So, wanna see something funky about 🐭⚔️?

When you see a house like this, it looks, you know, decent, right?

Well the colors are kinda faked on after the fact. What the artist ACTUALLY hands me, what the assets themselves are set up to look like, is this!

Any guesses why? Well you're likely wrong 🧵

A random little gif from the bus ride up to visit my parents

#frog #gif #lizard #metamorphosis

I never remember to ask until I'm actually writing the post, but if you're a sunny.garden user and have a photo or piece of art, etc. (preferably wide or easily cropped) that I could use as the header of the monthly review (like https://hub.sunny.garden/2025/05/05/the-sunny-gardener-april-2025/) then send me a link.  

The submission deadline for this month is whenever I finish writing the post (probably tomorrow around this time)  

#SunnyGardenAdmin

📝 wrote about visiting Gallaudet University and the Signing Starbucks in D.C.! some words and photos (!) from the travel, but mostly a reflection on being a hearing person in Deaf spaces

https://kayserifserif.place/posts/2025/gallaudet-and-the-signing-starbucks

Okay, it's out.

Lena is a handmade framework for making tiny games with palette graphics.

It's software-rendered, cross-platform and comes with constraints that challenge your creativity without limiting your game's size and scope. It comes with batteries-included palette graphics, some novel palette-blending and drawing effects, a simple audio interface, text rendering, and loaders and decoders for assets. It also compiles and runs on:

🪟 Windows (Native)
🍏 macOS (Native)
🐧 Linux (via SDL3)
😖 WebAssembly (Native)

The core functionality of Lena is implemented from scratch in almost exactly 2,000 lines of Odin, and while I designed it as a fun little game jam framework for myself, I hope it can also serve as an interesting learning tool for people looking to delve deeper into low-level system and engine programming for video games.

🕹️ https://github.com/lichendust/lena

I'm releasing this as a version v0.0.0 on GitHub right now, with the hope of getting some feedback before declaring a truly API-stable 1.0.0 release.

#gamedev #programming #gameengine #odin #pixelart

These beauties are made by illustrator and fiber artist Tomoko Kubo who stitches large hiragana characters (Japan's phonetic syllabary), with little illustrations of things that begin with that sound.
#FiberArt #embroidery #EmbroideryArt #lettering @fiberarts

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/04/tomoko-kubo-hiragana-embroidery/

finally done with this Kratos commission! pen and ink on bristol, 11x17

if you want something like this on your wall, don't worry; i plan on opening up commissions again soon. stay tuned <3

#penandink #mastoart #commission #godofwar #illustration