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Ted Martens
@tedmartens.bsky.social
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Artist & Indie Dev. Cadence of Hyrule, Crypt of the NecroDancer & Amplified, Pixel Fireplace, Hexels co-creator.

Pixel Fireplace 🪵🔥◻️
Steam: s.team/a/2678480
Itchio: https://hammertail.itch.io/pixel-fireplace
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Mage 🪄
#pixelart #indiedev
Video game pixel art sprites of a fantasy mage woman holding a staff and lighting a magical flame in her hand, in four color variants. The design is part of game development for my indie game.
November 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Found a few more doodles and early sketches for these.
various pixel art sketches of creatures. Rough bug sketches, a large centipede made out of spheres, a rogue, hoodie bird with a cauldron, red fire mage, guinea pig, slime with swords inside of it, hippo, enchanted armor sketch holding a sai weapon in one hand.
November 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Undead Pikeman Soldier 💀⛓️
#pixelart #indiedev
Video game pixel art sprites of an undead medieval soldier wearing chainmail and a helmet and holding a pike or spear, in four color variants. The design is part of game development and might be used as a character or enemy in my indie game.
November 3, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Although I didn't always post one everyday I did at least doodle something which was my goal, to draw some ideas everyday which could be a finished design or just a doodle that I might come back to later. Here are some of the doodles.
Several pixel art doodles in various stages of completion. They are: vampire, zombie or ghoul, gargoyle, pumpkin head, treant, werewolf, medieval executioner, grim reaper, cleric, dark ooze, poe spirit, snake, ghost knight, a floating head with a funny face, spears stuck in the ground, a skeleton warrior holding a spear, undead butcher, and an archer.
November 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Here are all the creatures and color variants I made in October. Glad I set out to draw something everyday, now I have a bunch of new enemies to think about and iterate on for my game :)
#pixelart #indiedev
Video game pixel art sprites of many creature designs with color variants. The designs are part of game development and will be used as characters or enemies in my indie game. The creatures are: lizard fighter and archer, ghosts, jelly worm, barbarian, treant, rogue, wizard, floating weapons, enchanted armor guardian, vampire, gargoyle, cleric, large centipede, werewolf, alchemist, undead centaur, cloaked fire mage, megaloceros prehistoric deer, flail slime, ghoul with a gravestone and hands emerging from the ground, guinea pig warrior, hippo or orc fighter, several mushroom creatures.
November 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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screenshot of a positive Steam review that says "this game is fire" screenshot of a comment on Itchio that says "Can i burn my house if i keep this on for too long?"
October 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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hey my tiny fireplace sim game is $1.24 for Halloween. what people are saying:
"this game is fire"
"that's lit bro"
"will it burn my house down?"

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October 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Happy Halloween! 🐺👻👹🎃
#pixelart #NES #halloween
Video game pixel art sprites of six monsters. A gargoyle, vampire, ghoul, werewolf, treant, and a ghost. The colors are from the NES color palette and limited to 3 or 4 colors per sprite (plus transparency). The designs are part of game development and will be used as monsters in my indie game.
October 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Undead Barbarian ⚔️
#pixelart #indiedev
Video game pixel art sprites of an undead barbarian in four color variants with long hair wearing a circlet, and a large wide torso with big muscles and a sword on his back. The design is part of game development and might be used as a character or enemy in my indie game.
October 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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a dark and twisted forest 🌳
#pixelart #indiedev #halloween
Video game pixel art sprites of four treant (tree monster) color variants with mouth open, four branch-like arms with stick-like claws. The designs are part of game development and will be used as monsters in my indie game.
October 29, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Vampire 🦇⚰️
#pixelart #indiedev #halloween
Video game pixel art sprites of four vampire color variants with fangs, long hair, a long gothic pea coat, and a cape.
October 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Gargoyle 👹
#pixelart #indiedev
Video game pixel art sprites of four gargoyle color variants with wings, fangs, and claws. The designs are part of game development and will be used as monsters in my indie game.
October 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Werewolves 🌕
#pixelart #indiedev #halloween
Video game pixel art sprites of four werewolf color variants with fangs and claws. The designs are part of game development and will be used as monsters in my indie game.
October 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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some ghouls hangin' out. 🪦🖐️
#pixelart #indiedev #halloween
Video game pixel art sprites of some spooky ghouls from a medieval fantasy setting, using the NES color palette but not the sprite restrictions. They have fangs, an extra long gross tongue, and claws. There's a tombstone and hands reaching up from below, as well. The designs are part of game development and will be used as monsters in my indie game.
