Jonny Swales
@jlorp.bsky.social
2D/3D illustrator, gamedev
he/they
🎮 Big Hops 🐸 Moving Out 2 📦 Jar Wars 🧠
tags: #illustrator #gameart #gamedev
he/they
🎮 Big Hops 🐸 Moving Out 2 📦 Jar Wars 🧠
tags: #illustrator #gameart #gamedev
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👋 My name is Ben, I'm a hobbyist game developer! I'm currently working on Simulition. Its an arcade-y roguelike where you need to buy items, create synergies, and score enough points to overcome rising point quotas
#IndieGameDev #GameDev #Unity3D
#IndieGameDev #GameDev #Unity3D
February 6, 2026 at 3:38 AM
👋 My name is Ben, I'm a hobbyist game developer! I'm currently working on Simulition. Its an arcade-y roguelike where you need to buy items, create synergies, and score enough points to overcome rising point quotas
#IndieGameDev #GameDev #Unity3D
#IndieGameDev #GameDev #Unity3D
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🧵 Big Hops Sewer Exit Level Design Deep Dive Thread 🧵
Inspired by @radiatoryang.bsky.social's excellent Big Hops level design blog post and encouraged by Chris @luckshotgames.com, here's a thread where I dove back through the commits to look at our iterations on a single level in Big Hops.
Inspired by @radiatoryang.bsky.social's excellent Big Hops level design blog post and encouraged by Chris @luckshotgames.com, here's a thread where I dove back through the commits to look at our iterations on a single level in Big Hops.
February 1, 2026 at 4:52 AM
🧵 Big Hops Sewer Exit Level Design Deep Dive Thread 🧵
Inspired by @radiatoryang.bsky.social's excellent Big Hops level design blog post and encouraged by Chris @luckshotgames.com, here's a thread where I dove back through the commits to look at our iterations on a single level in Big Hops.
Inspired by @radiatoryang.bsky.social's excellent Big Hops level design blog post and encouraged by Chris @luckshotgames.com, here's a thread where I dove back through the commits to look at our iterations on a single level in Big Hops.
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new blog post: notes on level design workflows for the 3D platformer Big Hops www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/01/note...
Notes on level design workflow for the 3D platformer Big Hops
A behind-the-scenes look at some of the tooling, level design methods, and metrics use for this cartoony 3D exploration game I helped make.
www.blog.radiator.debacle.us
January 28, 2026 at 12:57 AM
new blog post: notes on level design workflows for the 3D platformer Big Hops www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/01/note...
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Today, the BIG HOPS original soundtrack is OUT! It's huge just like the game with more than 80 songs and 40 extras to explore.
tomdunkin.bandcamp.com/album/big-ho...
tomdunkin.bandcamp.com/album/big-ho...
January 23, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Today, the BIG HOPS original soundtrack is OUT! It's huge just like the game with more than 80 songs and 40 extras to explore.
tomdunkin.bandcamp.com/album/big-ho...
tomdunkin.bandcamp.com/album/big-ho...
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Helloo #PortfolioDay
My name’s Zoë, I’m a 3D artist currently looking for a job primarily in games 🫶🏻 previous titles I’ve worked on are Big Hops, Nailed It! Baking Bash and Good Job!
Available asap
Portfolio: artstation.com/applesaph
zoevandijke@gmail.com
My name’s Zoë, I’m a 3D artist currently looking for a job primarily in games 🫶🏻 previous titles I’ve worked on are Big Hops, Nailed It! Baking Bash and Good Job!
Available asap
Portfolio: artstation.com/applesaph
zoevandijke@gmail.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Helloo #PortfolioDay
My name’s Zoë, I’m a 3D artist currently looking for a job primarily in games 🫶🏻 previous titles I’ve worked on are Big Hops, Nailed It! Baking Bash and Good Job!
Available asap
Portfolio: artstation.com/applesaph
zoevandijke@gmail.com
My name’s Zoë, I’m a 3D artist currently looking for a job primarily in games 🫶🏻 previous titles I’ve worked on are Big Hops, Nailed It! Baking Bash and Good Job!
