Criticalmammal
@criticalmammal.bsky.social
He/Him. Gamedev. Working on a lil 3 button arcade game. Backlogged making a stealth game. Sometimes I draw too.
If you wanna riff on my stuff just lemme know, I'm generally cool with derivative/inspired things and like seeing em!
No LLMs, sometimes 🔞 art
If you wanna riff on my stuff just lemme know, I'm generally cool with derivative/inspired things and like seeing em!
No LLMs, sometimes 🔞 art
Alts showing palette, greyscale and crops
August 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Alts showing palette, greyscale and crops
I focused a lot this time on keeping the values of the color the same and it worked pretty well. Visible in b&w
August 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I focused a lot this time on keeping the values of the color the same and it worked pretty well. Visible in b&w
Spicy drawing, I really like how the colors came out tho! nsfw for those filtering out this stuff. If you want me to post with other tags to highlight that lemme know so it doesn't hit your pages without warning.
August 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Spicy drawing, I really like how the colors came out tho! nsfw for those filtering out this stuff. If you want me to post with other tags to highlight that lemme know so it doesn't hit your pages without warning.
Messed around with markov chains in pico8 for a bit to make a goofy little hypothetical question generator.
It's neat, but did get me thinking about proc gen and that dangerous LLM "need more data to make it work well" territory.
It's neat, but did get me thinking about proc gen and that dangerous LLM "need more data to make it work well" territory.
July 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Messed around with markov chains in pico8 for a bit to make a goofy little hypothetical question generator.
It's neat, but did get me thinking about proc gen and that dangerous LLM "need more data to make it work well" territory.
It's neat, but did get me thinking about proc gen and that dangerous LLM "need more data to make it work well" territory.
The dog can now eat (also has audio) woof
July 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The dog can now eat (also has audio) woof
Starting the little barking dog sim prototype in pico8. Dog is barking. Enjoying the limitations here, and re-thinking my plans to fit into a workable tiny proof of concept.
June 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Starting the little barking dog sim prototype in pico8. Dog is barking. Enjoying the limitations here, and re-thinking my plans to fit into a workable tiny proof of concept.
Was looking into different games that took a more "property centric" approach to game design for most of the day. Y'know your Thiefs and Deus-ex's ofc, but I didn't know Dungeon Siege was designed that way too.
So ofc bought it to "research" aka procrastinate the rest of the day.
So ofc bought it to "research" aka procrastinate the rest of the day.
June 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Was looking into different games that took a more "property centric" approach to game design for most of the day. Y'know your Thiefs and Deus-ex's ofc, but I didn't know Dungeon Siege was designed that way too.
So ofc bought it to "research" aka procrastinate the rest of the day.
So ofc bought it to "research" aka procrastinate the rest of the day.
I've been tinkering with this smaller game idea now for... a month or two? Probably too early to share too much implementation but I think the concept drawings I've dabbled with so far are fun and have potential.
June 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I've been tinkering with this smaller game idea now for... a month or two? Probably too early to share too much implementation but I think the concept drawings I've dabbled with so far are fun and have potential.
Getting started on prototyping a lil idea I had (the 3 button arcade thing). Added a Petz style dog, let's see how this goes...
June 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Getting started on prototyping a lil idea I had (the 3 button arcade thing). Added a Petz style dog, let's see how this goes...
I got the boring C book everyone loves.
June 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I got the boring C book everyone loves.
Wow it's already been nearly a month since I decided to pick up C and start up some engine-y coding. Feels almost embarrassingly slow progress-wise, but I got some custom bitmap font loading/render working. Learned a LOT about memory, character encoding standards, C project building / linking etc.
June 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Wow it's already been nearly a month since I decided to pick up C and start up some engine-y coding. Feels almost embarrassingly slow progress-wise, but I got some custom bitmap font loading/render working. Learned a LOT about memory, character encoding standards, C project building / linking etc.
Thinking about the unicode sauropod
June 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Thinking about the unicode sauropod
Anotha one ~ enjoy ~
May 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Anotha one ~ enjoy ~
Took some time a while back to just do some spicy art for myself. Wasn't gonna share originally but I think a lot of em turned out p good and people might enjoy ~
May 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Took some time a while back to just do some spicy art for myself. Wasn't gonna share originally but I think a lot of em turned out p good and people might enjoy ~
Got a hacky texture based face animation thing I want to include too but still trying to work out how I want all that hooked up in-game 🤔
January 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Got a hacky texture based face animation thing I want to include too but still trying to work out how I want all that hooked up in-game 🤔
Working through some character rigging stuff, still wip but I think all the rough bits are working. Needs some more quality of life stuff, color coding and better groups etc.
Ready to get to animations and importing but trying to not leave too much screwed up.
Ready to get to animations and importing but trying to not leave too much screwed up.
January 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Working through some character rigging stuff, still wip but I think all the rough bits are working. Needs some more quality of life stuff, color coding and better groups etc.
Ready to get to animations and importing but trying to not leave too much screwed up.
Ready to get to animations and importing but trying to not leave too much screwed up.
Also, hand painting little 128x128 textures is very fun, highly recommend. Really enjoying a lot of tiny little detail that doesn't matter, like sword/dagger-like looks for her nails.
January 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Also, hand painting little 128x128 textures is very fun, highly recommend. Really enjoying a lot of tiny little detail that doesn't matter, like sword/dagger-like looks for her nails.
Getting most of these textures situated in a way I'm liking. Still no idea about the pants yet though 🤔. It's the one part of her design I really didn't do any textile ref or design for yet, whoops.
January 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Getting most of these textures situated in a way I'm liking. Still no idea about the pants yet though 🤔. It's the one part of her design I really didn't do any textile ref or design for yet, whoops.
Got this about as far as I wanted to kick it around today. Textures and stuff as still wip, just getting the impression before revising those.
I think the concept translated alright! Took elements from the newer sketch and some older stuff, like the back ribbons.
I think the concept translated alright! Took elements from the newer sketch and some older stuff, like the back ribbons.
December 30, 2024 at 1:58 AM
Got this about as far as I wanted to kick it around today. Textures and stuff as still wip, just getting the impression before revising those.
I think the concept translated alright! Took elements from the newer sketch and some older stuff, like the back ribbons.
I think the concept translated alright! Took elements from the newer sketch and some older stuff, like the back ribbons.
Still messing around trying to design the protagonist for the game I'm working on. Trying something more knit/sweater-y and casual.
Still feels like it needs some work, but I'll take it into 3d today and maybe work out some more design stuff while modeling her for the first round of character art.
Still feels like it needs some work, but I'll take it into 3d today and maybe work out some more design stuff while modeling her for the first round of character art.
December 28, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Still messing around trying to design the protagonist for the game I'm working on. Trying something more knit/sweater-y and casual.
Still feels like it needs some work, but I'll take it into 3d today and maybe work out some more design stuff while modeling her for the first round of character art.
Still feels like it needs some work, but I'll take it into 3d today and maybe work out some more design stuff while modeling her for the first round of character art.
Also a screenshot the test level in Trenchbroom, where I set up pretty much everything at the moment including patrol points.
And what that looks like after importing into Godot via func_godot. I wanted to use Trenchbroom Loader for the Godot import, but got hung up figuring out custom entities.
And what that looks like after importing into Godot via func_godot. I wanted to use Trenchbroom Loader for the Godot import, but got hung up figuring out custom entities.
December 18, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Also a screenshot the test level in Trenchbroom, where I set up pretty much everything at the moment including patrol points.
And what that looks like after importing into Godot via func_godot. I wanted to use Trenchbroom Loader for the Godot import, but got hung up figuring out custom entities.
And what that looks like after importing into Godot via func_godot. I wanted to use Trenchbroom Loader for the Godot import, but got hung up figuring out custom entities.
Been making some good progress on my little stealth game. Got guard patrols, some basic behaviors and sensory reaction stuff going on now.
Also some fun test bg music I whipped up.
Also some fun test bg music I whipped up.
December 18, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Been making some good progress on my little stealth game. Got guard patrols, some basic behaviors and sensory reaction stuff going on now.
Also some fun test bg music I whipped up.
Also some fun test bg music I whipped up.
They are pretty neat.
I was doing something unrelated today and thought to see what a single edge loop looked like based on these posts lol.
I was doing something unrelated today and thought to see what a single edge loop looked like based on these posts lol.
December 2, 2024 at 9:28 PM
They are pretty neat.
I was doing something unrelated today and thought to see what a single edge loop looked like based on these posts lol.
I was doing something unrelated today and thought to see what a single edge loop looked like based on these posts lol.
So I keep a little spreadsheet and loosely keep up with the time I spend on gamedev.
Ideally I try for "positive" tracking. Aka I don't push myself to hit quotas for the week or anything, if I log in and numbers go up that's enough. Helps me feel good about even small things I can get done.
Ideally I try for "positive" tracking. Aka I don't push myself to hit quotas for the week or anything, if I log in and numbers go up that's enough. Helps me feel good about even small things I can get done.
November 29, 2024 at 2:50 PM
So I keep a little spreadsheet and loosely keep up with the time I spend on gamedev.
Ideally I try for "positive" tracking. Aka I don't push myself to hit quotas for the week or anything, if I log in and numbers go up that's enough. Helps me feel good about even small things I can get done.
Ideally I try for "positive" tracking. Aka I don't push myself to hit quotas for the week or anything, if I log in and numbers go up that's enough. Helps me feel good about even small things I can get done.