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tararntula
@tararntula.com
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#indiegamedev, #pixelart, and #watercolor.
https://tararntula.com/
Working on Peddlers Between Pulsars.
it/its, aro/ace/agender + voidpunk
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tararntula @tararntula.com · Oct 18
Hi! I mainly talk about watercolors, pixelart, or gamedev. I'm working on Peddlers between Pulsars, a narrative-based merchant RPG.
A screenshot from Peddlers between Pulsars. Exos, a beetle is talking to Malady, a three eyed mollusk, on a beach. The beach has several flowers which seem to be staring at the player. There's 2 sea-urchin-shell like buildings in the background, and cliffs that look like they are made of tube coral. The text reads "Malady: What? the flowers look like me? That's so sweet of you!" A slightly unnerving detailed pixel-art image of Queen Brahne from FF9. A pixel art image of Miracle Matter and Kirby from Crystal Shards. A watercolor image of IX from Honkai Star Rail.
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This is what placeholder assets look like.
Malady is on a white square, talking to a pair of eyes. When spoken to, the eyes say "default2" ten times.
November 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Who wouldn't be excited and interested to see an indiedev in person?

But really, I do think there's a lot of people who'd play relevant games, but aren't into games enough to watch streamers/follow devs/keep up with game news.
princerosalium.bsky.social Prince Rosalium, Parfum Nostalgique Dev🌹✨️ @princerosalium.bsky.social · 5d
My free 43-page guide to bridging the gap between digital games and physical spaces has been released.

Great for devs who want to bring indie games to local markets, shops, or spaces, and for organizers and business space owners to better understand indie devs!

priro.itch.io/digital-game...
the cover of digital games, physical spaces. a smiling blond man with long hair holds a game handheld with hearts on the screen. he wears a striped shirt and an apron with a silly fish on it.
November 16, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Brushes somewhat setup and screen calibrated. The rust though, oof.
A digital drawing of planet against a red/purple nebula. A little beetle with hats and boots on top says "I'm big!!"
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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I'm still here, just very distracted. After getting a tablet with a screen, I made a huge smear, I saw the purpose of drawing gloves. Then I decided to make my own because and learn to use my DPNs in the process.

This one... is a learning project haha.
A very poorly knit drawing and cut off finger glove combo. But it does resemble a glove!
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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My SO convinced me to use a tablet again, but a non-wacom one that was made sometime in the last decade.

Things have changed so much in the past 11 years, this is awesome! I scribbled a Gooey while setting up settings.
A lineart of Gooey from Kirby, clearly done with pen pressure settings on.
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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inkpixels.bsky.social
8 colors, pixelart
November 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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cocophany.bsky.social
it's here, everyone!!

🌱 Bloomseed 🌱 is officially released!

Bloomseed is a free asset pack I created that contains game assets for RPGs and cozy farming sims :>

check it out if you're interested:
cocophany.itch.io/bloomseed

#pixelart #gamedev #Bloomseed
Bloomseed - Free Pixel Art Asset Pack - 16x16 Top-Down by Cocophany
A free asset pack for RPGs and cozy farming sims!
cocophany.itch.io
October 31, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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The Mobile Suns haven't done anything because I was trying to make their options fit without becoming a menu.

I still want more visual cues that aren't color reliant. But they fit and toggle, so with proper text, they'll be good enough for now.

#gamedev #indiedev #peddlersbetweenpulsars
October 30, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Sound effects are hard. It took a decent amount of fiddling to get the takeoff noise to sound more like a whir-on, instead of the entire ship making a "boing" sound.

#solodev
October 28, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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October 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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cocophany.bsky.social
amalgamation.

my submission for VGen's Fog October challenge :>

#pixelart #vgen
October 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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mechabarbarian.bsky.social
Glass Cannon.
October 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Finally gave Exos' jumping sprites proper rotations.

Also put his wings on in the right direction. Relative inexperience with RPG perspective + not being good at drawing bugs means I stuck them on backwards without noticing x_x
Pixelart images of eight beetles in flight in four directions. The top four beetles are labeled "New" and are rotated with perspective. The bottom for are labeled "Old" and are the same image, rotated in a flat manner.
October 17, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Miner surrounded by spiders #indiedev #gamedev #madewithgodot #indiegame #gaming #spiders #gameart #digitalart
October 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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coldbloodinc.studio
my introvert ass at the beach be like:
October 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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cocophany.bsky.social
happy #PortfolioDay! ✨🌈

I make pixel art and comics :>

cocophanyart.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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toffeehazel.bsky.social
#portfolioday hello!

