Richard Jordan

Pluggity plug! Melkhior's Mansion, isometric, retro, pixel art, free, what more could you ask for? Download from bitglint.itch.io/melkhiors-mans… @hot_piping @alberto_mcalby #melkhiorsmansion #gamedev #monogame #indiedev #pixelart

@Packobilly2 Los gráficos son de @hot_piping 😎

Qué maravilla gráfica, chiquillo... 😍😍😍

@Sachi3L @Bintejifr Les pixels sont par @hot_piping 😎

@Bintejifr Ouah visuellement il est top !

J’ai envie d’acheter une playdate

@PolygonCrypt Can't take the credit for the graphics. It's the incredible work of @hot_piping 🙂

@EricRetro That graphics style really speaks to me.

Some of the special baddies from the original Melkhior's Mansion will be making an appearance in Melkhior's Tower. Not 100% sure what they'll do yet, I need to figure that out. bitglint.itch.io/melkhiors-towe… #melkhiorstower #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

@literally66561 Well, not quite, but yeh, inspired by. 😆😜

@EricRetro Literally just Knightlore (I really want to play this!)

Who'd have thought that after all the episodes over the years that we have never covered Tolkien's Middle Earth as a series , that's about to be remedied. Join Drisky & Kingy as they get into the high fantasy groove. But only after second breakfast. retrogamingdailyshow.libsyn.com/373-tolkiens-g…

Working on more interior props and pieces this week. Here is the blacksmith with all the new armour and helmet props for sale.

@Heasmo Yes, something to be wary of on the actual Playdate screen, dither flashing. The player characters move a lot, so they would suffer from it. #dither-flashing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">help.play.date/developer/desi…

@EricRetro Love the animated shadow blobs. Any reason why they didn't get the cross hatched treatment?

Ludonarrative dissonance. WTF is that? A new Melkhior's Tower dev log entry: bitglint.itch.io/melkhiors-towe… #melkhiorstower #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

A new series, where I list every Amiga Game worth playing today. This covers the letters # and A youtu.be/qkXpcV8wTJs Loads of work has gone into the video, so please consider, watching, and if possible, like, comment and subscribe to the channel to help it get noticed.

@nostalgicrealms I've dabbled with pixel art since the 8-bit days but never considered myself a pixel. However, what has surprised me in recent years is that you can get better with practice, and perhaps that's easier now because it's so easy to find reference images.

I was looking through my old art and I thought I'd make this post as I have seen a lot of fellow gamedevs asking 'how to get good at art' and thinking about taking shortcuts using ai art for their games. I was thinking, why are so many devs using ai art? Is it because it's better? Or it's an easy shortcut? Is it possible that they don't have confidence that they will ever reach a good enough level with their own art? I started learning gamedev and pixel art later in life. At first I had absolutely no idea what I was doing (see exhibit A from 2019!) Slowly I practiced, I was getting a little bit every month and the things I was trying to draw actually started looking like the ideas I had in my head. I learned that art really is a grind, but if you are determined it isn't impossible. If people want to use ai that's totally up to them but I think they are potentially not only robbing their game of visual character but also they are robbing themselves of whatever potential they might one day achieve by putting the work in. Am I the greatest artist? No way! But I think I'm way better than I was and I'm happy I put all those years into learning. I'm also happy that my game has it's own identity and character, something that is different. If I can do this from where I started I think anyone can.

@RustySabre Ahhh, that wasn't a problem for me, I love 1-bit graphics. 😁

@EricRetro I've just scratched the surface of development (basically a simple "hello world" type thing), but what intimidates me the most is my complete lack of graphics ability. Maybe I'll get ambitious someday :)

Been tinkering with the title screen and screen transitions in Melkhior's Tower. More info about the game in the devlog: itch.io/dashboard/game… #melkhiorstower #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

@RustySabre It's a lovely little device, and really enjoyable to develop for. Have to say though that the size of the screen can be a problem if a game's graphics are too small. The SDK guidelines do say that developers should be careful of this.

@EricRetro Actually, I've been quite impressed with what people do on the machine. And everything I've seen so far indicates yours should be among the best!

Working hard at the forge.

A little browser based Space Invaders clone that I wrote as a test project for beefing up my Unity skills. Play for free at bitglint.itch.io/retro-invaders #IndieGameDev #spaceinvaders #unity

Finally got around to uploading this. Have fun y'all. #Pico8 #GameDev #Cookie #Retro #remake minionsoft.itch.io/pico8-cookie

"ZX Spectrum graphics were terrible!" The graphics... 😍 (Round 2)

@RustySabre Haha, that's fair enough. I wondered if you thought that doing it on the Playdate might not work so well. Other than the tiny screen of course! 😄

@EricRetro Actually, I think it will play great (hence the "though I suspect it will"). I was just trying to post something other than a simple "looks great!" :)

@RustySabre I'm interested in why you think it won't play well? 🙂

@EricRetro Honestly, even if this didn't play well (though I suspect it will), this is one of the best looking PlayDate games I've seen!

Correct link to dev log... bitglint.itch.io/melkhiors-towe…