October 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Here are all of the October Enemies I've made so far.
#pixelart #indiedev
20 or so video game pixel art sprites of various fantasy creature designs with color variants. The designs are part of game development and will be used as an enemy monsters in my indie game. The creatures are: Undead centaur holding a sword and shield. The centaur has visible bones and horns. Chaos mage in robes with high pointed shoulder mantles and a hood covering their head and face. They're raising their arms up casting flames from each one. Megaloceros, a prehistoric deer with very large, broad antlers. A hippo fighter holding a sword. Slime monster with a spike ball inside of it, one has the spike completely inside, one has it floating on top like a wave, one is reaching, and the last one is about to swing the spike ball like a flail. Four enemies based on coral mushrooms. Each has a "dormant" version next to it with slightly darker colors. Mushroom characters with different shapes and faces. The first has a wide blue top and a small body. The second has a purple top with a wide body and a small frowny face. The last one has an orange top and a more detailed face and tiny feet. Guinea pig enemy with claws, and a couple of them have armor. Witches and alchemists in front of a cauldron. They have various faces including an old man, old woman, a shadowy demon sort of face, and a bird-like one. Centipede type bugs made out of several segments. Suits of armor standing with arms crossed holding two swords each. A hooded rogue character holding two daggers. Cleric holding a mace and one hand is raised with a magic aura around it. Lizard fighters holding a sword and archers holding a bow. Wizards wearing robes and holding a staff. Worm type creature with four teeth and two eyes and a shiny jellyfish type texture, coiled in one image and stretched, lunging in another image. Ghosts: a guard in armor holding a battle axe. A lord with a white beard in armor holding a sword. A boy and a girl in similar poses floating with arms stretched out.
October 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Spirits of a haunted castle 🏰👻
#pixelart #indiedev
Video game pixel art sprites of spirits in a medieval fantasy setting. One is a guard in armor holding a battle axe, one is a king or lord with a white beard in armor holding a sword, two of them are a boy in a tunic and a girl in a dress in a similar pose floating with arm stretched out. The designs are part of game development and will be used as enemies in my indie game.
October 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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A Jelly Worm enemy for my game.
#pixelart #indiedev
Video game pixel art sprites of a fantasy creature design of a worm type creature with teeth and eyes and a shiny, purple jellyfish type texture. The design is part of game development and will be used as an enemy monster in an indie game.
October 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Wizard 🪄
#pixelart #ドット絵
Pixel art sprites of four wizards wearing robes and holding a staff. There are four colors, purple, blue, red, and yellow.
October 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Lizard fighters and archers 🦎🏹⚔️
#pixelart #ドット絵
Six pixel art sprites of lizard fighters holding a sword and archers holding a bow. There are three color variants of red-orange, green, and blue.
October 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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a corrupted cleric 🔨🌟
#pixelart #ドット絵
pixel art sprites of three clerics in different colors. They are holding a mace and one hand is raised with a magic aura around it.
October 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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a sneaky rogue 🗡️
#pixelart #ドット絵
Four pixel art sprites of a hooded rogue character holding two daggers. Colors are red, brown, purple, and turquoise.
October 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Enchanted armor fighters ⚔️
#pixelart #ドット絵
pixel art sprites of three suits of armor standing with arms crossed holding two swords each, in three colors, a dark turquoise, bronze, and steel silver.
October 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Made some bugs today.
#pixelart #ドット絵
Pixel art sprites of centipede type bugs made out of several segments. There are three color variants: purple, white, and orange.
October 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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All of the October creatures I've made so far.
#pixelart #ドット絵
36 pixel art sprites of various creatures and color variants. The creatures are: Undead centaur holding a sword and shield. The centaur has visible bones and horns. Chaos mage in robes with high pointed shoulder mantles and a hood covering their head and face. They're raising their arms up casting flames from each one. Megaloceros, a prehistoric deer with very large, broad antlers. A hippo fighter holding a sword. Slime monster with a spike ball inside of it, one has the spike completely inside, one has it floating on top like a wave, one is reaching, and the last one is about to swing the spike ball like a flail. Four enemies based on coral mushrooms. Each has a "dormant" version next to it with slightly darker colors. Mushroom characters with different shapes and faces. The first has a wide blue top and a small body. The second has a purple top with a wide body and a small frowny face. The last one has an orange top and a more detailed face and tiny feet. Guinea pig enemy with claws, and a couple of them have armor. Witches and alchemists in front of a cauldron. They have various faces including an old man, old woman, a shadowy demon sort of face, and a bird-like one.
October 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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🔥🔥
#pixelart #ドット絵
October 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM