Got a new pixel art thing in early development at the moment, don't expect to see that released for quite a while though. 👀

Life is crazy busy at the moment but I'm finding time to do things that are good for my sanity and that's something. 💜

I was nearly ready to show this off in a fully complete state, but with the new Canada Post strike I won't be able to get the final component I need for a while... 😒

Got some things I want to draw, but try as I might, my brain is simply not in a pixel art state at the moment. 🫠😔

Enough people said they wanted to see the final slide deck, so I took the time to put it on my non-teacher github so I could share it. I didn't end up getting in trouble. I ended up being encouraged by a colleague to share it with my dept chair, and he liked it authorblues.github.io/lecture-slid...

New blog post up, discussing my recent first go at 2D game dev with Unity: www.cyberspacecafe.xyz/trying-out-u... Had a great time working with a group of people on a horror roguelite, and wanted to share with y'all! 👍🏻💜 #blog #gamedev #unity #pixelart

A teaser of my current ongoing major project… 👀 #arcade #retrogaming #snk

Tfw you can’t watch any of your usual Twitch streamers because of Silksong spoilers 😔💀 I’ll get around to playing it in like, October or November lmao

After Bitmap Books unveiled this product with a list of games that frankly don't represent the impact of indie gaming on culture and the industry, I'm tempted to write my own blog post(s) on the subject. So much history was missed here. It's a rare L from them. #blog #indiegames #gaming

WE'RE STARTING EARLY, SOON ON www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

My first ever GDQ run starts in just over an hour 👀

Super excited to run the Castlevania: Circle of the Moon randomizer on Saturday!!! 🙌🏻💜

The frustration of sitting down to do something fun that you haven’t done for a while, but your brain decides to not cooperate and you get nowhere with it… 💀🫠

If you see this, quote with 10 games to get to know you by: 💜 La-Mulana 💜 Metal Gear Solid 💜 Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia 💜 Off 💜 Team Fortress 2 💜 Super Metroid 💜 Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 💜 Risk of Rain 2 💜 Art of Fighting 3 💜 Touhou 11: Subterranean Animism

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'ight, new blog post that covers all the major points, in brief: www.cyberspacecafe.xyz/goodbye-mala... Anyway enough dreary stuff - back to games, technology, history, and art 💜

I have a feeling that the people behind Wplace didn't do much performance testing with this system before deployment...

Went to Baltimore on wplace out of curiosity

And here commences the rebrand. Years overdue... felt weird about ditching Malaert64 for a long time but I think I'm finally ready.

My new blog post on Super Famicom Art of Fighting 2 is up! Read it here: www.cyberspacecafe.xyz/snes-art-of-... I forgot how much I enjoy doing research and writing like this. You can expect more content like this in the future! 💜 #blog #snk #snes #artoffighting #retrogaming

Me when I create a monthly reminder to "perform routine website maintenance" in my computer's calendar, after spending a substantial chunk of time updating literally everything under the hood today 💀 Blog post might be out tomorrow. We'll see what happens. 👀 #webdev #blog

Damn, I think I might be addicted to Wplace ngl (this is really relaxing and fun 💜) #pixelart

Tfw the niche fighting game you adore suddenly has a $100k tournament lined up for it snkesports.com If I wasn’t casual as hell (and had any desire to travel south) I’d jump on this in a heartbeat. 😭 #artoffighting #snk

The agony of having multiple things going on your life, and the thing you NEED to focus on is by far the driest, least interesting, most sleep-inducingly boring thing of the whole lot. 💀

Currently about 75% through writing a blog piece on the Super Famicom version of Art of Fighting 2. My first post investigating a single video game, it's been a bit since I've written anything like this. I'm having fun with it! Stay tuned~ 🐯🐲🔥 #blog #retrogaming #snk #aof

Tfw you watch an adaptation of something, you really enjoy it, but then in your search for more content you find out the source material was never translated to your native language and is currently out-of-print 😭

