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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium

@whatdog.bsky.social
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Game dev working on Tenebrarium, an idle-like alien colony simulator linktr.ee/whatdog.dev Wishlist Tenebrarium: store.steampowered.com/app/4880410/… Play Tenebrarium: whatd0g.itch.io/tenebrarium

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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why I don't use the machine which melts your brain (the answer may surprise you): #gamedev
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
pixel abstracts #PixelArt
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I still think about you, Spore
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This post is brought to you by Truffle Seeking Hogs #indiegame #devlog
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Love making normal games
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I had to remove baths from my colony simulator, for normal reasons 👍 #indiegame #gamedev #solodev
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
creature sketches, with 2 frames of animation #PixelArt
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You ever find a bug thats been there for months? 😃 (Tenebrarium update - it's been a while!) #gamedev #indiegame
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Tenebrarium 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 🦀
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Aliens solve a lot of design problems #aliens #ants #gamedesign #indiegame
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Creature sketches #PixelArt
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There are a bunch of ways to make a game more difficult to pirate, and I think they're a waste of time 👍 #gamedev #indiegame
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The 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
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I fixed 2 problems in my colony sim by making my creatures get stupid 👍 #indiegame #solodev #gamedev
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In 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!
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In 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
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
fuck it friday night big pixel abstract #pixelart
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Had a blast playtesting this, go wishlist!
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
10 Normal Things in my Normal Game 🙂 #indiegame #solodev #indiedev
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Processing the crushing revelation that I do rather well with deadlines, actually
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Made some more abstract pixel art last night :) 32x32, 2-4 colours. I love shapes I love patterns #PixelArt
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Can you be inspired by a game you never played? (Tenebrarium is Tamagotchi + Dwarf Fortress, kinda) #indiegame #tamagotchi #simulator
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Thinking 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 🤷‍♂️
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I accidentally found the secret to a stable population in my colony simulator #gamedev #indiegame #simulation
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Been 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,,
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Did u guys see the news about aliens being real
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Watched this a few years ago, absolute banger, tim curry crushed it, highly recommend boxd.it/1MDQ
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Clue (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...
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Been playing some elden ring, it really fucks to utilise the entire moveset of a Basic Weapon
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
wow thats crazy did u guys hear about this
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🔴 BREAKING: Government confirms aliens real, announces Project Tenebrarium, coming 6th November. WATCH: #indiegame
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
NEWS TOMORROW
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Been 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
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I know I'm late but Ultrakill is so fucking good lol, and I've only played 20 minutes of the demo
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Laziness may be bad but if it helps me finish a game, who's to say ? #gamedev #indiegame #godot
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Theres 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
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I think I had a breakthrough in the war on legibility in my alien colony simulator #gamedev #indiegame #gamedesign
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Went 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 :)"
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I 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
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Its 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/...
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Tenebrarium Update 1.3: Finished & Plans
At 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...
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hearing reports the crabs are killing themselves again, give me a day off fellas
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Someone finally played my game 'wrong' #gamedev #indiegame
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It is #WishlistWednesday, here's my game explained in 1 gif #IndieGame #SoloDev
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Does an 'idle-like' colony sim just play itself? #gamedev #indiegame #colonysimulator
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Wtf, 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
Screenshot from game, Tenebrarium, where the majority of the map is taken up by a red mass.
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
finally watched Backrooms. I LOVE SHAPES I LOVE PATTERNS
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Colourblind people should complain more, or I wouldn't have made these really cool shaders (Wishlist Tenebrarium on Steam!) #gamedev #indiegame #colourblind
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
how it feels to write patch notes when I spent all week doing 1000 small miscellaneous 'polish' things
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Sometimes 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
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whatdog 🦀 Tenebrarium @whatdog.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Testing 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)
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