Good place for a barbecue, I hear. Can't wait to start working on the interior of this place 😅 #gamedev #indiedev

Working on water effects is super-cozy for me 🐋 So many ways to make it look cool with just a bit of math 😇 #indiedev #gamedev

Thanks for hosting! Been a while since I took part, but here is Seal of Solitomb: a roguelike that grinds solitaire and poker in a blender and puts them in a demon-filled dungeon. Very turn based. It also has a new swanky trailer 😅 Steam page here 👇: store.steampowered.com/app/3377230/...

This is what got replaced today. Won't miss the prototype version one bit! 😂

First experiments with the Seal of Solitomb world map! 🗺️ Everything you see is WIP, just focused on getting the depth illusion and perspective right today. Can't wait to work on animations and effects to make this more alive! ✨ Previous version in replies 😅 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

New Seal of Solitomb trailer! 🎉 Really happy with how it turned out. Sadly in 30fps here - if you want to see it in all its glory, the Steam page has you covered 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/3377230/... Might as well wishlist while you're there! 😉 #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev

Deal me in! 🔥 (Seal of Solitomb boss opening) #gamedev #indiedev

If you ever wanted to build a space trade empire inside an hour, Slipways is still great, and it's 60% off while the Steam Summer Sale lasts. store.steampowered.com/app/1264280/ Released it just before turning 35. About to turn 40 in three days and the game is still going strong! 🚀

Rejiggered the shop into a more central composition, with all your choices nicely stacked down the middle. The cards used to be on the bottom left to make room for the character in the bottom right (see previous post) What do you think, better now? #gamedev #indiedev

Fellow #gamedev people: If you have a shop in your game where you can buy multiple items, please do something similar and let people experiment with their selections before committing. Having to do mental math upfront sucks: looking at you, StS2 😁

Back from my emergency medical trip (my brother's fine, thankfully!). Slowly resting up and getting back to work on Seal of Solitomb 🛠️ Picked something nice and easy for today to get into the groove: juicing up the item selection on the shop screen ✨ #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

What the Windows Solitaire falling cards animation might have looked like if it was made today 😅 And by me. And if Solitaire was a dungeon-crawling roguelike. #gamedev #indiedev

Pushing a lot of visual improvements in Seal of Solitomb lately, but today I'm out of energy and was in the mood to just play and enjoy the game a bit 🕹️ This is what this is - just me playing a level at my normal pace, warts and all, no commentary, no explanations 👊 #gamedev #indiegame

When it's going well, #gamedev is a series of little joys as you make the game better one tiny step after another 🚶 Today's was getting to replace Solitomb's mana bottles with their finished counterparts 🍾 I think I've wanted to do one of these since I first saw Diablo in the 90s 😇

Like this!

Creating a spiritual successor to the death animation from the #pico8 Solitomb! Turns out, it's a bit harder with millions of pixels 😅 #gamedev

Ob-Nepenthes seems to have realized it's Monday again 😅

Another use for the trail effect - making sure that you KNOW when a monster drops a seal 😁 Also makes the "find my a seal now" debug key so much more fun to use 😇 #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

Using a trail effect I just added to the engine to underscore your attacks 💫 Will probably find much more use for this effect, works pretty well for highlighting fast moving things. #indiegame #gamedev

Ob-Nepenthes, the Harbinger of Decay, the Queen of Undeath... shown vibing to her new soundtrack 🎶 Watch with sound on, obviously! 😇 #gamedev

Making a depth mask for Seal of Solitomb's undead boss and reached an important realization. Either this really looks like broccoli or I really need more fiber in my diet 🥦 #gamedev #indiedev

Had a playtesting issue yesterday: it was hard to see when exactly boss abilities trigger. What do you think, problem solved? 😂 #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

Working on boss battle balance today! Spreadsheets aren't photogenic, but I have something else: Meet Ob-Nepenthes, the Queen of the Undead, the Sudden Demise, the Harbinger of Decay 💀 Each title is a different moveset, so she's more like three different bosses in one 😅 #gamedev

Chilling with the doggo, hunting goblins and skeletons in Solitomb's Weyrwood 🐕 Playing combos with it lets it grow, which makes it all the more satisfying when you let it munch on some goblin feet later! 😇 #gamedev #indiegame

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In my book, it's not really worth it making a solitaire game if you don't get to do a few card-dealing animations! 😅 #gamedev #indiegame

Or maybe still not enough? 😁

Adding camera tricks to make the Seal of Solitomb battle sequence more dynamic. I might have went overboard. What do you guys think? Would this be annoying in actual gameplay? 🧐 (probably fullscreen to judge properly) #gamedev

Really liking how those elite monster previews turned out! Very happy with those silhouettes looming way out there in the shadows 🤗 Working some more on that inter-floor intermission screen for Seal of Solitomb 🛠️ #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Important playtesting principle: click things like an absolute maniac. Always catches a few bugs on the first pass 😇 Working on the shop screen today! So nice to finally add some sense of place and mood to a screen that has been in prototype form for years. #gamedev #indiedev