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i've been updating all the tilesets in Addlemoth to the new water shader and i was kinda mesmerized by how the dusk tileset's water effect looked. sunlight glinting off the surface...

updating all the character art in #Addlemoth to modern standards. spending a while doing anatomy and shading study last year has really paid off for the character portraits, I feel.

updating all the character art in #Addlemoth to modern standards. spending a while doing anatomy and shading study last year has really paid off for the character portraits, I feel.

in an effort to save on dev time, i redid the water effect in #Addlemoth to be a shader effect instead of handdrawn animation frames it, uh, looks better now

i feel like half the time i see drawings anymore i spend an inordinate amount of time staring at how the artists draw knees

初日の出

Bringing this one out again, probably took me over 7 hours

My resolution for 2026 is to not interact with social media besides to post or share creative work. that is all~

happy thanksgiving

"What was your biggest impact on the internet?" I modded rollbacks into a game that didn't have it and wrote an article about how I did it. And then I never heard the end of it for the next like 5 years.

Starry Aesthetic ✨ #art #pixelart #ドット絵 #stars #galaxy

hope everyone's having a good christmas. apologies for quietness, Having A Time over here lately. hopefully things cool down after the holidays.

This thread makes some good points and there's a *detailed* way to explain this, but to try and be succinct: * ChatGPT and its kin are trained on stolen art and inseparable from that theft * ChatGPT in game dev usually replaces labor instead of enabling new ideas. Procgen like CoQ enables new ideas

I spent a long time working with procgen for various projects and, like, it is _absolutely_ a method of developing content with authorial purpose. Nobody cares about infinite content. "I turn left instead of right this time" is legitimately a variation that's dull and uninteresting.

the big difference between procgen and "ai" is that procgen is straightforwardly a creative/authoring process like any other, whereas "ai" by its nature precludes both things. but even with procgen you can approach it from a cynical direction and fuck yourself www.joewintergreen.com/an-insult-to...

Am tired

looking up from sifting through 20+ year games backlog what do you mean they make new games too

reasons to play indie games: + cat photos from the developers

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Christmas miracle - guy called trap15 just began working on a translation for Busin 0 for PS2, arguably the coolest Japanese Wizardry ever. Said not to expect anything for at least a year, but it's exciting news nonetheless!

A light in the dark.

my head is just done for today spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace

this point really hits the nail on the head of why localization workers are so frustrated by “AI” loc companies. freelancers have to beg for a single dollar wage increase, while tens of millions are dumped into a machine designed to replace them. the machine doesn’t even work. freelancers do.

I've been kinda struggling to work on #Addlemoth for a while, and part of it is that it's taken so long that I'm not the same person I was when I first really laid down how the game should be, and it's been harder to get enthusiastic. (years of being sidetracked by Life has been.. a thing...)

to chip in on discourse: I think some degree of inscrutability is not just important, but actually necessary for a game to be popular. They're a social experience as much as they are a game you play, and how better to get people to talk and share info than to be hard to figure out?

looks at the world, becomes incredibly angry, goes back into hole

writing code is not and has not ever been the problem with programming, it's effective code design. a good programmer writes LESS code, not more. way too often people have otherwise simple projects written in needlessly complicated ways. adding code gen into the picture makes you less efficient.

I know games are frequently flouted as power fantasies in the sense that they let you live out being more capable than you are, but it tends to have the opposite effect on me. If it takes someone doing ninja flips and precision motion to survive a situation, I know I'd be super dead in seconds.

I feel like I need to stop posting stuff that makes it to the discover tab that isn't my art lol

followup: i made some truly delicious mac cheese today

thinkin' about arts

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working on my food plans for the week and my brain is just like. giant vat of mac cheese. no, i don't care that it's bad for me. giant vat of mac cheese.

anybody have a favorite walkthrough for rigging + animating low poly characters for unreal

popping out of bed, looking around, falling right back into bed as quickly as possible

i felt a lot better about my art when i realized that my own stuff, while far from perfect, has a unique charm that is not possible to replicate with generative algorithms and i need to roll with that

our indie game: - hand drawn by Celeste's pixel artist - music by Disasterpeace - a slow-burning horror RPG - meet (or date) 10+ charming characters - fast-paced combat - customize your playstyle with crafted items and combat abilities - build a new life on a remote island

the mood of: making goofy faces in a mirror so i can mentally internalize facial structure for better drawings

the dark secret about this current moment in games is over the past five years, almost every publisher & investment group learned painfully that they did in fact not understand how hard it is to market a video game now, and many are not in a place to take on that risk given said painful failures

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as a migraines person i would like to get off mother nature's wild ride

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

made cookies

i think i've reached the point, as someone who is squarely in the target audience of people who like turn based games and deckbuilders, where i would very much like to not see another new roguelite deckbuilder again for a while

witching hour 🌕🐈‍⬛✨ #art

Well, heck! Had a project fall through, which is unfortunately one of the many risks of freelancing, so my schedule for the rest of the year is pretty wide open if anyone has leads for localization/copy editing gigs. 11+ years of professional experience over many dozens of projects! I can do It All

I've tried repeatedly to like Shiren 6 but it just has not clicked for me like 5 did. Or even the first game. unfortunate