Sandpenguin - Broken Relic
@sandpenguin
Professional Designer (King, Sniper Elite V, Rainbow Six: Siege) + solo dev, working on Broken Relic. Play the demo and wishlist the game:
I've come to learn that cobwebs in pixel art is one of the hardest thing one can paint 😅 My "trick" now is to set the opacity at like 2%, use a dither brush at 1 pixel size, and just go layer different layers with different opacities until it looks cool
Broken Relic development is going well, moving forward one step at a time. Sorry if I don't have time to post but that means I'm being very productive! As a small tease, here are some Act2 backgrounds (and one from Act 3!) ♥️ #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #pointandclick
Not everyone is happy when you go around solving puzzles.
David Attenborough. So close to the 100... I hope he has a happy day tomorrow.
Woke up to a spike of 337 wishlists in one day! Took me a while to figure out why, turns out pcgames.de included Broken Relic in a roundup of point-and-click adventures for 2026. One paragraph in a German article drove more wishlists than Steam Next Fest. Press coverage is a different planet!
Listen up. Please calm down and hear me out. We are now further away from the Monkey Island Special Edition than the Special Edition was from the original Monkey Island.
I've redrawn this scene in my game so many times I could paint it from memory. Which is ironic because the whole reason I keep redrawing it is that I can't get it right. I think its done now.
How the art gets done in Broken Relic #pixelart #pixelartprocess #art #game #gamedev #gamedeveloper
When I told people I was going to make one video each day I never said they were going to be good
Some people won't be happy if you go around solving ancient puzzles
I thought there were no games like this anymore play the Broken Relic demo on steam store.steampowered.com/app/3384820/... #indiegames #pointandclick #digitalart #brokenrelic #pixelart #dnd
On his first day as an archive intern, Tim broke an ancient seal, freed Kaelvorn, the Cursed Devourer, and was fired on the spot. Now he has to save the world.
Me as an intern. store.steampowered.com/app/3384820/...
Making a point-and-click adventure where the hero accidentally frees an ancient world-ending conqueror on his first day as an intern.
If this hits you with nostalgia, you should start stretching before you stand up.
Ok, ok, maybe there will be a tiny reference to MI... but only one! and tiny! #adventuregame #indiegames #pointandclick #pixelart
A or B? Which one do you like the most? #adventuregame #indiegames #pointandclick #pixelart
Ah so you have played every Monkey Island game? Then what did you think about Treasure of Monkey Island?
Made a visual progress report last month in Kickstarter so I will do a new one here using the same style. Happy to say that progress has been going very smoothly this new year! I focused HARD on writting dialogs and building all the main puzzles in Act 2 (which is the longest). Back to work now!