I'm toffee, i enjoyed creating tons of premade assets for indie game dev. Other than that, i've been dabbling on other opportunities, like twitch sub badges, and custom cursor pack!
a variety of 32x32 px premade pixel art food and items, cater for indie dev! from food to items, these 18x18px pixel art badges were designed for twitch subs usage! this is a still image from the gif of an old announcement for taking commission after many years. By the way, i'm going to upload but bluesky doesn't support multiple media types, but please check my comment for the animated one! this too is a still image of a premade cat cursor pack, featuring 14 different expression and behavior of a cat based on my cat video consumption and research from the net! The animated version will be on my comment!
October 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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v3x3d.bsky.social
Hey, #PortfolioDay 🙂!

I'm a pixel artists who focuses on minimal and abstract pixel game assets!

Cheers! ❤️

#pixelart #ドット絵 #gamedev
October 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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lordsovorn.bsky.social
Hello again, #PortfolioDay ✨👋
I'm a Ukrainian pixelartist, gamedev and storyteller, fascinated by the mystery of darkness and beauty in the horrorible 🖤

Open for commissions :)

Patreon:
www.patreon.com/c/lordsovorn
Contact:
@lordsovorn here, tumblr or [email protected]

#pixelart #украрт
A pixelart of a humanoid creature in a snowy landscape, with the upper body of a stern falcon, wings spread out and three pairs of arms with raptorial talons, some crossed over its body and some gesturing around floating, glowing balls of energy. There is a black band of short feathers around its waist, and below are its relatively unelegant human legs with a texture of rough clay Commissioned by @ hiveshin (tumblr) Side-view of a shadowy figure with lanky limbs and black tangled hair, looking at the viewer with an ambiguous side-eye and crawling forward (viewer's left) while a chaotic stream of bloody hands erupts from the area of its mouth (and possibly throat) and reaches out, splitting in uneven fractals into more and more fingers and hands, some of which lean on the ground A figure, back to the viewer, standing in the moonlit field of grass with arms outstreched and their shining skin almost merging with the moon in the center of the picture. Below the waist the skin of the figure unravels into (or is not yet sewn from) blades of grass wrapping around the bones Pixelart of the giant Mongolian Death Worm from Dandadan - an enormous earthworm "staring" at the viewer from among the ruins with its eye-like maw of human teeth, surrounded by a circle of tentacle/rays/eyelashes, radiating an aura/korona/iris of dazzling, nauseating yellow light
October 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Got stuck trying to figure out how to make doors read more like doors rather than strange patterns on a wall. The answer was to actually draw them in doorframes.

#pixelart
A pink and yellow interior. Two of the doors are single doors with a push bar, and one has a frame. The others are two pairs of fancier double doors. One pair has a frame, one does not. The frames make them much clearly doors.
October 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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coolbug.bsky.social
That Legends ZA budget leak has to be real because it's the first thing I've heard that explains what the fuck is going wrong with their games
October 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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I've gotten much more appreciation for those old RPGs with huge casts. I've got 5 characters, a nice editor with color coded paths, and they're still shoving each other around in cutscenes.

#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday
A map with of a pink canyon. There's 5 characters in it, and a bunch of color-coded lines crisscrossing over the entrance to the canyon.
October 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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blanksword.bsky.social
We! Did it!!

BLANKSWORD IS 100% FUNDED ON KICKSTARTER!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
An image showing Blanksword being 100% funded!!
October 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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I work in an exhibit with live spiders, and I think I have lost count how often people misheard "green lynx spider" as "green link spider"...
Two illustrations of a green lynx spider (green spider with two bigger forward facing eyes and lighter colored legs) stacked on top of one another. The one on top is labeled "Green Lynx Spider (Peucetia viridans)", the actual name of the spider. The one below is wearing a green, pointy hat, carrying a blue shield and sword drawn to look like the Hylian shield and Master sword from the "Legend of Zelda", series and is labeled "Green Link Spider (Peucetia hylia)".
October 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM