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Kay 🔪
@kayillustrations.bsky.social
✨️ Artist and Game Developer
✨️ Home of the Cuties, the Cryptids and the Claras
Working on Cryptid Camp cozy game ⬇️⬇️
Cryptidcamp.carrd.co
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Landing Page LIVE 🔴http://cryptidcamp.carrd.co

🗺Explore Cryptid Camp's journey with ease and follow us on all your favorite socials!🌐

Hope to see you there!👋💕
#indiegame #gamedev #cozygame
the mothmom integration begins 😈🧪

#cryptidcamp #gameart #indiedev
March 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Lots of behind the scenes managers being worked on these past 2 weeks, so nothing super cool to post yet😥

BUT❗❗❗Hopefully I'll have some NPC sprites to showcase this coming week so look forward to some mothmom-ahem I mean mothwoman! #cryptidcamp
March 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Out of energy or health? 💔 Want time to fly faster?
Hop on into your trusty tent and nap the night (or day) away!💤

It's a little janky, but working and that's all that matters to me right now lmao😂
#indiedev #cryptidcamp #gamedev
February 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
⌛Time is an illusion... but also a fun excuse for colorful overlays!🌈🌞

For testing purposes I sped up the sec/hr to showcase the new implementation of passing time (definitely not a jojo reference😉)
#indiedev #cryptidcamp #gamedev
February 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
❓Can a game object be both 2D AND 3D❓
With the power of layers and spite it can!

Here's a super secret behind-the-scenes look of how I accomplish the 2.5D look on the larger items in Cryptid Camp :3c
#indiedev #gamedev #gameart
February 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Is the car 3d or 2D? Why can't be both😉

Had lots of fun playing around with the 2D layers to get the car to look convincing 🤩🤩🤩

Seriously, the things I put myself through just to avoid 3D modelling is wild🤣
#indiedev #gamedev #cryptidcamp
January 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
This is not a drill ❗❗ Cryptid Campsite is expanding 😱
So excited to finally get the scene switch working
🤩🤩🤩
Each scene properly saves and loads when player triggers the "doorway". Eventually I would like it to trigger upon enter but I'm just happy it works lmao
#indiedev #gamedev #cryptidcamp
January 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Hm... I wonder what's being hidden behind these locked gates? 🤔🤔🤔

Guess you'll just have to wait to find out 😊
#indiedev #gamedev #cryptidcamp
January 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
🎆Happy New Year!🎉
With the new year comes new changes‼️

I've started a new job so updates on Cryptid Camp might be slow to start, but as I settle in, I'm excited to finally wrap up production on my demo!

🗓️Stay tuned for timeline reveals in the coming week
#indiedev #gamedev
January 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I'm thinking about making some #cottagecore #pixelart pack that I can make available on itchio 🤔💭

So far my list of things to add are:
🌿flowers and succulents
🐞bugs and mushrooms
🍶 jars and pots
🏡wooden/earthy interiors
👩‍🌾gardening tools

Anything else you'd want to see?
#gameart #indiedev
December 16, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Wow! Another amazing #artfair at Columbus College of Art & Design.

Thank you to everyone who supported my #smallbusiness 💕 I'm super proud of the turnout to my booth! This was my best year yet in sales 🤩
December 8, 2024 at 2:34 PM
A tool hotbar that can be customized through drag and drop??? Sign me the HECK up! 🤩

This was my first time making a hotbar so let me bask in this glory for a moment 🥰🥰🥰
#indiegame #indiedev #cryptidcamp
December 1, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Worked some of my colors into my cover design for Cryptid Camp(site?) and I wanted to get some opinions first on the feel and placement of everything.
❓ Anything feel off to you?
❓ Is the image too busy? Too empty?
❓ Does the vibe fit my game?
#indiedev #coverart #gameart
November 23, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Cleaned up lots of the visuals for the foraging 🏞
✨Particles : Damaged Grass, Trees, Rocks
🎞 Animations: Trees shake / fall opposite of Player
🖼 Sprites: 1/2 Clipped grass disappears when damaged

Not the most fun, but necessary for that good feel 👌
#indiegame #gamedev #cozygame
November 16, 2024 at 8:48 PM
🎨Playing around with some logo design today for my game cryptid camp(site?)

Thinking of leaning more into the campfire motif...
Thoughts? 🤔💭 #indiedev #gameart #LogoDesign
November 10, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Blacked out Wednesday and woke up the next day with a finished Save/Load system😳😳😳

Funny how much can get done when you're disassociating from reality.

Silver linings I guess 😅
November 8, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Lmao I finally figured out the reason I'm not getting reply notifications. Weird setting is off now 😎👍
November 3, 2024 at 12:57 PM
YOOO forageables can now auto generate for players to collect daily!!! 🤯
🤖Spawning only occurs in viable locations on the map that are not already taken up by another object
#indiedev #indiegame #cryptidcamp
November 2, 2024 at 5:58 PM
As a gamer myself, I'm always critical about the inventory of other games 😤
So it was a no-brainer that I needed to implement drag-drop to Cryptid Campsite's inventory system too!
It so satisfying to just shuffle items around now~ 🥰
#indiegame #gamedev
October 27, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Reposted by Kay 🔪
Cryptid Campsite is now a farming sim ⁉⁉😱

Okay maybe not actually a simulation but at least it now has gardening which is fun lol 😂😂😂
#indiegame #gamedev #cottagecore
September 22, 2024 at 6:33 PM
🎨🖼 My favorite art hack is making the scene in Sims and playing around with angle and lighting to find the perfect reference image.
The actual cover art for Cryptid Camp is COMING SOON ❣❣❣ So excited to show the before and after🤩
#indiegame #gamedev #conceptart
October 19, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Really proud of the journey this camping bag has gone through. 😊✨
To think it all started by me sitting on the floor at work just doodling ideas while waiting for smoothie orders to come in 😂😂😂
#indiegame #gamedev #gameart #cottagecore
October 13, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Landing Page LIVE 🔴http://cryptidcamp.carrd.co

🗺Explore Cryptid Camp's journey with ease and follow us on all your favorite socials!🌐

Hope to see you there!👋💕
#indiegame #gamedev #cozygame
October 10, 2024 at 4:55 PM
I'm going to try and remember to add alt text to my images and videos from now on. It's not something I've done before but I don't want accessibility to be the reason people can't enjoy the things I create...
[1/2]
October 7, 2024 at 4:19 PM
My, My... What do we have here?

A finished dialogue system perhaps?

Yes! Yes it is! How delightful~💕

#indiegame #gamedev #cozygame #cryptidcamp
October 6, 2024 at 11:00 PM