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Bananicorn
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Gamedev currently working on cursed existence
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I found a style I like for the curse cards in my game!
And it's not even insanely time-intensive :D
This one's the card for "agression", roughly modeled after my chonky cat being threatening, haha^^
I think this'll look good on a card, and I can keep that style up :)

#gamedev #indiedev
A rough black ink splotch, in the shape of a cat doing a... Katzenbuckel (cat back/hump) but without the legs. The only real features it has are two white slits for the eyes and two pointy ears.
January 30, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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I need to brush up on my art skills again, and doing lil' animations seems a good way to do that^^

Not sure I'll be animating anything in-game as my skills just aren't there yet, but practice is practice :)

(Also at least it loops on here, thank fuck)
#animation #practice
January 18, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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So I've got one that I don't know of anyone else who played it: T.O.U. (Tunnels of the Underworld)
Was a blast to play with my brothers^^
Imagine worms, but with lil' spaceships flying around and in real-time with (I think) the possibility of a loooot of players.
A side-view of what looks like parts of a photo-realistic rock wall floating in a rocky cavern - in the middle there's explosions on the rocks and a little w-shaped spaceship.
January 15, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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Being chased through the woods by naked people was not on my gamedev checklist for today, yet here we are...
(I forgot to pass in the equipment for the bandits when creating them)
A simple isometric 3D scene from a bit of a distance away. where the player character in full armor is being chased by a bunch of naked, bald people. They all have (mostly full) health bars over them and are low detail enough that I don't have to declare this NSFW. It's a photo of a screen taken with my phone, so it's all a bit blurry and has some motion blur.
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Finally migrated all my repositories to my own server!
But what on earth was I doing in this repo two years ago???
#indiedev #gamedev
A screenshot of the gogs-UI (looks a lot like github's UI), showing the root folder of a git project. It's basically a table with the file/folder names on the left, then right next to each one a shortened hash, then the last commit message of that file, and at the very right, when the last commit was. This is the whole text contained in the screenshot, verbatim: bananicorn eec6c796b5 make humans 2 years ago assets 9ecc41d2fc wtf is this gonna be 2 years ago other d8a52c1c11 added BALLS and practically untethered player on the x-axis 2 years ago src eec6c796b5 make humans 2 years ago .editorconfig 9ecc41d2fc wtf is this gonna be 2 years ago .gitignore 9ecc41d2fc wtf is this gonna be 2 years ago .plan 9ecc41d2fc wtf is this gonna be 2 years ago Makefile 9ecc41d2fc wtf is this gonna be 2 years ago credits.txt 9ecc41d2fc wtf is this gonna be 2 years ago
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Sorry, I should've led with an example^^

Oftentimes my scenes are rather empty, because it can be prototype leveldesigns and I need to keep things simple anyways^^

I wonder if I'm not focusing on details that don't matter, but there's usually not much to describe anyways^^
A simple isometric 3D scene, with small, differently armored humans scattered around. Unremarkable dirt floor, with the only other objects being a mossy rock several humans high and wide, in the top center of the image and some vibrant green foliage from a tree in the bottom right. The tree casts a dark shadow directly to the right of it.
October 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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I can now place custom humans into a level!

These will be bandits (player character is in the middle), but I'll use the same system for friendly NPCs.

#indiedev #gamedev #cursed_existence
An isometric scene, with a few humans standing around, a big mossy rock in the center top and some leafy trees in the bottom right. The middle human is in full armor and the others are all in different states of armoredness.
October 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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THIS GUY IS SUPPOSED TO HELP ME THREAD THE NEEDLE, RIGHT???

I looked at this thing in my cheap sewing kit and only just realized, MY GOD.
A flat piece of red plastic, with a rounded "handle", and a diamond-shaped little wire loop, that is pointier at the front-end.
October 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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May I direct your attention to this shining beacon of good design?
Unfortunately not my work^^

Should I mark this nsfw?

