It's only dawning on me now that the Archer in Gauntlet: Dark Legacy doesn't really have a bow. More like an uzi cosplaying as a bow. But with how fast they fire arrows, it honestly makes a lot of sense 🤔

After a long slumber, Hell's legion stirs. † PROFANE SALVATION: THE INFERNAL LORDS UPDATE † The Blasphemous Bullet Hell is back with: 3 Bosses 💀 9 Grueling Verses 💀 1 Path to Salvation schonstal.itch.io/profane-salv... 💻: @schonstal.itch.io 🎨: @smhancher.bsky.social 🎹: Zack Pierson

Coming home from GDC and I’m feeling really fired up 🔥😤🔥

This was hard! I bet if I tried to make this tomorrow it would be different haha #9games

Hey #portfolioday ! My name is Steven Hancher. I'm a game artist and designer. I love making dark fantasy and sci-fi art. I'm a big fan of tactics and making little guys, maps and trinkets. I'm currently looking for work! You can find my contact info and portfolio on my website: hanchers.com

I don't post nearly enough 😅 So here is a picture frame I mocked up for a personal project and will most likely not be using.

Had a cool dream where there was a new Super Sentai series were the theme was Alchemy. All the members had helmets that displayed their alchemical symbol (sulfer, salt, mercury). Their solo ranger was the red philosophers stone and the megazord looked like a green lion. Sick as hell 🤘

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Goals honestly

Lets GO!!

Mind bogglingly good comic. Top to bottom. Breathlessly inspiring.

Launch Day! KindFolx 1.0 is released! Play as 1 of 3 members of the Adventurers Guild, dungeon crawl, and survive tense, fast-paced encounters to take down a treasonous tyrant in this real-time deckbuilder! store.steampowered.com/app/1408730/... Would greatly appreciate RTs! #kindfolx #deckbuilder

Earlier this year I gave a talk about making art in a capitalist for @pigsquad.com 's Talent Talks called "Dating My Medium". Click on the link below if you are looking for (what I believe is) an honest conversation about our relationships with our chosen crafts.

☁️Sensor☁️ A magic weapon focused on healing. Upgrade to increase the range of healing, the amount healed, the ability to over heal, the ability to purge all status effects, and the ability to sanctify a tile; thus healing those who end their turn on said tile.

🎵Musical Instrument🎵 A magic weapon focused on buffing. Spend an AP to play a melody. Each melody effects the squares adjacent for the next turn. Melodies include granting +1 AP, +2 Movement Speed, Channeling aggro, Increasing damage, Granting dodge, and enabling push. You may also upgrade range.

🛡️Shield🛡️ A utility melee weapon. Lower damage received for a turn. Upgrade to cancel push back, unlock bash to lower the enemies AP. Upgrade further to decrease AP or push the enemy back. Other upgrades include discuss where you ricochet off adjacent enemies to lower AP, and Deflect projectiles.

🥊Gauntlet🥊 A melee weapon focused on brawling. Upgrade to increase your number of punches and the amount damage they do. Enable knock back on punch. Unlock grapple to immobilize enemies and use enemies and objects as meat shields. Upgrade further to launch enemies and object around area of play.

🗡️Dagger🗡️ A close ranged melee weapon focused on dishing out multiple strikes. Upgrade to increase the number of strikes in a single attack, inflict bleed, steal items from the enemy, or run 1.5x your movement speed in a straight line (upgrade further to pass through enemy tiles).

🔱Spear🔱 A melee weapon focused on reach. Upgrades include longer reach, more damage when hitting at max range, Piercing, and attacking forward and backward in one attack. New actions include a vault attack over obstacles and throwing your spear, dealing damage equal to the distance it traveled.

🪓Axe🪓 A melee weapon focused on AoE. Upgrade to increase damage, gain Action Points on kill, Increase the circumference of your swing, Increase number of swings when health is low, and grant yourself the "Throwing Axe" action; where you boomerang your axe out in front of you for more range.

⚔️Sword⚔️ A melee weapon that allows you to advance on your enemies on strike. Upgrades allow you to pass through enemy squares while attacking, increase the distance that you advance, and even enable a combination strike. You may also learn parry and deal damage after (or before) being struck.

♣️Mace♣️ A straight forward melee weapon that focuses on breaking shit. Upgrades increase damage, allow for armor break on hit, or enables user to break walls or the floor on hit. If upgraded to a flail, the user is able to grab people from a distance or pull themselves towards anchored objects.

