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Back from a break and Wispbound (my Game Boy roguelike/metroidvania) is moving fast: six bosses with final art, plus Morvane, the ice temple and the tomb isle in the overworld. Trailer recorded straight from the ROM 🎮🐢 #gamedev #gameboy #retrogamedev

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Wispbound @wispbound.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

DHH with @lexfridman.bsky.social "The fact that there’s still people writing new old games is awesome" ! You are very welcome 👏 I can confirm the constraints are part of the appeal. Having limited resources available forces you to think differently. #retrogames #retrogamedev #gamedev #solodev

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Wispbound @wispbound.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The viking warrior greets you with "Heill ok sæll", an old nordic greeting. But also a nudge to my previous game "Hnefatafl" which had it on the box art. You can play for free or pay what you want to support development of Wispbound. #retrogames #indiedev sebastianproost.itch.io/hnefatafl-vi...

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Hnefatafl - Viking Chess by sebastian.proost

The Viking king's game on the original Game Boy — three historical tafl variants in one ROM

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Wispbound @wispbound.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Picked up these two this weekend... They'll need some patching up, but I've got original hardware to test the game on! #solodev #retrogames #nintendo #gameboy #indiedev #indiegames

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Wispbound @wispbound.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Got side-tracked and found out using AI to generate 3D assets is entirely doable now, and in some ways easier than a 16x16 animated sprite and tiles. Cool experiment, now I need to convert this to four-color 8x8 tiles ... #voxelart #blender3d #proceduralart #gamedev #indiedev #aiart #b3d #solodev

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Wispbound @wispbound.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Working on making this DMG world feel alive with small environment details: footprints, flickering torches, and floating ice sheets. 🥶 #solodev #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #retrogames #gbdev #gameboy

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Wispbound @wispbound.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Built out the world map editor for WISPBOUND and just created the first location: Viking Bay 🥶 The DMG tile budget is brutal, my engine supports 176 unique 8x8 tiles per area, and this one is using 175 of them! #pixelart #retrogames #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #indiegames

Screenshot of a pixel art game world editor showing the Maps tab, with a tile-based overworld map named "viking_bay" open in the Map Editor. The map displays a green four-shade Game Boy palette scene featuring a longship on a river, grass, bushes, and rocky cliff tiles, with two warp markers placed near the top right edge. The sidebar shows map properties (64x64 tile size) and a list of two warp events transporting the player to coordinates on the "demo map."

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Wispbound @wispbound.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Wanderer takes their first steps 👣 First sprites for WISPBOUND: a walk cycle, a Mystic, an Innkeeper, a Blacksmith. Everything in four greens. #pixelart #indiedev #solodev #indiegame #retrogame

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Wispbound @wispbound.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

All tools are set up and we can start development! Pretty happy with how the title screen and dialog interface looks already. #IndieGame #RetroGame #GameDev #Gameboy

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