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Zach

@zachjamesgames.bsky.social

Recovering workaholic and retired Dungeon Master. Worked in mobile games for 8 years. I do UI/UX Design for medical imaging software and make games in my limited spare time.

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Fuck the Sun Cops and their Hour Graft.

08.03.2026 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh my god this is so good! Delicious! These colors! That monster! That bg design! I am in love with how you made the central sewer pipe grates a single brush stroke!!!

Ugh your art is so fucking cool!

08.03.2026 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A picture of a doll of Mona, a character from a children's show called Nanalan', wrapped in plastic. The image is mildly humourous and looks like the doll is trapped in its packaging.

A picture of a doll of Mona, a character from a children's show called Nanalan', wrapped in plastic. The image is mildly humourous and looks like the doll is trapped in its packaging.

Imprisoned

07.03.2026 05:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A digital drawing of Kirby sleeping next to a giant egg in a bird's nest. At the top of the image is a title that reads "Dyna Blade" is very stylized "metal" font with a silhouette of the eponymous bird Dyna Blade herself!

A digital drawing of Kirby sleeping next to a giant egg in a bird's nest. At the top of the image is a title that reads "Dyna Blade" is very stylized "metal" font with a silhouette of the eponymous bird Dyna Blade herself!

A ripped graphic of the Dyna Blade cork board menu game. Credits to a user that goes by "Barack Obama" on the Spriter's Resource for ripping the graphic!

A ripped graphic of the Dyna Blade cork board menu game. Credits to a user that goes by "Barack Obama" on the Spriter's Resource for ripping the graphic!

The second drawing from my Kirby Super Star Cork Board Redrawβ„’ project, Dyna Blade!

This one's a bit goofy, I've always loved seeing Kirb snoozing with the egg 🀩 Unsurprisingly, the title font was the hardest part, but was kinda fun to recreate the font!

Left = Redraw
Right = Original

24.02.2026 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A digital drawing of Kirby jumping up towards the sky as Whispy Woods looks at him from afar. There is a title at the top of the image that reads "Spring Breeze"

A digital drawing of Kirby jumping up towards the sky as Whispy Woods looks at him from afar. There is a title at the top of the image that reads "Spring Breeze"

A ripped graphic of the Spring Breeze cork board menu game. Credits to a user that goes by Barack Obama on the Spriter's Resource for ripping the graphic!

A ripped graphic of the Spring Breeze cork board menu game. Credits to a user that goes by Barack Obama on the Spriter's Resource for ripping the graphic!

Started a lil project I've wanted to do for years where I redraw the cork board menu games from Kirby Super Star (SNES version)!

The first game I drew was Spring Breeze! Time lapse video below.

Left = Redraw
Right = Original

24.02.2026 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Lmao your art is so clearly 100% made with love, by hand, with giga creativity and experience. That dude's omega-brain-cooked for real.

We live in a fascinating (derogatory) timeline for sure.

27.02.2026 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Omg thank you for telling me. I wish to hear the lad sing!

25.02.2026 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We love a yearner who is down in his luck!

It'll make the happy ending all the more satisfying.

I am so here for the Big Froggy Feelingsβ„’

24.02.2026 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

OMG this is so cute!!! Amazing work! I love it and wish this lil froggy the best things in life~

24.02.2026 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Got the Spring Breeze and Dyna Blade art for my Kirby Super Star Cork Board Redraw project done on Sunday and finished the night starting The Great Cave Offensive.

Hoping I will have more time soon to keep working on the project!

24.02.2026 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Had a lot of fun with this one. Took around 2 hours total to complete with more than 50% of that time going to the font. Boiled down to 1 min here.

Big thank you to the hero at wikirby.com who captured and uploaded the title screens of the sub games to the wiki. Has helped a ton with the fonts! ❀️

24.02.2026 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A digital drawing of Kirby sleeping next to a giant egg in a bird's nest. At the top of the image is a title that reads "Dyna Blade" is very stylized "metal" font with a silhouette of the eponymous bird Dyna Blade herself!

A digital drawing of Kirby sleeping next to a giant egg in a bird's nest. At the top of the image is a title that reads "Dyna Blade" is very stylized "metal" font with a silhouette of the eponymous bird Dyna Blade herself!

A ripped graphic of the Dyna Blade cork board menu game. Credits to a user that goes by "Barack Obama" on the Spriter's Resource for ripping the graphic!

A ripped graphic of the Dyna Blade cork board menu game. Credits to a user that goes by "Barack Obama" on the Spriter's Resource for ripping the graphic!

The second drawing from my Kirby Super Star Cork Board Redrawβ„’ project, Dyna Blade!

This one's a bit goofy, I've always loved seeing Kirb snoozing with the egg 🀩 Unsurprisingly, the title font was the hardest part, but was kinda fun to recreate the font!

Left = Redraw
Right = Original

24.02.2026 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here's the time lapse video. Took around 3-ish hours total, boiled down here to 1 min. The font was the longest part, and will surely be true for the rest of the games!

I got away with using a font I already had, but for some of the other games I am probs gonna have to hand draw the title font πŸ˜…

24.02.2026 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A digital drawing of Kirby jumping up towards the sky as Whispy Woods looks at him from afar. There is a title at the top of the image that reads "Spring Breeze"

A digital drawing of Kirby jumping up towards the sky as Whispy Woods looks at him from afar. There is a title at the top of the image that reads "Spring Breeze"

A ripped graphic of the Spring Breeze cork board menu game. Credits to a user that goes by Barack Obama on the Spriter's Resource for ripping the graphic!

A ripped graphic of the Spring Breeze cork board menu game. Credits to a user that goes by Barack Obama on the Spriter's Resource for ripping the graphic!

Started a lil project I've wanted to do for years where I redraw the cork board menu games from Kirby Super Star (SNES version)!

The first game I drew was Spring Breeze! Time lapse video below.

Left = Redraw
Right = Original

24.02.2026 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I made art for myself for the first time since probably around early 2023.

It was nice.

23.02.2026 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

getting really sick of my friends telling me the cursed blade is warping my mind. it's LITERALLY fine. i can stop fucking using it whenever i want. i think they're just jealous. like they know it'd corrupt them but i'm clearly stronger than its influence. in fact, i'm stronger than all of them...

20.02.2026 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 6617    πŸ” 2581    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 99

Didn't recognize this one, but it is from the Female Undead Merchant's EXTREMELY GOOD rant when you try to attack her.

20.02.2026 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘€πŸ‘€πŸ‘€!!!

19.02.2026 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

19.02.2026 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4754    πŸ” 3862    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 83

snake oil salesman says countries that do not buy snake oil could be left behind.

18.02.2026 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 199    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I know meritocracies are a myth but there was a time once when people cared about competency and about things actually working. I can't imagine how zoomers and alphans must see the world with the standard that enshitification is the normal and inevitable, because it's not and it's recent

15.02.2026 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 283    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4

It's adorable omg!!

14.02.2026 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This winter has been so grueling and miserable on every front. I am so tired of every part of my life being a 27 layer deep shit show of fuckery that I have to do calculus to solve because we live in a hellscaoe and because mast cell activation syndrome makes everything almost entirely impossible.

13.02.2026 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah no fucking shit

maybe 7 year development cycles are fucking stupid and unnecessary and don't even produce measurably better games than shorter ones

13.02.2026 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2081    πŸ” 573    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 10
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a nice thing about when the internet was a bunch of little sites and servers was that it was a lot harder for governments to pressure "the chat provider everyone uses" to implement age verification.

you wanna pressure 300 separate IRC servers? good luck with that. but one company? easy

09.02.2026 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2389    πŸ” 688    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 15

It cannot be replaced easily. The number of communities where all of their information, resources, and data are housed solely on a discord is many, and it will not be a simple task to preserve/archive/transport those communities.

So much information is held in servers. This is a big problem!

09.02.2026 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't have nitro nor do I want it and I fully understand and support canceling.

What I was trying to understand was, if I am a user of discord and I do not have a nitro account, what will it mean for me and my daily use of discord if I do not provide the face scan and id?

09.02.2026 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Article is pay walled :/

Will non-nitro accounts be impacted in any meaningful way?

09.02.2026 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

It is unbearable the way executives either speak in monotone robot voice where they seem confused or unsure of every word that leaves their mouth or they talk like a cool youth pastor who turns the chair around to sit on it backwards and are moments away from calling you "champ" or "sport".

Ohmygod

09.02.2026 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0