did some texture and shader work

Which is better? Ortho vs perspective

quick engine test

Added some drink fridges. Gotta draw all the angles too!

What an embarrassing day to be an American

kitchen in winter ❄️ #pixelart #lowpoly

This was a lot harder to draft out than expected

A couple of checkouts

More sketchin'

my little shopper

A prop concept for a game idea i'm toying with

Want auto-complete in your tile map editor? I prototyped an editor that uses wave function collapse algorithm which dynamically learns how to use your tiles as you use them. No auto-tiling rules necessary. Your map are the rules

Inktober Day 22 - Button Forever ago @danfessler.com showed a really snappy technique where he made an isometric drawing, dissected it, then projected it onto his model for a really easy texturing process. Finally gave it a proper go with a DS! #blender #b3d #3d #art #nintendo #animalcrossing

Completely by chance found this app which is using my pixel art in their app icon

Since when did my phone become the ultimate handheld gaming device? I can play all mobile-native, console-emulated, and pc-steam games all from my iPhone with telescopic controller

More warhammer storage discoveries

Found my old warhammer manual from when I was a kid. This thing still relevant?

My new desk toy arrived!

nothing makes you feel more like a hacker than running your test suite and seeing the console go WEEEEE

Big update, I’m joining Roblox as a senior engineer! can’t say I’m just a dev hobbyist anymore.

anyone know any art-focused discord servers that focus primarily on VC instead of text?

Ok wow K-pop demon hunters is brilliant

I’m not religious anymore, but I do sometimes miss the idea of prayer to get answers to major life decisions. It’s a comforting thought to pass the burden to a feeling you believe is meaningful.

Stuff a drawed!

Hi #portfolioday! I'm Rafael, a pixel artist/animator trying to work on some personal projects on my spare time.

Why does this look like @howieeday.bsky.social rendered this

The result

Pro-tip. If you tape a little cardboard wing to the side of a regular ground flower in just the right way, they fly like a helicopter

It’s BBQ season boys

I would watch the crap out of a Warcraft animated series. Why is this not a thing?

I've also been writing up technical breakdowns of my development projects including the current state of my HTML5 Canvas Game Engine danfessler.com/dev/ctx-game...

Wrote up a process breakdown of Survive a Night With a Vampire which was my first real use of my 2.5D process in a live game. danfessler.com/art/survive-...

Getting my old blog posts back online on my new site. Can't believe this was the last thing I published.

Just posted a bunch of my Chasm work on my new portfolio website danfessler.com/art/chasm/

an HD Index Painted fireball effect

Hey there, friends! I'm looking for some nice freelance work. Let me know if you need some art done for your projects or know someone who does. I work with standard market rates. Let's collab!

Been finally redesigning my portfolio website and I like how it's coming together so far

Seems like it basically works, at least for boxy maps. There are some moments I don't love in the geometric debug version that disappear quickly with a more organic skin on it. Slopes will be very challenging in this setup; there's a reason games like FFTA don't have (m)any

Just as flat design was a complete repudiation of the depth cues skeuomorphism provided, liquid glass is a repudiation of others, like opacity. Both were overcorrections which forgets these properties are tools to use in moderation.

Who wore it better: my dog or this ikebana arrangement?

I avoid using the term "solo developer" because I like to celebrate collaboration and the magic of people coming together. And here is the Starter Pack for this "solo developer and his 9 friends" if you like that idea too. bsky.app/starter-pack...

I saw one of the Never's End articles describe it as pixel art characters on 3D backgrounds, but everything is actually fully 3D modeled and pixel perfect. It has taken years and years to make it this clean. #neversend #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

YO! A new CannonBreed vid just dropped! I can't get enough of this. show @cannonbreed.bsky.social some love and subscribe www.youtube.com/watch?v=01pU...

NEXXT 3.6 - the studio I draw & layout nearly all my NES-compatible assets in, and which i maintain, is out. I'm going to get in the habit of reposting about major releases once or twice, since it's just a blip on the radar. Hopefully you won't find that too annoying frankengraphics.itch.io/nexxt

i love how working on game engines will get you excited about things no one else will care about. Like this sortable scene hierarchy I just got working

Whenever I get on my horse in TotK, my daughter gets on hers

getting those gizmos working... sorta

been playing with gizmo designs for my game engine and kinda liking this one. center for 2d translation, ring for rotation, and arrows for 1d translation

#KoholintRedrawn is live! Go check it out at retroredrawn.com/koholint/ind... It's got entries by some pretty epic artists 😳 Here are mine

it may look the same, but now I've got full serialization/deserialization working in my HTML5 unity-like thing so now the editor can actually do useful things