Working on a new brush kit for emulating MS Paint in Krita #krita #pixelart #mspaint

You can cheat a pixel-perfect outline too. Cut out partially-transparent pixels with a Levels filter layer in Alpha mode. #krita #pixelart #tutorial

More about shadows: as long as there's a white fill layer underneath the shadow, the Gradient Map filter can dither to transparent. #krita #pixelart #tutorial

Krita can be tricked into rendering drop shadows as dithered pixels :O #krita #pixelart #tutorial #kirby

Currently replicating some classic MSPaint brushes in Krita... #krita #brushes #pixelart #mspaint

Almost a year later, I finally fixed the pesky screen-positioning bug that would cause the game to appear off-center when played on the browser. Yuck!​ sobs.moe/bwb / #cats #godot #gamedev #pixelart

I made this ultra-scuffed .gif editing script to help me make my videos for Being with Beau. When I record my screen as a gif, I explode it, pick just the frames I want, and then reassemble it. gifsicle beats magick -coalesce. sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #ruby #linux

Staying up with Beau too late may make you lose track of time... concept art later implemented in the final release. sobs.moe/bwb / #godot #gamedev #pixelart

In the final release for Being with Beau, I gave his food can a brand-new label, which came out great! FEAST 4 BEAST is cute and tasty. sobs.moe/bwb / #cats #godot #gamedev #pixelart

Everyone wanted the clock on the back wall to work. Now it does! sobs.moe/bwb / #godot #gamedev #pixelart

My favorite change for Being with Beau's final release is how I redrew the room! There's a bathroom door, a cute calendar, and a shoe rack. I'm really happy with how it turned out. sobs.moe/bwb / #godot #gamedev #pixelart

I fixed a little bug exclusive the web version (shown here without sound) where the can-snapping audio clip would play twice. Godot's "end offset" for the audio samples didn't seem to work. sobs.moe/bwb / #godot #animation #pixelart #gamedev

There's not much more to say other than "Being with Beau is out for real! Go play it!" It's been six months since I started. Go meet Beau at sobs.moe/bwb! It's free, over in five minutes, and will definitely make you smile. #gamedev #cats #pixelart #godot

Beau's inhaler was causing a bug that made his paws flash on the text box after he got his medicine... must have been a bad shipment, eh? Now it's all fixed. sobs.moe/bwb / #cats #pixelart #gamedev #godot

Being with Beau feedback highlight: my VN wasn't up to standards. In the full release, text advances when you hit or hold the space bar, and when you click anywhere---not just on the text box. sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #godot #visualnovel

Godot is grabbing Beau's paws! Being with Beau first draft highlight: Beau's nondeterministic paws. Sometimes he's on the chatbox. Sometimes he's behind it. Sometimes his paws flicker like a strobe light. Why? sobs.moe/bwb / #cats #gamedev #godot #pixelart

Being with Beau feedback highlight: the Windows desktop icon works. Wow! This actually wasn't easy to do in my Linux flatpak environment, but I got it working with no post-export steps. sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #godot #linux #windows

Being with Beau feedback highlight: EVERYONE wants the clock to be accurate. The clock WILL tick... and maybe drive you crazy. sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #godot #pixelart

How horny is Bluesky? I'm building sobs.moe/btag to sate my curiosity. sobs.moe/btag / #buildinpublic #bluesky #rails

Really happy to announce that the preview release of my little VN about a cat, "Being with Beau" is out now on Itch, for Windows and Linux! Go try it out at sobs.moe/bwb! It's free and will make you smile. #gamedev #godot #pixelart #visualnovel #cats

Three dozen clone layers are tougher to manage than I thought, argh! sobs.moe/bwb / #godot #krita #cats #pixelart

I can't imagine doing dialogue trees for a game that's longer than five minutes, sheesh! #godot #gamedev

Godot's animation editor doesn't show my "RESET" frame in the Animation track since it's microscopic in length. Now I can't grab it. Argh! sobs.moe/bwb / #godot #gamedev

Look at him appear! And zoom! I'm gonna make him fat... sobs.moe/bwb / #animation #gamedev #cats #godot #pixelart

Very proud of my trim-and-process-social-videos script. #ruby #linux #gamedev

Reflex Royale, my offline multiplayer game for quick reaction-time battles, is out now on Android AND iOS! Hooray! Check out the game on sobs.moe/rr and the how-to video on sobs.moe/rrh! #gamedev #ios

More on the power of clone layers. I use Krita's Batch Exporter plugin to export a bunch of almost-identical sprites easily. There's a bug with invisible clone layers... but it's better than re-exporting manually. sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #krita #pixelart #animation

I'm a lazy typist, so I made my own abbreviations for Godot Dialogue Manager sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #godot

I get a lot of mileage out of clone layers in Krita while doing similar sprites for gamedev: with transform and transparency masks I can update lots of sprites easily sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #krita #pixelart #animation

The Animation Editor (in Godot 4.4) was showing dots instead of previews for my AnimatedSprite frames. Turns out it's because I added another frame animation into the sprite! Simple answer but really hard to discover, as it's not documented. sobs.moe/bwb / #godot #animation #godotengine

FEED HIM sobs.moe/bwb / #cats #animation #gamedev #pixelart

By the way, Reflex Royale is free! Won't you look at the trailer...? sobs.moe/rrh / #gamedev #godot #animation

Reflex Royale---my other game, for Android (with iOS on the way!)---has got a cool new landing page on itch! sobs.moe/rr / #gamedev #godot #android

These cute custom cursors for Being with Beau came out great! sobs.moe/bwb / #animation #godot #gamedev #pixelart #krita

Pixeling in Krita micro-tutorial: Create a dithered pixel shadow with a clone layer (moved), a pixel-pattern fill layer with inherit alpha, and a gradient-map filter layer. sobs.moe/flipdx / #krita #pixelart #tutorial

Would you eat this? sobs.moe/bwb / #cats #animation #pixelart #gamedev #godot

Sorting over 45 minutes of Beau noises into "yes," "no," "hungry," and "dinner is late" sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #cats

Rejected ending lettering for Being with Beau's GOOD ENDING. Too many extra colors, and just not the vibe I wanted... looks good though, doesn't it? sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #typography #pixelart

Are these claw marks? Beau's voice has a distinctive shape and a high pitch. sobs.moe/bwb / #gamedev #cats

He's got asthma. :( sobs.moe/bwb / #pixelart #gamedev #animation #cats

What's he doing...? sobs.moe/bwb / #pixelart #gamedev #animation #cats

Squish! I made this custom fake-3D button in Godot that shifts the position of the icon when pressed. It's kind of hard to see here, but the effect does immerse you more. sobs.moe/bwb / #pixelart #gamedev #godot #animation

Here comes my audio configuration menu for Being with Beau...! Godot tends to evoke fury about once every two hours, but when the animation system works, it's really satisfying. sobs.moe/bwb / #pixelart #gamedev #godot #animation

Here's how you get to hang out with our good boy. sobs.moe/bwb / #pixelart #godot #gamedev #cats

I've been working on a little game about a friend's cat, Beau. It's a five-minute cute-cat-simulation hand-made visual novel. Follow him on sobs.moe/bwb! #pixelart #godot #gamedev #cats

Godot tries my patience in new ways every day... these blue animation keyframes are 0.0333 seconds beyond the animation's full length of 4 seconds---so the animation just doesn't play at all. I had to move them a single pixel to the left. Argh! #godot #gamedev

Flipnot DX, my brushkit for Krita, now has a free demo! It's got five cool brushes and one handy pattern. Go download it at sobs.moe/flipdx. #krita #pixelart #brushes #flipnote

With some simple filtering, Krita can make dynamic shading, coloring, and 3D effects for pixel-style artwork and low-res graphics. #krita #pixelart #tutorial

A ghost painted this on my wall with the last of my raspberry jam. Damn! #krita #pixelart #art

Arrrgh... spent an hour or so hunting for missing print statements, only to find out it was Godot! The engine sometimes can't connect to itself, and the only solution is to reboot your computer. How annoying! #godot #gamedev