iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

you know there's no AI cause the art is jank anyway the backgrounds are better now #gamedev #indiedev #metroidvania #unity2d

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

more messing with the backgrounds now with chill vibes courtesy of new fog and particles #gamedev #unity2d #indiedev #platformer #metroidvania

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

the platformer project is back on the menu boys

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

yo I made a game in 3 hours it's called bolf you play golf with a bomb check it out: tikarohd.itch.io/bolf #gamedev #unity2d

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bolf by tikaro

golf with bomba

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

the main menu screen is actually composed of many screens featuring my bastard child of a CRT shader #gamedev #unity2d #indiedev #platformer

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

behold! it moves!! Rendered fully in Unity now. Still missing the CRT shadow mask. #gamedev #unity2d #indiedev #platformer

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Don't learn how to draw. Forever hide behind CRT shaders instead. Be a man. (Mockup, trying a simpler art style because I want to get somewhere with this project 🐛) #gamedev #unity2d #indiedev #platformer

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Ali ✦ @yoctosphere.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Just add that feature you've been thinking about. It's not scope creep, you wanted to add it from the beginning anyway. Don't worry about the roadmap, everyone does this all the time. It won't hurt.

A painting of a man holding a brush and easel. Behind him a skeleton playing a violin whispers into his ear.

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

me: gee I wonder where I am the trusty map that shadows my every move: #gamedev #unity2d #indiedev #platformer

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

some days it really do be the same damn thing over and over again. Time to once again establish the supremacy of printing lines over any other conceivable method of debugging #gamedev #unity2d #indiedev #platformer

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

You can now talk to a red box that ominously disregards gravity to engage with the free(?) markets. (I added shops, the game has shops now) #gamedev #unity2d #indiedev #platformer

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

look at my boy, he's all grown up. Or at least showing promise of getting out of puberty #gamedev #unity2d #indiedev #platformer

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Chancellor! @cdsart.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

If you liked this key art, you'll love the game it was for! Check it out 💖

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

the updates didn't resume next week

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

can you guess what I've been up to this weekend? Regular #gamedev updates will be back next week 😶‍🌫️

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Hands that look like actual hands! god bless drawing refs #gamedev #indiedev #unity2d #platformer #pixelart

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Most playtests begin running through this precarious hallway. This time I changed it just enough for a poor enemy to get Han Soloed into the wall😩 #gamedev #indiedev #unity2d #platformer

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August Håkansson’s 115th Dream ✨ @augusthakansson.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

sometimes you wake up violently hungover only to realize you somehow solved a rendering problem that’s haunted you for years anyway back to bed #techart #gamedev #pixelart

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Fancy a fresh summer dinner? Then we better start cookin cuz I just threw a bunch of produce on the countertop #art #painting #digitalart

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Pixel Wrappers🌴|🚘|🚘|🌵 @pixelwrappers.net · 16/08/2025

Night (or rather late evening) race this weekend in #ClassicSportDriving! Including an impressive tightening corner at the bottom of a hill that will take a bit of time to get right!⛐😉 🏎️===💨 #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegames #racinggame #retrogaming

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Early #ScreenshotSaturday! Here's a mockup for an abandoned castle in my platformer. Man graphics are tough to make. Also feels like I'm breaking Affinity Photo over my knee to get it to behave how I want 😶‍ Now to clean this up and port it into the game! #gamedev #indiedev #unity2d #pixelart

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August Håkansson’s 115th Dream ✨ @augusthakansson.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

i really wish i was above external validation but its kind of hard to rebuild an audience here amongst the blue skies - but i will keep at it! so if you want to follow along on our journey making our strange little game please do! ❤️ #gamedev #techart #pixelart

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taikwy @taikwy.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

i made it exist first, now i'm making it look good! #gamedev #indiedev

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

New devlog is up! Go listen to my prosaic roundabout ways of telling you I want Hollow Knight's minimap whilst implementing said minimap into our platformer 👹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOg6... #gamedev #unity2d #indiedev

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Yoinking Hollow Knight's Map System - Devlog 3

YouTube video by Tikaro

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Playtester ↗ @playtester.io · 08/08/2025

Check out THE IRONY! Sign up for the playtest: playtester.io/the-irony #IndieGaming #GameDev #Gaming #IndieDev #IndieGame

