Goosebumps book cover art by Tim Jacobus

Never understood the hate for found footage horror.. Maybe it comes from the intrinsic high bar for realism, but by focusing on that people miss out on how impressively experimental it can be. Also, I'm obsessed with the aesthetics. Anyway, here's a call to watch Fake Documentary Q! #darkart #horror

The good thing about having a huge back catalogue of old photo work is that you can cheat when making "new" art. Here's the neon soaked photos (2015) I used to make the artwork on my "MurderBike" arcade machine. I guess it's not really cheating if their my photos tho. #gamedev #blender #newretrowave

Been recovering from moving house recently (0/10, do not recommend) and my work slowed down to crawl... But I've been chipping away at this arcade machine every now and then, and finally finished it today. Only a few more objects left #indiegames #gamedev #psxhorror #blender #aseprite #retrogaming

I've seen a surprising number of found footage films (3) about forgotten leech gods whispering to serial killers in the past week, completely by accident. I guess that's a thing. Anyway, here's an unrelated photo of mine, "Co-morbidity" (2017) #horror #darkartist #occult #photography #foundfootage

With Tormented Souls reminding me why I love Survival Horror (horror + puzzles + retro aesthetics), I decided to make a list of everything I didn't own yet and start buying and playing through 2 games a month. So far, I have played through the first 3 games. #survivalhorror #psxhorror #horrorgames

New release: Moon Dragon (1997 - Win) - https://www.myabandonware.com/game/moon-dragon-y9t #abandonware

My weirdo pixel art textured snack products made for a vending machine model. I realised that there were so many details people likely wouldn't see. Unless... I could make them interactable objects that are actually dispensed. Hmm... #lowpoly #blender #aseprite #pixelart #gamedev #indiegames

Why hadn't I heard anything about this?! An all round solid post-apoc thriller, a genre that's pretty well trodden by now, but this does a hell of a lot with a little. Killer lead performance from Deadwyler. I'm just kinda confused why it didn't screen anywhere...

This snack vending machine took way too long (10hrs+) due to all those tiny logos, but I think it was worth it. With all the big stuff out of the way, there's a few more smaller props, and then it's onto the full scene. #blender #aseprite #lowpoly #gamedev #retrohorror #indiegames #psxhorror

While looking for something else, I came across some of my old work done with completely hand pixelled texturing. Damn it for being so time-consuming because I still really like how it looks! #blender #aseprite #pixelart #gamedev #indiegames

Working on updating the art for my blobber RPG. First playtest is getting very close #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

Almost daily, I am amazed by the art still being released despite their respective industries. The world is hostile towards those just wanting to create and it feels like the assholes are winning, but people keep making even after everything. #mouthwashing #scavengersreign #primal #sorrywereclosed

I wasn't going to post more until the full scene was done, but I need something that’s not people bombarding me, ehhh... My effort yesterday - those tiny labels had me tempted to increase pixel density, but I'm glad I stuck with it (1px per cm) #gamedev #blender #pixelart #retrohorror #indiegaming

I realised that in my rush to get these done I forgot an important step in my texturing style: baking AO shadows and highlights into the base colour pixel art. My other posts probably didn't show off the texturing enough as well, so here's some close-ups #gamedev #blender #indiegames #psxhorror

Continuing to try to speed up my asset process, this took 2hrs 25min, but a coin machine is a much simpler model than a dryer. I'm curious how long the average object takes other 3D artists from start to finish? Because these speeds are still hard for me. #gamedev #blender #retrogaming #psxhorror

Thinking about scope and how small tasks blow out into huge time sinks - I started timing myself and how long an asset currently takes me. This was 5.5hrs from start to end. That's a dayish per asset. 900x is just under 3 years. Realistically, I need to get down to 2hrs per asset. #gamedev #blender

I disappeared to learn coding the past few months, but I needed a break from that. I don't know why I always end up making gritty lo-fi appliances, but here we are... My lowpoly (345 tris) laundromat washing machine. #lowpoly #gamedev #blender #psxhorror #indiegames #aseprite #retrogaming

This is rather intricate character design and lovely pixel art for what felt like a budget racer for the GBC, but then you learn it's a racing spin-off of a Dreamcast shmup with a developed backstory. Sadly, the racer isn't that great. But the DC game looks good! 📺: Armada F/X Racers, GBC, 2000

Without a Dawn is now available on Steam and the reviews are awesome: store.steampowered.com/app/3145620/... Get your copy -15% off and support indie dev for making deeply personal games without compromises. Thank you! 😍 #visualnovel #steam #gaming #gamedev

I figure I need a pinned post because my work is all over the place, so yeah... Hi, Bryn here, I'm an artist interested in: Horror films/games/books/art/history Game Dev Pixel Art ( #aseprite ) Tech Art Retro Gaming PSX/2 Horror Low Poly ( #blender) Creature Design/Mask Making Giallo Visual Novels

Last push for Nechromia's development fund, I'm working on the trailer and the demo, and would really appreciate any help and reposts! All supporters get a Steam key when the game is released! Supporters of $50+ get a portrait of themselves/OCs in game! ko-fi.com/2dchaos/goal...

Constrictor (self portrait, 2016) I had never played Evil Within before, but now that I have, it's up there for me! Yeh, the visuals are my jam, but I mostly love just how much it doesn't care if it makes any sense. I remember reviews being shit when it came out, but I don't know, it's pretty great.