#design #signage
A red sign saying "PULSANTE EMERGENZA", with a stylized button (three nested rectangles, really) and a stylized hand pressing them. The hand itself can only be described as "dickfingers". Imagine a u-shape, one side of it shorter. That is the thumb. A curved line separates the tip of the thumb from the rest of it, making it look like a penis. The upper part of the u shape is the index finger. Below the sign is a nicely desigend sticker for the 10th anniversary of a Tuningtreffen, but that is hardly relevant.
October 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Hi! I'm a solo dev working on a roguelike action RPG called cursed_existence! I'm now starting to upgrade the basic-ass graphics I have, since it's all pre-rendered stuff, but I've got a lot to learn^^
The whole point of the game is that you only ever get de-buffs as you level up, but a lot of
An isometric 3D scene of a town square with a church, a tree and a L-Shaped building. The tree is between the church and the other building and to the top left of the tree there is a knight, wielding a ball mace. A road is running to the bottom right of the image, surrounding a well. A simple 3D-Rendered forest scene is in the background of a Blood Splatter with "Choose your curse" written on it, in white, gothic lettering. Overlapping it, to the bottom left are the ashen remnants of a the chosen curse card, being swept away by the wind. A simple 3D-Rendered forest scene is in the background of a Blood Splatter with "Choose your curse" written on it, in white, gothic lettering. Below it are three cards, two of them depicting a tortoise, and the middle one a broken heart, all of them in simple line-art. Over the cards there is a text-box saying: Midas' Greetings Either turns one thing you wear on your body to gold, or might turn it all to gold, with all that entails.
September 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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@grimclownjay.bsky.social
I wanted to polish this some more, maybe with a puff of smoke, but I have no Idea when my brain will let me work on that kinda stuff, so here's the CHEST CANNON!

It's fun and goofy, even if a bit rough around the edges - not yet sure where it'll fit in the final game tho^^
September 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Fuck it, I'm fixing this shit tonight.
This is just me debugging, but it shows the problem: When I combine my base sprite with weapons and armor, it still gets the skin color of the human. In this case blue, because it's easier to see.

#indiedev #gamedev #cursed_existence
A simple 3D-Render of a town-square with a well in the middle, but overlayed on top of it in a grid are blue people in all kinds of poses and looking in all kinds of directions. Their skin and their armor are both dyed in a deep blue. (It's a spritesheet)
September 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Sigh.
I'm not looking forward to this.
Mostly dread fixing my messy export scripts, but I need to get this done, or I'll only have half game mecanics I want^^

#indiedev #gamedev #solodev
Cartoonish meme, where a person is trying to grab a yellow ball, but is snatched away by a pink creature, labelled as follows: YelloweBall: Bows and other new weapons for my game Pink Creature: Total rework of my animation system The pink creature is pulling the person away from the ball
August 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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@grimclownjay.bsky.social It's firmly planted on the list now ;)
Imma do it before the bows, because it's pretty fun and shouldn't be too hard^^

And honestly, out-of-place things like the cars in AoE 1/2 were always my fav eastereggs :D

#indiedev #gamedev
A screenshot of a notes app that reads like follows (the square brackets with Xs in them are items that are crossed off the list, hope it's not too bad for screenreader folks): - [X] Spiked Mace - [X] Dagger - [X] Axe - [X] Double-sided Axe - [X] Falchion - [ ] Warpick - [ ] Pickaxe - [ ] Flanged Mace - [ ] Big Wooden Spoon - [ ] Overly fantasy-ass sword(s)? - [ ] Special weapons - [ ] THE FUCKING CHEST CANNON - triggered by action button? - shoots a cannonball that explodes on impact (should be easy to render) - [ ] Bow Weapons [0%] [0/4] - [ ] Animation - [ ] Longbow - [ ] Short Bow - [ ] Compound Bow - [ ] Spells? - [ ] Fireball - [ ] Flamethrower - [ ] Lightning (ball?) (The last item is half cut off)
August 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Working on Armors!
Pants are optional, hehe^^
This will also form the basis for most NPCs, since I can mix and match these armors a lot, and all of them have various materials they can be made of :)

Happy to have something visual to show for once!

#indiedev #gamedev #solodev
A 3D scene of 8 people in armor, surrounding one person in the middle. Some of them wear helmets, one of them wears a torso armor, but has no pants on. That same person has green skin.
August 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Okay, so outdoor/indoor does make a difference, but sometimes not the way people think;
My beautiful son, Mojito is cuddly and sweet indside,e the house but outside he'll just run away most of the time (if one can sneak up to him, he'll enjoy some pets)
And ofc I'm paying the cat tax, too:
Mojito, the little black furry blob with two eyes and two ears peeking down, on top of a bunch of parquet flooring, stacked almost all the way up to the ceiling. A little black paw is hanging over the edge of the parquet, and really only his head and part of his upper body is visible. This picture shows him being an absolute little pest, and refusing to come down, after illegally gaining access.
August 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Torso armor ❌
Chest cannon ✅

