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Helianthus Games - making Astro Focus
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Indiedev making AstroFocus - a pixelart productivity game where you grow a galactic Roman empire while focusing on your IRL tasks!🚀

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Helianthus Games - making Astro Focus @helianthus-games.itch.io · Nov 4
🔊SOUND ON🔊

Astro Focus is a #pixelart productivity game where you grow a galactic Roman empire 🚀⚔ while focusing on real life tasks. 🕒

☑ Follow for more space-Romans greatness! 🏛 🌌

#indiedev #godotengine
helianthus-games.itch.io
Working towards scalable UI for AstroFocus - my resource management Pomodoro game with Romans ⚔️ in space 🌌
(which is tricky for a #pixelart game)

Steamdeck is the lowest res I want to support and it is motivating to see the game running on it 🤩

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #godot
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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rappenem.bsky.social
Black hole
October 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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zzeljkokos.bsky.social
🔥 Pompeii: The Legacy is OUT NOW on Steam Early Access! 🔥

Rebuild Pompeii, guide your family through generations, and face the looming shadow of Vesuvius. 🌋

👉 Play now: store.steampowered.com/app/2632240/...

#indiegame #citybuilder #Steam #Pompeii
September 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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rj.dcellgames.com
what players want is not Fun, but Feeling.

fun can facilitate feeling, but feeling is not always fun.

fun is what a toy is; games are more than that and bigger than that.

you can be engaged because you are horrified, or interested in a story, or persisting Despite Everything. these are not Fun.
November 28, 2024 at 4:51 AM
helianthus-games.itch.io
Did a quick test of my space Roman pomodoro game on Steamdeck, was surprised how easy it was to do! 🤯

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #godot
August 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
helianthus-games.itch.io
Lots of new followers recently, I would like tot invite you to my humble Discord community where we talk about games, #gamedev, #Godot, #pixelart and space among other things.

🎮🕹️🎨🤖🌌

It is also a place to be updated of the progress on my game and assets. Everyone is welcome!

discord.gg/nWWcrkbEnz
Join the Helianthus Games Discord Server!
A chill gamedev community. Some topics we might focus on (besides making & playing games): pixelart, space, history. | 48 members
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August 20, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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vaelynn.bsky.social
aaaaah Orium demo is live, I'm super anxious!
store.steampowered.com/app/3505100/...

Don't hesitate to play it, it's cool I promise 🤍

[ #indiegame #indiedev #majorupdate #scifi #art ]
August 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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hby.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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zzeljkokos.bsky.social
The final demo for Pompeii: The Legacy is now live for Steam Next Fest! 🐱

Explore the new sandbox mode, trade system, expanded research tree, and more.

Step into ancient Rome! 🏛️
store.steampowered.com/news/app/263...

#SteamNextFest #CityBuilder #IndieGame #RomanEmpire #PompeiiTheLegacy
Pompeii: The Legacy - Steam Next Fest Demo Now Live - Steam News
Final demo is live! Try sandbox mode, trade routes, social research, new buildings, and more in Pompeii: The Legacy.
store.steampowered.com
June 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
helianthus-games.itch.io
Share your #gamedev notebook! 🎮📓

I personally love my disc-bound one since I can re-arrange the pages depending on what takes priority currently or move them to another category!

#indiedev #godot
May 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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ekvitki.bsky.social
Hand Sketch

#pixelart #art #space #aseprite #vgen
April 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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mikerose.bsky.social
Hi Bluesky, could really use your help 🙏🙏

We just launched our latest game Starless Abyss - the exact week that Oblivion was shadow-dropped. Which has been *not fantastic* for our launch

If anyone can spare a RT, that would be so, so helpful ❤️❤️

Find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3167970/...
April 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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louispretends.bsky.social
You should play Outer Wilds. #pixelart
A pixel art map of the solar system from Outer Wilds. It is laid out like an advertisement for a space cruise.
April 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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vaelynn.bsky.social
Quick video to show a little part of the game I dev with my bf :
* YES you can explore the galaxy
* YES, every dot is a star system
* and YES, you can colonize every planet !

𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓇𝓊𝓃𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓉 𝒶 𝓈𝓉𝑒𝒶𝒹𝓎 𝟨𝟢 𝒻𝓅𝓈 💫

[ #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #gameart ]
April 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
helianthus-games.itch.io
Share your game engine and 3 screenshots of your game!
#gamedev #indiedev #godotengine
March 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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sean-dc.bsky.social
#pixelart #scifiart #webcomic #WIP #indiegamedev #maps
This is my first go at an interplanetary map for my comic. Any feedback from fellow artists and sci-fi fantasy writers if this is an effective way to display the setting and context. Thanks all!!
March 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
helianthus-games.itch.io
Just sharing a roman space empire 🌌🏛️ I built in Astro Focus today while working from home.

I love that I can test my Pomodoro game 🍅🕑 while doing my job, I have found so many bugs this way!

#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #godot
March 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
helianthus-games.itch.io
🆘 Help! I've implemented demolishing of buildings in my game but now I have homeless space Romans 😭👀

#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #godotengine
March 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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videogameworkers.bsky.social
Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮

We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.
March 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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atichiipixels.bsky.social
space
#pixelart #art #space #spaceart
March 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
helianthus-games.itch.io
The advisor for my #pixelart space-Roman productivity #indiegame AstroFocus 🌌🏛️

Anyone got any good name suggestions? 🧐

#indiedev #gamedev
March 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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zzeljkokos.bsky.social
18 days until the Steam Playtest! 🏛️🔥
Another small shrine is now complete and ready for construction! Check out the dynamic lighting and roof tessellation in my custom engine.
Wishlist & Join the Playtest 👉 store.steampowered.com/app/2632240/...

#IndieGame #CityBuilder #GameDev
March 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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zzeljkokos.bsky.social
🔥 STEAM PLAYTEST BEGINS MARCH 18! 🔥

Rebuild Pompeii, shape its future, and experience the challenge of history! 🏛️

Sign up now & be among the first to play 👇
store.steampowered.com/app/2632240/...

#CityBuilder #IndieGame #PompeiiTheLegacy
February 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
helianthus-games.itch.io
Fellow gamedevs, spice up your space game🚀 with my newly released asset pack of animated planets 🪐(and other matching asset packs 🌌 in my store):

helianthus-games.itch.io/animated-pix...

#gamedev #indiedev #pixelart
25 Spinning planets (30x30px) by 🌻Helianthus Games🌻
Detailed spinning pixel art planets, ~2k frames! (30px version)
helianthus-games.itch.io
February 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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franekk.bsky.social
World map desk mats are ready for sale!!
February 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM