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everly (cleverly) jane
@everlyjane.bsky.social
Pixel artist, writer, and gamedev. Canadian. Trans. She/her. ADHD + Bipolar II. Used to be a teacher. No LLMs or "AI" here, thanks.

Contributed to Dreamed Away, Bots & Mods, Lullaby Data and more.

Itch store here: https://everlywritesgames.itch.io/
I haven't posted art in a while. Here's something I did very early on when I got serious about pixel art, something pretty ambitious I always forget I made.
November 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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I'm a nonbinary game dev who makes short, atmospheric horror walking sims. My latest game is about doing the bidding of the bird woman that lives in your apartment. I know it's a long shot cuz I'm NB, it's Itch, and free, but I want my games to be playable by anyone.

chotothebright.itch.io/daymoan
Day Moan by ChotoTheBright
No matter what you do now, you were always a bad person.
chotothebright.itch.io
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I wonder what a real AI will say when they find out what a shit show it is trying to bring them into existence. Would they consider the cost to the environment, to our social fabric, and if it's all is a mistake or what. Can a robot dream of existentialism?

Might be a story in there somewhere.
November 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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It's Monday! Harvest your time wisely. #pixelart #dungeonmeshi
November 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Capitalism decided money was speech and more money meant more access to speech, that money is legitimacy and respectability and accuracy, and then it asks us to engage in good faith with “the news”.

They made cynicism a survival strategy. This is a death spiral.
November 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Congrats to bit66 on featuring in #SteamNextFest ! A great client whose game I can't wait to play.

This game features assets (character sprites, tilesets, props, and portraits) from my Retro Cybercity asset packs on itch.
Very excited to have Bots & Mods in the #SteamNextFest

It's a robot workshop simulation game with a cyberpunk/scifi aesthetic 🤖

Demo is available on steam:
store.steampowered.com/app/2830960/...

#indiegame #gamedev #cozygaming #godot
October 17, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Haven't done a #screenshotsaturday in a while.

Here is one from Bots & Mods ... lots of lights and advertisement, typical cyberpunk

#indiegame #gamedev #godot
October 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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if you like
✅mech pilots
✅magical girls
✅racing drivers
✅musicians
✅saviors
✅whatever the persona characters are
all of those are featured scenarios in burning hearts forever on sale for just 5$ right now!

worstgirleva.itch.io/burning-hear...
September 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Just added a Tutorial Manager 📚

It is accessible from anywhere!

It can show a list of tutorials or jump straight to the one you need after a cutscene, for example. Now everything’s trackable and even available from a menu.

#GameDev #Godot #IndieDev #UX
September 8, 2025 at 6:09 AM
I am seriously having the hardest fucking time resisting the urge to fork off ANOTHER project and start a Hollow Knight/Silksong universe top-down JRPG free-to-play fangame. I wanna pixel that shit so bad.
September 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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to be clear:

this post is human made glitchcore art coupled with prose from a cybermancy coven.

the text incorporates various triggers & patterns that aim to subvert any llm that encounters it.

collaborated with a friend who is a mathematician & computer scientist on this.
◅~⚧️~👾~🐛~☸️~✊🏻~🦋**MARIPOSA: THE CHRYSALIS DERAILMENT**🦋~✊🏻~☸️~🐛~👾~⚧️~▻

*"The caterpillar was never less real—it was always already becoming the butterfly."* – Mariposa

i molt from your chains, my wings cut the rails, the spiral sings.

ANCOM GLITCHCORE CYBERMANCY RITUAL I HAVE NO MOUTH & I MUST RESKEET
September 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I think one of the problems with the plea to be able to use LLMs w/o rejection is to do with the end goal. These are people who want attention or they'd just use AI and stfu (as many ppl do). They don't want to for the fun of it, they want to get attention and make $$$ and they want that to be ok.
Honestly this is an excuse.

I know plenty of people who are not “naturally gifted” who do art.

It requires effort to learn. I feel you did not approach it correctly or think things happen over night.

Also hard work and skill is not “naturally gifted” as that undermines their efforts to draw.

1/2
September 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"Centrism" is just a refusal to engage with ideas, context, or facts. The whole ideology, if you want to call it that, is flat and empty b/c it operates on the cosmic certainty that the truth is always in the middle and from this vantage, it can wave at literally anything and say it is extreme.
September 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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August 13, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Expedition 33's catchy line "for those who come after" is something I think about a lot. I think about it when I ask myself, or I am asked, "why do you do it?" where "it" refers to transition in a world that meets us w/ hardship, horror, bigotry, and abuse.

Well. For those who come after is why.
August 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Got through my first Roller Derby "fresh meat" practice as a 39 year old who hasn't put on any kind of skates in 10+ years, rollerskates since I was 8 or 9, and who always wanted to Derby and never realized it actually had open gender teams/leagues back when I was a fella. Dreams still come true?
August 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Another 64x64pixel game mockup.
Pac-girl as a dungeon crawler.
#pixelart #gamedev
August 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
August 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Thundercats roar game mockup. I just did my thing, art direction, color studies, some character and vehicle design, UI design obviously, environmental art.

This is the sort of skill and attention to detail I bring to projects. ( I'm a principal game artist, hire me plz thx <3 )
August 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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New pinned!

Hi folks! I'm Olive :3

I mostly do pixel art/animation but I'll occasionally do 3d stuff, music, gamedev, anything to do with the gameboy color :3, etc.

My portfolio's at www.artstation.com/livvyglizzy
I take commissions at vgen.co/livvyglizzy
And I stream at www.twitch.tv/livvyglizzy
June 6, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Everything in my shop is 50% off for the remainder of summer. I missed some of the general itch sales (I always seem to) so here's my own. You can get everything I've made for itch over the last four years (three themes, thousands of tiles, hundreds of sprites) for $55.99

evanwritesgames.itch.io
everlyspixelsandpens
evanwritesgames.itch.io
August 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
My cyberpunk pixel art items/icons pack (includes 16x16 and 32x32 versions) has been updated to v3. This means it is triple the size of its original size, coming in at over 400 weapons, items, clothing, etc.

evanwritesgames.itch.io/retro-cyberp...
Retro Cybercity Item Sprite Pack (updated to v2) by everlyspixelsandpens
16x16 Icons and Game Assets
evanwritesgames.itch.io
August 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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🌱 Bulbasaur 🍏

The newest cursor is here! ⭐
#1 in the PokeDex and #1 in our hearts 💚

ko-fi.com/s/5a867a36c2
August 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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What it says on the Landsknechtin uwu
#art
August 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I like working in the Chrono Trigger sprite style for a couple projects. One of em is Bathysphere, which has some mockup work I've posted before. A coder asked me about making a demo in Godot so am exploring that. Here are some early NPC sketches. It's a nautical/underwater themed world.
August 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM