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Agate Dragon
@agatedragon.blog
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Creating games and sharing knowledge of games development, shaders and pixel art.
I use my own game engine written in C++, OpenGL and SDL.
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Back in a flash! ⚡️🐍
#pixelart #indiedev #indiegame #agatedragon
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Do you mean like this? So the snake can only pass above or below the circle? Yellow is ground which the snake can move on, green can't be moved onto
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Ouroboros 🐍
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November 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Thank you for the tag @itenzeal.bsky.social

Here is four of my most popular pixel arts on Bluesky! 🐲

And I'll tag these excellent pixel artists! 💚

@kiwibeangirl.bsky.social
@meryline.bsky.social
@pixelcel.bsky.social
@rentroghost.bsky.social

#pixelart #ドット絵
A pixel art drawing of a small blue tit bird A pixel art drawing of a purple wisteria tree A pixel art drawing of a sci-fi scene where a figure wearing an orange diving suit stares across a room at the aura of another figure which has the shape of the same figure A pixel art drawing of a 1-bit crypt with stone walls and a skull encased in the roof
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Snake battle circuit 🐍
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November 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Snake duel on the cross shaped level 🐍 ⚔️ 🐍
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November 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Learn how to make an image disappear and burn over time in this dissolve shader visual effect tutorial. You will also learn how to create the dissolve texture 🎃
#gamedev #shader #vfx
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October 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Three dissolving pumpkin variations 🎃
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October 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Dissolving pumpkins (Alternate version) 🎃
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October 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Dissolving pumpkins 🎃
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October 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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All out snake brawl 🐍
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October 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Four way snake melee 🐍
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October 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Battle of the two snakes in a small arena 🐍
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October 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Creating a snake game level using my game engine's built in level editor 🐍
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October 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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New grid based level in the Snake version 1.1 update 🐍
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October 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Snake version 1.1 is out with new levels and more AI snakes to compete against! There is now an option to change the snake speed for a more relaxed or turbo experience 🐍
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October 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Snake version 1.0 is out! 🐍
A collection of arcade inspired pixel art snake games.
Play classic snake and see how large you can grow. Or take on an AI controlled snake in versus mode, and use your size to pressure the other snake
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#pixelart #indiedev #indiegame
October 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Versus snake
A pixel art snake game with a green snake, red snake, desert tiles, blue walls and a green checker background
October 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Classic snake
A pixel art snake game with a green snake, desert tiles, blue walls and a green checker background
October 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Goodbye grey background, hello green checker! 🏁🐍
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The main menu of a pixel art game with two snake buttons, blue panels and a green checker background
October 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Snake game title screen, main menu and options screen all in one! 🐍

Definitely going to need to make changes here as I add more games, but it will suffice for now!
#pixelart #indiedev
A pixel art title screen depicting two buttons which launch different snake games. There are also other buttons to change the window size and exit the game.
September 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Cleaned up version using an art tool.

There are pixel art scaling algorithms out there which could save time here. But at the end of the day, art tools are more flexible!
September 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Scaling the image leads to it getting blurred!
September 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Turning an image into a sprite animation using code - easing functions and scaling 💣

I wrote this software in 2020, which turns a sprite into a 'Bomberman' bomb style animation. As you can see it works! But there are some issues...
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September 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Exploding snakes - white smoke! 🎆🐍
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September 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM