Some examples of drawing with rectangles: simple outlines and filled are two different yet fun paths to sketch and play visually.

My robot/mecha series is one of my favorites yet I have a bunch more. Often I do these as a relaxing thing at the end of the day.

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Here are three posters I designed, each featuring robot(s)/mecha creatures. One of my designs I keep refining and need to make some prints of someday.

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Word puzzle game prototype progress! It's a bit backwards but also kind of fun to make the words hide instead of showing. Maybe that will be in the game on purpose as I evolve the prototype and land on my design goals for this game.

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What a wild fun surprise and I really appreciate it, thank you 2D Con community! Word Turtle Island won an award, voted by attendees of 2D Con. The Indie Island developer showcase art direction award (digital category)! 😍 🏆 🎮 #indiegames
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For a few years I partially set aside making games and focused on visual storytelling via comics. Art Geek Zoo was my main project, a story about a talented penguin guitarist named Pick who had major challenges with stage fright and his grumpy mystic guitar friend named Crunchy.

Word Turtle Island a few weeks into development vs what it looks like now. From placeholder art to my own art, from only typing action to now word action whether you type, use a game controller, touch screen or mouse. From no story to a narrative about saving the most awesome library in the galaxy

Celebrating the official 1.0 release of Word Turtle Island tomorrow 8/12. So many events this year showing the game and new arcade cabinet. Midwest Gaming Classic, VGM Con, Minnebar, STEM Fest, 2D Con Summer Pop-up at MOA. 4 years in the making, now/soon at Steam, Google Play, Apple

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Word Turtle Island's 1.0 launch is on 8/12/2025! This post is more than a mere ad it's hope and call to action for a special indie game, made with a joy for words, an action game that's about overcoming conflict with words. #indiegames

Intertwined creative challenge: make an ambitious game, make it a business, succeed in marketing it well. In this I focus on the marketing part of that challenge, what I've learned the past few months publishing video every day.

A glimpse into my music process for my game soundtrack

Here I'm setting up and warming up to make another music track for my game Word Turtle Island. Some of the tools I use are my guitar with a midi pick up add-on and the app loopy Pro on my iPad.

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What sort of questions do you have for a UX generalist / solo indie game creator? Art? Sound? Code? The design/business/product aspect of solo creator stuff? Interdisciplinary artist, generalist, T-shaped. Something you'd like me to explore or questions you have for me, I'd love to hear. #indiegames

New trailer for Word Turtle Island! A gentle rogue-lite with RPG and cozy elements, flexible input, and flexible difficulty. See how word action works, where you use words to rescue books and readers in battle. Then you level up in the library and unlock more battles to rescue more.

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Excited and humbled to have Word Turtle Island in the 2D Con popup at the MOA this weekend. Will be there with the WTI arcade cabinet alongside 5 other local MN indie game developers. Seriously cool games that it's an honor to show alongside. Play games and talk with indie devs.

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What does it look like when I build Word Turtle Island to publish? I use Python scripts and batch files! Lot of game devs use a cloud build system like GitHub Actions or GitLab, which I started doing that, but it just takes too much resources on the more affordable service tiers.

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Thank you to all the Doodle Creatures players. Lots of great art made by kids and their adults at Twin Cities STEMFest.

Each time someone plays the design sketching game Doodle Creatures Have Needs, they make an imaginative creature then design something to help their creature #stem #gamedeveloper

Cute creatures time lapse digital painting. Started as a 2 minute sketch, here I'm refining it to cleaned up lines and colors. Speed painting video using Clip Studio Paint. Big fan of the way the vector line brushes and erasing works in CSP.

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Working on Word Turtle Island for over 3.5 years is a big chapter of my life, mixed in with many other big things. Feels good to be close to 1.0 also daunting and exhausting at the same time. If you're working on a big project I wish you good fortune and hope and pride. #gamedeveloper #indiegames