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tararntula
@tararntula.com
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#indiegamedev, #pixelart, and #watercolor.
https://tararntula.com/
Working on Peddlers Between Pulsars.
it/its, aro/ace/agender + voidpunk
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tararntula @tararntula.com · Oct 18
Hi! I mainly talk about watercolors, pixelart, or gamedev. I'm working on Peddlers between Pulsars, a narrative-based merchant RPG.
A screenshot from Peddlers between Pulsars. Exos, a beetle is talking to Malady, a three eyed mollusk, on a beach. The beach has several flowers which seem to be staring at the player. There's 2 sea-urchin-shell like buildings in the background, and cliffs that look like they are made of tube coral. The text reads "Malady: What? the flowers look like me? That's so sweet of you!" A slightly unnerving detailed pixel-art image of Queen Brahne from FF9. A pixel art image of Miracle Matter and Kirby from Crystal Shards. A watercolor image of IX from Honkai Star Rail.
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I was compelled to redraw this. Happy New Year! Let us survive together.
A redraw of the quoted meme. Cheats, a bot with an orange helmet and a fluffy coat, holds his hand open toward the camera, palm upturned. Poorly done text overlays the image saying: let's survive 2026 together.
January 1, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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Well, I did it, I managed to submit the demo to steam sometime in December. Wasn't aware demos needed a whole second page review process though, so we'll see how it all goes?
tararntula.com tararntula @tararntula.com · 23d
Another ship interior - Neon's this time.

I'm aiming to submit a demo that's nice enough for steam sometime in December, with Neon/Malady as the playable characters. So their ships and layouts were cleaned up the earliest.

#gamedev #indiedev #peddlersbetweenpulsars
A a ring shaped room. The walls look like dark PCB chunks, and the floor is made up of irregular rectangular/triangular metal panels. It is generally dimly lit, except for a few glowing edges.
December 31, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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sarahdraws8.bsky.social
Thanks for the share! 🙏

I am currently working on the concept art for a little indie game project of mine. One of the bosses the player must fight is a gorgon-lamia gynoid called the Executrix. She has two mechanical harpies for minions, named Rage and Sorrow.

Here are all 3 of them:
The Executrix Rage and Sorrow
December 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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birdsprobably.bsky.social
Gift to Myrmyxo in the 2025 Pixeljoint Secret Santa !

Palette used is AAP-128 Splendor

See on Pixeljoint: pixeljoint.com/pixelart/162...
Flipped version: lospec.com/gallery/birds-probably/will-you-come-visit-sometimes

#pixelart #yumenikki #fanart
Fanart of the game Yume Nikki. Pixel art, 204 x 156 pixels vertical. The piece is split into an upper and a lower part. The upper part depicts a black and white world filled with darkness, akin to a desert, with dust and cacti, as well as a doorway in the background filled with light. There is something like a giant eye in the sky where the sun should be. In the middle of the scenery stands a young girl in a white polo and skirt with four arms and a hand sprouting from her head (monoko). At center height, waves of white filament curl. Below the waves is the lower, upside-down part of the piece. The upside down world is all bright and colourful pastels. There are pinkish white islands among a sea of pinkish grey water, strange pronghorn-shaped plants, and conical pyramids of colourful rings in the background. Balloons fill the air, clouds loom on the horizon, and a giant leaky eye resides where the sun should be. In the middle of the scenery is a young girl in a pink sweater and a dark magenta skirt holding a balloon.
December 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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umbohr.bsky.social
You can see it uncompressed on there i guess?
Mostly the bottom part is almost done, and everything else will take some more time for me to clean up
pixeljoint.com/pixelart/162...
Skol al louarn (Secret santa 2025) @ PixelJoint.com
pixeljoint.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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suyasuyabi.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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takspx.bsky.social
my Pixonomicon secret santa gift for 2025 #pixelart
December 25, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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ekvitki.bsky.social
Commission

#pixelart #space #vgen #vegencomm #animation
December 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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NPCs will now sometimes set up small shops themselves. Their hours are inconsistent, their inventory is limited, but they tend to be good deals.

#indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #peddlersbetweenpulsars
A screenshot of a game. A gas being talks to a moth-spider. The moth is standing next to some metals, saying "But none of us actually know what to do with the metals. So they're all for sale." In the background, a snail is buying silver alliums, a bird sells a fat pineapple, and a mushroom ball is selling a bucket. The gas being is now looking at the bird-spider's copper. It says "1 remaining. Costs 30 monies (est. value: 40 monies) A slab of slightly oxidized copper." The mushroom ball, and bird are absent in this screenshot.
December 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Post a video game banger.
To everyone submitting resumes during the holidays
December 20, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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dinchenix.bsky.social
It is the end of the year and you're walking through fresh snow under the Northern Lights and you feel a little endless ❄
#pixelart #dinchenix #auroraborealis
pixel art illustration of a wintery scene showing the northern lights in different colors, which are reflecting onto a lake below. behind the water, on the snow is a hut with windows glowing in warm light, behind the hut is a forest of pine trees and a mountain range in the distance.
December 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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loambrowngames.bsky.social
Hi everyone! Sorry I've been gone so long! The game's still alive and kicking, I swear! Here's a small slice of the town dock. Happy Thursday ya'll!

#pixelart #indiedev #gameboy #Indiegame
December 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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jellyjampudding.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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joffeorama.bsky.social
“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.
joffeorama.bsky.social Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 15d
I asked what I should use instead of firefox and someone said “floorp” and I legitimately thought it was a bit for like five minutes. tech has gone beyond making the torment nexus real to making poob real.
December 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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hope-timbre.bsky.social
Hey #TeaseYaGame
How would a dream world of little children look like?
We're a team of two, making a low-poly puzzle game set in a heartwarming world🌞

🧩 Manipulate architecture
🥁 Find instruments and songs in dreams
🌷 Use them to tend to your garden and save the broken world

#indiegames #cozygames
December 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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justacarrot.bsky.social
Hey #TeaseYaGame, do you like gay vampires? How about cute short gay vampires?

Play the first ep of my vampire VN and help a sweet awkward nerd attempt to woo (or be bitten by!) a charming vampire and maybe have a few laughs (and a few feels) along the way 🦇

justacarrot.itch.io/my-vampire-b...
Screenshot showing main characters Iggy and Genzou in a dark alleyway. The text reads: "You're a hoot." The man sucks in a large drag, holding it for a moment before slowly releasing it into the air. Screenshot showing a CG of the main characters in the dark as Genzou smiles widely and holds a finger to Iggy's lips. The text reads: "And don't you go trying to distract me with snacks or any of those other conniving tricks of yours, you scamp." Screenshot showing a CG of the main character lying on top of each other on the carpet looking bewildered. The text reads: "Still panting hard, he pushes up on his elbows, Genzou's face not far below his and looking equally as breathless and bewildered." Screenshot showing main characters Iggy and Genzou sitting close to each other in a living room. There are two choices given: "Has to tickle him back" and "Has to knee him in the nuts."
December 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
tararntula.com
Space is big, but not everything has to be industrial sized.

Peddlers between Pulsars is a narrative based RPG where you follow a group of small-time peddlers trying to navigate a world of fees and beings who know way more than they do.

#TeaseYaGame #gamedev #indiegame
Exos looking at a creepy poster of Alien Candy. It says "Will sell for 69 monies (est. value: 30 monies). Candy from distant star systems. Pricey, but low demand. Can only sell 2 when selling to other planets. There's a bucket on a platform for sale, A screenshot of a map with a red-blue neblua in the background and a planet Persephone, a planet further from the player's ship, is highlighted. Text reads "Route estimate: 4-7 days, 20-35 monies. A tidally locked planet colonized for the wealthy and tourists. It produces nothing - so it always welcomes any supplies." A gas being named is holding eight crates of sand and talking to another gas being, saying "About time! I've got the job of a lifetime for you." A beetle says to a snail "Everything's expensive, and nobody warned you about going into debt."
December 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
tararntula.com
;w; Okay I get why people are excited to get art of their OCs done.
Look at him, Exos is such a fance beetle here!
danielknightley.bsky.social Daniel Knightley - Rebuilding V-tuber for no good reason @danielknightley.bsky.social · 18d
Some long overdue cowboy insect sketches for @tararntula.com
Sorry it took so long my friend!
Big sketch page with all bugs and details. Closeup on the body. Perhaps the booty is a bit too big, but they can always change it up! Solar wing sails need some sort of bone structure to support them. They already featured a bat like structure, so I iterated on that.
December 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Plugging away at NPC/alternate player NPCs for all the possible times you can talk to them.

Malady is the player who skips tutorials and regrets that later.

#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev
A snail (Malady) is talking to a gas being. The textbox reads "Malady: I decided to read all the words I ignored."
December 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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kayin.moe
You know what lets let the studios have "indie", it's time to make doujin games
December 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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liamtwose.bsky.social
Breaking: New era of video games is upon us. Time to adapt.

Introducing #TeaseYaGame; open to ALL #VideoGames.

3 x a year. Lite version of PYG; Jan, Apr, Sep.
PLUS: Special December teaser edition!

June & November WILL remain as #PitchYaGame. 🫡

Live next Tuesday! Who's ready?! 🥳
a group of men in military uniforms walking on a runway with the words let 's do this written on the bottom
ALT: a group of men in military uniforms walking on a runway with the words let 's do this written on the bottom
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December 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
tararntula.com
Another ship interior - Neon's this time.

I'm aiming to submit a demo that's nice enough for steam sometime in December, with Neon/Malady as the playable characters. So their ships and layouts were cleaned up the earliest.

#gamedev #indiedev #peddlersbetweenpulsars
A a ring shaped room. The walls look like dark PCB chunks, and the floor is made up of irregular rectangular/triangular metal panels. It is generally dimly lit, except for a few glowing edges.
December 9, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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npckc.net
patreon seems to have expanded direct bank transfers to countries besides the usa!!!

this should reduce payment processor fees hopefully... (payoneer & paypal fees are both rough 💀)

going to try switching over & compare the fees next month 👀
December 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM