Dan Magnusson
@pastadiablo.com
Game developer, iOS expert, Ex-Amazon.
Making a game about counting adorable eldritch Voids 🐈⬛. Sign up for future beta here: https://cutt.ly/voids-beta
Making a game about counting adorable eldritch Voids 🐈⬛. Sign up for future beta here: https://cutt.ly/voids-beta
Probably my most productive week in a long time! 🎉 NPC dialogue🗣️, overworld animations🌎, level information bubbles💭, it has it all!
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#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #pixelart
October 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Probably my most productive week in a long time! 🎉 NPC dialogue🗣️, overworld animations🌎, level information bubbles💭, it has it all!
#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #pixelart
#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #pixelart
October 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The Ancient Castle is probably one of the coolest biomes I've worked on. It has so much detail in its tileset that it will have multiple sub-biomes within it. Here's the first of those: The Ramparts.
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#gamedev #indiegame #screenshotsaturday
October 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The Ancient Castle is probably one of the coolest biomes I've worked on. It has so much detail in its tileset that it will have multiple sub-biomes within it. Here's the first of those: The Ramparts.
#gamedev #indiegame #screenshotsaturday
#gamedev #indiegame #screenshotsaturday
October 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I added this new ✨shader effect✨ at the end of a level to show which Voids you were able to rescue! ❤️🔥🐈⬛❤️🔥🐈⬛❤️🔥
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#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev
October 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I added this new ✨shader effect✨ at the end of a level to show which Voids you were able to rescue! ❤️🔥🐈⬛❤️🔥🐈⬛❤️🔥
#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev
#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev
The tilesets I use have these animated doodads (trees and grass and stuff). To fake blowing in the wind, I made a little script to attach to each object that applies a random speed, duration, and pauses. It works surprisingly well.
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#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #screenshotsaturday
September 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The tilesets I use have these animated doodads (trees and grass and stuff). To fake blowing in the wind, I made a little script to attach to each object that applies a random speed, duration, and pauses. It works surprisingly well.
#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #screenshotsaturday
#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #screenshotsaturday
In my game, every level always had the same amount of Voids. There are a few ways to solve this - I chose to add a flag I can set on each Void that, if set, gives them only a 50% chance to spawn. I called this flag "Schrodinger", which I thought was funny.
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#indiedev #gamedev
September 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I got complaints from the 🐈⬛Voids🐈⬛ that the houses in the 🛖Village🛖 were starting to feel a little cramped, so I built an abandoned 🌳Forest Temple🌳 for them to roam around in.
🤔What sort of biome should I build for them next?🤔
🤔What sort of biome should I build for them next?🤔
September 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I got complaints from the 🐈⬛Voids🐈⬛ that the houses in the 🛖Village🛖 were starting to feel a little cramped, so I built an abandoned 🌳Forest Temple🌳 for them to roam around in.
🤔What sort of biome should I build for them next?🤔
🤔What sort of biome should I build for them next?🤔
When Voids fall into our world from Somewhere Else, they can suddenly appear anywhere. I wanted to do more than have them simply fade in though, so I created these animations for when they spawn.
#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #blackcats
#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #blackcats
September 15, 2025 at 4:14 AM
When Voids fall into our world from Somewhere Else, they can suddenly appear anywhere. I wanted to do more than have them simply fade in though, so I created these animations for when they spawn.
#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #blackcats
#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #blackcats
They adore scritches.
September 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
They adore scritches.
I have a secret. I've been lying to you. The cats in my game aren't actually cats. They're Voids, creatures from another plane known as Somewhere Else. To represent that, I applied a particle effect to each Void. I think it gives them eldritch vibes!
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#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart
September 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Once I'd selected the look of my cat sprite, I needed to figure out how to make it walk right!
I'd animated bipeds before, but quadrupeds were new to me. I think I got pretty close for a programmer, but realized some limbs were off-sync much later.
Know which ones?
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I'd animated bipeds before, but quadrupeds were new to me. I think I got pretty close for a programmer, but realized some limbs were off-sync much later.
Know which ones?
#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart
September 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
(for those curious, these are in a 16x16 setting. I also tried 8x8 as well but I found they didn't read as cats as well. and you definitely don't want to see my 32x32 attempt)
September 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
(for those curious, these are in a 16x16 setting. I also tried 8x8 as well but I found they didn't read as cats as well. and you definitely don't want to see my 32x32 attempt)
During the Black Cat Game Jam last year, all the assets of black cats I found available online didn't quite match what I wanted.
So I tried my hand at making a ton of pixel cats in Aseprite. Some of them look really weird! But some looked pretty good too! Which is your fave?
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So I tried my hand at making a ton of pixel cats in Aseprite. Some of them look really weird! But some looked pretty good too! Which is your fave?
#gamedev #indiedev
September 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM