Just making weird stuff

In July, I made an ambitious parallax based ASCII interactive artwork as a commission for x.com/danywander. It is online since a few weeks now on of.domains. I made a standalone version with a background music on adelfaure.net/artware/asci.... Source code is available on gitlab.com/adelfaure/op...

#portfolioday 1/2 Hey! I'm Nico a french pixel artist, I do some cool spooky stuff mainly for cyber security folks

I started a robot invasion on my computer adelfaure.net/artware/robo...

💖🌸 #artvsartist2024 #pixelart #artwork #illustration #art #artist #artvsartist #digitalart

Peace 🤍 #pixelart #digitalart #artist #illustration #art #artwork #pixel #bitart #aseprite

🖤💙🖤💙 #pixelart #ドット絵 #픽셀아트 #digitalart #drawing #illustration #artist

🖤💜🩵🤍🩷 #pixelart #digitalart #ドット絵 #illustration #aseprite

Peaceful days #pixelart #pixel #digitalart #illustration #art #artwork #artist #aseprite #bitart

Realized I haven't posted much of this project on this site. It's a very-much-work-in-progress infinite urban walking sim.

So, I get a lot of questions about generating procedural environments, but I was never great with the whole "show your work" thing in school, so let's try something: if you got questions, ask them here and I'll try to answer them* because learning is fun. *Answers not guaranteed to be interesting.

my game If Letters Had Pants, Would They Wear Them Like This? What About Numbers? What If They Had Small Shovels And They Dug Stuff Up To Put In A Museum? is out now on itch io for Windows, MacOS and Linux! 🩳 punkcake.itch.io/if-letters-h... Find words! Give ur letters pants! Make stronger words!

Broken screen

Mistigram: this iconic moment from #StudioGhibli's 1992 #PorcoRosso was illustrated by Cthulu (easy linework) and LDA (incredible sunset engineer) for last month's #anime-themed MIST0825 artpack collection. “I'd rather be a pig than a fascist.”

Making good progress on Remy's Flippin' Dungeon, now with an event system that will help you shape your runs! Always choose wisely though! #pico8 #indiedev #gamedev

implemented midi

Hey #PitchYaGame! LavaLoop is a music-driven 2D shooter inspired by "Cuphead" and "Crypt of a necrodancer" 🎹 Headphones on! 👾 Defeat the planet-killing machines 🔥 Enjoy a fast-paced arcade game 🏴‍☠️ Follow 3 punk musicians in a crazy dystopian world Playtest on Steam: bit.ly/4c1v5MD #solodev

This week I'm at Lurs festival of graphism and typography. I was kindly invited by post.lurk.org/@julienbidoret to gave a talk. typo.social/@gdc helped me greatly to prepare the historical side of the talk, linking computer textmode with letterpress decorative practices (1/3) #textmode #typography

If you're in the UK, please sign this petition to fight the censorship of the internet and the associated suspicious amount of data collection for IDs. This whole thing has been very poorly thought out. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Trying a magician build now that I'm starting to have a hefty amount of cards! (60!) 🃏✨🐇 #pico8 #pixelart #indiedev

I've got a newsletter coming out on Monday (6pm, your local time) talking about the freelance work I've been doing for Paper Animal Adventure, StoneStory, No Players Online and my various game jams. If you'd like to read what I'm up to, you can subscribe here: polyducks.co.uk/subscribe/

Had to be part of the #NokiaArtJam organised by @polyducks.co.uk . Been a while since i‘ve done some proper 1-bit ⬛◻️

Play the game! 👇 rowanfuture.itch.io/gbjam12

Cover and (unused) game over screen from Professor Lucifer, last year entry for GBJam12 Working with the team led by @tetraminose.bsky.social was a fantastic experience!

👾PREDATOR 👽

Mistigram: here we are, #InternationalCatDay and ... I'm late for lunch! Fortunately, @ascii.mozz.us has packed along a little something extra to share. This #ASCIIart illustration was included in the new cat-themed MIST0725 artpack collection.

If you're waiting for #STALKER2 don't forget you can still play the original game in the series, S.T.A.C.K.E.R. : Nuclear Scavenger, which fell through a time-space anomaly into 1989: thapen.itch.io/stacker

I just released version 0.7 of A Painted Ocean, a square-rigged sailing simulator. Sail the oceans of the world, in a ship from 1804, with weather from 1980. #gamedev #solodev thapen.itch.io/painted-ocean

Prototyping a game where you grow a tree

I just finished the first pass at a procedural landscape generator for a flying game, Kerosene Thunder. The goal is realistic 1960s landscapes ~1000km across, at 500m resolution. This is a thread about how it works now. #procgen #textmode

Some things I made-

the chungus now encroacheth. added a coin magnet relic as well because who doesn't like one of those.

The older cards in the series I made over a year ago and I now I want to revisit them and maybe add a second color 🤔 But I also want to make a full major arcana with different games so we'll see

i'm back on my ascii bs ^-^ i made a new addition to my homepage ellesho.me/page – a handy map! i was inspired design-wise by old text-based mud games. now u have another nav option to find your way around the pages easier and here's a new blog post about it: ellesho.me/page/website...

Hello Bluesky ! I'm xena and I'm creating The Tower Of Tears. It's a survival-horror mixed in with some light dungeon crawling. Here I defeat a longboi 💧

The End of Gameplay is out RIGHT NOW! My masterpiece. A pixel art adventure through my mind, broken by kill gameplay 🔪 love, droqen store.steampowered.com/app/3120040/...

Current WIP: New footer for my portfolio website (coming soon). Inspired by @ertdfgcvb.xyz's Doom Flame. #webdev #ascii #design

A train and a witch #ASCIIart #Animation

Stealing a cow #ASCIIart #animation

targeting and perception

foliage

📢 Incredibly excited to announce I signed with a publisher! My retro tycoon game 'Car Park Capital' will be published by MicroProse! The one behind classics like Transport Tycoon and Civilization. Thanks everyone for the support so far! 🙏 s.team/a/3031880

You should play SWORD OF KUMDOR, the outré JRPG for the PC-98 that teaches you how to touch-type lynn.github.io/kumdor/

Pyramidas, my new Amiga ASCII/ANSI thing! Watch it in full in the Impure#90 art pack: 16colo.rs/pack/impure90

My statement with regard to itch's new "Adult Content" standard as seen at: itch.io/docs/creators/faq#is-adult-content-allowed, as an artist with work hosted on that site. Go to yellat.money (pictured) for resources on fighting payment processor censorship!

in fact i am making two games!

organ keyboard with sound from pressed keys

Some screenshots from Send 1 on the Sharp MZ-700. A simple but fun space shooter where you need to kill the alien ships that are ejected from the big mothership. This was actually the first game I ever played on my own Sharp (an MZ-80A, so I didn't get the colours).