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Matt White
@mattwhitedev.bsky.social
Artist, game developer.
Created Ghost Song: https://store.steampowered.com/app/347800/Ghost_Song/
🎮Working on a new game called The Silver Sun
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My next game is called The Silver Sun. LMK if you have questions!

-Sci-fi game with exploration, action, and rpg aspects
-Play as Yuki, a very tough, very cool android girl
-Melee focused
-Not a souls-like
-Yes those are horns
-Still pretty early in dev

#gamedev #solodev
in 2008 I was working on a comic called The Silver Sun. It never got finished, but some of the ideas ended up in Ghost Song. This is how Charley and Pasha were designed in 2008. Pasha got aged up a bit for the game, and Charley didn't appear... exactly... #art #characterdesign
November 27, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I'm Yuki Knoxville and this is metal spin #screenshotsaturday
#gamedev #metroidvania #solodev
November 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Ghost Song is 50% off on Nintendo eshop and Playstation store. If you have a Switch 2, it runs perfectly in my tests at steady 60 fps (it had some FPS issues on Switch 1, sadly).

Eshop: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
PS: store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...

#gamedev #metroidvania
October 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
#screenshotsaturday It can be hard to tell unless you have a big screen and eagle eyes, but Yuki can smile. She can also turn her head and look around while moving, which took an embarrassing amount of work to make happen #gamedev #solodev #metroidvania
October 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
My next game is called The Silver Sun. LMK if you have questions!

-Sci-fi game with exploration, action, and rpg aspects
-Play as Yuki, a very tough, very cool android girl
-Melee focused
-Not a souls-like
-Yes those are horns
-Still pretty early in dev

#gamedev #solodev
October 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
#screenshotsaturday Heavy attack button can be held for a charged version. This character is made from multiple different 2d skeletons which are sometimes substituted for traditional animation. #gamedev #solodev #metroidvania The goal is to avoid the paper doll or "flash" look as much as possible.
October 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Ghost Song is 50% off on Steam Autumn Sale! store.steampowered.com/app/347800/G...
It has spooky parts for your halloweeny needs #metroidvania #gamedev #solodev
October 1, 2025 at 7:08 AM
one of my steam library categories 🤠 #gamedev
August 17, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Ghost Song was originally created as a different game in a different engine before I scrapped almost everything about it and started over in 2019. The original version was different in quite a few ways, but to sum it up it was darker, edgier, and had a silent protagonist.
#gamedev
August 10, 2025 at 4:26 AM
my pet project that I may or may not ever make is a fantasy beatemup rpg. Sometimes I doodle ideas for it. #gamedev For a bit I was considering making it my main project, but I felt that business-wise beatemups are too risky to create unless you have a popular ip attached. #art #characterdesign
July 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I made a 2d model (like in Ghost Song) that makes things very dynamic. Unlike GS, however, is that I switch to traditionally animated frames when needed to make the posing more exciting. Ie, these weapon attacks are all traditionally animated #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity #madewithspine
July 18, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Ghost Song is 50% off on Nintendo Eshop! www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro... --- Switch 2 has been a huge upgrade for it. I captured some 60 fps footage directly from the system. #gamedev #metroidvania #switch2
July 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
June 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Ghost Song is 50% off on Playstation systems for a few more days store.playstation.com/en-us/concep... --- #metroidvania #gamedev #ps4 #ps5
June 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Footage of Ghost Song running at a stable 60 fps on Switch 2. I feel like the game's legacy on Nintendo has been secured, in a way #Switch2 #gamedev
June 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Ghost Song is running at a pitch perfect 60 fps on Switch 2. 🙌 I was never quite happy with its performance on Switch 1. If you're a Nintendo player and are interested in my game, this is a great time to play it! #switch2 #metroidvania
June 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Holy crap
Here's my new tattoo of @mattwhitedev.bsky.social's Deadsuit/Blue from Ghost Song, @marthawells.com's Murderbot and @teamcherry.bsky.social's Vessel from Hollow Knight. All protecting my old lotus. Just as they did for my identity journey and life.
May 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
spent the past day trying to improve the look of Yuki's dress a bit. Tricky getting it to move right.
Also -you'll see this soon enough- she can equip various weapons, hold them, swing them, etc.
#gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity #indiegame #characterdesign #art
May 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
#screenshotsaturday Hard to notice if you aren't playing on a big tv, but Yuki has emotional states during gameplay and sometimes smiles #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity
May 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Animated Yuki on the status screen. She'll stare into your soul as you decide on stats and equipment. #gamedev
Do you like Yuki? I've been working on her in various forms for quite some time. There's still a lot more to learn about her, stay tuned!
#indiedev #indiegame #unity #madewithspine
April 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
An early look at Yuki in my game The Silver Sun. #screenshotsaturday Note the asymmetrical right shoulder detail, hair and clothes that can blow in the wind, and various head details. I finally get to make a character with a visible face 🤓
#gamedev #gaming #indiegame
April 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
March 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
This animated background water in Muramasa...
#gamedev #art #gaming
March 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Super Metroid's attract mode always sparked my imagination in a huge way when I was a kid. Why don't games do this anymore? I want to put attract mode into my next game.

#gamedev #supermetroid #metroid #metroidvania
March 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Any other artists/creators put tasks off because you've got high expectations for the results of a given piece and you fear the negative emotional experience of working on it and it not being immediately awesome? And so putting it off becomes easier... This plagues me
#gamedev #art
February 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM