Library area from Vagrant Story

Library area from Vagrant Story with wireframe showing how it follows the shadow forms

Overhead view of the area, showing the long shadow casting

Vagrant Story's hand-painted shadows weren't new at the time, but damn did they did it so well. Pinnacle game art for the PS1 generation.

- SOMNOLITH -
An experimental King's Field-y adventure game with *extremely* authentic PSX-style visuals, made in Unity.
I only work on this one intermittently, and it's not far along, but it's probably my favorite project.
Gameplay will mostly be wandering around, puzzles, and talking to weirdos.

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

three green frogs dancing under a plumeria. they have an old radio and two bottles of mandarin flavour 'jarritos'

an oldie

I got tired of seeing AI-generated #gamer bots following me and other #gamedev​s so I made a moderation list. You can subscribe to it and choose mute or block to keep your Bluesky interactions more human: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Version 0.30 released! A major new version of Look Outside is released! This comes with a lot of new content and visual updates, though the game still has no endings. The full release of Look Outside should be sometime in J...

A new version of Look Outside is out! A major update with many changes, but more changes are coming soon. Check the changelog here. frankiesmileshow.itch.io/look-outside...

game genres

I made some game genres logos for my retro game collection. You're welcome to use them <3

Pixel art of a dark tentacled flower beast with a gold mask holding a pink crystal pearl

Pixel art of a hooded batlike specter with two floating hands, each with a crystal pearl in the palms

Pixel art of a wooden grasshoper style dryad with a gold mask and a flower garden on its back

Some boss sprites from an old jam game #pixelart #gamedev

I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

I love that jewel tone palette!

My Confounding Cat is Criminally Cute: A cute boys love VN about a grumpy wizard and a cheerful catboy.

ebihime.itch.io/criminal-cat... by @ebihimes.bsky.social

I'm claiming this spot for later.