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Sam
@smbns.bsky.social
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🏞️ UI & Visual Designer
🧱 Building Geomancy - a sustainable indie studio 🕹️

🎛️ Documenting the indie dev journey along the way
🏰 Worldbuilder, 📝 Writer, 🎮 JRPG fan
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Also if you’d like to check out Novella, you can download it at novella.app
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August 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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jason.energy
today is my 40th birthday. to toot my own horn a bit, I'm the happiest, healthiest, and most successful I've ever been, so I'm going to indulge myself and do one of those "40 things that made me who I am" threads

so buckle up (or mute me for the next little bit 😆)
portrait of Jason in Portland
June 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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cozygamingclub.bsky.social
✨ Introducing The Cozy Gaming Club WEBSITE ✨

I've teamed up with @nikkyscozycove.bsky.social to create a home for all the cozy gaming news and releases!

Check it out: www.cozygamingclub.co.uk
Screenshot of The Cozy Gaming Club website home page. A header image comprising of four games is the focus of the screenshot. One game shows a woman with long blonde hair standing in a field, the second shows a green cart that has been turned into a bookshop, the third shows a woman with brown hair riding on a broom and the fourth shows a picturesque castle with two sheep outside it.
June 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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liamtwose.bsky.social
Our mission remains; to recognize indie games from "all" corners of the world. 🌐

pitchyagame.com/mission/ 😤
Our Mission - #PitchYaGame Live
Our mission with #PitchYaGame is to provide a voice and platform for independent video games from all over the world. To get real eyes on. A mission we as a team are proudly undertaking. There are so ...
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May 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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liamtwose.bsky.social
Breaking: #PitchYaGame is now LESS than 30 days away! 🥰

🔹June 6th 2025

Another day of recognition for #IndieGames, across the world, approaches. 🥳
a cartoon character named spongebob is smiling and holding a shovel in his hand
Alt: Animated Clip of Spongebob Squarepants, the yellow sponge character from the cartoon of the same name. Spongebob has an excitedly toothy grin on his face, with his hands locked down his sides, moving them up and down in quick motion.
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May 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
smbns.bsky.social
Found a good real world example of subsurface scattering with the light changing on this plant.

#gameart #reference #photoreference
A good example of Subsurface scattering taking place in the real world, as sunlight is coming from behind a plant and changing the colour of the leaf from light greenish to a crimson colour due to the way the light comes through the translucent leaf.
April 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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rine-nell.bsky.social
Today is my birthday ! 🍰 ✨

i’ll be very happy if you share my paper flowers 💕
Some paper flowers : 2 pink tulips, 2 eucalyptus branches and 2 pink dahlias 3 zinnias in pink/red Pink and white sweet peas. White wild roses.
April 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
smbns.bsky.social
Thanks @maxpears.bsky.social for sharing @andrewchambers.bsky.social Youtube channel in your last video - its a treasure trove of information on game design #gamedesign #indiedev
April 18, 2025 at 10:40 AM
smbns.bsky.social
I didn't even realise you had a newsletter @flarup.bsky.social - this is an easy instant subscribe, I encourage others to do the same - www.flarup.email?r=q4ofl&utm_...
flarup.email | Michael Flarup | Substack
A personal newsletter by designer Michael Flarup about the joy of creating things. Stories from his journey in design, games, and life—along with early access to his projects, creative insights, and c...
www.flarup.email
April 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
smbns.bsky.social
This is a cool world, take a look if you have the time!
flygohr.bsky.social Flygohr @flygohr.bsky.social · Apr 16
After 18 HOURS of painstakingly putting down pixels, I'm done with the regional map of Martens, the 1st region I've decided to explore in my forever #worldbuilding project Nuradan.

Link with details: worldbuilding.flygohr.com/Martens

Please give it a read and a share 🙏🏻

#pixelart #lore
A pixel art, fantasy map seen in a mixed perspective. Roads, towns, and other geographical features are outlined with greens, browns, and some red or purple accents. The area is mountainous with three small bodies of water. A fantasy map in the pixel art style with a numbered grid overlaying on top.
April 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
smbns.bsky.social
Friday means its Godot lunchtime learning - added an SMG model, fire rate and learnt about inheritance

#godot #gamedev #learning
A screenshot from the Godot game engine showing some code which allows a user to cast a ray when clicking to fire in the game, the SMG model recoils and the raycast prints what the user shot at. The image shows a windowed game running showing the SMG model in a FPS shooter style.
April 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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heytibo.bsky.social
👉👈 if you like what I make and want to support me for future projects, please consider sharing my game to people who might be interested.

I'm making this game on my own, I don't have a huge network or big company backing me.

Just sharing it helps me a lot. ❤️
heytibo.bsky.social Tibo (Thibaud Goiffon) @heytibo.bsky.social · Dec 29
“You crashed into an unknown asteroid belt. Explore this alien world, leap between asteroids and find a way to repair your spaceship.”

Demo out on Itch and (soon) Steam

gtibo.itch.io/wild-cosmos
s.team/a/3051070

#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #godotengine
February 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
smbns.bsky.social
Tomes & Tactics - Issue 002 is sent 💌 feels good to be getting into more of a rhythm with it, and good to share what I am doing.

#indiedev #solodev #gamedev #newsletter
March 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
smbns.bsky.social
Tomes & Tactics newsletter number 2 goes out tomorrow - a great time to jump on the list today 💌

Find yourself some new worlds to explore and a bunch of potentially useful links for worldbuilders, writers and game developers

arcanepyre.com/newsletter/

#gamedev #solodev #worldbuilding
Newsletter - Arcane Pyre
Resources and tutorials for indie game developers Tomes & Tactics is a newsletter for solo and indie game developers with a focus on tools, resources and processes, for all aspects of game development...
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March 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
smbns.bsky.social
Made some more progress learning Godot, first sandbox level design for @bramwilliams.co.uk Robo Rampage course!

#godot #solodev #gamedev
A screenshot from inside the Godot game engine showing a sandbox level created with CSG objects in colours orange and grey. The level has cylinders to jump between, sets of stairs, some bridges and a few archways between walls.
March 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
smbns.bsky.social
This sort of time next week I will be sending another newsletter 💌 - great time to jump on the list!

I'll be sharing links to cool resources for #gamedev and a couple of cool worldbuilding projects

arcanepyre.com/newsletter/

#indiedev #solodev
Newsletter - Arcane Pyre
Resources and tutorials for indie game developers Tomes & Tactics is a newsletter for solo and indie game developers with a focus on tools, resources and processes, for all aspects of game development...
arcanepyre.com
March 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
smbns.bsky.social
If you an #solodev or #gamedev looking for more insight into developing a game engine, go follow Ben on twitch! www.twitch.tv/lazybengames
March 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
smbns.bsky.social
Been quiet recently as I got my head down to working through a Godot course - built this little tower defense game and learnt a ton about the engine and how these type of games are built. Now on to build an FPS and learn from that

#Godot #IndieDev #Learning
A screenshot of a tower defense game called Babarian Blaster from a Godot course on Udemy. It has a beige path which 4 babarian character models are walking along and one tower situated in the middle of where the path loops. Several trees and rocks fill the grass land grid map and a castle is standing in the top left of the screen with. text overlaid showing 50 out of 50 health left. In the bottom left is some UI text showing gold 110.
March 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
smbns.bsky.social
I love how this visually shows how chaos becomes calm within a design/drawing process
seanandrewmurray.bsky.social The Art of Sean Andrew Murray @seanandrewmurray.bsky.social · Mar 12
Drawing another scene from “The Weirding Parade”
March 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
smbns.bsky.social
And with that the first newsletter issue is gone 🛫💌 a little preview below 🕹️
A image with a gradient background showing some screenshots of the content in the first Tomes & Tactics newsletter. The screenshots show the email with a title for '2 inspiring worlds' then showing a screencap from Studio Atma's Gravastar game and some material images next to text for the 3 useful finds.
February 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
smbns.bsky.social
2 hours until I send the first Tomes & Tactics newsletter; its got an update on what I learning next, 2 inspiring worlds and 3 useful links for game developers 🕹️

arcanepyre.com/newsletter/

#indiedev #gamedev #solodev
Newsletter - Arcane Pyre
Resources and tutorials for indie game developers Tomes & Tactics is a newsletter for solo and indie game developers with a focus on tools, resources and processes, for all aspects of game development...
arcanepyre.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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vhalenn.bsky.social
🌸Creative DEMO🌸 will be released NEXT-MONTH !!!

It will allow you to create tiny chunks of environment and share it online!
I can't wait to see what you are gonna create with it!

(It won't feature story maps, only a tiny introduction crafted especially for the demo)
#gamedev #indiegames
February 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
smbns.bsky.social
For the last 30 days I've been making a concerted effort to post everyday in the #Create30 challenge.

It's helped me build a system to make it easier everyday and become part of my routine, which I hope to continue with - more posts about #gamedev and #solodev incoming 💪
February 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
smbns.bsky.social
Liam's #PitchYaGame is a great way to get your #indiegame noticed people 🎮
February 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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smbns.bsky.social
Big week coming up, planning to send my first newsletter on the 28th; it'll share some of my plans for learning game development as a solodev, as well as some links and resources 🕹️

arcanepyre.com/newsletter/

#indiedev #gamedev #solodev
Newsletter - Arcane Pyre
Resources and tutorials for indie game developers Tomes & Tactics is a newsletter for solo and indie game developers with a focus on tools, resources and processes, for all aspects of game development...
arcanepyre.com
February 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM