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Jess @ Sleepy Bears 🐻
@shabrys.bsky.social
She/Her 🏳️‍🌈 || Indie Game Dev || 🇨🇦

Doing my best to make a career out of this game dev thing... Wish me luck!

Also got some games on here: https://shabrys.itch.io/
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THE TIME HAS COME!!!

AFTER OVER TWO YEARS OF HARD WORK MY FIRST GAME IS AVAILABLE ON STEAM!!!!!!!!!!

GO HAM SOME SUMOS EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#indiegames #indiegame #IndieGameDev

store.steampowered.com/app/2561810/...
HamSumo on Steam
BONK YOUR FRIENDS in this action-packed, roly-poly, multiplayer action game! Choose your favorite HamSumo fighter to duke it out with your friends in this adorable PvP arena! Unleash unique and powerf...
store.steampowered.com
Reposted by Jess @ Sleepy Bears 🐻
S a c r i f i c e
#indiedev #gamedev
January 29, 2026 at 12:12 AM
The animations get a little quirky at night...

#gamedev #indiedev
January 28, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Greyboxed a cozy little apartment scene to test some new plant sounds!

Now... TIME FOR ART!😋
#indiedev #gamedev
January 16, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Got my garden sounding pretty good today! 🎶

#indiedev #gamedev #UnrealEngine
January 8, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Rebuilding one of my projects from college!! 🎧

It's a game where you can make music by planting and tending to a garden!

#indiedev #gamedev
January 6, 2026 at 6:28 PM
how im walking out of 2025
December 31, 2025 at 12:04 AM
my wife: honey, did you remember to take your meds?

me:
December 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
And so I made it into a game! For fans of Adventure on the Atari 2600 and 90s PC adventure games I present to you:

Delilah's Game!

Made in one month for the Metroidvania Jam #30!
#gamedev #indiedev
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
God Skate Story is gorgeous!

Makes me wanna be a shithead teenager again so I can skip class and hang out with my friends in a place like this
December 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Something genuinely kinda sad about becoming a game developer is that I find it really hard to just play games for fun anymore...

To those that have been around these parts longer than I have, does that go away?

Like have you learned to separate playing games for work and playing for yourself?
December 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Myst-style navigation in a fully 3D world!!!

This was so much more work than I was expecting lmao
#gamedev #indiedev
December 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Yes - MS Paint is an integral part of my workflow

No - I will not apologize!

#indiedev #gamedev
December 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Reposted by Jess @ Sleepy Bears 🐻
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Playing a game on a TV in a game on my TV 😵‍💫

#gamedev #indiegame #indiedev
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Okay I think I've landed on the final look for this 90s CGI shader!!

Now to make it into a game!😈

#gamedev #indiedev
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Working on a shader to emulate the look of 90s pre-rendered graphics in real time!

What do you guys think looks better?

Left = Quantization
Right = No Quantization

#gamedev #lowpoly
November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Got to work on this puzzle prototype some more today!

The generation now makes these random "towers" instead of just a grid. And clicking a tile deletes it and shifts down all the tiles above it!

#indiedev #solodev
September 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Starting a new project is always so exciting!

Got a system together this morning that generates a grid of random tiles that you can mouse over and interact with.

Could be the start of a puzzle game who knows? 👀

#IndieGameDev #indiedev
September 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
CHAPTER 2 OF HAMSUMO IS HERE!!!🐹🎉

On their hunt for the fallen Star, Hamozuna tells the Captain the legend of the Lightning Sumo God. Between the stolen Lightning Blade and the falling Stars, history may be repeating itself... but not if Hamoichi can stop it!

#indiegame #fightinggame #fgc
September 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
HamSumo Chapter 2 drops tomorrow!! 👀

Really happy with how this shot turned out!
September 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Hey HamSumo gamers! Don't forget to leave a review on Steam! Positive or negative the feedback is always appreciated and will help make the game the best it can be!!

store.steampowered.com/app/2561810/...
HamSumo on Steam
BONK YOUR FRIENDS in this action-packed, roly-poly, multiplayer action game! Choose your favorite HamSumo fighter to duke it out with your friends in this adorable PvP arena! Unleash unique and powerf...
store.steampowered.com
September 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
THE TIME HAS COME!!!

AFTER OVER TWO YEARS OF HARD WORK MY FIRST GAME IS AVAILABLE ON STEAM!!!!!!!!!!

GO HAM SOME SUMOS EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#indiegames #indiegame #IndieGameDev

store.steampowered.com/app/2561810/...
HamSumo on Steam
BONK YOUR FRIENDS in this action-packed, roly-poly, multiplayer action game! Choose your favorite HamSumo fighter to duke it out with your friends in this adorable PvP arena! Unleash unique and powerf...
store.steampowered.com
August 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
It's HamSummer baybee!! It's gonna take a lot of work to get my first game done in time for it's release on August 29th, but I'M GONNA DO IT!

And if you wanna get a chance to play HamSumo early, I'm glad to announce that I've registered for Steam Next Fest running from June 9-16!!!
April 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
SO I think I might be starting to figure out this whole "Environment Art" thing?
February 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Made an official logo for my fiancé's and I's indie company SLEEPY BEARS!! 🎉

I've been working really hard on our first game HAMSUMO that's going to be releasing this year and slapping official branding on it has made everything feel so much more real!

I LOVE MAKING VIDEO GAMESSSSSSSSS
January 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM