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Frankie Hobbins

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Real time art generalist and tech art. Creator of http://www.squashandspell.com/ Current looking for new freelance work. https://www.frankiehobbins.com/

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Worth mentioning to make sure you select the playtest, the demo is a single scene, where as the playtest is 4 backgrounds & 4 animals.

28.02.2026 18:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pigeon Hunter on Steam Pigeon Hunter is classic hidden object game. Find the pigeons and other items in a series of beautiful hand drawn environments. Complete each scene and traverse though a dream like home.

Steam playtest is live for the hidden object game Iโ€™ve been building with my mum! ๐Ÿ”

Iโ€™d appreciate any feedback on this version before I start work on the marketing push.

Check it out on Steam:
store.steampowered.com/app/3917020/...

#IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame #Gaming #CozyGaming #HiddenObject

28.02.2026 18:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Chance on Steam The property-trading deckbuilder. Chance is strange, dusty board game where you steal land from the bourgeoisie, bankrupt the proletariat, break the rules with unfair chance cards, and discover strate...

And the Steam page is: store.steampowered.com/app/4293810/...

26.01.2026 21:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Chance by joebain A property trading boardgame roguelike

Got that bug for boardgames? That lust for ludo? Check out my new property trading video-board-game Chance.

[very early, sorry for bugs, plz give me your feedback]

joebain.itch.io/chance

22.12.2025 09:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You've seen a wild dog?!?

16.12.2025 18:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

hey, I'm working on this! and what a treat it is; a cool ass video game and a team of super talented humans :D

plus I can actually talk about it and it won't get randomly cancelled because a shareholder farted or whatever? madness!

also yay; Godot!

okbyeeeee x

28.08.2025 18:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ‘† I spent ages trying to make this work nicely on Android. Was a big learning curve with the new Unity input system and trying to make adaptive UI work on the old Unity UI system.

#Unity3d

06.08.2025 15:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pigeon Hunter on Steam Pigeon Hunter is classic hidden object game. Find the pigeons and other items in a series of beautiful hand drawn environments. Complete each scene and traverse though a dream like home.

Whoop Whoop just got my latest game up on Steam.

First game with my daughter and now this ones with my mum.

store.steampowered.com/app/3917020/...

#IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame #Gaming #CozyGaming

01.08.2025 18:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 20 ๐Ÿ” 7 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pigeon Hunter by CraftyPickleGames A short hidden object game with beautiful hand draw art.

We've just released a free web demo of our first hidden object game on @itch.io, Pigeon Hunter. Find pigeons nestled in a beautiful hand drawn background.

Other platforms coming soon!

#IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame #Gaming #CozyGaming

craftypicklegames.itch.io/pigeon-hunter

29.07.2025 10:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 16 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pigeon Hunter by CraftyPickleGames A short hidden object game with beautiful hand draw art.

Just pushed a demo of a hidden object game I've been working on with my mum to itch.io

craftypicklegames.itch.io/pigeon-hunter

#IndieDev #GameDev #CozyGaming #MadeWithUnity

28.07.2025 16:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 17 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#ScreenshotSaturday of my last game prototyping. It turned out to be a lot more fun that expected. Had some great feedback and ideas that will hopefully turn it into something much better than I though it ever could be.

store.steampowered.com/app/3816400/

#IndieDev #GameDev #SoloDev #MadeWithUnity

14.06.2025 12:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 20 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Building a second Steam page is going a lot faster than the first one ๐Ÿฅณ

12.06.2025 12:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Working on a procedural building generator in order to place structures in the game world and make it more alive! #gamedev #indiegaming #medieval #citybuilder #browsergame #proceduralgeneration

09.06.2025 13:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That too soooooo looooong ๐Ÿ˜‚

07.06.2025 16:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

wow amazing thumbnail ๐Ÿฅฒ

06.06.2025 19:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Squash and Spell : Kids Typing - Download and play on Windows | Microsoft Store ๐ŸŒˆ Fun ABC Game for Children โ€“ Learn Letters, Spell Words, and More! Squash and Spell is a playful, educational ABC game for young children who are just starting to explore letters, words, and spellin...

Finally managed to get on windows app store,

apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NBKM...

That was more effort than actually making the game!!

#gamedev #indiedev

06.06.2025 19:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My new top tip for indie developers is don't try and publish anything though Microsoft Partner Center ๐Ÿ‘Ž

06.06.2025 12:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#ScreenshotSaturday of our recently released game, Squash and Spell : Kids Typing.

#indiedev #gamedev #kidsgaming #educationalgames #familygames #typinggame #preschoolgames #edtech

31.05.2025 13:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Can someone who knows what they're talking about recommend which iPhone I should get to test and push an app to the apple app store. I'm in the UK and want cheap mixed with easy.

Thanks!

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

31.05.2025 13:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I still feel like a fraud when I make a post on my @craftypicklegames.bsky.social account and say "we" when it's only me there ๐Ÿค”

30.05.2025 20:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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mucking about with pixels and colours and stuff

#gamedev #unity3d #trenchbroom #retroart

29.05.2025 17:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 25 ๐Ÿ” 7 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

sorry no screenshots but happy to share more info if anyone wants needs it.

29.05.2025 15:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I came up with a workflow for getting lots of #b3d #geonode objects such as trees into #unity with each one being a prefab.

I used a proxy object in blender and baked object position into the UVs.

A unity script gets the unique UV positions to place a prefab there on start.

#gamedev #indiedev

29.05.2025 15:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Making things wobble is so satisfying ๐Ÿค“

#gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

29.05.2025 10:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 14 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I finally hit release today on the game I started last year for my 3 year old daughter then decided to finish and ship!

It's been a lot more effort than I thought it would be getting a 'simple' game out on Steam and Mobile.

Big respect to everyone else who's doing or done it ๐Ÿ’–

#indiedev #gamedev

28.05.2025 14:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I dont think I could have slept at night if I'd not put that in

21.05.2025 11:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Total coincidence but it just so happens that vanilla newt is my favourite ice cream flavour ๐Ÿคค

19.05.2025 16:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#ScreenshotSaturday

Testing our early years alphabet game before release on the 28th. Running great on the #steamdeck! ๐Ÿคฉ

store.steampowered.com/app/3387970/...

#indiedev #gamedev #kidsgaming

10.05.2025 17:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 18 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We're pleased to announce Squash and Spell will be released on Steam on the 28th of May! ๐Ÿฅณ

Android and Windows Store to follow shortly after.

#KidsGames #GameDev #IndieDev

06.05.2025 15:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Texture Browser for Unity by Billowper old school texture browser for Unity

I made a thing!

"Texture Browser" is a Unity editor tool for... browsing and using textures! Inspired by @joewintergreen.com 's tool for UE, I made this for myself to work with Realtime CSG.

You can find it on Itch & GitHub!

billowper.itch.io/texture-brow...

#gamdev #unity3d #indiedev

16.04.2025 13:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 53 ๐Ÿ” 18 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0