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turtlehat
@turtlehatdev.bsky.social
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game dev doing too many arts at once ~ he/they ~ adult ~ account is 13+

developing avocado attorney, a courtroom visual novel made in scratch.
don't develop your games in scratch

✊🏾🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ love all but those who don't
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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · Feb 12
Hiii I'm finally posting on bsky now! I'm turtlehat, I have a lot of games I want to make. The first of those is #AvocadoAttorney, an #AceAttorney -inspired VN featuring a whole lot of absurd nonsense. I'll be posting a #devlog here from time to time!
A green logo that says "Avocado Attorney." In the top-right is the silhouette of Avocado Ian: a tennis ball with shoes and sunglasses, and the main character of the game.
turtlehatdev.bsky.social
happy belated b-day to my friend @candyether.space :)
Art of Candyether's characters (from left to right) Toster, Bluby, Clay, Reed, and Sappy playing poker together. Toster's face can't be seen, but Bluby looks at Sappy confusedly, Clay gives him an excited look, and Reed gives a mischievous grin, because he just placed a Joker from Balatro on the table. Sappy bashfully suggests, "...birthday boy picks the rules?" A message in the corner reads, "Happy B-Day! -turtlehat"
December 15, 2025 at 2:45 AM
turtlehatdev.bsky.social
he actually said this i was there

#TheGameAwards #TGA #ClairObscur #Silksong
A two panel comic about The Game Awards. In the first panel, a list of nominees for "Longest Time in Development": Pokémon Legends Z-A, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Donkey Kong Barrel Blast, Half-Life 3, and skong. Geoff Keighley announces on the side, "...and the clair winner is an obscure little indie game from france, if you get what i mean, ahaha..." In the second panel, two people from Sandfall Interactive get up from their seats to accept the award, one of them holding an armful of trophies. Seated beside them are two people from Team Cherry, one of them weeping with their head in their hands, and the other consoling them. The weeping one says, "please just say it geoff i'm so tired." A little plush Hornet sits on the seat next to them with their singular trophy.
December 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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quietvictories.bsky.social
poor Lapis
December 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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ryangreenblue.com
escape
October 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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aubade.itch.io
the zohran meme generator, but changed to be some C code, entering the main function and starting a for loop.
November 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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descenacre.bsky.social
beat battle #62 (Theme: WORRY)

sample from Juno

#music
August 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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riley.sbug.games
This is the longest I've spent on any single project in my life! Please remind your friends that Isopod is coming out tomorrow!
sbug.games Sbug Games @sbug.games · Oct 20
3 and a half years of isopod rolling down big hills!
Isopod is finally coming out tomorrow!
store.steampowered.com/app/2053910/...
October 20, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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dianasroom.org
Ruth & Dianne Go To The American Football House (THREAD)
October 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
turtlehatdev.bsky.social
this game's so cool y'all... how even
slugglove.bsky.social SlugGlove @slugglove.bsky.social · Oct 19
While i like using my indie games magic system to solve puzzles. Its also fun to just setup these infinite looping magic systems

#gamedev #indiegame #indiedev
October 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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jdoubleu.dev
Unholy Roller v0.9.0 recently released with a bunch of new features! I thought it would be cool to give a behind-the-scenes look at our most recent enemy: the Burner! (1/4)
unholyrollergame.bsky.social Unholy Roller @unholyrollergame.bsky.social · Oct 12
We just released a new build of Unholy Roller on our itch page speakerbeak.itch.io/unholy-roller! You can play v0.9.0 on Web or Desktop and enjoy a bunch of new features, including: a fifth level, a red-hot enemy, and some crazy new scoring mechanics!

#GameDev #IndieGame #Godot #Speedrunning
October 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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unholyrollergame.bsky.social
We just released a new build of Unholy Roller on our itch page speakerbeak.itch.io/unholy-roller! You can play v0.9.0 on Web or Desktop and enjoy a bunch of new features, including: a fifth level, a red-hot enemy, and some crazy new scoring mechanics!

#GameDev #IndieGame #Godot #Speedrunning
October 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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blackwallmancer.bsky.social
Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).
Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist): the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much. you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.
October 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
turtlehatdev.bsky.social
#AvocadoAttorney now has something any visual novel needs: dialogue options!

You can build these with a linear string of blocks using a simple template. The system is highly modular, allowing certain options to add others to the list or lead to a sub-menu.

#GameDev #IndieDev #Scratch
October 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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detfantasia.bsky.social
This room won't be in the demo, sorry!
September 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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thelokrailfan.bsky.social
www.irm.org/revive-the-c...

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Revive the Centennial
Join America's largest railway museum as we restore to operation the most powerful diesel locomotive ever built: the famous "Centennial."
www.irm.org
September 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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quarkimo.bsky.social
⏳ ephemerality ⏳
September 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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apotheum.bsky.social
1978 will be a big year for gaming. Enter the ATLA5! 🕹️

TV catalog ad for a new home console inspired by Atari 2600. Little graphic design/product modeling thing I've been working on

[ #b3d #illustrator #retrotech ]
TV catalog ad for a fictional home console, ATLAS (styled "ATLA5").
June 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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ramiismail.com
It's been a while.

Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs.

store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...
Australia Did It - Reveal Trailer
YouTube video by MysticForge
www.youtube.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
turtlehatdev.bsky.social
First of two evidence-related things I worked on last month: Evidence popups!

Thanks to the animation systems I've already made, this was surprisingly easy to add!

#AvocadoAttorney #GameDev #IndieDev #Scratch
September 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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congamind.bsky.social
Junk
#rainworld
August 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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tine5.bsky.social
Up into the clouds
#rainworld #1bit #pixelart
1bit pixel art of rain world, with a dull red background and grey-light red colour for details. It shows several platforms with plants ground out of them and pipes running between them down the centre and right side of the platforms, and several pipes on the centre platform running horizontal to poles sticking out over a large drop below. Behind these are two large structures with ridges going around cylinders and large dish-like structures on the side, three on each, and tubing and pipes coiling and hanging down from the structures.
August 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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unholyrollergame.bsky.social
What is UNHOLY ROLLER? #GameDev #IndieGame
August 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
turtlehatdev.bsky.social
hope i'm not late to this but uh. i may have made some unwise decisions about how much time is okay to spend on a joke. so now the In Stars and Time Professor Layton Puzzle is a playable game that exists

i made it in Scratch, you can play it here lol scratch.mit.edu/projects/120...
August 22, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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aleha84.bsky.social
Foggy bridge #pixelart
music: inertia. - before the loss + sfx
April 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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aleha84.bsky.social
Amazing moments
July 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM