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Zi Anna
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🌒Dev for @moonhuntgames. 🎮Indie/retro games lover. Currently panicking trying to reach deadlines
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Zi Anna @zianna.bsky.social · Sep 13
🔴⚪ I'm making a Pokemon-inspired idle creature collecting game! 🐣 Releasing Oct. 1 2025 on the Playstore! ⚪🔴
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So happy I can finally share the card back for the special anniversary for #MechShuffle. It's on sale right now so go check it out!

I don't usually draw mech so this was super challenging for me. Even worse, I had an artist block for the colours when the deadline was fast approaching. #pixelart
Two dancing robots and a cupcake with a large number one on it. Disco rainbow background.
October 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Go check out this amazing perfect info card game! My art is featured in the 1 year card back! ❤️
#mech #indiegames
October 26, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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I'm making the anniversary card back for this game and I have no idea what an OPIFEX is. I know the V is vertical in VTOL but that's about it. #indiedev #confessions
October 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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I am STRUGGLING with this card back for #MechShuffle, trying to pick the background colours and it's all falling apart, the deadline is here, NOTHING IS WORKING
a pixel art of a person with the words despite all my rage
ALT: a pixel art of a person with the words despite all my rage
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October 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Need to take a small break from my creature game and make some card backs for #MechShuffle. They're celebrating their one year anniversary!!!
a drawing of a green robot with a heart in the background
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October 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Super excited for #SteamNextFest! Can't wait to try out new demos from indie devs and seeing all the love they put into their game 🎮
October 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canadians that celebrate! Also grateful to the first stewards of this amazing place we call home.
A Canadian stickman holding their elbows up and a red maple leaf
October 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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PSA: Beets are liars and are stupid. Beet juice does not dye in the rich red jewel tones it's colour suggests. It's more of a dirty orange. I hate beets.
October 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Currently trying to DIY dye wool using beet juice for the first time. ENTIRE house smells like vinegar and beets 😬
October 12, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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I love you ditto, please never change (sprite from crystal)

#Pokemon #gameboy
A weird looking ditto sprite from Pokemon Crystal
October 3, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Did you know the old school pokemon sprites were limited to only 4 colours, two of which were black and white?

Took a small break and played some games, feeling great about making art again! Having a blast making creatures limited to 4 colours #pixelart #pokemon
Pixel art of the front and back of both a green venusaur and orange charmander
September 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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The dev on my team just bought a WOW subscription. Hasn't played since the start of covid. WHY is the lord testing me this way?
September 30, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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It turns out, if another woman calls me sister, I fall in love with them
September 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Going to be honest, I feel very demotivated to make art and work on the game 😔 I know it's not the biggest deal in the world to miss a deadline I set for myself. It's beyond that. The dev scene feels so commercialized and against indies. I just want to make silly little games.
September 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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AAAAHHH I did NOT know this was an requirement to publish on the play store! I don't even know 12 people! And a 2 week testing period means I won't make my deadline!
#mobiledev
Text reads: Have at least 12 testers opted-in to your closed test (0 testers currently opted-in) Run your closed test with at least 12 testers, for at least 14 days
September 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Fun fact: the placeholder art for "pupperoni" is actually my keeshond puppy!
#pixelart #SundayFunday #dogsofbluesky
Pixel art of a grey furry dog with dark ears and snout Photo of a grey furry dog with dark ears and snout. She looks very happy.
September 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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The water stone resource generator was the hardest for me to draw. The spots are supposed to be bubbles, but I'm not sure if I got that across. The shape the and spots makes it look like cowry shells, which fits well with the water theme.
#pixelart #gamedev #pokemon
A blue stone with light blue bubbles within Brown, grey, and white cowry shells
September 21, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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First look at the prestige skill tree! This is the placeholders I get from my dev if I don't do any concept art...
#ScreenShotSaturday #GameDev #GameDesign
An upgrade screen with the title "Temp food upgrade 2" and the subtitles "upgrades food real good" and "wow wow wow"
September 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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LOL Because it was such a time crunch, this is my mock up/ concept art for the UI. Done in paint.net, has fuck it we free hand today energy, but got the message across
#gamedev #gamedesign #indiegames
September 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Why is the element called grass but the evolution stone called the LEAF stone? All the other stones were so shiny and I felt bad that the GRASS stone felt plain and boring. I made it pop more like those polished geodes.
#pixelart #gamedev #pokemon
September 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Two weeks to launch... I'm not ok
#gamedev
a cartoon of a red panda sitting on a table with a netflix logo behind her
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September 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Updated the electric stone sprite to be darker with a more distinctive shape. Got some feedback that the bright green was too confusing with the grass stone. I'm liking the change, the sparks in the back remind me of kintsugi
#pixelart #gamedev #WishlistWednesday
September 18, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Here's the main screen of my idle game with the retro GBA feel! Pupperoni is a placeholder and can be ignored. Just a few more things to add before it's done!
#indiegame #pixelart #gamedev #pokemon
September 16, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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First look at the resource generators! Inspired by evolution stones. Might need to tweak the top two to match the rest
#WIP #GameArt #gamedev #indiegame #pokemon
Green stone with a lightning bolt and blue stone with bubbles Green fossil with leaf and red stone with fire
September 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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I'm going to be real, there's like 15 days until launch and the game doesn't even have a name yet 😬

#confessions #gamedev
September 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM