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Indie game developer working on original material plus fan demakes and remakes. We don't do soft furnishings. https://itch.io/profile/grave-reaper-cushions https://gamejolt.com/@GrvRprCshns https://www.patreon.com/c/GraveReaperCushions

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Grave Reaper Cushions @grvrprcshns.bsky.social · 6h

Maverick entry for Day 8 of my (week)daily shameless #horror / #halloween #selfpromo 🎃

This one's #wholesome! 🐸😊

Kinda

Might give you the heebie-jeebies if you *really* don't like spiders... 🕷️

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #cosygame #cozygame

Link: grave-reaper-cushions.itch.io/froggo-spood...

Title screen for Game Boy Color game "Froggo & Spood"

Screenshot from Game Boy Color game "Froggo & Spood". The bugs are coming for Spood's eggs while she sleeps; Froggo's about to intervene...

Screenshot from Game Boy Color game "Froggo & Spood". Froggo's dealt with the bugs and looks on as Spood wakes up.

Screenshot from Game Boy Color game "Froggo & Spood". Froggo did good.

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Grave Reaper Cushions @grvrprcshns.bsky.social · 1d

Shameless #horror / #halloween #selfpromo (Week)Day 7🎃

Top-down, kinda jank #survivalhorror #gamejam entry for #GameBoy

(Also one of the greatest promo gifs I've made to date...!)

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #artpost #artshare #gbstudio

Link: grave-reaper-cushions.itch.io/stopt-ded

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Grave Reaper Cushions @grvrprcshns.bsky.social · 2d

Shameless #horror/ #halloween #selfpromo (Week)Day 6🎃

Basically "Version 0.0" of a #demake of the legendary arcade game: there's very little here yet, but it's a fine chonky sprites test💪

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #fangame #gameboy #splatterhouse

grave-reaper-cushions.itch.io/splatterhous...

Screenshot of the title screen from "Splatterhouse: Gruesome Beginnings", a very early work-in-progress, fan-made Game Boy/Game Boy Color port of the infamous arcade game.

Screenshot of the opening screen from the current build of "Splatterhouse: Gruesome Beginnings", intended to temper expectations as the project is *very* early in development.

In all honesty, the disclaimer drastically downplays just how little is in the current build...!

Screenshot taken at the very beginning of the only level in the current build of "Splatterhouse: Gruesome Beginnings". The background is very rough, but protagonist Rick looks pretty good.

Mid-level screenshot from "Splatterhouse: Gruesome Beginnings". Protagonist Rick Taylor jumps from a raised section of the environment, and while he's up there, launches a flying kick.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 4d

Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.

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Grave Reaper Cushions @grvrprcshns.bsky.social · 3d

Shameless #horror / #halloween #selfpromo (Week)Day 5 🎃

Woefully unfinished #survivalhorror #zeldalike (with mostly unreadable font 😣) for a #metroidvania jam - great intro, ran out of time for the actual game 😬

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #gameboy

grave-reaper-cushions.itch.io/underlier-ev...

Screenshot from "Underlier: Even Deeper". Gameplay starts in the same location as the previous game "Underlier: Deeper; Darker", and as such a number of the previous backgrounds were reused, albeit tweaked to take advantage of the lack of the previous game's 1-bit restriction.

Screenshot from "Underlier: Even Deeper". Puzzle solving though superior firepower...

Screenshot from "Underlier: Even Deeper", a pixel art recreation of the album art from "The Fragile" by Nine Inch Nails, with text reading "Nine Inch Nails/ Even Deeper".

Having committed to that title, there was no way I wasn't going to make a chiptune cover and use it as the outro theme...!

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Grave Reaper Cushions @grvrprcshns.bsky.social · 4d

Shameless #horror / #halloween -themed #selfpromo (Week)Day 4 🎃

#1-bit top-down #eldritch (?) #walkingsim for #GameBoy - first in an ongoing series

There's something down there... 🫧

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #gbstudio #pixelart #chiptunes

Link: grave-reaper-cushions.itch.io/underlier-de...

Screenshot from "Underlier: Deeper; Darker". The player character returns to the research facility after a short hiatus... but where is everybody?

Screenshot from "Underlier: Deeper; Darker". The player character realises that the crew must have gone *below*

Suited up, heading down...