That feeling when you go "but what if..." and then spend the next three hours working on ideating/designing/prototyping something you had not even the slightest notion of working on before 😅

Having finally watched Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995, Leslie Nielsen & Mel Brooks), I can confirm that this is easily one of the most enjoyable Dracula adaptations ever made. No I will not elaborate. It's just great fun. #movies #dracula

Can Xbox just keel over and die, please? I’d really appreciate it. 😒🖕🏻 Truly unfortunate that they’re doing well fiscally. They don’t deserve it, with how they’re handling their employees and studios/projects. #xbox

To all of my fellow Canadians: happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦🎉 I love Canada, and I hope that we can all continue to work together to make this beautiful nation even better for everyone. ❤️ #canadaday #happycanadaday #canada

"You say you only used AI for placeholder text, but in that text was a response from the AI saying 'here's a revised version'. Here's what I don't understand - why revise placeholder text? You see my problem? It just doesn't make sense to me. Why revise something nobody was meant to see, unless..."

I’ve had the Ys IV soundtrack on repeat while working lately - every track is stellar, regardless of the version you’re listening to (PC Engine, Super Famicom, Perfect Collection, FM Sound Collection). 👌🏻💜 I definitely need to play/replay the Ys games when I have some time. #retrogaming #ys #falcom

We are *so* back, y'all 🙏🏻🙌🏻💜

After Smash Ultimate, the “everyone is here” game, the next Smash Bros should pull a Street Fighter III and have a cast that is at least 95% composed of characters who have never appeared in Smash before. Start over, do something completely new. #smashbros #smash #ssbu

Finally caved and made the font of all my blog posts (just the body content) into regular monospace. Things should be a lot more readable now, and I shouldn’t run into any more issues with bold / italics / accented letters. Takes away from the aesthetic a bit, but it’s for the best. #blog #webdev

Wrote about this in my most recent blog post, but still felt the need to share separately here: I've gotten my hands on the special edition box set release of Art of Fighting 3. 🤩 I LOVE this game. It's instantly become one of my most prized items in my retro collection. 🔥🐯 #retrogaming #snk #fgc

New blog post up, detailing my time at Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo this year! Enjoy~ 💜 www.cyberspacecafe.xyz/vancouver-re... #vrge #gaming #retrogaming #convention #blog

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Had a lovely day today at Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo, getting my hands on rad stuff, competing in events, and meeting cool people! 💜 Dead tired rn but I intend to curate pics (and write a blog post, perhaps) tomorrow. #vrge #retrogaming

For someone having a rough go of it right now, this is frankly AMAZING to see. Seems like ArtPlay really knows what they're doing now - looking forward to this. 💜

Haven’t posted in a bit - my apologies, I’ve been dying a bit from stress due to IRL obligations. New blog posts and art are on hiatus until late June at the earliest.

Working on a new blog post - or a series of posts, rather - examining SNK fighting games on handheld systems. Not something I had any intention of writing about until I became obsessed with the topic a couple of days ago. Sometimes that’s just how it is with me. 😅 #SNK #blog #retrogaming

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Lupin the 3rd pixel art! Always been a fan of that scene of Fujiko on a motorcycle in the Pilot Film, so I decided to do my own take on it. #lupinthe3rd #lupinsansei #ルパン三世 #pixelart #anime #fanart #digitalart #retro

man i love bluesky but the compression it does to art SUCKS so bad 😭

Postal strike starting right when I need to get a region mod for my Sega Saturn, woohoo 💀

So I bought a Sega Saturn today. More pics tomorrow when I've got an opportunity to set up some nice shots. #retrogaming #sega #snk

Make sure your RPG battle transitions, scene composition, and attack animations are at least as cool as this Taiwanese DOS RPG from 1995

Somewhat spontaneously, I’ve gotten back into #cycling regularly for the first time since pre-COVID. My knees are sore from all the hills in my area, but I’m definitely enjoying the experience regardless. 😅 💜