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GrimClownJay @grimclownjay.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Welcome all you beginners & pros, coders & artists, composers & promoters! 🙋‍♂️ Ask to be included in this pack and I will add you. A "👍" on your request comment means you're in! #GameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev #GameAudio #GameArt #GameDesign #Godot #UnrealEngine #Unity #Blender #Gaming #IndieGames

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

please bro just one more heavily edited devlog i promise its worth it its gonna be interesting to watch the colors flash as you yap about nerd shit please bro add one more meme just a quick single weekend in and out job brother its what mom would have wanted please #gamedev #videodev...? #indiedev

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VuVuu Inc. @vuvuuinc.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

An update to my little farming game! 🌿🌱 #indiedev #pixelart #videogames #gamedev steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/3136330?...

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Got the meat of the dialogue system working! NPCs can now not only talk at your mute tricolor form, but also give you items and trigger Dark Souls-esque choice windows ("Choose A or B"). Each step can also affect the global world state #gamedev #unity2d #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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PeekyChew | Echoes of Tomorrow RPG @peekychew.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Making good progress on the trees, but still have work to do on the transition to the edge of the map. #pixelart #ドット絵 #gamedev #indiedev

2D retro pixel art style top-down scene from an RPG. Set in a forest with a pond, numerous trees of various types, the main character, and a robot companion. Trees are reflected in the pond and there are small details such as weeds, stones, and mushrooms.

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

#gamedev #indiedev Question to fellow indies: How do you document progress?Devlogs, blogposts, something else? What is your process? And do you see benefits from it in your work? (You're also welcome to link your stuff!) Small thread with my experience: 🧵

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Thine loyal servant brings you another update. Shader containment unit has been breached, everything is going haywire, rudimentary water reflection material has begun spontaneously appearing in the world. (ya boy has written his first baby shader) #gamedev #indiedev #unity2d

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Ghislain Girardot @ghislaingir.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

#UE #Blender #UnrealEngine #tech #gamedev 🥳My 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 addon is finally complete and officially available as a Blender Extension! I spent way too much time coding it + writing a 150-page manual and over 2 hours of video tutorials. 😅 youtube.com/watch?v=hC2_... More detail in the🧵

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GameTools Blender Extension - Introduction

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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I wrote a thing about aesthetics in the prototyping phase! neighbourhoodsnake.com/2025/07/23/f... Read it and weep, haters!!! P.S. I'm trying my hand at clickbait, please don't feel obliged to either read it, or weep, even if you consider yourself a "hater".

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Five? reasons to make your game pretty ASAP! (Number 3 will make you say “what?”)

I believe that it’s worth investing some time developing an aesthetic early in prototyping, even if it risks “wasting work”!

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mcnostril @mcnostril.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The machines could never live up to the magnificent glory of a spontaneous 5 minute photoshop after a friend mentions "crabbage"

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

You though I was working on some grungy sci-fi platformer? Get bamboozled, get absolutely played - I want grungy persian moods in this groundbreaking game about a guy jumping on things. This is the first real "draft" for the main menu. Low-quality till I settle on the aesthetics 🤡 #gamedev #unity2d

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

#gamedev #unity2d therapist: bootleg Aldia doesn't exist bootleg Aldia:

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Liz Alfos @touloutoumou.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

RT appreciated: Are you a hobbyist gamedev ? Meaning you are not working in the game industry, but you make game that you publish in your free time. DM me! I'm writing a new article

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Jasozz @jasozzgames.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Need a buncha barrels, don't want a ton of triangles? Shrink wrap 'em, make 'em a cube 🧊 #gamedev

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Stephen Sharples @sharpysharps.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Little update on this prototype. Added rolling through tunnels, feels quite good! #indiedev #pielart #gamedev

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Second devlog is up! We talk about adding a debug screen, a save system, and about how it took 10 lines of code and 10 days of coping with my corporeal temporariness to add a healing mechanic 😎 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqRF... #gamedev #2dplatformer #metroidvania #unity

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Do devs dream of debug screens? - Devlog 2

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Second devlog is well in the making :)

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Tikaro @tikarohd.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Chipping away on a toy 2D platformer, check out the first devlog video! Hollow Knight / Super Metroid / Prince of Persia-inspired project to explore how to make it satisfying to jump around and explore the world www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gex... #gamedev #2dplatformer #metroidvania #unity

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How to Make a Platformer by Bashing Things Together

YouTube video by Tikaro

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