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Slightly Sleepy Studios
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The one-man developer of Sequence Break - The Proof of Survival... and very little else, for now at least!
Try it out (runs on Windows and Linux): http://slightly-sleepy-studios.itch.io/sequence-break
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Progress has slowed down a lot on my game, but only because I'm trying to get more important things moving along in my life.

What I will give away is this - A test render that'll act as my rotoscope base for an art style I plan to shift into later on.

#IndieDev #SoloDev
A dark 3D rendering of a hallway. The walls and ceiling are a dark cherry red. The ground appears to be carpeted, as its rough texture takes on a gray hue underneath the fluorescent white lights of the hallway. The corridor itself stretches far into the distance, blurring out of sight as it's consumed by the dark void lurking at the other end.
November 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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You know, some days, you forget that you're working within some comically small resolution limits... YOUR GRU GANG RISE UP!

(For the record, this was supposed to say "Your Girl!" Lmao)

#IndieDev #SoloDev #GameDev
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Watching this now… good lord, are people now pretending that the gameplay of Time Gal and Dragon’s Lair is the future of AI Gaming?
November 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Time for the most terrifying part of a pre-release workflow... bug fixes.

The PR, the announcements and even the upload of the game? Easy! Trying to find as many bugs to quash before release as possible? Not so easy.

#IndieDev #GameDev #SoloDev #AdventureGameStudio
A terminal window, showing the partial output of my current code base's status. It lists numerous files in red text, indicating that I have modified those files, but that I haven't committed - or made permanent - those changes.
October 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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POV: You're here, but mentally you're somewhere else.

(Unintended bug I stumbled upon during play testing after moving my dev environment - I apparently forgot to check all cutscenes with my new portrait system! This is #art, I don't care!)

#IndieDev #SoloDev #GameDev #AdventureGameStudio
A screenshot of a work-in-progress version of Sequence Break. The main character is looking at himself in the mirror. A portrait image of his face is slapped on top of where his head would be in the actual background image, making his face look cuter than the more gritty take on his visage as intended. He is talking to himself: "That's me... or what's left of me."
October 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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"You don't have to open the door. Not yet."
-???

Who's that person in the cloak?

#IndieDev #SoloDev #GameDev #AdventureGameStudio
October 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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"4-of-a-kind! Read 'em and weep, boys!"
"Not so fast, bub!"
"What is it, doll-face?"
"Royal Flush, dirtbag."
[May or may not have been toned down for BlueSky, heh...]

A Scene from a security camera system, coming to my game in the next build.
#IndieDev #SoloDev #AdventureGameStudio
A security camera angle, looking at a table currently set up as a poker table. The game is Texas Hold-em. The Flop, Turn and River are, respectively, King of Diamonds, 7 of Spades and Jack of Clubs; 7 of Clubs; and Queen of Hearts. The losing two-card hand - a 7 of Hearts and a 7 of Diamonds - results in a four of a kind. The winning two-card hand - tossed on-screen by a hand from the right hand side of the frame - reveals an Ace of Clubs and a 10 of Diamonds, completing a Royal Flush.
October 18, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Sharing something I found via Discord. Literally was two seconds away from giving up all my creative works before I saw this in my chats this morning.

(NOTE: I do not watch Gintama, but I DID forget all about Scatman John)
(NOTE 2: Supposedly unedited? Citation needed.)

#IndieDev #SoloDev #Scatman
October 16, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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A Question of Character
(Digital Rotoscope, done in my hour before lunchtime)

Don't mind me, brainstorming some character design ideas

#IndieDev #SoloDev #IndieArt #Procreate
October 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Making the final few room images for my next build of the game took longer than I'd like to admit, but it's done! Now, uh... for a few more incidental minigame images and then it'll be ready to go live! #SoloDev #IndieDev
A scene from my game, as shown in Procreate. A Vending machine has been smashed into on the right hand side of the image. The logo for a company called MTC is hoisted prominently in the middle of the image. To the left hand side is a computer and a blank piece of paper sitting on a desk.
October 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Lovely, after I sorted out the Procreate update mess, now I'm having to look for alternatives for Affinity's apps because it's looking highly likely they're taking away my buy once licenses and make no mention of their new app or pricing, meaning it's probably a subscription now. fml
A screenshot of Affinity Photo 2's webpage. White text on a dark background reads "Creative freedom is coming - sign up to be the first to know. True creator freedom is just around the corner. October 30." Below the text is a button that reads "See the future first."
October 3, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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What a way to end the week - implemented (a very basic form of) New Game+, Swapped out the old panel for my new, multi-purpose main menu, and even got a limited version of my extras menu ready for mid-game access!

Honestly, I'm feeling proud, heh...
#SoloDev #IndieDev #AdventureGameStudio
September 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Slowly refining my visuals and adding a new menu system so it's not just wall-to-wall Default AGS visuals (Not entirely at least...) and... for the first time, I'm feeling like I'm actually putting together a proper video game!
#IndieDev #SoloDev #AdventureGameStudio
September 26, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Me: Ok, one Scene down, now, onto the next scene!
#Procreate: *Updates brushes so literally none of the ones I used are shown by default anymore*
Me: Damn it.
Could use all the advice I can get - still have all my old brushes, but I'm stumped on my coloring with the new brushes.
#IndieDev #SoloDev
A scene of a room in Procreate. The lines are rendered with thin and thick white pen on a dark blue background, and the coloring is layered in with two of the new ink brushes.
September 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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This was a strange detour, but I guess I have a secret game I can throw into my min game somewhere now! Gotta love weird hyper-fixations, sometimes, heh...

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September 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Following up on yesterday, I've now added my Pocket Communicator, along with full support for tracking files are downloaded and can be shown to the player! With this, my first area of the game is functionally complete! 🎉
#IndieDev #SoloDev #AdventureGameStudio
September 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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This took an embarrassingly long amount of time for me to code in, but I figured out enough ancient simplified AGS script to finally have a working document system... kind of!

Next step will be to add the item that'll show these documents, and add pages! #AdventureGameStudio #IndieDev #SoloDev
A still image of a document's text, as displayed in the game "Sequence Break." It reads: "Personnel Incident Report - January 18th, 2120. Employee: [REDACTED - PII.] Employee ID (EID): [REDACTED - SPII.] [ERROR - INVALID STATUS.] [ERROR - INVALID PROJECT CODE.] Security Clearance: Declassified (For Review.) Issue: Subject was admitted into study GBT-001. [DELETED - MTC SB: PII/SPII.] Subject underwent standard pre-procedural evaluations. [DELETED - MTC SB: PII/SPII.] Subject's [DELETED] via standard sterilization protocol. [UNIDENTIFIED BIOHAZARD] was then introduced [WITHOUT SUPERVISOR AUTHORIZATION.]
September 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Been a hot second, but that's only because I've been working on a simple puzzle - you can't exactly have an adventure game without some kind of puzzle! #IndieDev #SoloDev

Still feels weird to me, coding the functions in before I have assets ready...
September 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Me: Hey! I should add a weird little reference to a live stream I used to watch! I just have to mock up a silly crash screen!

Me, about an hour later: ...This is terrifying... I think I may have to use this unironically....
#IndieDev #SoloDev
September 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Slight update on my decision trees - made simple changes so that the text isn’t just plain text on black at the bottom of the screen. Still wish I had the chops to program a custom drawing routine for decision points like this though! #IndieDev #SoloDev
A list of items available at a fictional vending machine in a video game. In order, they are: Duke’s “Kick-Ass” Ale (Root Beer), The MAXX (Lemon-Lime Soda), Dr. Lester (Cherry Cola), Deluxe Jet Fuel (Energy Drink), One-Shot Express (Cold-Brew Mocha), Stroke Limit Antidote (Apple Green Tea), Quantum Fizz (“Mystery Flavor”), Bottle ‘o Citra (Orange Soda), U.U. Yuzu (Imported Citrus Drink), Maple Pop (Ginger Ale), Brok-Ade (Sport Drink) and Celtic Rain (Water). At the bottom of the decision window is text that reads: “Hellbound One: Input Required.”
September 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Finally added two new rooms and settled on a room navigation system! Yes, there's placeholder graphics aplenty for now, but I can at least code new rooms before the visuals are ready!

Probably gonna drop VA for now though...

#IndieDev #SoloDev #AdventureGameStudio
September 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Took a Mental Health break from writing, but I will say, It's surprisingly refreshing imagining your characters in out-of-story moments, detached from the plot, if still a cool wrinkle for the lore! #GameDev #SoloDev

(Yes I've been getting back into Puyo Puyo, don't mind me lol)
A short comic, divided into six panels. Hellbound One is playing a gritty, mature title on his handheld pocket communicator. Another member of his squadron calls out: "Chief! We're heading out for that evac! Still on for that 1v1 in Dead-eye afterwards?" Hellbound One Responds: "Hell yeah. You're going down. Good luck out there." As the rest of the squad leaves, the captain takes a moment to ensure he's alone, looking to the left and the right, before happily switching games with a swipe and a tap on his device's screen. The final panel shows him playing a colorful, "Falling Block" Style puzzle game, sending garbage blocks to an opponent whose on-screen tag reads: "Moi_ass"
September 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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On the plus side,decided to take the time yesterday to add some basic stat tracking and an Extras Menu - hey, if the game is short, might as well add as much replayability as possible, right? #GameDev #SoloDev #AdventureGameStudio
September 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Gonna be honest, still low key upset about the NAS yesterday because the Final Cut Project associated with Sequence Break (Well Done, cloud storage provider) has been corrupted because a big corporation thinks it’s a good idea to zip up the .fcpproj folder before sending it along. #IndieDev #SoloDev
A screenshot of a Final Cut Pro for iPad error message. It reads: “Import Failed. There was an issue importing your project.”
September 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Alright class, gather ‘round, and I’ll tell you the story of why you always have backups for your backups! If you think a NAS Dying within two years of ownership that holds backups of your game is bad, you’ve seen nothing yet! (A thread, 1/x) #GameDev #SoloDev
A picture of a malfunctioning Network-Attached Storage device in a bag.
September 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM