Moonshell Island scene of a group of NPCs gathered inside a community hall decorated with string lights

Moonshell Island's protagonist Sam (a young purple haired girl) talking to Douglas (a large beaver guy) in a verdant lakeside area near his carpentry shack. Douglas: Sounds like you've got something radical in mind... Lay it on me, bud! Sam: I'm rebuilding this game from scratch! [unselected dialogue option]: Where's the self-destruct button on this thing?

Pink backpack filled with items against a night scene outside Crabby's clubhouse

Blue planner opened to the quest tab with details on the New Years Party quest

Hey #PortfolioDay - I'm Sam!

I do #pixelart & #gamedev for my passion project, #Moonshell_Island. It's taking a long time, but I hope you'll enjoy the journey with me as much as I enjoy sharing it!

Your support means a lot! 🦀💜

Wishlist: s.team/a/1629660
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And the timelapse

A cute little pixel art frog

Just doodled this little guy #pixelart

Stardew valley portrait of a dark haired woman

My wife’s favourite game is Stardew Valley, so I tried my hand at making a custom portrait for her. #pixelart #stardew

Crabby holds a large basket of painted eggs while wearing a bunny hood and waiting impatiently for the miniature rabbits to finish working on the last 2 eggs to go in the basket.

Happy bun day! 🐰 Hop you enjoy those eggs!!! 🧺
#pixelart

Finally finished my intro cut scene for Crash Bandicoot Twisted. It's heavily inspired by huge adventure, but I felt like there were too many plot holes so I wanted to do my own take. Let me know what you think! #pixelart #gamedev #crashbandicoot #gameboyadvance #retro #indiedev #retrogaming

This was the original pixel art sketch/thumbnail for the cover. The airship and logo were reused from elsewhere. Unfortunately I haven’t figured out how to do a timelapse in Affinity Designer.

Day spent decorating and tweaking some sharp edges to make
camera path less painful to get working.

#sAm_art

Box art cover image for Crash Bandicoot Twisted for the GBA. Crash is falling, while a Cortex Airship is looking menacing in the background. Vector art illustration.

Made a box art image for Crash Bandicoot Twisted. I had a first draft of this that was pixel art, but I realised vector art would scale better for printing. It was fun learning affinity designer to create this. #CrashBandicoot #gamedev #vector #GBA

A frog logo drawn in the style of a Victoria Silhouette, with a monocle, top hat and serious expression.

Made this for fun this afternoon. This is a visual pun based on a company name. Any guesses? #pixelart #puzzle

Resident Evil Requiem game mockup

#ResidentEvilRequiem #pixelart #ドット絵

And here is the timelapse #pixelart #timelapse #gamedev #crashbandicoot #GBA

Also just if you were in doubt, here's the intro of the Phoenix Wright Case 1 demake running on my Game boy Pocket!
#pixelart #gameboy

Coco Bandicoot sitting on the beach working on her laptop, at golden hour. Pixel art style

Another intro scene from my fan game Crash Bandicoot Twisted. Had a lot of fun making this, although drawing the crossed legs was a struggle
. #pixelart #crashbandicoot #gamedev #GBA

Here is a timelapse of my drawing process thanks to #pixquare . Think I struggled with the foreshortening of Crash’s left leg the most. Total time was about 17 hours #crashbandicoot #pixelart #gamedev #timelapse

Crash bandicoot lying on a couch in the middle of the beach at twilight. A small crab and some wumpa fruit are in the sand. Pixelart

Another shot from my fan project Crash Bandicoot Twisted’s opening cutscene. #pixelart #gamedev #crashbandicoot

For something so cold, the ice rink sure brings out some fiery passion!
#pixelart #gameboy

Flappy Coot, a Crash Bandicoot Flappy Bird fan game, out now on itch and gamejolt

sam-gamedev.itch.io/flappy-coot
gamejolt.com/games/flappy...

#sAm_art #CrashBandicoot

Made a bit more progress on the intro sequence for my GBA fan game Crash Bandicoot twisted. This is ~50% of the opening I have planned. #crashbandicoot #pixelart #gamedev

Fantasy helmet design

Thanks, Spy Fox was one of my main references, so definitely the vibe I was going for

Nanite Tessellation Nanite Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Displacement was the next major feature I worked on after Nanite it...

I'm finally writing up how Nanite Tessellation works. The first few blogs posts are up. More will be coming.
graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani...

It is time! We've just released the second demo of Zabu, our beat 'em up for the Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis.

Check it out! 👊 zabu.team

Another old #pixelart mockup I did. It was a fun reimagined Sega Aladdin.

In game style for reference

Pixel art image of Neo Cortex pleading with Uka Uka

Dr Neo Cortex pleading with Uka Uka, Crash Bandicoot Huge Adventure

Messing around with some style ideas to differentiate cutscenes for Crash Bandicoot Twisted. I wanted something quicker/simpler to draw that evoked Saturday morning cartoons, (there are 11 panels just in the intro). IDK if it’s too much or a departure. Wdyt? #pixelart

Giant skeleton & human skeleton, #pixelart, 14 colors.

Gaiamaster inspired boardgame. From PS1

I'll post most of my old work here, including my #pixelart. Starting with this piece.

My fossil maker toy. An auto-generated ostritch-looking dinosaur skeleton sits in the middle. The text at the bottom just directs to the URL: castpixel.itch.io/fossil-maker

I didn't expect such a warm reception to my anime sfx generator. Thank you 😊

Here's another tiny toy; Fossil Maker. Create random, mostly silly-looking, fossils of creature skeletons

castpixel.itch.io/fossil-maker

This was a fun one to work on #crashbandicoot #pixelart #GBA