whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Why I don't use the machine which melts your brain (the answer may surprise you): #gamedev 2143
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This post is brought to you by Truffle Seeking Hogs #indiegame #devlog 1326
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I had to remove baths from my colony simulator, for normal reasons 👍 #indiegame #gamedev #solodev 2205
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 20/09/2026creature sketches, with 2 frames of animation #PixelArt 08310
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You ever find a bug thats been there for months? 😃 (Tenebrarium update - it's been a while!) #gamedev #indiegame 1174
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Tenebrarium music finally finished , guhhhgh It's only 12 minutes, but moves around a lot, really quite happy with it. I love making music but it takes me so long that I'll be happy to cross it off the list. Time to finish the game 🦀 020
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Aliens solve a lot of design problems #aliens #ants #gamedesign #indiegame 1125
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026There are a bunch of ways to make a game more difficult to pirate, and I think they're a waste of time 👍 #gamedev #indiegame 2171
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The aliens in my game socialise, which is how they gain thoughts to offer their hivemind. It's a weird little colony simulator, and these creature-driven behaviours are a nice way to do 'events' like other colony sims have. #WishlistWednesday #GameDev #IndieGame 2161
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I fixed 2 problems in my colony sim by making my creatures get stupid 👍 #indiegame #solodev #gamedev 2323
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 05/09/2026In a crowded field, the most repulsive thing about gen AI might be the ability to make ragebait videos purely to farm clicks. E.g. dashcams of horrendous drivers, ringcams of deranged neighbours, etc. There should be laws preventing you degrading the social fabric like this! 150
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 05/09/2026In Tenebrarium, you make use of these aliens' versatility to build a colony. Its a lot of fun animating them, since there are no expectations or rules for how they 'should' behave 👍 #ScreenshotSaturday #PixelArt #GameDev 1233
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 05/09/2026fuck it friday night big pixel abstract #pixelart 050
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Had a blast playtesting this, go wishlist! 030
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 03/09/202610 Normal Things in my Normal Game 🙂 #indiegame #solodev #indiedev 2282
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Processing the crushing revelation that I do rather well with deadlines, actually 000
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Made some more abstract pixel art last night :) 32x32, 2-4 colours. I love shapes I love patterns #PixelArt 050
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Can you be inspired by a game you never played? (Tenebrarium is Tamagotchi + Dwarf Fortress, kinda) #indiegame #tamagotchi #simulator 5398
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Thinking about this in the context of a growing stratification of PC players as ~Things~ gets worse. If you aren't upgrading your machine regularly and decide you want to play the new ultra high fidelity AAA game, it's going to cost you $1000, not $80. Indie games make more and more sense 🤷♂️ 041
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I accidentally found the secret to a stable population in my colony simulator #gamedev #indiegame #simulation 1195
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Been doing a bunch of tilemap stuff which has made colonies feel a lot more natural/alive, and I just had my first real pang of attachment to a colony which I needed to delete to record gameplay of a small colony ,,, I shan't lie , I grow fond of the creatures,, 020
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Did u guys see the news about aliens being real 010
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Watched this a few years ago, absolute banger, tim curry crushed it, highly recommend boxd.it/1MDQboxd.itClue (1985)Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, th... 010
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Been playing some elden ring, it really fucks to utilise the entire moveset of a Basic Weapon 000
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 25/08/2026wow thats crazy did u guys hear about this 000
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 25/08/2026🔴 BREAKING: Government confirms aliens real, announces Project Tenebrarium, coming 6th November. WATCH: #indiegame 162
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Been cooking an idea for a cinematic for a while now, finally working on it and boy is it out of my comfort zone, trying not to think about it 👍 It Will Be Done 010
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I know I'm late but Ultrakill is so fucking good lol, and I've only played 20 minutes of the demo 020
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Laziness may be bad but if it helps me finish a game, who's to say ? #gamedev #indiegame #godot 2243
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Theres a single visit to the tenebrarium itchio page via chatgpt, and I need to be able to visit them in the night, spirits in tow 020
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I think I had a breakthrough in the war on legibility in my alien colony simulator #gamedev #indiegame #gamedesign 5386
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Went and made my previous games playable in-browser on itchio It feels really weird to see something I made and simultaneously think, "wow this is a real piece of shit", and also, "wow I forgot I added that little detail there and there, that was fun to do :)" 010
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I saw these hanging in the hospital a few weeks ago and it inspired me to make some abstract pixel art, I had so much fun, would recommend (1/x) (They had a lot of texture in-person, too) #PixelArt 150
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Its been 3 months of updating Tenebrarium every week, and I'm honestly going to miss it (I AM A ROUTINE-DRIVEN CREATURE). Now I'm going into a cave to finish the rest of the game. Thanks for playing 🫡 Steam demo in October, full game November. #devlog whatd0g.itch.io/tenebrarium/...whatd0g.itch.ioTenebrarium Update 1.3: Finished & PlansAt this point, this version of the game is basically done! If there are any major issues then I'll try to fix them, but the regular weekly content updates will end as I move to work on finishing the f... 050
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Hearing reports the crabs are killing themselves again, give me a day off fellas 030
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Someone finally played my game 'wrong' #gamedev #indiegame 1376
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 12/08/2026It is #WishlistWednesday, here's my game explained in 1 gif #IndieGame #SoloDev 175
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Does an 'idle-like' colony sim just play itself? #gamedev #indiegame #colonysimulator 2174
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Wtf, got sent this screenshot by a player, "The Giant Moss Wall". Those tiles aren't even the variant which spread themselves if fed, they're all placed and fused individually I love video games 080
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 08/08/2026finally watched Backrooms. I LOVE SHAPES I LOVE PATTERNS 110
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Colourblind people should complain more, or I wouldn't have made these really cool shaders (Wishlist Tenebrarium on Steam!) #gamedev #indiegame #colourblind 3328
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 07/08/2026how it feels to write patch notes when I spent all week doing 1000 small miscellaneous 'polish' things 020
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Sometimes tiktok sends me notifications to offer 'content inspiration' and this time it was a phone recording of a clip from the new spiderman movie 👍 thanks 000
whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Testing shaders, I kind of love this even though more than half of the palette is missing lol. Is it too late to remake the whole game to work in monochrome? it would onl - (my wife hits me over the head with a piece of wood) 040