iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Our local game dev group had one for the Christmas party, it was a nice evening but attracted some people just there for free drinks

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My characters are starting to feel more like people, the secret ingredient is coping mechanisms.

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Both the new Karnivool and Haken albums were slow burns for me. In Verses is probably my favourite Karnivool album now, and in a fever dream is saving my life atm haha

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Yeah exactly, how important something is to you should be congruent with the time and effort you spend on achieving it. If you're doing that then you should give yourself a break :)

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I had it and lost it for no fault of my own, but I still have hope

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

the last thing that will remain before we are gone is what you are describing, so there's that at least

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Smugpire - ATOMIC LANCE @smugpire.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Vgen commission for @watchtower-studios.bsky.social of Youmu Thank you for your commission!

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Playing Library of Ruina has been so helpful for my game project, nice to play something like what you want to make to realise you're a fan of your own game

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/06/2026

"Marathon is too complicated" "extraction shooters aren't fun" "what about the player count" I give you: Marathon Steve www.reddit.com/r/Marathon/c...

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Phosphophyllite. Trying out rendering by directly painting colours instead of blending, it was fun if a bit challenging!

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I'll have another go at that drawing today and see how I feel :)

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Drew something but not happy enough with it to post, I am proud at least I'm on the road to recovery and am starting to draw again

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I'd suggest starting with C# as a lot of modern engines use it, and it's quite a bit less complicated than C++!

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Gumshoecomix @gumshoecomix.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

#indiedev #vn #dev #visualnovel #horror #psychological #art #games #indie #smalldev #solodev Alpha of my game is on Itch! gumshoemedia.itch.io/rosalie-alph... i'd really love feedback if anyone could leave a comment !

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Rosalie Alpha00.1 by Gummy

Demons, danger, and dark secrets collide.

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Definitely the fastest way to solve design problems... See how someone else did it

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Crazy how I went from "I don't want anyone to see my art" to "Brad, they don't want to see an update after every brushstroke"

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

my internet is finally back 😭 the things I went through to survive on mobile data you've no idea

a USB desk fan pointed at a heat sink on top of the back of a phone that is being charged while providing internet access. it actually worked really well!

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I got into drawing somewhat because I'd see an indie dev making their game with AI art, when I'd question why, its always "drawing is too hard you can't expect me to do it".

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Flat colour version of my character "Cinder", going to be working on a fully shaded version over the next few days

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Make it first then make it good right? I think I'm going to start drawing the concept art for the characters of my game project. 6 months definitely isn't enough art practice, but we ball.

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Hope from @smugpire.bsky.social's game Atomic Lance, check it out on Steam!

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Watched it with my family, I was the only one that liked it

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Geert Verhoeff @gjverhoeff.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

2026 beginning of the year cleaning up files on my PC and found this one a friend send me when working on some code. Every developer can relate. #solodev #indiedev #development

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Was a great experience having my first playtest of my mechanical prototype. Oh boy did I manage to assume a lot of things were more intuitive than they actually were. I think UX will be this month's focus.

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Tonight is my first playtesting session of my game prototype! I've been working on it over the Christmas holiday very intensively, really excited to get it in front of people.

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Indie games sold better as a market share compared to triple A on steam this year, I expect that'll continue partly because of this

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

It's nice to see behind the scenes, I usually only see your finished works

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Brad Stapleton | Watchtower Studios @watchtower-studios.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

We've got to resist this with every ounce of effort we can. We have to raise our standards and not allow addictive feeds to outcompete art we actually care about. I wish it wasn't such a hard thing to ask of ourselves.

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