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#pixel art #card game #digital art #digital card game #dcg #gamemaker #tcg #Ello all! I thought this would be a good time for some reflection #what you see is “set 2” of my card game. there'll be a total of 4. Set 3 is already done and programmed in!!#So this art is months and months old. You may notice I reused some art from the prototype #A lot of the time there'll be some art that won't fit the “symmetry” of the set I'm making. One sec I'll go into that actually #Every set ideally has the same number of cards in each colour clan mindset(or personality) and effect trigger.#Because each of my 16 heroes synergize with those. Anyway sometimes the art won't fit and I'll just go “sorry pal maybe next set”#I am almost out of leftover art of this type which is good! Now when I mention about the progress of the project to people they say #“oh you must be nearly done then!” and it's hard to explain but no. Because of a lack of a framing device I don't know #if I'm halfway there or within the first 10% or what. No music yet and no cutscenes. All raw gameplay.#Rn it's less of a game and more of a toybox. There are lots of cards and you can play every deck against every other deck and have fun #but that's like... playing smash bros against 1 CPU opponent over and over again. Get me?#What else can I talk about...? Elestrals got me in for a little job again. Still working at pandomime as well.#Still walking plenty. Right now I'm working on a world map of the game which you'll be seeing every time you beat an enemy #to see where you wanna go next. It was supposed to be based on Schiehallion but it's probably completely unrecognizable now #hoping to get this game done by march but I know that's optimistic. I think that's all my news I want to share on here.#I'm turning 30 in less than 2 weeks. I am at peace with no longer being in my 20s. Actually saying that invoked panic so maybe not.#Looking forward to being able to go public with my project. Rn all I can do is elude to it in the tags lol.#But I won't until it's basically almost done. New policy.

Additional game card art!

#pixel art #pixelart #ref #indie game #indie #card game design #card games #mbti #mbti types #mbti personalities #Ello! I finished my course. Can't lie not much has changed since I was on it... But I appreciate my free time more now??#What you're looking at above is 64 of the cards from the game I'm makin. They are all programmed in and done. I've done another 32 since.#You may recognize the bottom row as elves from beasties of greenhollow. They aren't as central to the story #But I frankly adore the game mechanic they provide. I don't think any card game has done what they do #Flatmate loves when I give him a new version to test. He will sit and experiment with every deck I've made #I've taken a little break from it. We went to Amsterdam together a week ago and loved it. Well in hindsight anyway.#I was frankly stressing out about every little thing. But I got some nice photos.#First time organizing a holiday with a friend... that wasn't just to Arran. We did that and it was miserable. sorry.#Really it was only because of the state I was in emotionally. But also there isn't a lot to do there.#I recently got back to walking. I took a break over winter because my shoes got DEMOLISHED from so much use.#And I had to use my backup ones. Today I walked for 3 hours and felt damn good after. I might get even fitter this year.#Work hours are down. I'm doing okay though. Frankly I want more time to work on this game.#ALSO I SAW NELWARD LIVE!!! I was so fucking excited. He signed my record sleeve. I'm kind of collecting them.#It's far more of a “normal” hobby to collect records than digimon cards or japanese ps1 games. Maybe I'm growing up????#I'm really proud of what this is forming into. The story is forming up and it's linking everything together beautifully.#I just need to actually finish it. I've proven with BoG that I can actually finish what I start and I'm really proud of myself #But it turned out far less than I wanted it to be. I'm not at liberty to say what went wrong but let's just say I'm glad I'm solo for this.#I'm eating a good bit better too. Until amsterdam I stayed off sugar for like almost a month #Not too much to complain about. I am content

As of yet unnamed game card art!

#pixelart #pixel art #card game design #card games #scottish mythology #Happy new year gang #I've been on my course for a good while now. I have a new very close friend from it and have made a few others as well #Our little group is in a discord and we're all a good bit nerdy haha #I'm far from the oldest one in the class/group which is always good to see #We got two weeks off for winter break which is great. We come back tomorrow. I'm not ready lmao.#But with the time I got I treated it like a game jam. Me and friend were like “we got two weeks let's make what we can”#And I wasted the first few days. Not by not working but by using AI to try and help with code. Turns out it's terrible at it.#I've been openly anti-AI but our course encourages us to use it for coding so I thought it would be good at games.#Nope. It's dogshit. It worked for a while but I ended up working so much more efficiently just making the code myself #So this new game. It's a card game. you might be thinking “This has nothing to do with the 16 characters you were making what happened??”#It's all connected. ALL of it. Greenhollow. HoaM. Elphame. This new project. The 16 characters. They're all connected.#It's gonna sound like the story will be oversaturated and it is. But I'm not worried about that rn. Just making sure the game is fun.#And I can confirm: The game is fun. It's playable. Graeme and I have been playing it a ton and I feel so happy. I love designing the cards #I don't want to explicitly state what's up but here's a clue: These 20 cards are all playable by the ISTP character #That will either make you understand completely or not help you at all.#Anyway. I'm tying in previous projects so they all get to tell their story. My sister made designs for characters ages ago #and I'm finally getting to show them. One is on one of these cards. But I intend to show all of them and tell all their stories #Of course since there are so many characters a lot of the little side stories will be optional.#I'm getting ahead of myself. But I'm loving doing art and programming for this rn. Tomorrow I return to DA lifestyle...#But at the end of the month I'll be a lot less busy and might get to work on this again. No idea of a release ETA #but in 2 weeks I've done 20 cards. I'm hoping for between 128-256 (I love symmetry). That said it's faster once I'm in the habit of it.#I have a little bit of programming left before this version is final (4 cards left) but yeah. It's looking damn good.#I'm not as manic as the last post but I am very proud of myself #Also 2024 was my favourite year for movies lmao. Inside out 2 wicked and sonic 3 were all amazing All 3 make me sob like a baby #2024 was crazy. I lived so much hahaha. I met a lot of people and travelled so much and got so fit (then lost it all in winter)

rainytypology

MBTI Color Palettes

Just color palettes I associate with each type. Just for fun.

INTJ

ENTJ

INTP

ENTP

INFJ

ENFJ

INFP

ENFP

ISTJ

ESTJ

ISFJ

ESFJ

ISTP

ESTP

ISFP

ESFP

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MBTI notes

#long post #mbti #color palette #I'll be honest I'm feelin pretty darn good today #Last I spoke here things were R O U G H. But I'm thru it now.#I finished therapy and feel damn good for it.#Our last session was great. I felt like we had a huge breakthru. Early on she said I need to get approval from myself #And that along with “loving yourself” is something I'd never understood. I can approve of another person? Someone else can approve of me?#But approving of yourself? Impossible. There's only one me. But by the last session I completely understood!#I love what I've made for myself. I love the things I'm proud of and get excited about. If I was another person I'd give him a hug!#I cried for the second time in that session and I looked up and my therapist was crying as well. Some would say that was unprofessional but #I think it goes to show that I really made an impact on her. Not to flatter myself but I think she'd gonna miss me haha :')#I honestly think nobody has changed my life for the better so much in such a short time. You just gotta find the right therapist!#Other good things: I quit d&d and everyone is still my friend. After I quit one friend even had a call with me and confided in me stuff tha #reassured me that he considered me his closest friend. Everyone's just moving on and that's just fine with me because I am too!#I'm starting a short course soon since my work hours are down. Boss is sad but I've been there over a year now n need to progress!#It's weird to be entering education again. It'll lead to a new job after that is unrelated to art in any form.#But I'm happy to work on art in my spare time now. Despite being a disorganized person I crave routine.#I challenged myself to design 16 characters based on MBTI. They're all done but I'm making some adjustments.#I've been posting them to tiktok challenging myself to make each animation better than the last. The last one kinda popped off #I know this is very weird but when i look at my lock screen n see the characters I've designed it gives me such a buzz #like... on the same level as getting a message from a girl I like hahahahahahahahahahaha aaaaaaaaa #I feel very capable rn. I've found a way to make myself happy independent of those around me (or how fast they message me back)#The characters themselves are more like a way to have the most diverse range yet. Lately if I design a bunch of characters #It's usually pretty female-heavy. I guess because that's mostly my friend group/environment growing up. But this is 50/50 #Going to a wedding tomorrow and going to be very unapologetically myself. I'm so happy.#What a life it is #Editing to add: I went to see caravan palace live like RIGHT after I posted this. Andy had a spare ticket #It was the best thing that has ever happened to me. They played so many of my favourites.#Tattoos was a surprise but BROTHERSWING??? that threw me for a loop!! I love it sm

Beasties of Greenhollow soundtrack! Some tracks on this are from older projects like elphame but all of them have been reworked in some way. Most of them are entirely new. Enjoy!

