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This is a post-mortem/ behind the scenes of my game GHOSTVAC. Made in 3 days for the Ludum Dare 46 jam, in Construct 2, a 2D engine. THEME First things first, I did let the theme get lost in development. The game was initially about feeding balls to a creature via the hatches, to keep it alive. The

Here is the making of for my award-winning Alphonse Elric cosplay. It took me 6 months, and was very taxing and very fun.

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Hi all! Here’s a post-mortem for Lands of TSR Lore , my tiny dungeon crawler made from scratch! This was my 10th Ludum Dare and I thought I’d treat myself. Early on I realized I will have no fun if I follow the theme, my ideas weren’t exceptional. What I thought was a fun idea about growth was, in f

This is a post-mortem and game design analysis of my Ludum Dare game “FuseCell” made in 3 days with a competition theme of “Running out of Power” Getting Inspired As soon as the theme “Running out of Power” was announced, I knew I wanted the experience my players get to not be one of limitations. Ru

Proud of my LDJAM game “FuseCell” made in three days. A shmup with a unique absorb mechanic! You can play it here: https://castpixel.itch.io/fusecell This is the kind of thing your patronage allows me to do, thank you so much. Post-mortem coming up

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_.. TINY PIXEL RESCUE WORKSHOP : . __ with your friendly neighbourhood pixelartist @castpixel We know a lot more about pixelart nowadays, thanks to the amazing work done on Pixeljoint.com and Pixelation by dedicated and talented pixel artists. Modern pixelart takes pixel clusters into account. Pixel

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Pico 8 is a "fantasy console", a modern virtual machine, simulating some old-school restrictions, such as 16 colors, 128x128 resolution and limited space for music and code. For some reason, it really inspires me to make pixelart for. So I decided to demake the first beat em up I ever played, Golden

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with your amateur gamedev host, @castpixel Ok, so I was feeling very low this past month. Some health stuff to come to terms with, couldn’t focus on work, was out of creative juice. I entered gbjam in the hopes of getting my mojo back, and it totally worked! I frequently feel like I fail at game jam

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Because of requests, here's a public post: this is my process when pixeling. 1. search for reference for about 30 minutes 2. work within limitations (60x60px and 4 grays, in this case) 3. don't forget to avoid banding. Avoiding is better than eliminating it. If you wish to know what "banding" is, ch

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This is all the insight I can offer on the design of my 3-day game "Ice Story" Ludum Dare (ludumdare.com)

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Old school 2.5D dungeon like Eye of the Beholder and Dungeon Master, but at half the size.These few wall panels along with a few front-facing walls are remarkably flexible and with a bit of variation can be used to represent a whole dungeon. Darkness doubles as atmospheric perspective and an illusio