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Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog

@hereliesravenwood.bsky.social

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A blog dedicated to the development of a game called "Here Lies Ravenwood", a spooky twist on a farming rpg. Blog is run by beginner game dev @Apheliondusk Tumblr: HereLiesRavenwood #indiegamedev #gamedev #hereliesravenwood

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Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog @hereliesravenwood.bsky.social · Mar 23

Hello and welcome to my development blog for my game, Here Lies Ravenwood!

It’s my own twist on the farm rpg genre, with spookier theming, and romanceable monsters!

I’m a one man dev team, and a first time game developer. I made this blog to motivate me to keep working on my game!

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Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog @hereliesravenwood.bsky.social · 14d

Working on more concept art of the new npc!

Tweaking Jethrael's colors/design a little

#ocsky #indiegamedev #hereliesravenwood #conceptart

Colored illustration of a goat-like anthropomorphic monster with long black hair wearing a suit and a bowtie.

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Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog @hereliesravenwood.bsky.social · 15d

A little sneak peek at the concept art for a new npc: Jethrael!

A melancholy Tsaga (more about his people later!) man who oversees Ravenwood's local library. He's curt, studious, and helpful.

#ocsky #indiegamedev #conceptart

A colored chibi sketch of an anthropomorphic goat-like man with red regency-era style attire.

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Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog @hereliesravenwood.bsky.social · 15d

I’m not dead I promise, I’ve just been so exhausted from working 😩

Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog @hereliesravenwood.bsky.social · Jun 16

I ended up deciding to pivot from 2d to 3d for my game because I've been trying to learn pixel art for months and I'm just not having fun with it tbh....

I still wanna keep it really stylized, and pay homage to games that inspired me growing up like Harvest Moon and such.

Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog @hereliesravenwood.bsky.social · Jun 16

My first 3d model practice without a tutorial :D

I hand painted the textures, too.

Parody label bc we don't do free advertising here.

A low poly 3d model of a generic red stacked chip can.

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Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog @hereliesravenwood.bsky.social · Jun 16

AND HERE IT IS, FINISHED!!

(Textures were provided by Illusion of Mana for the tutorial, and belong to them!)

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Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog @hereliesravenwood.bsky.social · Jun 15

Using what I learned from the ramen cup tutorial, I make-a da pringles can.......

Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog @hereliesravenwood.bsky.social · Jun 15

Low poly ramen cuuuup

I'm learning 3D modeling!

I made this with the help of Illusion of Mana's tutorial on Youtube!

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · Feb 15

We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games!

Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI.

You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:-

www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

A graphical asset in the shape of a cog. It contains the following text 'This developer assures that NO GEN AI' was used in this indie game

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Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog @hereliesravenwood.bsky.social · Mar 23

I've been hella busy and haven't had much time to work on my game, but here's some concept art I doodled up today!

Darcy and Victor enjoying a nice market day!

#indiegamedev #indiegames #gamedev

Concept art of my characters Victor and Darcy at the market, talking about wine.

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Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog @hereliesravenwood.bsky.social · Oct 23

Was noodling with concept art thumbnails earlier and I rly liked this sketch I did. :3 Not sure if I'll do anything more with it tho

#gamedev #indiegamedev #gamedevelopment #hereliesravenwood

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Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog @hereliesravenwood.bsky.social · Mar 24

And I look forward to documenting that whole learning process here on this blog. You’re gonna see a LOT of bad pixel art and such as I learn and experiment! :3

Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog @hereliesravenwood.bsky.social · Mar 24

I think one of the most exciting parts of getting into game development is all the different things you’ll end up having to learn. I’m brand new to pixel art, coding, music production, all that jazz. And I’m so stoked to learn! It’s like one big, fun puzzle to solve, a piece at a time.

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Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog @hereliesravenwood.bsky.social · Mar 24

Heck yeah!! I’m so glad!!

I’m really excited to get further into this project, I have so many fun ideas.

Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog @hereliesravenwood.bsky.social · Mar 23

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Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog @hereliesravenwood.bsky.social · Mar 23

I realize I never bothered to get off my arse and make a pinned post

Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog @hereliesravenwood.bsky.social · Mar 23

I've been hella busy and haven't had much time to work on my game, but here's some concept art I doodled up today!

Darcy and Victor enjoying a nice market day!

#indiegamedev #indiegames #gamedev

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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · Mar 21

THIS.
I mean, we have millions of public domain artworks, pictures, clipart...WHY use those tasteless trash generators?

Merlin G.G 🌻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ VisDev Artist @everydaymerlin.bsky.social · Mar 21

i wonder why i keep seeing game devs/ 3d artists on youtube recommending some kind of generative ai or another when there’s so much free stuff you could be using instead like, are we really running out of tiled textures?? not enough building photography to use as references??? tf 💀💀💀

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Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog @hereliesravenwood.bsky.social · Feb 26

Some pixel art practice I did of my bedroom door.

#pixelart

A pixel art doodle of a bedroom door with a shoe rack hanging on it.

Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog @hereliesravenwood.bsky.social · Jan 25

Some older footage of my coding practice game I've been testing stuff on.

Noa 💜 @ Silgryn Loving Hours @apheliondusk.bsky.social · Oct 17

Omg I can finally share this footage of my coding test game I've been messing with to learn coding.
It's been really fun learning to do pixel art in tandem!

#gamedev #indiegamedev

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · Dec 24

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

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Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog @hereliesravenwood.bsky.social · Dec 24

ALSO HI THIS BLOG'S NOT DEAD

My health has just gotten really bad and I've been very very sick

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Stein Makes Games ➡️ #GodotFest @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · Dec 23

Blocklist for fake AI-generated gamers and gamedevs. Click top-right corner Subscribe then Block to neuter the bots. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Stein Makes Games ➡️ #GodotFest @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · Dec 23

Bot accounts with fake AI-generated games are pretending to be genuine #gamedev / #indiedev accounts. Possibly for scam or spam purposes. I made a list to block them all. Share!
bsky.app/profile/did:...

Beware of AI generated fake game developers

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Here Lies Ravenwood Dev Blog @hereliesravenwood.bsky.social · Dec 24

Holy shit post really ate the quality on this