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cynthion21x

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Experimental artist. I make games, noise and things that misbehave. Bugs are cool. The birds are watching.
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cynthion21x @cynthion21x.co.uk · 7d

Cynth here. Greetings one and all. BeeTD is now available to wishlist on steam! If you like creepy crawlies just as much as I do you should take a look and see whats in store.

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4306270/...
Trailer: youtu.be/vFwrqlTvt2Q?...

#indiedev #gamedev #insects

BeeTD Trailer

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Yong-Ju Valérie Barthélémy

@yongjudancinglight.bsky.social

the plains stretch out
at the crossroads
the restless heart

#art #abstract #painting #humanart #restless #poetry

January 21, 2026 at 6:27 PM

cynthion21x

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Back in the day my game used to have an orbital laser beam you could fire to obliterate the wasps!

#indiedev #gamedev

January 21, 2026 at 9:35 PM

cynthion21x

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They reached out to me.

#icm #blackandwhite #photography #abstractart #art

Many white lines running along from the right hand side of the photo. The lines follow an arched path.

January 21, 2026 at 4:45 PM

cynthion21x

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Here yet again for the 10th daily bug. I very commonly find my friends spamming the ladybug towers and the occasionally the game says thats enough of that and bans them from placing any more.

January 21, 2026 at 12:47 PM

cynthion21x

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I have never seen so many numbers. I was testing the new gamemode im making for BeeTD and the game has really been brought to its knees

#gamedev #indiedev #insects

January 20, 2026 at 11:22 PM

cynthion21x

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Daily bug #9. The cricket was the 2nd insect to get one of these info pages! I re-drew the artwork for it 2 days ago because i thought it deserved a makeover

#gamedev #indiedev #insects

January 20, 2026 at 6:03 PM

cynthion21x

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Let me know what one is your favourite!

#gamedev #indiedev #art #insect

January 20, 2026 at 8:07 AM

cynthion21x

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Unasking but forever moving.
Watching the quiet space, where a spectacle might bloom.

#icm #photography #abstractart

A great orange light with a black hole in the center.

January 19, 2026 at 6:29 PM

cynthion21x

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I have been redesigning some of the older maps in BeeTD because a few of them were not fun and you would be dissapointed to see them.

#gamedev #indiedev #insects

January 19, 2026 at 2:01 PM

cynthion21x

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Daily bug #8. It's the dung beetle! These guys are a pretty simple to use they just generate coins each wave.

All the bugs can be upgraded for coins. The price of the upgrades is just the level of the bug squared x 100 but each upgrade doubles the insects effectiveness

#gamedev #indiedev #insects

January 19, 2026 at 11:40 AM

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Yong-Ju Valérie Barthélémy

@yongjudancinglight.bsky.social

in a blink of an eye
the turmoil of emotions
only the beginning

#art #abstract #painting #humanart #turmoil #poetry

January 19, 2026 at 9:06 AM

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Cain Eyre

@phazonharbinger.bsky.social

A stunning Phyllophora sp, interesting shape and colours. #katydid #grasshopper #insect #macro #nature #wildlife #bugsky

January 19, 2026 at 12:23 AM

cynthion21x

@cynthion21x.co.uk

One of my friends is obsessed with goats at the moment so I made a goat-themed character.

#art #oc

January 18, 2026 at 6:01 PM

cynthion21x

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Daily bug number 7. The mantis was one of the oldest towers in my game being introduced all the way back in Nov 12th 2022.

#gamedev #indiedev #insects

January 18, 2026 at 10:27 AM

cynthion21x

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My friend says its "Beef TD". Once you notice it you can't unsee it 😭

#gamedev #indiedev

January 17, 2026 at 8:54 PM

cynthion21x

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Uh oh only 1hp left!

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

January 17, 2026 at 3:10 PM

cynthion21x

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I like geese a lot

#icm #blackandwhite #photography #birds

Two geese moving along the water. They look lightly blurry

January 17, 2026 at 9:41 AM

cynthion21x

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Feral shamans from the game stormbound!

#art #fanart #abstractart

January 16, 2026 at 9:43 PM

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Foxberry

@foxburial.bsky.social

It works! Enemy spawner and encounter handler in development to help populate this world!

Can also lock you into encounters! Just can't unlock yet...
I'm working on it. ✌️

Watch out for ambushes!

#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #metroidvania #foxvania

January 16, 2026 at 4:02 PM

cynthion21x

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Cynth here. I'm trying out something slightly diffrent to what i would normally do. I drew the axolotl from the battle of polytopia new dawn update! What do ya think?

#art #fanart #polytopia #axolotl

January 16, 2026 at 10:07 AM

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Zoomacroom Meadow

@badpantssituation.bsky.social

Formation of stable self-similar mandelbrot-style formations within a fractal flame simulation! Fascinating stuff!
#gamedev #indiedev #graphics #programming #shaders #algorithm

January 15, 2026 at 3:54 PM

cynthion21x

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I was reworking the destruction power. I made fire stack. The wrath of the dragonflies became unmatched and the wasps barely had time to exist. To make it fair i made new stacks have a slower tick speed depending on how many exist. What would you have done?

#gamedev #indiedev #insects

A wasp getting cooked beneath the flames

January 15, 2026 at 10:14 PM

cynthion21x

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Daily bug number 6.

This is one i finished making very recently. I was reworking the destruction power as its main strategies were executed better by other powers i found. So now its based around using status effects to wear down enemeis.

#indiedev #gamedev #bugs