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Niklas Hallin
@hallinniklas.bsky.social
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Indie game developer. Yono and the Celestial Elephants & Molly Medusa. Now working on Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists.
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Niklas Hallin @hallinniklas.bsky.social · 29d
Alruna: End of History is coming to Steam. Now in widescreen! It's Alruna 2, but not a direct story sequel. 🌸
Key art for Alruna End of History. Flower-nymph Alruna is surveying a bombed-out landscape. Screenshot from Alruna 2. Pixel art sidescroller. Alruna is using her projectiles to launch herself into the air. Screenshot from Alruna 2. Alruna has a fire power-up, and shooting fireballs to light a torch in a deep dungeon. Skeletons hang from chains in the ceiling. Screenshot from Alruna 2. Alruna is sinking to the bottom of a deep pool, where a boss waits. The boss is a huge upside-down statue of a saint. The saint statue is crying black tears and saying: "Sorrow is my meat. I sup upon myself."
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sarkastiklover.bsky.social
Had the pleasure of working on this piece for @hallinniklas.bsky.social 's Alruna: End of History, which you can wishlist on Steam, now!
hallinniklas.bsky.social Niklas Hallin @hallinniklas.bsky.social · 2h
Alruna Art Bomb!💣
I'm rejecting AI and blowing my whole #indiegame promotion budget on artists!
Here's a very dynamic piece from from Orlando B @sarkastiklover.bsky.social Action packed!
Alruna's face, very zoomed in and mid-action. Her hand is right up to the camera lens, and distorted with fish eye. Blinding yellow light is filling the image from the side.
February 18, 2026 at 6:23 PM
hallinniklas.bsky.social
Alruna Art Bomb!💣
I'm rejecting AI and blowing my whole #indiegame promotion budget on artists!
Here's a very dynamic piece from from Orlando B @sarkastiklover.bsky.social Action packed!
Alruna's face, very zoomed in and mid-action. Her hand is right up to the camera lens, and distorted with fish eye. Blinding yellow light is filling the image from the side.
February 18, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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hallinniklas.bsky.social
Alruna Art Bomb! 💣
This one is by my programmer friend Alex, who used algorithms and effects to convert Alruna's in-game sprite into this design. Creating art without drawing!
February 17, 2026 at 5:14 PM
hallinniklas.bsky.social
Alruna Art Bomb! 💣
This one is by my programmer friend Alex, who used algorithms and effects to convert Alruna's in-game sprite into this design. Creating art without drawing!
February 17, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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maddiebiscuits.bsky.social
Alruna! For @hallinniklas.bsky.social 🌹
[ #commission ] 🌹 [ #art #monstergirl #artist #illustration #commsopen #characterart ]

COMMISSION ME!
[ SITE ] 🌹 [ maddiebiscuitsart.com ]
Digital art of a character named Alruna, a green-skinned plant woman with short pink hair and green horns, pointed ears and a black leotard with a large pink petaled collar. She is seated among green thorned vines and pink blooms.
February 17, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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wootinaboot.bsky.social
Screwing around with level design again oh boy
February 17, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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tarjapk.bsky.social
Let’s Freeze Some Penguins is on Nintendo store! 🧊🐧Go wishlist!🐧🧊🔗 www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
February 16, 2026 at 6:50 PM
hallinniklas.bsky.social
Also, Penguins is up on the Switch store now!
Photo of a Nintendo Switch standing on my desk. The store is open and shows the page for Let's Freeze Some Penguins. A Wacom tablet and a figurine of Raz from Psychonauts are visible in the background.
February 16, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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hallinniklas.bsky.social
Alruna Art Bomb!💣
I'm rejecting AI and blowing my whole #indiegame promotion budget on artists! This beautiful pinup is from No Raptors Here @noraptorshere.bsky.social
Pinup illustration of Alruna with very clean colors and shapely lines.
February 15, 2026 at 5:18 PM
hallinniklas.bsky.social
Alruna Art Bomb!💣
I'm rejecting AI and blowing my whole #indiegame promotion budget on artists! This beautiful pinup is from No Raptors Here @noraptorshere.bsky.social
Pinup illustration of Alruna with very clean colors and shapely lines.
February 15, 2026 at 5:18 PM
hallinniklas.bsky.social
American Bioshock is too protestant, too enamored with business and businessmen.

Spanish Bioshock, catholic Bioshock, is mostly about blood!

Set the voices to Spanish and play it with subtitles!
Bioshock (2007) Cristol Theatre of Idols (2026)
February 15, 2026 at 2:42 PM
hallinniklas.bsky.social
swedish chef cooking up some indie games, bjork bjork bjork
February 14, 2026 at 6:06 PM
hallinniklas.bsky.social
The music of Alruna 1 vs the music of Alruna 2 🎶
Rage against the machine rocking out on stage. Amy Lee from Evanescence, laying on a bed, staring intently into the camera.
February 13, 2026 at 5:46 PM
hallinniklas.bsky.social
Alruna Art Bomb!💣
I'm rejecting AI and blowing my whole #indiegame promotion budget on artists! This one's from Amelia Lazouras @itslazouras.bsky.social who wanted to create a vengeful dark spirit of Nature. That's Iron-Man down in the corner!
Full illustration of Alruna. She's leaping through the air with glowing red eyes. Branches and thorns are growing out of her arms and legs. A skeleton-man, out of focus, looks up at her form the bottom of the composition.
February 12, 2026 at 6:51 PM
hallinniklas.bsky.social
Wake
me up
inside 🎶
Alruna end of history
February 12, 2026 at 5:25 PM
hallinniklas.bsky.social
1. Let's!
2. FREEZE!
3. Some!
4. PENGUINS!
nuntiusgames.bsky.social Nuntius Games | Wishlist Ghetto Zombies @nuntiusgames.bsky.social · 6d
Heeey another #IndieDrop 🎮
And today's theme is:

My game in 4 words.

That’s it. No explanations.
Just 4 words that define your game.

Quote this post.
Spread the drop.

#indiedrop #indiegame #gamedev
February 12, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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letterboxd.social
happy birthday gromit 🥹 🎂 🐶
February 12, 2026 at 5:05 PM
hallinniklas.bsky.social
It takes me 2.5 hours to play through Alruna 2! And that's not even 100%, i'm skipping as much side stuff as I can. This is not a "micro-metroidvania" anymore, this is just a real game!
#indiegame
Screenshot from Alruna End of History. Pixel art sidescroller, she's shooting electricity across the screen!
February 12, 2026 at 4:37 PM
hallinniklas.bsky.social
Let's Freeze Some Penguins 🥶
Get ready to Freeze Some Penguins this spring! Wishlist on Steam now!
YouTube video by Burning Planet
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February 12, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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hallinniklas.bsky.social
Alruna Art Bomb!💣
I'm rejecting AI and blowing my whole #indiegame promotion budget on artists!
This one's from Tiny Skald @tinyskald.bsky.social who gave Alruna heavy plate armor and angel wings, and put her together with the upcoming game's new character: Divinity's Creature!
Full color illustration of Alruna and Divinity's Creature embracing. Alruna is wearing a golden plate armour and has large angel wings. Divinity's Creature has tight, black latex and a nun's habit.
February 11, 2026 at 4:28 PM
hallinniklas.bsky.social
Alruna Art Bomb!💣
I'm rejecting AI and blowing my whole #indiegame promotion budget on artists!
This one's from Tiny Skald @tinyskald.bsky.social who gave Alruna heavy plate armor and angel wings, and put her together with the upcoming game's new character: Divinity's Creature!
Full color illustration of Alruna and Divinity's Creature embracing. Alruna is wearing a golden plate armour and has large angel wings. Divinity's Creature has tight, black latex and a nun's habit.
February 11, 2026 at 4:28 PM
hallinniklas.bsky.social
Alruna Art Bomb!💣
I'm rejecting AI and blowing my whole #indiegame budget on artists drawing Alruna!
This one's from Sir Lazz @sirlazz.bsky.social, who chose to focus on one of the massive menacing machines instead. Is perhaps Alruna hiding inside?
Full page illustration of a enormous metal skull with pipes and gears, half submerged in dirt. Plants and moss grows over the derelict machine. Inside the hollow eye socket, a glowing tendril is sprouting. The tile of the cover says "Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists".
February 10, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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hallinniklas.bsky.social
Alruna Art Bomb! Real artists and creative expression!
This fantastic piece is made by Caitlin Rose Boyle @caitlinroseboyle.com and I just love how stylish it is. #indiegame #fanart
Illustration of Alruna, with at tonne of attitude! She's a flower dryad, with pink petals, pink hair and pink heels.
February 9, 2026 at 4:39 PM
hallinniklas.bsky.social
Alruna Art Bomb! Real artists and creative expression!
This fantastic piece is made by Caitlin Rose Boyle @caitlinroseboyle.com and I just love how stylish it is. #indiegame #fanart
Illustration of Alruna, with at tonne of attitude! She's a flower dryad, with pink petals, pink hair and pink heels.
February 9, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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hallinniklas.bsky.social
Alruna Art Bomb!💣
I'm rejecting AI and blowing my whole indie game budget on paying artists to draw Alruna!
This one's from Mathew @theartofmathew.bsky.social who created a voluptuous bikini pin-up with humongous badonkers! 🤤
Pinup illustration of Alruna. She sits on a podium of plants and flowers, wearing high heels and a very tiny black bikini. Her skin is light green, her hair is aggressively pink, as are the flower petals around her neck.
February 7, 2026 at 5:03 PM