Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings

Hey #PitchYaGame, here's Sigil of Kings: 🌍 Explore a huge procedural world in vibrant 16-bit pixel art ⚔️ Conquer deadly dungeons with might, magic & cunning 👑 Complete quests, ascend guild ranks, shape city fates 💀 Make your mark in a living, breathing world. Or perish! 👉 Wishlist on Steam (link 👇)

Rumours! * Talk to villager from village A, hear about some portal problem in a mine near village B * Go to village B, talk to someone, learn that chief can say more * Talks to chief, get quest * Talk to villager from village A => updated rumour youtu.be/RntdEvVhqss #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

Boom - boom v2. Meteor spell. Wishlist here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443800/Scaledeep #wishlistwednesday #turnbased #roguelike #scaledeep #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #fantasy #rpg #isometric #steam

Refactoring conversation tree generation, to make it simpler. First goals: be able to dump graphviz dot, and play dialog via some ImGui tool, away away from the game GUI. Here's a trivial tree #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday

Belated blog posts! sigilofkings.com/202... sigilofkings.com/202... #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

This is 8-bitBot: A programming puzzle game that I am working on and aiming to release in 2026. I started working on this in July 2025. Steam wishlisting: store.steampowered.com/app/3959370/... Playable demo on my website (a bit outdated): zet23t.itch.io/8-bitbot #gamedev #raylib

Also, because I *love* graphviz dot, I made a cutscene .dot exporter (that little dot button in the gui) to visualize what's going on. This is the script for the cutscene #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

More silly cutscenes! For this one, we have: async/parallel actions (actors walking "simultaneously"), multiple dependencies (surprise jumps depend on both "goto target" commands finishing) and creating a condition in the editor (if step on two plates, reveal door) #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

Lovely news to start the week: SOLAS 128, my game about redirecting rhythmic pulses of light, is in a Programming Puzzles Bundle alongside 6 other awesome programming-esque puzzle games. I'm a huge fan of The Signal State and Retro Gadgets looks really cool 💜 www.humblebundle.com/games/progra...

New cutscene test: "Hot Pagan Activities". Refining the cutscene system a bit more, with some more interplay of instant and asynchronous actions. #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday

My next game is called Coilbound and will be a challenging but lighthearted Mystery Dungeon-inspired game set in a dark fantasy dystopia. Follow and wishlist here if interested: store.steampowered.com/app/4483710/...

I'm pleased to announce that around 200 pages' worth of tutorial resources are coming to the Game UI Database for FREE via a brand new blog. No ads. No paywalls. No email signups. Here's a preview of the first piece dropping next week, all about crafting cross-platform control schemes and layouts!

Added support for multitile decals, for occasionally more exciting decorative art... #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

More cutscenes: now eating my own dog food and making these maps and cutscenes from the game gui. Here cutscene spawns guardians, player surprised, guardians threaten, cutscene ends, battle starts. #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday

Another simple demo cutscene script - here the character says something, walks near a destination, and says something else. Moving costs turns, so this plays interwoven with other entities' turns, whereas saying something can be instant. #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

New blog post! sigilofkings.com/202... #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

Ok, the tooling around cutscenes is progressing, so I can now create a few simple "demo" cutscenes of increasing complexity. The most trivial one: 2 instantaneous actions: say sth and play a look-around animation #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

Before(left) / After (right) inspector refactor #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday

Reflective Dear ImGui inspector in #Godot! Because with nearly 2000 classes and many of them supporting GUI inspection, I'd rather abandon ship than writing per-class GUI code Inspector has been refactored to key/value pairs in tables, for readability #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Sunrise in the mountain forest. #GameDev #IndieDev #ProcGen

Some developer GUI update... It's basically a custom inspector for all my C# classes. Before (left) and after (right). It's certainly less "WTF is going on here" (imo). Restructured the whole thing to tables, so I can have property names on the left, plus alignment. #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

Weapon preset support! Light on GUI at the moment, but you can have up to 10 main/off hand presets, including the ever-useful torch, so that you can quickly swap between situations. But beware of nearby danger as swapping costs a turn! #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday

Premade rooms/areas can now contain stairs that can connect sensibly to other stairs during the procedural generation process. Basically, you can now have procedural definitions of "the creepy cellar under the lodge in the forest" #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday

I made this shmup Plasma Sky years ago for mobile, but tech rotted out from under it. This year I fixed up the custom engine for PC, redrew art bigger, and added a bunch of features. I'm so stoked to bring this game back to life, it's still fun for me to play after so much time tuning it!

New blog post! sigilofkings.com/202... #indiedev #godotengine #gamedev

NAIAD OUT NOW! 🪷 Finally! After 5 years of development and dedication, I'm excited to share my first game with you. Immerse yourself in a poetic, dreamlike, and serene experience. 😊 ✨ Steam (PC/Mac) ✨ PS5 / PS4 ✨ Xbox Series / One ✨ Nintendo Switch

Premade rooms/areas can now contain stairs that can connect sensibly to other stairs during the procedural generation process. Basically, you can now have procedural definitions of "the creepy cellar under the lodge in the forest" #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday

Most importantly, however, we'll have the amazing games from our MDes students! Do you want to plan a strange building? Play N64-style golf with friends? Explore a definitely haunted apartment building? Shoot rockets at your friends' cars, and/or more! Tomorrow! 👉 buytickets.at/mdesingames/...

New pinned post time! 📌 "Tales of Kathay" is a turn-based tactical RPG / #roguelike set in a deeply simulated, fully procedural dark fantasy world. Wishlist on Steam: s.team/a/3939340?ut... Play the Demo: jouwee.itch.io/tales-of-kat... #indiegame #turnbased

📢 I'm thrilled to announce that the Demo for Tales of Kathay will be hitting Steam on July 31st, this friday! So wishlist the game with the link in the comments, and save up some hours this weekend to check what the game's about! youtu.be/QBjQufN_-3k #indiegame #turnbased #roguelike

New blog post! sigilofkings.com/202... #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

Better cutscene support! #gamedev #indiedev #roguelikedev #godotengine

A bit more work in my simple level editor. New bits include support for some entity properties. It's all aimed for a pre-made tutorial level. #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

New devlog! From now on, on sigilofkings.com :) sigilofkings.com/202... #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

Cutscene support is now in place. There is support for AI actions, camera movement, a few animations and a few effects. More to do on several fronts, and more examples will eventually follow! #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday

I made these sea urchin animations for a enemy of Sunken Souls 🦔 #pixelart #animation #indiegame #gamedev #ドット絵

Finished a new scene today and created open door scenes for 2 of my previous scenes from last week. If you like what you see drop a follow and if you want to show your support links to my previous games are in my bio! #gameboy #gamedesign #pixelart #retrogaming #videogames #gbstudio #aseprite #game

New blog post! byte-arcane.github.i... #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

Hey #PitchYaGame! In Sigil of Kings: 🌍 Explore or forge huge procedural worlds in vibrant 16-bit pixel art ⚔️ Conquer dungeons with might, magic & cunning 👑 Complete quests, ascend guild ranks, shape city fates 💀 Make your mark in a living, breathing world. Or perish! 👉 Wishlist on Steam, link in bio

New blog post! byte-arcane.github.i... #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

I'm looking for people interested in playtesting my tactical turn-based #cRPG / #roguelike to help me find bugs such as the dancing NPCs! If you're able to record the session or play live on a Discord call, that would be great! If you're interested, feel free to DM me or reply below! #indiegame

It's finally time, we're hosting #TurnBasedThursday this week❗ DEVS 👉 Share your turn-based game here! PLAYERS 👉 See all the coolest turn-based games below! 🔁 + ❤️ to reach more players, and don't forget to use the hashtag! 🐸

Thanks for hosting! Jupiter Hell Classic is a traditional turn-based roguelike game, successor to the venerable D**m the Roguelike. On Steam in Early Access - the Heavy class has just been added and next week we release 0.11 Terminal with Hacking, Terminals and Bots! bsky.app/profile/epyo...

It's happening! In honour of CRT7 being part of the @puzzleshowcase.bsky.social I've released a large new demo! Featuring: 🧩 Tweaked and improved puzzles 💡 Enhanced graphics and vibes 📸 All new features like in game note taking 👉 store.steampowered.com/app/2096780/... #GameDev #IndieDev #Demo

Another, improved player bot, with a few more abilities and less hesitation, played at a humane speed. It can play for a couple hours at least without issues, but here's a short 6 minute segment. youtu.be/w4wX0VvWjnw #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

Belated blog post! (correct link this time...) byte-arcane.github.io/sigil-of-kin... #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

‪Been a while since I posted any more portraits, this one's not exactly new but somehow I forgot to upload it on socials :p for a succubus enemy in our game #pixelart #portrait

The rabid auto-explorer strikes back. Blink and you'll miss several turns of frenzied bump-attacks, exploration and looting anything not rooted to the ground. #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday

Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday, @byte-arcane.itch.io! Sigil of Kings looks awesome! Version 1.0.5 of my #game, Counter Tactics, just dropped on the #AppStore. - Build a deck with 2 champions - Asynchronous turns - Climb the leaderboard FREE on the App Store! #gamedev #indiedev

Thank you for hosting #TurnBasedThursday! Little Tree Kingdom is a cozy-deckbuilder where you play as a gnome mayor building a gnome kingdom on a giant tree. Use a deck of cards to build, gather resources, and fend off enemies. 🌳🏰 The DEMO is LIVE on Steam 👉 store.steampowered.com/app/3938990/...

Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday! Kingdom of Krawall is a fast-paced #4X #IndieGame with deckbuilder elements. Rule your kingdom by playing cards, expand your power, and win by conquering every palace on the map. store.steampowered.com/app/4502550/...