Screenshot from "Underlier: Deeper; Darker"

Down here it's both of those things...

Who's that?

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Grave Reaper Cushions @grvrprcshns.bsky.social · 6d

Doing a thing for #GBPixelArtJam - I think I like the first one best 🤔

I also just might make some tweaks before the jam ends 🤔🤔

#gameboy #pixelart #gamejam #1bit #1-bit #aseprite #artpost #artshare

1-bit image (only two colours) in which a character in the top-left quadrant - casting a shadow onto the bottom-left quadrant - is looking diagonally down at an inverted (physically as well as colourwise) character in the bottom-right quadrant - also casting a shadow, this time onto the upper-right quadrant - who is looking right back. There are horizontal lines of varying widths behind each character while their shadows are on plain backgrounds.

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Grave Reaper Cushions @grvrprcshns.bsky.social · 7d

Day 3🎃

A patchwork of pre-existing assets thrown together to create my first #Aliens #fangame
Complete list of sources both in-game and on the game page
#indiegames #indiedev #Alien #HRGiger #Xenomorph #FPS #EasyFPSEditor #horror #scifi #halloween

Link grave-reaper-cushions.itch.io/aliens-hunte...

Screenshot of the title screen from "Aliens: Hunted", a fan-made first-person shooter based on the renowned sci-fi horror film series, made using Easy FPS Editor.

The game uses mostly pre-existing art assets from various official Aliens games, plus assets from other titles including Blood, Powerslave and Doom 64, as well as other Aliens fan projects, and some sound and music assets from the films. A complete list of assets used is included both in-game and on the game's Itch and GameJolt pages.

Screenshot from fan-made first-person shooter "Aliens: Hunted".

The player is currently wielding the shotgun, the sprite being a mash-up of said weapon from 1996's "Alien Trilogy" plus edited versions of the player's arms from the original "Doom", and sourced from Doom editing forums.

The environmental textures, plus the remains of defeated xenomorph are also from "Alien Trilogy". The human corpse is an edited sprite from "Blood", and the blue keycard (squint and you'll see it!) is from "Doom 64". Alien blood splatters are simply existing Easy FPS Editor blood decals recoloured to match instances from the "Alien Trilogy" sprites.

The numbers on the HUD are original assets, whereas the crosshair and icons are from "Aliens Online".

Screenshot from fan-made first-person shooter "Aliens: Hunted", an interior shot in which the player has just defeated a xenomorph using the pulse rifle, another asset found on Doom editing forums, again a mash-up of Alien Trilogy and edited Doom sprites. The corpse in the background is from Powerslave.

Screenshot from fan-made first-person shooter "Aliens: Hunted". The player is attacking several xenomorph using the flamethrower. Again, the sprites for the weapon itself come from the Doom forums, mashing up the weapon sprites from Alien Trilogy with edited arms from Doom. The flame projectile is an edited sprite from Alien³ for Super Nintendo.

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FulcrumOut @fulcrumout.bsky.social · 17d

In tonight’s #NonPoliticalEyeBleach, I find myself pondering the mysteries of the universe.

#Alien #Xenomorph

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Alien vs. Predator Galaxy @avpgalaxy.bsky.social · 10d

Something seems familiar... 🤔 #Xenomorph #Alien #AlienEarth #AlienRomulus #HRGiger #StanWinston

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I Be Nerd @ibenerd.bsky.social · 11d

I call this guy a ZEN-omorph!!!!

#alienearth #alien #xenomorph #alienromulus #alienfranchise #3dprinting #sculpture #movie #film #nerd #geek

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frey (but scary)🎃 @freydraws.bsky.social · Aug 31

based

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 8d

The image is Brian's face with the text Arachnophobia is dumb let spiders get married

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Dreya @dreyameir.bsky.social · 8d

That fuckup wizard woman is in the news again.

Here's a video of Dobby the House Elf dying in a glue trap.

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Grave Reaper Cushions @grvrprcshns.bsky.social · 8d

Despite being the first thing I ever made using #LMMS, and despite even now still barely understanding that software, I think the "Wretched Tower" #gameOST turned out pretty good 👍

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #gamemusic #soundtrack #ambient #surreal #horror #halloween

youtu.be/tyY6ri-vsaM?...

