🌊 Happy #ScreenshotSaturday again! Back from the dead this week and making progress. Here's a first example of the player singing 🎶 to move an obstacle 🪨
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🌊 Happy #ScreenshotSaturday again! Back from the dead this week and making progress. Here's a first example of the player singing 🎶 to move an obstacle 🪨
#gamedev #indiegames #pixelart #gamedesign
If you've played the House of Hikmah, the beautiful Arab-made narrative platformer about the grief of losing a parent - please do leave a review. It's really hard to make bespoke human games like this in 2026, and the team really gave it their all.
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Portrait of Straycloud’s protagonist
🤧Spent the week as sick as I can reminder being, so no #ScreenshotSaturday update. I did find this character portrait that I am fond of, but have found no use for in the game so far, so please enjoy that instead! 📸
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As I can *remember
Portrait of Straycloud’s protagonist
🤧Spent the week as sick as I can reminder being, so no #ScreenshotSaturday update. I did find this character portrait that I am fond of, but have found no use for in the game so far, so please enjoy that instead! 📸
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After 10 years of offering first-class, complete (we thought) dialogue solutions, we learned we had been missing the most important narrative design tool of all time: Tarot.
We're sorry. We're listening, we're learning. And today, we've taken the first step: adding Tarot to Yarn Spinner 💚
really good tip for indie devs:
the "Event and Festival" calendar from How to Market a Game got an overhaul, now includes:
- event prices
- tags for whether they'll likely get Steam featuring
- tags for physical vs online events
- can super recommend!!
howtomarketagame.com/festivals/
This is excellent, thank you!
🎶 Spent my #gamedev time this week refactoring the singing system. Notes can now be held, and notes are reinforced visually by their colour-coded corresponding element. It's fun!
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🎶 Spent my #gamedev time this week refactoring the singing system. Notes can now be held, and notes are reinforced visually by their colour-coded corresponding element. It's fun!
#ScreenshotSaturday #indiegames #gameaudio #pixelart
🌊Happy #screenshotsaturday once again! I've got a close but still #wip example of the new pattern matching mechanic. Everything is working, but the new sounds the player makes when singing aren't finessed yet. They're sounding pretty jarring!
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🌊Happy #screenshotsaturday once again! I've got a close but still #wip example of the new pattern matching mechanic. Everything is working, but the new sounds the player makes when singing aren't finessed yet. They're sounding pretty jarring!
#pixelart #gamedev #indiegames #metroidvania #zelda
🧱Started building a new room. Here's a 🚧 WIP video of the first bit of it. Happy #screenshotsaturday! 🌊
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🧱Started building a new room. Here's a 🚧 WIP video of the first bit of it. Happy #screenshotsaturday! 🌊
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🌊 Hi! It's been a while. I've been reworking some fundamentals and drawing level designs, and we've got some cool additions to the core gameplay mechanics. 📢 Sound on to check it out! See thread for more details. 🧵
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In the video, you can see the player singing along with the magic draw point on the ground in order to recharge their magic points
I'm trying to align gameplay with narrative as closely as possible, so now, when the players health increases, their magic energy decreases, and vice versa. Additionally, I'm adding rhythm/pattern matching to as many game scenarios as feels right
🌊 Hi! It's been a while. I've been reworking some fundamentals and drawing level designs, and we've got some cool additions to the core gameplay mechanics. 📢 Sound on to check it out! See thread for more details. 🧵
#screenshotsaturday #gamedesign #gamedev #indiegames
If I’ve said it once… doing the work is whole point. It’s the entire thing. Do the work
A screenshot of Straycloud environment art
🌊 Happy #screenshotsaturday! Here's a very 🚧 WIP screenshot of where I'm at with the town tileset
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A screenshot of Straycloud environment art
🌊 Happy #screenshotsaturday! Here's a very 🚧 WIP screenshot of where I'm at with the town tileset
#indiegames #gamedev #pixelart
Straycloud’s protagonist near moss covered stones
Happy #screenshotsaturday! 🧱 More painting of ruins this week 🪨
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Straycloud’s protagonist near moss covered stones
Happy #screenshotsaturday! 🧱 More painting of ruins this week 🪨
#gamedev #indiegames #pixelart
A work-in-progress screenshot of a town tileset in Straycloud
🌊 Happy #screenshotsaturday, all. Further truckin away on town tileset art this week! Been painting a loootta rocks
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A work-in-progress screenshot of a town tileset in Straycloud
🌊 Happy #screenshotsaturday, all. Further truckin away on town tileset art this week! Been painting a loootta rocks
#pixelart #indiegames #gamedev
I’ll jump on this bandwagon, if only to lend a voice against this normalisation. Every pixel, note, and line of code in Straycloud is created, not generated. The fact that it’s hard is what makes it good, and it’s fine to have fewer, better things for entertainment
🌊 They say no matter how often you're posting about your game, it's not enough. 🌙 So in that spirit, if you like what we're doing, please #wishlist Straycloud! Your support helps us find funding and finish the game! ✌️
#indiegamedev #gamedevelopment #indiegames
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🌊 They say no matter how often you're posting about your game, it's not enough. 🌙 So in that spirit, if you like what we're doing, please #wishlist Straycloud! Your support helps us find funding and finish the game! ✌️
#indiegamedev #gamedevelopment #indiegames
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Great new work from Joel!
