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Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Aug 16

Still way better than the title screen art for my first game lol

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Squishy Turtle Games @squishyturtlegames.bsky.social · Aug 9

My GMTK jam 2025 entry "Bend-jo" recently took 3rd place in creativity. Thanks to everyone who supported, tested, and played the game!

#gamedev #gmtk #indiedev #solodev #unity3d #indiegame

You can try Bend-jo here: squishyturtlegames.itch.io/bend-jo

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Game Maker's Toolkit @gamemakerstoolkit.com · Aug 8

GMTK Game Jam 2025 is now over! You can see the results for the top-ranking games in the following categories:

🧠 Creativity - itch.io/jam/gmtk-202...
🎮 Enjoyment - itch.io/jam/gmtk-202...
📖 Narrative - itch.io/jam/gmtk-202...
🎨 Artwork - itch.io/jam/gmtk-202...
🎵 Audio - itch.io/jam/gmtk-202...

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Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Aug 3

My #gmtkjam entry is out!

Forge loops, discover loopholes and create powerful synergies in Synergy Forge!

dardasaba.itch.io/synergy-forge

#gamedev #godotengine #gmtk

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Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Aug 2

I don't want to spoil anything, but here's the beginning of the ending cutscene in my #gmtkjam entry! (Gotta get a score in that narrative category after all ;)

#gamedev #godotengine #cutscene

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Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Aug 1

I'm also doing #gmtkjam !

My game is about forging loops and finding loopholes (pun intended) in the effects that each material gives! 💍

#gamedev #godotengine

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Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Jul 22

For #GodotEngine users: my latest asset pack also comes with an example Godot project with all the tilesets pre-configured for ease of use!

Grab the pack: dardasaba.itch.io/pixel-island...

#gameassets #godot #gamedev

Pixel Islands - Mushroom Island Pack by dardasaba

A pixel art asset pack with all the mushroom assets you'll ever need!

dardasaba.itch.io

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Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Jul 19

I also wrote a little #devlog about it:
dardasaba.itch.io/pixel-island...

Mushroom Island Pack Out NOW!

The Mushroom Island asset pack is out NOW! It's the second pack in the Pixel Islands pack, and the first major pack (the last one was a small free character pack meant to go along with the other packs...

dardasaba.itch.io

Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Jul 19

🚨🍄 The Mushroom Island asset pack is OUT NOW! 🍄🚨

dardasaba.itch.io/pixel-island...

🍄 Tons of mushroom game assets!
🤖 Includes example #GodotEngine project!
🎁 20% launch discount!
🍄 Bob.

Hope you find the pack useful!

#gamedev #pixelart #gameassets
Reposts appreciated :)

Pixel Islands - Mushroom Island Pack by dardasaba

A pixel art asset pack with all the mushroom assets you'll ever need!

dardasaba.itch.io

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Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Jul 18

Coming tomorrow... 👀

#pixelart #aseprite #gameassets

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Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Jul 16

A fossilized #pixelart mushroom! 🍄

#aseprite #gameassets

A pixel art scene of a green grass island, with a large fossilized mushroom on it, surrounded by smaller mushrooms.

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Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Jul 15

A little pixel lake!

#pixelart #aseprite #gameassets

A dark blue lake surrounded by a thin ring of sand, on a grass island background.

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Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Jul 14

🍄 Back to work on the mushroom pack, releasing *this week!*

It's time for the finishing touches, such as more rock variations, some flowers and some grass!

#pixelart #aseprite #gameassets

A pixel art scene depicting mushrooms on a bright green grass background. Now with extra rocks, flowers and grass shapes scattered around!

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Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Jul 13

Itch put my very first creation right next to my latest one in the projects list... I don't know about you but I think I made a tiiny bit of progress on my #pixelart skills :D

#gamedev #progress

The thumbnail for my first game, Memories, which is... um... "artistically lacking"... right next to the thumbnail for my latest asset pack, which fortunately looks a lot better

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Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Jul 11

🎉 ⛵ The first pack in the Pixel Islands asset pack series is out NOW! ⛵ 🎉

This one is a small free pack including an animated player character, an animated boat, and animated water tiles!

Can't wait to see what you make with it :)

dardasaba.itch.io/pixel-island...

#pixelart #gameassets #gamedev

Pixel Islands - Free Seafaring Character Pack by dardasaba

A free pixel art pack with animated player, boat and water!

dardasaba.itch.io

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Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Jul 11

🎉 ⛵ The first pack in the Pixel Islands asset pack series is out NOW! ⛵ 🎉

This one is a small free pack including an animated player character, an animated boat, and animated water tiles!

Can't wait to see what you make with it :)

dardasaba.itch.io/pixel-island...

#pixelart #gameassets #gamedev

Pixel Islands - Free Seafaring Character Pack by dardasaba

A free pixel art pack with animated player, boat and water!

dardasaba.itch.io

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Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Jul 11

Coming later today... 👀

#pixelart #gameassets #assets

A pixel art scene of a sea with a boat and a player riding it, in two directions, with text saying "pixel islands: free seafaring character"

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Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Jul 10

*tomorrow, not yesterday, lol

Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Jul 10

To clarify: the free pack releasing yesterday isn't a part of the mushroom pack that I've been posting a lot about, that pack is much bigger and will have a small price, this one is just a character that's meant to go along well with all the other packs!

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Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Jul 10

🚨 Announcement: the animated player character is done, and with it the free seafaring character pack is complete, and will release tomorrow! 🎉

Here's one of the attack animation frames

#pixelart #aseprite #gameassets

A pixel art scene of a character wearing blue clothes, slashing in four directions.

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Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Jul 7

Every boat needs someone to steer it! ⚓

Here's a little seafaring guy, the plan is to have him as the player character art meant to go along with all the pixel island asset packs I'll make!

#aseprite #pixelart #gameassets

Pixel art of a character wearing blue clothes sitting on a boat in the middle of the ocean.

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Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Jul 4

A boat, as promised! ⛵

#pixelart #aseprite #gameassets

A small wooden boat floating in water, with some ripples.

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Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Jul 3

You can't have an island asset pack without some water tiles! 🌊

Soon there'll also be a boat to sail them ;)

#pixelart #aseprite #water #gameassets

A pixel art scene of an island with mushrooms growing on it, surrounded by bright blue water.

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Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Jul 1

A melee mushroom enemy design for my mushroom island asset pack! 🍄

#pixelart #aseprite #assets #gameassets

A red mushroom creature with gray arms and legs, in 4 directions, on top of a green grass island.

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Dardasaba 🍄 Drawing Pixel Mushrooms @dardasaba.bsky.social · Jun 29

Mushroom Mage enemy! It's also animated but uploading the gifs doesn't work for some reason...

#pixelart #aseprite #assets #gameassets

A mushroom with a purple wizard hat and red eyes, with "roots" springing out of the ground and holding magic staves.

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