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JSRVarma - Solo Dev

@dantecross.bsky.social

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He/him. Indy sff Author ⭐ Indy TTRPG content ⭐ pixel art ⭐ Light Youtuber ⭐ cozy vibes ⭐ lots of nonsense ⭐ Former Lead Designer @Roll7 ⭐ Former all seniorities designer @Ubisoft https://beacons.ai/jsrvarma

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JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · Nov 14

🎙️Heyo Bsky!
You may know me from such things as Lead Designer on the Bafta nominated OlliOlli Worlds DLC🛹 and at some point the main designer on every mobile game in the biggest series you've never heard of, Hungry shark🦈
Follow me for dumb opinions, dumb fantasy writing and dumb indie dev nonsense😘

5 of us after winning a tiga award for paying enough money to tiga to win an award

OlliOlli World Rad Edition cover. It's cool.

Hungry Shark World splash image. Get it?

Me looking broodingly at the camera wearing a pentagram watch. I was a supernatural detective. Nobody realised I was in costume.

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JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 7h

It probably says something about me that I heard ‘horror game’ and my instinct was to make a game about overtime at a corporate job.

JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 20h

Voting has started on #ScreamJam! Check out my entry, Crunch Time!

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#gamejam #indiedev #gamedev

Rate Crunch Time by JSRVarma for SCREAM JAM 2025

Welcome to the company! Its crunch time and you wont be going home any time soon.

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JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 20h

Voting has started on #ScreamJam! Check out my entry, Crunch Time!

itch.io/jam/scream-j...
#gamejam #indiedev #gamedev

Rate Crunch Time by JSRVarma for SCREAM JAM 2025

Welcome to the company! Its crunch time and you wont be going home any time soon.

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JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 1d

#ScreamJam entry complete and entered! I'll post a link tomorrow when you're allowed to vote >.>

JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 2d

Last week we went to @phantompeakuk.bsky.social and handed out these tourist trail cards to the residents. I made some for a friends birthday now I guess it’s tradition XD

JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't forget to upload this at lunch time, nope, not me, dunno who it was, probably you.
Check out this new video chatting abotu the game design discipline!
youtu.be/kfuu_aIq09w
#youtube #indiedev #gamesindustry #gamesdesign #newvideo

What even is Game Design?!

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JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 5d

Frustrated former drunk vs aggressive over the hill adventurer, who will win in the brand new chapter of Blade Song that just dropped over on #RoyalRoad!
Read Chapter 14 now!
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1310...
#swordandsorcery #indieauthor #lightnovel #webnovel

Chapter 14 - Strength And Dexterity - Blade Song

A fraction of a second before Meliana shouted ‘Mark’ Teth was moving. He darted forward and slammed his sword down towards Cal who side stepped it and lashed out with his own weapon. Cal’s blade hit h...

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JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 7d

Started the #screamjam today! Had a really strong idea from the off and got plenty done. Planning done, character in, proc gen level set up, energy and food sister in, among other stuff.
#indiedev #gamedev

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JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 10d

Check out this quickfire explanation of 10 game dev business terms.
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#gamesdev #business #youtube #newvideo #shorts

Quickfire Games Industry business terms #educational #gamedev #3dgamedevelopment #business

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JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 11d

Just realised that the famed szeth son son vallano line is not actually the opening line of the stormlight archive 😅 there’s a whole prelude chapter before it. #stormlightarchive

JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 12d

BLADE SONG CHAPTER 13 NOW LIVE ON ROYAL ROAD!
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1310...

#webnovel #indieauthor #royalroad #serialnovel #fantasy #dnd #swordandsorcery #13unluckyforsome

Chapter 13 - The Party - Blade Song

Chapter 13 - The Party The journey back to town took far longer than the one to the forest. With only one horse and Kaila not willing to ride with him, they went on foot. She told him that she could...

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JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 13d

An idea I’ve been mulling around for the first lines of a #darkfantasy revenge novel. Expanded today to the short prologue that can be found as a free update on my #patreon.
www.patreon.com/posts/140462...
Background art belongs to sareanaddict on freepik.com
#snippet #revenge #indieauthor #fantasy

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Other Pixel Games @otherpixelgames.bsky.social · 17d

Follow along as I continue to learn to code and make pixel art!
youtu.be/Ud6L92yIFvU

#youtube #pixelart #coding #gamedev #indiedev #newvideo

Where are you going with this?

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JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 19d

A brand new chapter of Blade Song is now live on #RoyalRoad! Meet The Necromancer!

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1310...
#indieauthor #fantasy #swordandsorcery #dnd #serialbook

Chapter 12 - The Sleeping Necromancer - Blade Song

Chapter 12 - the Sleeping Necromancer Cal prepared to strike, but as he stumbled and struggled back a step he noticed that, though it was stood ready to attack, the wolf skeleton… didn’t. After a paus...

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JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 19d

And with that I have a basic outline for the next arc of Blade Song which I will write in november!

JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 19d

With National Novel Writing Month coming up in just over a month Im starting to think how Im going to do it this year, now that the company no longer exists.
How are you going to do it? Just a spreadsheet? Or are you forgoing it altogether?
#writingcommunity #writerscommunity #indieauthor #nanowrimo

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Other Pixel Games @otherpixelgames.bsky.social · 22d

That moment in a game jam when everything breaks
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#gamejam #youtube #newvideo #indiedev #gamedev

that moment when you think you're done and you hit a soft lock "Well %£$" #gamedev #gamejam #gmtkjam

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JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 24d

First character in a while. It’s kinda cheating but I put the artwork for screamjam together early since I’m using it as an opportunity to focus on coding (and if I hadn’t don’t this I woulda just got free assets anyway)

Other Pixel Games @otherpixelgames.bsky.social · 24d

Been back to pixel arty fun. Put this together for an upcoming project. Very simple character walk cycles in the style of the old Pokemon games. #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev

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Other Pixel Games @otherpixelgames.bsky.social · 24d

New video about my continued coding journey now live!
youtu.be/sN3OsWvYvYM

#youtube #gamedev #indiedev #coding #unity #educational #gamesindustry #gamedesign #newvideo

Hook shot, bombs, magic and a fun lil space man!

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JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 25d

Chapter 11 is now live on #RoyalRoad!
Time to meet our first new companion!

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1310...

#serialnovel #fantasy #indieauthor

Chapter 11 - Canyonvue Town - Blade Song

Chapter 11 - Canyonvue Town Present Day When they arrived in Canyonvue town the morning after an evening of stressing about what the following day might bring, and a night dreaming about the things he...

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JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 25d

This time I've played it for about 5 hours and I have almost caught up with my 17 hour save, like wtf...
I think it's cos i'm playing much more aggressively. I'm sure in my past playthroughs I would have done a lot of avoiding and hitting only when I am safe. now though... SLASH SLASH SLASH!

JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 25d

So I decided to restart hollow knight recently. I played it ages ago for about 17 hours, and then suddenly stopped, then every time I've tried since I've got an hour in and stopped or I've tried my old save and just been awful.

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JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 27d

Woo! Another hundred followers and I got that gorgeous '.1' next to my follower count.
thank you everyone for following me, I genuinely appreciate it.
❤️❤️❤️❤️

JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 28d

😮 I’m 1 follower away from getting that little .1 in my followers 😮

JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 28d

New Chapter of Bladesong now live on #royalroad!
From next week onwards we’ll be down to a regular once a week schedule.

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1310...

#fantasy #indieauthor #webserial #webnovel #dnd

Chapter 10 - The Jail - Blade Song

Chapter 10 - The Jail 5 months and one week Earlier “Do I really have to wear these on the way there?” Leni asked, holding the shackles that Cal had handed her up in front of him. It was the morning...

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JSRVarma - Solo Dev @dantecross.bsky.social · 29d

I really need to pay closer attention to the scheduling cos this went up at midnight not lunchtime XD

Other Pixel Games @otherpixelgames.bsky.social · 29d

Another new video! Just a #short
“How I use Chat GPT in under 3 mins” #gamedev #gamedesign #chatgpt #educational
youtube.com/shorts/fEqYR...

How I use Chat GPT in under 3 mins #gamedev #gamedesign #chatgpt #educational

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