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Helianthus Games - making Astro Focus
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Indiedev making AstroFocus - a pixelart productivity game where you grow a galactic Roman empire while focusing on your IRL tasks!🚀

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Working towards scalable UI for AstroFocus - my resource management Pomodoro game with Romans ⚔️ in space 🌌
(which is tricky for a #pixelart game)

Steamdeck is the lowest res I want to support and it is motivating to see the game running on it 🤩

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #godot
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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The Mark Overmars era...
November 1, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Astro Focus
September 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Did a quick test of my space Roman pomodoro game on Steamdeck, was surprised how easy it was to do! 🤯

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #godot
August 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Share your #gamedev notebook! 🎮📓

I personally love my disc-bound one since I can re-arrange the pages depending on what takes priority currently or move them to another category!

#indiedev #godot
May 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Share your game engine and 3 screenshots of your game!
#gamedev #indiedev #godotengine
March 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Some of it is being on idle though.
March 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Just sharing a roman space empire 🌌🏛️ I built in Astro Focus today while working from home.

I love that I can test my Pomodoro game 🍅🕑 while doing my job, I have found so many bugs this way!

#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #godot
March 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Instantly had to try this effect! Will probably not keep this exact use, but already have other ideas where it might fit well!
March 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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🆘 Help! I've implemented demolishing of buildings in my game but now I have homeless space Romans 😭👀

#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #godotengine
March 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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The advisor for my #pixelart space-Roman productivity #indiegame AstroFocus 🌌🏛️

Anyone got any good name suggestions? 🧐

#indiedev #gamedev
March 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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New iteration of making a satisfying loading animation for your space Roman empire in Astro Focus 🚀

Special thanks to @l1f3l.bsky.social for the input!

#indiedev #gamedev #godot
January 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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I wanted a pleasant animation to greet you when you load up your space Roman Empire in Astro Focus, did I succeed? 🧐

#indiedev #gamedev #godot
January 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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You can now see the planets in your space Roman Empire hard at work producing 🔨 (or losing!) resources in Astro Focus.

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #godot
January 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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An example of the kind of sprawling Roman space productivity empires you can build in Astro Focus!

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #godot
January 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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New iteration of my game's logo!

Does it still capture well that the game is about Romans 🏛️, space 🚀and productivity 🕑?

#pixelart #indiedev #gamedev
January 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Been working on a logo for my game Astro Focus, how did I do?

It was hard to capture the topics of Romans 🏛️, space 🚀 and productivity 🕑 all at once without making it overly detailed, but I think I did well 😊

#pixelart #gamedev #indidev
January 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Help me name some planets in my game 🧐

In Astro Focus you build a space Roman Empire, I am looking for Latin words that would sound familiar to players.

Here is what I've got so far, split by planet types + some common ones. Give me more please!

#indiedev #gamedev #space #rome
January 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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🔊SOUND ON🔊

I love that you can now quickly glance at some basic planet stats in Astro Focus and how the animations and SFX for the interaction turned out.

A game's UI should feel alive, don't you agree? 🧐

#indiedev #gamedev #godot
December 23, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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With everything going on in Astro Focus nested tooltips were a must ‼️ Do they look intuitive? 🧐

#indiedev #gamedev
November 26, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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Me and some friends are wondering: which game came up first with nested tooltips like these, do you know? 🧐
November 24, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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The advisor for my #pixelart space-Roman #indiegame AstroFocus.

Anyone got any good name suggestions? 🧐
November 20, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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⚠️⚠️⚠️

This one is for my #gamedev and #indiedev crowd: if the answer is yes, I've got a game for you below 👇👇

Even more so if you like pixelart, space and/or Romans 👀
November 18, 2024 at 8:20 PM
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Quote repost your art that has stars ✨
November 14, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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Now it should be easy to spot your space-Roman capital! 🧐

Astro Focus is a #pixelart productivity game where you grow a galactic Roman empire 🚀⚔ while focusing on real life tasks.

#indiedev #gamdev #godotengine
November 5, 2024 at 8:53 PM