Skoops!

Skoops!

@skoops.newgrounds.com

Artist and game dev | Solo Dev of Black Star Zelana | skoops.newgrounds.com

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Black Star Zelana is the name of my game, Zelana Blackstar is the name of its protagonist. These are the vibes I want to bring you. 🎵"Underground Fuzz" by JensVide

I do a lot of 3D. I bet if you gave me a year I'd have a good enough portfolio for freelance modeling work. Unfortunately I usually just do stuff for free games that need to have small file sizes so all I have to show is shit like this.

Instead of trying to track down everyone I worked with or went to college with on LinkedIn, I'm just going through comments on posts about AI to see who's talking shit about it and adding them.

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Got a few more drawing timelapses saved up. Now that I know people actually like watching them, I'm gonna have to enable that feature on Clip more often, cuz I haven't for a while.

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"you can't avoid ai, it's in everything" *Looks at the 800 something game devs on my starter packs of devs that don't use AI* Yeah I think I'll be okay.

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the "you can't avoid AI, it's in all software now" argument might be true for infrastructure, where we have limited agency over the platforms and systems that make up our society, but is hilariously untrue for video games, a completely optional and easily ignored part of all of our lives

Looking for new contract work. Mortified it's still standard practice to doxx yourself on LinkedIn just for people to look at your applications. These sites have security breaches every five months, I just want to get a job without putting a little bow on a "steal this identity" box. Please.

At last, my Dumpling Fairy is complete. It's pretty difficult making a dumpling out of clay, turns out. #dorohedoro #ceramics

I've been pretty healthy lately but I've still got that pointless lizard brain anxiety that if my heart rate goes over 100 I'll instantly die.

Every quiet moment that leaves Zelana alone with her thoughts is one to be drowned out. If she's not enwrapped in reckless combat, she'll be probing her contacts for leads on the fastest way to throw herself into it. Caution and passivity lost the war; strike first from now on or lose everything.

Tell me about your #AwesomeCharacters I'm sorry I am late everyone! Got locked out of BlueSky all afternoon! 😭 As I impatiently waited to return, the questions became: Is your character patient? How do they handle delays and waits? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

The nature of Rex's work involves spacetime distortions that makes every mission guarantee he won't recognize the universe he returns to. He's not in a rush to roll the dice again, but it's hard to say if it's patience or apprehension keeping him from his next hunt.

Every quiet moment that leaves Zelana alone with her thoughts is one to be drowned out. If she's not enwrapped in reckless combat, she'll be probing her contacts for leads on the fastest way to throw herself into it. Caution and passivity lost the war; strike first from now on or lose everything.

Tell me about your #AwesomeCharacters I'm sorry I am late everyone! Got locked out of BlueSky all afternoon! 😭 As I impatiently waited to return, the questions became: Is your character patient? How do they handle delays and waits? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Tikki almost seems wise by comparison - a viper in her den, waiting for her prey to make a fatal mistake. Sure she's spending all her bounties at the bar while she waits, but that's an *advanced* relaxation technique.

Witch Hat Atelier's not-so-secretly about drawing. There's a segment about ghosting your strokes, there's a character that won't grow because "it's my style" - if you look for it, you will find it. And it's right, drawing IS magic. You're making worlds by wiggling your hands the right way. Come on.

No Witchtober this year, sorry to say. In addition to working on something else for Halloween, I've wanted for a while to switch focus back to bigger, more ambitious pieces that push my limits rather than spam a bunch of lower quality stuff. I'm too slow to ever get traction here but oh well.

Not-so-lowkey think it'd be an awesome purchase option to get a hand-labeled CD from the devs of indie games, maybe with little doodles and what have you. The more it looks like a bootleg, the better.

Eternal Skies TCG RPG@eternalskies.neocities.org

This is the future of physical games: lightscribe technology. I am prepared to make physical versions of my game using the latest and greatest tech. With bonus cat legs.

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It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

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Replying to @kaitave.bsky.social

it's much closer to how "no personal attacks" works in 'centrist' spaces: saying trans people shouldn't have rights isn't a personal attack and is thus allowed, but telling that person to fuck off or responding with any hostility at all is a personal attack and thus banned

Spend enough time in deep space and you may encounter Red. She has a penchant for chaos and toying with mortals, but the torment she brings is just a byproduct of her curiosity. It's fun writing a trickster god character like Q from TNG with a demonic twist. Hopefully her antics entertain.

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Let's have a character appreciation day! Tell me one thing you love about your character! Something that is important to who that are, that you appreciate them for, even at their lowest ❤️ #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Tikki (sci-fi design WIP) shares a hatred for the Imperials, but her methods of revenge are savage, reckless and rife with collateral damage. Zelana condemns her methods from the outset, coming to blows over it at least once, but changes in circumstance might just lead her to see things her way.

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Does your character have a rival? Not necessarily an antagonist, but someone they feel competitive towards? Is it a friendly rivalry, or more contentious? Does that change over the course of the story? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Feels like at least twice a year, I come down with some affliction that would have killed me if I still lived in the states, but takes fifteen minutes and seven bucks to totally fix in Taiwan.