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#indiegamedev, #pixelart, and #watercolor. it/its, aro/ace/agender + voidpunk π«genAI Currently working on Peddlers between Pulsars: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3119170/Peddlers_Between_Pulsars/
Digital doodle of a beetle in a hat looking at a stylized pulsar. Text reads: White: That's too close! Why did you put me so close to a pulsar? Green: ~Artistic License~ White: You're ruining my eyes for ARTISTIC LICENSE?!!
End of week doodling/trying out some style things to unwind.
Finding 250 jobs to apply to in this economy is an accomplishment already (am also unemployed/looking now)
I use a google with udm=14. Also stops it from giving me a slew of restaurants and products whenever I want to look things up.
#fox for todays @pixeldailies.bsky.social #pixel_dailies #pixelart #γγγη΅΅
NOIR ON HYDRA AAAAHHH
Thought it would take 2-3 years. Been 2 years, it's gonna take closer to 3-4 years.
I knew my initial estimate would be wrong after US elections - gotta spend more attention in life management and less on game.
Old/New
For 2 chars, their sprites will be updated b/c I wasn't happy with them before, and I got good enough to update them. Exos actually walks like a beetle now.
#pixelart
Glitch City has Bring Your Own Game events for playtesting, and that's the closest thing I know of. That's LA local though, but smaller local events might be an option?
Pixelart of a game scene. On the left, a turban-shelled snail is withdrawn and an eye is peeking out. On the right, a bivalve-snail-octopus is staring at the other snail.
Getting rid of a placeholder palette swap and adding a few new reactions.
#pixelart #screenshotsaturday #indiegame
Depends a bit on genre, but generally 3. I like big attacks, short fights, and generally evade/run instead of fighting.
If not 3, then 1. 2 is that annoying middle ground where it's too much RNG for me.
Mouse all the time. Even if I'm mainly drawing at 16x16 nowadays, my canvas tends to be 200px+ so I can see assets in context + have a nice big scratchpad area.
Highway Noir by @archangelsoftworks.co.uk
I was too battle-hungry and wrecked both my cars before finishing. Nice atmospheric driving, and I hope the OST goes on sale someday.
I'm Making a Monster by @zorkie.itch.io. Caught my eye b/c it's easy to tell it's done in traditional watercolor, and not a digital brush. I'm biased towards VNs with less faces and I'm vibing with the main char, so I'll wanna play when it's done.
A little Jumpingspider's Garden Adventure. I'm simple. If you put a cute spider game in front of me, I'll play it.
Some linux-friendly demos I tried and liked this nextfest π§΅
Five characters digitally painted in a messy style. There's a blue beetle wearing a hat, a three-eyed five tentacled snail with a metallic shell, a simple astronaut, a glowing sphere of gas, and a fleshy lichen with wooden legs. Near the mollusk, writing says "Too lazy to texture the shell + fix". The astronaut's writing says "more dumpy!!!" and the gas's writing says "Neon always ends up being too boring or abstract". The beetle's writing says "???" near his joints, and "feet should have joints"
I do want a non-pixel steam art someday. One of the issues I ran into - when my chars get translated out of pixels, they go from lil guys to "breaks doorways and can fight cars"
I designed them that way, so it's a problem I've made for myself haha.
#art
I have fun, learn a lot, and meet some cool people along the way, and my next game ends up being better.
I'm not very extrinsically motivated.
Surprise! PancitoMerge is now available in the Nintendo Switch eShop!
We made a new trailer to announce the launch and it has a really cool original song!
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBwO...
Nintendo: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
Please share it around!
If I have ~65 NPCs with 4 planets doneish, and 14 planets total...
Yup, time to start doodling more NPCs.
You used to have a salt water aquarium? :0 I'm not entirely surprised, just think that's cool
A 2d Castlevania?! In 2026?!
I hope this becomes available outside the PS5!
A picture of Peddlers between Pulsars running on a steam deck.
Ay, Peddlers is pretty okay on the steam deck!
The default controls are a pretty wonky, but it serves its purpose in that I can wave it at people irl and let them try it.
#indiegame #peddlersbetweenpulsars
Oh my god, so many people are canceling Nitro that it's having issues processing it, cook 'em hard bois.
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#art #gamedev #indiedev
Wha professionals? XD
(Never worked in the industry, never made money off games, nor do I really expect to make money)
It's clunky but it'll fuckin' do for now! The cricket strike #animation is done! π
Now I have to pixel the walk and jump animations and I can implement this unit
#gamedev #indiedev #pixelart
Image showing details for a giveaway of Aseprite, a pixel art software. To join, like the post, comment "pixel" and follow me. Winner chosen on 2/15/26
In an effort to fight back against AI, I will be giving away a free copy of @aseprite.org to help support artwork made by humansπ
How to participate:
-Like this post
-Comment "pixel"
-Follow me
Please repost to spread the word! π
Winner randomly chosen on 2/15/26!
I think most devs end up fighting an engine at some point, mainly b/c you gotta choose one so early in the process. Don't blame yourself
