Jonny Swales

thanks mickey! : )

sat down to draw a cool and relatable guy but he came out frightening. will try again tomorrow

The desire for more co-ops / direct ownership and for developers to see residuals for the games they work on.

We're an industry that is fueled by highly passionate and incredibly creative people, and that passion is never rewarded but instead traded for a salary until it's time to be let go.

a blue guy (caveman). i've been drawing blue guys again

drawin blue guys again

I intend for this to be where I make my millions

currently workshopping a design for the next great bald cartoon child. a bald cartoon child seems to pop off roughly every 30 years (i.e. Charlie Brown, Doug), so its high time we see a new one

2 extremely marketable characters hanging out

2 marketable guys, hanging out

A sewer in Big Hops with a big yellow rotating platform surrounded by waterfalls.

🧵 Big Hops Sewer Exit Level Design Deep Dive Thread 🧵

Inspired by @radiatoryang.bsky.social's excellent Big Hops level design blog post and encouraged by Chris @luckshotgames.com, here's a thread where I dove back through the commits to look at our iterations on a single level in Big Hops.

Notes on level design workflow for the 3D platformer Big Hops A behind-the-scenes look at some of the tooling, level design methods, and metrics use for this cartoony 3D exploration game I helped make.

new blog post: notes on level design workflows for the 3D platformer Big Hops www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/01/note...

Helloo #PortfolioDay
My name’s Zoë, I’m a 3D artist currently looking for a job primarily in games 🫶🏻 previous titles I’ve worked on are Big Hops, Nailed It! Baking Bash and Good Job!
Available asap
Portfolio: artstation.com/applesaph
zoevandijke@gmail.com

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From Despelote to Ooo, the best games under 2 hours of 2025 are truly timely Year in Review 2025 | Strapped for time? You can play any of these in a single evening

Looking for some 2025 indies that are under 2 hours? I wrote about five of the best for GR+✨ www.gamesradar.com/games/year-i...

Boss Fight #1 Progress! There's more that I'm not showing, but this effect was the one that I was hoping to achieve the most! Pretty happy with the result!

Lets try this agin with our release date video:

BIG HOPS is releasing January 12th, 2026 on PC, Switch, and PS5. It's about 15 hours long, will cost $20 USD, and yes it runs GREAT on the Switch 2!

Wishlist here:
store.steampowered.com/app/1221480/...

Tongue swing through 3 huge worlds to and make your way back home!

Big Hops from @luckshotgames.com is a froggy action platformer with a bunch of slick movement tech and abilities. It'll hop onto your PC, Switch, or PS5 on January 12th, 2026.

Long time no see! I’ll be open for contract work again mid-december, so if you’ve got dramatic environments that need painting or pitch decks that need art or really any old (visual) thing I could be YOUR gal 🫵 ameliaherman.artstation.com

A fallen tree lies half in a pool in front of a waterfall in the forest

Secret Waterfall

Hey #PitchYaGame!
I'm making an atmospheric 3d platformer where you're a robot pole-jumping through an underground complex!

🏃- Unique staff-based movement
🏚- Huge abandoned megastructure
🎞- Wordless story to piece together

The game comes out the 10th of November!
Wishlist it here: s.team/a/2980260

it felt like we started taking access to these exciting art tools for granted, and everyone started acting like their parents for a bit there. glad to see some freaks coming out of the woodwork again, I hope they get louder

it makes me happy to see amateur/unpolished art creeping its way back into popularity again! a lot of independent art from the last decade felt like it was trying to imitate the aesthetics/tone of big budget studio stuff and it stopped being cool to experiment

#BigHops is in Steam Next Fest!

It's a good hour long taste of our adventure: you'll use your tongue, learn to climb, find veggies you can build paths with, and borrow a stranger's backpack.

store.steampowered.com/app/1221480/...

people don't talk about that TMNT movie from a few years ago enough. spiderverse walked so it could run, it looks so singular

CARIMARA is OUT !!
With a brand new trailer 😱

Can't wait to see people discover all the little surprises I prepared...

It's ONLY $4.5 now and it's perfect for HALLOWEEN 🎃
Let's buy it and spread the word, please!!

Play this mad pirate adventure for just over 1 USD today :OOO
store.steampowered.com/app/3187550/...

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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incept date sept 27/2025
#PS2 #softimage #3d #3dmodelling #gamedesign #leveldesign #indiegame #screenshotsaturday

My next rpg is FERAL BLOOD DOLL.
Play as a dual-personality sexworker fighting cops and feds in an underground city beneath the present-day US.

how does it feel to be done with the game? do you miss having the larger outlet to house the smaller projects within, or is it mostly a relief to have the project finished?

Let’s Talk About Difficulty YouTube video by hotcyder

Let's weigh in on the discourse surrounding this year's most highly acclaimed release...

youtu.be/_jEXbn6-tWg