Ava Raelynn

Oh shit. The WebGPU API stabilized? That’s… actually pretty exciting!

My cover illustration for the game Space Jam a New Legacy, which I also art directed and animated #art

Character sheet #art

Screenshot from a pitch for a TMNT point-and-click adventure game featuring April o Neil as a mystery investigator

Isometric pixelart illustration for Minecraft, while I was working at Mojang. This is meant to show off the world and it's thrills. It lives in the how-to-play section in-game

I'm castpixel, a senior illustrator and art director with more than 20 years of experience (ok, it's 21 years). One of the best pixelartists working today. I'm looking for a project.

Clients: WB Games, Minecraft, SEGA, HASBRO

Hire me! I make your game look good.

[ #portfolioday ]

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

The Attorney General of New York was just indicted by our tinpot dictator

A few years ago I made a small point-and-click adventure game for Nerd Monkeys and Felicia Day ( Voyage to The Stars) . I handled code, animation, music and game design.

this is some of the animations

[ #art #gamedev #pixelart ]

relevant life lesson from comics on this one

Every single Democrat needs to demand his immediate termination. We need to end this idiotic, pathetic nonsense where Dems go “erm, well, they’ll never listen to us… so I guess we have to keep our heads down…”

We’re half this country and they’re talking about us like we’re animals. Stop it

all of this makes me want to scream, but the part I'm going to be up all night rage-spiraling about is accusing her of "potentially endangering the physical safety of our staff"

just flippin' those narratives right around so the Black woman, a TARGET of violent hate speech, becomes the aggressor

2 Bl*ck men hung in Mississippi yesterday.

1. Cory Zukatis - found around 10:30am hanging in Vicksburg MS.

2. Trey Reed - found hanging around 7:05am at Delta State

🚨 PLEASE stay safe and mindful on your surroundings‼️

From @kingjeanty1989.bsky.social

i don't think i follow the instructions right on this one

As a trans person, I find this entire news cycle especially painful amidst ... 8+ years of near nonstop pain ... both in terms of the media' failures and also my society's apathy towards me and my life ...

#pixelart thundercats roar. Cheetara and Tygra are trying to stop Monkian who's on the Skycutter. Cheetara is piloting the Thunderclaw

the gang at Mumm-Ra's inner sanctum, fighting off his illusory doubles

Panthro piloting the thundertank has smashed into Vultureman. Cheetara just stunned Jackalman with her staff. A robear has a message for Lion-O

#indiedev #pixelart what the f*** is a samoflange? Notice also on sale: berbil fruit, the Chain of Loyalty, and a trick pellet that the Kittens use.

Thundercats roar game mockup. I just did my thing, art direction, color studies, some character and vehicle design, UI design obviously, environmental art.

This is the sort of skill and attention to detail I bring to projects. ( I'm a principal game artist, hire me plz thx <3 )

Anyway, here’s how the “you got caught” transition was supposed to look in Futari Nezumi, but I didn’t have the tokens, time, OR sufficient brain wrinkles to make work in Pico8. And yeah, the palette ramp fades still work (just don’t mind the flashlight beams, my palettes don’t have alpha 😬)

The hope is to eventually be able to work on some kind of new project, but for now I’m happy with just fleshing out different little features to be able to do the silly code things I like doing an get better at a language that got me started in programming. And so far, we’re doing it!

But hey, that’s how we learn! I’ve even been able to improve on a bunch of the systems in ways that would have been challenging or even impossible in P8, but don’t break the feel or the spirit of the game, and, I mean, that was the whole goal for starting this work anyway!

c++20 has got SO MUCH MORE goo in it than what I came up with in highschool. It’s still C++ and incredibly frustrating at times, but its felt really good to be elbows deep in it on the days I can spare an hour or two for it. The port work is almost done, but it’s buggier and messier.

Eventually I pivoted my test “game” (the code to leverage the engine setup and help with sorting out what I need and how to use it), to porting our best P8 game over. There’s no _real_ benefit to a 1:1 remake beyond having a fully designed tiny game to build using the new setup, and it’s been wild.

When my band exploded in my face earlier this year (a whole other story), I started poking at it again, and started making mad progress. SDL3 is way more mature than it was then, and the weird web memory issues I was having cleared up, which was a real shot in the arm.

Really tapped the brakes when I took a gig with a big mobile studio. They don’t want us making games, for competition reasons (which is hilarious given my history, but whatever 🙄) but they didn’t kibosh me messing with this one cuz, technically – not a game.

Could have used Unity or Unreal, but as a programmer first and everything else second, all that tooling was just a little bit too intimidating, and kinda gets in the way of what I want to be doing. I figure, I roll my own simple setup I could eventually use it to make all kinds of stuff.

I’ve wanted to make console games forever, but for a while there I was just operating in Pico-8 land. I love that platform to BITS! Having binary and web export is so cool too, but the scope is forced to be SO SMALL. I wanted something that let me do more and missed XNA/Monogame so I got to work.

I started fiddling with it a few years ago when I learned about Emscripten. I’d botched AC interview at Mojang and a couple other MS game studios (that had reached out to me!) because my c++ was just too rusty, so I figured, heck new SDL API, perfect excuse to stand up some boiler plate code.

I opened this app cuz I wanted to talk about what I’ve been doing with my lowish level SDL3 “game engine” code I’ve been fiddling with in my off hours, but everything is awful right now. But, Fuck it, it’s been a fun project do why not.

I make it a point to question any news that I want to hear and any news that I DON’T. Leverage multiple sources, interrogate what there is to gain from spreading something false (from things as simple as hate clicks/popularity, to monetary gain). Verifiable information is out there, mind your biases

A convenient lie that fits neatly into your already crystallized world view is impossible to refute, however much evidence to the contrary is presented.

Practice being skeptical of your own beliefs. Being wrong, ignorant, or lied to doesn’t need be a personal failing.

Liars will lie because the truth doesn’t serve them. They’ll use the fact that they lie freely to project that everyone is lying and objective truth doesn’t exist.

The ignorant will believe the lie because they want to, or because they fear it could be true (or a combination).

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We’ll see 😅

Legit forgot this app existed 🤪

a drawing of ultra man and a nalgene waterbottle where various kaiju are lurking inside the water bottle. ultraman points at the screen. the image is captioned: 'Ultraman says, "It's wash your water bottle wednesday. You never know what monsters are growing in there." Wash your water bottle wednesday is in red underlined text.

happy wash your water bottle wednesday