JJSignal - GET ROM: NEURODIVER

Illustration: a portrait of Rieko Kodama with some of the games she has worked on. The dominant colors are yellow, purple and red. Counterclockwise from top left: Rieko Kodama, Alis and Lutz from Phantasy Star, Sonic in a maze, Alex Kidd and his motorbike next to Flicky on a waterfront pier, Joe Musashi and his dog near the Statue of Liberty facing a skyline, the three playable characters from Golden Axe seen from behind on the edge of a cliff, and one of the flying ships from Skies of Arcadia.

I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc.
vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama/

Outside of some post release help for NEURODIVER, I've since left MidBoss. I've worked at a liquor store for a bit last year after 4 months of job searching, and then did some cool contract work with White Owls from spring to now. Looking for work again! Hopefully full time.

Happy 10th anniversary, Read Only Memories. I haven't made an anniversary illustration yet to celebrate, but it's crazy that it's already been 10 years since the original release. I have a lot of complex feelings, but I'm still proud of it. #ReadOnlyMemories #2064ROM

Silent Hill f rules so hard. I've been really enjoying drinking up all of its atmosphere.

"Jesus Christ (ow!) chill!" - Dracula

Silent Hill f rules.

Choice paralysis. I kind of just want to zone out finally and do nothing for a bit, but also I want to draw something, but also I want to work on experimenting with Hypercard stuff again, but also after doing some 3D work on my last contract job, I kinda want to do more of that.

Looks like we all got Time Stranged.

More Beavis and Butt-Head in Silent Hill

HOORAY!

Hello, Big Mac.

I need to make music like this.

Woke up today still thinking about this movie.

Every frame is a piece of art.

Because it was popping up for me so often, I made Messiah of Evil my first horror movie of October. Incredible. Gorgeous movie. Stunningly framed.

Had some really cool things I got to work on since the end of May up to now, but my contracts are wrapping up this week, which means I'm jobless again! I'd love a full time W-2 job with benefits, but I think those don't exist? Anyway, my portfolio is here: jjsignal.com

Thrilled to announce the release of scans for the entire run of Technopolis! Read about the history of this Japanese computer gaming magazine written by @ftb1979.bsky.social and download/view the scans. Enjoy and please RT to help spread the word. www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/09/t...

YouTube video by galtv group_inou / HAPPENING

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP27...

*if you can find it in stock.

Update:

Hello, Big Mac.

Going for the at a glance trick. Close enough to register as a Famicom cart until you actually look, and then it's somehow worse than wrong.

Everyone raptured tweeting to each other about how weird that their heaven looks strangely similar to a pillow fort and/or basement/attic.

Extremely high-resolution box art for Mr. Bones for Sega Saturn.

mods are asleep, post 600dpi Mr. Bones box art

Getting spooked by an earthquake at almost 3am.

Deception Crasher standing next to a cup of coffee. She's colored with a glossy black and white finish with red accents.

A close up of Crasher's head sculpt. It's a striking pink face surrounded by a glossy black helmet with red accented vents on either side. She has piercing yellow eyes and a square sculpted chin with a square sculpted lip that stops under a wider squared off upper lip which gives her a permanent grin. A very classic looking robotic face.

Been non-stop working for the last two weeks on multiple projects, so I got a coffee companion to keep encouraging me. I couldn't resist. Crasher's head sculpt and color scheme is way too cool.

Somehow it's 4AM again. U⁠ ⁠´⁠꓃⁠ ⁠`⁠ ⁠U

Also crazy to me that the controls for the podcast app are now located on the bottom, with the back button being all the way up there still, and no way to gesture back. Tahoe brings a nice glossy look with far more steps to do a lot of common actions.

I really like the look of liquid glass on MacOS Tahoe, but there are definitely a lot of issues I have UX/UI-wise. Setting aside the way less helpful applications panel over launchpad, there's stuff like this that drives me absolutely batty to look at.

super deformed figurines of the cast of Twin Peaks.

SD Twin Peaks figures made for an issue of Hobby Japan (issue unknown, but safe to say early 90s). Not my scan, so I gotta track down this issue.