#soundtrack #music #indiegamedev #Youtube #beasties of greenhollow #indiegame #chiptune #elphame #hey again gang. Another scream into the void #Things have been getting more interesting tbh #I'm starting therapy again. I have learned from this that my anxiety is in the very very high end.#And I guess the only thing that surprises me about that is that it's an abnormally high amount vs the average.#I've had more intrusive thoughts this week than in a long time. (I almost said ever but that was 2021 where they woke me up...)#It's mostly about my mistakes and ppl I've scared out of being in my life because of the actions based on my anxieties.#Like “if i could go back in time I could fix it”... girl you'd be going back in time like 100 times. At that point it's not fair lmao #I think I shouldn't talk about who I'm dating here anymore. Friends told me to stop seeing so many new people and I took that advice.#I'm exercising incredibly frequently; obsessively so. It really doesn't change much in my anxiety. I walk for like 3 hours a day.#My friend group is... difficult. One of us had a falling out with another and the dynamic is just so awkward for me now.#it just seems like everyone else has moved past it though but I still miss him. I don't think this can be reversed #we used to talk on my stream and play digimon cards n jackbox and d&d... But now they're only interested in d&d which I don't love #For god's sake I've published a game and moved to a nice new place. why aren't I happy hahahaha #work is no longer enjoyable since BoG was publised. our new project is in an iffy category but it's not my place to argue #I want to write music and animate but I have to do my hours for this new project before I can do anything like that...#I ended up siding with my current boss in that ethical dilemma I posted about and rn idk if that was the right decision.#Okay what can i talk about that's good? We moved to a nice place. I'm celebrating BoG's release with family tomorrow.#Graeme's playing Iconoclasts- one of my favourite games! He's also returning to work soon so it'll be less awkward to have a lady over #Thinking about good stuff going on just draws the mind to holidays I've had before. I treasure my memories!#Okay so I've complained for a long long time bc life doesn't feel great rn. But rest assured I already know this is 90% my fault hahaha #Oh another good thing that happened!!! My elestrals card was printed and ppl are really happy with it. I have a card in a real card game!!!#don't tell anyone but there's another one on the way. Anyway that will do for now. I'm sorry about my... self.

Here's the trailer for the new game I developed, Beasties of Greenhollow! You can get it on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2944550/Beasties_of_Greenhollow/ I'm excited to have finally released something in the Elphame universe. It's been a long time in the making!

#indie game #pixel art #animation #Youtube

probertson

NEVER LOG OFF 2023 - animated

#So I wanted to reblog something just so I could say somethin in the tags. Was planning to share art but everything I have is a spoiler #I am still single! This is a record breaking period of singleness. Almost four months. I have gotten so much living done in these 4 months.#At first I was like “I don't have a girlfriend! :( :( :(” But Now I'm like “:)” I don't know how else to summarize it...#But I have been on dates with 17 different people now. It's very strange behaviour but I am categorizing them into pokemon types in my note #And thus I don't want to get past 18 until I meet someone really special. They added the stellar type but in my mind there are still 18 typ #I'm not meaning to say I'm not seeing them as people or anything like that. It's just a fun way to... separate myself from the whole proces #Meeting new people is exciting. But most of the time I know if I'm gonna like someone before I go on a date with them #The absolute highlights are amazing. I stay up late talkin with them and we have a great time. But then when we meet it's like “This is bad #I'll tell you about one specific story. We matched and she called me handsome which immediately made me like her. We talked all night #We met the next day and went to cinema with barely any sleep. We really clicked over dinner. We agreed to see each other again #So that was great. Next time we met I stayed at hers. She lives with her dad and smokes. It wasn't as good. Her flat was filthy.#She's the only one cleaning but still. I tried to put my shoe on to leave and it was sticky from all the shit on the floor.#And suddenly everything was ruined. I went away to malaga for a week and had to finish with her by text. Didn't feel good.#There are two who just didn't reply after a date and I wasn't feeling it so I was like “you've given me an out I'm taking it.”#There were maybe four who I was like “You are the one” and for some reason it didn't work out. I am learning and growing #Anyway. I'm almost done with Beasties of Greenhollow.#I might do some animations this weekend to promote it. My socials are 99% dead.#Weird to be this close to publishing a game. Doesn't feel real.#I need to pee so I'm gonna go. Also we are moving soon. Not sorted a destination but we're saving to move house.

Shellycoat

#heyo again posting in the ol tags #At a moral quandary but I guess I'll update yous on my life while I think of a way to sound it out #I am currently single. This is a big deal for me because I am coming to terms with my status as a serial monogamist #I think my ex has been not single longer than I have so I'm not feeling guilty about it. Just feels weird being single is all.#I'm doing the whole dating thing again. Have been on 2. First one I stayed at her spare room and freaking cried. Haven't spoken to her sinc #Second one I stayed in her spare room and she stayed with her roommate. Both times I didn't want things to go physical. Both over now.#The second one I was more optimistic for tho.Prominent thing was that she wanted me to date her and others. So I'm not exclusive with anyon #And I still maintain that. Doesn't feel good bc when I go on a date with one it feels like I'm cheating on the others.#But i have such low confidence that I don't want to turn anyone down or keep anyone waiting for me to ask them out. So idk what I'm doing #anyway. moral quandary. I just realized I can't actually talk about it. But I have to choose advancing my own career at the cost of my sou #it would be really nice to get some big £$£$ but I'd have to sort of betray new boss a little. Who has already given me permission to do so #it doesn't feel right. Shellycoat here is from new project. Ugh I dunno. I think I'm going o have to sell out just a little.#Bein single again shows me how behind I am for my age. Still can't drive still living with my best pal. Probably goin bald soon #then again I've been saying that for years now. Maybe I have a few years left of it. But yeah. I don't earn very much rn. When I get those #questionaires I'm often in the lowest bracket so i'm like “I am among the poorest of ppl then??” One lady stopped talking to me when I #told her I rented a flat. Which implies a lot of men my age own property already. But did they get them with their morals intact or did the #have to do a bit of backstabbing on the way? Anyway. I guess I'm happy that I'm not just whining about my love life.Maybe being single is o #still wanting to get out there. Maybe I'll make another post about that or whenever I'm not single lol

Wee ha

#Arright here I go again I gotta do some of these when I gotta vent #posting this on the 17th of August #So the elestral thing is going alright. My focus has shifted a LOT there but I'm still working with em #But the majority of my work comes from another client now. It's another one of these things that I'd love to make by myself #But someone else is making it and wanting me to do the art and music. It's gonna be huge. What a life it is. Anyway #This gif is from yet another project I started recently. Separate from Smile More HoaM and anything else. I keep fucking doing this #But this one's strange. It reflects my current working skills I've built up all these years. A multimedia experience that has a start n end #featuring all your favourite elphame characters in a new style. I'm enjoying making it but there's one problem #I haven't worked on it in like a month and a half #Work is piling up. Pixel art is something I don't do for myself anymore #It's not even a case of “as soon as I have time to myself my fingers can't move" it's that I just do not have any spare time lmao #I meet Ashley once or twice a week. We still play digimon a lot but we're taking this month off since she's petsitting and can't go out lat #My flatmate has basically taken the summer off work since his job pays well enough for him to do so #so having him around to play games with is nice. Feels awkward taking baths with him in the house tho lmao #He is kind of the only reason I take breaks. I got pikmin 4 and it is incredible. Genuinely might have replaced Digimon World as 1st place #Mum took Andy and I to Netherlands recently. It was incredible. I played in a local digimon tournament and ate shit #Have just been so excited about travelling lately. Ashy taking me to manchester soon and I think we'll go london next spring or sooner #Worried I'm overdoing it with the tags so I'll sign off here. Work is stressing me out but it looks like big things are happening.#OH MY GOD I HAVE STOPPED BLEEDING BTW. Like almost altogether. Haven't in like a month. The trick is in the big box I rest my feet on.#It's too tall. I tried replacing it with a pile of folders half as tall and my bleeding fucking stopped. No crohn's disease or anything.#Just a big stupid fucking box. Anyway see you

Zaptor from Elestrals!

#elestrals #pixel art #Hey gang another secret tag update #I am in talks with the guy who makes this and he's commissioning me to make every elestral :')#this is my first animation commission/job that will stop me from having to worry about commissions for like... months #maybe even a full year. who knows. But the point is I will finally be a big shot #My home and love life are comfortable as can be but I have been worried about money a little recently as commissions are sporadic #But... I'm actually on track to move to full time animation. I'm so excited.#Game is still under construction. Story is done and I'm still coding. Might need a new computer soon because this one is nearly a decade old #I'm so hopeful that the universe has finally thrown me a proverbial bone at least career wise #I have a small fanbase who is really really nice to me and I met a lot of friends there and I need to remember them when this all kicks off #Misty Ripley Heck are three that have been super supportive and I will help give back to them for keeping me afloat this whole time #Ashley has also been subscribed to me for a year. It's our year anniversary soon and I'm so nervous bc I'm not certain what to get her/do #Will just be grateful to have more memories w her. Might get a little trip away somewhere if she can get someone to watch pets #just checked. Nothing standing out but I'll figure it out now that money is significantly less of a worry #I guess that's nearly every one of my worries gone. Just gotta actually grind and finish game and I'll have nearly nothing to complain about

dystopria

Yu-Gi-Oh Artwork By Kazuki Takahashi For Shonen Jump

#Wee ha I found it #hey gang posting this in november 2022 #shouting into the void for a little while in as few lines as I can #the story for my new game is 6/7ths done and most of the art assets are finished #my flatmate has been reading thru it doing corrections before I do the last part #going to see fireworks with my favourite gal today #Oh a local game shop opened near me and I have a little group there #an old friend has accused me of starting a digimon cult since that's all we play there #it's my biggest hyperfixation these days like I'm always tinkering with some deck or other #My pet decks rn are Bagra Army (AKA communism) and Machinedramon/Cyborgs #My friends from separate circles are all relatively close #like we all play d&d weekly and digimon whenever we can #I think I'm close to the tag limit so thank you for reading this I'm stressed and sometimes worried but generally happy

"Vampire": Here's Myotismon (or Vamdemon in the original Japanese dub) coming out of his coffin and unleashing a grisly wing attack. Thanks to everyone who helped me get thru stream today and get this done!

#myotismon #digimon #pixel art #was a genuine struggle #hope I'm not like this forever #hey gang #editing this post months after the fact #all is well here #working on a fun new game whose prototype I've just sent to a publisher #they're testing it now #it isn't smile more or elphame #but I've had my flatmate play it and we think it's really good #have also been seeing someone since december and she's lovely #I don't know if I've been this happy in a long long time #I only came onto tumblr now because I learned kazuki takahashi rly liked jojo #and I'm looking for a cool piece of art he did #but yeah all is going really well #I wrote a ton of stuff in hashtags and it deleted it all lmao #But I am doin okay

Today's prompt was "Apocalypse" which led me to "Apocalypse of the Damned", the game within the Be More Chill musical. Here's Jeremy and Michael with a buncha zombies.

#be more chill #pixel art

Today's Darktober prompt is "Myth", which led me to mythic items in League of Legends, and that led me to Luden's Tempest, an item made of one "blasting wand" and one "lost chapter". Here's them forming to make Luden's and then being sold for gold, ha ha.

#pixel art #League of Legends

A little update. Hopefully I’ll get to posting every day if I keep up Darktober... or whatever I end up doing.

Here’s a trailer for a game I'm working on. Thanks for your patience!

#pixel art #indie game

dragonwilbert

#digimon #ik i don't tumbl anymore but had to

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