! It’s my favorite. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #gameart

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I love applying for a gamedev job knowing full well that it really is me just signing up for an automated message in 3-4 weeks. #gamedev

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Whew that was close. An hour to spare!

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JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I'm just putting this out there, but if you want to thank people who worked on your game -past and present- the normal way that you do that is to credit them. 💅🏼

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

Photo of a missing slice of cheesecake that looks like a cheesecake hull floating in a deep blue ocean. The "ocean" is actually the blueberry topping on the large cheesecake that we don't see completely.

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Da Scary Rose @modernmodron.itch.io · 05/09/2025

you know, I had almost forgotten that I made a vnyan world that's a mech cockpit

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Okay I’m done with this side of the painting. I kinda want to transfer it to a canvas and actually paint a real life thing, something that as a 3D artist I’ve never really spent time doing. #painting #digitalart #art #drawing #heron

A blue heron in a psychedelic stream. It is surrounded by cat tails. Blues and greens mainly, very desaturated with highlights of bright pink surrounding the heron.

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Still WIP. Been figuring out the wings, and I still wish I could find a place for the tail. I call this one “Big Bird With At Least Two Hot Dogs.” #Art #drawing #digitalart #heron #hotdogs #painting #procreate

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Did a lot of surgery this morning on how the wings look, and ruined half the stuff I did yesterday. Oh well, thems the breaks. WIP. #art #painting #noai #digitalart #procreate

A heron with too long a neck stands in a river.

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Made more progress on this painting tonight, still have a bit more to go! #painting #noai #art #digitalart

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

More painting progress. Still a WIP, just having fun with it. #painting #wip #drawing #art #digital

A heron in a pond, work in progress painting.

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Had a vacation last week, which was awesome and much needed. Came home refreshed, and today I started drawing for a painting I want to make. #art #digitalart #noai #painting

A heron of abstract proportions stands in a pond, about to strike.

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I feel like whenever I think about people following me FOR REAL, I start talking like an AI voiceover. If i ignore that people read, I feel much better about random stupid posting.

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I’m so ready to start making some art. Here’s the deal - I made storage work today. You want to put a tool away?Cool. You want a pile of sticks in a box? I gotcha. You want a cooooooool gif of that? Whoa there Tex, that’s not a “today” kinda thing. #gamedev #solodev #itreallysuckedihadtodosomuchbs

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Had to take a week to upgrade my project to the latest version of Unreal, and update the input / ui system. I’m hoping these make things simpler, but it sure is boring looking work!

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

VFX are fun. I made VFX years ago, and it’s good to get back to it. Anyways, I made stink vfx today because I wanted to make something FUN. Also made wind. But stink.. stink lasts forever. #gamedev #solodev

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Really made some progress this week! Players can interact with foliage and trees. Grass bends and trees react to the player. More to do there! Rain and fog! What other weather should I make? Day/night turns lights off and on now. #screenshotsaturday #cozygame #solodev #ue5

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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 14/07/2025

Let's do some starter packs again. I have FIVE packs of solo devs on my profile. bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... Please check if you're on one and don't make me do it before asking. #indiegamedev

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

A rare sunset picture! The lighting changes all the time, and it's nice to see that it actually.. ya know, works? Bonus goat sideview. It's still pooping EEeeeverywhere. I gotta give this thing a home. #gamedev #solodev

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Witness! The beginning of something cool. Trees and foliage now react to the player. If you hit a tree with an axe (oh god that animation isn’t right) the tree will wobble. If you walk through grass, the grass sways. Just beginnings, much more needed to sell it! #gamedev #ue5 #unreal #cozygame

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

This week I took a brief and needed vacation, but still got home and made some progress. Currently working on some tech debt with crafting and planting as well as making sure bugs (insects) actually do the things I think they should! #screenshotsaturday

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Tweaks I need to make to daytime vs. nighttime! 1) The character shader needs to be darker at night, juuuust a touch. 2) Lights need to be off during the day! 3) I should probably activate windows at some point. #gamedev #unreal5 #ue5

Daytime! dirt is working, but the lights are on.

Nighttime. The lights are on, but my character is glowing too brightly.

