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Screenshot Saturday Mondays: stylish action and squishy shroomsOur pick of interesting indie games from Twitter’s weekend screenshot-o-rama

Our pick of interesting indie games from Twitter’s weekend screenshot-o-rama

A car drives towards an industrial city standing on legs above the wasteland in a Fumes screenshot.

Touching a physics tree#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/GzFMdnaHcK— David Hagemann (@TocoGamescom)December 3, 2022

Touching a physics tree#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/GzFMdnaHcK

A striking first-person swordfight with a grappling hook and big dashes:

Phase one of the boss fight is pretty much done!https://t.co/pZ67QYVh6R#screenshotsaturday#indiedev#madewithunitypic.twitter.com/5q83slZAs4— pl0s (@pl0s_)December 3, 2022

Phase one of the boss fight is pretty much done!https://t.co/pZ67QYVh6R#screenshotsaturday#indiedev#madewithunitypic.twitter.com/5q83slZAs4

Another sword duel, this one with a lot more posing:

Dueling system#wip#screenshotsaturday#IndieGameDev#indiegames#madewithunitypic.twitter.com/F50OklxHhw— DumplingTurbo (@DumplingTurbo)December 3, 2022

Dueling system#wip#screenshotsaturday#IndieGameDev#indiegames#madewithunitypic.twitter.com/F50OklxHhw

A cute attack animation idea for an angry amanita in 2D platformer Color Story: Pixa’s Quest (coming to Steam):

Had fun with this attack animation for the mushroom enemy. Idea is he squishes down and launches his cap at you before coming back up and growing a new cap#indiegames#gamedev#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/tOfKgc7fF5— r1kGAMES (@r1kgames)December 3, 2022

Had fun with this attack animation for the mushroom enemy. Idea is he squishes down and launches his cap at you before coming back up and growing a new cap#indiegames#gamedev#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/tOfKgc7fF5

Speaking of cute attack animations, I dig these prone slideshoots from StarIliad, a metroidvania set inside a giant space whale:

Slide shooting for action-packed sequences!#screenshotsaturday#metroidvania#gamedev#indiedev#StarIliadpic.twitter.com/FGUpmu9SRz— StarIliad (@StarIliad)December 3, 2022

Slide shooting for action-packed sequences!#screenshotsaturday#metroidvania#gamedev#indiedev#StarIliadpic.twitter.com/FGUpmu9SRz

A good (bad) mood from post-apocalyptic car combat gameFumes(paid pre-alpha availableon Itch):

smoke over the wastelands#FUMESgame#screenshotsaturday#indiegame#indiedev#gamedev#retrogame#psx#madewithunity#unity3dpic.twitter.com/8TueobDkvz— Mariusz Tarkowski (@m_tarkovsky)December 3, 2022

smoke over the wastelands#FUMESgame#screenshotsaturday#indiegame#indiedev#gamedev#retrogame#psx#madewithunity#unity3dpic.twitter.com/8TueobDkvz

Flawless Abbey(coming to Steam) is a curious one:

The Star Key plays it’s brittle melody — pay attention to its notes so you don’t break it! ✨#indiedev#gameart#gamedev#unreal#UnrealEngine#indiegame#screenshotsaturday#dev#art#indie#game#gamingpic.twitter.com/TUfhwJgARH— Bed Head Games / Flawless Abbey (@bed_head_games)December 3, 2022

The Star Key plays it’s brittle melody — pay attention to its notes so you don’t break it! ✨#indiedev#gameart#gamedev#unreal#UnrealEngine#indiegame#screenshotsaturday#dev#art#indie#game#gamingpic.twitter.com/TUfhwJgARH

Mech combat game Bakemono - Demon Brigade Tenmen Unit 01 (out on Steam Early Access) is one of the few games to make me wish my eyes worked with VR goggles. I think that list of inspirations is Amored Core: For Answer,Titanfall 2, andDevil May Cry.

#screenshotsaturdayFirst round#thpsscoring fin.This clip makes me so mf happy man.All this hard work and sacrifice is worth it ( today ) 🙏😊🤖Aside from adv melee and AI core my AC4A TF2 Mecha May Cry is complete!!!#gamedev#indiedev#solodev#gundam#Robotech#Macrosspic.twitter.com/v6ue5VorGQ— Supersane_Games - Bakemono : Early Access Now (@SupersaneG)December 3, 2022

#screenshotsaturdayFirst round#thpsscoring fin.This clip makes me so mf happy man.All this hard work and sacrifice is worth it ( today ) 🙏😊🤖Aside from adv melee and AI core my AC4A TF2 Mecha May Cry is complete!!!#gamedev#indiedev#solodev#gundam#Robotech#Macrosspic.twitter.com/v6ue5VorGQ

I adore how much tying strings to thumbsticks totally changes the vibe of the motion:

Wanna be a chicken rider? 🐓🤠#AltCtrlAtHome2022#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/gMYRKiWxIY— David 🎮💃🐐 (@drnlab)December 3, 2022

Wanna be a chicken rider? 🐓🤠#AltCtrlAtHome2022#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/gMYRKiWxIY

You know I can’t resist nice water, like this in Mika And The Witch’s Mountain (coming to Steam):

An almost distractingly pretty background from a non-stealth moment in “fast-paced stealth game” Project Neo Chaos:

Some enemies you’ll have to face head-on…#screenshotsaturday#pixelart#indiedev#gamedev#ue4pic.twitter.com/NdxemcbzuN— Dayvid F. Mello (@daydimello)December 3, 2022

Some enemies you’ll have to face head-on…#screenshotsaturday#pixelart#indiedev#gamedev#ue4pic.twitter.com/NdxemcbzuN

Might be just a shader rather than a game, but I absolutely cannot resist jellyfish:

Hey everybody! I made a Jellyfish shader#madewithunity:D I also made a tutorial trying to explain sine waves and how to achieve this kind of effects here:https://t.co/KYHlmxezlk#screenshotsaturday#gameart#gamedev#shaders#stylized#jellyfish#sine#unity3d@unitygamespic.twitter.com/nx9P8hihAW— Dervish (@_josueor)December 3, 2022

Hey everybody! I made a Jellyfish shader#madewithunity:D I also made a tutorial trying to explain sine waves and how to achieve this kind of effects here:https://t.co/KYHlmxezlk#screenshotsaturday#gameart#gamedev#shaders#stylized#jellyfish#sine#unity3d@unitygamespic.twitter.com/nx9P8hihAW

A striking game for the ZX Spectrum, which certainly counts as a personal computer:

Today I make public Bruxólico ZX Spectrum WIP 1ST stage Demo. You can download for free this demo and play for yourself the first stage. Still a work In progress, some details may change.https://t.co/mPLomAYjix#screenshotsaturday#zxspectrum#homebrew#IndieGameDev#gamespic.twitter.com/ffyDeD80o3— Amaweks (@amaweks)December 3, 2022

Today I make public Bruxólico ZX Spectrum WIP 1ST stage Demo. You can download for free this demo and play for yourself the first stage. Still a work In progress, some details may change.https://t.co/mPLomAYjix#screenshotsaturday#zxspectrum#homebrew#IndieGameDev#gamespic.twitter.com/ffyDeD80o3

If you like these concrete scenes from Podvarak, do also check out theBrutalist map pack for Quake:

Nether garage#screenshotsaturday#gamedevpic.twitter.com/JySrkeAiU1— IVAN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN 🌲🏎️💨🌲 (@Nothke)December 3, 2022

Nether garage#screenshotsaturday#gamedevpic.twitter.com/JySrkeAiU1

And lets close on a lesson in solving duck puzzles from Irish adventure game An Aisling:

Happy#screenshotsaturday!Here’s how you hunt a duck…#indiedev#indiegame#IndieGameDev#gamedev#GameMakerStudio2#AnAislingpic.twitter.com/vFSY6pc7uB— Aaron Teefey Lee (@Mrleafytea)December 3, 2022

Happy#screenshotsaturday!Here’s how you hunt a duck…#indiedev#indiegame#IndieGameDev#gamedev#GameMakerStudio2#AnAislingpic.twitter.com/vFSY6pc7uB

What else caught your eye this weekend, reader dear?