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hamrlan.bsky.social
That guy Rory
@hamrlan.bsky.social
150 followers 710 following 200 posts
33yo | he/him | Estonia, EU

I appreciate all feedback!

- Graphic designer,
- Hobby pixel artist,
- Hobby boardgame artist/designer,
- Plays video-, and board games
- A dad to a lad and a lass
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Everything has an end, and for the last day of #EmbervillePixelChallenge, it is the Self-Portrait, I took it literal, and tried my best to capture myself on a 32x32 pixel canvas using the Resurrect 64 palette.

#PixelArt
#Aseprite
a 32x32 self-portrait done in Aseprite with Resurrect 64 palette.
October 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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And for Oct 2nd of #EmbervillePixelChallenge, the "Dream Class" was explained to be, what playable class we would want to see in the game Emberville. I made a Warrior subclass, the Runesmith, that uses hammers and runes for buff/debuffs.

#PixelArt
#PixelArtAnimation
#Aseprite
October 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Bit of a belated October 1st submission for #EmbervillePixelChallenge - Seasonal

a jack-o-lantern for the autumn/halloween.

#PixelArt
#Aseprite
October 2, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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For Sept 30th of #EmbervillePixelChallenge prompt "Kymia".

Kymia, which in the Emberville universe is still mostly unknown what it actually is, though what we know from game lore is something that can be interpretated as the games respawn mechanic, thus. A respawn loop.

#PixelArt
#Aseprite
September 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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For Sept 29th for #EmbervillePixelChallenge Gloom. An little creepy, stalking gloomy dweller. Nothing fancy.

#PixelArt
September 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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For Sept 28th of #EmbervillePixelChallenge Embers are, according to my interpretation, the name of the community members of the Emberville discord (which are also called "Embers").

Thus, a bit of a character, but with a hell rider vibe
#PixelArt
a character sprite of "Embers", a community member of the Emberville Discord community. With a bit of hell rider vibe (flame hair). Set in 16x16, 600% scale, and 1500% scale
September 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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For #EmbervillePixelChallenge 's Sept 27's Beast submission, i can only give you partial "loot" from it, either the mask of a wooden beast, or then the head of a tree humanoid/golem/entity.

I got bionicles vibes while drawing it.

#PixelArt
a mask of what can only be described as a wooden beast, or then the head of a wooden/tree humanoid/golem/entity, in 16x16, +600% upscale and +1500% upscale, done in Aseprite
September 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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still sprite of the little dude
16x16, 500% scale, and 1500% scale of the dusk dweller with luminescent sprout to lighten up the darkness
September 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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For the 26th of Sept, Dusk, I made a little creature that would awake to illuminate the darkness, much like a firefly or will'-o'-the-wisp, yet a stone spirit. I also wanted to animate it, because I found it too cute!

#EmbervillePixelChallenge
#PixelArt
September 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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que Admiral Ackbar meme
It's a trap!

For #EmbervillePixelChallenge 's Sept 25 challenge, "Wilderness"

#PixelArt
a 16x16 pixel art of a Hunting Trap in bold bronze colors, in 3 different scales, original 16x16, 600% scale, and 1500% scale for readability.
September 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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With knowledge comes power. and with power comes Sept 24's #EmbervillePixelChallenge Book, with a magenta cover and blue ribbon bookmark to know what chapter we left off at.
a 16x16 pixel art book, isometric, with a magenta cover and blue ribbon, part of the EmbervillePixelChallenge
September 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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You know what time it is, Sept 23 "Key" of the #EmbervillePixelChallenge - keys are fun, i made a few more in different colors. Now, what could this open?

#PixelArt
a 16x16 pixel Key angled with its tip to the top-left, and bow to the bottom-right in a golden hue, in 3 sizes (original 16x16, 500% upscale, and 1600% upscale)
September 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Felt on edge, but put it in perspective and you got yourself a shiny one for the Sept 22's #EmbervillePixelChallenge Sword art, tried to have it point outwards.

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16x16 pixel art for a Sword for the EmbervillePixelChallenge, meant to be in a perspective pointing outwards towards the viewer.
September 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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For the Sept 21. Potion of #EmbervillePixelChallenge I grant you, a potion of Roasted Coffee Beans. It's like coffee, but magical. You always need that extra kick when you dungeon crawl.

#PixelArt
A 16x16 pixel potion containing Premium Roasted Coffee Beans. Mmm.
September 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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I'm challenging myself with the #EmbervillePixelChallenge! Submission for Sept 20. A Lantern. On the Emberville discord i also have the unlit version.

#pixelart
a 16x16 Pixel art of a lantern, for the #EmbervillePixelChallenge that the Emberville have for the next few weeks.
September 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Fanart cardgame concept for @emberville.bsky.social's Emberville. How to make a cardgame based on a dungeon crawler? As you use your weapon, you level it up.. making you hit more.. This is fan art, the game might not actually ever exist publicly. Spider is not fanart

#boardgame #fanart #pixelart 🎲✂️
you see a sword progression card set on the 2nd level - swords now hit for 2 dmg. You see a basic wooden sword with a default dmg of 1. You see a spider card that has 3 health, 1 dmg, and 1 shield. You also see that the player has defeated a spider and has the card flipped showing the loot (iron ingot).
September 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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🎲✂️ concept 2.1? texturing the map has begun. Borders will be worked on to get better readability. I colored the border fortifications and towns in the kingdom colors, to have a better understanding whom (during setup/start) controls it.