I had to debug my rendering script to find out, I had the armor attached to the wrong bone in the source file...

does this count for #ScreenshotSaturday? :D
A 3D Model of a gray, simplified human, wearing armored shoulder pads, hip armor, upper leg armor and the torso armor not properly on their body, but sticking out of their chest like a cannon:
August 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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For ideas and notes I use an android app named "orgro", but honestly any text editor that can save to a folder on my phone would do.
That folder is synced to a ftp server every hour, so I can restore stuff in the future (because I lost all my notes with my phone breaking before)
An android app interface with the text "Orgro" in the title bar, and three dots for the menu on the right. The body is separated like this: Pinned files: - ce_roadmap.org - training.org - ce_tags_system.org - ce_characters.org Recent files - untitled.org - general.org - ce_alchemist.org - ce_priest.org The list goes on, but is cut short then. Each entry also has a date.
July 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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So this one's a lil' fucked up, but the italians have this A LOT:
A plate rack where you place your plates to dry - in a cabinet without floor, right over your sink.
This is in a hotel apt, so it's not terribly well-kept, but still I like the principle.
Maybe not possible in more humid places?
A metal rack where dining plates are stacked upright next to each other, right over drinking glasses and cups, turned upside-down, placed on a metal grill, so water can drip down. It's all placed inside a cabinet, mounted over the kitchen sink, which is visible below. the paint on the back wall of the cabinet is chipping, and there is some rust visible on the very front of the plate rack, so it doesn't make the _most_ sanitary impression, but none of the kitchenware touches any dirt/rust.
July 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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What do you mean your armor does not face a different direction than your body?

Armor rendering refactoring is going well, don't ask.
A very grainy image of a person standing still, while their armor is overlayed on top of them and seems to be running in a different direction.
July 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Working on the system that lets me layer armor on top of my characters and made some foliage - I've yet to make things pretty, since currently it looks half like a grey blob, and half like a block of cheese^^

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #rougelike
A 3d rendering of a forest clearing, with a small, humanoid figure standing in the middle. It's facing the camera and is wearing yellow, blocky pants and shoes, a bucket helmet and no sleeves on their lower arms. These details are barely discernible in the image, but I'm telling you anyways, because I know (because I made it).
July 15, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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I think we may need more of what @rpanich.bsky.social did recently - just showcasing our worst code, so people know that it _can_ happen. The world is not a frictionless vacuum and code can get messy.
Sometimes we also know we're committing sins, but leave them for our future selves to clean up:
A picture of some python code, white and pastel colored text on a black background. It's a photo of a part of a rather dirty screen (sorry). There's a few lines hiding a male character model, and a showing female character model, and vice versa. Also calling a function called "export_object" after switching out the models. Worse though, there's a comment describing the following, two lines: # satisfy Make with a fake png Which is really working against Make, and a hacky workaround at best... (Question to screen reader users: would you prefer having the actual code in the alt text? It's rather trivial, but I dunno)
July 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Didn't know you could play as german rapper Alligatoah ;D
German rapper Alligatoah, in a yellow suit, with a yellow hat, singing into a microphone
June 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Happy little accidents:
I had a shader that burned up the curse card from the inside out, making it vanish.
But I switched to using the shader directly in a buffer, where the discard directive doesn't delete old pixels, so I ended up with an ashen card :D
Keeping that!
#indiedev #roguelike #gamedev
A crude Isometric 3d scene, with a few pumpkins and a gray player character, all of which have green health bars over them, with a bit of red at the end. In the foreground, on an invisible 2D plane, there's a red blood splatter with "choose your curse" written on it in white. slightly overlapping that, is a burnt-up playing card with (you'll have to take my word for it), a nice, chaotic pattern on it, with bits of yellow interspersed in it.
June 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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The process for two of the Curse cards for #cursed_existence - I might have to hire someone to draw me the final version of the cards, once I know what all (or most) of them will be^^
Until then I can hone my own skills a little, at least I'll improve a bit along the way :)

#indiedev #solodev
A very simple vector drawing of a four-legged thing, red arrow pointing to a pencil drawing of three separate tortoises, red arrow pointing to the digitally cleaned up version of one of the tortoises. Below is a pencil drawing of a snail, with a red arrow pointing to the digital cleanup of said snail.
June 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM