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Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now!
@jayextee.bsky.social
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Jay X Trent, creative genius behind NEKONECRO: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2096580/NekoNecro/

Gamedev rockstar who brought you QUICKLY, QUACKLEY!: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1585830/Quickly_Quackley/

Scary pronouns: they/them
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jayextee.bsky.social
Enjoy this years-old art I did during the development period of NekoNecro (store.steampowered.com/app/2096580/...)

All of it, pen on paper; way before that generative crap was a thing.
Monochrome pen-and-ink illustration of a circular black cat named Necro, who has painted a heart on an easel. Very nice. Monochrome pen-and-ink illustration of a circular black cat named Necro who has fallen asleep on a lovely warm laptop. Monochrome pen-and-ink illustration of a circular black cat named Necro, currently listening to 'mew-zik' on what appears to be a portable cassette player? Who even has those anymore? Monochrome pen-and-ink illustration of a circular black cat named Necro, peeking mischievously from behind a ball of very chunky yarn.
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
An assortment of panels I've drawn for the four instalments of @angelbless.bsky.social and friends' Sonic The Comic: Reillustrated project over the years.

(see individual image alt texts for information)

#Sonic #STC #comic #artist #illustration #SEGA
closeup of Super Sonic's sharp fangs brown proto-Sonic the Dr. Ovi Kintobor (proto-Robotnik) Sonic approaches some badniks in Green Hill Sonic going fast in a vaguely pop-art style
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
Casually remembering this twinstick Asteroidslike I made, actually a remixed version of one of my oldest games, that's like 99% complete (bar some polish stuff) and I absolutely don't know what to do with it. XD
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
Happy Halloween!

store.steampowered.com/app/2096580/...
Monochrome illustration of a spherical cat thing dressed in a witch hat. Monochrome illustration of a spherical cat thing wearing a skull mask. Monochrome illustration of a spherical cat thing shape-shifted to resemble a witch's cauldron. Monochrome illustration of a spherical cat thing IN BAT FORM.
October 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
Day #5 of 'Twinstikaruga' development.

Second enemy type in.

BE ATTITUDE FOR GAINS

#gamedev #indiegames #twinstick #robotron #arcadegames
October 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
Day #4 of dev

This is the primary mechanic I wanted to get in. Colour-switching. 'Twinstikaruga', you say?
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
This do be a lot of progress for one day so far. Now you can, well, the Zoomers would call it 'unalive', the enemies.
October 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
They shoot now?

They shoot now.

Can't be killed (yet) though.
October 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
Of course, a popcorn-tier enemy's REAL strength is in numbers.

So. A bunch of them slowly advancing on the player, then.
October 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
Dev day #3 and I have one (1) enemy type moving around.

I *could* have it follow the player very accurately. That's easy. Making the shit-tier popcorn enemies THIS stupid, took a bit of planning.
October 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
Okay, a tiny bit more. Let's call it 0.02% progress today, which is double what I aimed for (I won't make a habit of that, my poor mental health!).

Because what's a twinstick shooter without the shooting?

(tomorrow I may add a (1) enemy)
October 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
Okay. Progress thread to keep me accountable for my shit.

Tiny steps, even 0.01% progress in a day is moving forward.

Please enjoy this basic-ass character movement; today's 0.01%.
October 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
Not too bad a score off the bat. I don't profess to be the best at Robotron, but I am improving.
Low-quality photograph of Robotron 2084's highscore table. Text: ROBOTRON HEROES 1> JXT 415500 2> DRJ 512127 3> LED 50218 4> EPJ 41255 5> JER 41255 (there's some other scores and whatnot, sorry but I don't want to be sat here all night typing this)
October 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
Wish my excitement for gamedev didn't evaporate the moment someone said one of my character designs looked like a Silksong OC because I had the audacity to include a white (actually silver) helmet with black holes for eyes.
A silver knight helmet with holes for eyes.
September 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
Whenever I draw Hornet, she looks like a fucked-up ghost bunny rabbit.

#hollowknight #silksong #hornet #illustration #doodle #sketchbook
Poor-quality photo of a pen and marker drawing depicting Hornet from the game Hollow Knight: Silksong, running to the right. The piece is dated, in Roman numerals, "XXII.IX.MMXXV"
September 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
One-credit completion of Ghouls 'n' Ghosts for Megadrive (on 'Professional' difficulty, more or less equivalent to arcade): ACHIEVED.

One of my favourite games ever. <3
Low-quality photograph of a TV screen, on which is being played the Megadrive version of Ghouls 'n' Ghosts. The final boss, Loki/Lucifer has been defeated and there are explosions forming in his body as Arthur, clad only in underwear, stands by and faces away. Cool guys don't look at explosions, after all.
September 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
I regret to inform you all that once again I am colouring outside the lines.

(Same method, messy colours first in lieu of any pencils, work out the details whilst inking)

#sketchbook #doodle #tmnt #leonardo #illustration
Sketchbook page featuring the ninja turtle Leonardo in blue, coloured as if with no regards to 'staying in the lines' -- in actuality the colour was added to the page BEFORE the linework.
September 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
store.steampowered.com/app/1585830/...
A social media post by a user known as 'john', or @mrjohndarby It reads as follows: "me: do you sell ducks? him: yes, but they're going quick me: ok I'll take one [later] duck: quick me: I see"
August 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
In four days we GIT GUD.

#silksong #hollowknight #sketchbook #doodle #illustration #fanart
An angular and very wonky sketchbook drawing of Hornet from the Hollow Knight series of games. Because Silksong is REAL.
August 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
I might want to make a game with this fella.
Ink and marker drawing of an alien with light blue skin and bulbous red eyes, holding a sword and wearing a yellow scarf.
August 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
From my sketchbook, yesterday and today.

#sketchbook #illustration #art #artistsofbluesky #hollowknight
"Playlists are poison" - an angular line drawing of a music cassette tape, coloured green in a manner that doesn't quite match the lines. "They" - a line drawing of the player character from Hollow Knight, coloured with purple and yellow which, together with the black ink on white paper, makes the colours of the nonbinary pride flag.
August 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
I can't believe they didn't hit me up for the art on this one. XD

(pic drawn by me the LAST time there was an ill-advised new Bubsy game announced)
A fugly drawing of Bubsy the Bobcay, in monochrome over a halftone gradient background in two shades of orange.
August 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
Did another one. Same method as last time. Rough out a pose with the chunky end of a marker, fudge inks based on that.

#sketchbook #illustration #tmnt #raphael #doodle
Sketchbook page featuring the ninja turtle Raphael in red, coloured as if with no regards to 'staying in the lines' -- in actuality the colour was added to the page BEFORE the linework.
August 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
This drawing was made by roughly scribbling the silhouette/pose in orange marker then trying to make sense of the mess with a pen afterwards.

#tmnt #michelangelo #sketchbook #illustration #doodle
Sketchbook page featuring the ninja turtle Michelangelo in orange, coloured as if with no regards to 'staying in the lines' -- in actuality the colour was added to the page BEFORE the linework.
August 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
Sketchbook stuff from today.

#sketchbook #illustration #artistsofbluesky
Sketchbook double-page spread. Left page: an alien squid guy with goggles, in monochrome. Upper-left has a numeric cypher reading "4.8.25" - today's date. Right page: an incredibly-basic comic titled CAP'N SALTY. There are three panels of a nigh-stickfigure character dressed as a pirate. His monologue is as follows; YARR! I BE CAP'N SALTY! TERROR OF THE DEAD SEA! IT'S THE ONLY PLACE ME SHIP CAN FLOAT... BETTER THE DEAD SEA THAN A DEAD ME!!!
August 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM