smol dreamers

@smoldreamers

We’re Myu (they/them) & Seb (he/him). As “smol dreamers” our goal is to make small bite sized games, short experiences in various genres or formats, and document our journey openly while we’re making them.

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smol dreamers@smoldreamers· 11d

Currently off to do research for our current game in a city with so much anger it decided it had multiples... #gamedev #IPromiseThisIsGamedevYes #indiedev #RESEARCH

Photo of a paper guide titled "Château d'Angers" in front of a blurry castle (Castle of Angers)

Photo zoomed in on a panel of the Tapestry of the Apocalypse in the Château d'Angers, showing the Beast of the Sea, a lion like creature with multiple heads stacked in a pyramid

Photo inside of the Chapel of the Castle of Angers, showing the arches of the ceiling, a stained glass window at the furthest wall, and paved grounds

Photo of a contemporary imagined armored dress inspired by a medieval tapestry shown behind the top and helmet are armor, heavily decorated with decorative pieces of metal and jewels, the bottom and sleeves are fabric, flowing in a heavy red skirt patterned in gold vines

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Jul 1

WE HAVE SOME NEWS GOOD NEWS COME CHAT WITH US ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS FOR OUR CROSS STITCH RPG PROJECT RIGHT NOW ON TWITCH !!!! twitch.tv/smoldreamers

Grainy photo of a Kermit The Frog plushie in a slightly messy room. kermit is posed as if he was dancing on a purple disco ball, reproducing the Wrecking Ball choreo from Miley Cyrus

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Jun 23

Recently, one of us got busy so the other took to writing our Patreon-exclusive weekly updates. Can you tell when the switch happened??? (join our Patreon and get those regular updates there, tho the free tier access includes release updates and access to our discord! patreon.com/smoldreamers )

list of posts by date (new to old), all starting with "WEEKLY UPDATE!" then a longer title for each post:
June 23rd - "Hot sword boys near you"
June 16th - "The writer's barely disguised issues"
June 9th - "♪ I need a Hero ♫"
June 2nd - "Where were we?"
May 26th - "shaders shaders AGAIN. but this time better."
May 19th - "shader shader"
May 12th - "what's next?"
May 5th - "let's talk about the art direction"
April 28th - "The game has a story, but how will it play?"

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Jun 21

check out our lil games over on smoldreamers.itch.io ! we made 4 games so far, including a ducky racing game inspired by star wars racer (but you control each duck separately), and a coop game about kissing (think fighting game, but you're working together to reach climax) !

a screenshot of "what if we kissed", 2 3D heads, shown from the side, sticking out their tongues. the person on the left has tan skin, purple lips, green eyebrows & a nose piercing. the person on the right is very pale, with a black haired pixie cut, black eye shadow and a tongue piercing

a screenshot of a game. there are speed lines all around the frame indicating the game is moving at great speed. in the middle of the frame, 2 ducks are pulling a purple soap bar, the floor is white & shiny. it's a bathtub. there's another soap bar pulled by 2 other ducks

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Jun 10

Look, we just want to talk about our obscure fantasy cross stitched world for a minute. On stream. Join us on twitch.tv/smoldreamers for our regular "hey we're still working on our gamer" check-up! (or subscribe to our Patreon to read the recent lore dumps: patreon.com/c/smoldreamers )

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· May 27

Gamedev is hard (still) because nobody outside of the team understands why we were so hyper for a simple sprite rendering correctly. BUT IT IS WORKING. LOOK. IT IS WORKIIIING !!!! OR COME LOOK ON STREAM, WE'RE LIVE FOR THE WEEKLY(-ish) STREAM TO TALK ABOUT IT!!!! Twitch.tv/smoldreamers #indiedev

screen of discord DMs between Eveningdreamer (Seb) and MixMyu:
Seb: [screen of a pixel art converted into embroidery correctly in the game engine we use]
Seb: string of random characters
Seb: gif of Toad shaking titled "HYPE OVERLOAD"
Myu: OMGGGGGG
Myu: IS IT WORKING?
Myu: IT IS WORKING!
Seb: [gif from Star Wars with Anakin in his podracer saying "It's working! It's working!"
Myu: [emote of a little frog applauding]

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· May 13

So. When you design a game. There's this thing. This little itty bitty document. Very useful. We're going to have to make one. IT IS GAME DESIGN DOCUMENT 101 with Myu, who supposedly knows how to do that, join us on twitch.tv/smoldreamers #indiegames #gamedev #indiedevs #gamedesign

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Apr 22

Bonsoir, we are still knee-deep in the "try to seduce that one French institution into giving us a little bit of fundings" for our next project. It's going great (I say, shaking with a lasting headache from looking at the same pitch deck slide for 1 hour) Come check in on us Twitch.tv/smoldreamers

screenshot of an excerpt of a slide from the Pitch deck of our next game, showing a few pictures of medieval embroideries with french text over it saying "Perspective et Motifs: la tapisserie de l'Apocalypse" and "Point de croix médiéval de créatures par Mary, Queen of Scots, XVIe siecle" and "Point de croix: un pixel art avec des variations de points et une texture visible".
In summary: it's a bunch of visual references trying to explain the game's future art direction.

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Apr 15

Never go full brainstorm mode !!! (or do it. with us. now. On Twitch.tv/smoldreamers) (it's for our next next game)

a web window tab bar with dozens of tabs open, some are drive documents, search engine tabs, various websites....

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Apr 10

Sometimes... sometimes you need to break the monotony of a project....... WITH ANOTHER PROJECT??? Ok, maybe we have a problem. Or, hear me out, maybe we are just extremely creative (and easily bored). In any case, come chat about whatever we're doing (new project?) on Twitch.tv/smoldreamers

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Mar 18

Gamedev is hard to explain because how do I make this make sense?? Anyway, we are live now on Twitch.tv/smoldreamers for our semi-regular livestream of "what did we do? Idk, this I guess" chat. Jump in to tell us whether we make sense or not! #gamedev #indiegames #makeitmakesense

confusing screenshot from the game engine Godot showing a shape made of colorful dots and triangles on a 3D grid. It is a actually the skeleton rig for a torso, but it makes very little sense if you don't already know how to make a 3D video game

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Mar 4

The problem of making 3D limbs, is that at some point you have to make hands and feet. Which means making fingers........ and toes. Spoiler: Myu wasn't a fan. Come tell us how you're feeling about it on Twitch during our weekly(ish) gamedev stream! 💀 Twitch.tv/smoldreamers #indiegame #gamedev

a grey 3D model of a cartoonish zombie, whom each limbs have been separated (head, torso, arm, hand, leg). The leg includes a foot. With toes.

screenshot of a discord conversation.
MixMyu (25/02/2026, 17:05)
"my babies all have toes now, I hate it"

another grey 3D model of a cartoonish skeleton, whom each limbs have been separated (head, torso, arm, hand, leg). The leg includes a foot. With toes.

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Feb 18

You know what was missing in our necromantic body builder game ? 🔮 CRYSTALS 🔮 Yes, you may touch them. The energy is already very cursed anyway. All vibes no cleanse. Come see what they're for in our catch-up stream on Twitch, in around 15min ! twitch.tv/smoldreamers

screen of a work in progress of a game showing a table on which a rectangle labeled chicken is displayed. To the left of it, a big plate of various crystals and stones can be seen. In the background, you distinguish various grey furnitures and an alchemy set...

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Jan 21

Furbishing a necromancer's lab is hard work, who would have thought??? Not us, and yet... here we are. Join our musings on stream to see where our game is at ! twitch.tv/smoldreamers #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

A line up of antique 3D furniture, texture-less, taken in Blender. Includes a table with a secret trapdoor, a weird cabinet, a whole distillery equipment, shelves and a big armoire

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Jan 7

Hey! Christmas break is over, and we're back in the saddle to try get this game DONE in a vaguely timely manner. We're live RIGHT NOW over on https://www.twitch.tv/smoldreamers ! Come see what we've been making over the break! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

a 3d model of a beautifully ornate cupboard? armoire? (not sure of the english word). it's not textured yet so it's grey on a dark grey blender background

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Dec 17

Big News: we now have translation for our upcoming game ! Necromancy but make it French I guess 💀🥐🥖 Come hon hon croissant at us on Twitch for our last weekly stream of 2025, we'll be live in like 10 min or so twitch.tv/smoldreamers

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Dec 10

♪ What's this? What's this? ♫ A POINT COUNTER, JACK, THAT'S WHAT THIS IS Sometimes, progress on a game is not very visible, but just as satisfying as a little +1 popping up Join us on Twitch to see where we're at in our current project, a necromantic bodybuilder sorta game Twitch.tv/smoldreamers

screen from the Godot game engine showing a 3D table with a very pixelated wood texture, a bright red lever, and a trapdoor opened on the right side of it, above which a little "+1" appears... It hints at a potential score increasing if the player makes something fall from that trapdoor-table...

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Dec 3

Wow who's that? It's us! We're live on twitch to talk about our little Necromantic Body Builder game! Come see what we've been up to these past weeks! Stuff has been happening behind the scenes. www.twitch.tv/smoldreamers #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Nov 19

everything is "temp" in this game for now, but we're making progress! we're live on www.twitch.tv/smoldreamers right now! come see what we've been up to! #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev

a screenshot from the editor of our game. showing a big white bloc with temp written on it. it's going to be a torso someday. it has a yellow ball where there's a spot to attach a limb. (arms, legs, heads)

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Nov 12

Guess who's back! We'll be live in about 30mins for a little stream over on https://www.twitch.tv/smoldreamers ! Life has gotten stupidly busy these past weeks, but we're still making our necromantic body builder game, so come see what we've been up to! #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev

a screenshot of our game showing a list of instructions for our game, specifically:
"help! protect me!
a friend. They've got:
- a CHICKEN beak
- a temp torso
- a temp leg
- a zombie arm
- a zombie leg
- a temp hand
- a zombie hand
Please make it fireproof and red please!
Chop chop, get to it!"

a screenshot of our work in progress game, showing a white temp body laying on a table. it's all blocky and white (the default shapes & colors) and has yellow/green blobs at the ends where the various parts meet.

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Oct 24

#ig2025 venez essayer Super Quick Quack Racing & What if We Kissed sur notre atelier !

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Oct 22

Sorry, there will be no stream tonight, we're busy prepping for #Interglitches and Seb's internet has been spotty all week. If you're in Paris this weekend, come see us there! You'll be able to try out Super Quick Quack Racing and maybe even win a prize! #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Oct 19

Nous serons à Interglitches ce weekend! Vous pourrez vous mesurer les uns contre les autres sur notre jeu de courses de canards "Super Quick Quack Racing", et peut-être meme gagner un (petit) prix! #interglitches #speedrun

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Oct 18

Want to know where our new game "Necromantic Body Builder" (working title) is at? You missed our weekly stream, and you're not subscribed to our patreon? Well, you're in luck! Another devlog is live: https://youtu.be/gmAxe2Sclck The game is (slowly) taking shape! #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Oct 15

We'll be live over on https://www.twitch.tv/smoldreamers in about 10mins! Come check out the new stuff we made for our necromantic body builder game! #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev

a light grey (untextured) model of a wooden shelving unit in 3D (a screenshot from blender) on a dark grey background. the top is a slatted door, and the upper half is a double door.

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Oct 8

It's wednesday once again! We'll be live on https://www.twitch.tv/smoldreamers in about 10 minutes! We're making a game where you're a necromancer building bodies for clients. It's early days still, but come see how it's coming along! #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

a screenshot from our game, from the editor. there's a couple bright blue boxes showing where there will be shelves and cupboards later. in the background there's a window (made with a stencil in godot 4.5) and the wall has a pixelated brick texture

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Oct 1

We're making a necromantic body builder game! Come check out what we've been up to this week! Myu made a table! I made some abominations. It's going well! We'll be live on https://www.twitch.tv/smoldreamers in about 5 minutes! #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev

a 3d scene showing a room with a wooden table (with a very rough pixelated style) in the foreground, dark stone walls (in the same style) and bright colored boxes indicating where shelves will be once we've modeled them placed in the back and on the left of the screen.

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Sep 24

we've already started collecting sounds for our new game! in this one you're a necromancer fulfilling orders to build bodies! it's early days still, but we'll get there. we'll be live in a couple of minutes over on https://www.twitch.tv/smoldreamers ! #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #sounddesign

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Sep 17

we're going live in a couple of minutes over on www.twitch.tv/smoldreamers to talk about our next game "necromantic body builder" (working title)! come see what we've been up to this past week! we did stuff with lego! #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

the blocking of our main game scene, in lego form. showing a table, with a bunch of boxes on them, and a character lying down next to an open book.

smol dreamers@smoldreamers· Sep 13

you should take a look at our game "What If We Kisssed", which is a small kissing simulator game! it looks like a fighting game, but it's coop and you kiss ! (it's "pay what you want on our itch page: smoldreamers.itch.io/what-if-we-k... )