Karin van Zon ☀️

Never enough moss! 💚

The white one is Roxy, and tabby is Ravi! I love them to bits <3

What a sweetie! 😻

No cheating last photo of the pet.

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Mmm what helps me is really deciding what is important for a piece and what isn't. Like nailing the facial expression is important, but doing intricate detail on the hair often isn't going to make it break an artwork. So there I can save time by doing more of an impression of hair instead of detail.

Shadow and Bone trilogie omdat ik het einde nooit op Netflix ga kunnen zien...

Hell yeah! 💪

Music is from Kevin Macleod

"Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G, Movement I (Allegro), BWV 1049" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

We could implement all these things in our current game ofc, but I think we'd rather start on something new and apply all the things we learned there :) On to the next game @bjornvandesand.bsky.social !

The main thing that stood out to me in making this is how many UX things I take for granted in games. How to make it clear which items can be interacted with and not? Doors openings should be visible on both sides? Lots to learn!

An illustration of the playable character of our game, Cat the Great.

An illustration of a noble cat character from our game.

An illustration of a noblewoman cat character from our game.

An illustration of the general cat character from our game.

We originally decided to see how far we could get in a weekend (of course, it ended up taking far, far longer in the end) so I settled on a quite simple artstyle with an easy workflow and very minimal animation. Animation was done with a combination of rigging in Godot and spritesheets.

A photoshopped classical painting of a white cat wearing fancy Elizabethan clothes, and wearing a crown.

A photoshopped classical painting of a tabby cat wearing an admiral's uniform.

The concept of this game came from our love of the series the Great, combined with these fancy portraits I made of our kitties at some point. Add in lots of cat puns, and Cat the Great was born! I did all art, animation, and gamedesign, while Bjorn did all the programming and dialogue.

So a while back me and my partner @bjornvandesand decided to try and learn gamedev together, and what better way to do that than to try and make a very small game? It's very short, and very imperfect, but we had a lot of fun and learned a lot!

#gamedev #indiegamedev #godotengine

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I absolutely have done that on discord

They are so precious 🖤

A white cat lying on her side with her head tilted towards the camera.

A tabby cat with white spots lying on his back in the sun, on top of a blanket.

No more doomscrolling today, just #cats

#caturday #catsofbluesky #roxyandravi

It looks great!

Fire in Forest glades trolls peering out from behind trees, great plumes of white smoke come off the fire, there is a barrel next to the fire. Illustration.

Goodnight.
🖼️ The Trolls,Tolkien.

But surely you can publish a chapter or two for your friends? 🖤

Oof...so much for not talking politics on the internet. But thank you Zelensky for not giving in to those assholes in the US. You have our support in the EU.

I love the way you use colour 💚

I love the Cor Blok paintings, they're such an original take on Middle Earth. And so did Tolkien, as he bought two of them :)

The cover art for the Dutch Fellowship of the Ring by artist Cor Blok.

The cover art for the Dutch The Two Towers by artist Cor Blok.

The Artist - Cor Blok's illustrations were on the front of the first Dutch LotR paperbacks from 1965. They were the first LotR edition I read, as my mom owned them, and seeing this art always fills me with nostalgia.

#tolkien #tolkientrewsday

They are! And they're very friendly too, although the tuxedo can get a little too friendly with his claws out. 🖤

Yeah, I hate it. I never got into it and just gave up on Insta because of it.

A portrait of a yawning tabby cat.

A photo of a tuxedo cat looking intensely at something next to the camera

A photo of a tabby cat looking up.

A portrait photo of a tuxedo cat in profile.

I was out menacing @cindyvliet.bsky.social's cute kitties with my camera today.

#cats #catsofbluesky

What a sweetie! 🖤

Bluf