Available asap
Portfolio: artstation.com/applesaph
zoevandijke@gmail.com
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I hit the button ✅😭🐸
🚨BIG HOPS is OUT NOW🚨
Get it on Steam | Switch | PS5 for just $17.99 with our 10% launch discount!
#indiegames #nintendoswitch #ps5
🚨BIG HOPS is OUT NOW🚨
Get it on Steam | Switch | PS5 for just $17.99 with our 10% launch discount!
#indiegames #nintendoswitch #ps5
January 12, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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Looking for some 2025 indies that are under 2 hours? I wrote about five of the best for GR+✨ www.gamesradar.com/games/year-i...
From Despelote to Ooo, the best games under 2 hours of 2025 are truly timely
Year in Review 2025 | Strapped for time? You can play any of these in a single evening
www.gamesradar.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Looking for some 2025 indies that are under 2 hours? I wrote about five of the best for GR+✨ www.gamesradar.com/games/year-i...
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Boss Fight #1 Progress! There's more that I'm not showing, but this effect was the one that I was hoping to achieve the most! Pretty happy with the result!
December 13, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Boss Fight #1 Progress! There's more that I'm not showing, but this effect was the one that I was hoping to achieve the most! Pretty happy with the result!
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Lets try this agin with our release date video:
BIG HOPS is releasing January 12th, 2026 on PC, Switch, and PS5. It's about 15 hours long, will cost $20 USD, and yes it runs GREAT on the Switch 2!
Wishlist here:
store.steampowered.com/app/1221480/...
BIG HOPS is releasing January 12th, 2026 on PC, Switch, and PS5. It's about 15 hours long, will cost $20 USD, and yes it runs GREAT on the Switch 2!
Wishlist here:
store.steampowered.com/app/1221480/...
December 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Lets try this agin with our release date video:
BIG HOPS is releasing January 12th, 2026 on PC, Switch, and PS5. It's about 15 hours long, will cost $20 USD, and yes it runs GREAT on the Switch 2!
Wishlist here:
store.steampowered.com/app/1221480/...
BIG HOPS is releasing January 12th, 2026 on PC, Switch, and PS5. It's about 15 hours long, will cost $20 USD, and yes it runs GREAT on the Switch 2!
Wishlist here:
store.steampowered.com/app/1221480/...
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Tongue swing through 3 huge worlds to and make your way back home!
Big Hops from @luckshotgames.com is a froggy action platformer with a bunch of slick movement tech and abilities. It'll hop onto your PC, Switch, or PS5 on January 12th, 2026.
Big Hops from @luckshotgames.com is a froggy action platformer with a bunch of slick movement tech and abilities. It'll hop onto your PC, Switch, or PS5 on January 12th, 2026.
December 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Tongue swing through 3 huge worlds to and make your way back home!
Big Hops from @luckshotgames.com is a froggy action platformer with a bunch of slick movement tech and abilities. It'll hop onto your PC, Switch, or PS5 on January 12th, 2026.
Big Hops from @luckshotgames.com is a froggy action platformer with a bunch of slick movement tech and abilities. It'll hop onto your PC, Switch, or PS5 on January 12th, 2026.
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Long time no see! I’ll be open for contract work again mid-december, so if you’ve got dramatic environments that need painting or pitch decks that need art or really any old (visual) thing I could be YOUR gal 🫵 ameliaherman.artstation.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Long time no see! I’ll be open for contract work again mid-december, so if you’ve got dramatic environments that need painting or pitch decks that need art or really any old (visual) thing I could be YOUR gal 🫵 ameliaherman.artstation.com
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Secret Waterfall
November 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Secret Waterfall
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Hey #PitchYaGame!
I'm making an atmospheric 3d platformer where you're a robot pole-jumping through an underground complex!
🏃- Unique staff-based movement
🏚- Huge abandoned megastructure
🎞- Wordless story to piece together
The game comes out the 10th of November!
Wishlist it here: s.team/a/2980260
I'm making an atmospheric 3d platformer where you're a robot pole-jumping through an underground complex!