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

#screenshotsaturday that damn goat keeps pooping on my stoop! I have company in town this week so I don’t have too much progress. Terrain materials are working though! #gamedev #cozygame

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Finally getting terrain materials worked out. The player will be able to place terrain materials (think - putting cobblestone down, or using it to make trails on the property). #gamedev #ue5

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

This week I made insects, started fish, goat poop, and terrain materials. I hope to have ground covered in other things besides grass next week. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

There's a lot to fix, but I took a moment to play my game at night. It felt.. nice. #indiedev #solodev #cozygame

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Did that goat poop in front of the door? Yes. yes it did. Also the beginnings of actual TERRAIN MATERIALS. #solodev #indiedev #gamedev #cozygame #farmingsim

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

#screenshotsaturday WIP texture of my player housing. I spent today streaming the texturing of this. There's more to do, namely the windows and finishing details. #indiedev #solodev #cozygames

work in progress witch's hut. Player housing for my game.

back view - player housing. You'll probably never experience this asset from this side.

detail shot, witch's house. The mushrooms are turkey tails and amanita, both of which probably shouldn't be growing out of the walls.

Detail shot 2 of the witch's house. If they are growing out of the walls, please seek some assistance. That means you have a tremendous water issue behind the wall.

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

To prevent eventual grid purist anarchy, I scooted my player housing over to align with the building grid. Note the red grid in these two pictures, and how the door aligns with the grid now. No chaos only grid! #ue5, #cozygames, #cozy, #indiedev, #solodev

Bad grid alignment! The door is centered on two grid tiles, meaning that you couldn't build things which aligned with the door.

Good grid alignment! The door is lined up with the building grid, meaning all is well in the world.

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Got my player house all exported and in Unreal! My todo list: adjust the window texture for day/night, finish the lantern, and do some polish work! Overall though, pretty happy with how this is turning out. #UE5, #indiedev, #cozygame

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

#screenshotsaturday WIP texture of my player housing. I spent today streaming the texturing of this. There's more to do, namely the windows and finishing details. #indiedev #solodev #cozygames

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

working on a witch's hut, and fixing bugs. Come join me! www.twitch.tv/GardenGnomeTV

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Got the color side of my character customization menu working as expected! Now I need to make a lot of different heads/body shapes/mesh stuff to fill out the options. #gamedev #solodev #cozygames

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

apologies to @freya.bsky.social (and everyone else) but every time I see this my brain goes one in the xink one in the yink one in the zink 😭

a chart showing the way different game engines treat the axes. some have Y as the up axis, others have Z; some have left handed axes, some have right, which is demonstrated by a drawing of a hand

a close up of the hand in the previous image. the index finger is pointing up, the thumb is at a right angle to the index finger, and the middle finger, representing the third axis, is at a right angle to the index finger pointing outwards (towards the viewer).

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The last month has been pretty exciting. I finished contract work, got wardrobing and character customization in, made interacting snappy, and had go to rebuild my saving/loading system to account for multiplayer. 4 more months like this one and maybe I’ll have a game and not a tech demo! #gamedev

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Streaming character customization widget creation today. It's a pain in the rear! Come keep me company. www.twitch.tv/gardengnometv #indiedev, #gamedev, #cozygames, #streaming

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Quiet work day go! Working on the new player customization screen.

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

This week I made some 2D art and streamed the creation of possibly the most terrifying modeling I’ve ever done. #screenshotsaturday #art #blender

A work in progress sock puppet character

A terrifying tableau. A even more work in progress face.

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I streamed some professional level Blendering today. Truly blendered the best. #blendered

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Da Scary Rose @modernmodron.itch.io · 19/04/2025

normal modeling stream

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

WIP of an icon for my Twitch stream, I'm spending some time rebranding it. It's a TV that's spent a little too long in the forest. It's fun simplifying shapes until it's readable as an icon, and I do loves to ink. twitch.tv/GardenGnomeTV #art #digitalart #gardengnometv

WIP Garden Gnome TV icon. Mushrooms and moss are growing out of an old 90s style TV, complete with DVD player.

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Da Scary Rose @modernmodron.itch.io · 12/04/2025

Social media needs a 'silly mode' toggle that idk gives everyone big head mode

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Okay #screenshotsaturday this one seems kinda basic, but it's been a long time coming. If you now hold down the interact button, the player will play a telegraph anim. The animation will loop until release. Quick release = it'll complete the telegraph, and then interact with the world. #gamedev

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Wes! @tempestariigame.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Hey. heeeeey. heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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