Wretched Tower OST

YouTube video by Grave Reaper Cushions

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Grave Reaper Cushions @grvrprcshns.bsky.social · 8d

Day 2 🎃

Surreal and admittedly broken #FPS platform-puzzler and #GameJam entry made in #EasyFPSEditor

(Ran out of time before I could add combat 😬)

(Soundtrack kinda slaps tho 🎧)

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #retro #EFPSE #horror #halloween

Link: grave-reaper-cushions.itch.io/wretched-tow...

Screenshot from "Wretched Tower", in which the player is standing by the first level's exit and looking up to illustrate the design focus of *really tall things*.

Screenshot from "Wretched Tower". The second level features a complex arrangement of stairs plus smaller structures which in theory can be accessed by ascending said stairs then jumping onto their roofs.

In practice, ascending too high somehow causes the game to crash, so the key puzzle that was supposed to be present got scrapped in favour of simply running to the base of the one structure with the unlocked gates and stepping on the exit panel within.

😑

Screenshot from "Wretched Tower", taken from the centre of the third level, close to the exit. There are "faces" in the "rock" intentionally throughout the level, and happily it turned out that the central chamber also had faces, albeit accidentally, so I leaned into that to make them more apparent.

If I'd had the time to add the combat I'd originally wanted, this would have been where the player fought the end boss.

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Grave Reaper Cushions @grvrprcshns.bsky.social · 8d

Now that's a compliment and a half, thanks! 😊

Grave Reaper Cushions @grvrprcshns.bsky.social · 9d

If I say so myself, the pistol in my first ever #FPS *does* look pretty good...

Itch: grave-reaper-cushions.itch.io/terminus-pro...
GameJolt: gamejolt.com/games/termin...

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #horror #scifihorror #pixelart #artpost #artshare #rgm #raycastinggamemaker #retrofps #halloween

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Grave Reaper Cushions @grvrprcshns.bsky.social · 9d

It's #Halloween season🎃 and I'm doing a thing:

Every weekday I'll be linking to one of the various #horrorgames/ Halloween-themed #indiegames I've made

First up, a very bare-bones #fps made in #RaycastingGameMaker, mostly an exercise in gory #pixelart

grave-reaper-cushions.itch.io/terminus-pro...

Screenshot from "Terminus: Prologue". The HUD elements, wall and ceiling textures, decorations (ie ceiling lights) and med kits are stock Raycasting Game Maker assets. The first-person gun, enemies and ammo pick-ups are all me 👍

Screenshot from "Terminus: Prologue", gun firing with muzzle flash and slide kicked back. The big lad with too many armaments doesn't look impressed.

Screenshot from "Terminus: Prologue". Post-boom splat. Also the ammo pick-up looks enormous...

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Grave Reaper Cushions @grvrprcshns.bsky.social · 15d

😐 Holy shit, did I miss the #rapture ? 🤨

Grave Reaper Cushions @grvrprcshns.bsky.social · 15d

Dear YouTube advertising algorithm or whatever,

I'm already well aware of Walkers Crisps and Pepsi so it's a massive waste of resources to interrupt videos with midroll ads trying to remind me they exist

Also all gambling services are dogshit

Auto-skip every ad and give the money directly to me 👍

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Marko Silberhand @markosilberhand.bsky.social · 22d

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Trump's "Antifa remarks" are ridiculous . . .
... because there is NO ANTIFA ORGANIZATION, never was...

Trump's fascist regime knows this - of course.
But now they can also get "unwanted" white Americans off the streets...

AMERICA is not free anymore !

💠 👊 💠

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 22d

They seem to think we recruit, indoctrinate, train and meet every other weekend to dress up in tactical gear and engage in exercises to prep to kill fellow Americans

We apparently even have membership lists and strict lines of authority

That’s not Antifa. That’s Trump’s idiot America

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Grave Reaper Cushions @grvrprcshns.bsky.social · 26d

Whoa 😯

#horror #survivalhorror #horrorgames #remake #fatalframe #projectzero #welldamnitnowineedaps5

youtu.be/Zjrmo5znRsw?...

Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games

YouTube video by PlayStation

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