🏃- Unique staff-based movement
🏚- Huge abandoned megastructure
🎞- Wordless story to piece together
The game comes out the 10th of November!
Wishlist it here: s.team/a/2980260
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Hey #PitchYaGame!
I'm making an atmospheric 3d platformer where you're a robot pole-jumping through an underground complex!
🏃- Unique staff-based movement
🏚- Huge abandoned megastructure
🎞- Wordless story to piece together
The game comes out the 10th of November!
Wishlist it here: s.team/a/2980260
I'm making an atmospheric 3d platformer where you're a robot pole-jumping through an underground complex!
🏃- Unique staff-based movement
🏚- Huge abandoned megastructure
🎞- Wordless story to piece together
The game comes out the 10th of November!
Wishlist it here: s.team/a/2980260
it makes me happy to see amateur/unpolished art creeping its way back into popularity again! a lot of independent art from the last decade felt like it was trying to imitate the aesthetics/tone of big budget studio stuff and it stopped being cool to experiment
October 15, 2025 at 2:19 AM
it makes me happy to see amateur/unpolished art creeping its way back into popularity again! a lot of independent art from the last decade felt like it was trying to imitate the aesthetics/tone of big budget studio stuff and it stopped being cool to experiment
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#BigHops is in Steam Next Fest!
It's a good hour long taste of our adventure: you'll use your tongue, learn to climb, find veggies you can build paths with, and borrow a stranger's backpack.
store.steampowered.com/app/1221480/...
It's a good hour long taste of our adventure: you'll use your tongue, learn to climb, find veggies you can build paths with, and borrow a stranger's backpack.
store.steampowered.com/app/1221480/...
October 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
#BigHops is in Steam Next Fest!
It's a good hour long taste of our adventure: you'll use your tongue, learn to climb, find veggies you can build paths with, and borrow a stranger's backpack.
store.steampowered.com/app/1221480/...
It's a good hour long taste of our adventure: you'll use your tongue, learn to climb, find veggies you can build paths with, and borrow a stranger's backpack.
store.steampowered.com/app/1221480/...
people don't talk about that TMNT movie from a few years ago enough. spiderverse walked so it could run, it looks so singular
October 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
people don't talk about that TMNT movie from a few years ago enough. spiderverse walked so it could run, it looks so singular
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CARIMARA is OUT !!
With a brand new trailer 😱
Can't wait to see people discover all the little surprises I prepared...
It's ONLY $4.5 now and it's perfect for HALLOWEEN 🎃
Let's buy it and spread the word, please!!
With a brand new trailer 😱
Can't wait to see people discover all the little surprises I prepared...
It's ONLY $4.5 now and it's perfect for HALLOWEEN 🎃
Let's buy it and spread the word, please!!
CARIMARA: BENEATH THE FORLORN LIMBS IS OUT NOW ON STEAM
a short horror story about ghosts, goblins and polite anxiety of asking too much.
untangle the mysteries of a "ghost problem" haunting this unwelcoming, desolate house. even if it means digging up uncomfortable truths.
a short horror story about ghosts, goblins and polite anxiety of asking too much.
untangle the mysteries of a "ghost problem" haunting this unwelcoming, desolate house. even if it means digging up uncomfortable truths.
October 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
CARIMARA is OUT !!
With a brand new trailer 😱
Can't wait to see people discover all the little surprises I prepared...
It's ONLY $4.5 now and it's perfect for HALLOWEEN 🎃
Let's buy it and spread the word, please!!
With a brand new trailer 😱
Can't wait to see people discover all the little surprises I prepared...
It's ONLY $4.5 now and it's perfect for HALLOWEEN 🎃
Let's buy it and spread the word, please!!
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Play this mad pirate adventure for just over 1 USD today :OOO
store.steampowered.com/app/3187550/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3187550/...
October 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Play this mad pirate adventure for just over 1 USD today :OOO
store.steampowered.com/app/3187550/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3187550/...
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I am just so fucking proud of her.
October 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I am just so fucking proud of her.
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Thanks to the 379 people who are currently keeping noclip_2 running. We need at least twice as many as that by the end of the month to keep it in the green so if you value the types of game we cover, please help us out.
patreon.com/noclip2
patreon.com/noclip2
noclip_2 | Patreon
Alternative Video Games Coverage
patreon.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Thanks to the 379 people who are currently keeping noclip_2 running. We need at least twice as many as that by the end of the month to keep it in the green so if you value the types of game we cover, please help us out.
patreon.com/noclip2
patreon.com/noclip2
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TERMINUS
for ų̵̰̰͑n̸̨͓̯̖̹̯̺̔́̓̊͝t̶̻̺̣̪̓̀͜ȉ̸̖̦̮̹̪̙̩͉̒͂̋́̓͑̀t̶̫̹̤̩͙͓̭̋͛̄́͒̒͊l̵̲̙̒̔̅͝e̸̼̋͗̓͜d̵͈̝̥̹͕͎̹̃̇͘
incept date sept 27/2025
#PS2 #softimage #3d #3dmodelling #gamedesign #leveldesign #indiegame #screenshotsaturday
for ų̵̰̰͑n̸̨͓̯̖̹̯̺̔́̓̊͝t̶̻̺̣̪̓̀͜ȉ̸̖̦̮̹̪̙̩͉̒͂̋́̓͑̀t̶̫̹̤̩͙͓̭̋͛̄́͒̒͊l̵̲̙̒̔̅͝e̸̼̋͗̓͜d̵͈̝̥̹͕͎̹̃̇͘
incept date sept 27/2025
#PS2 #softimage #3d #3dmodelling #gamedesign #leveldesign #indiegame #screenshotsaturday
September 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
TERMINUS
for ų̵̰̰͑n̸̨͓̯̖̹̯̺̔́̓̊͝t̶̻̺̣̪̓̀͜ȉ̸̖̦̮̹̪̙̩͉̒͂̋́̓͑̀t̶̫̹̤̩͙͓̭̋͛̄́͒̒͊l̵̲̙̒̔̅͝e̸̼̋͗̓͜d̵͈̝̥̹͕͎̹̃̇͘
incept date sept 27/2025
#PS2 #softimage #3d #3dmodelling #gamedesign #leveldesign #indiegame #screenshotsaturday
for ų̵̰̰͑n̸̨͓̯̖̹̯̺̔́̓̊͝t̶̻̺̣̪̓̀͜ȉ̸̖̦̮̹̪̙̩͉̒͂̋́̓͑̀t̶̫̹̤̩͙͓̭̋͛̄́͒̒͊l̵̲̙̒̔̅͝e̸̼̋͗̓͜d̵͈̝̥̹͕͎̹̃̇͘
incept date sept 27/2025
#PS2 #softimage #3d #3dmodelling #gamedesign #leveldesign #indiegame #screenshotsaturday
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My next rpg is FERAL BLOOD DOLL.
Play as a dual-personality sexworker fighting cops and feds in an underground city beneath the present-day US.
Play as a dual-personality sexworker fighting cops and feds in an underground city beneath the present-day US.
September 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
My next rpg is FERAL BLOOD DOLL.
Play as a dual-personality sexworker fighting cops and feds in an underground city beneath the present-day US.
Play as a dual-personality sexworker fighting cops and feds in an underground city beneath the present-day US.
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Let's weigh in on the discourse surrounding this year's most highly acclaimed release...
youtu.be/_jEXbn6-tWg
youtu.be/_jEXbn6-tWg
Let’s Talk About Difficulty
YouTube video by hotcyder
youtu.be
September 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Let's weigh in on the discourse surrounding this year's most highly acclaimed release...
youtu.be/_jEXbn6-tWg
youtu.be/_jEXbn6-tWg
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Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB9e...
Gianmarco Soresi: Thief of Joy | Full Comedy Special
YouTube video by Gianmarco Soresi
www.youtube.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB9e...
are there any games doing similar design things to rain world? it feels crazy there aren't more people imitating/riffing on those ideas by now
September 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
are there any games doing similar design things to rain world? it feels crazy there aren't more people imitating/riffing on those ideas by now