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Brooks Bishop
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💫 Dreamer of Dreams at Creaky Lantern Games. @creakylantern.com
🕹️ Made Street Cleaner: The Video Game and bullet hell shmup Aeternum. #pixelart #indiedev
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October 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Dumb meme joke idea I got watching an FF8 play through by @taxincluded.bsky.social .
July 17, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Wanted to get a copy of Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games for a while now, and finally picked one up. Such a quality book. Also it’s too nice not to keep it protected, so I made a slipcase for it.
Photo of the front of A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games sitting on a wooden table. Photo of A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games sitting on a wooden table, opened to the entry on Final Fantasy for NES. Photo of A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games protruding from a dark red cloth covered slipcase, sitting on green cutting mat.
May 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Working on some sprites for Street Cleaner 3 bonus content.
Mysterious closeup from Street Cleaner 3. Pixel art, NES palette. A cat sleeps somewhere.
March 14, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Dispensing vigilante justice by beating up criminal punks and an evil wizard bent on unleashing supernatural terror. streetcleaner3.com
Screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. Pixel art, NES palette. Sukeban Honoko punches a street punk while riding a flat bed train car. Screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. Pixel art, NES palette. Vigilante Jack Slade dive kicks over some spikes towards a gunner street punk in the mall. Screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. Pixel art, NES palette. Evil wizard Wu-Fang stands in front of a giant phoenix sigil, rallying his ninja troops.
March 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Can I join?
A card from the game Cosmic Frog showing the “Visionary Frog” with some amazing art of a psychic frog having a vision of two smaller frogs rendered I. Smoke emanating from its eyes.
February 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Here's another one of my old #pixelart studies. The chip-maestro himself, @danimalcannon.com as a heavy metal JRPG bard.
A pixel art rendition of Danimal Cannon holding a lute, wearing a black vest covered in numerous buckles. His booted leg is propped on a treasure chest, and he his throwing the horns with his right hand.
January 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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We're just a month away from releasing Street Cleaner 3 to the world, with the companion album of new Street Cleaner music! If you're into challenging retro 8-bit platformers we'd love it if you could help out and add it to your wishlist for the final stretch! #indiegame #pixelart streetcleaner3.com
A screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. Pixel art. A girl in a sailor uniform with blue hair runs away as a giant mechanical dragon driven by a ninja crashes through the wall behind her. A screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. Pixel art. Riding a flatbed train car, a bald man readies his chain whip against a giant four-legged mech as its weak point opens. A screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. Pixel art. A girl in a sailor uniform stands in a darkened cemetary grove looking up at the moon shrouded by tall trees and a trio of praying statues. There is a payphone nearby. A screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. Pixel art. Jack Slade, the titular Street Cleaner, rides his motorcycle down the palm tree flanked highway, dodging a hail of bullets from a pair of skull-shaped cannons, and bouncing orbs released by a three-wheeled car.
January 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Another mysterious room finished on stream today. This is locking down the last of the content I have planned for Street Cleaner 3's launch. We're so close! Wishlist at streetcleaner3.com, and watch us dev at www.twitch.tv/creakylantern! #indiedev #pixelart
A screenshot of Street Cleaner 3 showing a mysterious room. NES palette pixel art. The Street Cleaner stands in the fog, apparently trapped by the rocky terrain.
December 19, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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Can't wait to see what happens when people finally encounter this room. There's more to it than there may seem.
A screenshot from Street Cleaner 3 in the mall stage. There are horizontally symmetric platforms in three tiers. Five different types of enemies appear.
December 18, 2024 at 5:21 AM
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Had to cut stream early, but in the couple hours online I was able to make plasma beam emitting rats! The final sprite won't be rats, but I usually use that when I need a temp sprite.
An in progress screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. 2d NES style pixel art. The player jumps down a hallway dodging super-heated beams being emitted by rat sprites.
December 9, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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Here's 4096 copies of the logo being transformed in the compute shader at 60fps. I'm sure this could do way better, but I have an absolute potato of a video card.
The Creaky Lantern Games logo being drawn as 4096 randomly placed and rotated overlapping quads. You can't even see the beautiful cornflower blue background any more.
December 6, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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This may not look like much, but after a bunch of work on stream I managed to get a Vulkan compute shader to transform sprite info into a vertex stream on the GPU! This is probably way overkill for the kinds of games I make, but I enjoy the learning. www.twitch.tv/creakylantern
A simple looking screenshot displaying a single textured quad of the Creaky Lantern Games logo over a cornflower blue background that belies the technical complexity of using a Vulkan compute shader to generate the vertices on GPU.
