Emily Awen (Minnow)

The full album releases April 10th!

If Yr Dad Was A Sinner, by Porch Cat from the album Broken Body

New Porch Cat track! porchcat.bandcamp.com/track/if-yr-...

I'm putting together a team... #pixelart

Inside me there are two wolves, they both have silly anime hair/the "two" genders idk lol

Thank you, warm is exactly what I was going for! When I tried to go for warmth before I would often end up trying to achieve it by going with the dark and desaturated colors as I tried before but having medium saturation with more brightness and contrast seems to work a lot better!

*this is purely an experiment in trying to make a cohesive and appealing color palette where the sprite stands out from the background without looking detached from it or out of place. If I were to move forward with the project I would redo the tiles!

@polyducks.bsky.social what do you think does this look a little more appealing and cohesive as a jumping off point at least?

I reworked the tiles and palette still just throwing things together to try to find a cohesive palette and vibe/aesthetic, also played around with a new sprite. (I heavily referenced the lovely looking upcoming game Kloa Child of the Forest for the parts of the background/tileset)

Will do, thanks again! 😊

Okay excellent, I'm going to play around with each of these concepts and see what I can come up with

Thank you so much for such an informative response, this gives me a lot to work with and think about!

The answer might be obvious but I'm clueless when it comes to color honestly which is why I am drawn to 1 bit but I started making this little project specifically with the goal of getting better at color so I would like to understand!

Do you mean that the sprite stands out too much now and the background looks bland in comparison?

I'm not sure what that would look like exactly, I made the background more dark and desaturated so the sprite would stand out because it was blending in too much when the background had higher contrast. I guess I'm not sure what the issue you are referring to is exactly.

Okay good to hear thank you

Also do you think the rest of the sprite needs to be outlined? Is it standing out from the background enough? Does it look awkward just having the dark pixels in a few places like between the arms and the body or does it look okay? I know I don't love how it looks with the whole thing outlined...

Bonus points if you recognize any of the repurposed assets

Thanks! yeah I've been focused on recording an album with my band so game/pixel art stuff has been on the backburner but that's wrapping up so I'm back at it!

animated sprite coming soon

the background is mostly modified/placeholder assets right now, just trying to put some things together to play around with ideas and vibes and get a good color palette where the sprite stands out from the background. Also trying out a lower resolution than I have before (160x90!) #pixelart

some low resolution color pixel art practice. I didn't spend much time on the animation obviously, it's only two frames and not very smooth but sharing things with a little bit of movement always seems more likely to catch the eye. 16 pixel sprite on a 160x90 canvas. #pixelart

Oh hey, reminder that I’m actually making a game and not just making a bunch of portraits for no reason lol. You can even wishlist it and play our demo on Steam 👇

store.steampowered.com/app/3901940/...

#rpg #indiegame #retrogaming #jrpg #gamedev

Mercury Filmworks will officially fully animate ‘Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl’ Episode 1.

Watch Episode 2: youtu.be/v8HCg0GD8UQ

National General Strike in the U.S. January 30th to protest ICE, no work, no shopping, no school, shut it down!

Twilight Princess

New Sadfishing album later this year btw

Failed Man, by Sadfishing from the album Progress

While we're on the subject of songs about gender here is one of mine from about 10 years ago that I still think is one of the best songs I have ever written
sadfishing.bandcamp.com/track/failed...

I'm down to try it out!

It's interesting to know that you had a significant impact on someone's work or even worldview when you've spent most of your life feeling like a ghost like... hardly a real person and then you'll hear them say something like "you had a big influence on the way I think about gender and stuff" fr???

What people don't know is Emma also told me she was inspired to write the line "Gender doesn't tell you a damn thing about me" from Gender is Boring after hearing me rant about gender during one of my solo sets in PDX back in the day where I said "gender doesn't tell you anything useful about me"