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LOOKING FOR WORK!! i’m merlin and i’ve worked in animation, games and comics as a visual developer and illustrator 🫶🎨 past clients: netflix, d&d, magic the gathering, volta 🎨 www.artstation.com/merlin-gg 📧 [email protected]

For me, the best form of ambient indie game marketing is talking about your game in a natural way, as if you were speaking to someone at an expo. Don't overthink it. Just be you, be honest, be human, and speak from the heart.

My brand:

we weren’t negative enough and now no-one gets to have ram or hard drives

❄️ #photography

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

fawn bunny 💘

hold on i gotta take this

Nothing but trees and snow outside this shuttle bus.

At the Sapporo Snow Festival admiring the Chiikawa presence #Chiikawapocket

Important issue to raise but I think we need to talk a lot about the harmful impacts of social media arguably being much greater on older millennials/gen x/boomers. The kids are, generally speaking, alright. Their grandparents are conspiracy theorists now.

embarrass the administration and they will do everything in their power to ruin your life, even if the embarrassment is the result of their own cruel overreach vicious sadistic bullies all the way down

(If you have not done this and I haven’t responded to your email I am sorry, I am just behind on my emails lately 🥲 I promise I will get to it soon and do nudge me if it’s urgent!)

Protip: if you email me out of the blue with a request and you don’t include my name / game’s name + reason why you’ve reached out to me specifically, I’ll assume it’s a mass mailout and won’t reply. If you can’t be bothered to personally email me, I’m not gonna bother personally responding to you.

so @wrenegade.bsky.social and I will be on a Sundance Collab panel with @brownmoney.bsky.social and Julián Cordero later this week, check it out if it sounds like your jam! collab.sundance.org/catalog/Stor...

昔苦手意識があった紙を改めて使ってみる 当時より滲みの操作がしやすくなった気がするのは、技術が少ーし向上したからかしら

who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

crunch in games is reckless, it’s running a car without oil or care, watching sparks fly and smoke billow and going “that’s what maximum efficiency sounds like, when parts fail I’ll replace them knowing I squeezed 110% from them” except the parts are people so the driver is evil as well as stupid

I hit the button ✅😭🐸 🚨BIG HOPS is OUT NOW🚨 Get it on Steam | Switch | PS5 for just $17.99 with our 10% launch discount! #indiegames #nintendoswitch #ps5

I really wanted to try ozoni over the new year's period but didn't feel like trying to make my own and it seemed impossible to find otherwise ...until I found an OZONI STAMP RALLY featuring ozoni from 6 different prefectures at 4 prefecture satellite shops in central Tokyo. So of course, we did it.

I really wanted to try ozoni over the new year's period but didn't feel like trying to make my own and it seemed impossible to find otherwise ...until I found an OZONI STAMP RALLY featuring ozoni from 6 different prefectures at 4 prefecture satellite shops in central Tokyo. So of course, we did it.

This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.

From the great Ryoko Kui

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Visited All of Evangelion 30th Anniversary Exhibition + Evangelion cafe yesterday

Unpopular motivation hack for drawing: Start drawing immediately, even if it feels impossible. After 15 minutes, your brain will recognize the difficult task and create dopamine to help you keep going. Agonizing endlessly before the drawing doesn't help your creative process.

My Discord account was compromised over the New Year - if you've ever heard of the good old "just try my game" attack, well, I fell for it. For more information, see my writeup on the matter: jethachan.net/security/202...

Here's a closer look at a few of my favorite #dwarffortress pixelart portraits I've done! The Bears + Baby bears set.

Winter has defeated me. I caught a bad flu and mostly managed to recover, only to catch some other shitty virus a week later. Being corporeal sucks y'all

snow #photography

We are on a Pokemon train in the Japanese countryside.

A childhood memory 🌧️ Made for NOP’s PixelEncore

2026 New Year's Resolutions: - Have a routine and stick to it; make sure it is achievable even on my bad days and includes relaxation time - Try to see things from other people's perspective when I am frustrated with them - get out of my pyjamas every morning and go outside for something, anything

Had sushi and toshikoshi soba with friends while watching Kōhaku on New Years Eve, did hatsumōde at midnight, and had Osechi and red bean rice on New Year's Day. Feel like I'm making the most out of this trip.

Meanwhile I explained to everyone in our little group how to pray correctly, and when our turn came and we all went up to the shrine at the same time I was the one who messed it up Strong start (Had fun though)

“Didn’t these AI chuds think about use permission???” I think they did. I think they were like:

It was ¥150 to add 5 quail eggs, how could I NOT

for anyone new to bluesky or just struggling to make their timeline better, here’s my tip: follow a bunch of artists that you like and whenever they repost cool art, follow that artist too soon your timeline will be a steady stream of wonderful art interspersed with news updates on the horrors

Unless you are trying to prove the player's own futility to them or frustrate them :) which is a valid game design decision! Just uh, be aware that this is what you're doing.

in the city #photography

🩷 𝕥𝕒𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒 𝕟𝕚𝕔𝕖 𝕨𝕒𝕝𝕜 🏙️

Grateful to podcasts 99% Invisible and The Empty Bowl for distracting me from my physical misery during a particularly nasty flu these last few days

Pretty disappointed in both @humblebundle.com and especially in @girlswhocode.bsky.social. Please teach girls how to code, don't push them into generative AI. That won't build their skills. Prioritize foundational programming skills and awaken their interest. "Tired of long days writing code"???

Quantic Foundry does legit trustworthy analysis of gamer behaviour, and these survey results are shockingly negative toward genAI, to the point where I’m more hopeful that data driven mobile and AAA backpedals on their uses.

recent places #photography

Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long: