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A cozy pixelart action-adventure in the style of classic handheld games! Wishlist on Steam: steampowered.com/app/3734760/ Solo-developed by @micalpixel.bsky.social More links: linktr.ee/micalpixel

An image of a top-down pixelart indie game in development. The player character, a girl dressed in pink, stands in a cave area with two blocks in front of her, but they are arranged in a way where the player is unable to move them, from the bottom. But could move them from the top.
A video of a top-down pixelart indie game in development. The player character, a girl dressed in pink, explores a small cave area containing a rope ladder and several large bulbs. She climbs up and down the rope, facing the wall while climbing. She then whistles at each of the bulbs causing them to open up and sometimes reveal money, which she collects.
A video of a top-down pixelart indie game in development. The player character, a girl dressed in pink, explores a small cave area filled with blue stone panels on the ground. Each one has an arrow pointed in one of 4 directions. When activated, they slide in the direction of the arrow and stop when they hit an obstacle. The arrow then flips direction and can be triggered again. By triggering specific blocks, and using some of them to block others, she is able to make one of them come to rest on top of a target marker.
A video of a top-down pixelart indie game in development. The player character, a girl dressed in pink, explores a small cave area filled with stone panels on the ground. When triggered, they flip over, opening up the ground where they were and closing off the place where they land. By flipping specific panels, she is able to get to new places.
A video showing before and after of blobs' walk animations for a top-down pixelart game in development. The before part shows how blobs walk with tiny little millipede-like legs. But the frame where they move forward a pixel on a different frame from when their animation moves to the next frame. The after part shows how these things are now synced. Animation only updates when they move forward.
Another image of a screenshot of a pixelated cave. Which, in the author's opinion, is uglier than the new one.
An animated gif of a top-down pixelart indie game in development. The scene shows a cave with a small trail of water running through it. There are purple mushrooms. The cave entrance is to the south, with daylight showing through, and the cave continues to the north. The protagonist, May, whose sprite is pink, stands just inside the entrance facing in.
An animated gif of a top-down pixelart indie game in development, with two alternating frames. There are about two dozen character standing in place facing down, each with two frames of an idle animation. The middle character is a girl in pink, waving. There is text that reads, "Will be away for 3 weeks. Be back soon! - MicalPixel
A brief clip showing a top-down pixel-art indie game in development. The protagonist, May, is a girl with pink hair and clothes. She explores a wooded area as various sound effects play. When she whistles, jumps, lands, talks to a person, destroys a crystal, and collects money. The captions read: My game has sound effects now! I made them all with a tool I created earlier this year. The tool can create audio that mimics the Game Boy almost perfectly. Down to the same audio registers and the same value ranges. When a mimic whistles at the same time as May, it will play a chord. I'll tweak the sounds over time. But I'm very happy with the results of the tool so far. Thanks for watching!
A screenshot of the video but with the rockslide having a pile of rocks at the bottom. This should better communicate that the rockslide cannot be climbed.
A brief clip showing a top-down pixel-art indie game in development. The protagonist, May, is a girl with pink hair and clothes. She is shown interacting with the side of a cliff, containing both a vertical staircase, and a rockslide. She is able to climb up and down the stairs, impacting her movespeed, while the rockslide can only be descended, not ascended. Stairs in my game affect speed. Fast going down. Slow going up. Unless you jump over them like a true parkour master. :D Rockslides like this are down-only though. If you try to--oh dear.... [The main character is shown rapidly facing up and down when trying to climb the rockslide - a bug] AHEM. If you try to climb it... ...you can't. [The bug is fixed. (Flush aligned edges are extremely important to me :) Jumping up won't work either. Nice try. These are one-way only. Oh. Oh, yeah. Jumping down is okay. But not up. Thanks for watching!
A brief clip showing a top-down pixel-art indie game in development. The protagonist, May, is a girl with pink hair and clothes. She walks through a wooded area and uses her whistle ability to shatter several pink and red gemstone-like mushrooms in the way. Occasionally, they drop money. The video's captions are: My game finally has destructible terrain! Finally. They are gemstone-like mushrooms. I like them for 5 reasons. #1 Give player something to do while traveling the map. #2 A risk-free way to farm money, if wanted. #3 You can use them to out-maneuver enemies. These red crystals are special. Each one can only be shattered from the side with the crack. #4 They can function as one-way routes in puzzles. #5 Sometimes, destroying one will open a shortcut to another area. Thanks for watching!
In this update: added map transition fx, more vertical space, and a shopkeeper. :3 #MayGame #indiegame #gamedev #WishlistWednesday A brief clip showing a top-down pixel-art indie game in development. The protagonist, May, is a girl with pink hair and clothes. She walks through an area of small plateaus, and descends some stairs, walking faster as she descends them. She then walks into the edge of the screen, causing it to scroll to make the adjacent area visible. She then speaks to a lizard with several empty tables nearby, who remarks that he has nothing to sell. May enters a cave, which causes an iris transition to an indoor cave area. She ascends stairs, causing another iris transition, and then exits the cave at a higher entrance, where she stands on a cliff above the shopkeeper.
A brief clip showing a top-down pixel-art indie game in development. The protagonist, May, is a girl with pink hair and clothes. She touches a blue-black blob creature, causing her to shatter into tiny orbs which float to her starting point, where she re-forms. Then she walks into deep water, causing her to flail for a second, before leaping back to her starting point. She then swaps places with another character, who is able to enter the water without almost drowning.
A brief clip of a top-down pixel-art indie game in development. She reads a sign saying there's deep water nearby and remarks she cannot swim. Then she speaks to a younger boy and asks him to accompany her. They travel briefly and stop at another sign, where the girl stands by it and waits, and the boy continues alone. The boy returns to a different sign and reads it, causing the camera to switch back to the girl. She returns to the boy and they travel together again. There are blue mimic enemies they pass by, whose appearance changes to match whichever one or two of them is being controlled by the player.
A video of a top-down indie game in development. A girl and a doppelganger walk around an enclosed space, with the doppelganger's movements mirroring the girl's.
A brief clip of a top-down pixel-art indie game in development. A pink girl stands in a garden area. There is an identical-looking being called a "Mimic" with a black-and-blue color palette which follows her movements, but inverted. By moving around and whistling, and causing the mimic to do the same, the girl is able to trigger two switches, and call a dog to stand on a third. As a result, a staircase appears.
A brief clip of a top-down pixel-art indie game in development. A pink girl stands in a garden area. There are five green dogs that hop in place, and five gray pads on the ground with pawprint marks on them. By whistling near the dogs, the girl leads them into each pad. Then she reads a sign in the corner. "A dog on each pad. But not the center." She leads one dog off the center pad, causing a staircase to appear.
A brief clip of a top-down pixel-art indie game in development. The player controls a pink girl who is speaking to another character. The character asks to pick a choice. A window with "yes" and "no" options appears. The cursor is in-between the two choices, appearing as two arrows pointed up and down. Then the cursor moves up and down, next to the two choices, and the player picks "Yes". The player speaks again to the character, and picks "No"
A brief clip of a top-down pixel-art indie game in development. The player controls a pink girl in a hedge-maze like area with checkerboard grass. There are several bouncing dogs. When the player whistles, the dogs that are aligned with her respond to the whistle and hop to where she is standing. By whistling in the correct spots, they are guided into standing on several gray tiles with pawprints on them.
A brief clip of a top-down pixel-art indie game in development. The player controls a girl dressed in pink. She examines a nearby sign post, and then interacts with a blob enemy. The blob brags about and demonstrates the ability to interact with it in multiple ways: by talking to it, by whistling at it, and by colliding with it.
Two side-by-side clips of a top-down pixelart indiegame in development. In each one, two NPCs are standing in a grassy area, and talking as a text box with their words appears. The first one says, "May, look! Now the text automatically wraps! It even works on extremely loooooooooooong words!" The other replies, "Thank goodness! Now the dev can actually work on the game and not waste time adjusting line lengths." In the left clip, long words briefly appear on a line, and then get pushed down to the next time when the entire world becomes visible. In the right clip, the long words appear on the latter line by default.
A short clip of a top-down pixelart indiegame in development. The player character, a pink girl, stands in a grassy area. Several gameplay mechanics are demonstrated, including entering and exiting houses, and a short cutscene conversation. Two characters say hi. Then the player character finds some flowers, and walks on them, and is accused by the other character of doing so deliberately.
An image of a grayscale screenshot of a game, with a dot-matrix shader applied.
A short clip of a top-down pixelart indiegame in development. The player character, a pink girl, stands in a grassy area. Several gameplay mechanics are demonstrated. She jumps around, shoots musical notes, erases eight people by walking through them, and makes an NPC turn around by speaking to her. She then goes to an adjacent map and back.
A short clip of a top-down pixelart indiegame in development. The player character, a pink girl, stands in a grassy area. Several gameplay mechanics are demonstrated. She jumps around, shoots musical notes, erases eight people by walking through them, and makes an NPC turn around by speaking to her. She then goes to an adjacent map and back.
