Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s #screenshotsaturday tag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, my eye has been caught by so very much! Come check out immersive sim piano-playing, hand-drawn and stop-motion art, alien horror and pandemic horror, dogfighting planes, and loads more!
Cute handcrafted scenes in stop-motion language-learning adventure game Language Adventure:
Happy #screenshotsaturday! Here’s four of them form Language Adventure!
Language Adventure is a #stopmotion #animated #language #learning #adventuregame !#indiegame #gamedev #solodev #pointandclick #adventuregames #indiedev #animation #indiegames #langtwt #learn #languages pic.twitter.com/PWu680j7UP
— Language Adventure! (@GamesWonky) January 28, 2023
A strong mood in Curfew (coming to Itch.io), a horror game “set on a surreal floating British island during a mysterious pandemic”:
I promised myself to break the cycle of starting and not finishing projects. CURFEW is the result of that promise. A game I truly care about. Follow my journey on https://t.co/pVGMugxFQh and follow me on Twitter!#CURFEW #screenshotsaturday #madewithunity #indiegames #indiedev pic.twitter.com/2zD18g1RtL
— Oliver Hughes (@GamesOjh) January 27, 2023
I often don’t like music puzzles, not least of all because I spend ages going “Okay so these two black keys mean this is C which means…” and counting on my fingers, so I do immersive sim Spectra adding note guides. I look forward to playing the one tune I know off the top of my head (the main ditty from The Big Breakfast’s theme song) on this piano:
Coming in hot with a late submission for #screenshotsaturday! Today’s work is a fully functional piano- I figure displaying the note information to the player means that music inputs are fair game to be used in…..places😉 #indiegame #gamedev #imsim #indiedev #immersivesim pic.twitter.com/zf0fv4aZ6e
— Spectra: 1970s Immersive Sim (@Spectrathegame) January 29, 2023
Colourful scenes in twin-stick shooter Roto Force (coming to Steam):
No GIFs, but some actual screenshots for #screenshotsaturday for a change. pic.twitter.com/tpS2N7kuRF
— Anton Klinger (@accidentlyAnton) January 28, 2023
Sound on for sad scenes in action-RPG The Milk Lake (coming to Steam):
worked on death and respawn this week. here’s emmer being hunted.#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #unity3d #themilklake pic.twitter.com/SwyQIDTW9x
— The Milk Lake (@TheMilkLake) January 28, 2023
A great question for a great boy:
Little mollusk boy I’ve made for my game. Wonder what kind of music does he play. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday pic.twitter.com/iqrTeN2n5p
— MrShlong (@MrShlongus) January 29, 2023
While we’re by the waterside, here’s a nice waterdash in Teslagrad 2 (coming to Steam):
Water you doing
teslagrad 2 #screenshotsaturday pic.twitter.com/SSCfILrv8m— 🐱ri-Warui (@oleivarrudi) January 28, 2023
And why not just a splash more water, from The Journey Of AutUmn (coming to Steam), a hand-painted adventure game about an android exploring an alien planet:
It is #screenshotsaturday
We are making good progress with “The Journey of AutUmn”. 🚀
Currently we are play testing the third chapter. 😊#indiedev #gamedeveloper #IndieGameDev #scifi #pointandclick #adventuregame #madewithvisionaire @SpieleIndie pic.twitter.com/tzoVoCQNL8— Artfactory Jalokivi (@ArtfactoryJ) January 28, 2023
I like this little detail in treasure-hunting “action adventure RPG” Bridgebourn, which has a good look in general:
Forget “cape physics” feature creep. I added “breathe rate” that goes higher after physical activity#screenshotsaturday pic.twitter.com/SpunLI0Q0n
— Bamboo Bandit (@BambooBanditSR) January 28, 2023
A cute take on a classic platformer level type in Pepper Grinder (coming to Steam and GOG):
If you want to fight Mint you’ll have to catch up to her first, and she won’t make it easy! #screenshotsaturday #PepperGrinderGame #gamedev pic.twitter.com/oAN1W10A1k
— Riv (@Ahr_Ech) January 28, 2023
Seeing that “open-world Lovecraftian spacefighter RPG” Underspace (coming to Steam) didn’t use these concepts makes me very curious to see what they actually have done:
Some unusued concepts for giant planet-sized squid textures.#underspace #gamedev #unity3d #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #indiegame #madewithunity #indiegamedev #spacegame #space #gamedevelopment pic.twitter.com/b1Un7Y3nJw
— Trainwiz (@trainwiz) January 29, 2023
Extremely interested in this long sightseeing descent from metroidvania V.A Proxy (coming to Steam):
Underground areas got their own sprawling ecosystem (still wip) #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday pic.twitter.com/VMNBxUfg8f
— Pyro Lith (@LithPyro) January 28, 2023
A spell which will consume all my mana and deal as much murder as magically possible really appeals to me:
Lightning Wand is a new type of item keeps bouncing until your mana is empty, when used. #IndieDev #ScreenshotSaturday #DoHashtagsEvenMatterAnymore pic.twitter.com/8TGm6qTF1k
— Vanguard Jay (@JaysGames) January 30, 2023
Extreme realism in aeroplane dogfighting wave survival shooter Top Dog (coming to Steam):
TOP DOG SITREP #3 👉 https://t.co/VEJ4el2c07 #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame pic.twitter.com/dgFJCxpDeW
— Morfeo (@MorfeoDev) January 27, 2023
Twitter compression is unkind to this spooky scene from alien encounter game The White Owl (coming to Itch.io):
Forest scene to test my B&W nighttime fog and lighting in my alien game The White Owl. I’m aiming to create something similar to Rendlesham Forest, the location of the UK’s equivalent of the Roswell incident.#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #madewithunity #unity3d #ufotwitter pic.twitter.com/tuTVdA3d2r
— ⚪Caladrius⚫ 👽 (@ArgentCaladrius) January 28, 2023
A bit of puzzling in the hand-drawn world of Ruffy And The Riverside (coming to Steam):
Solve the shrine?
Swap a line💫May the SWAP be with you.
Wishlist👉 https://t.co/1iZDDPymSG#screenshotsaturday #wishlistwednesday #indiedev #indiegame #gaming #RT #games #NintendoSwitch #PS5 #pcgaming #Xbox pic.twitter.com/vPJgjQdHRp
— Zockrates Labs (@zocklabs) January 28, 2023
This is a curious one:
We are working on our first commercial video game, a pacifist, story driven sci-fi puzzle adventure set in a distant future. Here are two screenshots for #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #UnrealEngine5 #videogames #indiegames #indiedev #scifi pic.twitter.com/vTtHh1M3zF
— Damjan Jovanovic (@dmjn_net) January 28, 2023
And to close, I do enjoy a game having a built-in museum for its own history, like ultraviolent first-person shooter Ultrakill (out now on Steam Early Access) soon will:
Coming in the next update: The Developer Museum.
An interactive credits level where you can look around, read about who did what, see things like cut content and maybe find some easter eggs?
HD: https://t.co/Xsyizec9kN
Museum by @VvizardM#screenshotsaturday #gamedev pic.twitter.com/GjNOfpZEPm— ULTRAKILL – ACT II OUT NOW (@ULTRAKILLGame) January 28, 2023
What else caught your eye this weekend, reader dear?
