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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.
First t...
2020-05-02 20:59:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the making of for my award-winning Alphonse Elric cosplay. It took me 6 months, and was very taxing and very fun.
Here's two timelapses of those thundercats mockups.
To begin with, I chose a resolution (a widescreen version of 320x224, which is what old-school capcom beatemup arcades use). Then I started "tr...
2018-12-10 18:16:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Have y'all seen the Thundercats Roar trailer? It's so amazing! The designs are cute, but also super grounded on the original!
I'm making a mockup of what Thundercats Roar might look like as a fighter game.
Here's a timelapse of how I pixeled the thundertank.
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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 n...
2018-02-08 13:56:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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”
As soon as the theme “Running out of Power” was announced, I knew...
2017-08-12 16:23:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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
This is for a German Webseries called Girl Cave. It's about three geeky girls who are friends.
You can watch the first episode here (German/ English subtitles)
The creator, Memofilm, contacted me to create a pixelart poster for one of the episo...
2017-05-30 12:48:36 +0000 UTC View Post
hi patrons, thank you so much for all the support! I've been going through a rough personal period the past few months, but I'm bouncing back.
Here's a personal project I wanted to share. It's a still from a gif animation I'm working on
The album is "picnic" by https://twitter.com/to6okegao
The theme was "bento", obviously ^-^
2016-03-21 11:27:11 +0000 UTC View Post
_.. 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 Pixe...
2016-02-01 22:15:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Axe. It ended up takin...
2015-11-16 19:22:22 +0000 UTC View Post
So this is Tyris Flame's highest level spell, the dragon. Golden Axe used to impress me as a child, so I decided to remake it (or demake it rather) using a 128x128 pixel canvas and the Pico-8 palette.
So far so good!
Small size sprites take me a lot longer than larger pixelart sprites or vectors, because I have to make sure pixel clusters are satisfactory and forms read well.
It's in the 6 hour range for just this sphinx. Check it out from start to finsh, in the gif below
Thanks for your patronage, you're really making a difference.
So this is my new project, a pirate jrpg in 64x64pixels. And here's some timelapse gifs of me working on the sprites. I feel the need to remind the importance of using tetris pieces, especially the S and T tetriminos, and to limit the usage of single, unconnected pixels, *and* single pixels that connect at the corners with other pixels.
2015-09-29 18:34:52 +0000 UTC
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So I made a fictional game mockup. I used the Pico-8 palette at half the Pico-8 screen size (i.e. 64x64 pixels)
Working on such a small scale is very challenging but very rewarding. Details are kept to a minimum, but my design philosophy for these is that big glamour shots/cutscenes can immerse you in the game worl...
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 jams...
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, check out this tutorial that, as I frequently say, taught me most of what I know: ...
Hi lovely patrons! Here's some work for a card game. This is my workflow for an actual, professional deliverable asset.
Step one: The game is a card battle with dinosaurs in ancient egypt. So I scour google images for psittacosaurus and the pyramids until I'm satisfied I have enough references (I try to limit myself to 30 minutes)
Step two: I set two layers up, one for the back...
Hi new patrons! So, 64x64 pixels is the size of a windows icon. When doing pixelart we tend to be afraid of too small a resolution. What if we can't fit everything? What if we need to add more detail? There's a time and place for more detail. But for me it's very fun to see how much stuff I can cram into a 64x64px canvas. Pixel clusters (i.e. collections of more than 2 adjacent pixels of the sam...
2015-05-14 20:40:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Downscaling sprites is like totally a pixelart tradition. It forces me to think a ton about pixel placement and economy of space. This 16x16 sprite for example. You'd think that Steve Purcell's Max character wouldn't be readable at 16x16. But he is. We instinctively think 16x16 is too small to say what we want to say. And sometimes it really is. But my biggest learning moments are after I've tri...
2015-05-07 21:29:31 +0000 UTC View Post
This is all the insight I can offer on the design of my 3-day game "Ice Story"
2015-04-24 08:38:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Portrait studies for a commissioned game. It's not pixelart, but it's still fun to make :D Check the two attached .gifs
2015-04-17 10:43:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi new patrons! It's amazing that you're here. Here's a making of another fantasy-ish character for a cardgame mockup. Notice I'm using big forms and then refining them with tetris-piece shaped blotches of pixels. Each blotch of more than 1 pixel is called a pixel "cluster" in pixelart lingo. It's a good idea to have pixel clusters that read well, and tetromino shaped clusters are ideal, they lo...
2015-04-08 19:22:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy April, Patrons. Attached is a small workflow gif of me pixeling a Space Goblin for a card game mockup. As always, questions are welcome
2015-04-04 16:04:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I made a squarish pixelfont. I think it looks a little like the type from WALL.E, so I also added inverted letters, which are actually very Commodore-64. That machine was ahead of its time. You're my patrons so you see this first. Download it here: http://www.pentacom.jp/pentacom/bitfontmaker2/gall...
2015-03-26 01:12:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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 illusion of unexplored space. It also lets gamedevs get away with making assets for only 4-5 tiles ahead ...
2015-03-18 23:22:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Pretty straightforward. This overhead projection style is well explored in games like the Chaos Engine by the Bitmap Brothers. The challenge is to make the wall tiles low enough so you'd still be able to see and select a unit underneath My main inspiration for the door junction tiles was the staple in tabletop wargaming Hirst Arts sci-fi molds catalog; 2015-03-13 23:49:18 +0000 UTC View Post
