Sharkos Zakos

Aside from sprite work, I’ve been learning and doing some VFX. Here’s a compilation of the ones I made on Threads of Time:

I'm afraid
I was completely cooked
I was read like a book and nothing else can be done besides retiring
My gaming career is over due to draconic tree sentinel

And the shapes are done!
Really think that a wrist moulinet fits pretty well a lightning-wielding character, and making the animation as fast as possible feels gud

Have been working on the trailer for a while, but I'm back working on the animation of the characters for now
And there's such a great satisfaction of being able to nerd about martial arts

Not many other games I can justify animating a wrist moulinet because yes

Anyways, here's today's progress!

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Little drawing of a crow in an "In case of x, break glass" emergency box with the caption "In case of depression... take him with you!"

It's dangerous to go alone.

digital painting of a jackdaw in the sun

jackdaw study

A rare garden visit from this shy corvid

The harpy Cortez Silverbeak, sitting upon his throne, looking down in an imposing and regal manner

The King listens to your messages, but seems as he was very aware already
He appreciates your concern nonetheless

É uma cirurgia que impede a gravidez masculina

Welcome to v4 of the Blue Sky Game Dev orientation 🧵!

Let's get you started with the basics of Bluesky, finding other devs, and posting about your games!

Btw, this is based on the artist orientation thread from @purlane.ink; make sure to check it out if you’re also on the art side of game dev!

🙃🙃🙃 #GDC2025

Chroma Zhulong holding a Lex Prime pistol, looking to the horizon wary of anything that might appear

Chroma Zhulong patrolling
Keeping an eye out while you rest and get ready for the next mission
An digital painting I worked on last year 😋
#Warframe #Fanart

Update for today's mechanics:
- Fumbled landing (also known as landing lag)
- Run turnaround and reverse jump (Reverse aerial rush)
- Strong attacks fully functional

A more recent look at the roster of Soul Parade

@rebbford.bsky.social @warframe.com Pretty please?😀
@vinumsc.bsky.social The chroma mains are asking politely 😔

#Warframe
Reaaaally feel that we could work on making Chroma's Effigy an exalted sentinel
And the breath weapon being moddable with elemental mods be only damage boost
And spectral scream scaling with the effigy's breath weapon, like Excalibur's slash dash in the future? Yum

As part of this challenge, here is Spark, the electric jester, using the Pico 8 palette :)

#pixelart #pico8 #fanart #sparktheelectricjester

Today's furry character of the day is... Slade from Dungeons of Aether!

The AI bubble was inflated based on the idea that we need bigger models that both are trained and run on bigger and even larger GPUs. A company came along that has undermined the narrative - ways both substantive and questionable - and now the market panicked that $200bn got wasted on AI capex

Screenshot of a Samus redesign with my style!

Hi eveyone, it's been almost 2 months since I last posted here (I think?). But I wanted to give you a fun challenge if you wanna join me:

Making a character you like on a 32x32 canvas, that is the only limitation, here is a WIP of a Samus redesign I did on my style for the example!

Transitions #gamedev #pixelart

The first view of the roster of the platfighter, with four characters. A fox, a lizard, an eagle and a tayra.

Oh yeah, a view of the first four characters of the roster
Two of them with the moveset already set, the other two halfway there

Posting some old stuff I've done while coding some lots of mechanics is ongoing
#PixelArt #animation

Boyd's Forest Dragon (Lophosaurus boydii). Near Cairns, Qld. #herps #Wildoz

Could you make it as balanced and fun as the latest entries without any meters? Are combos necessary? What encompasses the feeling of mastery they give?
What needs to be done to avoid the cutscene feeling of when you're getting pressured?
Feeling like chatting some hours about that

Well... listing out why a fighting game is good is weird.
At least, listing well enough for you to be able to know where to break the mold and still keep it fun.
Probably for every game, but for fg's, you can't really control the skill ceiling, so it gets finnicky.
#fgc #fightinggame

Wait a minute! This site has VIDEO now! I can show the sprites I made for Savant Ascent Remix here!

This is the Scarecrow. Reanimated metal ghoul that throws its own spirit essence to reap you. The tiny spirits are called called Eeps! #pixelart

Showcasing how you can combine many different movement abilities when platforming in ABYSS X ZERO!

We're trying to mix the flow of 3D platformers and the methodical exploration of Metroidvanias

Wishlist on Steam to support us! 👇👇

steampowered.com/app/2872300

#gamedev #lowpoly #indiegame

I feel like the antidote to imposter syndrome that no one talks about is treating yourself as an eternal student. It’s ok to not know what you’re doing! It’s ok to fail! Even if you lived forever there is still much to learn! The world is huge and beautiful and you are learning to be a part of it!

There's something I need people to understand.

The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad.

The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.