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I’m streaming tomorrow with pals! @robdubbin.bsky.social @bijan.bsky.social @garrett.bsky.social @teddydief.com Join the discord now to save the date: starfriends.online/stream

Friends, for the first time ever, my Game of the Year for this year is shaping up to be the same one as last year. Tell me what I missed that I should get in before the year is over.

This is more or less a free comic lettering 101 course

Congrats friends!

The Briefs games are out!

Hello Friends! Today is my birthday. Please tell me something that made your day a little better, send me a poem, recommend a piece of excellent media, or share a science fact. I hope you’re doing great.

Frank made a new game! I haven’t played this yet, but when he explained what it was to me at GDC last year it sounded extremely wild. Gonna check out this demo this weekend!

FREE STUFF: Found a huge box of art prints of my illustrations from back in the day in the basement. If you’re in SF and can pick up, I’d love to give you some for free. DM me or reply for more info. These are 8.5 x 11 on heavy card stock. Other freebies in the next post!

FREE STUFF: Found a huge box of art prints of my illustrations from back in the day in the basement. If you’re in SF and can pick up, I’d love to give you some for free. DM me or reply for more info. These are 8.5 x 11 on heavy card stock. Other freebies in the next post!

I recommend this whole bundle, but like, Red Strings Club for 2.99? That’s something you should go play if you haven’t yet.

Oh hey! HoloVista is Game of the Day today on the App Store. If you haven’t checked it out yet, today is a great day for it.

I keep thinking about "3D impressionism" as a much needed term for the way we think about art direction in games To me measuring how "better" or "worse" the graphics are only in terms of their relation to reality is like claiming the photo of a street in Arles is objectively superior to Van Gogh

Post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana or Pearl Jam

Post one of the most haunting shots in movie history from a film made before the year 2000

2021, 8 colors, pixelart

UFO50 lands on the switch LATER TODAY, maybe even by the time you read this. this game has now joyously commanded great swathes of my attention for the better part of a year — mainly on a steamdeck bc it’s such an ideal portable experience. if you have a switch but not UFO50, it’s a huge day for you

Disco Elysium (2019)

Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from July 26, 1908. One of the most well known installments of the comic strip.

SDCC attending pals, go find @nicktierce.com!

No homecoming would be complete without a visit to Worcester’s best fountain.

Twenty more old Japanese matchbox labels, scanned for your pleasure. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/l...

Many candidates! Getting my body airbrushed whilst nude with Amanda Lepore? Playing a hooker in a Maroon 5 music video? Nah, the most *random* was probably eating Pinkberry with Suge Knight and Jeffree Star, circa 2007.

So much fun to talk about point and click horror! Always amazing to hang with the Eggplant crew.

Oh hey it's #portfolioday, and I do UI/UX, illustration, pixel art, animation, branding, 3D & texture work. Hit me up if you need any of the things that I do for your projects!

We had such a great chat with @ectafoole.bsky.social, who was so lovely. She answered our burning questions about all the Qud sidequests, except for that one about [redacted].

Last five GOTYs: 2020 - Animal Crossing New Horizons 2021 - Inscryption 2022 - Immortality 2023 - MyHouse.wad 2024 - Caves of Qud

I grew up on these streets

Here's the Death card from my pixel tarot deck, which I've been working on for a while. If you're interested in seeing more of this deck, do let me know! #pixelart #aseprite #tarot #tarotsky #pastelpixeltarot

Do yourself a favor and read this excellent piece about the origin of the Van Gogh immersive trend by my pal Marie!

#pixelart Heya! Revised the old starterpack! Go check out everyone on the list, and for those of you already on the list reading this, share it around so we can support and grow together!🤗 Oh also if you are a fellow pixel artist and want to be on list list, please contact me! go.bsky.app/UhRLt2P

Web design trends in 1996 – LEGO – MTV Online – Pepsi – WinZip #WebDesignHistory

I met so many cool & nice people at Amaze, and yet there were more awesome folks I didn’t manage to cross paths with. Just an unbelievable amount of excellent humans in one place. I’ll be back next year, but I’m still in Berlin for a bit if I missed you and you wanna hang! 🦩✨

Thanks to @whydoisay.bsky.social, I have realized I’ve been podcasting for nearly 20 years. Thanks for having me on your show! If you have a podcast and you’d like to have me on your show, hmu!

Quote with your red art ❣️

Gonna release this tiny but chunky font. In basic latin the characters are 5x5 but the whole font is 7 pixels tall to account for some european accents. Could be useful for some teeny tiny games (you can already download it on fontstruct here fontstruct.com/fontstructio... )

Rate some games on itch today!

Want some money to make a tiny game? Apply to briefs!

Oh hey Nadya is here!

This review is exactly what you'd hope it would be- and it is not getting shared as widely as it should be for the commitment to that effort.

I feel so privileged every time I get to hang out with the eggplant crew and talk about video games! This part of Caves of Qud does some of the cleverest procedural narrative stuff in all of videogames & we crack it wide open. Spoilers abound!

I frequently draw on my time in acting school, and acting exercises in particular when I’m working in game design, so this piqued my interest.

🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ I hope I can stress 🕯️ less about my own 🕯️ current problems 🕯️ 🔥 🔥 🕯️ oh god 🔥🎇🔥 🔥 🕯️🔥 oh no 🔥 🔥 💥

I wonder what other folks in the #pixelart community think about Kasey’s pearl Vermeer works! I’ve heard some discussions around physical pixel artworks with stuff like perler beads, but this is far more interesting.

Truly beautiful patterns

At long last, no more widows and orphans.

Post GDC developer chat in Snail Simulator! Including @willovergard.bsky.social @occultgamedev.bsky.social @developerdamien.bsky.social & @tenaciouschi.bsky.social. Come say hi! www.twitch.tv/viking_blonde

I didn't even know they *made* magnetic backings for pinbacks, but of course they do. Gotta get some of these for my own fridge! So stoked to have met @jordandevries.com at GDC.

The game I made is available NOW! It's a party game based on brainwormed internet discourse, which means it's perfect for bluesky users who are disgusted with themselves for missing the terrible debates they had on twitter. Get it before I sell out!