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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮]

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · Oct 21

To serve as my pinned:

Greetings! I'm Ian, and (amongst other things), I'm working on a metroidvania!

🌖"Moons in Crystal" is an isometric fantasy "space" metroidvania.🔮

A screenshot from the work-in-progress video-game "Moons in Crystal".

Specifically, it shows a view from within the Ossuary Moon.

Here all is made of bones--even the moon itself. Bone walls surround statues composed of bones, and the way is shut by a door of great long-bones and skulls.

A few fixtures of brass and crystal add variety, as well as lighting the exhibits in this specific area, which serves as an art-gallery.

A screenshot from the work-in-progress video-game "Moons in Crystal".

Specifically, it shows the exterior of the Serpent Moon--that being a huge, coiled snake. The player hovers right before that serpent's jaws, which are open wide to admit entry...

A screenshot from the work-in-progress video-game "Moons in Crystal".

Specifically, it shows a view within "space", with bright stars against a purple backdrop, and floating nearby, a moon made of bones.

A screenshot from the work-in-progress video-game "Moons in Crystal".

Specifically, it shows a codex-entry--in this case, that of an artefact. (Artefacts being the magical "weapons" of the game.)

On the left is an image of the artefact, being a necklace with a pendant in the form of a fox's head. On the right is a brief description of the artefact. Above is the artefact's name. And below is a "close" button.

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 13h

I like pixel-art! And I like >your< pixel-art! ^_^

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 13h

Burning the pad, as the bosses burned all your joy. XP

Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 14h

Amusingly, "The Lord of the Rings and Dragons" was exactly what Gandalf was afraid of, and what set off the events of The Hobbit!

Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 14h

"Le Miserables et Dragons"

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Úna-Minh 🔥 Play Eyes of Hellfire! @unaminh.bsky.social · 15h

look, the truth is, you can add 'and dragons' to any title ever and it will make it 100 times better

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 14h

"A Tale of Two Cities and Dragons"

Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 15h

(I thought this video was pretty cool. :P)

Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 15h

Ah, well, I'm glad that you got to see it, at least! ^_^

Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 15h

Guys! Just chill!

;P

🌖"Moons in Crystal" is an isometric fantasy "space" metroidvania.🔮

#MoonsInCrystal #Metroidvania #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 15h

I'm kinda sad that you can't climb the stairs--but I imagine that the feet of who-knows-how-many tourists would wear away the treads, which have otherwise lasted the millennia... :/

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 16h

But surely it's the day before that you celebrate most vociferously. ;P

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 16h

A leaf on a leaf. ^_^

Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 18h

Time to build a new garden-hut around it? :P

Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 19h

Not for the Raiders it isn't! :P

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Emma Kidwell | Looking for work ✨ @emmakidwell.bsky.social · 21h

if i wanted to learn more about the game dev scene in japan where would i start? i've been wanting to explore my options there if i can't find a job in america since i dont need a work visa as a dual citizen 🫠

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 21h

A belated happy birthday to you! I hope that it was a good one! ^_^

Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 1d

She should really get that checked out. It's supposed to be yellow! >:P

Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 1d

You change your avatar so much that I don't look that closely that often, I suppose! XD;

It's hard to miss here!

Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 1d

Well, I'm glad to see that you're looking happy! ^_^

Also, the dark hair was a surprise! As far as I can tell, it looks like it suits you. ^_^

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 1d

I choose to believe that the red strands shown here mean that this is a romantic story. :P

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 1d

Oh wow, that is very cool! I love the ingenuity that people across the world have shown in the various and varied ways that they've built! ^_^

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 1d

(The "00" was a keyboard error. Even the keyboards here are barbaric! :P)

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 1d

Fair enough! Well, take care when you return to us barbarians! ;)00

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 1d

That's sort of what I was getting at: if you've crossed both Tigris and Euphrates, you're presumably no longer between them. No longer meso the potamia. :P

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Ian Eborn ~ [Making "Moons in Crystal" 🌖🔮] @ebornian.bsky.social · 1d

Welp. I fear that you have now left civilisation. ;P

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