Vampire Tactics

We've been working with @cyangmou.bsky.social on this game for the last 2 years. And we just learned that Valve our Steam page!! We have a big reveal coming up! 🧛🏻‍♂️😁🤞 #indiedev #madewithunity #Pixelart #ドット絵

Everybody seems to like Lucius, the Vampire Knight. This design turned out to be very successful. The character wasn't that good from the beginning, though It took us several iterations to get there. So yeah, don't give up, it takes many trials to get something right ;) #indiedev #Pixelart #ドット絵

Detail snippet of a background I've been working on for "Vampire Tactics". What do you think was the inspiration for this one?

10 years ago I made those higher pixel resolution interpretations of GBA Fire Emblem sprites. Time is flying to fast... But at least I've been working on a fair amount of tactical games since, like Songs of Conquest and Symphony of War. Also Vampire Tactics will be revealed soon, around Halloween...

I am trying to make @vampiretacticsgame.bsky.social the most beautiful pixel art game I can. The moonlight floods into the halls of the castle, the raindrops hit the window, dripple down and you can even see their reflections in the marble. All works correctly with parallax. I love pixel Shaders <3

I just had a lot of fun programming a pixelart caustics reflection effect shader. This was far more complex than I anticipated, but in the end came out just as I hoped. Maybe I will use it in Vampire Tactics. It's so fresh when you have characters standing next to water and it shows on them.

Yesterday evening I programmed a proper lightning effect. Imagine it's raining, thundering and then the scene just lights up for a split second. This is purely programmatically handled, but is at the intersection of art & code. The magic always happens when 2 different disciplines come together.

Bluesky, who makes the best, juiciest and coolest SFX for Dark Fantasy vibes? Would be cool if you could drop me some recommendations #gamedev #indiedev

Meet Vampire Tactics' Botchling (also known as the Poroniec in Slavic mythology). These little flying foes might just be some of the most annoying enemies you’ll face in the game. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Simple villagers who try to stand against a vampire necromancer usually become one of their ghouls and enjoy the eternity of the night. Character for @vampiretacticsgame.bsky.social #pixelart #indiedev

Vampire Tactics will feature a whole pack of those! @vampiretacticsgame.bsky.social

This veteran lieutenant is no stranger to the darkness. Armed with a silver blade, he has felled terrors throughout his long years of service. Leading a platoon of royal soldiers, he stands firm against the creatures of the night. For @vampiretacticsgame.bsky.social

Last month was filled with a lot of visual exploration for Vampire Tactics. We hope you had a lot of fun seeing new parts of our world take shape. If you enjoyed it, consider to follow us on Bluesky @vampiretacticsgame.bsky.social or join our games' discord discord.gg/AyzKgbsRJJ

I am working on some unit sprite animations for a teaser for Vampire Tactics. So I hand-animated this 16 frame idle for the Pikeman, who you might have already spotted in earlier screenshots of the game. He is now just idling around & hoping to not meet any vampires!

Giant Bat Conceptart for @vampiretacticsgame.bsky.social

Unburned Oracle Conceptart for @vampiretacticsgame.bsky.social

Maid of Pain Conceptart for @vampiretacticsgame.bsky.social

Haunted Headstone Conceptart for @vampiretacticsgame.bsky.social

Wheeler Wolf Conceptart for @vampiretacticsgame.bsky.social

Gatekeeper Conceptart for @vampiretacticsgame.bsky.social

Conceptart for @vampiretacticsgame.bsky.social Stonewatcher

Vampire Tactics Sketchbook Crescent Reaper

Vampire Tactics Sketchbook Gargantuan Bat

Vampire Tactics Sketchbook Reliquiary Golem

Hey, Everybody! We collected your ideas, combined them with our own and here is the proposal for this evolution chain. The big question is DO YOU LIKE IT? 😀 Be honest! #indiedev #pixelart #TurnBasedStrategy

I just designed some unit evolutions for the "Fledgling" unit of Vampire Tactics. It's a rather fast close combat fighter with moderate defenses. Now I only need some cool class names. Do you any cool ideas how to name this units promotions? #gamedev #indiedev

Vampire Myrmidon White hair or black hair?

@cyangmou.bsky.social is now live on Twitch working on a top-down scene for Vampire Tactics. If you're interested, please tune in: - www.twitch.tv/cyangmou

Vampire Tactics Sketchbook I have been playing around with new, different castle architectures. This is a design for a castle for knights defending against the vampires. What do you think? @vampiretacticsgame.bsky.social

Vampire Tactics Sketchbook Poroniec Today I felt a bit nostalgic for the time I worked on Blasphemous, so I channeld some of that same energy into new Vampire Tactics concept-art. Meet the Poroniec, they are nasty little nightmares.

Vampire Tactics Sketchbook Gwyllgi, conceptart

Would you like to know the secret behind our character design? If you do, here's our confession. It's always been ITERATION😉 1️⃣ Ideation: Sketching the direction. 2️⃣ Refinement: Adjusting pose & gear. 3️⃣ Translation: Sketch to pixel art. 4️⃣ Polishing: Pixel-by-pixel detail. #gamedev #pixelart

Hey, Folks! Our friend made a cool deck builder game, in which you can craft your own cards! You can check it out on Steam :) store.steampowered.com/app/2686020/...

Folks, check out how we broke the game... ...they are now protecting each other for eternity 😂 Working on the skill system is hard, but super rewarding! 🤓🧛🏻‍♂️ #indiedev #pixelart

Like a Novice, we thought one night would be enough... Turns out even this wait feels eternal. We're hard at work on our Steam page. We ask for your patience. 🙏

Hey, Folks 👋! Some people asked for slides from my #GIC2025 presentation. Here they are: drive.google.com/drive/folder... I hope you liked the presentation and found the contents useful 🙂 Once GIC makes the video available, I will let you know :)

Hey, Folks 👋 Join us this year at the Game Industry Conference, where we'll share our insights on making pixel art games! :) We hope to see you there!

Happy #PortfolioDay! I am Thomas and I create pixelart for videogames. Currently I am working as an art director in the games industry. On Saturday I co-host "Pixelart for Beginners", a free pixelart course, which is for anyone with the desire to learn how to draw & create this artstyle.

Hey, Folks!👋 We're working on a teaser for the game and we need 🎵 a composer 🎵 We have only 3 requirements: 1.📙Up-to-date portfolio 2.🤖No AI usage! 3 🧛🏻‍♂️A track in the portfolio, which meets the vampiric theme (organs, horror, tension). This is a paid job of course.💵

This is us at GameDevDays Graz. We showed the first ever closed demo of🦇Vampire Tactics🦇. This is us, tired as hell but delighted with the reception of the game and the feedback we got from you, good people! ❤️ Thank you, Graz! ❤️🧛🏻‍♂️ Kamil & Thomas

They say it doesn't matter where you start, only where you finish! Here's the journey of our Necromancer. A pen-and-paper sketch to a vibrant pixel art battle sprite. We hope you like it! As always, let us know your thoughts!❤️ Stay fresh. Stay juicy. 🩸 #Pixelart #ドット絵 #indiedev

Hey, check out what @cyangmou.bsky.social cooked last week! New icons for our battle phase banners! Which one is your favourite? I guess mine is the vampire, for obvious reasons...🧛🏻‍♂️🤓 #Pixelart #ドット絵 #indiedev

The Prisoner Every link of his chain is forged by despair. Yet he rejoices, that he's in prison. Here he has time to think about his soul. #indiedev #madewithunity #Pixelart #ドット絵

Guys, we applied your feedback!🤓 - Animations are now quicker and snappier! - The dice animation is no longer "rubbery" - Player and enemy dice now have distinct colors - Dice have mysterious mist around them - Result numbers are metallic - You can now skip animations with a right-click #indiedev

🎲🎲🎲 🧛🏻‍♂️ 🎲🎲🎲 How do you like our dice animation? #indiedev #madewithunity #Pixelart #ドット絵

Hey, Folks!👋 Your blacksmith progression ideas were epic! We applied them and here’s what we forged!⚒️ From Apprentice to Forgemaster, who keeps on hammerin', yet he doesn't know why... Maybe because the sparks are nice?🤓 Let us know what you think! 🔥 #indiedev #madewithunity #Pixelart #ドット絵

Hey Folks! Wanna help us design this unit progression? Drop ur ideas in the comments! 💡 How would you name the final evolution? How would have it look like? There are no bad calls, remember! Stay fresh, stay juicy! 🥩🩸🧛🏻‍♂️ #indiedev #madewithunity #Pixelart #ドット絵

The Church, opposing all undead forces, will be a major foe. Yet, even its holiest hearts might be corrupted… 🧛🏻‍♂️