Jeffrey "GrahfMetal" Canam

Map size comparison between Shadowgate (NES), Deja Vu (NES), The Uninvited (NES), Infested (PC), Spectacle (PC), and Beyond Shadowgate (PC)

#Shadowgate #BeyondShadowgate #PointAndClickAdventure #NES #NESventure

The Round-about Orchard: A tiny OtGW fan game by JuliaMinamata A two-room adventure game that takes about fifteen minutes to play

My tiny Over the Garden Wall fan game is now available for FREE! 🎉
juliaminamata.itch.io/otgw

Thanks so much @patrickmchale.bsky.social, @forkfrenzy.bsky.social, @blastingcompany.bsky.social, Elijah Wood, @clickpulp.com, @grundislav.games. Thanks @requiemcafe.bsky.social & @mossmouth.bsky.social.

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy

For fun, I put together a proof of concept of what a Sherlock Holmes game would look like in the NESventure style of Shadowgate, Beyond Shadowgate, Deja Vu, and The Uninvited

#SherlockHolmes #Shadowgate #PointAndClickAdventure #ConceptArt #PixelArt #pixel

My most anticipated games of 2026:

DragonQuest is my favorite VG franchise.

Nioh 2 was a PERFECT masterpiece.

Storm, my Goddess, is my favorite comic book character / character, period.

As much as I LOVE Souls-likes, I respect Capcom for not caving and making the upcoming Onimusha into one.

Thanks, AI

An amazing review of our game #BeyondShadowgate from last year by Dennis Fleaman of @retrolike.bsky.social

I get chocked up when I read flattering reviews of our games, cause I love sharing my passion for #RetroGames, #PointAndClickAdventure games, and #Shadowgate

retrolike.net/2024/10/17/b...

Some more guides to my levels (2/2)

Some more guides to my levels (1/2)

Thanks. Mega Man Maker is AMAZING! and it's free. I've spent hundreds of hours playing around with it over the years. It even has online featires where you can upload your levels and play other people's levels.

I've made over 20 #MegaMan levels using the brilliant #MegaManMaker, by @megamanmaker.com

I've also made #NintendoPower style guides for each one, like these four examples, as well as playthroughs of a bunch of them on my YouTube channel, @ GrahfMetalGames

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In #BeyondShadowgate, the four jewels on the bottom shelf in the treasury are the jewels you collect in Wizard on #C64

Wizard was an important part of my childhood as it made me fall in love with level design with it's level editor mode

#Shadowgate #IndieGame #PointAndClickAdventure #PixelArt

🎃 HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃

Here's my #OC, Kauline, dressed up as Terra from #FFVI (My favorite VG character), Taarna from #HeavyMetal, V from #Cyberpunk2077, and Ayla from #ChronoTrigger, all drawn beautifully by @lamacchiarto.bsky.social

#Halloween #HalloweenArt #BlackOC #TransOC #OCart #DigitalArt

When making #BeyondShadowgate, writer @thechrism.bsky.social would sometimes send me pics of his literal napkin doodles to show me his ideas as inspiration struck

#Shadowgate #IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev #PointAndClickAdventure #PixelArt #Pixel

Thanks. It took a few hours, and I used MS Paint to do the art, and then Aseprite to animate it. I just looked at video footage of people talking and copied the mouth positions, and made sure to move the cheaks, chin and nose appropriately.

I'm new to animation, but I have made several animations for InfestedX, and #TheUninvited2 will have some as well

Here's a test animation I made with my #OC, Kauline, speaking in the style of a #16-bit 90s Point & Click Adventure game dialogue pop-up

#Pixel #PixelArt #InternationalAnimationDay

I have a question I wanted to ask you, and it's not about youw Witch's Bwoo...

... okay, it's about youw Witch's Bwoo, but just heaw me out...

10 Games to get to know me

I remade every Judas Priest album cover in pixel art.

I limited myself to standard icon size [32 x 32 px] and 14 colors.

#JudasPriest #Metal #HeavyMetal #PixelArt #Pixel #MSPaint

AMAZING art of my #OC Kauline, as a witch, drawn beautifully by the wickedly talented @lamacchiarto.bsky.social

#Halloween #HalloweenArt #BlackOC #TransOC #OCart #DigitalArt #AnimeStyle

I made some #mockup #Metal Album covers and track lists for some of the areas in #EldenRing

Limgrave = Heavy Metal
Liurnia = Prog. Metal
Caelid = Death Metal
Ainsel River = Black Metal
Leyndell = Power Metal
Mountaintops = Folk Metal
Elphael = Doom Metal
Farum Azula = Symphonic Metal

I use MS Paint for all of my #pixelart, including the art for Infested, Spectacle, #BeyondShadowgate, and now #TheUninvited2.
There's something cozy about using a program with very limited tools. I even downloaded a much older version #MSPaint, cause the newer versions are too fancy. Yeah, I'm weird

A couple years ago we were making a game, Themeire, an unofficial spin-off to #Shadowgate, when SG co-creator, Dave Marsh, reached out to us to work on #BeyondShadowgate

In Themeire there was a mansion in which antagonist Talimar grew up. We wound up using that in BSG, along with most of the UI

Drew Struzan made the poster for my all-time favorite film, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Yeah, she was fun the redraw. I was going to make my own version, but I figured that her death grab was so iconic that I might as well just trace the original 💀

In #BeyondShadowgate The "Gangster Skull" death screen is a reference to the title screen for Deja Vu on the NES, while the Wraith death screen is a reference to a production photo of a ghost from Raiders of the Lost Ark

#IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev #PointAndClickAdventure #PixelArt #Shadowgate

Awesome picks

Top 10 VG Tracks That Put Me In The Halloween Mood - YouTube

Here's my Top 10 Video Game tracks that put me in the Halloween Mood 🎃

What are some of your favorites? 👻

#Halloween #VGmusic #Top10

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