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micalpixel.bsky.social
I wanted to see what #Godot 's support for (pirate) translations was like for @maygame.bsky.social. Thankfully it wasn't too difficult to add basic support for.

Naturally, I'll handle any pirate translations myself. 🙃

#gaming #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #MayGame
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
maygame.bsky.social
Some cutscenes in this game may play out differently depending on your actions. Like, say, if you're in midair when someone tells you to freeze.

(Do NOT tell someone to freeze when they're in midair.)

#WishlistWednesday #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #MayGame #pixelart #gaming
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
maygame.bsky.social
May encounters a small crying creature. 🦗
And...it does NOT go well. 🤦‍♀️

The first part of this scene was posted a while back, now here's the rest of it!

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #MayGame #pixelart
November 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
maygame.bsky.social
Trying a narrated video this time! Much easier to communicate what's going on in the video than with text in the post imo. No character limit either.

Let me know what you think! 😊

#gaming #pixelart #indiedev #indiegames #MayGame #ScreenshotSaturday
October 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
maygame.bsky.social
This game will feature a sans-fish fishing minigame. Throw the hook, then steer it past obstacles by moving left and right (just like in real life! /s). Hook a truffle & reel it in!

The more optimal your upward reeling, the more you'll earn!

#gaming #pixelart #indiedev #indiegames #MayGame
October 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
micalpixel.bsky.social
Work on the fishing minigame for #MayGame has begun.

Very much still in the experimentation stage. But I think a side-scroller is the direction to go. Gameplay will be focused more on navigating the depths rather than a tug-of-war/timing game.

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #gamedesign
An in-progress screenshot of a fishing minigame. It is a side-scroller perspective. A pink girl stands near the top of the screen, with trees behind her. A shoreline below here stretches across the screen. Beneath her, we see a large body of water stretching down. Water currents and rocks are scattered throughout it, and a bobble/hook is in the middle of it.
October 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
micalpixel.bsky.social
I feel like I MUST add a relaxing fishing minigame to my game.
Since it's
1. A cozy game
2. Inspired by Zelda #LinksAwakening which invented the fishing minigame.

Fine. I'll comply.

Maliciously. 😈
1. Won't be fishing for fish. 🚫
2. But it is run by a fish. 🐟

#MayGame #gamedev #indiedev
October 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
maygame.bsky.social
This mousey girl hosts a minigame where you must unscramble a word. You might recognize her from the Steam trailer!

If the word is completely unfamiliar, that's okay! It shows where letters have already been. Keep trying and you'll eventually get it!

#gaming #indiegames #gamedev #indiedev #MayGame
October 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
micalpixel.bsky.social
It isn't surprising to see Steam games automatically appear on other sites' databases - I'm sure they're all using Steam's API.

That said...

As someone who used to use GameFAQs all the time, it's pretty cool to see my upcoming game get its own page there. ^^

#gamedev #maygame
A screenshot of the GameFAQs website's page for the upcoming game, May and the Amazing Bouquet.
October 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
maygame.bsky.social
It's here!! "May and the Amazing Bouquet" can now be wishlisted on Steam! 💐

Help May to obtain the Eight Prized Flowers in a cozy pixelated top-down action-adventure! 🌼

store.steampowered.com/app/3734760/

#gaming #indiegames #indiedev #majorupdate #pixelart #CozyGame #MayGame
September 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
micalpixel.bsky.social
The Steam page for @maygame.bsky.social goes up tomorrow.

Taking it easy this evening. Sitting and thinking. Maybe watch some Star Trek or other creative videos. 😌

Tomorrow will be a busy and exciting day. 🙌

#MayGame
A screenshot from a top-down pixelart game in development. There is a grassy grove surrounded by green trees. In the middle of the grove is a tree stump, which a girl with pink hair dressed in pink is sleeping on. Flowers, a bee, and a butterfly, are also nearby.
September 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
maygame.bsky.social
Here's the title screen for May and the Amazing Bouquet! Now animated for the first time and featuring a pixelart version of the game's logo. 🙌

Trailer and Steam wishlists drop on Saturday, 9/27! #MayGame

#gaming #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart
September 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
maygame.bsky.social
The indie game I'm making ( #MayGame) now has an official name!

It's called "May and the Amazing Bouquet"! 💐

Help May to obtain the Eight Prized Flowers in a cozy pixelated top-down action adventure!

Trailer and Steam wishlists drop next Saturday, 9/27!

#gaming #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
A title card for the upcoming game, May and the Amazing Bouquet. On the left is the game's logo. "May" is shown in large pink letters, decorated with a white daisy, a bumblebee, and a small handful of flowers, in each letter, respectively. "Amazing Bouquet" appears beneath it on light tan parchment. On the right is the game's protagonist, May. She has deep pink hair and skirt, a light pink vest, and a white long-sleeved shirt underneath. A white daisy with a yellow center is in her hair. She is looking forward and smiling. She is holding a piece of parchment with a checklist on it, and a red flower in one hand. She is wearing a long strap around her shoulder with a travelling pack attached by her waist. A lightened, slightly blurred, top-down view of a pixelated town appears behind May and the logo, showing trees, houses, water, and some characters.
September 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
maygame.bsky.social
These are the very first two screenshots I have of #MayGame.

Display a grid, display a sprite, display text. That's it. That's all it was.

The game has come a long way since then. ^^

(Yes it was in 16:9 aspect ratio for one day.)

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #gaming #indiegames
A meme image divided into two vertical halves. The top half reads, "Just make it exist first." It shows two screenshots of a top-down pixel art game in extremely early development. Both screenshots show a gray checkerboard grid, one in 16:9 aspect ratio and a 10:9 aspect ratio in the other. Each one shows a pink girl character facing down, and white text that reads "The quick brown fox." A date is shown for these screenshots: July 21, 2024 The bottom half reads, "You can make it good later" and shows two screenshots in much later development. The left one shows a grassy area surrounded by trees and a green house. Two characters are speaking. The right one shows a teal wooded area with lots of tall grass. Two character are standing in the area. There is also a black hockey-puck-shaped enemy with six spheres floating around it.
September 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
micalpixel.bsky.social
Finally! Design philosophy of the rooms in #maygame:
1. First visit: Analyze the room, figure out its puzzles/enemies, and "solve" it to proceed.
2. Later visits: Room is familiar, easier.
3. Include optional harder content, like the flowers here.

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #solodev #godot
January 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
micalpixel.bsky.social
This one room in #maygame 's garden area changed a lot during the past 12 months, both its layout and graphics. Game development is one big iterative process. 🫠

(Working on something big right now, but in the meantime please enjoy) 🙂

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #solodev #godot
A graph of six screenshots that show how a particular room in a video game in development changed during the past year. The title says "May Game Garden Tileset Changes". The first room has placeholder art. The second adds green hedge graphics. The next two show changes to the hedge graphics and add gray bricks and marble columns. The fifth one changes the hedge graphics again to be more square-like, and adds water, flower pots, flowers, and two green dogs. the final one overhauls the graphics again, adding a statue of a dog and checkerboard-like grass.
May 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
micalpixel.bsky.social
The art style of #MayGame is inspired by the Game Boy Color. But I also wanted a way to simulate the original Game Boy's 4-color palette. Which was quite easy with #Godot ^^

This video shows 6 color filters: 4- and 16-color gray-, green-, and sepia-tinted.
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #solodev
July 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
maygame.bsky.social
In #MayGame, May has two main ways to avoid enemies: whistling (stun) and jumping. This short clip shows off both.

(She could also just, y'know, go around them. :3)

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #solodev #pixelart
September 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
micalpixel.bsky.social
Here's the first two minutes of my game!

(which, finally, are in a decent-enough state to show people 🙂)

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #solodev #MayGame #godot
July 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
micalpixel.bsky.social
#maygame will have flowers as a common optional collectible. To keep things interesting, each one has different graphics and text. The flowers will also be randomized on each playthrough, because why not.

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #solodev #godot #ScreenshotSaturday
April 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
micalpixel.bsky.social
Seems like everyone today is busy playing Deltarune.
...or Nintendo Switch 2.
...or Deltarune on Nintendo Switch 2. 🙂

Meanwhile I've been stacking objects on May's head and making sure they bob up and down with her walk cycle. 🙃 #maygame #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #solodev #godot
June 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
micalpixel.bsky.social
A surreal #gamedev bug happened today. 🫠

My respawn-ghost passed over a doorway on its way to the beginning of a room, and chaos ensued. 😂 And yes, I'm stuck like that.

(ignore the erratic enemy - it moves when you do. your buffering's fine)

#indiedev #indiegamedev #solodev #godot #maygame
March 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
micalpixel.bsky.social
I overhauled the Mimic enemy. Any action May can so, the Mimics will, too! You must use their mimic-y nature to your advantage, and avoid colliding with them.

If May's brother is tagging along, they'll now mimic him too!

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #solodev #MayGame
July 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
micalpixel.bsky.social
May finds a new creature! They float, demonstrate the game's faked z-axis, and also carry loot you can siphon off them. Either by walking under, or whistling at their height.

Also, May can now drown in deep water!

May is not happy about that.

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #solodev #MayGame
July 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
micalpixel.bsky.social
This garden features a stealth segment, with a twist.

Guard dog sees you = ok
You see dog = FAILURE!

(They are too cute to resist. DO NOT look at them! :3)

(For now I'm just testing the look-at-dog code to ensure it works.)

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #solodev #maygame #screenshotsaturday
March 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM