Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

Hate to admit it but they got me with the MKWii credits music. lol

Reanimal is available now! On PC, Playstation 5, Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox S/X. From everyone at Tarsier Studios, we hope you like Reanimal as much as we are proud of making it. #horrorgame #coop #friday13 #reanimal youtu.be/7RfJq1YNq_c

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

Old comm! #art

James worm

I don't know what compelled me

blog post about how using ai shit makes you a scab

She!

I'm on Newgrounds now... Gradually uploading my art archive, so more stuff coming soon toiletdragon.newgrounds.com

If you have a local used CD store, please pay a visit. Dig around and see if anything grabs your attention. Take a risk and buy something even if you don’t know what it is. I’ve discovered SO many of my favourite albums and bands this way. There’s so much wildly interesting stuff waiting for you

No matter how hard I try I cannot remember which of the Ninja Turtles is which. I think I already used up that part of my brain memorising the Battletoads' names

Pink & mean

Have a good weekend

cookin up some collab work with @iibo.games !! #TF2 #TeamFortress2

Evil Rainbow Bug

irreversibly broken games industry theory

Some of my early visual development of the lighthouse from Keeper.

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

I'm on Newgrounds now... Gradually uploading my art archive, so more stuff coming soon toiletdragon.newgrounds.com

I'm Splattie and I write music- commission me and let's work together! I have a wide range and I love exploring new ideas. I do a lot of videogame music and background scores. Originals and covers! DM me here or Discord/gmail at splattiecake if interested! My discog: splattie.bandcamp.com

while i don't have an arts background myself, I find it notable that some of the more distinct art styles in games were developed by people whose entire backgrounds were in art. they learned art as a medium first and *then* applied it to games, while a lot of people these days are skipping steps.

when you learn to do game art this way all you're learning is "Game Art™️", and likely not anything beyond that.

lots of new people entering the industry nowadays are either learning exclusively from tutorials online or university courses, and they are likely often being taught One Right Way to do everything

folks are always blaming UE5 for how a lot of AAA games look nowadays but i think that "unreal engine look" is merely a symptom of a larger issue in games

it's crazy that there's isopod species spanning from the deep ocean to arid deserts while still looking basically the same. this is a message against fast fashion trend chasing. find a look that is truly timeless and for all locations, like the isopod body plan

They called it Salty Salty Speedway because I get salty every time I have to race on it

Harmyarders: Donkey Kick (September 2022)

This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way. Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.

Here's a bunch of concept art I did for Antonblast's Slowroast Sewer level. Fanamel and I did a lot of sketches and experiments to figure out the look and atmosphere we wanted, and how to execute that using 2D tiles. This thread has roughly a third of all the concepts we made for this level. 🧵1/4

Xen

"Busy day, Alan?"

Hill

important for this and other reasons to tell the artists/coders/musicians/writers/people you think are great that you think they're great imo

I cannot stress this enough: this is not possible in a literal technological sense: you cannot train an AI and expect even comprehensible results with under ~1 million pieces of data, nobody can supply all that with the variance needed. You can only achieve it through wanton scraping

I've hidden some entities for clarity, but as you can see the entirety of that fucking beautiful near 360 flip the train does, with all the barrels and crates flying everywhere, was manually figured out by a level designer at Gearbox. Wonderful!

More Antonblast level maps that I couldn't fit on my website

we need to take the term echo chamber away from people, theyre not responsible enough to handle it. i dont have to personally evaluate the opinion of every dipshit on every subject. im turning 36 and i dont have to invite everyone to my birthday

I just wanna make video games !!!!!

I see devs get prickly about playtesting because they're afraid of being "focus grouped" or having the edges sanded off. The point of playtesting is to see if what you intended was what the player actually experienced, and there's no other way to find this out than putting it in front of someone.

Commission, I say #commisson for @toiletdragon.bsky.social

Start to finish of the Ring-a-Ding boss arena for Antonblast: rough concept sketch -> clean line drawing -> traced pixel art -> detailed & coloured pixel art

By the way, if you have an art post and it doesn't have the reach you’d like it to, you can just repost it and a new wave of people will see it. You're allowed to do that. I somehow didn’t figure this out until recently

fun Weird West dev anecdote: there was a decal on a gun shop that said "riffles" instead of "rifles", i pointed it out in the slack and this was the fix that came through and shipped

Harmyarders doodles from mid-2022

i'm forever being shown ads for the marvel thing "thunderbolts". don't really know what it is. but i can't watch that shit! it's too desaturated. citizen kane is more saturated. come back with colours idiot