Unfinished, but maybe it's better like this.

#drawing #portrait

A few years ago, I made a website to showcase some of my dad's drawings. Take a look: kickingcurlycurly.com
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#abstractart #opart #drawing

I made the sprites extra large so that you don't see them get cut off as you move them up the screen! #gamedev

This weekend's bit of #gamedev: I took photos of my hands and hastily traced them in Aseprite. The idea is that they'll be Night in the Woods-style grabby hands for assembling the artwork in my art student game.

Bit late again, but happy new year!

Well, a bit of gamedev is happening today, at least. First time in about six months, I think. I added a basic inventory to the game and also ported it from Godot 3.5 to 4.3. Here's a picture of the main map linkage in the 4.3 editor.

#gamedev #godotengine

The new website is ready!

www.nether.org.uk

More background design, based on my old art college. Bonus points if you know where this is!

I also have a gameplay prototype underway but I'm going to try to get a few more rooms in before I show it.

#gamedev #pixelart

Experimenting with simple, stylised background design. As usual, keeping it minimal has a price, including "it's hard to have doors on side and front walls without doing some weird projection or exit markers".

#gamedev #pixelart

Also check out this initial stab at a walk animation. Pretty sure legs do not work that way (the upper and lower body sync is different).

Not sure if animated GIF works on Bluesky yet. Here's a link to it on Mastodon in case it doesn't: mastodon.social/@NCarter/112...

#gamedev #pixelart

Here's another set of character sprites. I think there's potential to make something with these. Definitely need to figure out how best to separate them from the background and each other, though.

#gamedev #pixelart

Can't seem to work on actual games at the moment, but I've been playing around with sprite design. Not sure how readable these characters are for other people, but sticking to black and white makes them quick to prototype, at least.

#gamedev #pixelart

And some more. All of these were somewhat inspired by sketches by @alariko.bsky.social, who you should follow if you like enigmatic town scenes with lovely colours.

Need to decorate the place a bit, so here are some little sketches from 2022 that I always liked but never got around to posting anywhere.

Running a bit late this year, but I'm in no rush. Happy new year! Let's hope 2024 behaves itself.

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#drawing #newyear