Dan Magnusson
@pastadiablo.com
Game developer, iOS expert, Ex-Amazon.
Making a game about counting adorable eldritch Voids 🐈⬛. Sign up for future beta here: https://cutt.ly/voids-beta
Making a game about counting adorable eldritch Voids 🐈⬛. Sign up for future beta here: https://cutt.ly/voids-beta
Probably my most productive week in a long time! 🎉 NPC dialogue🗣️, overworld animations🌎, level information bubbles💭, it has it all!
#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #pixelart
#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #pixelart
October 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Probably my most productive week in a long time! 🎉 NPC dialogue🗣️, overworld animations🌎, level information bubbles💭, it has it all!
#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #pixelart
#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #pixelart
October 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The Ancient Castle is probably one of the coolest biomes I've worked on. It has so much detail in its tileset that it will have multiple sub-biomes within it. Here's the first of those: The Ramparts.
#gamedev #indiegame #screenshotsaturday
#gamedev #indiegame #screenshotsaturday
October 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The Ancient Castle is probably one of the coolest biomes I've worked on. It has so much detail in its tileset that it will have multiple sub-biomes within it. Here's the first of those: The Ramparts.
#gamedev #indiegame #screenshotsaturday
#gamedev #indiegame #screenshotsaturday
October 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I added this new ✨shader effect✨ at the end of a level to show which Voids you were able to rescue! ❤️🔥🐈⬛❤️🔥🐈⬛❤️🔥
#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev
#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev
October 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I added this new ✨shader effect✨ at the end of a level to show which Voids you were able to rescue! ❤️🔥🐈⬛❤️🔥🐈⬛❤️🔥
#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev
#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev
The tilesets I use have these animated doodads (trees and grass and stuff). To fake blowing in the wind, I made a little script to attach to each object that applies a random speed, duration, and pauses. It works surprisingly well.
#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #screenshotsaturday
#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #screenshotsaturday
September 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The tilesets I use have these animated doodads (trees and grass and stuff). To fake blowing in the wind, I made a little script to attach to each object that applies a random speed, duration, and pauses. It works surprisingly well.
#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #screenshotsaturday
#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #screenshotsaturday
In my game, every level always had the same amount of Voids. There are a few ways to solve this - I chose to add a flag I can set on each Void that, if set, gives them only a 50% chance to spawn. I called this flag "Schrodinger", which I thought was funny.
#indiedev #gamedev
#indiedev #gamedev
September 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
If you're curious how I build levels, here's a 10x speed vid of me building a new 🌳Forest🌳 level and testing it!
Anyone see the one I missed that kept me from getting 3 stars on my first playtest? 🫢🫢🫢
#leveldesign #pixelart
youtu.be/Ss5oOlAXmBE
Anyone see the one I missed that kept me from getting 3 stars on my first playtest? 🫢🫢🫢
#leveldesign #pixelart
youtu.be/Ss5oOlAXmBE
How I Build Levels - F-03, Temple Entrance
YouTube video by pastadiablo
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September 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
If you're curious how I build levels, here's a 10x speed vid of me building a new 🌳Forest🌳 level and testing it!
Anyone see the one I missed that kept me from getting 3 stars on my first playtest? 🫢🫢🫢
#leveldesign #pixelart
youtu.be/Ss5oOlAXmBE
Anyone see the one I missed that kept me from getting 3 stars on my first playtest? 🫢🫢🫢
#leveldesign #pixelart
youtu.be/Ss5oOlAXmBE
I got complaints from the 🐈⬛Voids🐈⬛ that the houses in the 🛖Village🛖 were starting to feel a little cramped, so I built an abandoned 🌳Forest Temple🌳 for them to roam around in.
🤔What sort of biome should I build for them next?🤔
🤔What sort of biome should I build for them next?🤔
September 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I got complaints from the 🐈⬛Voids🐈⬛ that the houses in the 🛖Village🛖 were starting to feel a little cramped, so I built an abandoned 🌳Forest Temple🌳 for them to roam around in.
🤔What sort of biome should I build for them next?🤔
🤔What sort of biome should I build for them next?🤔
I love how this game just oozes style. Gives me strong Slay the Princess vibes. Something about using hatching for shading really gets me I guess, haha.
