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A cropped and blurred photo revealing creatures for my game. The primary subject is sharp and legible. It is a dark lanky mouse.

Life has been quite busy. Productivity is down and I am focusing on our racing game (more info coming soon!)

However I do keep making concepts and commissioning new sprite work for the monster tamer project! Here’s a sneak peek!

I absolutely adore this mouse design!

#gamedev #pixelart

Interesting to see! Your alt text alludes you may be improving the result. Do you have ideas on what to try?

A cropped advertisement for a product that highlights compatibility with a "large minicomputer"

The 80s were a strange time for computers

These are very rewarding. Like Portal’s time trials. “Good job you did it in 45 seconds, now try 8”

People mentioning 8x integer scaling are correct. I want to add that the pixels have to be aligned with 8x8 blocks, screen grabbing a 8x zoomed canvas could misalign the blocks.

Crop -> 8x nearest neighbor upscale -> post on socials

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Park next to the car? They gotta move the bike to get to the door.
Also fatbikes can share a car spot IMO 😂

Looks like the type of game some people used to make on older GameMaker versions. What was your inspiration?

For pixelart on iOS I’d recommend Pixaki, but apparently it’s not perfect for anim. Just in case you go this route

I’m not a Godot guy but this sounds like you need more granular profiling?

I thought they/them was a safe fallback when in doubt? Perhaps less accurate but still thoughtful?
Someone please teach me :)

Are you using a profiler? :)

Cheers! I’m still a bit intimidated drawing backgrounds so that is missing context.
Either way the big guy has dark shadows and I was making the shadows soft like an overcast

I didn’t make the lineart, but I’m starting to get the hang of coloring and shading! This is so addictive, I was experimenting with different brushes and lighting techniques.

Any tips for shading creatures?

#DigitalArt

Gamescom had some traditional artists on the floor selling their work. I purchased an art book and some printed media. Happily surprised what was on offer ❤️

On my way to #Gamescom, drawing away a new concept for my monster tamer.
I suck at drawing so I pass poor concept art along to a proper pixel artist and get quality results :D

A deck of your fakemon? I noticed it’s incredibly steep. You can charge a fair price including shipping if you can sell 1000 decks.
Most promising I found was a printing company that also would do kickstarter fulfillment, and we either hit the target or abort

Oooooohhhhh what are you going to print?

Great work! I’ll watch it!

As a TL;DR can we buy the game without worrying we’re supporting people that do not deserve it?

What a cool design! ❤️

I agree. I find it natural to end up with 3 stages, 2 if it doesn’t start as an infant, and 1 if the age is unknown.

4 felt like an option for one line of creatures, but changed my mind since I’m commissioning all art and I rather have a new species.

You even did the thing where taking a closer look the colors don’t make any sense (the ankle is the same shade as the shadow???), but zoom out it just looks good.

I’m impressed!

I asked @v3x3d.bsky.social to do a 8x8 monospaced font with special ligatures and all the required characters for German, French, Italian, Spanish, and English.

Did a wonderful job despite the constraints I laid out. Good, clear comms, great result!

I have questions about what exactly I’m looking at 😳

“Mastercard lets me buy this sick shit? Awesome!”

Exactly this, try and bring your keyboard to work with those clicky switches and you’re already ostracized 😂

I made a list of function that I am okay with that shrink the buffer of a TArray/vector automatically:
- Shrink()

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

Loved my time in Czechia. Catching up with old friends and talking shop was great. But I’m so ready to be home with my wife and kid. Nothing beats holding them again.

When I was 13 I had a free web host and that is how I learned PHP.
The codebase didn’t live on my machine at all 😂

I get to stay with an old friend, meet the baby of a close friend, and the office has free coffee and AC.
So yeah, four equally good reasons to go 😜