Simon S. Andersen

Also, my current game project: Vikings on Trampolines. Its a co-op/versus brawler where you're vikings, you fight on trampolines, and balloons are sentient and evil.

Owlboy's 10th anniversary livestream kicks off this Sunday! Oh yeah, and we're dropping an update-patch for the game on the same day! #owlboy #indiedev #gamedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJGq...

When you start working in video games, no one tells you how how many custom store-page assets you have to modify your artworks into. At this point, I've frankensteined together so many illustrations, Mary Shelley would sue me for copyright infringement.

Owlboy's 10 years old 🦉👴 Currently prepping our annual live-stream. Tune in on our Twitch Nov 1st ♥️

Sometimes, I find myself reflecting on my current state. How surreal it is that I'm developing a game for others, who's success will be entirely determined by the kindness of strangers. With all the bizarre stuff happening on the regular, what an odd task to have. Painting little worlds.

He's an expressive lad 🫪 #pixelart #animation #owlboy

Apparently Barney the Dinosaur reincarnated as a sleep paralysis demon in our lava lamp this morning

A decade later, here are some new features for #Owlboy 🦉

Anyway, I just turned 40 today!

A reminder that if you're visiting Pixel Art Park this weekend, I'll have prints available through the remote exhibitor booth. There's some original work and some one of a kind Owlboy prints. #PixelArtPark

Just ran a 3 day convention. Was great, genuinely had a good time! No one even suspected my back gave out day one and I couldn't move the whole time!

Know a lot of you have suggested quality-of-life updates to Owlboy over the years. So for the 10th anniversary, we're taking another look at our decade old code, one more time Even (or maybe especially) if you've played Owlboy, definitely read the Steam update link for this one

Know a lot of you have suggested quality-of-life updates to Owlboy over the years. So for the 10th anniversary, we're taking another look at our decade old code, one more time Even (or maybe especially) if you've played Owlboy, definitely read the Steam update link for this one

15 seconds of monsters from our game! 👻 #pixelart #gamedev #indiegame

Accessibility features! We lack experience in this field, but it was surprisingly breezy to implement this high contrast mode using a couple of shaders and background fx. Any other settings we should consider adding before launch? 🤔 #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity

Meowment 37 #pixelart #ドット絵

Anyway! #pixelart #ドット絵

Good pose. Excellent form. Perfect.

What should we name him? 🤪🪗 #pixelart #gamedev #indiegame #vikinggame

This year I'll be participating in Pixel Art Park on October 11th as a remote exhibitor! I've created a set of postcards you can only get through the event. Some random, some Owlboy related. Kind of a new things for me, so I'm curious how it'll go! #PixelArtPark #pixelart #ドット絵

Each island in our game gets a unique version of this lil tune 🎶🥰 🎹 by @savant.bsky.social 🎨 by @snakepixel.art #gamemusic #indiegame #pixelart #vikingsontrampolines

Felt inspired the other day. Unfinished for now, but I'll turn this into a full painting when I have the time. #OcarinaOfTime #Zelda

Felt inspired the other day. Unfinished for now, but I'll turn this into a full painting when I have the time. #OcarinaOfTime #Zelda

We added a big ol' (!!!) warning signal to telegraph incoming enemy attacks. Are they a little too much tho? 😅‼️ #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #retro

This is the 3rd stage of the Adventure Mode in Vikings On Trampolines - a calm voyage across the bay! Well, calm if you ignore the BALLOON ONSLAUGHT ofcourse🪓🎈 #vikingsontrampolines #pixelart #gamedev

To get that part out of the way: I'm not a fan of remakes of good games, and I prefer games without voice acting so it gives more room to interpretation. That said, the OOT remake is hitting some deep parts of my brain. Something about castle town clicked. They're out to get me

This year I'll be participating in Pixel Art Park on October 11th as a remote exhibitor! I've created a set of postcards you can only get through the event. Some random, some Owlboy related. Kind of a new things for me, so I'm curious how it'll go! #PixelArtPark #pixelart #ドット絵

Throwback to when Brian and Mitchell of IGN dubbed Vikings On Trampolines amongst their favorites at Gamescom! We finally got to show the co-op Adventure Mode this year, and can't wait for launch next year! ❤️ @brianaltano.bsky.social | @jurassicrabbit.bsky.social

GamesCom complete! Demoing Vikings on Trampolines for 5, 11-hour days does a number on you, but it's always a great time. I'll have some updates once I've recovered a bit

Animated version of the Cactus Man stage concept. I was initially going to just make a static MegaMan Dual Override mockup, but I had an evening before GamesCom and opened up my game engine for a bit. #pixelart #ドット絵 #megaman

When I submitted the design for Cactus Man for MegaMan Dual Override, this is roughly what I had in mind. I've based the mockup on the player filling the arena with sand in this playthrough. #pixelart #ドット絵 #megaman

When I submitted the design for Cactus Man for MegaMan Dual Override, this is roughly what I had in mind. I've based the mockup on the player filling the arena with sand in this playthrough. #pixelart #ドット絵 #megaman

Terranigma redraw. Always loved the look of the towers #pixelart

By the way. Me and D-Pad Studio are headed to Gamescom next week to show off the latest version of Vikings on Trampolines at the Indie Arena Booth. Its got Versus-mode, new TEAM versus, and the new Co-Op Adventure mode with levels and bosses included #pixelart #ドット絵 #gamedev

Since there's a chance there will be Megaman Dual Override news while I'm at Gamescom, I'm working on something in advance. (No one knows who's been selected, I'm just making things for fun.) #pixelart #ドット絵 #megaman

By the way. Me and D-Pad Studio are headed to Gamescom next week to show off the latest version of Vikings on Trampolines at the Indie Arena Booth. Its got Versus-mode, new TEAM versus, and the new Co-Op Adventure mode with levels and bosses included #pixelart #ドット絵 #gamedev

Since there's a chance there will be Megaman Dual Override news while I'm at Gamescom, I'm working on something in advance. (No one knows who's been selected, I'm just making things for fun.) #pixelart #ドット絵 #megaman

Its going to be interesting when I'm finally done with Vikings on Trampolines. I've been sitting on about 10 years worth of other characters I've been waiting to introduce to people. Just have to get this thing to the finish-line first

The Owlboy cast in the style of old Bengus art (circa MvC1.) I always felt they'd fit into a fighting game.

The Owlboy cast in the style of old Bengus art (circa MvC1.) I always felt they'd fit into a fighting game.

Old Shredder illustration before I started making the Turtles sets. Still enjoy the rendering on this one.

Just realized I never shared this here TMNT art in the style of old Bengus art (circa MvC1.) Made the Turtles, and was initially just going to add April O'Neil, ended up adding Splinter, Bebop and Rocksteady as well. I made these during a number of livestreams. Could be fun to add more.

A lot of new updates in this one. There's also a full video of our 2026 convention tour if you want to catch up on what we've been going for the past year : www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ebp...

Next D-Pad Studio Newsletter drops tomorrow!

Pixeling more enemies for Vikings on Trampolines. Needed an enemy that could pop the balloons you're standing on. Like... a bird, that carries a saw. A Saw-Bird. Man... I made that beak real floppy. #pixelart #ドット絵 #gamedev

Pixeling more enemies for Vikings on Trampolines. Needed an enemy that could pop the balloons you're standing on. Like... a bird, that carries a saw. A Saw-Bird. Man... I made that beak real floppy. #pixelart #ドット絵 #gamedev

Still making Vikings on Trampolines backgrounds. This one was frankly pure indulgence on my part. We had usable assets for it, but I was feeling the summer this month. #pixelart #ドット絵 #gamedev