#artvsartist for 2025: 💜 Started with a big #pixelart commission project followed by 6 months of #gamedev as I learned #gamemaker programming and rebuilt 60% of demo systems for #Moonshell_Island. A challenging but satisfying year of growth for me. 💪🦀

Folks who don’t make things don’t realize that art is ALL process The discovery and direction provided at the earliest concept stages is invaluable Even programmer napkin drawings shape the vision If you launder these crucial early steps through plagiarism machines, what are you even polishing?

worm for you

KOSA is back along with 17 other dangerous censorship and surveillance laws that congress is trying to ram through. CALL UR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY AND TELL THEM —no KOSA —do not repeal Section 230 —no online digital ID laws —no age verification laws CALL NOW!!!! We are about to lose the internet

Guess it’s time to call the senators again, but ughhh can these jerks just…stop? 💀 www.theverge.com/policy/82365...

Backed by the Heritage Foundation and Big Tech, KOSA will force everyone to upload their ID to access the internet. In an age when Palantir has direct ties to ICE, where technofascists are in power and want to eliminate and censor everything, we CANNOT allow KOSA to pass. It NEEDS mass pushback.

Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act. TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets! Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963

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Derusting after a bit of a hiatus with sprites for Akinai's Shop! Run by the lovely kitsune lady you can see here for scale, this will be one of the main places where to stock up on resources and chat with other characters. #pixelart #gamedev

those prices tho...

KIRBY AIR RIDE!!! AND DONKEY KONG!!!!!

I hope you like weird little guys. because the game I'm making features many weird little guys

“AI made art accessible” is like saying burglary made me having your tv accessible

NEW RHYTHM HEAVEN!!! #RhythmHeavenGroove

the moth #pixelart #animation

sorry I haven't posted anything in a long time. my mental and physical health have been "not great" for the past few months. but I will get better!!! I can hear the pixels calling my name!!!!!

reminder

just for the record: FUCK gen AI

hats on a meeku

Some people think game dev an indulgent hobby, but I've never worked so hard, risked so much, overcame so many challenges, or faced so many fears in my life. The level of expectation and lack of resources to live up to them is insane. Please support indie devs. We need it. patreon.com/cheekynauts

someone on tumblr asked about what color palette I use. I pretty much always use my own palettes. this is the one I used for most of the old pixel art I've been reposting here #pixelart

it's Christmas! which means it is time to once again watch the hit 1996 movie Jingle All the Way!

MERRY!!!

I really hope there is an actual audience for the Yume Nikki inspired walking simulator game I am working on

this little guy #pixelart #animation

hear me out: a dating app for pixel artists

How to turn off MS Word scraping your writing to train its AI medium.com/illumination...

ASTRO BOT

OKAMI?!??!?!?!??!?!?

creature idea from 2018 #pixelart #animation

I hope I'll be able to sit at the cool pixel artists table at some point 😔

a friend. mockup from 2022 #pixelart #animation

haven't drawn a worm in a while

GUYS!!!!!!! eat your vitamins

🌧️🔊 waiting out the rain at an abandoned bus stop (2020) #pixelart

garbage creature (2018) #pixelart #animation

I've been seeing a lot of pixel artists struggle with Bluesky's image compression, so I'd thought I'd share how to get clear, crisp pixels on the site! Share to help a fellow pixel-artist! #pixelart #tutorial

thank you for 1K follows! 🎉

abandoned house #pixelart

out of all the social media places I have been consistently getting the most interactions on tumblr (???)

fridge creature #pixelart

just a little guy #pixelart

today is a good day to follow some women pixel artists. you can do so here! go.bsky.app/CqienpF

had a dream last night that I owned a pet scorpion the size of a house cat. I named him Kenny. he kept trying to sting me

Ahoy! I'm Crabby Sam, and I'm workin' on #Moonshell_Island! Grow a crab's clubhouse into a thriving community hub and uproot the island's monster veggie problem in this cozy action adventure comin' to PC and console... eventually! #PitchYaGame #gamedev #pixelart Wishlist the game: s.team/a/1629660

noisy static #pixelart