Here's a showcase of the lighting and normal mapping I've been doing at work on our hand animated game, created in Unreal Engine 5 forward renderer with flat sprites drawn by our art team. I might have to fight UE to get 2D stuff to work, but it looks pretty #indiegaming #gamedev #animation #techart

Booting up; good morning/afternoon! 👋

A little hesitant to repost a list with the same movies, but I think it reiterates how good they are. My favourite 4 films of the decade so far: Titane (2021) (Gender-fuckery win) Pig (2021) Red Rooms (2023) Mars Express (2023) (And too many honourable mentions, but maybe All the Long Nights)

I'm starting to think an important part of enjoying a game and leaving with a positive impression is having your expectations of the time investment set correctly. Alan Wake 2 felt like it was nearing the end 25 hours in, so I ended up spending the next 6 burnt out from anticipation...

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Last test for assets in my retro style horror game - figuring out if I can get away with flat plane details on certain objects. No idea whether these posts have been interesting/helpful to people; it's just me thinking out loud, I guess. Any preference? #indiegame #gamedev #blender #retrohorror

2nd last visdev test for assets in my retro horror game, here exploring what texture stylisation I want to go with, using both different dither styles and palette limitations. It's difficult to decide, but really helpful to see them all for comparison. #indiegame #gamedev #horrorgame #retrogaming

I think about this daily... I've spent 2 years of my life making 3D models of mundane objects, both for work and by choice. On my deathbed, will I whisper "It ain't much, but I got pretty good at making fake furniture - furniture that's both well optimised and easy to texture..." before fading away?

Almost done with asset visdev decisions for my retro horror game. The 3 rules I've set for details in my low poly constraints are: 1. Is it part of the main silhouette? 2. Is it interactable? 3. Does it make for cool light? If none of these, bake into the normal map. #gamedev #indiegames #blender

Testing how I should handle texturing for my retro horror game, here trying to see how much to rely on lighting. 1. Baked normal map, 2. Normal map with some baked-in shading, 3. Baked lighting, no normals, lit material, or 4. Baked lighting, unlit material #retrogaming #indiegame #gamedev #blender

Continuing to figure out the ratio of texture vs. geometry to use with my horror game assets: Here's a quick lighting test. Not a huge difference between them, but weirdly, I think the one with all geometry baked (last) still looks the best. See previous post #indiegame #gamedev #retrogame #blender

I've been doing visdev for my horror game (one of my favourite phases) and trying to decide on the direction of my texturing. Here, I am weighing up difficulty and time against the end result. It's wild to me how much geometry can be faked with normals... #lowpoly #retrohorror #indiegame #gamedev

How many chair variants is too many for a single location?... I disappeared for the past month while I made assets for my retro horror game, and I ended up with 120 unique low poly objects (so far) for a single location, including these 14 chairs. Maybe overkill #lowpoly #blender #indiegame #gamedev

spooky prototype from a while back #pixelart #gamedev

With the state of the industry (and pretty much everything else), people need to support the games they want to see in the world well before their release. Game dev is hard and time-consuming (more so than most people consider), so try to find more tangible ways to be there for these creatives.

We finished our playable prototype yesterday! Here's a few snippets for #screenshotsaturday because a video is the only real way to show off the hand drawn animation. I know it's rough and still has a ways to go, but we're proud to have gotten this far. #indiegames #gamedev #animation #handdrawn

口裂け女子・Kuchisake-Jyoshi #characterdesign #nightmareoperator #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

I keep seeing people say how working in an industry you have a hobby in destroys your love for it, but I think the problem is more the over demand of our time that work has become in general and the disillusionment from bad employers. That's my experience, at least. #gamedev #indiegames #solodev

Gnosis (photography, 2019) On the other side of things from my last post, this was when I was experimenting with layering elements in camera. An effect achieved by shooting through a shattered mirror, with the border/background being dried salt water marking. #art #photography #horror #darkart

Necropolis (photo, 2015) Going back to old work, I find that it's usually the weirder, more obsure stuff that holds up over time. Though shot digitally, all effects were handpainted onto transparencies; a super fun technique that I wish I had done more of. #art #darkartist #photography #horror

Suggestions for obscure/weird music to work to? Listening while developing my horror game pushed me into strange corners of the internet, and I've started craving something I can't seem to find. Kinda dark ambient, melancholy, and nostalgia that Silent Hill captures, but not quite that. #gamedev

You know that thing a bunch of devs/artists say helps? You should probably do it. I spent a week blocking out a level to get into engine asap; it might be ugly now, but the amount of info on scale, feel, and movement I've gotten is indispensable. Test things as early as you can! #gamedev #indiegames

Rain of Brass Petals

Resident Evil might have given a name to the genre, but Capcom laid the groundwork for Survival Horror with Sweet Home (NES) in 1989. Made as a tie-in to the equally fun horror film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure), this somewhat forgotten oddity is a neat piece of gaming history. #retrogaming #horror

Almost finished putting together what I need for my simple dialogue system just need to clean up some of the event triggering stuff but my brains pooped out so I think I'm going to take a break for the day and slowly finish everything up over the week #1bit #pixelart #gamedev #indiehorror

I saw a post (now lost to the infinite scroll) asking why there isn’t a Jane Austen-esque crpg where you pour points into skills to climb the social ladder, and I wish I pointed them to this! That describes this perfectly, but with the added bonus of being able to drain Mr Darcy of all his blood.