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Max Davidse 🔜 GamesCom
@dragonspiritgames.bsky.social
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Crazy Dutch Game Developer, making Gaia, a fully accessible 2D pixel-art platformer about my daughter, Greek Mythology and pollution. Wishlist on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2928590/Gaia/
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November 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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I reworked some of the level design of Atlantis a little bit for Poseidon. Still not the tileset, but the dithering in the sky and mountains, as well as the reflection has been addressed. Now looks much cleaner, look at before and after. Before...
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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🩸 Indie Horror Appreciation Stream Tonight!

Two spine-tingling indie horror games, two incredible devs - both joining live as we play!
💀 Shroud of Gloom by @madchirpy.bsky.social
📬 The Mailroom by @jotson.bsky.social

We will start as usual around 8PM CET over at twitch.tv/dragonspirit...
Unique style for Shroud of Gloom, very minimalistic. Black and white mostly 3D, pixel-arty, with a very gloomy and minimal color style. The tone of this image is basically blue grays with red.
November 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Hi, I am Max and I am working on a fully accessible 2D pixel-art platformer called Gaia, about my daughter, Greek Mythology and pollution. Recently I have been working on the #Poseidon level
October 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Got some nice progress going today on the Poseidon level for Gaia. Made a very icky tileset I guess, but at least we can use it, and we got the parallax effect working. It is very subtle but I like it. More work needs to be done for sure. #indiedev #gamedev
October 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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A quick update from the recent streams and I have been struggling because Poseidon himself seemed to want to destroy my water shader. I fixed it and this gave me the chance to make a new scene for Poseidon. I designed it first (first screenshot) added it to Unity next. #indiedev
New level design for Poseidon, The colors are yellowish for the sky, dithering used to create a slow change in color, a dying sun that you see going into the water, mountains that are along the line of sight at the end of the water with snowy slopes using a heavy dithering effect to simulate fading snow towards the bottom. These still need to be less rectangular but I like how they look. Water reflecting using dithering as well, which will be more smooth in Unity, because it will be using the shader. All in all the entire scene uses only 7 colors. New level design for Poseidon, The colors are yellowish for the sky, dithering used to create a slow change in color, a dying sun that you see going into the water, mountains that are along the line of sight at the end of the water with snowy slopes using a heavy dithering effect to simulate fading snow towards the bottom. These still need to be less rectangular but I like how they look. Water reflecting using the shader that I also used in the Amsterdam level, this gives the benefit that I can alter the way it reacts easily. All in all the entire scene uses only 7 colors.
October 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Mondays can feel like Sisyphus pushing his boulder - work calls, Azure tasks, game dev hurdles. But here’s the trick: every push makes us stronger. 💪

I treat Monday as a gift from the gods - another chance to build, create, and grow.

How’s your climb today?
#MotivationalMonday
Sisyphus rolling his boulder up the hill. A stone statue.
September 22, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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🌊 Poseidon's Fury 🌊
In Gaia, Poseidon's realm is a tempestuous domain where the seas rage and the earth quakes. Will Gaia restore balance?
🎮 Wishlist now: store.steampowered.com/app/2928590/... #GaiaGame #IndieDev #Poseidon #GameDev #WishlistWednesday
Poseidon in Pixel-art, wearing a loin cloth around his waste that looks like it is made out of water, also his beard and hair look like they are water made. He is muscular and holding his staff.
August 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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As you may have heard, last Monday it was my birthday. Today one of my colleagues came to me with, as he said, "a small gift". I don't know about you guys, but to me, this is not a small gift, but a sign that someone is truly paying attention, and I LOVE it!
A white ceramic tile, with the logo of Dragonspirit Games in its vibrant red color, on it.
June 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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I promised the other day to make a video of where we stand with the keyboard navigation of our fully accessible game and the audio to use in it. So here that is. It doesn't look like anything, but it does work, and has audio under all the buttons, not final for sure. Sound on!
May 2, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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🌟 It’s #TrailerTuesday! 🌟

#indiedev, it’s our time to shine! Got a trailer? Screenshot? Concept art? Even just an idea? Share your progress here – no matter the stage, it deserves love. Let’s build each other up and spread the word about amazing projects! 🚀💻
The version of the bridge where we can from. Way too small to be the Magere Brug, it has some areas that we still will need to implement in the new version however, but I trust we are on the right track here. Basically the size of this bridge is roughly 2 to maybe 3 times Gaia, and that is not even close to big enough. Work in progress screenshot of the Magere Brug in Amsterdam. Compared to the old one, this is so much bigger and now actually feels like something that you traverse. In the image we see the pillars, the top beams and all the different chains and metal bars that this bridge has. Also traffic lights that are used to warn boats to stop when the bridge is closed and we see Gaia in the left bottom corner, who barely is higher than the railing of the bridge. The light catches the bars on the right and shows the arch that is in there.
December 10, 2024 at 10:37 AM
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This is quite accurate if you ask me. I do most of the things I do out of a sense of love. If I were to describe myself, I would say I have a big heart and love making people happy, so it is nice to see that back here.
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The results of a quiz for me: Your Result: Love You create from love. It is an overflowing love that seeps out of your heart and into all you create. You couldn't possibly contain it inside yourself, and so you dedicate yourself to depicting it through everything you make. Your art is a celebration of what you cherish most, a loving tribute to everything that captivates you. There are things too wonderful to be appreciated in silence, and so you sing of your love time and time again. You are determined not to let your vast love go unnoticed or forgotten. That's why your work is a declaration of affection, an expression of fondness for everything that makes your life worth living.
November 5, 2024 at 8:14 AM
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Which butterfly do you think looks better for a side-scrolling platformer? I need your opinion for my game Gaia #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #butterfly
Very basic butterfly, which kinda looks like it is more or less top-down to me. The color scheme is dark outlines, with a purple pastel kind of wings. This one has little to no details. A little more advanced butterfly, Seems more like from the side. You can clearly see the closer wing with more detail than the further away one. The color scheme is a dark body, with antennas, and with a purple pastel kind of wings. The back wing catches a bit of light to make it stand out on the edge.
October 22, 2024 at 7:13 AM
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Grateful for the amazing indie dev community and all the support as we build #Gaia! 🌿 Every bit of feedback pushes us closer to creating the most accessible pixel-art platformer! 🙏 What are you thankful for today? #ThankfulThursday #IndieDev #GameDev #Accessibility #PixelArt
Gaia standing next to the bakery that we have come to like so much. It reflects nicely in the water of the canal. Which I've come to think, should become a lot darker, as the canals of Amsterdam are not that clean at all.
October 17, 2024 at 7:57 AM
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Tonight it is time to show appreciation again to other #indiedev creators. As some of you know, I do this once a month, with exceptions. This month I would like to take a look at two completely different games.
- Alpine Lake (by @MossyGroveGames)
- Unfair Rampage (by x.com/imphenzia)
A still frame from Alpine lake, where we see a character fishing, with a doggy behind the player character. A still from Unfair Rampage: Knightfall which is a very high octane game, with lots of destruction. In this still we see a beautiful landscape, with some explosions going on, a huge rotating blade swinging around etc.
October 7, 2024 at 9:53 AM
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The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
#GameChallenge

#Games

#GameDev
Day 6: Wolfenstein 3D
October 2, 2024 at 9:01 AM
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🎬 It’s #TrailerTuesday! 🎮
Polishing your game? Deep in #WIP? Today’s the day to show off those trailers! Let’s fill the timeline with #indiedev #gamedev greatness! 🔥🎥
Drop your projects below and let’s celebrate creativity! 👇✨
Been working on the Poseidon level design. Have added more depth by creating a water reflection, light bouncing off of the mountains etc.
October 1, 2024 at 8:34 AM
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The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
#GameChallenge

#Games

#GameDev
Day 5: Unreal Tournament
The Unreal Tournament Logo One of the many gorgeous scenes that you would find in Unreal Tournament One of the many gorgeous scenes that you would find in Unreal Tournament One of the many gorgeous scenes that you would find in Unreal Tournament
October 1, 2024 at 6:44 AM
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The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
#GameChallenge

#Games

#GameDev
Day 4: Full Throttle
September 27, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
#GameChallenge

#Games

#GameDev
Day 3: Day of the Tentacle
September 26, 2024 at 6:43 AM
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I've been making some progress and updates on the #leveldesign for the #poseidon level of my game. It is a slow process for me as I am still a beginner #pixelartist but I hope it shows well how I am slowly building up the scene.
Started to dress up the scene a bit. Walkable areas now have a bit more of a grassy feel to them, and are lit up more when they catch more of the light, and darker when the walkable area is more obscured. I've added a big sun in the distance and started walking on some objects that can be seen around the paths, like rocks. There will also be plants and flowers here. I added also a dither to the sky, to make it feel more like an actual sky and still need to add clouds and things like that to it. This is the beginning of how I went about it, just showing off a little bit of what I wanted to try and do with the level, leaving room for the actual areas of walking etc. Mountains are still solid black, walkable areas simple thin green lines and there is basically no detail yet anywhere.
September 25, 2024 at 1:03 PM
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The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
#GameChallenge

#Games

#GameDev
Day 2: Baldur's Gate
September 25, 2024 at 8:25 AM
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The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
#GameChallenge

#Games

#GameDev
Day 1: Simon the Sorcerer
The title screen to Simon the Sorcerer, showing Simon wearing his iconic sorcerer outfit in a door opening, with all lush green surroundings. Simon standing in an area, with a salesman of some sort, in an Arabic look, with the area having a statue and tons of flowers. Swans are in the pond. Simon standing next to an immense blacksmith in front of his blacksmith shop. The blacksmith is making some weapon. Simon in an occult looking room, with a pentagram on the floor, there is an opening in the wall behind him, and a bed up on the right side of the room. On the left is something looking like a fridge.
September 24, 2024 at 9:05 AM
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🚨 It's #TrailerTuesday! 🚨
Check out the latest sneak peek of my fully accessible 2D pixel-art platformer! 🎮🌍 Inspired by Greek mythology and a fight against pollution, this game's all about inclusion.
Next, you're up! Show us your footage! 🔥
#IndieDev #GameDev
Work in progress, the level design for the Poseidon level, where we have green areas that represent walkable areas, we have mountains and distant mountains, all with a center point that draws in attention. This will be completely detailed later, with vegetation, and so much more. The color scheme fits Poseidon, with different shades of blues and greens.
September 24, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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Nice! I made one in #pixel-art for the Amsterdam level of my game. Hence "Bakkerij" on the facade, which simply means bakery! 😉
A pixel-art bakery, where all windows are transparent and there is bread in the window. There is a sign that says "Bakkerij" which is Dutch for Bakery, it also says "Sinds 1890" which means since 1890 and there is a sign that says "Open" on the door. The color palette is a soft pastel-type, with browns, and light pinks etc.
September 23, 2024 at 11:58 AM