Rob Stenzinger
@robstenzinger.bsky.social
Game and UX designer, current project Word Turtle Island now in early access on Steam. Also made Guitar Fretter, This Panda Needs You, Game Construction Kit. Husband, dad, progressive. Links to blog, games, contact at https://linktr.ee/robstenzinger
My favorite kind of stick figure placeholder art: H+BALL characters! Quick demo of how to create cartoony, fun, easy to draw characters primarily made of two shapes.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
My favorite kind of stick figure placeholder art: H+BALL characters! Quick demo of how to create cartoony, fun, easy to draw characters primarily made of two shapes.
youtube.com/shorts/_JVS0...
youtube.com/shorts/_JVS0...
Spell's Spelling helps folks practice spelling words. Made this playful way to practice spelling words, the HTML version is playable anytime in your browser and a purchasable Mac and Windows version.
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youtube.com/shorts/ZRNgd...
November 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Spell's Spelling helps folks practice spelling words. Made this playful way to practice spelling words, the HTML version is playable anytime in your browser and a purchasable Mac and Windows version.
youtube.com/shorts/ZRNgd...
youtube.com/shorts/ZRNgd...
Do you play guitar and or like guitar themed action-puzzle games? A while back I made a game called Guitar Fretter which features 4 and 5 string bass and 6 and 7 string electric guitar where you match notes to survive waves of creatures trying to take your confidence.
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youtube.com/shorts/_seLd...
Sketches from the big update to Guitar Fretter
Do you play guitar and or like guitar themed action-puzzle games? A while back I made a game called Guitar Fretter which features 4 and 5 string bass and 6 and 7 string electric guitar where you…
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November 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Do you play guitar and or like guitar themed action-puzzle games? A while back I made a game called Guitar Fretter which features 4 and 5 string bass and 6 and 7 string electric guitar where you match notes to survive waves of creatures trying to take your confidence.
youtube.com/shorts/_seLd...
youtube.com/shorts/_seLd...
Are you into word puzzle games? Check out this prototype word game I'm making. It's getting to the point where the basic things like input and layout and succeeding or failing at solving the puzzle are all in place.
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#gamedeveloper
#indiegames
#wordpuzzle
#wordgame
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#indiegames
#wordpuzzle
#wordgame
Are you into word puzzle games? Check out this prototype!
Are you into word puzzle games? Check out this prototype word game I'm making. It's getting to the point where the basic things like input and layout and succeeding or failing at solving the puzzle…
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October 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Are you into word puzzle games? Check out this prototype word game I'm making. It's getting to the point where the basic things like input and layout and succeeding or failing at solving the puzzle are all in place.
youtube.com/shorts/AaICV...
#gamedeveloper
#indiegames
#wordpuzzle
#wordgame
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#indiegames
#wordpuzzle
#wordgame
Made these two posters to guide level design in my game Word Turtle Island.
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#gamedeveloper
#gamedesign
#journal
#posters
#creativity
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#creativity
Made posters to guide level design in my game Word Turtle Island
Made these two posters to guide level design in my game Word Turtle Island.
What helps you focus when you're building a game feature that takes a while to create? Sometimes I'll make posters to be…
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October 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Made these two posters to guide level design in my game Word Turtle Island.
youtube.com/shorts/6194P...
#indiegames
#gamedeveloper
#gamedesign
#journal
#posters
#creativity
youtube.com/shorts/6194P...
#indiegames
#gamedeveloper
#gamedesign
#journal
#posters
#creativity
Word puzzle game prototype progress! It's a bit backwards but also kind of fun to make the words hide instead of showing. Maybe that will be in the game on purpose as I evolve the prototype and land on my design goals for this game.
#gamedeveloper
#devjournal
#wordgame
#prototyping
#creativecoding
#gamedeveloper
#devjournal
#wordgame
#prototyping
#creativecoding
October 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Word puzzle game prototype progress! It's a bit backwards but also kind of fun to make the words hide instead of showing. Maybe that will be in the game on purpose as I evolve the prototype and land on my design goals for this game.
#gamedeveloper
#devjournal
#wordgame
#prototyping
#creativecoding
#gamedeveloper
#devjournal
#wordgame
#prototyping
#creativecoding
How to choose what game to make next? Market driven? Your own instinct? youtube.com/shorts/ZYbq7...
Market driven works for some folks, choosing something based on what's selling. Instinct and rolling with things works too. Or going with your own taste and inspirations at the moment.
#indiegames
Market driven works for some folks, choosing something based on what's selling. Instinct and rolling with things works too. Or going with your own taste and inspirations at the moment.
#indiegames
How to choose what game to make next? Market driven? Your own instinct?
How to choose what game to make next? Market driven? Your own instinct?
What kind of game should I make? How should I or what can I use to help to choose what kind of game to make next?
Market…
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October 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
How to choose what game to make next? Market driven? Your own instinct? youtube.com/shorts/ZYbq7...
Market driven works for some folks, choosing something based on what's selling. Instinct and rolling with things works too. Or going with your own taste and inspirations at the moment.
#indiegames
Market driven works for some folks, choosing something based on what's selling. Instinct and rolling with things works too. Or going with your own taste and inspirations at the moment.
#indiegames
Sharing this to help other indie game creators hopefully not repeat my Steam publishing mistakes. From what I can tell so far I did it all in the wrong order.
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#indiegames
#gamedeveloper
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#gamedeveloper
Things I learned publishing my game to Steam in the perfectly wrong order of steps
Sharing this to help other indie game creators hopefully not repeat my Steam publishing mistakes. From what I can tell so far I did it all in the wrong order.
More or less I published the game's…
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September 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Sharing this to help other indie game creators hopefully not repeat my Steam publishing mistakes. From what I can tell so far I did it all in the wrong order.
youtube.com/shorts/C1oh5...
#indiegames
#gamedeveloper
youtube.com/shorts/C1oh5...
#indiegames
#gamedeveloper
Things I'm trying to market my game Word Turtle Island. And what kinds of things are you doing to market your indie game? In the spirit of we're all contributing to this industry and I wish to see us all to succeed in not only creating our games but also as creative business endeavors.
#indiegames
What kinds of things are you doing to market your indie game?
Things I'm trying to market my game Word Turtle Island. And what kinds of things are you doing to market your indie game?
In the spirit of we're all contributing to this industry and I wish to see…
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September 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Things I'm trying to market my game Word Turtle Island. And what kinds of things are you doing to market your indie game? In the spirit of we're all contributing to this industry and I wish to see us all to succeed in not only creating our games but also as creative business endeavors.
#indiegames
Thankful that often during the 2D Con, there was a few folks in line playing the arcade machine of Word Turtle Island. One moment the red dinosaur from Dino-Might was there, the next, was off to other adventures.
#indiegames
#gamedeveloper
#2dcon
#wordturtleisland
#dinomight
#indiegames
#gamedeveloper
#2dcon
#wordturtleisland
#dinomight
September 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Thankful that often during the 2D Con, there was a few folks in line playing the arcade machine of Word Turtle Island. One moment the red dinosaur from Dino-Might was there, the next, was off to other adventures.
#indiegames
#gamedeveloper
#2dcon
#wordturtleisland
#dinomight
#indiegames
#gamedeveloper
#2dcon
#wordturtleisland
#dinomight
Ever see an Atari 2600 game vs its cover art? Imagine and invite game
players into your prototype. What is a reason to make sense of the interactions? What could give it a little touch of narrative or drama?
www.youtube.com/shorts/4L3qh...
#indiegames
#gamedeveloper
#prototyping
#gamedesign
players into your prototype. What is a reason to make sense of the interactions? What could give it a little touch of narrative or drama?
www.youtube.com/shorts/4L3qh...
#indiegames
#gamedeveloper
#prototyping
#gamedesign
Like Atari 2600 game vs its cover art - Imagine and invite game players into your prototype
Ever see an Atari 2600 game vs its cover art? Imagine and invite game
players into your prototype. What is a reason to make sense of the interactions? What could give it a little touch of narrative…
www.youtube.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Ever see an Atari 2600 game vs its cover art? Imagine and invite game
players into your prototype. What is a reason to make sense of the interactions? What could give it a little touch of narrative or drama?
www.youtube.com/shorts/4L3qh...
#indiegames
#gamedeveloper
#prototyping
#gamedesign
players into your prototype. What is a reason to make sense of the interactions? What could give it a little touch of narrative or drama?
www.youtube.com/shorts/4L3qh...
#indiegames
#gamedeveloper
#prototyping
#gamedesign
New art/game dev journal posted. Polytechnicast - Word Turtle Island 1.0 and Winning an Award at 2D Con. I share what it's like now with it officially the full version, things I would and wouldn't recommend doing again looking back at the development path of WTI, and about my next game prototype.
September 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
New art/game dev journal posted. Polytechnicast - Word Turtle Island 1.0 and Winning an Award at 2D Con. I share what it's like now with it officially the full version, things I would and wouldn't recommend doing again looking back at the development path of WTI, and about my next game prototype.
Gallery (photo dump) of tabling at 2D Con for my game Word Turtle Island. Photo dump isn't my favorite term, but I do think it's a widely known way to say "here's a bunch of images from an event". Includes Indie Island room, the Indie Q and A Panel, closing ceremony
#indiegames
#gamedeveloper
#2Dcon
#indiegames
#gamedeveloper
#2Dcon
September 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Gallery (photo dump) of tabling at 2D Con for my game Word Turtle Island. Photo dump isn't my favorite term, but I do think it's a widely known way to say "here's a bunch of images from an event". Includes Indie Island room, the Indie Q and A Panel, closing ceremony
#indiegames
#gamedeveloper
#2Dcon
#indiegames
#gamedeveloper
#2Dcon
What a wild fun surprise and I really appreciate it, thank you 2D Con community! Word Turtle Island won an award, voted by attendees of 2D Con. The Indie Island developer showcase art direction award (digital category)! 😍 🏆 🎮 #indiegames
#2dcon #gamedeveloper #wordturtleisland
#2dcon #gamedeveloper #wordturtleisland
August 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
What a wild fun surprise and I really appreciate it, thank you 2D Con community! Word Turtle Island won an award, voted by attendees of 2D Con. The Indie Island developer showcase art direction award (digital category)! 😍 🏆 🎮 #indiegames
#2dcon #gamedeveloper #wordturtleisland
#2dcon #gamedeveloper #wordturtleisland
For a few years I partially set aside making games and focused on visual storytelling via comics. Art Geek Zoo was my main project, a story about a talented penguin guitarist named Pick who had major challenges with stage fright and his grumpy mystic guitar friend named Crunchy.
August 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
For a few years I partially set aside making games and focused on visual storytelling via comics. Art Geek Zoo was my main project, a story about a talented penguin guitarist named Pick who had major challenges with stage fright and his grumpy mystic guitar friend named Crunchy.
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Word Turtle Island a few weeks into development vs what it looks like now. From placeholder art to my own art, from only typing action to now word action whether you type, use a game controller, touch screen or mouse. From no story to a narrative about saving the most awesome library in the galaxy
August 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Word Turtle Island a few weeks into development vs what it looks like now. From placeholder art to my own art, from only typing action to now word action whether you type, use a game controller, touch screen or mouse. From no story to a narrative about saving the most awesome library in the galaxy
Word Turtle Island a few weeks into development vs what it looks like now. From placeholder art to my own art, from only typing action to now word action whether you type, use a game controller, touch screen or mouse. From no story to a narrative about saving the most awesome library in the galaxy
August 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Word Turtle Island a few weeks into development vs what it looks like now. From placeholder art to my own art, from only typing action to now word action whether you type, use a game controller, touch screen or mouse. From no story to a narrative about saving the most awesome library in the galaxy
Celebrating the official 1.0 release of Word Turtle Island tomorrow 8/12. So many events this year showing the game and new arcade cabinet. Midwest Gaming Classic, VGM Con, Minnebar, STEM Fest, 2D Con Summer Pop-up at MOA. 4 years in the making, now/soon at Steam, Google Play, Apple
#indiegames
#indiegames
August 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Celebrating the official 1.0 release of Word Turtle Island tomorrow 8/12. So many events this year showing the game and new arcade cabinet. Midwest Gaming Classic, VGM Con, Minnebar, STEM Fest, 2D Con Summer Pop-up at MOA. 4 years in the making, now/soon at Steam, Google Play, Apple
#indiegames
#indiegames
A postcard style design mini-poster, showing the official launch day of Word Turtle Island! It's coming soon, please wishlist, bookmark, pick it up for you or any book loving video game playing friend on Tuesday the 12th. #indiegames #videogames
August 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
A postcard style design mini-poster, showing the official launch day of Word Turtle Island! It's coming soon, please wishlist, bookmark, pick it up for you or any book loving video game playing friend on Tuesday the 12th. #indiegames #videogames
Word Turtle Island's 1.0 launch is on 8/12/2025! This post is more than a mere ad it's hope and call to action for a special indie game, made with a joy for words, an action game that's about overcoming conflict with words. #indiegames
August 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Word Turtle Island's 1.0 launch is on 8/12/2025! This post is more than a mere ad it's hope and call to action for a special indie game, made with a joy for words, an action game that's about overcoming conflict with words. #indiegames
Intertwined creative challenge: make an ambitious game, make it a business, succeed in marketing it well. In this I focus on the marketing part of that challenge, what I've learned the past few months publishing video every day.
July 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Intertwined creative challenge: make an ambitious game, make it a business, succeed in marketing it well. In this I focus on the marketing part of that challenge, what I've learned the past few months publishing video every day.
Is it a ferrite bead? Is it a subliminal art influence? Could be my imagination doing a pareidolia (had to/wanted to/needed to look it up, that thing where we see faces in things).
July 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Is it a ferrite bead? Is it a subliminal art influence? Could be my imagination doing a pareidolia (had to/wanted to/needed to look it up, that thing where we see faces in things).
A glimpse into my music process for my game soundtrack
Here I'm setting up and warming up to make another music track for my game Word Turtle Island. Some of the tools I use are my guitar with a midi pick up add-on and the app loopy Pro on my iPad.
#indiegames
#gamedeveloper
#behindthescenes
Here I'm setting up and warming up to make another music track for my game Word Turtle Island. Some of the tools I use are my guitar with a midi pick up add-on and the app loopy Pro on my iPad.
#indiegames
#gamedeveloper
#behindthescenes
July 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
A glimpse into my music process for my game soundtrack
Here I'm setting up and warming up to make another music track for my game Word Turtle Island. Some of the tools I use are my guitar with a midi pick up add-on and the app loopy Pro on my iPad.
#indiegames
#gamedeveloper
#behindthescenes
Here I'm setting up and warming up to make another music track for my game Word Turtle Island. Some of the tools I use are my guitar with a midi pick up add-on and the app loopy Pro on my iPad.
#indiegames
#gamedeveloper
#behindthescenes
What sort of questions do you have for a UX generalist / solo indie game creator? Art? Sound? Code? The design/business/product aspect of solo creator stuff? Interdisciplinary artist, generalist, T-shaped. Something you'd like me to explore or questions you have for me, I'd love to hear. #indiegames
July 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
What sort of questions do you have for a UX generalist / solo indie game creator? Art? Sound? Code? The design/business/product aspect of solo creator stuff? Interdisciplinary artist, generalist, T-shaped. Something you'd like me to explore or questions you have for me, I'd love to hear. #indiegames