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Five Years of Solo Development – Interview with Fountains Creator John Pywell

XBox Wire details how solo dev John Pywell spent five years building Fountains, a Metroidvania now launching on Xbox. The game leans hard into mystery, with minimal guidance, Dark Souls-style …

Official XBox Wire · 5 days, 21 hours ago
Aseprite v1.3.18.4 Released

Aseprite v1.3.18.4 is a patch release focused on workflow fixes rather than new features. It corrects Snap to Grid behavior for brushes larger than 1 pixel, repairs copy/paste for tilemap …

Tech Aseprite (GitHub Releases) · 2 weeks ago
Tiny Factory

Kenney has released Tiny Factory, a 2D asset pack in the Tiny series with 130 files. It targets factory, warehouse, and conveyor-heavy scenes, giving teams a compact pixel-art set for …

Official Kenney.nl · 2 weeks, 1 day ago
73 AWESOME 2D Art Styles for Game Devs

Tim Ruswick has put together a reference roundup of 73 2D art styles aimed at indie game devs. The collection spans ink-on-paper, isometric, one-bit, retro UI, pixel worlds, pixel sprites, …

Video Tim Ruswick · 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Aseprite v1.3.18.3 Released

Aseprite v1.3.18.3 is a small but practical maintenance release with a few workflow and stability fixes. The biggest user-facing addition is a new crosshair option that respects UI scaling, which …

Tech Aseprite (GitHub Releases) · 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Aseprite v1.3.18 Released

Aseprite v1.3.18 lands as a feature-heavy maintenance release with a noticeable performance bump: undo/redo is faster, the UI gets a preferences search and tooltip manager, and the CLI gains a …

Tech Aseprite (GitHub Releases) · 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Aseprite v1.3.18

Aseprite 1.3.18 is out as the new stable build, bundling a long list of crash fixes, workflow tweaks, and Lua API updates. The release also tightens timeline tagging, improves tile …

Official Aseprite · 2 months ago
Tiny Farm

Kenney.nl has added Tiny Farm, a 2D asset pack in its Tiny series with 130 files. The set is aimed at farm, RPG, roguelike, map, and pixel-art projects, giving teams …

Official Kenney.nl · 2 months, 3 weeks ago
PixiEditor 2.1 Released

PixiEditor 2.1 lands as a free, open-source, cross-platform 2D art tool that tries to unify painting, pixel art, animation, and vector work in one pipeline. For teams that bounce between …

Blog Gamefromscratch · 4 months ago
HTML5 game Spears N’ Coins with Phaser 4.1 and TypeScript: a tiny endless runner like Dashy Panda

A small Phaser 4.1 + TypeScript project shows how far you can get with procedural generation, parallax, and pixel art in a lightweight endless runner. The useful bit for devs …

Video Emanuele Feronato · 4 months ago