Indie Game Developer - Blog Posts

I'm not really on Tumblr (or social media consistently, lol) but here's a lil look into my indie game, Strawberry's Flowers!

It's gonna be very short and sweet as I'm just trying to learn some new things in pixel art and in my game dev workflows.

[Video Description: Video of a person filming their screen of a pixel art animation of a small cow-like character with brown fur and a heart-shaped white spot on her forehead, is moving on a screen next to a floating strawberry. The caption reads "Here's Strawberry next to a floating strawberry in my top-down pixel art game, while I try to ignore scope creep." The TikTok account handle is at bloomzeyestudio. End description]

A super normal text between two besties! [Image Description: On a light blue background, a person with a brown paw and black claws is holding a smart phone. The red phone case is mushroom themed with light red spots. Tiny mushrooms, rocks, and flowers charms are on the top right of the case. The phone screen shows a text message window with the group chat titled “B F F 4 E V A.” There are two people in the chat, L and F. Person L is colored lilac, and person F is colored green. L texts: “we’re out of trash bags.” L adds: “*trash bags*" F replies: "darn that auto-correct!" END ID]

I had a lot of fun figuring out how these lil' critters would look and animate in my latest game jam!

Our game is called Hopper's Bugs, and it's free to play on itch io!

Meet Leafette! They are the main character for my itch io Devtober game jam entry (currently) titled, Foliage Conversations. You can read more about Leafette on my blog, here!

Leafette is a resident of Foliage Falls, a cozy little town known for its beautiful lakes and rivers.

Although well-known by the locals, Leafette can be a bit shy around new people. And with a love for books, they are a familiar face at the local book store, the Cozy Reader.

[Image Description: On the left is a pen sketch of a character with a leaf for a head and a human body wearing a sweater and ripped jeans. On the right against a light brown background, is the pixel art drawing of the same character with a brown colored, leaf for a head. They are wearing red earrings with a dark green knit sweater that has light green patches on the shoulders, cuffs, hemline, and collar. They are wearing blue jeans with heart-shaped patches at the knees and red shoes. END ID]

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My First Game Dev Vlog for my First Indie Game!

Hopefully the video loads. If not, here's the link: https://youtu.be/W7zDP6tF2gg

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[ID: GIF of a pixel art styled bumble bee that is flying inside a bubble. The bee has a small green bag with a brown strip around its body. Surrounding the bee are pink flowers inside bubbles. The text above the bee in all caps is "First-Time Pixel Artist plus First Indie Game". Everything is on a yellow-hued, honeycomb patterned background. END ID]

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Soooo I'm back on YouTube. This time I'm sharing my journey into game development, how I learned pixel art and animation, and how I created my first indie game, Bubble Bumble!

I also made a blog post version here: https://www.bloomzeyestudio.com/post/first-time-pixel-artist-and-first-indie-game-devlog-1

And an audio version here via my podcast "Bloomzeye Studio Chats": https://open.spotify.com/episode/4hgGc3duCFmRzXVUMnZlbM?si=db5dLS7-TNiZFXk0U2lOBw&dl_branch=1

I know I sound all markety and I just started this account, but I'm excited to share this!