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Minari

@minaridev.itch.io

Hobbyist game developer from Finland. Making games in RPG In A Box Logo done by: https://www.instagram.com/art.bylizza/ My games can be found at: https://minaridev.itch.io/ https://linktr.ee/Minaridev https://ko-fi.com/minaridev

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New bigger cave level with multiple rooms

New bigger cave level with multiple rooms

Player

Player

goblin

goblin

traveller

traveller

Re-designed character models to be more Ultima-like, and redid the first cave level due to losing the map after renaming the bat enemy to goblin. Gotta be careful

#gamedev #indiedev #retro #ultima #2D #RPGInABox

08.03.2026 18:53 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Decided to return to my Ultima-inspired project, redid the starting area and made a cave map.
#gamedev #indiedev #ultima #retro #RPGInABox

06.03.2026 22:05 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Working on a horror project, where main character is a musician. Of course drums need to be interactable.

#gamedev #Indiedev #RPGInABox

04.03.2026 22:03 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
"Bowl of fruits" voxel art

"Bowl of fruits" voxel art

Anybody want a bowl of voxel fruits?
#gamedev #indiedev #voxel #RPGInABox

04.03.2026 21:01 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Inspired by Pekka Kana (Pekka The Rooster) by any chance? An old DOS game series

28.02.2026 15:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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2 year anniversary and thoughts February 22th was when I originally released Ghost Of The Youngwood Forest. It sure was exciting moment for me. While the game isn't great, it was a learning opportunity. How to finish a game and rele...

My first game was released exactly 2 years ago, so I wrote a little postmortem onto the itch page.
minaridev.itch.io/ghost-of-the...

#gamedev #indiedev #anniversary

22.02.2026 10:48 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
HUD

HUD

Inventory and character screen

Inventory and character screen

Worked on some UI stuff, character screen is work in progress/placeholder

#gamedev #indiedev #RPGInABox

12.02.2026 13:55 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Made a scene where you get to choose your background and it gives you different items based on your answer. Currently only ex-soldier is working though. Also made custom UI for this but forgot to enable it. Got long way to go but slowly but surely I will finish.
#gamedev #indiedev #RPGInABox

12.02.2026 01:35 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cooked up a little prototype. I kinda want to make Elder Scrolls meets Diablo but in smaller scope obviously.

#Gamedev #Indiedev #RPGInABox

07.02.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Updated character model and added sound effects and death animation to enemy in my "cellar project" also changed map music in second level, still not sure about it though

#gamedev #indiedev #RPGInABox

01.02.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Untitled game set in a cellar inhabited by creatures

Untitled game set in a cellar inhabited by creatures

Decided to return to my "cellar project". It was good project so why abandon it. Could work as a short game content-wise

01.02.2026 13:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Rusted broken down car

Rusted broken down car

Main character for my game

Main character for my game

So the project I was making, had low energy for it and didn't work on it until yesterday again and now I realized it's boring gameplay-wise and I don't know what to do with it. Going to scrap it. That's gamedev to you, sometimes stuff doesn't work out.
#gamedev #indiedev #RPGInABox

01.02.2026 12:54 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

*Spends three hours trying to figure out how to do a thing*

*Gives up and has lunch*

*Comes back and figures it out in under five minutes*

I love #GameDev !

01.02.2026 12:44 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Latest Development News :: Minaridev I decided to start working on a small project that I would finish during the weekend, a post-apocalyptic game where player needs to find last survivors after robot invasion, or something like that, st...

Wrote a new blog post, this time more of a devlog. I'm planning to move away from YouTube devlogs to writing to my blog. I prefer it that way
www.minaridev.com/l/latest-dev...
#gamedev #indiedev #blog

23.01.2026 14:21 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Running With Scissors, their love towards the craft and their fanbase got me into developing my own games

23.01.2026 06:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Old game ad

Old game ad

Games have always been expensive, Street Fighter II for SNES was $100 when it came out and so on. Here's proof:

23.01.2026 02:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A dead robot in a wasteland

A dead robot in a wasteland

Decided to start working on smaller scope game, 2-3 levels, one weapon, one enemy. Something to play in 10-15 minutes. And something I can finish during the weekend, we'll see about that though... Trying to keep scope small is hard!
#gamedev #indiegame #RPGInABox

22.01.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
When You Fail To Capture Magic Again :: Minaridev I read an article about former Bethesda developer who left the studio in 2023 and it made me think about the future of Elder Scrolls. I don't personally have high hopes for Elder Scrolls 6 anymore due...

