Invocatus Indie Studio
@invocatus-games.com
Hi, we’re Invocatus! 👋 A tiny 2-person studio (Deborah 👩💻 + Michael 🎨🕹️) from Dresden, Germany, crafting indie games with story & soul 💙 Visit us @ invocatus-games.com
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Hello, world! 👋🌍
We finally got around to making a Bluesky account. We’re Invocatus, an indie studio just getting started and proud to be part of the Press Start Grant 2025.
Our team is Deborah (programming) + Michael (pixel art), and it’ll mostly be Deborah sharing updates here as we go ✨
We finally got around to making a Bluesky account. We’re Invocatus, an indie studio just getting started and proud to be part of the Press Start Grant 2025.
Our team is Deborah (programming) + Michael (pixel art), and it’ll mostly be Deborah sharing updates here as we go ✨
What a great start to the game jam. It took me only about an hour and a half to get this little bean to stop falling through the floor and be able to interact with the cube. Why is 3D so hard? 😭
November 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
What a great start to the game jam. It took me only about an hour and a half to get this little bean to stop falling through the floor and be able to interact with the cube. Why is 3D so hard? 😭
Today the #GameJamDD is starting and we’re jumping in! The topic is fall, and I'll try to post daily updates with our progress.
Today's session was just brainstorming, but for now the project has the codename DAC :) I want to try to work in 3D this time, we'll see how it goes
Today's session was just brainstorming, but for now the project has the codename DAC :) I want to try to work in 3D this time, we'll see how it goes
November 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Today the #GameJamDD is starting and we’re jumping in! The topic is fall, and I'll try to post daily updates with our progress.
Today's session was just brainstorming, but for now the project has the codename DAC :) I want to try to work in 3D this time, we'll see how it goes
Today's session was just brainstorming, but for now the project has the codename DAC :) I want to try to work in 3D this time, we'll see how it goes
It’s only one week until Halloween! We actually wanted to make a spooky pixel minigame. I’ll see how much I can get done this weekend. Michael prepared some spooky graphics, like this skull! It has a tiny resolution again, as it’s supposed to be an item.
#pixelart #halloween #gamedev
#pixelart #halloween #gamedev
October 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It’s only one week until Halloween! We actually wanted to make a spooky pixel minigame. I’ll see how much I can get done this weekend. Michael prepared some spooky graphics, like this skull! It has a tiny resolution again, as it’s supposed to be an item.
#pixelart #halloween #gamedev
#pixelart #halloween #gamedev
There’s only one image left for our website - While waiting for Michael to finish it, I can show you how he made the development ghostys :)
#pixelart
#pixelart
October 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
There’s only one image left for our website - While waiting for Michael to finish it, I can show you how he made the development ghostys :)
#pixelart
#pixelart
Wow, October is going by fast! I hope we have time to create a tiny game by the 31st.
Anyway, here’s already a timelapse of a pixel art witch (the old spooky kind).
#pixelart
Anyway, here’s already a timelapse of a pixel art witch (the old spooky kind).
#pixelart
October 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Wow, October is going by fast! I hope we have time to create a tiny game by the 31st.
Anyway, here’s already a timelapse of a pixel art witch (the old spooky kind).
#pixelart
Anyway, here’s already a timelapse of a pixel art witch (the old spooky kind).
#pixelart
October 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Okay since new pictures are coming in slowly right now, maybe you can enjoy this timelapse of our little gamer ghosty for our website:
#pixelart
#pixelart
October 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Okay since new pictures are coming in slowly right now, maybe you can enjoy this timelapse of our little gamer ghosty for our website:
#pixelart
#pixelart
This is the image idea for game design - I wonder if it would be better if ghosty jumped at the end?
Well back to animating then!
Well back to animating then!
October 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
This is the image idea for game design - I wonder if it would be better if ghosty jumped at the end?
Well back to animating then!
Well back to animating then!
Exciting news! Yesterday, we officially founded our company, horray 🎉
I wrote about it on our blog, you can read more about it here: https://invocatus.de/en/blog/07_10_2025_InvocatusGruendung
#Startup #Indiestudio
I wrote about it on our blog, you can read more about it here: https://invocatus.de/en/blog/07_10_2025_InvocatusGruendung
#Startup #Indiestudio
We’ve Founded: Invocatus GmbH - Invocatus Game Studio
It’s official: Invocatus GmbH was registered with the notary today.
invocatus.de
October 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Exciting news! Yesterday, we officially founded our company, horray 🎉
I wrote about it on our blog, you can read more about it here: https://invocatus.de/en/blog/07_10_2025_InvocatusGruendung
#Startup #Indiestudio
I wrote about it on our blog, you can read more about it here: https://invocatus.de/en/blog/07_10_2025_InvocatusGruendung
#Startup #Indiestudio
I asked Michael to do an image for gamification and he made this :) I love his little happy face once he levels up
October 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I asked Michael to do an image for gamification and he made this :) I love his little happy face once he levels up
Still redoing website images. Here is the visual for "Development for any device": Little ghosty showing up on both a laptop and smartphone, yeay!
October 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Still redoing website images. Here is the visual for "Development for any device": Little ghosty showing up on both a laptop and smartphone, yeay!
Okay apparently I messed up last time, but now for the start of Spooktober you can watch the pumpkin timelapse as promised!
#Pixelart #Spooktober
#Pixelart #Spooktober
October 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Okay apparently I messed up last time, but now for the start of Spooktober you can watch the pumpkin timelapse as promised!
#Pixelart #Spooktober
#Pixelart #Spooktober
Reposted by Invocatus Indie Studio
September 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We’ve been sharing a lot of Ghost Chase development art on Bluesky — now it’s all compiled in one place! 👻✨
Check out our blog post:
🔗 https://invocatus.de/en/blog/24_09_2025_TheArtOfGhostChase
#PixelArt #GameDev
Check out our blog post:
🔗 https://invocatus.de/en/blog/24_09_2025_TheArtOfGhostChase
#PixelArt #GameDev
The Art of Ghost Chase - Invocatus Game Studio
Showcasing All the Artworks from Ghost Chase
invocatus.de
September 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We’ve been sharing a lot of Ghost Chase development art on Bluesky — now it’s all compiled in one place! 👻✨
Check out our blog post:
🔗 https://invocatus.de/en/blog/24_09_2025_TheArtOfGhostChase
#PixelArt #GameDev
Check out our blog post:
🔗 https://invocatus.de/en/blog/24_09_2025_TheArtOfGhostChase
#PixelArt #GameDev
Next up: The final level, the throne room 👑
Here we experimented with shadows a bit more… and it came out quite nice!
#PixelArt #GameArt #IndieDev #FrameByFrame
Here we experimented with shadows a bit more… and it came out quite nice!
#PixelArt #GameArt #IndieDev #FrameByFrame
September 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Next up: The final level, the throne room 👑
Here we experimented with shadows a bit more… and it came out quite nice!
#PixelArt #GameArt #IndieDev #FrameByFrame
Here we experimented with shadows a bit more… and it came out quite nice!
#PixelArt #GameArt #IndieDev #FrameByFrame
Since we received really positive feedback on the art during the #lowrezjam, we want to show some frame-lapses of how it’s done!
Starting with the first level: the castle bridge. Everything here is 64x64px and scaled to 512x512px!
#PixelArt #IndieGame #GameDev
Starting with the first level: the castle bridge. Everything here is 64x64px and scaled to 512x512px!
#PixelArt #IndieGame #GameDev
September 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Since we received really positive feedback on the art during the #lowrezjam, we want to show some frame-lapses of how it’s done!
Starting with the first level: the castle bridge. Everything here is 64x64px and scaled to 512x512px!
#PixelArt #IndieGame #GameDev
Starting with the first level: the castle bridge. Everything here is 64x64px and scaled to 512x512px!
#PixelArt #IndieGame #GameDev
Today my sweet laptop (made in 2015, gifted to me in 2019) almost died just trying to share my screen on Teams 😅 The awkward silence while everything froze… brutal.
Just ordered a new workstation with a dedicated GPU. Hopefully this one will last me a decade too! 💻✨
#PCUpgrade #TeamsAgain
Just ordered a new workstation with a dedicated GPU. Hopefully this one will last me a decade too! 💻✨
#PCUpgrade #TeamsAgain
September 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Today my sweet laptop (made in 2015, gifted to me in 2019) almost died just trying to share my screen on Teams 😅 The awkward silence while everything froze… brutal.
Just ordered a new workstation with a dedicated GPU. Hopefully this one will last me a decade too! 💻✨
#PCUpgrade #TeamsAgain
Just ordered a new workstation with a dedicated GPU. Hopefully this one will last me a decade too! 💻✨
#PCUpgrade #TeamsAgain
Here’s a little throwback: Our entry for the #lowrezjam2025, Ghost Chase 👻
https://invocatus.itch.io/ghost-chase
Made in Godot as a test run for making something tiny start-to-finish.
#Godot #IndieDev #GameDev #LowRezJam
https://invocatus.itch.io/ghost-chase
Made in Godot as a test run for making something tiny start-to-finish.
#Godot #IndieDev #GameDev #LowRezJam
Ghost Chase by invocatus
Catch a tiny ghost in this entry for the LOWREZJAM 2025
invocatus.itch.io
September 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Here’s a little throwback: Our entry for the #lowrezjam2025, Ghost Chase 👻
https://invocatus.itch.io/ghost-chase
Made in Godot as a test run for making something tiny start-to-finish.
#Godot #IndieDev #GameDev #LowRezJam
https://invocatus.itch.io/ghost-chase
Made in Godot as a test run for making something tiny start-to-finish.
#Godot #IndieDev #GameDev #LowRezJam