What I wouldn't give to be a teenager in the 90s, smoothing out a dollar bill against the corner of a vending machine so I can buy a can of Surge.

A Costco hotdog wrapped in a slice of Costco pizza.

What I wouldn't give to be a teenager in the 90s, smoothing out a dollar bill against the corner of a vending machine so I can buy a can of Surge.

STOP THE PRESSES. The ROM for the unreleased Famicom RPG Splatter World has been released (in a thread on 4chan, of all places). I've tried it myself, and it does seem to be genuine. If it's a fake, it's a damn good one. Expect (more) coverage on West Mansion soon. @hg101.bsky.social

You don't understand, I can't work on my gamedev project. I need to camp the Bastok auction house in Final Fantasy 11 for fire crystals so I can craft hella hatchets, which levels both blacksmith and carpentry skills at the same time. The SAME TIME.

Shit your pants like no one's watching.

Final Fantasy 11.

Been playing Final Fantasy 11 using a controller, positioning my right hand kinda like this. It's to help with grip strength and hand pain issues. Occurs to me this probably wouldn't even be feasible in 14 but it's been a big help in 11. This is an 8BitDo Ultimate, btw. Great controller.

Day 1 of posting every day until Thursday.

Day 1 of posting every day until Thursday.

The cool party of being a solo gamedev is no one can be upset about me spending the past couple of weeks playing Final Fantasy 11 except me. I hate myself but I love my lv 25 thief.

Stayed up late last night thinking about a negative review I saw for a brand of pea protein that just said "It tastes like peas!"

Sometimes I'll be in bed, unable to sleep, wondering if my villagers in Animal Crossing miss me. Is that wholesome or mental illness?

The problem with having a big forehead is I've been thinking I'm going bald since I was like 10.

How did I somehow manage to get addicted to Final Fantasy 11 again in 2025, the year of our Norg?

Putting on clothes seems a lot cooler when you realize it raises your defense.

Gamedev update: Back to work on a song I've been slowly writing for a LONG time now for my retro JRPG. There are parts I feel confident about but others need work, like the first verse. Sounds a bit empty. And the second one needs to change things up maybe. #indiedev #chiptune #Famistudio #nes

Does anyone happen to know if it's Friday in California?

How do you do it? How do you sit a friend down and tell them you weren't really Laughing Out Loud at their text?

The Rad Gravity title theme is honestly cool as fuck and I respect George Sanger for writing it. Its not a sort of chaos that comes from incompotence or lack of understanding how music is written, its very deliberate and you cant make something like that unless you know exactly what youre doing.

I haven't been feeling so great recently and have been passing the time with a phone game called Doomsday: Last Survivors. One of those pay-to-win ones. It is with a heavy heart that I announce I'm fully addicted to it.

Sorry, I can't talk right now. Just finally got around to deleting a bunch of emails and I'm currently bathing in the cleansing light of catharsis.

We really let ourselves get lazy when coming up with the name for blueberries.

I think "Fixer's Song" from 1000xRESIST has to be one of the most heartfelt songs I've heard in a videogame ever.

Updated the first character portrait a little bit. I think my biggest issue right now with pixel art is learning shading, so I'm not happy with it yet. His face shape is better now tho. This is literally the closest I got to gamedev work in the past few days btw. #indiegamedev #Aseprite #retro

I forgot to post this at the time but since I'm still feeling proud of it, here it is. 100% of the Suikoden 1 retro achievements. Mostly a chill hundo but there are some luck based ones. Not fond of those.

Gamedev update: Gotta stop putting off how to properly make pixel art if I want this game to at least look somewhat how it does in my mind. So that's my main focus right now. Been making the character portraits at 48x48 but maybe I should up the pixel count for more detail? #indiegamedev #Aseprite

It's got enough room for me & the whole squad ⚔️

Smol gamedev update: Started trying to learn how to do the pixel art character portraits in Aseprite. It's been a struggle. Proportions seem off, even tho I've tinkered with it for a bit. Shading looks off too. I'll figure it out eventually, but here's what I have so far. #indiegamedev

Hello @sunsetvisitor.studio A physical release of 1000xRESIST on the Switch or Switch 2 would fix me. Any chance of that happening? I will buy you a boba. 🧋

I've just been sitting around the past few days. Haven't been feeling well. This short Aseprite animation, a couple lines of dialogue and about 8 seconds of music are all I have to show for my gamedev work. #indiegamedev #pixelart

Gamedev update: Took way longer to make this than I want to admit. Still can't figure out how to make his walk look more realistic in a way that looks good. See how his back step doesn't get further away? Tried using darker shades to simulate the effect instead. #indiegamedev #pixelart #RPGmaker

I decided a while back to start over with retro achievements. I know, I'm weird. Chose Crystalis for the first 100% because it's quick and I love the game. Great soundtrack and the idea would work well in modern times. Some repetitive tiling in dungeons can make them harder to navigate tho. #NES

Not gonna lie, learning to do even simple animations has been really hard for me. I'm still new to this stuff. Keep finding little mistakes. I'm getting there tho. Anyway, that's it for gamedev updates. Kinda just been trying to relax the past few days. #indiegamedev #pixelart #Aseprite #RPGmaker

Not gonna lie, learning to do even simple animations has been really hard for me. I'm still new to this stuff. Keep finding little mistakes. I'm getting there tho. Anyway, that's it for gamedev updates. Kinda just been trying to relax the past few days. #indiegamedev #pixelart #Aseprite #RPGmaker

Decided to keep the exaggerated walk animation. It'll probably look goofy to some but I like it, so it stays. Still working on converting the other two playable characters to the new style but it's going well. I love your cat, btw. #indiegamedev #pixelart #Aseprite #RPGmaker

Small gamedev update: So uh, I spent a few days reworking the art style again. I just wanted a middle ground between the old one and the new simplified one. Still the simple style that I love but with a tiny bit more detail. Getting better with Aseprite too. #indiegamedev #pixelart #RPGmaker #JRPG

Small gamedev update: I think I'm happy with this idle animation as well. Still tweaking the final one but I'm getting there. Also feeling a little more comfy in Aseprite. #indiegamedev #pixelart #RPGmaker #JRPG

I feel like Zooey Deschanel probably owns several tambourines.

Started work on the idle animations. If it wasn't obvious he's a robot before, it is now. That's about it from me today as far as gamedev and Aseprite goes. #indiegamedev #pixelart #RPGmaker #JRPG

Started work on the idle animations. If it wasn't obvious he's a robot before, it is now. That's about it from me today as far as gamedev and Aseprite goes. #indiegamedev #pixelart #RPGmaker #JRPG

Small gamedev update: Took a bit but I'm happy with the overworld sprite for the third and final playable character in my game. Had fun but I need to properly learn Aseprite. Still just fumbling around. Kinda feel like I wanna make the whole game in this style. #indiegamedev #RPGmaker #JRPG

If I play someone a Guided by Voices album and they don't like it, I play it cool but immediately start slowly cutting them out of my life until their presence fades away like pay phones or Redbox kiosks.

Small gamedev update: I'm now happy with the overworld sprite of the second character in my retro style JRPG project. Hated it at first but did some tweaking. I think I have come to love this super simplified pixel art style. Just feels right. #indiegamedev #Aseprite #RPGmaker

Smallest gamedev update ever: Fixed a few mistakes and changed his legs after hearing feedback. Also changed the color of his goggle lens to be less confusing. The grey thing behind him is a weapon, btw. Worried some might think the exaggerated walk is stupid but it reminds me of Chrono Trigger.

Gamedev update: So I went in a different direction than yesterday. I'm inexperienced with pixel art and Aseprite, so I dumbed it down. Here's the overworld walking sprite for the main character. I wanted smaller sprites outside towns to help express the vastness of the world. #indiegamedev #JRPG