the spookfish

on feb 4, we’ll have my game, bear in the snow, up on the cabana at @wonderville.nyc and i will be there hanging and helping people find secret things. please come and hang out
if you can!

wanting to make weekly updates here:
~momentum to falling
~learned more about sin waves to make that bouncepad
~learning how the music/sound editor works
~condensed code the best I can to reduce token use

feeling pumped because I think I have the whole game mapped in my head and am learning so much

Two Steppes - Bowl of Flowers Reviews and descriptions of cassettes, tapes, records, labels and vinyl. Including pictures and links to help the reader.

lostseasound.blogspot.com/2025/12/two-...

~learning pico 8 and making a game starring our kittens, onion and oyster, where you leap through space
~hoping to learn more about animation and pixel art in the process of making it and feeling excitement

I really love that you wrote about “trying to subtly influence people to reconnect with reality”. I feel like many independent games I encounter are missing this opportunity and are blocking out the outside world. It’s really cool to speak to a magic we can experience both with and without screens.

it’s super wonderful and so inspiring

Cube-based environment art (along with melos’s “auto-cuber” tool) allows for the efficiency and complex secrets-hinting of 2D tilesets combined with the benefits of 3D lighting and atmosphere. Large “EnviroChunks” with flexible triplanar materials quickly establish setting in the background of scenes. Gestural vertex colors quickly and beautifully define characters that pop against the environment and look good small or large onscreen. iNaturalist.org can be an amazing resource for game artists, featuring species id and many public domain community photos of life on Earth! Matcap materials are good for creating shiny or translucent objects while maintaining a simplified/stylized look.

Angeline Era is out NOW!!! ^.^ here's a breakdown of some elements and techniques I used to create the HUGE visual world of Era. Ultra-dense action and secrets meant a bigger focus than ever on visual clarity and communication! ⚔️🔍

See it in action!!
store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

next weekend on long island!

So excited!! I love the demo for this

some shows coming up

thursday

no bottom pond, by FRANK/ie CONSENT and The Spookfish 1 track album

very proud of this collaboration with FRANK/ie CONSENT ❤️🌳

Bear in the Snow by The Spookfish Play in your browser

~hello friends welcome to my page! please try this game i made if you haven’t yet. thank you :)