Finally have my Steam page up! It feels like such a small step and yet my heart is pounding like crazy. Game dev is my cardio
youtu.be/mmihu7Y-hXU?...
youtu.be/mmihu7Y-hXU?...
Sleeping Oli - AnnouncementTrailer
YouTube video by TarotTheCat
youtu.be
September 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I love how this game just oozes style. Gives me strong Slay the Princess vibes. Something about using hatching for shading really gets me I guess, haha.
Earlier this week I shared the core mechanic of my game. It’s a hidden object cat counting memory game. Count black cats on a timer and don’t forget which you’ve counted already!
Keep an eye out for more adorable eldritch Voids in the future! 🐈⬛
#screenshotsaturday
Keep an eye out for more adorable eldritch Voids in the future! 🐈⬛
#screenshotsaturday
September 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Earlier this week I shared the core mechanic of my game. It’s a hidden object cat counting memory game. Count black cats on a timer and don’t forget which you’ve counted already!
Keep an eye out for more adorable eldritch Voids in the future! 🐈⬛
#screenshotsaturday
Keep an eye out for more adorable eldritch Voids in the future! 🐈⬛
#screenshotsaturday
Looks like it’s time to do a quick update. Hopefully nothing breaks!
#GodotEngine 4.5 has finally arrived! 🎉
With this new release, we made meticulous efforts in order to amplify what is possible to do with our engine, guided by our goal of making gaming and game development for everyone!
godotengine.org/releases/4.5/
With this new release, we made meticulous efforts in order to amplify what is possible to do with our engine, guided by our goal of making gaming and game development for everyone!
godotengine.org/releases/4.5/
Godot 4.5, making dreams accessible – Godot Engine
From mind-blowing effects now made possible by the stencil buffer to accessible descriptions of your GUI elements that opens up the possibility for people with disabilities to play your game — we are ...
godotengine.org
September 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Looks like it’s time to do a quick update. Hopefully nothing breaks!
When Voids fall into our world from Somewhere Else, they can suddenly appear anywhere. I wanted to do more than have them simply fade in though, so I created these animations for when they spawn.
#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #blackcats
#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #blackcats
September 15, 2025 at 4:14 AM
When Voids fall into our world from Somewhere Else, they can suddenly appear anywhere. I wanted to do more than have them simply fade in though, so I created these animations for when they spawn.
#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #blackcats
#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #blackcats
I have a secret. I've been lying to you. The cats in my game aren't actually cats. They're Voids, creatures from another plane known as Somewhere Else. To represent that, I applied a particle effect to each Void. I think it gives them eldritch vibes!
#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart
#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart
September 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Once I'd selected the look of my cat sprite, I needed to figure out how to make it walk right!
I'd animated bipeds before, but quadrupeds were new to me. I think I got pretty close for a programmer, but realized some limbs were off-sync much later.
Know which ones?
#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart
I'd animated bipeds before, but quadrupeds were new to me. I think I got pretty close for a programmer, but realized some limbs were off-sync much later.
Know which ones?
#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart
September 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
During the Black Cat Game Jam last year, all the assets of black cats I found available online didn't quite match what I wanted.
So I tried my hand at making a ton of pixel cats in Aseprite. Some of them look really weird! But some looked pretty good too! Which is your fave?
#gamedev #indiedev
So I tried my hand at making a ton of pixel cats in Aseprite. Some of them look really weird! But some looked pretty good too! Which is your fave?
#gamedev #indiedev
September 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Had a great time going to talks and connecting with folks at #SLICE today! Very inspired by all the talks.
I'll need to start showing some bits of my in-progress game off now, given how pumped I am after all of this!
#gamedev #indiegame
I'll need to start showing some bits of my in-progress game off now, given how pumped I am after all of this!
#gamedev #indiegame
August 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Had a great time going to talks and connecting with folks at #SLICE today! Very inspired by all the talks.
I'll need to start showing some bits of my in-progress game off now, given how pumped I am after all of this!
#gamedev #indiegame
I'll need to start showing some bits of my in-progress game off now, given how pumped I am after all of this!
#gamedev #indiegame