❤️ wide pixels

Ive been working on the Delver mobile ports for about a month now? And mostly full time? Turns out I’m crushing it? Problems I’ve been worried about for years are getting fixed! Heck I even got stencil buffers working for our fancy low res glow/shadows.

Every "AI Game" video I see I'm just like, "Wait, doesn't procedural do this exact thing but WAY better?? We already solved this problem?"

I'm castpixel, a senior illustrator and art director with more than 20 years of experience (ok, it's 21 years). One of the best pixelartists working today. I'm looking for a project. Clients: WB Games, Minecraft, SEGA, HASBRO Hire me! I make your game look good. [ #portfolioday ]

Productive day! I’ve fixed iOS shader issues and Delver feels great on an iPhone!

📢 I'm looking for work! Seeking a Tech Artist role. 📢 I'm a creative thinker who loves empowering artists, building tools, and streamlining workflows/pipelines. I've been building software for 15+ years, so I know what I'm doing. [email protected] www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-skelton-029ab645

PSX wobbly verts eat your heart out! Also ignore the ominous pool of pure black liquid…

iOS looks like it needs a little shader love. 🤪 Any libGDX folks know where I should start looking?

I’m pretty happy with layout! Just need to put some time into Delver with it.

Progress is being made…

Ah. The responsible thing to do.

Lately I've been knocking the dust off of Delver Engine and working towards getting mobile builds going. So far it hasn't been _too_ bad, just normal levels of reviving a legacy code base. 😅

Did you know I wrote a set of command line tools for Quake? Did you know they are totally free and open source? Once in a while someone will throw a few bucks my way for these tools and every time it makes my day. 😃 joshua.itch.io/quake-tools

An old sprite cloud experiment i did, trying to recreate Samus Aran in Ballz 3d style, but using animated hex shapes

You probably shouldn’t dig stra.. aaaah! Love seeing the progress on this project.

What I find beautiful about old technology are the places where it begins to come apart at the seams. Wobbly triangles on the PlayStation, tracking lines on a VCR. That sweet spot where ambition and constraint begin to have friction.

You ever get totally decimated by your child completely by accident? “Hey Dad. Do you remember when you were a kid? You know, back in the 1900s?”

If you’re an indie dev mutual of mine and I haven’t followed you back it’s not because you aren’t amazing. It’s because I’m _very_ bad at social media.

Happy to report the Spire has been Slain

If you ask me to fix up vibe coded software, my rate just doubled.

Yesterday, along with half of the entire company at Rec Room, I was laid off. While having a stable job in the games industry for seven year is rare, it is also bittersweet. I think the thing that I will miss most is working with so many talented artists and helping them shine.

Maybe not the first game that comes to mind, but I appreciate the deep cut Wikipedia.

I’ve so badly wanted to do one of these! I’ve purpose built my custom game engine for stuff like this. Is this the year?

Holy moly! @dan5sch.bsky.social has been COOKING

Here's an update on my small-voxel renderer, inspired by the look of games like Doom and Quake. The work I shared last year focused on handling simpler environment geometry. Since then, I've greatly expanded the scope of what I can depict in this art style. More info in thread.

The blurry pixel issue has been fixed!* Thanks to the infamous ericwa for pointing me in the right direction. *Only on Windows. 😭

Weird. Pasting images int Bluesky shows the preview correctly, but they show up black in the actual post?

LIMDE

Update on this: Burning my dev environment to the ground did thankfully fix things. So I'm back where I started. Progress? I am going to punt on updating to SDL3 because right now Mixer and Emscripten support just isn't where I want it to be.

Was tinkering around on my retro pixel perfect game engine yesterday and I thought something was off. Enhance... AAAHHHH. This is new as of my moving to Windows 11 + 4K monitor.

You have to save scum real hard the last two battles of Slay the Spire huh?

Post a screenshot of your first 5 Steam purchases and let Bluesky judge you. All this does is confirm to me I’ve been this way for a while. 🤪

My kiddos (7 & 9) have gotten into Magic the Gathering, so I made them custom deck boxes.

Woke up with a new eardrum. How’s your day?

Inbox zero folks look away.

@5pyr.bsky.social sorry for the belated follow back. Glad to see your beautiful work here. 👍

At an old school freeplay arcade with the kiddos.

You know what is great? Desmos graphing calculator.

Overheard between my kiddos last night: 9 y.o. - “I can’t wait to get a phone.” 7 y.o. - “Me either! I’m gonna put so much trash on my phone!”

I unironically love this style of texture painting. Doesn’t hurt that it was the fashion back when I started to learn how to 3D model + texture.

Sitting outside a pizza place enjoying a beer. I’ve been waiting on my pizza almost 30 minutes now because the AI that handles takeout orders is just making up times orders will be ready. #aisucks

A small demo for my game engine to prove out my mode 7 renderer. Also a good excuse for me to make some pixel art. #brassengine #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #gamedev

[NUKAGE.GIF] Made these guys for my custom game engine Mode 7 demo. I foolishly mocked up two more scenes, who should be next? #brassengine #pixelart #screenshotsaturday

Holy super scaler!

Finally done with this! I really liked the results. Picture minecraft, but it's an old computer RPG. #pixelart #minecraft #BRart #ドット絵

Checkout this beautiful mock-up! vini is crazy talented and super easy to work with.

Happy birthday Morrowind! 🎂 Here is a Vvardenfell transit map I made while watching a @rangedtouch.bsky.social charity stream.

Generative AI is a blight