🪄Wand🪄 A magic weapon that conjures a high cost, slow moving, explosive projectile. Upgrades allow for control of the projectile's movement, increased projectile speed, increased number of projectiles permitted at once, knock back on explosions, and conjuring a turret variant of the projectile.

⚕️Staff⚕️ A magic weapon that does big AOE damage with the penalty of not procing until the end of the enemy phase. Upgrades allow for armor while casting, draining AP from enemies in cast range, increasing AOE, Leaving AP on the map where a slain enemy was, And leaving a destructive trail on cast.

🏹 Bow and Arrow 🏹 A ranged weapon that leaves it's ammo on the battle field. Arrows are both flammable and conductive and pair nicely with elemental hazards. Upgrade to pierce enemies, fire multiple arrows, increase your quiver size, snatch arrows off enemies, and arc arrows over obstacles.

🔫 Pistol 🔫 A ranged weapon that packs a punch, but requires time to reload. Upgrades include being able to augment the chamber's capacity, the speed of it's reload, or the force of the projectile's impact. Adventurers looking to change things up can add a bayonet, or convert it into a blunderbuss.

✨They say your fate is written in the stars ✨

The center piece of your character tableau. This represents your adventurer's immutable characteristics. Your inclinations are the closest things resembling traditional stats. Players choose a spot on a spectrum between two extremes and try rolling on the side of the applicable extreme.

The Dutchy of Bedmouthe, so named for it's proximity to the 'mouth' of The Great Arterial River, and it's striking geographic composition. A city situated on a giant stone mesa, jutting out into the ocean. The very bedrock breaching the earth like the dorsal fin of some slumbering leviathan.

I've ripped the bandaid off and have finally started working on a tabletop campaign for the first time in years. I'm unwell 😂 Feverishly working on it whenever I find time. Expect some pics in the coming weeks.

I know there are plenty of terrible things going on right now. But I’m going to take this chance to make a small petty gripe: I’m sad that the icon for AI is a 4 pointed star. One of my favorite simple symbols is being co-oped in the worst way.

Mickey and I are cookin’ up somethin’ special. Just y’all wait 😜

If you see this, post purple art 🟪

#artvsartist 2024 I actually did a lot more art than I realized this year ☺️

🩸🔪You can live forever, so long as they die first 🔪🩸 CURSE OF THE BLOOD MOON A gothic score attack game available here: schonstal.itch.io/curse-of-the...

Step right up! Step right up! Watch in AMAZEMENT as this brave little rabbit dances for its life and YOUR entertainment! You wouldn't want to miss... THE BIG SHOW A rhythm bullet hell spectacular!

Your pulse pounds to the beat, and the air smells of diesel. Only one way to get out of this neon scrap heap. DOWNBEAT UNDERGROUND A rhythm cyber punch-out

A heavenly servant, so far from the light of their creator. Can you escape the pit and find your... PROFANE SALVATION A blasphemous bullet hell

S.W.I.N.E. has gone to far! It's time to break into their mainframe and hit them where it hurts 🤜💥🐷 -GRID RANGERS- A tactical puzzle game, available to play here: schonstal.itch.io/grid-rangers

I heard Gifs are working!? Here's a fun little moment from my game Parasomnia. A procedurally generated survival horror game. Make your way through the monster infested halls of this non euclidean nightmare hospital. smhancher.itch.io/parasomnia

A gift for my grandma. I'm actually very proud of how it turned out 🥳

🕯️ORDER AUTOMATICA🕯️ I had the honor of making the capsule art for my friend Mickey's game! Check out the occult, grid-based, auto battler at the steam link below store.steampowered.com/app/2105840/...

A starwars ttrpg character I was commissioned to draw for a actual play a while back. I think I captured the starwars look pretty nicely

Mermaid 👩🐠

Would you enter the ancient door?

Throwback to these old hag drawings I made ages ago

I was trying out something else for my business card, but I didn't like it as much. Though I do still like the idea of making all my game projects into little game cartridges. I'll keep that idea in my back pocket.

New business card, who dis' ?

Say hello to Patches! They were my mime bard character for a #dungeonsanddragons campaign I did a while ago. Hind sight 20/20, playing a mime was maybe an unnecessary challenge, but I liked his back story and his absolutely "I'm done with this shit" attitude.

Some more #DungeonsandDragons art I made for a shot campaign I was a part of