December 6, 2024 at 4:57 AM
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I've been working on the end/post game stuff for Street Cleaner 3 to get this thing wrapped up. Actually designed a bit of it on stream today, so here's a peek at a bonus hidden platforming section. #pixelart #indiedev www.twitch.tv/creakylantern
A screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. NES palette pixel art. Player character Honoko (in her unlockable City Pop costume) performs a wall jump to dodge between sets of electrical spark hazards.
December 5, 2024 at 1:31 AM
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Was working on refactoring the skin system today on stream, and I accidentally made a rat player skin. www.twitch.tv/creakylantern
The "skin select" screen from Street Cleaner 3, except a bug has replaced one of Honoko's player skins with the rat animation.
December 3, 2024 at 4:13 AM
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A photoshop of a gag from The Simpsons where Homer excitedly calls a home shopping line to see if the "limited" microphones are still in stock and the man on the other end says "Yeah, a few." while sitting in front of a warehouse of said product, except replaced with X hats.
December 3, 2024 at 1:49 AM
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Here's the road mesh from the stream work yesterday dynamically rebuilding, with a trochoidal vertical offset.
November 28, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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During today's stream we got a big raid of people interested in graphics programming, so I switched gears and made a mesh builder to create a spline-based road using SDL3's new GPU tools. Learned a lot and had a bunch of fun! #indiedev www.twitch.tv/creakylantern
A screenshot of some code used to generate the vertices and indices of a spline-based road mesh, along with a window of the output showing a perspective view of a wavy "road" featuring the Creaky Lantern games logo.
November 28, 2024 at 1:35 AM
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Lately in between finishing up the final bits of content for Street Cleaner 3, I've been working on learning more modern GPU methodologies with SDL3 and I've got it drawing colored triangles! When I have a better grasp of this I plan on doing some code jamming on stream with a couple game ideas.
A screen capture showing some graphics code using SDL3's GPU library, along with the output: a rectangular window featuring a calming cornflower blue background (thank you XNA), and a pair of triangles with corner colors forming a rectangle. Red in upper left, lime green upper right, white in lower left and blue in lower right.
November 24, 2024 at 5:08 AM
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Today's on stream dev adventure was creating, from scratch, a UI for selecting player skins. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. #StreetCleaner www.twitch.tv/creakylantern
Screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. NES style retro platformer. The player is interacting with an arcade cabinet that depicts the playable characters for selecting character skins.
November 12, 2024 at 2:13 AM
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Given recent events I decided I needed a bit of a distraction, so I picked up Echoes of Wisdom and decided to play it on stream yesterday. Going to continue that today www.twitch.tv/creakylantern
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom wide cover art showing a shot of stylized Hyrule, Zelda waves the Tri-Rod, with Link and Ganon floating ominously in the background.
November 7, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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Today on stream I thought I'd take a little break from Street Cleaner dev and work on my 3d tile map editor. Fixed some things that had been bugging me, and implemented some other things it's been missing. Hope to use this to make maps for future games. #gamedev www.twitch.tv/creakylantern
Screenshot of 3d tile map editor using Dear IMGUI showing an example of dirt and grassy hills, projected global shadowing and a water shader plane, in isometric view. Screenshot of 3d tile map editor using Dear IMGUI showing an example of dirt and grassy hills and a shader water plane, in projection view. Screenshot of 3d tile map editor using Dear IMGUI showing an example of dirt and grassy hills and a shader water plane with the ambient color brought down to display lights of various colors shining off surfaces, in isometric view.
October 22, 2024 at 4:21 AM
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Got quite a lot done as far as animating this boss on stream today. www.twitch.tv/creakylantern #pixelart #gamedev
October 12, 2024 at 2:50 AM
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Starting day ten of Street Cleaner dev at www.twitch.tv/creakylantern. Going to work on art and design for a boss fight today.
A pixel art mermaid. Green skin, brown hair, blue tail, adorned with gold bracers, choker and diadem.
October 11, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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Hi, I'm Brooks! The designer, programmer, and artist at Creaky Lantern Games. We made Aeternum (bullet hell shmup) and Street Cleaner: The Video Game (8-bit retro platformer). We're making a sequel to Street Cleaner, streaming dev MWF at www.twitch.tv/creakylantern. See creakylantern.com for more!
A screenshot from Aeternum. An anime style bullet hell shmup. Purple-haired demon school girl Ellica faces off against Archibald, the Cat Wrangler, a large flying orange squid in a duel of bullets. Archibald is firing lines of bullets at Ellica, who has summoned Buer (a demon with the head of a lion surrounded by five goat legs) to protect herself as she fires back. The arena is a grassy path in the early morning with large blue fluffy clouds hanging in the air in front of an oversized moon. A screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. 8-bit pixel art in the NES palette. The eponymous Street Cleaner in blue jacket/pants/helmet carrying a white baseball bat strides down a path at night flanked with trees towards a pink graveyard wall. A jiang-shi crouches just ahead of him, ready to pounce.
October 11, 2024 at 3:49 AM