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Dan Lance
@thatguynm.bsky.social
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gamedev, autistic. making trash games and okay stories. | Working on stuff | he/him/any pronouns

https://thatguynm.itch.io/
https://dan-art.carrd.co/
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HUMAN artists, use only one art piece to convince people to follow you!
A floating, pumpkin-headed figure with a glowing jack-o-lantern face. It's body is a surreal swirl of squiggly and flowing ribbons. Surrounding the figure is the text: "FUCK IT, HALLOWEEN STARTS NOW."
September 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Had trouble sleeping so I made some art.
@harada-tekken.bsky.social
#tekken #predator #yautja #yoshimitsu
Two half faces side by side. One side is the Yautja bio mask from the movie Predator. The other side is the head from Yoshimitsu's Tekken 3 costume. On top of the image is the text: "Get Ready For The Next Battle"
August 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Made a test page with updated character designs for a project
A comic of two cut-in panels over a larger third panel. First panel two women, one driving the other in the passenger seat. The passenger says "uh, babe we got company!" Driver says "oh what the hell? Is that" second panel is a man in the back seat. He says "yeah. I think thats holiday road..." Third panel is a wrecked station wagon careening down a road. The man in the back's dialogue continues: "or whatever's left of it." In the station wagon is a family. Two kids hanging out of the back. Dad driving, and mom hanging on the front of the car. Theyre all singing "my baby takes the morning train" A cartoon man in a hacket and hoodie looking at a wall of canvases. He says "I ain't moving canvases... Nope." A cartoon woman looking at someone. She says, "Dammit, Ira." A concerned-looking cartoon woman. She asks, "babe...did we start the apocalypse?"
June 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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A large, portly man with horns looks behind them as if caught. Their right hand is red with a smoking gun, while the left hand is clutching green money. Whole figure cast in shadow A paper crown with a red X over it. Above that is two 100 dollar bills positioned like marionette handles. Between them is the text "No kings, no puppets" laid out to look like marionette strings leading to the crown
June 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Ghost Trap: Future Halloween
Humans are extinct, but aliens are really into earth shit. So for a human Halloween, some alien teens gather for a seance, and summon you, a real human ghost.

Stuck for one night, keep yourself corporeal as you answer these kids' dumb questions in this VN game.
Cartoonish pumpkin monster surrounded by the text "fuck it, halloween starts now" A VN mockup. Left character is wild-eyed looking and pointing off-screen. This character says "what the hell is that?!" Right character looks to the left in surprise. Character illustration of a sort-of anthropomorphic book Character illustration of a fleshy alien warrior
May 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Ghost Trap: Haunted Holiday, a point & click game about a couple who die on vacation & spend their afterlife stuck on the grounds of a hotel, helping people as poltergeists so they can continue paying for their room and solve the mysteries behind the hotel and their own deaths.
Cartoon illustration of an opossum leaping into piles of trash on a bright, clear, sunny day Cartoon illustration of a rat wearing boxing gloves standing at the bottom of a dumpster. It is edited to look like a frame of animation. Illustration of a robot hanging out with ghosts in a mall. Reference sheet of a sword made of scrap. Includes images of a character weilding it.
May 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Some recent(ish) art.
Illustration of a headless, four-legged robot, built out of wood, feathers, fur, and scrap metal. Mounted on top of its torso is a makeshift flamethrower A 3 panel comic. 1. Two women driving, the passenger: hey babe we got company! The driver: oh what the hell!? Is that? 2. A man in the backseat looking back. The man: yeah I think that's holiday road. Or whatever's left of it. 3. A zombified family of four in a nearly-wrecked station wagon. The dad driving like a demon. The mom perched on the hood like a gargoyle. The two kids hanging out windows in the back. The vehicle swerves around as they all sing Sheena Easton's 'Morning Train' A graphic for a proposed IBS severity-level chart. From lowest to to most critical, they are: 4. Stress 3. Greasy threat 2. Substantial dairy 1. Chuy's (the restaurant) level event 0. Chick-Fil-A (the restaurant) Midnight
March 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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A small chihuahua-weenie mix dog laying in blankets giving bombastic side eye. Extreme close up of a chihuahua-weenie mix dog. A worried expression on her face.
February 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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#hotdogs #hotdog
February 14, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Apparently it's #portfolioday
Didn't realize that was a thing here.
The Creation of Adam parody, Creation of Lamp. A sexy moth man reaching out a hand towards a centennial light bulb resting on a large pillow 4 panel comic page. Panel 1 is a sphinx creature spitting out white, destructive light over a desolate landscape. Panel 2 is a man looking on in horror. Panel 3 is the creature, surrounded by fire, looking back to the man, its blank expression almost a smug threat. Panel 4, the creature flying off into the night An armored guard getting shot with a tranquilizer dart, dropping his gun and quickly going from alarmed to asleep. In the background is the figure who shot them. A trashy pizza box monster with pizza slice tongue.
January 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Hey folks, I'm currently looking for work.
I'm an artist & writer, mostly for games, but I'm also comfortable with other formats.

Feel free to share this around. Open to contract and permanent gigs.

dan-games.carrd.co
dan-art.carrd.co

#indiedev #art #narrative #illustration #2danimation #gamedev
A perspective shot looking up at a vaguely humanoid alien. Instead of a head, it has dry, exposed vertebrae and floating blades. Spiked shoulder armor is on either side of a raw, fleshy torso. Instead of arms, there are spindly beams of muscle fiber. Logo for a game called Dumpster Dungeon. DUMPSTER is written in a slimy hand font and on top of dirty cardboard. DUNGEON is written with a thick marker and made to look like a simplified fancy font. A robot sitting on a broken balcony in a shopping mall, flanked by ghosts resting against the remains of the balcony's railing. In the bottom right corner is a logo, the text reads Ghost Helper. A small, chihuahua-faced goblin stands on a massive printer. The goblin is covered in paper, and the goblin throws paper all over the room with telekinesis. A slip of paper across the goblin's body reads BAD NEWS.
December 4, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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Post a picture of yourself to show the newbies what they’re working with
A series of images showcasting the very awkward faces of a singular man. The man has a thick beard, glasses, and clearly does not know what to do with his face when being photographed.
November 14, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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4 panel comic. first panel is a slapdash robot walking by a closed mall shore. a ghost is at the entrance gate of the store and shouts "Hey you!" at the robot. second panel robot runs around and asks "who me?" the ghost responds "yeah, you!". Third panel robo moves closer as the ghost says come here. fourth panel is a close up on the ghost as they ask "you wanna do some crime?"
November 11, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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My partner tried sneaking a photo of my folk's cat while he was sleeping...
Low angle flash photography of a black cat lounging in a chair. The cat's head is turned away but the cat is looking directly at the camera. Like someone who was just woken up from a nap.
October 29, 2024 at 6:16 AM