A brief clip of a pixel art indie game in development called "May and the Amazing Bouquet." It shows the main character standing near some water, before pulling out a large piece of parchment. As she does, a parchment menu covers the screen. It shows an island map, with many areas filled in/explored. A floating hand cursor hovers over the map and navigates across it. Several parts of the map have a pink sticky-note on them, representing places where quests are located. The hand cursor moves up and selects a different menu: Items. Several items are shown. Some of them have tiny sticky notes on them, representing quests. Two of the items are just wireframes with a sticky note, representing quests whose items are not yet obtained. The parchment menu then closes.
A screenshot from a Steam page for a game. It reads: "Full Controller Support: Xbox Controllers, Playstation Controllers"
A pause menu with a black background, showing four options arranged vertically: Return to Game, Options, Save and Go to Title, Save and Exit Application.
A brief clip of a pixel art indie game in development called "May and the Amazing Bouquet." It shows the main character standing in a town area, before pulling out a piece of parchment and switching to a map menu. The cursor switches to a different menu tab, "System Menu." This menu shows six buttons arranged in a 3x2 grid: Play, Options, Achievements, About, Exit, and Save. Above each button name is a small pixelated scene. When the cursor moves over a button, the protagonist appears in the scene and a small animation relevant to that options plays in it.
A brief clip of a pixel art indie game in development called "May and the Amazing Bouquet." It shows an achievements menu screen. The entire screen is colored like a piece of tattered parchment. There are 32 achievement icons in 4x8 arrangement. Two are earned, the rest are faded out. At the bottom is the name of each achievement and how to do it, plus a date of when it's earned.
A 15-second trailer of a work-in-progress indie game called May and the Amazing Bouquet. It is a top-down pixelated action-adventure game.
A brief clip of a pixelart indie game in development called "May and the Amazing Bouquet." It is a safe file screen, showing three save files depicted as horizontal boxes, with three buttons below them: Copy, Erase, Back. The background is shown as a tan piece of marchment whose edges line the edge of the screen. A pointed hand cursor shows whichever file or button is active, and it appears brighter too. Each save file depicts a sprite of the game's main protagonist, May. While a save file is highlighted, the sprite is animated. The erase and copy functionality are shown.
A brief clip of a video game in development called "May and the Amazing Bouquet." The clip shows off the options menus of the game. All of them are shown on a light-tan parchment background, with all options shown in a vertical list, with an icon to the left of each one. A smaller parchment at the bottom shows a detailed description of whichever option is currently hovered over.
A brief clip of a video game in development called "May and the Amazing Bouquet." The clip begins with the protagonist, May, a girl with pink hair and dressed in pink, standing in a cave with reddish floor and walls. There is a tiny blue cricket standing on top of her head. May approaches a nearby hole in the ground, and an iris transition zooms in on the hole, and then zooms out underground. The blue cricket hops through a small mazelike tunnel, changing floors by jumping through holes in the floor or ceiling. It reaches a glass sphere and chirps, causing a blue music note to hover in it. In another passage, a peg blocking the path disappears. The cricket then proceeds to that passage, chirping at an even larger glass sphere. When he does, he shouts, "I got it!" and the clip ends.
A brief clip of a video game in development called "May and the Amazing Bouquet." The clip begins with the protagonist, May, a girl with pink hair and dressed in pink, standing in a cave with reddish floor and walls. She approaches a hole in the ground and climbs in. An black iris effect closes in on her and the game transitions to an underground sidescrolling area, also with red floors and walls. The area features climbable stone surfaces on the walls, and several platforms. May jumps around, climbs some walls, and demonstrates the side-scrolling physics for a while before climbing back up the wall and returning to the room she started in.
A trailer video for a top-down pixelart action-adventure game in development called "May and the Amazing Bouquet". The trailer shows various scenes from the game, including walking through a forest and jumping over enemies, riding a large flying fish through the sky, whistling at ghost-like enemies that are approaching a nearby miner, and more. The video ends with an animated title screen. The game's title is shown in the top-right corner, with "MAY" in large pink letters, with a daisy, bumblebee, and small bundle of flowers adorning each letter, respectively. "Amazing Boquuet" is shown on a parchment-like sheet. The rest of the image shows a cliffside view of an island covered in green grass, with small buildings, mountains, forests, and other landmarks in the distance. In the foreground, the main character, May, is shown holding a map and overlooking the scene.
Two brief clips of a top-down pixelart indie game in development. The first clip shows the protagonist walking through a cave. A small creature suddenly appears and tells her to freeze, which she does, before greeting him. The second clip shows the protagonist spamming jumps before being told to freeze. She is in midair when she freezes, and then faceplants onto the ground out of surprise.
