Helianthus Games - making Astro Focus

Which program is that, is it pixel-art specific?

I use this one in combination with godotengine.org/asset-librar...

🚨 We’re officially in Steam Next Fest 🚨

Our new trailer for Shifting Sands is live.

An isometric pixel art roguelite ARPG set on a desert planet that resets every day.

👉 Wishlist on Steam:
tinyurl.com/sandshift

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🪐 25 Spinning planets (36x36px) by 🌻Helianthus Games🌻 Detailed spinning pixel art planets, ~2k frames! (36px version)

Fellow gamedevs, spice up your space game🚀 with my newly released asset pack of animated planets 🪐
(now 3 different sizes and other matching asset packs 🌌 in my humble store):

helianthus-games.itch.io/25-spinning-...

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Pixelart showing the 4 planets from the Dune 1984 movie, the planets are: Arrakis, Caladan, Giedi Prime, Kaitain.

The Spice Must Flow.
#PixelArt #Pixelorama #Dune

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers.

If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of:

fund.godotengine.org

Do games from 20 years ago count?

Sharing an old pixel art piece created for the prompt "Stage select", rather proud of this one 😊

Which planet would you choose?

Thanks.
Interestingly other people have prefered to "no outlines" versions so far, citing that they "blur together" (probably fixable with a larger margin between them) and looking like they are in a focused state. But they were not artists.

⚠️I need your help! ⚠️

Which icons look better - left or right?

The context is a game about space faring Romans.

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Wanted something fancier than simple scanlines for the holo displays of my space Romans 🚀🏛️

I ended up with this triangulation effect which I quite like!

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The eagle is getting some likes, so here is icon recreated in the 3D mesh style, this time a planet 🌐

#pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

I am trying to make a sci-fi looking eagle 🦅 for the UI of my game featuring space Romans 🚀🏛️

Do you like the mesh effect?
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Amazing art, reminds me of Sol Cesto somewhat

More like MMXXVI

Does this count?

From my indie game about building a Roman space empire, it felt fitting.

#ultimateattack
#pixel_dailies
#pixelart #ドット絵 #픽셀아트

@pixeldailies.bsky.social

Exterminatus!

I hope I am not too late!

This is Astro Focus, a pixelart productivity game where you grow a space Roman Empire in you pomodoro breaks!

Gyms, Zoos, and Museums: Your documentation should be in-game YouTube video by Robin-Yann Storm

A video on gyms, zoos and museums! A must-watch by @rystorm.com for any indie out there. Goes into why you should choose different ways of documentation sometimes, learned a lot myself!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PJR...

Yes, been trying to build a small Discord community like that as well. It is hard, but the ones that stick around are all very nice folks.

Very keen to trying it 🙂

🔊SOUND ON

Astro Focus is my productivity game where you build a space 🚀Roman Empire⚔️ in the breaks between your IRL focus sessions!

I wanted to show off this WIP version with varying planet regions⛰️ buildings🏛️ and upgrades that produce different resources 🧱

#indiedev #gamedev #godot #pixelart

I love that you can see the moons, great job!

A pixelart showing the 8 planets of the solar system along with Pluto and Vulcan, with their main moons.

My pixel take on the uninhabited Sol system.
#PixelArt #pixelorama

A smooth flyover across the city as Pompeii continues to grow.

Still building, polishing, and balancing this world solo, a 🔥 new update is coming this Monday 🔥

#IndieDev #GameDev #CityBuilder #PompeiiTheLegacy

🔊SOUND ON

Astro Focus is my productivity game where you build a space 🚀Roman Empire⚔️ in the breaks between your IRL focus sessions!

I wanted to show off this WIP version with varying planet regions⛰️ buildings🏛️ and upgrades that produce different resources 🧱

#indiedev #gamedev #godot #pixelart

Nice, thanks for sharing!

Do you mean there is an asset in the asset library to do that?

So no boids?