I've only been posting my art on Mastodon, so it feels weird to share non-art stuff, which is silly since I chose gamedev.place as my server.

It's been 10 years working on the same game now. Pixel Art Academy is my life's work at this point as there's no end in sight. This makes me feel guilty at times for taking this long. But mostly I've processed it and I just feel grateful I get to do this for so long.

Anyway, I'm out of characters, so here's a video retrospective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj9MlFrvM6w

Diary of an artist who doesn't do art …

It's been getting harder lately. Marketing my commercial work for a month now, work that is—unlike personal art—supposed to bring results, it's hard not to stress over metrics and compare myself to others. Hard not to feel my work is not good enough, that it doesn't matter as much as the popular, award-nominated titles. It's been weighing on me and distorting my self image.

I forgot there, for a moment, to just be myself.

@DavidBFox Hi David, I'm writing an introduction to the term jaggies in pixel art. Would this match with how you thought of them when working on Rescue on Fractalus!?

"Many things in your drawings will align with the grid. Pixels can perfectly match such shapes.

With diagonals and curves, what should be straight and smooth appears jagged—spiky and sharp. These stair-like deformations (unintended jagged edges) are called 'jaggies' and contribute to the blocky appearance of pixel art."