Wrote a short blog post describing my thoughts regarding Bethesda developer leaving the studio and how that changes the outcome of Elder Scrolls 6.
www.minaridev.com/l/when-you-f...

#Gamedev #blog #Bethesda

16.01.2026 19:01 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Crypta 1.0 update! After some months of work, I deem this project complete content-wise. Added final level Levels 3 and 4 now give player full health in order to help to make game bit easier to play Added custom mouse c...

It's time for final major update for Crypta: Depths Of Darkness!
minaridev.itch.io/crypta-depth...
#Gamedev #indiedev #RPGInABox

14.01.2026 16:33 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Common citizen's house decoration

Common citizen's house decoration

Bar decoration

Bar decoration

Didn't have lot of energy today but I started the work on decorating the town. After that is done, I can start populating it with villagers and start designing few quests and so on. That's going to be fun.

#Gamedev #indiedev #RPGInABox

10.01.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Village layout as a whole

Village layout as a whole

In-game footage

In-game footage

Village layout done, just need to decorate all the houses and such stuff. Been productive night (6 am here haha)
#gamedev #indiedev #RPGInABox

08.01.2026 03:56 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Old house design for my RPG

Old house design for my RPG

New house design for my RPG

New house design for my RPG

Been working on first village for my RPG. Evolution on house design. I'm horrible at modeling houses so I think making it without roof would be easier, plus no additional maps needed for every single house!
#gamedev #indiedev #RPGInABox

08.01.2026 03:05 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Its a new year and I wanted to introduce myself to everyone again!πŸ€—βœ¨οΈ
Hi, i'm Chris and I love art and video games! I do pixel art, voxel and occasionally 3D.
Right now i have one main project and a couple of prototypes☺️ You can support my work on Kofi! πŸ€—β€οΈ
#gamedev

08.01.2026 00:47 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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After Crypta has entered 1.0 version, this project will begin taking steam. I'm thinking Zelda-like blocky RPG. I want to focus on polishing this project as much as I'm able. I know I have started and stopped multiple projects but that's skill issue I'm trying to fix

#Gamedev #indiedev #RPGInABox

04.01.2026 17:11 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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the villager's city set has really good plain gloves/boots to use with any black mog

02.01.2026 21:54 πŸ‘ 93 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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A drawing of mine redone in 3D pixel art

#pixelart #lowpoly #gamedev #indiedev

03.01.2026 15:35 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Free/non-grid movement for NPCs and enemies is coming as part of the upgrade to Godot 3.6! No longer will they be tied to the grid lines! The Godot 3.6 upgrade will also bring countless other improvements and optimizations to RPG in a Box.

#rpginabox #godot #godotengine #gamedev #indiedev

03.01.2026 22:55 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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General announcement Hello all I wanted to share an update regarding development of Crypta: Depths Of Darkness. Thing is, my powerful gaming PC that I used as my development machine/main computer has some RAM issues and I...

Hey, it's me again! Here's a little discussion about Crypta and my plans for 2026.

minaridev.itch.io/crypta-depth...

#Gamedev #Indiedev

03.01.2026 22:52 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
End of year thoughts :: Minaridev So, today I looked back at the games I've made, and results kind of depress me. Lot of poor slop titles made in very short time. I need to do better. I'm planning to cancel all of my current projects ...

Wrote a new blog post on my website regarding next year and how I feel about my released games.
www.minaridev.com/l/end-of-yea...
#gamedev #indiedev

13.12.2025 02:03 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
My new game development setup

My new game development setup

My PC unfortunately seems to be dying so I'll be working on this setup for now. Firefox crashed constantly and even Discord froze from time to time. #gamedev is on pause until I get time to transfer my files to this laptop.

11.12.2025 09:44 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0