Jon Keller (Hire me for pixel art work!)

Ya'll know you can wishlist Arclands on Steam already? Please do so if you wanna build cute RPG villages, it helps a lot! 🧙‍♂️ store.steampowered.com/app/1462160/Ar… 🧙‍♀️ #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

@arufuhreel Still in development! 🥲

@jonkellerdev bro @jonkellerdev what is the state of this game? its been YEARS... 😭😭😭

New Kickstarter Update because Arclands aint a solo dev project no more!! 🦧 Also a little contest for our boys in green kickstarter.com/projects/jonke…

I Just woke up from a nap and everybody is tweeting in German? 😭 I thought I was ging crazy for a sec but apparently X now auto-translates tweets according to your selected language. Great feature that everybody asked for. 👏

@kiaran_ritchie Yeah exactly! Super weird lol

@jonkellerdev I don't like it either and I've been struggling to explain exactly why. Best I can figure it's because it looks like a bunch of generic fantasy models scattered on a landscape.

Crimson Desert might be the most fake looking video game yet. Like everything just seems 100% artificial and out of place, like it doesn't really exist in the game world. 3D artists please explain, because I can't quite pinpoint why I feel this way.

@senkijk Definitely true, but I didn't talk about AI at all

@jonkellerdev Might be Baader–Meinhof phenomenon as well - Since we're being fed with AI news left and right, we might tend to look for it more than ever.

@Refract3d Yeah, the lighting definitely looks weird, but I was wondering why one might perceive it as weird. I feel like most things look like they're made out of clay, while other things look jarringly realistic. Might just hit the uncanny valley in a very unique way lol

@jonkellerdev You may be picking up on the game's unique lighting engine. Since this isn't UE5, i had read they use their own raytraced planar interpolation, and it behaves quite uniquely.

@babadokia That definitely plays a part! Nothing seems like it has any history whatsoever.

@jonkellerdev I think the world is very clean, like all the castle walls and everything made of stone looks like it was made yesterday

@SyntaxesOfPlay Maybe. I am however strictly speaking about the visuals. There is something weird about how textures are lit I think. Everything kinda looks like it's made out of clay lol

@jonkellerdev It might be because as artists ourselves, lack of world building and the consequential lack of coherence manifested in all the little details is easily discoverable by our "lack-of -grounded-ness radar", without us having to spell them out. IMHO it's evident if compare with KCD2.

wtf the animation on the snake goes damn hard

@moonfell_rpg @PixelArtJourney Thanks a lot!!

@jonkellerdev @PixelArtJourney Agreed, and this beautiful 😍

theres something so satisfying and neat about isometric interiors #pixelart

@AleksanderCodes I feel isometric isn't a particularily challenging perspective to work with, as long as you stay on grid. Just block out things with primitive shapes and refine from there.

@jonkellerdev Difficult to design? Any tips on how to start with these?

Harriet Dean, Scottish Claymore and a Saxony Parrying Dagger if that counts

welcome to the frog room #pixelart

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low res elemental hits #pixelart

@AleksanderCodes that's 18 pixels to much

@jonkellerdev It’s only 18 pixels off!

4:3 still looks so good somehow 🙏 If you're working on a game with a 4:3 resolution show me I wanna seeee #pixelart #indiedev

@AleksanderCodes Thanks, can't say anything about that yet. Good luck with your project, even though it isn't 4:3......

@jonkellerdev I'm working on my first game, which will be a digging game! It's not *exactly* 4:3, but very close... have had to pause development due to studies, but will come back to it soon. Came from the 1-Bit Jam Really love the look of your artstyle! Is this a game in development?

@r1kgames Hell yeah!

@jonkellerdev I’m working an an nes style RPG and we still use 4:3!