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DDRKirby(ISQ)
@ddrkirbyisq.bsky.social
Game Developer, 9-bit Chiptune Producer
Currently making Rhythm Quest, a chiptune music game.
he/him/she/her all OK!
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Monthly free album release for the month of October 2025, featuring the songs I make in one hour for One Hour Compo.
October 31, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Monthly free album release for the month of September 2025, featuring the songs I make in one hour for One Hour Compo.
September 29, 2025 at 2:41 AM
An area like Deepnest would never work in Silksong because the ENTIRE GAME IS ALREADY THAT DARK BY DEFAULT.

Deepnest is the area in Hollow Knight where you feel really claustrophobic because of how little you can see and yet, it looks the same as Silksong generic area x.
September 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I'm not saying that Silksong is completely devoid of this, but so far I'm finding that a lot of my memory of it is "dark green rocky place" to "gray red rocky place" to "dark gray place with more jumping".

How many more places am I going to see which are covered with the same gray rocks?
September 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Even in the darker areas or small tunnels you can very easily tell where you are in Hollow Knight. Every inch of the environment is oozing with texture and even without that, the color palette is distinctive.
September 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Now look at these two Silksong screenshots. I kid you not, one of these is in Moss Grotto and the other one is in The Marrow (the first two areas of the game).

And yes, there was some amount of handpicking here, but that's the point -- Hollow Knight doesn't HAVE this problem.
September 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Of COURSE I remember Greenpath because when you step out of the Forgotten Crossroads and into there, you get this tonal shift from blue to green -- combined with the shift from rock caverns and metal posts to pools of water and plants growing everywhere.
September 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
So guys...is it just me or is Silksong is just...dark everywhere?

Like, these screenshots are just the first 5 locations shown in the trailers of Hollow Knight vs Silksong.

...it's not just me, right?
September 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Monthly free album release for the month of July 2025, featuring the songs I make in one hour for One Hour Compo.
August 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Monthly free album release for the month of June 2025, featuring the songs I make in one hour for One Hour Compo.
June 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Drawing timelapse
100x100 pixels, 28 colors
"Life never felt this warm before."
#pixelart
June 21, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I have FEELINGS about castles made of sand and the sea, big big mood
April 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
You've gotta be kidding me, Unity.
January 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Another year, another 12 pieces. I traced almost all of these this year, so the increase in quality is a little deceiving, but it's still enjoyable to make these nonetheless, and hopefully still educational.
#pixelart
January 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Pixel art retracing of a piece by takoyaki (roast) - danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1355312
January 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Look I swear I'm not trying to just be an old angry spiteful person who says "the original was betterrrrrr [waves stick]".

It's just...I just can't....after looking at these screenshot comparisons, I just can't help but see how we've fallen hopelessly backwards in the guise of "progress"...
November 28, 2024 at 9:44 AM
Shoutout to awkwardly flailing a sword about using a numpad
November 5, 2024 at 8:04 AM