Great topology, all things considered.

Um... I know I might be preaching to the choir...or it "could" be a hot take. But, as much as I liked Clair Obscur: Exp 33, it feels very gross to me that it occupies a nomination in both indie game categories, while ALSO occupying a spot in various other categories... Kind of unfair, imo, TGA2025

I know I know, the game awards don't and shouldn't matter, but just wanted to let people know voting is open in case you wanted to: thegameawards.com/nominees

Hi #pixelart and #gamedev, I was hoping to get some help today on something. I wanted to know if anyone had some great examples of characters scaled in 32 x 32 pixel size format? I am learning at that scale atm, and I am trying to avoid distracting myself too much seeking out examples. (continued):

I am loving Cronos: The New Dawn so far. Probably a third of the way through the game, and it's just been great. I definitely understand the Dead Space comparisons, but as I have had played both, they are distinctly different in terms of game feel and loop. Enemy variety isn't the best though...

The #pixelart skeleton stick man method is coming together. Testing out drawing muscles in 32 x 32 pixel art size. It's tough, but not bad! Arms don't provide a lot of real estate when you are trying to make a really large, wide torso. Gonna block it out and see what I can do with the form.

Hi #pixelart and #gamedev ! Last time, I was trying out the silhouette method of pixel art for building characters. I am pivoting from that to try another method that is more akin to what I am more comfortable with (building from a skeleton). Shoutout to Brandon James Greer's video on the topic!

Anyone in need of QA? I know some of your projects are very very far along, Bea's offering help!

I can't recall if I ever shared this short story I wrote with any of you before, but in the event I had, sorry. But if I hadn't? Well, here you go. Doing some winter cleaning of my laptop and sorting stuff around and it popped up lol. #writing (alt text transcript provided).

Wanting to make a boss in a souls like that is named: "Humphrey, Lover of Women" and if you come at them with a lady, they just off themselves immediately by running full sprint away and off the battle arena. Come at Humphrey with anyone else and like, 11/10 difficulty, no notes.

I had a short story I was writing years ago, got about 30 pages in. It had to do with what if a utopia was ruled by a Kakistocracy. It was meant to be a dark comedy, very on the nose. I ended up trashing it because reality was usurping my fiction. Reality effectively rendered my story obsolete, lol

I'm learning a LOT about today's modern gamer thanks to Dispatch. The amount of leeway Invisigirl gets is wiiild. That's not even a spoiler, but it's so dramatically polling in her favor, at all times. It's kind of reminding me of how much people leaned hard towards Chloe in Life is Strange.

But seriously though. Anyone else think about what their skeleton looks like doing every day tasks? No? Just me?

Boy howdy, I sure am hungry. ... ...HUNGRY FOR SOME PROGRESS ON THE GAMEDEV GRIND LET'S GOOO, IMMA BOUT TO LAY DOWN ALL KIIINDS OF PIXELS. I might even get reaaal freaky with it, and contribute to my GDD if I want to take a break from learning pixel art for a while. The whole world is oysters!

Oh shit first snow fall of the year let's go. Or actually, should be "let's snow". ....Yo my ducks gonna be super confused lmao.

Hey Vets, I am going to do the thing. I tried reaching out to everyone I know who is a veteran, but I would be there for a while. So yeah, imma say it. Happy Veteran's Day. I appreciate ya.

God, now AI is making it's way into Udemy? Can I go somewhere, anywhere, where I don't have the equivalent of robo-calls barraging me? I just want to learn. I am so tired. "I'm" choosing to go to a learning platform, so "I" can learn. Not have something "attempt" to learn "for me", "from me".

Hi folks! As many know, I'm learning pixel art, and been hitting all kinds of roadblocks. Despite watching countless videos, nothing clicked. That said, I finally found someone who was able to explain the fundamentals in a way that makes sense to me. @hanapix.bsky.social's videos are exceptional.

Tip for Chuck Schumer's ghost writers when he pays you AIPAC money to write his bogus book. Consider it a challenge: Work in as many metaphors as you can for comparing him to other creatures that lack a spine. Don't worry about him reading it: If he can't read America, he can't read books either.

Question to the other gamedevs...but not as a colleague, as a player. ... .... ......Which of you are working on a clock tower style game, but like the old school SNES/PSX style ones? If not you, do you know of anyone doing it? Man I would kill to play a Clock Tower style game right about now.

Hi #pixelart, just another update with the silhouette. It's coming together. Still needs more tidying up, but it's getting harder to think of more to add. I want to mess with the arms and legs some more. But I will list the images from most current, to where it came from (check alt text as well)!

Yup, something was hiding in there after all! Ok, ok cool! We have something. Gonna see what I can do with this bud. So far the pixelart silhouette practice is paying dividends! A lot more work to do, but holy cow, it's something. It's a character, could even fit into one of my gamedev projects!

Wake up honey, new Woolie video just dropped.

My jaw is killing me. Like, actively. I swear to god if it's the other wisdom tooth, after dealing with the left earlier this year, I'm going to be quite perturbed. ...Vexed, even!

Hi #pixelart, I wanted to try out that silhouette method of drawing, so this was my attempt at making an otter. Kind of happy with it, especially for a first crack at that method.

Hey artists, I have a bit of a weird question, gonna try my best to explain it. As I continue to work on pixel art, can I expect anything I learn while doing that to transfer over to digital art? Or is it a completely different way of viewing a canvas? Things such as shape theory, shading, etc?

*Steps to the podium* *Taps the microphone, feedback* *Clears throat* Stickerbrush Symphony is still one of the best VGM's ever made. *Steps away, stops* *Returns to podium* Not enough people know about the greatness of stage 1 of Bayou Billy btw, that changes now. Thank you for your time.

What keeps me going during long nights of blank stares at my gamedev solo project, isn't money, nor is it even expecting people will play it... I just want to prove to myself I am capable of making one. I want the high of seeing my name attached to something good, for a change. That's all.

Them: "Hey Lucha, do you happen to know any coding jokes"? Me: "I mean, sure, but every coder/programmer has some coding jokes in their back pocket ready to go"! Them: "lol! I don't!" Me: "Sure you do! I can prove it! After all, you know what a boolean is, true or false"? Them: "..." Me:

I read this today, and it's incredible. I don't usually revisit comics (aside from Junji's stuff), but it will have you going back to check out stuff you missed the first go around. Please consider supporting @ayshaufarah.bsky.social and @llewellynrose.bsky.social 's exceptional work!

Ok but like, how am I supposed to focus on pixelart when the world just finally splashed me in the face with so much positivity I can't even process it all?

Dick Cheney dies, a blue wave happens, and Zohran Mamdani a voice of actual difference and merit, wins against a cabal of creepy old pervs. just want to make SURE, NONE OF YOU HAVE BEEN WISHING AROUND ANY MONKEYS HAVE YOU? NO PAWS IN THE VICINITY? I AM SERIOUS. I AM FUCKING SERIOUS LMAO.

A lil bit of a blue wave tonight. No big deal. Just the color that waves are supposed to be. None of that garish red shit. So proud of you who voted today. Thank you. Genuinely.

33 states have elections today (give or take). Your job, if you are an American and live in one of those states, is to vote today. No matter what. No matter if it's a local election, or a general election. It's all important, and it's ALWAYS important. No excuses. Signed, a veteran.

There's too many damn ticks on this Earth. We need more creatures* that eat them. *Opossums. I want more opossums. Thousands of them, tens of thousands. In fact, you should get some kind of bonus if you have them on your property. Two opossums per household? We end all ticks in a weeks time.

We have a catio for our cats that my wife installed about a couple years back. Our cats barely use it, rarely even. But last night? I saw a field mouse doing parkour off the sides of it. First off, yikes, but ok, such is life, but second off...oddly happy about it? At least someone enjoys it.

It's a toss up between Darkwood and Alien Isolation. Darkwood has the edge here though, it preys on some of my bigger fears. The fear is constant when a xenomorph is involved, but you know you are done and dealt with super quich. Darkwood doesn't give you that luxury. The threat is always different.

@zeroand09.com being a legend, as per usual.

Hot take: If there was ever a cross over event that needed to happen... FF7 x Silent Hill. Think about it. Sephiroth wearing a traffic pylon. It writes itself. Cloud would be right at home. Capcom...Konami...I will be expecting my check in the mail. :P Just kidding of course! ...Unless?

Alright! Ducks, dogs, and cats are fed. I got myself a macadamia nut cookie from the local grocer, and a bit of caffeine in my system. A few hours of sleep under my belt (minus the nightmares), but who's counting?! NOT ME. THAT'S FOR SURE. Gonna have a productive pixelart day today! IMMA FLY HIGH!

I must be coming down with something. Really ain't feeling with it today. No updates tonight, sorry ya'll.

I've been staring at my computer screen for an hour, just completely blanking on anything creative. Can't even click around in my programs...any of them. Gonna take that as a "cue", and head off for the night. Ya'll have a good one, make sure to get some rest as well.

Went down a rabbit hole from the discover feed which began with a Furry artist, which lead to a lot of different projects and talents on showcase from other Furry creators, and Furries are just built different ya'll. Immeasurably talented individuals. This isn't new news of course, but a reminder!

I know everyone's attentions are pulled in various directions, the nature of politics, baseball, etc etc. But I want to let people know that Hurricane Melissa, a cat 5 hurricane, has officially at the time of me posting this, made landfall in Jamaica.

My mood atm: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6lH...

Took a bit of a detour cause I wanted to try a technique I learned from a digital art class a bit ago. Basically, you make a random shape out of one color, and paint in the color to see if you can make anything out of it. So here's a fun little pixelart doodle. Tough to do with only four colors!

Btw, I want to plug a channel that's been getting me through a lot of my tutorial sessions. @dungeonchill.bsky.social. Their content is incredible, going on deep dives on some really obscure game projects (and some not so much) and it's perfect ambience to learn to. Plus my dogs love his voice.

Another day awake, another chance to learn. You can find me in the tutorial mines. Few goals today. I have about 9 youtube videos loaded up (sidequests) to get through, then it's back to my secondary quest, working on my own isometric room, then main quest will be my main tutorial series #gamedev.

If anyone was on the fence whether or not they should get and experience Dispatch: Don't be. Cause it's an incredible video game.

"So it will grow back in a week or two" lmfao.