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Frankie Hobbins

@frankiehobbins.bsky.social

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Real time art generalist and tech art. Creator of http://www.squashandspell.com/ Current looking for new freelance work. https://www.frankiehobbins.com/

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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hello Bluesky! I'm a game developer of over 20 years, still learning so much every day. I'm usually art focused but enjoy digging deeper and deeper into programming. I've got a portfolio here, www.frankiehobbins.com I'll be posting some old and new projects on bluesky.
#gamedev #techart #indiedev

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Bill Lowe @billowper.bsky.social · Aug 28

hey, I'm working on this! and what a treat it is; a cool ass video game and a team of super talented humans :D

plus I can actually talk about it and it won't get randomly cancelled because a shareholder farted or whatever? madness!

also yay; Godot!

okbyeeeee x

Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant @pvkkgame.bsky.social · Aug 19

Welcome back, Commanders.

The Cooperative State of Antos would like to inform you that PVKK will be launching Summer 2026.

Please enjoy your health giving tea, and await further communications.

#Gamescom | #OpeningNightLive

youtu.be/HYoehpASQMA?...

PVKK Teleradio Trailer

YouTube video by Bippinbits

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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · Aug 6

👆 I spent ages trying to make this work nicely on Android. Was a big learning curve with the new Unity input system and trying to make adaptive UI work on the old Unity UI system.

#Unity3d

Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · Aug 1

Whoop Whoop just got my latest game up on Steam.

First game with my daughter and now this ones with my mum.

store.steampowered.com/app/3917020/...

#IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame #Gaming #CozyGaming

Pigeon Hunter on Steam

Pigeon Hunter is classic hidden object game. Find the pigeons and other items in a series of beautiful hand drawn environments. Complete each scene and traverse though a dream like home.

store.steampowered.com

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Crafty Pickle Games @craftypicklegames.bsky.social · Jul 29

We've just released a free web demo of our first hidden object game on @itch.io, Pigeon Hunter. Find pigeons nestled in a beautiful hand drawn background.

Other platforms coming soon!

#IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame #Gaming #CozyGaming

craftypicklegames.itch.io/pigeon-hunter

Pigeon Hunter by CraftyPickleGames

A short hidden object game with beautiful hand draw art.

craftypicklegames.itch.io

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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · Jul 28

Just pushed a demo of a hidden object game I've been working on with my mum to itch.io

craftypicklegames.itch.io/pigeon-hunter

#IndieDev #GameDev #CozyGaming #MadeWithUnity

Pigeon Hunter by CraftyPickleGames

A short hidden object game with beautiful hand draw art.

craftypicklegames.itch.io

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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · Jun 14

#ScreenshotSaturday of my last game prototyping. It turned out to be a lot more fun that expected. Had some great feedback and ideas that will hopefully turn it into something much better than I though it ever could be.

store.steampowered.com/app/3816400/

#IndieDev #GameDev #SoloDev #MadeWithUnity

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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · Jun 12

Building a second Steam page is going a lot faster than the first one 🥳

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Sebastian Boutin Blomfield @sebovzeoueb.bsky.social · Jun 9

Working on a procedural building generator in order to place structures in the game world and make it more alive! #gamedev #indiegaming #medieval #citybuilder #browsergame #proceduralgeneration

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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · Jun 7

That too soooooo looooong 😂

Crafty Pickle Games @craftypicklegames.bsky.social · Jun 7

This week's #ScreenshotSaturday is a rare sighting of Squash and Spell: Kids Typing on the Windows Store!

That's right, we released last week on the Microsoft Store to allow easy access for anyone with a PC!

#indiedev #gamedev #kidsgaming #educationalgames #familygames #typinggame #preschoolgames

A screenshot of the Microsoft store with the page for the game Squash and Spell : Kids Typing brought up

Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · Jun 6

wow amazing thumbnail 🥲

Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · Jun 6

Finally managed to get on windows app store,

apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NBKM...

That was more effort than actually making the game!!

#gamedev #indiedev

Squash and Spell : Kids Typing - Download and play on Windows | Microsoft Store

🌈 Fun ABC Game for Children – Learn Letters, Spell Words, and More! Squash and Spell is a playful, educational ABC game for young children who are just starting to explore letters, words, and spellin...

apps.microsoft.com

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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · Jun 6

My new top tip for indie developers is don't try and publish anything though Microsoft Partner Center 👎

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Crafty Pickle Games @craftypicklegames.bsky.social · May 31

#ScreenshotSaturday of our recently released game, Squash and Spell : Kids Typing.

#indiedev #gamedev #kidsgaming #educationalgames #familygames #typinggame #preschoolgames #edtech

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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · May 31

Can someone who knows what they're talking about recommend which iPhone I should get to test and push an app to the apple app store. I'm in the UK and want cheap mixed with easy.

Thanks!

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · May 30

I still feel like a fraud when I make a post on my @craftypicklegames.bsky.social account and say "we" when it's only me there 🤔

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Bill Lowe @billowper.bsky.social · May 29

mucking about with pixels and colours and stuff

#gamedev #unity3d #trenchbroom #retroart

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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · May 29

sorry no screenshots but happy to share more info if anyone wants needs it.

Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · May 29

I came up with a workflow for getting lots of #b3d #geonode objects such as trees into #unity with each one being a prefab.

I used a proxy object in blender and baked object position into the UVs.

A unity script gets the unique UV positions to place a prefab there on start.

#gamedev #indiedev

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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · May 29

Making things wobble is so satisfying 🤓

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · May 28

I finally hit release today on the game I started last year for my 3 year old daughter then decided to finish and ship!

It's been a lot more effort than I thought it would be getting a 'simple' game out on Steam and Mobile.

Big respect to everyone else who's doing or done it 💖

#indiedev #gamedev

Crafty Pickle Games @craftypicklegames.bsky.social · May 28

📯Squash and Spell : Kids Typing is out now!!📯

We're very pleased to announce our first game is now released! 🥳

👉 Steam: steampowered.com/app/3387970

👉 Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

#indiedev #gamedev #kidsgaming #educationalgames #familygames #typinggame #preschoolgames #edtech

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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · May 21

I dont think I could have slept at night if I'd not put that in

Crafty Pickle Games @craftypicklegames.bsky.social · May 21

With just a week to go until release, we've added a crucial feature for a game that speaks letters: a toggle for the letter Z to switch between "zee" and "zed"!!

#indiedev #gamedev #kidsgaming #educationalgames #familygames #typinggame #preschoolgames #steamgames #edtech

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Frankie Hobbins @frankiehobbins.bsky.social · May 19

Total coincidence but it just so happens that vanilla newt is my favourite ice cream flavour 🤤

Crafty Pickle Games @craftypicklegames.bsky.social · May 19

Launch is less than 10 days away! We’re cramming in some final changes thanks to your awesome feedback.

store.steampowered.com/app/3387970/...

#indiedev #gamedev #kidsgaming #educationalgames #familygames #typinggame #preschoolgames #steamgames #edtech

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Crafty Pickle Games @craftypicklegames.bsky.social · May 10

#ScreenshotSaturday

Testing our early years alphabet game before release on the 28th. Running great on the #steamdeck! 🤩

store.steampowered.com/app/3387970/...

#indiedev #gamedev #kidsgaming

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Crafty Pickle Games @craftypicklegames.bsky.social · May 6

We're pleased to announce Squash and Spell will be released on Steam on the 28th of May! 🥳

Android and Windows Store to follow shortly after.

#KidsGames #GameDev #IndieDev

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Bill Lowe @billowper.bsky.social · Apr 16

I made a thing!

"Texture Browser" is a Unity editor tool for... browsing and using textures! Inspired by @joewintergreen.com 's tool for UE, I made this for myself to work with Realtime CSG.

You can find it on Itch & GitHub!

billowper.itch.io/texture-brow...

#gamdev #unity3d #indiedev

Texture Browser for Unity by Billowper

old school texture browser for Unity

billowper.itch.io

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