rowan

rowan

@bezeltorpe.net

pixel artist, mustard liker, fka breadotop. views are my own. my work is organic. previous work: diorama break

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THEY'RE GOING ROGUE

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THE TALENTS HAVE BREACHED CONTAINMENT!... Welp, no use stopping them now... The three mystery talents will be anonymously interacting in the Blaze community server until their reveal next month! Stay tuned for their official Watch-along Applications opening in early November!

i might start posting screenshots of a game that's become a great comfort for me to work on during my free time. the most important thing is getting these tiles just right though...

usually watching a great film leaves me feeling inspired. you can see everything left me with this vague sense of hatred and despair

i think seeing this movie and then seeing what happened to next fest right after really fucked me up actually. thinking about all the times i've had to close doors behind me because my moral boundaries were violated. i'm still making things with people i trust, but it rarely gets easier.

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developers, is this a concern for you when it comes to next fest or any other sort of demo? has it influenced your recent decision making? if so, get in touch. DMs are open, email is nathan@aftermath.site, and I’m nathangrayson.666 on signal

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making top-down tilesets........... is so hard. the hardest part is not having a sky or a lot of non-traversible terrain to work with in the maps. i'll figure it out...

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my piece has gotten a lot of very thoughtful comments on itch and i've forgotten how to respond un-awkwardly to this many messages, so if anyone from the jam sees this: sincerely thank you. i have given you all one (1) upvote

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Q: How long did this take to make? A: five hours. i thought this would take two hours. idk why i thought that. i've been told that this looks like it took more than five hours though so i'm still happy with that

Q: What is this place? A: it's a location in dark souls 3 and i keep forgetting to actually explicitly say that

(Q&A with myself to prove the humanity in the art lol) Q: How does this fit the 192 tile limit set for the jam? A: i mostly spammed the same fence/column/stairs tiles over and over. the savings add up

Q: Isn't the moon supposed to be on the other side of this building? A: yeah but i like this side of this place more because my friend lives there

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GDoCExpo was four days. The work is year-round. No-fee showcases. Paid speakers. No-strings grants and scholarships. Spaces to build a career. We're at $17K of our $25K goal to break even & keep it going! If the Expo meant something to you, help us close the gap. 🙌🏾 gamedevsofcolor.org/donate

i feel just a little bit insane every day from the things i end up doing compulsively. learning about [pre]historic uses of rushes and tumbling down another taxonomic revision rabbit hole on one particular type of rush. also realized i didn't actually know what a rush was

the compulsive part is that i'm not sure if i needed to know all this just to draw something

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everyone wants to tell artists what to do and i wish we could shift to telling audiences what to do sometimes. if you liked webcomics that were on tapas, follow somewhere else. learn to use RSS. don't let the seamlessness of apps turn your brain into soup. you can change your habits

i like the idea of girl games but the games are super intense or brutal difficulty-wise, or have very opinionated and/or finely tuned game design. like celeste or mina the hollower. that's girl gaming

girl gaming also involves playable girls (should've included touhou), but not everyone in the story has to be a girl (momodora). maybe metroid counts, but it's so mainstream and ubiquitous that it might transcend gender gaming

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btw your two-second sketch got more internet attention than the finished piece you poured weeks into because it was an effective drawing that communicated an idea/feeling well, and because the internet prioritizes simplicity. you're not a hack. keep putting in the hours

at some point, i felt like i was getting tired of learning things. turns out i was only getting tired of learning about certain kinds of things. now i've learned the truth about artorias the abysswalker instead, and my life is just a little bit more enjoyable again from that

this was a joke but then i realized i don't want to open the gate to revealing all of lordran's secrets to my friends that aren't already in the know

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I've played through Metroid on its entirety, I've seen what happens to Samus. If she wants to start eating people by now, I think she earned it.

gifs work on desktop bsky again wow! no idea why. look at my miku with my horrible caption bsky.app/profile/beze...

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#ProjectVoltage Poison Miku @ Black Sludge Ability: Serene Grace EVs: 393 HP / 393 Spe Miku Nature - Toxic Spikes - Headbutt - Protect - Roar *sets a layer of toxic spikes*

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#ProjectVoltage Poison Miku @ Black Sludge Ability: Serene Grace EVs: 393 HP / 393 Spe Miku Nature - Toxic Spikes - Headbutt - Protect - Roar *sets a layer of toxic spikes*