Funny italian man who happens to be a Game developer, artist and Terraria modder.
You can find my games on itch, I stream on twitch, yadayada check my https://linktr.ee/w1kdev
I participated in GMTK Jam 2025! The theme was "Loop", so we made a game about drawing loops and going fast, and it's available on web!
https://connery0.itch.io/flappy-birdlynn by @connery0, @shadouette, and I (@flashkirby)
Also shout out to some friends we were jamming with who also submitted games:
Plan-Et, a game about angels making orbits, by @w1k and @suweeka
https://w1k.itch.io/plan-et
Clip Crab, a game about the endless scrolling of social media, by @ppowersteef
https://ppowersteef.itch.io/clip-crab
It was google by the way, they thought it would be such a good file type it would replace the need for all other image files, that's why anything they own or partner with tries to force it on us though no art programs can even work with it.
This brings me so much pain, partly because people don't realize how good of a format webp is (it's absurdly performant, compressed and can be animated), but more so it made me realize the reason support for it so utter shit is because of microsoft and google (likely) beefing over where the format is allowed to be used. We literally can no longer have cool techs because of tech companies trying to either monopolize them or trying to intentionally hamper each others from using them.
Tumblr can I interest you in Crescent County in this trying time?
FEATURING
open world gay witch motorbroom racing
vibey lofi to kiss girls to
make deliveries to local weirdos
DRIFTING
help stubborn indie developers make their dreams come true
follow on Kickstarter!! I've given up pitching to publishers!!!! and we have a free demo on Steam if you want to try it!!!!! help me make this game that comes from my fucking soul!!!!!
praxie about to dump your trade window with vendor trash. i still find it very cool that the merchant class in RO exists and is tied very heavily with server economy - the realest support class
Process breakdown for my own benefit + anyone interested:
Line Art
This piece was mainly meant to be rendering practice, and as part of that, stop spending so much time fussing over line art (which i am still very guilty of doing)
Initial sketch (left) to get the general composition down, and then some additional guidelines to help with hair and clothes (right).
Line art (left), normally I spend a lot more time polishing and refining this, or straight up doing yet another line layer on top, but I've recently just started leaving it in its sketch-y state, and doing some erasing to clean up over extended or messy lines.
Then using a fill tool to block out the character (right), and fill in any gaps with a brush. The main purpose of this is so I can use Alpha Lock to avoid going over the lines during painting.
Some really interesting resources (and interesting art channels) that I've been using as a reference point:
(that last one has english subtitles btw, bless you based naoki saito dragalia artist)
(left) Changing the base colour to brown helps with gaps while painting skin, and changing the background colour to a neutral tone helps with balancing contrast.
(right) Afterwards, I start blocking out the individual pieces with various colours so its easy to tell what I have or haven't missed.
Once colours are down, slap some shading in with hue shifting to spice up the colour variety. I don't know what the non-pixel art term for this is, but basically it's when you make the colour change hue and saturation as it darkens. Here's an example of the scarf, without hue shifting on the left, and with on the right:
Since each section of the image is its own layer, the colours can be adjusted until everything looks good. This is usually where I do that technique where you put a grey layer over the image and setting the Blend Mode to Color. This makes the image greyscale, so luminosity/contrast can be adjusted for readability (combined with eye squinting to see how easy it is to distinguish important image elements).
After that's done, the real change that makes the piece less harsh is to alpha lock the line layer, then start painting over it with colours that match the surroundings.
Here's also where I make small touch ups, like remembering to colour the rest of the hair and shorts, and doing that thing where the face has a soft skin glow that affects the surrounding hair.
Here's the fun part where I put a bacground in, otherwise known as throwing random colours around and seeing what sticks. I wanted try my hand at the cool brush stroke outline effect, which basically involved painting outlines between layers that sit on top of each other, such as between the palm of the hand and arm, or the back shoulder and the hair. Also random cat paws and sparkles for good measure.
Some cheeky Ben Day (aka comic book / manga) dots over areas where light might shine and create bloom. Into the spider-verse does this and it looks awesome.
Finally, air brushing some colours over the top on a layer with Soft Light blend mode. It's not readily apparent when isolated, but if I greyscale the image and then apply the layer it gives a dream-like effect
This video by OyunOrka quite succinctly goes over a bunch of things that can be done here, but obv don't have to do all of them.
This is part of why planned obsolescence is so evil. We could all have a phone or laptop that is made ethically that could last 10-20 years without the cost of human life and without filling landfills with electronic waste. But instead since the world is built on Line Go Up we are forced into a position where our tech (which we increasingly need to participate in modern life) self destructs so we have to spend more money at the expense of human life and the environment.
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