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King Henchman @kinghenchman.bsky.social · May 1

Just finished a grandiose 6-minute collab with Hoongtube today! (ongoing since last year)
It's a very experimental track that fuses different genres ranging from Japanese folk music to DnB.
#OriginalMusicSky #drumnbass #japanesefolk #beepbox

pastelink.net/nniieb3u
soundcloud.com/mellonska/mi...

Mind-Forg'd Manacles (Collab with Hoongtube)

After many painstaking months, we made it. A nice 6-minute soup of traditional Japanese folk, DnB, trip-hop and pop techno. Both of us did bits of everything but Hoong made everything flow nicely : )

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King Henchman @kinghenchman.bsky.social · Apr 14

Minomus - Trance After Tranquility (pystrance remix)
Just as epic as the original.

SOUNDCLOUD: soundcloud.com/mellonska/tr...
ULTRABOX: tinyurl.com/2ywhzms9

#MusicSky #Trance #minomus #beepbox #ultrabox

Trance After Tranquility [psytrance remix]

Psytrance remix of

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · Apr 2

Excuses. An older comic.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, there's an excerpt from an email that says "Re: New Tasks. Thanks for your email. Please be advised that I may take longer to answer emails because I'm swamped." And there's a person sitting happily on a rock, deep in a red maple swamp, with a frog and ferns and such. Another email excerpt says "I'm just really bogged down." The person is sitting on a bog boardwalk, surrounded by bog and fen fauna like an arethusa orchid, a pitcher plant, larch and spruce, and a canada jay. The email says "I'm not out of the woods yet." The person is happily wandering through the forest, looking at lichens and mushrooms. The email says "Sorry, it's crunch time." The person is kneeling in a forest, watching a red squirrel crunch away at a pine cone.

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King Henchman @kinghenchman.bsky.social · Apr 2

"life can be disappointing"
tinyurl.com/28699qqb
#beepbox #ultrabox #downtempo #sadmusic

UltraBox

UltraBox is a mod of BeepBox that aims to combine every other beepmod into one.

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King Henchman @kinghenchman.bsky.social · Mar 28

I could help... maybe. What kind of assets/sprites do you need exactly?

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James Muirhead @mockchop.bsky.social · Mar 19

If game dev is a marathon, why are we always sprinting?

Stephy (Dandelion) B 🌼 @ladysmalls.bsky.social · Mar 19

🙃🙃🙃 #GDC2025

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King Henchman @kinghenchman.bsky.social · Mar 19

Btw you could also make a demo that's free and then make a full version that's paid but it'll have to be quite big to justify it though.

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King Henchman @kinghenchman.bsky.social · Mar 19

It depends on the quality and length of the game, but if it's your first then I'd recommend making it free. Putting a price tag will make it harder to sell to an audience who's never heard of you. Also, it'll make cheapskates like me happy :)

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King Henchman @kinghenchman.bsky.social · Mar 17

lol "most mentally stable"
I'm curious to see what the other characters are like. the art style is fairly unique :)

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King Henchman @kinghenchman.bsky.social · Mar 12

Oh I see. In that case, good luck! Creating effects like that requires some careful work.

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King Henchman @kinghenchman.bsky.social · Mar 11

I agree. I respect what you tried Scotty, but it looks a bit jarring. I don't know what software you're using but I'd recommend making the waterfall sprite move down for X seconds before teleporting it back to its original position. If done right, this will give a seamless illusion of motion.

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King Henchman @kinghenchman.bsky.social · Mar 5

Hate how that's a universal thing.

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Rik Godwin @rikgodwin.bsky.social · Mar 5

the best joke in videogames development is replying "ship it" to every broken ass prototype no I will not be taking questions

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · Feb 19

This is Gemma. She is the real-life version of this emoji: 😬 12/10

a reddish brown vizsla sits on a woodgrain kitchen floor and looks up at the camera with very wide gold eyes. her upper lip is curled up and in on itself, revealing a little row of half a dozen teeth. her large triangular ears frame her expression perfectly.

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Jonás @unholyfrenzy.bsky.social · Feb 20

I'm done for today and I'm surprised that I was able to make this, even tho I still gotta work on the whole spinosaurus and finish the background. This is the first time in months...or years that I actually feel good about myself and my art

#art #wip #spinosaurus #jurassicpark #paleoart

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King Henchman @kinghenchman.bsky.social · Feb 20

this is literally a lose-lose-lose situation. a TRIPLE lose 😭

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King Henchman @kinghenchman.bsky.social · Feb 20

I've released at least 10 games and only one of them kinda blew up (got about 4500 views on Scratch and lots of positive comments!)
To be fair, the majority were made back when I was an amateur and I didn't know anything about marketing. Still don't to be honest.

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King Henchman @kinghenchman.bsky.social · Feb 19

the intro is cool but i think the instrumentation gets a bit cluttered towards the end. there's too much going on for me to focus on one consistent melody or rhythm.

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King Henchman @kinghenchman.bsky.social · Feb 18

"Going In Circles"
Epic techno-fueled racing track made for a music contest back in September of 2024.
Bandcamp: mellonska.bandcamp.com/track/going-...
Beepbox: pastelink.net/va6tmwi4

#skyoriginalmusictracks #musicsky #electronicmusic #techno #beepbox

Going In Circles, by Mellonska

track by Mellonska

mellonska.bandcamp.com

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Scotty Rich @scootyin2d.bsky.social · Feb 16

Hot take 🔥:

Game programming 🎮 isn't hard. It's just too boring for some people to learn

#gamedev #indiegamedev

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King Henchman @kinghenchman.bsky.social · Feb 15

Be careful who you prank.
#roblox #shitpost #comic #indiecomic

King Henchman @kinghenchman.bsky.social · Feb 15

this is too relatable...

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King Henchman @kinghenchman.bsky.social · Feb 14

Make it a meta commentary on the prevalence of game-breaking bugs in million dollar triple A productions. Ez profit
/s

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King Henchman @kinghenchman.bsky.social · Feb 13

bruh how did this not get any likes? that crazy intro alone should've guaranteed at least a couple.

King Henchman @kinghenchman.bsky.social · Feb 13

I deal with this nonsense even to this day and I'd consider myself a mostly rational dev now. On the bright side, I've learnt to foresee when this happens 👀
Of course, if I struggle to fix it, the "its a feature, not a bug" card is always available... right??

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