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Pie Trap Studios
@pietrapstudios.bsky.social
We Make Games! | Game Studio | Co-dev | Indie Dev | Artists
Our Game: @ForageFriends.bsky.social
Our Website: https://www.PieTrap.com/
Happy Halloween from Pie Trap Studios! 🎃
We conjured a lil chonk ghost cat 👻🐾 — cute, spooky, and full of spirit. Made just for fun by our team!
Stay Spooky with us ➡️ pietrap.com
#PieTrapStudios #3DArt #GameArt #Halloween #GhostCat
October 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Introducing The Doc from Project Overclock — a surreal, music-infused character concept with a lightbulb for a head. Sculpted by Pie Trap Studios to explore personality, form, and eccentric energy in stylized design.

#GameArt #ZBrush #StylizedArt #3DModeling #PieTrapStudios
October 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Meet the Boom Boxer from Project Overclock — a stylized fighter sculpted in ZBrush and Marvelous Designer, mixing semi-realistic anatomy with 80s boombox attitude. Created by Pie Trap Studios for early concept exploration.

#GameArt #3DModeling #StylizedArt #PieTrapStudios
October 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Check out Project Overclock, a music-driven game concept fusing 90s hip-hop, EDM, and cyberpunk flair. Though it didn’t move past the pitch phase, it inspired bold, sound-driven designs that still influence our creative process.

#GameArt #3DModeling #PieTrapStudios
October 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Check out our sculpt of Kotal Kahn from Angry Joe’s planned Mortal Kombat X tabletop game with Jasco. This stylized miniature was part of a full set of characters before the project was cancelled.

#MiniatureSculpt #3DModeling #MortalKombat #GameArt #NoAI
October 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Get ready for some of our never-before seen work! 👀

#mortalkombat #mk #kotalkahn
October 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Reposted by Pie Trap Studios
I joined @ustwogames.co.uk 9 years ago!

I'm so proud of the work I've been able to do during my career so far with them, and so happy I get to make games with the best bunch of people.

Monument Valley 2
Assemble with Care
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
Monument Valley 3

I love making colorful art!!
October 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Bring the chill to Rawmen!
We created the stylized Yeti skin for Animal's chaotic food-fighting game, handling concept, modeling, and customization assets with hand-crafted care and playful personality.
pietrap.com
#GameDev #3DArt #StylizedArt #CharacterDesign
October 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Summon flavor in Rawmen!
We designed the stylized Warlock skin for Animal's chaotic food-fighting game, creating concept, models, and customization assets with human-made craft and style.
pietrap.com
#GameDev #3DArt #StylizedArt #CharacterDesign #RawmenGame
October 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
View our snowy arctic diorama for Dojo Islands. Using modular assets and hand-painted textures, we created a stylized frozen landscape optimized for WebGL and mobile.

#EnvironmentArt #SnowEnvironment #StylizedArt #LowPoly #NoAI
October 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Check out this forest portal diorama from Dojo Islands. Built with modular kits, it blends hand-painted textures and optimized low-poly modeling to create striking focal points in stylized worlds.

#EnvironmentArt #FantasyEnvironment #StylizedArt #GameArt #NoAI
October 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Discover our oasis diorama for Dojo Islands, built with modular kits for flexible level design. Low-poly, hand-painted, and optimized for performance while creating a warm, stylized world.

#EnvironmentArt #Oasis #StylizedArt #GameArt #NoAI
October 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
CHECK OUT our modular environment kits for ClassDojo’s Dojo Islands. This tropical diorama shows our low-poly, hand-painted assets optimized for WebGL and mobile. Stylized, efficient, and production ready.

#EnvironmentArt #LowPoly #HandPainted #GameArt
September 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
🚨Client spotlight: @rawmengame.bsky.social by Animal!
What we did:
🎮Co-Dev Consulting
🎨Concept + 3D Character Art
🎩Character Customization

❓Need help on your game? Let’s talk. www.PieTrap.com

#gamedev #3Dart #characterart #PieTrap #RawmenGame #humanart #portfolio
July 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
🌸We won't be at Sakura Con this year, but we're still celebrating with shop discounts and Discord giveaways during con weekend (April 18–20)!
🌸Thanks for all the support — we’ll miss seeing you!
#SakuraCon #ForageFriends #IndieDev #CozyGames #IndieGame
April 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🎮 The Design Behind Games stream tonight is all about juggling!

We'll be playing Two Point Museum and chatting about tutorials for complicated games. Bonus: you'll be able to participate by becoming Staff members in the museum! 🤹✨

Join the fun tonight on Twitch from 7-9pm PT: twitch.tv/pietrap
March 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
LIVE, NOW! Come join our Narrative Designers, as they play Baltro for our Tarot Tuesday! www.twitch.tv/pietrap/about

#tarot #twitch #narrative #writers #gamedev #balatro
March 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Join us for another podcast/livestream with game designer, Steve Williams, as we talk about How Games Make you Feel Things.

Live now: www.twitch.tv/pietrap

Featured game: To The Moon

#games #indiegames #gamedesign #tothemoon
February 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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February 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
🎮 In tonight's The Design Behind Games stream, we'll be playing Sims 4 and contemplating if "Love Is Just A Number"

(Fluency in Simlish not required)

Join us tonight from 7-9pm PT on Twitch — twitch.tv/pietrap
February 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Come join us tonight at 7pm PST on our Twitch Channel. www.twitch.tv/pietrap

#indiegame #indiegamedev #gamedev #evilgenius #gamedesign
Tonight on my #gamedesign / #gametheory stream we'll be discussing "Rivals ARE Heroes" while playing Evil Genius 2. What is a hero? How can you tell? How does a rival change them? All this and more -- and a history lesson about Roald Dahl: heroic sexy #superspy. 7-9PM Pacific, details on my header.
February 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Pathways to the player's desire and space with a purpose. Game Designer, Steve Williams, talks a little bit about Level Design. Featuring Dystopika.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu39...

#game #indiegamedevelopment #gamedev #gamedesign #leveldesign #dystopika #cyberpunk #pietrap
Is there a Psychological affect to good Level Design?
YouTube video by Pie Trap Studios
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January 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Hi Bsky!

We're Pie Trap! A video game studio in the Seattle, WA area! We started in 2020 by a couple of veteran game artists looking to make games with a positive impact. We are making our own game as well as helping other studios make theirs! We invite you to follow us and introduce yourselves!
January 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM