Copper Kettle Gameworks

22 Sept

Introducing: Nom Chomp! A simple-yet-satisfying three button video game. Eat a variety of little sprites, in order to roll with the seasons. Inspired by the Albertan seasons, and some complicated feelings about their comings and goings. An upcoming game from Copper Kettle Gameworks

The Autumn portion of the game is decorated by falling leaves, each of which I painted in photoshop. The more decomposed leaves show up later in the season of course! 🍂🍃🍂 #autumn #leaves #yyc #indiegame #nomchomp #indiegamedev #fall #digitalart

I recently found out that I hadn't compressed the image size before uploading it to the game... so each frame of the leaves we're like 2MB! It's much more compressed now

Spotted this hidden skull at the Bankhead walk out in Banff yesterday. Seemed friendly enough 💀

Trying my hand at writting a little haiku today, inspired by the trees down in Bridgeland

22 Sept

We started playing Endacopia this week....it's very upsetting. Good!..but upsetting.

15 Sept

This will be used with a mask and a highlight layer to animate a gentle breeze. #gamedevelopment #indiegame #indiedev #gameart #art #construct3

15 Sept

Drawing some strange seed pods at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. Any ideas what they are? #drawing #Nomchomp #sketching #indiegamedev

11 Sept

This view stopped me in my tracks.

8 Sept

I made this as part of Nom Chomp - since there will be a little haiku at the end of each playthrough. Feel free to download it for yourself! I wrote down some thoughts, and uploaded the font on our Bloggity Blog : www.copperkettlegameworks.ca/bloggity/nom... #blog #font #indiegame

19 Aug

Our hollyhocks are so full of seeds! I hope a bunch more pop up next year. Nom Chomp will be full of foliage I come across while galavanting around Alberta. I hope anyone that plays the game ends up feeling like they've gone for a stroll with us. #indiegame #alberta #videogames #yyc #Hollyhocks

13 Aug

Grabbed an apple off our little tree on my way to work this morning. As I drove down Deerfoot trail, I stopped eating it abruptly as I thought: "I forgot to peel the sticker off!"...

5 Aug

Back from a short vacay to Vancouver island.

20 July

I've never been part of #artfight before, but I'm having a pretty fun time. Here's my character Beaucracy Face. Come at me! artfight.net/~Hoby

20 July

Biking to work...or Silent Hill?

17 June

What do you think might happen tomorrow? Template by Necro #deltarune

2 July

Update....I was super wrong

2 July

The chapter ended up being much more a lighthearted romp rather than a lore heavy narrative.

12 June

Remember how we all universally made fun of pop-up ads as just trash? That ugly asthetic is easy to recall even years later. All these "helpful" hints and promos that I need to swipe away on every. single. app. I use - is very similar feeling.

24 Mar

Just started Pokopia and I'm enjoying it so far. It's refreshing to play a pokemon thing that doesn't take itself so seriously.

30 Mar

Though... after losing myself for several hours I need to consider: Am I just doing work? in a fantasy where it's appreciated? If my actual pet really appreciated when I fix up our home - would my leaky pipes be fixed by now?

Making some proxies for an Arabella, Abandoned Doll commander deck. We are giving it an Indie / ARG / Analogue horror feel.

23 Mar

A Mimic from #VitaCarnis as the Giggling Skitterspike. Done by Necro. #analoghorror #mtg #commander #creepypasta

Making some proxies for an Arabella, Abandoned Doll commander deck. We are giving it an Indie / ARG / Analogue horror feel.

17 Mar

The Puppet from Five Nights at Freddy's for Teferi's protection. #fnaf #mtg #commander #fivenightsatfreddys #puppet

Making some proxies for an Arabella, Abandoned Doll commander deck. We are giving it an Indie / ARG / Analogue horror feel.

16 Mar

Sybil from Look Outside #indiehorror #lookoutside #mtg

Making some proxies for an Arabella, Abandoned Doll commander deck. We are giving it an Indie / ARG / Analogue horror feel.

9 Mar

The "Moon" from #local58 for the card Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought done by Necro @krisstraub.com #Magic #Commander #MTG #analoghorror #foundfootage #HISTHRONE

Making some proxies for an Arabella, Abandoned Doll commander deck. We are giving it an Indie / ARG / Analogue horror feel.

8 Mar

#theboiledone as a proxy for Razorkin Needlehead in our commander deck. I kinda freaked myself out while working on this one. Turned out "better?" than I expected. @doctornowhere.bsky.social

Making some proxies for an Arabella, Abandoned Doll commander deck. We are giving it an Indie / ARG / Analogue horror feel.

#KinitoPET for the card Skrelv, Defector Mite. Felt right for an artifact that gives you infect #Magic #Commander #MTG #kinito #troy_en

Making some proxies for an Arabella, Abandoned Doll commander deck. We are giving it an Indie / ARG / Analogue horror feel.

#sonicexe for the card Sol Ring done by Necro #Magic #Commander #MTG #creepypasta #execommunity

Making some proxies for an Arabella, Abandoned Doll commander deck. We are giving it an Indie / ARG / Analogue horror feel.

Here's the "Archangel Gabriel" from #mandelacatalogue for the card Cursed Mirror #Magic #Commander #MTG #analoghorror @alexkister.bsky.social

Making some proxies for an Arabella, Abandoned Doll commander deck. We are giving it an Indie / ARG / Analogue horror feel.

Here's the #fivenightsatfreddys #springtrap for the card Crawlspace #Magic #Commander #MTG

2 Mar

I’ve added the spawn point in the winter portion. Basically, whenever you end a round and go to sleep on the ice - you will cause a crack that opens up a hole in the lake. That hole will spawn little fish sprites that will flop around on the ground. #indiegame #gamedev

2 Mar

This has proven to be the most complicated part of the whole endeavor (so far). There are angle calculations, animated masks, and too many layers. But it’s coming along!

17 Feb

yuk

6 Feb

I drew this icon for our friend’s band: Twin Snakes. An effort to make the image more dynamic than the candy label it was inspired by #art #logo #twinsnakes #yyc #digitalart

6 Feb

30 Jan

Braden and I got chatting about our favorite games last weekend, and I was surprised to hear how much he enjoys the Resident Evil series 🧟 . He makes a pretty darn good case too. I've posted his thoughts on our Bloggity Blog: www.copperkettlegameworks.ca/bloggity/res...

29 Jan

This scene from the new movie really reminded me of a drawing I did of Luigi years ago. #MarioGalaxy #luigi #fanart #art #gaming #Nintendo

26 Jan

What's on the menu? well - not much yet actually. But it's working! #nomchomp #construct3 #indiegame #indiegamedev #yyc #copperkettlegameworks

19 Jan

Necro did this great drawing of me as if I was in the Smiling Friends cartoon. I’m horrified at the idea of existing in that world… but I love the image! #smilingfriends

I have been struggling with the Construct 3 a bit more lately. The simplified blocks of code have been super helpful since I don’t know how to program, but it’s becoming clearer to me that the script that isn’t shown can often conflict with other areas.

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As an example: I had an animation and a sound effect set to start when one sprite collides with another. Even though the line is set to execute “only once”, it repeated endlessly, and the assigned sound effect screamed as it looped over itself .

I ended fixing this just by changing the trigger to X,Y coordinates instead of detecting the collisions. I guess this is coding? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And since it’s running behind the scenes - I don’t get to know why. But as I become more familiar with the process, I have been guess-and-testing run arounds.

12 Jan

These new mites will complicate your progress a bit once you reach the summer portion of the game. If they hit your legs multiple times, or if you step on them : they fly away! Music by Ashley A #nomchomp #construct3 #indiegame #indiegamedev #yyccalgary #yyc #copperkettlegameworks

8 Jan

I just found THE scariest image while perusing the Tears of the Kingdom art book! #zelda #tearsofthekingdom

27 Dec 2025

Went for a beautiful walk this afternoon

23 Dec 2025

(All of the above) Holidays everyone! Please be tender with yourself over the season. I know it's a lot.