Jeffrey "GrahfMetal" Canam

For #BeyondShadowgate, #Shadowgate co-creator, Dave Marsh, sent me and my team a copy of the original design notes he wrote in 1991.
The game was meant to be a more epic CRPG (With 600+ rooms), but we cut it down to a more maneagable #NES style game, and maintained the original's gameplay mechanics.

The title screen for the eventual Japanese release of #BeyondShadowgate

I originally had cracks going through the stone letterings... but I learned the hard way that Katakana does NOT work well with lines randomly cutting through the letters, as none of my Japanese friends could read it, lol

When you dig deep, he's actually a LOT worse than you could imagine. He's openly defended pedophilia. He's overtly racist. He runs an abusive and toxic workplace... the list goes on...

FUCK CI Games, and FUCK their disgusting bigotry

Sorry, I just hate bigots, and I don't seperate art from the artist. I hate how excited everyone is for Lords of the Fallen II, a franchise directed by Marek Tymiński, a transphobic, white-supremacist, pedophile-defending, "anti-woke" grifter.

You spelled Michelangelo wrong, but that's fine. It happens. Darn app doesn't let you correct silly typos.

My #TMNT collection.

You'll NEVER guess who my favorite turtle is 😏

Who's your favorite?

My concept for a #DarkSouls #Monopoly

Funny how I own like 6 Monopoly boards irl, from Street Fighter and Assassin's Creed, to DBZ and TMNT, yet I hate the game.
It's like Funko POP! Figures. I somehow own like 12 of them, and I don't even like them.

I'll get back to posting on here in a couple more weeks.

I just gotta take care of some stuff, which may or may not be Karate related*

*(it's not)

Aemicus' Depths

#pixel #pixelart #game #gamedev #TaleofRortia

Thanks

unused art for #BeyondShadowgate

This room was cut from the town

Death atop the POV used to be an acroterion

We dropped the Torch mechanic cause it was incompatable with the game's structure

We entertained the idea of a Verb Wheel, but it was inefficient

#Shadowgate #IndieGame #PointAndClick

What is the most consistently funny movie you've ever seen?

You know what the best part of my day is? It's for about ten seconds from when I turn on my Switch to when I check for updates on the Nintendo Switch Online N64 player. Because I think maybe It'll update with Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon. No warning, no "coming soon", no nothin'. It's just there

They're all so "cringe" 🙄

I mean, yeah! Who even likes; Super Mario Bros. 3, DOOM, Super Metroid, Mega Man X, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VII, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Metal Gear Solid, Half-Life, GTA: San Andreas, Resident Evil 4, Shadow of the Colossus, Okami...

Pizza Kidd: Gritty Sci-Fi 2D Beat ’Em Up Action Savage 2D pixel brawling meets martial arts mayhem in a grimy sci-fi world—brimming with monsters, mystery, & insane arcade energy.

I just backed Pizza Kidd: Gritty Sci-Fi 2D Beat ’Em Up Action on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/piz...

Commission by @tedbob84.bsky.social of my OC, Kauline (Right), and my partner's OC, Amber (Left)

#OC #BlackOC #TransOC #OCart #DigitalArt #AnimeStyle

One of the more conspicuous references to #Shadowgate, in #BeyondShadowgate, is the map found in Castle Gwenynthell's Trade Office. It's the same map print as the one found in the study in Castle Shadowgate

I guess the map hanging in the Trade office would technically be vintage, wouldn't it? 🤔

It's Saturday! 📺

Post a cartoon TV series you love. 🖤

I made a Metroidvania #MegaMan level, using #MegaManMaker, called "The Megatoid Complex" (clever name, I know)

If you have Mega Man Maker, check it out, and let me know what you think (Level ID: 542438)

I also made a video of me playing through it

@megamanmaker.com

youtu.be/xuBkTWvNoaQ?...

Post your favorite retro couch co-op game!

My favorite game of all-time, #FinalFantasyVI ...

... That's right! I bet most people forgot that #FFVI on #SNES [f.k.a. FFIII] has a 2P couch co-op option

#TheUninvited2 will take place in the mid-90s, approx. a decade after the events of the first game. We're not gonna go overboard with the "Get it! It's the 90s" references, but for some rooms, like this kid's bedroom, we made an exception and went full 90s 📼〰️🪀📔🦄➿

#PointAndClickAdventure #IndieGame

I've always wanted to make a custom arcade cabinet, so a couple years ago, with the help of my Dad and his garage and power tools, we made one for the #SNESmini, about the height of an #Arcade1Up

The 3D printed #Nintendo logos are by 3Dhuebsch on #Etsy

#SNES #Arcade #ArcadeCabinet #WoodWorking

MAGA: "I'm goin' to McDonalds with my AR-15, and Beretta to get a Big Mac"

Also MAGA: "WHY DID HE HAVE A GUN ON HIM?"

Step-by-step process drawing the InfestedX key art

Still toiling away at the remake of our first game, Infested. The art is done, and I got Chris Moseley and Jason Canam, the writer and the programmer of #BeyondShadowgate, respectively, working on this

#IndieGame #IndieDev #PointAndClick #PixelArt

Here's the non-pixel art version of the map of Kal Torlin, for comparison

The map of Kal Torlin, the lands beyond #Shadowgate, and the map fragments Del assembles during his adventures in #BeyondShadowgate

It was fun to draw a #pixelArt version of the official map, as well as to imagine what a raggedy map, drawn in universe, would look like

#PointAndClick #IndieGame

I beg to differ

Concept art I made for beyond Shadowgate

First rooms in these games are always important to immideiately hook the player, be it the door in Shadowgate, the bathroom stall in Deja Vu, or the car in Uninvited

Of course, I took direct inspiration from the first room in the now non-canon '93 original

The music for #BeyondShadowgate was brilliantly made by @ofalconer.bsky.social, who also made the music for our previous games, Infested and Spectacle. Go check out his bandcamp, and give him a follow.

oriefalconer.bandcamp.com

#Shadowgate #IndieDev #IndieGames #Itchio #ChipTunes #VGmusic