I've only had solo playtests so far.
close up of digital playtest of board game set in a fictional world. (see previous posts for previous concepts). screenshot shows textured winter/north hexes, trees, and mountain ranges. Kingdom colors for both fortifications (flat colors; squares) and towns/cities (flat colors; circles) to distinguish original controller. Especially needed around the borders as the textured terrain makes borders collide and get hidden (will work on making it somehow, more visible/readable once im done texturing whole map) full map of a board game set in a fictional world. Wargame, fog of war etc. (see previous posts for previous concepts). screenshot shows textured winter/north hexes, trees, and mountain ranges, also textured towns and fortifications with walls.. Kingdom colors for both fortifications (flat colors; squares) and towns/cities (flat colors; circles) to distinguish original controller. Especially needed around the borders as the textured terrain makes borders collide and get hidden (will work on making it somehow, more visible/readable once im done texturing whole map) keeping still some colors to its previous 2.0 concept as to remember what terrain type it is (forested hills/mountains and regular hills (although one can argue it could be dunes))
December 26, 2024 at 8:29 PM
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🎲✂️ 2nd concept, of the boardgame/wargame concept. upscaled.. recolored towns and castles into distinct colors.. no more plains just all terrain. bit clusterfudge of everything when testing digitally. Need to do some adjusting and balancing and solo testing and figure out automata mechanics..
upscaled (see previous posts) of a worldmap split in hexes, with nodes castles (red-pink hexes) and towns (grey hexes) and capital (other distinct colors) as well as harbors (blue hexes). digital testing with plotting down units (colored cubes) on the map in their respective regions and kingdom borders. if it looks messy it means it is actually quite a mess, and i need to rebalance, solotest, and figure out automata mechanics. and do more art art art art.. close up of a border cluster between different kingdoms, mountains (orange hexes) are not passable, and is a natural defense, so passages are a cluster of units cramped ontop of each other. just first concept of many
December 25, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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🎲✂️ my attempt at making a wargame. First concept; way too many hexes, too many factions for a 1-2+ player game. Fog of war mechanic, supply resource mechanic, etc. The next concept is upscaling the map, less hexes, less automata kingdoms, more compact.
Fantasy world as a hexmap, 50x50 hexes according to the tool. Colored in heightmap colors from sand yellow to greens to orange as mountains Playtest of how first setup for a medieval wargame boardgame concept. Supply provides units. All kingdoms both player managed and automata players has way too little supplies to cover all borders with units.
December 25, 2024 at 8:22 AM
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🎲✂️

While I have done more planets, I took a break and looked at tile design, and decided to go for a card that represents the planet, with colonization cost, resource exploit, construction, name of planet and VP.. This means of course that I have doubled the work for myself. Excellent.
screenshot from Tabletop simulator of a planetary tile with name, and construction slots, and depiction of a scorched planet. Then, a card (here same card, just one flipped and one showing information) - colonization cost, resource exploit (divided into faction favored exploitation, and non-faction favored exploitation) construction information, planet name, and also victory point still heavy work in progress.. I have too many ideas
November 23, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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takes an expectedly excessive time trying to do unique planets for the board game, and I'm only now on the 4th biome (dune/sand planets) out of 11 biomes.

☑️ Scorched
☑️ Volcanic
☑️ Arid
⏳ Dune

It's going great, best part, its fun 🎲✂️
screenshot of progress of making uniquely looking arid (two top rows) and desert planet (only one on the bottom row)
November 20, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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I can finish my day with all the 18 tiles for the first player faction. A lot of dried, scorched, and volcanic-type planets. Even one unique planet that is sought after by all players, a Gaia planet, or just a terraformed salt planet?

Tiles displayed in #TabletopSimulator for future playtests

🎲✂️
an array of planets of dried/arid, scorched and volcanic biome-ish. Even a unique planet that is sought after by all factions - if its found in the galaxy.. 1 faction's 18 tile set done (planet-wise), a few more to go.
November 18, 2024 at 9:49 PM
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..one tile on your neighbour to the left, and then to the right, and then you should have 2 tiles left, place them on your own spiral.

That's the galaxy. this is just concept still, needs some HC playtesting to shape it better.. 5- and 6-player setup is messy.

But other factions tiles, gives...
concept board game art for how players place out tiles (just depicted in colored hexes). General rule would be to place one hex on your side of the center of the galaxy, then on the opponents, then go around until you reach your own spiral, place 2 tiles, go around again, either same rotation or reverse. With 5 and 6 players (bottom two spirals) it is getting complicated. You'd skip one spiral, place a tile, skip another and place a tile, then two on your own, and go backwards around and placing tiles. This might actually not work, its a concept, needs playtesting
November 18, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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Not at all spent half my day researching how to do some proper nice surface alien planet textures, and then just wing it for 45 minutes in photoshop, and it turned out okay. - just 106 more planets to go, 12 different biomes give or take

here, updated tiles of some.. scorced volcanic planets..
🎲✂️
hexagon tiles depicting planets. one planet is drawn in a flat vector style, and two others are done in photoshop with a lot of brushes to imitate a nice planet surface seen from space. on black background.
November 18, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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Solo playtesting, a 2-player setup. A red player with "hot" planets, and a brown player with "dry" planets. Resources cubes on the tiles, for harvesting once colonized. Need to fix the rest of the tiles and setup a 6-player setup, as that will be.

Played in #TabletopSimulator

🎲✂️
screenshot of a 2-player setup of a 4x sci-fi boardgame concept/prototype, between a "red" player and a "beige/brown" player. Green cubes are population, orange cubes are production/supplies, and blue cubes are science.
November 17, 2024 at 9:09 PM