A narrated video showing gameplay clips of a game in development. All the clips focus on a word-unscrambling minigame where the letters appear as tiles, and the protagonist can hop from one letter to the other, pick them up, and reorder them until the word is correct. The narration is as follows: In "May and the Amazing Bouquet," this mouse hosts a minigame where you must unscramble a word. And she's very thorough. Every letter starts in an incorrect position. But what if the word has so many identical letters that there aren't other letters to scramble them with? Well, in that case... She'll reluctantly give you a free letter.
A brief clip of a video game in development called May and the Amazing Bouquet. The clip shows a fishing minigame in a side-scrolling environment. A girl in pink stands near the top of the screen on a horizontal grassy field. The bottom of the screen shows an underwater environment with grasses, dirt formations, and some small circular truffles. The girl casts a fishing rod, causing a yellow hook to descend into the water. By moving left and right, the girl can affect the hook's movement, navigating it around dirt formations and slow red grasses and towards one of the truffles. Once hooked, she guides it to the surface. She repeats this three times for three different truffles.
An animated pixelart title screen for an upcoming game,called May and the Amazing Bouquet. The game's title is shown in the top-right corner, with "MAY" in large pink letters, with a daisy, bumblebee, and small bundle of flowers adorning each letter, respectively. "Amazing Boquuet" is shown on a parchment-like sheet. The rest of the image shows a cliffside view of an island covered in green grass, with small buildings, mountains, forests, and other landmarks in the distance. In the foreground, the main character, May, is shown holding a map and overlooking the scene. She has long straight deep pink hair and a similarly-colored skirt, and is wearing a light-pink vest over a long-sleeved white shirt. The ground before her splits four ways. Naerby are a red rose and a small blue-black blob creature looking at here. The scene is slightly animated. Golden sparkles appear on the logo. May's hair, skirt, and map are swaying in the wind. The flower sways as well. The blob bobs up and down.
A title card for the upcoming game, May and the Amazing Bouquet. On the left is the game's logo. "May" is shown in large pink letters, decorated with a white daisy, a bumblebee, and a small handful of flowers, in each letter, respectively. "Amazing Bouquet" appears beneath it on light tan parchment. On the right is the game's protagonist, May. She has deep pink hair and skirt, a light pink vest, and a white long-sleeved shirt underneath. A white daisy with a yellow center is in her hair. She is looking forward and smiling. She is holding a piece of parchment with a checklist on it, and a red flower in one hand. She is wearing a long strap around her shoulder with a travelling pack attached by her waist. A lightened, slightly blurred, top-down view of a pixelated town appears behind May and the logo, showing trees, houses, water, and some characters.
A meme image divided into two vertical halves. The top half reads, "Just make it exist first." It shows two screenshots of a top-down pixel art game in extremely early development. Both screenshots show a gray checkerboard grid, one in 16:9 aspect ratio and a 10:9 aspect ratio in the other. Each one shows a pink girl character facing down, and white text that reads "The quick brown fox." A date is shown for these screenshots: July 21, 2024 The bottom half reads, "You can make it good later" and shows two screenshots in much later development. The left one shows a grassy area surrounded by trees and a green house. Two characters are speaking. The right one shows a teal wooded area with lots of tall grass. Two character are standing in the area. There is also a black hockey-puck-shaped enemy with six spheres floating around it.
An animated top-down view of a pixel art village, with 8 frames that loop. There are multiple wooden houses with different-colored roofs. There is a river on the right side, and a lakefront on the south side. There are many characters around the village, standing, sitting or engaging in different activities.
A short video demonstrating various video options for a top-down 2D pixelart game. The gameplay shows a girl dressed in pink standing in a grassy area. A building is behind her, and two black and blue blob creatures are nearby as well. The clip jumps back and forth from a black-and-white options menu, showing off several of them, including: Toggling from windowed to fullscreen modes, changing the scale of the windowed mode, changing the max FPS, and toggling an artistic border.
A clip of an top-down pixelart indie game in development. The scene takes place in a cave with yellow-green walls. There's a dirt path going through the cave, as well as water and some tall purple plants grass growing nearby. The main character, a pink girl named May, enters the area and stop upon hearing an odd noise which is "faint, echo-ey, and chirpy." She turns and finds a small blue baby cricket that is crying near a tiny hole in the ground.
A video clip of a top-down pixel art indie game in development. The protagonist is a pink haired girl, and she is standing on a small island in the middle of a large river. Her character is shown pulling out a paper map, as a large map ascends from the bottom of the screen and covers the screen. The map is divided into squares, with some parts explored, and some empty. The cursor hovers over several squares, revealing objective markers and brief location descriptions. Then the map descends back below the screen as she puts the map away. She then takes it out and puts it away several times, showing the effect again.
A one-minute video of a top-down pixel art indie game in development. The game's main character, May, is whistling at enemies while they converge on Tyler, who is trying to mine ore from a rock.