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Etienne Pouvreau
@smolware.dev
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Indie gamedev from france.
🌐 www.smolware.dev

wishlist sweepminer: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3906680/Sweepminer/?beta=0
get the press kit: https://smolware.dev/presskits/sweepminer/

itch io : https://smolware.itch.io/
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my game's (wip) main menu !

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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rah les ptits joueurs
un mail des "illuminati"
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Announcing my new game! (actually its 7 new games but)
Sweepminer is a collection of Minesweeper inspired microgames, coming to #steam v e r y s o o n
💣🎱🐍
if you can spare a #wishlist:
store.steampowered.com/app/3906680/...

#gamedev #indiegames #indiedev
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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enlarged and unsmoothed for you viewing pleasure

#gamedev #screenshotsaturday #indiedev

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November 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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hard at work on my biggest project yet. Breaking my "no posting until work done" rule because I'm so proud of last night 3d test that i wanted to share:
Behold: the third dimension !
(i know, groundbreaking stuff ^^)

#gamedev #gameengine #screenshotsaturday
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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mock-up (kind of)
#gamedev
a fake game screen showing a world/dungeon map. the ui shows 3 dices in the bottom left of the screen, next to two vials filled with liquids, one red and the other yellow. There's on screen directional keys on the bottom right. Above the keys is a sprite sheet of the player character, a caped figure with 2 white dots as eyes. The animations are labeled idle, hit, huh? and death.
October 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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step 1:

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just make it exist first you can "draw the rest of the owl" later
October 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Sorry for the radio silence lately, i'll have something (gamedev) to announce soon...

in other non-news today is my birthday and i recently watched Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal, what an amazing work of art. Off to watch Labyrinth again !
a sketch of the small round dog-like creature from 1982 the Dark Crystal movie a sketch of the same creature from the same scene, throwing a tantrum
October 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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platformer prototype 2: i don't like doing level design, so I'm thinking of a way to have the player do it...the idea being that you have to 'carve' the level before you play it, using resources to carve, carving to access more resources...

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames
September 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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and also he smooth

#gamedev #indiegame

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September 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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sa me rappelle cette illustration de uuufin (sur twitter) sauf que ghibli, enfin en gros c'est trop beau quoi
September 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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the action dude is back, now real time !
excuse the tinyness, he can't help it

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#gamedev #indiegames #pixelart
September 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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i love the fact that this little guy (uploaded 3 years ago to #itch ) is still the most frequently and regularly downloaded thing from all the stuff i made

#pixelart #gamedev

in case you're interested (its free and the aseprite file is included): rascarcapack.itch.io/pixel-geese-...
September 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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and now i can just uncomment a single line of code to change the whole style ! perks of a custom #gameengine

#gamedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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September 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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taking a brake from skillsong to get my ass kicked by @not-jam.itch.io 's Battery Acid Boy 2 instead. Its really great yall
give it a try (it runs in your browser): not-jam.itch.io/battery-acid...

#indiegames
my score on the leaderboard. ranked 24th with 135 points. the players are identified with glyphs, i'm "long legged man + scarab"
September 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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took me 3+ years of gamedev and making my own engine before i make a 2d pixel plateformer prototype smh...

#ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev
September 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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i like miracode. i don't know why tho...i never even played minecraft
example code snippet from miracode screenshot of my custom notepad++ theme
September 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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i took a break from getting my ass kicked by silksong to implement real time pixel smoothing in my engine

#ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev
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September 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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pixel fluid simulation 💧
i'm not done working on it and its butchered by the gif recorder but i wanted to post before silksong takes over my life...

#gamedev #procgen
September 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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or perhaps you're more of a dashed circle kinda person ?

#ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev
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August 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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can i interest you in some dashed bezier curves ?

#ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev

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August 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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i spent all day making a rasterized dashed line that looks okay..
and its all i have for #ScreenshotSaturday lol

#gamedev

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August 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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i've been deep in engine refactoring these last few days, so i don't have any new cool stuff to show right now :(
So i'm shamelessly reposting this fine #pixelart action gif
August 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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"noisy Jason Statham hiding in a corner is not real"

noisy Jason Statham hiding in a corner:
August 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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August 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM