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Xavi
@xavibell.bsky.social
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Writer and game maker. Sometimes in Melbourne.

Spider Land is out!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3246230/Spider_Land/
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Xavi @xavibell.bsky.social · Aug 25
I wrote a short story (with some nice visuals)

Death to a Merry Car :)

Play it on itch:
xavibell.itch.io/death-to-a-m...
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Magpie sits atop a street light, middle of the day, clear blue sky in the background.
February 6, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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I like da new game of thrones show. It’s grounded and funny and sincere and not overwhelmingly miserable for a change
February 2, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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Some thin, patchy clouds with the sun shining through. Picture a dark blue table with icing sugar dumped on it.
February 1, 2026 at 6:28 AM
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This one goes out to all the
Info board at the Australian Museum in Sydney for the Short-Faced Kangaroo (the header reads Short-Faced Kings). The body text reads “Short-faced kangaroos, or sthenurines, were a diverse group of kangaroos with distinctive short, deep snouts compared to modern kangaroos. With powerful jaws and specialised teeth, they were adapted for browsing on tough leaves and shrubs. Several may have walked upright on two legs, as their large build, rigid spine, and ankle and heel shape were more suited to walking than hopping.”
January 20, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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Music to sit in a dark room and ruminate to
Postscript, by Bowery Electric
from the album Beat
boweryelectric.bandcamp.com
January 11, 2026 at 7:08 AM
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Is this good
A very very very smoky sky, tinted orange. Imagine the cover art for In On the Kill Taker by Fugazi, but replace the Washington Monument with some leafy trees.
January 9, 2026 at 9:46 AM
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Noticed Sim City on Jerry’s shelf while watching Seinfeld yesterday, and it sent me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole that has culminated in me discovering and promptly getting addicted to Transport Tycoon Deluxe
January 6, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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xavibell.bsky.social Xavi @xavibell.bsky.social · Aug 25
I wrote a short story (with some nice visuals)

Death to a Merry Car :)

Play it on itch:
xavibell.itch.io/death-to-a-m...
January 3, 2026 at 7:57 AM
xavibell.bsky.social
Some odd stripey clouds with blue sky in the gaps. Sun top left of frame. Image has been flipped 90 degrees, making it look kinda like a satellite image of the ocean.
December 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Trying to remove all Autodesk shit from my computer, this is genuinely horrific, even worse than Adobe
December 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Screenshot from my current project. Black and white empty carpark at dusk, orange clouds loom overhead. Not a single car in sight, just an endless sprawl of painted white lines and thin street lights sat upon concrete bollards.
December 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Screenshot from project/game I'm working on. First-person view of a dirt path snaking off into some dense bushes. Powerlines snake overhead. Orange and pink clouds fade into the horizon, contrasting against the otherwise entirely black and white scenery. Way off in the distance are wind turbines.
December 14, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Some very fluffy, voluminous clouds surrounding a small blue patch of sky.
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Good visual feedback means filling the screen with 10 trillion glowing particles emitted from the player’s sword
December 12, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Going to look at all the new Munnel stations tomorrow. I love underground things!!!
December 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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☁️🌊 TOROA: SKYCALL 🌊☁️
🐥 OUT NOW ON STEAM! 🐥

Unravel the fate of the ocean and glide across an ever changing seascape in the hopes of reuniting Toroa with their family 💙

After 5 years of hard mahi, love and dedication, we're so excited to share our first game with you all 🥹

Mauri ora e te whānau!
December 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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😀
Backside of Godspeed’s Yanqui UXO vinyl I just bought. It’s has a bunch of lines and words showing how some of the major music labels are connected to the military industrial complex.
December 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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This is something that's been really bothering me lately with games. It's not just an aesthetic issue, it's also genuinely harder to read text if it's too wide, so I made this (little sloppy) quick guide to show what I mean.

#indieGames
a guide on text placement for screens. The large text at the top reads "This is fine for large text", slightly below it is the sentence "or even medium text that is only a couple of lines long. it covers the center 610ths of the screen. Below it in the center 2/4ths of the screen is the paragraph "But for visual novels, subtitles and any long blocks of text, especially ones that are several paragraphs long, the text needs to be within the middle 2/4ths of the screen or else it becomes harder to read. When working with different aspect ratios, use your best judgement, you shouldn’t have to move your eyes too much to read everything."
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Many different layers of clouds overlapping to create a mixture of lighter and darker shades of grey. Right side of frame has darker, more foreboding structures, whilst the left side is lighter and less tumultuous.
November 17, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Close up of a blurry bee about to land on some red flowers.
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Getting kind of attached to the random stock photo guys I'm using as placeholders
Screenshot from project I'm working on. POV of the player holding an iPad in their hands. On the iPad is a dungeon-crawler style game. Player is pointing two revolvers at a generic stock photo guy dressed up as a cowboy. Entire scene is in high-contrast black and white, low detail 3D models.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Just finished Deadwood. Why is Bullock like that
November 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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I watch sports so I can point at players and announce to the room which famous person they look like
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 AM