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Bernadetta and the Beanstalk
@bernieandbeanstalk.bsky.social
Hi! This is a page tracking the progress of my indie game project, Bernadetta and the Beanstalk! (Working title)
Trying to use this to blog and keep myself accountable for working on it! Thanks for checking me out!
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Hi all! I'm a #indiegamedev who's been working for a couple months on my game, Bernadetta and the Beanstalk- a metroidvania based around fairy tales, mythology, and lots and lots of jumping.
I'm hoping to show off what I have so far, and hopefully track development!
First piece of fanart for Bernadetta, courtesy of my friend @sirenrain.bsky.social !
Going to try and incorporate most- if not all of the art received somewhere in the game. It really means a lot and keeps me going!!

#indiegamedev #oc
January 8, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Food? In Breakable walls? Now who would eat THAT?!

Wanted to make some comics showing Bernie's character so that yall can understand her a bit better!
Also- this reminds me of those old manuals that had comics in them, so... I figure it might be a way to explain mechanics later!

#oc #indiegamedev
January 7, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Test from a couple days ago! Please ignore the awful cropping on the sides- will be better eventually.
Having a tricky time getting animations sorted, mainly bc I'm REALLY over complicating it
As for now though, the 3rd bg looks great! Going to animate the water a bit later.
#pixelart #indiegamedev
January 5, 2026 at 7:15 PM
HAPPY NEW YEAR! It's a bit late, I know.
Goal for the year: have at least 1 level finished and playable (ideally I'd finish way more than that, but I'm also split between a few projects atm lol)

#indiegamedev
January 4, 2026 at 1:47 AM
and here's the game in motion!
Was able to get the parallax camera sorted, and its creating a DSI gamefeel that I really like! Gonna work more on bg assets, as well as fixing up those jumping animations next!
#pixelart #indiegamedev
January 2, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Took a break for the holidays, but we are BACK! finished up a sky and bg for the first level!
#pixelart #indiegamedev
December 31, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Boing!
Got motivated to work on some more art and assets!
Might be moving towards setting up a steam page sometime soon...
#indiegamedev #furry
December 29, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Last repost related-
ANML CTRL is a project at the moment I’m helping write and occasionally ink/tone and edit for!
The guys over there are putting in work for their comic, and you should totally check it out!
December 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Reposted by Bernadetta and the Beanstalk
good to get into the holiday spirit :)
December 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Somehow I managed to finish Bernadetta's jump animation after only 2 days! I normally don't have the time to sit down and pump something like this out so fast, but I'm proud I could this time!!
Now only to figure out the firing in air, firing left, and firing down in the air animations!!
#indiedev
December 17, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Finally just wrapped up Bernadetta's ref, as well as some shading methods/notes for myself, so I can keep consistent when drawing out some talk sprites n whatnot

ALSO, finally managed to motivate myself to make the jump animation, so, we're deep in that now
#indiegamedev
December 16, 2025 at 5:33 AM
One of the animations I think is in a good spot! When working on Bernadetta's animations, I try really hard to do two things:
make her outfit move with her
and make her as expressive as possible- really helps get across her inexperienced/silly personality
#indiegamedev #pixelart
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Some concept art for shooting. The general idea is that you can fire to attack, but also to move! Been very fun to figure out how to express Bernadetta's characters into her animations
December 15, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Introducing Bernadetta!
A self proclaimed giant hunter, Bernadetta is braving the mighty beanstalk to avenge her home!
This is an image I hope to use in dialogue sequences. Was hoping to scale it down to look like old DS game sprites, but I have yet to find a good way to do it lol
#indiegamedev
December 15, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Hi all! I'm a #indiegamedev who's been working for a couple months on my game, Bernadetta and the Beanstalk- a metroidvania based around fairy tales, mythology, and lots and lots of jumping.
I'm hoping to show off what I have so far, and hopefully track development!
December 15, 2025 at 4:21 AM