From what I've gathered, this cast is from #Emberhearts, right? What's the best way to keep up with the project?

TIL what a deuteragonist is! Is it bad if I thought this was a self-portrait 🫣

either way hyped for #EmberHearts ✨

#PFPDay? Never heard of it 💁‍♀️

But Dian is the deuteragonist of #EmberHearts - a JRPG project I swear to god I am still working onnnnnnnn

This specifically is their chapter 4 appearance

Dian doesn’t identify as trans per se, I just changed their background for TDOV and forgot to change it back 🤣

Drop something 💛 yellow-ish 💛

#pixelart #emberhearts

Naomi alongside 8 pixel art pieces from 2025

Oh sh! Did I miss it ??

#artvsartist #artvsartist2025 #pixelart #oc #emberhearts

QRP with your wing art 🪽

Devil wing clan ftw

#PixelArt #EmberHearts

A terrible comic featuring Dian and Pili from Ember Hearts RPG First panel Dian: Hey Pili! Did you know we can make shitty comics using only sprites? Pili: That's so cool! Second panel Dian: Yeah! You don't need to draw anything! Pili: But what if you need a frame that's not in the game assets? Third panel: Dian and Pili are replaced with placeholder sprites. No dialogue.

Oh, is that what day it is?

#makeaterriblecomicday2025
#EmberHearts #PixelArt

Ashka, a golden orange faerie with hair and wings reminiscent of a beetle or butterfly. She has blue-green coloring on her face and legs, while her wings are a buttery yellow to chartreuse

Aisling, a violet faerie with features of both a lamb and a beetle, with powerful hooves and promintent horns. Her hair lavender hair is shoulder-length and voluminous

Peplum, a faerie with dark brown skin and a peach blossom headband. Her hair is adorned with budding flowers and she has two long, slender antennae. She has small orange wings and wears a buttery yellow peplum top over a deeper golden skirt. Her lets and ears fade from rich brown into cool green, contrasting the rest of her look. She carries a large kitchen knife "borrowed" from the human world, which she is fascinated with.

2 years later, my faeries are making a comeback!

#PixelArt #EmberHearts

An editor screenshot of six Katana for Ember Hearts. They read as follows: Bokuto A curved piece of wood slightly sharper than a broomstick. Shinken "A long, curved blade in the style of the ancients." Kotetsu A lethal blade of blue-black steel. Kagemaru A black steel blade inscribed with symbols of a lost age. Onimaru A vicious blade which glows like the demons who once carried it. Ryuken Legendary sword of the Azure Dragon.

Making katana for #EmberHearts for #ScreenshotSaturday

...Screenshots of the editor count, right??

It's my long-running side project Ember Hearts!

Check out the #EmberHearts tag for scattered info

There's also a Patreon that I am horrible about updating (mostly because whenever I have an hour to spare, I spend it working on the game instead of writing devlogs)

HUMAN ARTISTS!

Use one piece to convince people to follow you!

( #PixelArt #EmberHearts )

Meanwhile #EmberHearts is pretty inseparable from Death Valley and the Mojave

#EmberHearts is the game I’m making in which the main character(s) are descended from world-ending dragons and spend most of the game figuring out what to do about that

I'm sure this is fine
#EmberHearts #IndieGame #ScreenshotSaturday

It's #ScreenshotSaturday again already!?

This week I'm upgrading the #EmberHearts party status UI with some of the layout ideas I worked on for Scattered Embers (my loosely-related mecha-otome side project)

old concept art of Yvain which played up some of the fantasy elements

Newer WIP in-game portrait for Yvain, with a slightly more modern vibe

Really trying to organize the half-finished parts of Ember Hearts while I'm funemployed and...turns out Yvain never got an in-game portrait !?

All this time he used placeholder/concept art that I just looked past when debugging.

So today, we do him right :3

(WIP)

#EmberHearts #IndieGame #GameDev

💣 🥜 🌰 BOMB NUTS 🌰 🥜 💣

A lot of folks ask me about #EmberHearts - what it's about, what inspires it, but there's one question EVERYONE has been asking since I first started posting.

Today, we have an official answer:

Yes, there will be Bomb Nuts

work in progress settings screen for Ember Hearts showing the new volume settings along with a new condensed font face

1 - I can't believe I made it this far into development without needing a condensed font

2 - Ofc it's sound settings that forced me to make one 🔊🫠

#IndieGame #EmberHearts

Such a cute idea!

Heres one Du (@salgueiroazul.bsky.social) made of Pili from #EmberHearts a few years back :3

A simple Controls menu for Ember Hearts (work in progress)

Listen kids, not every #ScreenshotSaturday can be exciting, not even for #EmberHearts

But the "boring" bits make a huge difference, especially to non-US audiences !!

Ember Hearts debug screen with two parties of 6 characters facing off (because this is debug, all 12 characters are Dian)

Re-implementing party formations for #EmberHearts and I accidentally Suikoden I and II

1 ❤️ = One fact about my OC

Pixel Art of Pili from Ember Hearts wearing her time skip outfit alongside her pre-timeskip overworld sprite

Let’s do it!
#PixelArt #IndieGame #EmberHearts

“Show me four games that influence YOUR current game project”

#EmberHearts

Kujo from Ember Hearts wearing a zoot suit over their usual mesh top

fuck it
Zoot Suit Kujo
#EmberHearts #CharacterDesign

An extremely early WIP of an interior space

When you spend all your time in an app or engine, you sometimes forget you're even using it... until you see a familiar face!

#EmberHearts #Godot

Can't see the sky through the ground no more boss 👍👍

#EmberHearts #IndieGame #PixelArt

a screenshot of google maps somewhere in Mongolia

Pixel art of a mountain vista with a loosely painted backdrop based on the screenshot of Mongolia

Did y'all know you can just drop yourself down in google earth and trace what you needs for backdrops??

This isn't even an "interesting" place, it's just a small valley in Mongolia that happened to match the vibe I needed (combination of dumb luck and intuition)

#EmberHearts #IndieGame #PixelArt

I dunno man I think this map needs more rain animations

#PixelArt #IndieGame #EmberHearts

Work in progress mountaintop shelter area for Ember Hearts RPG, showing female protagonist Pili standing in the rain - the joke is I left the debugger running so she's been out there all night 😱

Sometimes I wake up my computer and realize the poor girl's been standing in the rain since yesterday

#EmberHearts #GameDev #IndieGame

A sketchbook page of a key scene

A work in progress key scene with emotional support inu in the background

Finally feeling like I have an ok brain to bitmap pipeline going — via notepaper like a good indie

#EmberHearts #PixelArt (if you squint)