Haha, I can see how that might happen. A good magic act is cool tho. I guess if the person makes being a magician their personality, that could become rather cringe tho.

u generally is not an tho, because it is pronounced you, like "a you-nee-corn"

You look like some kinda rocker type street magician here. "Look at the ball, keep a close eye on it, don't let it get out of your sight. BAM! Now I got your wallet!"

No, the ones I made at the time were not nearly as close to the style as these. That was way back in early 2006 I think. These are from around 2021.

Yeah, the Raiden Games are classics, esp 1, DX and 2.

You could get the Fire Lancer demo instead :D
firelancer.ws
A Wonderswan Color shmup (but there is a PC demo in the zip too) I am making with @trap15.daifukkat.su and @moftsoft.bsky.social (though atm it is a bit slow going)
There is a good amount of content in the demo though.

Have a look at the sprites from Donpachi, Dodonpachi, Dangun Feveron by Cave, as well as some older stuff by Toaplan, like Truxton II, Gekirindan by Taito also has sprites that go in this direction in some areas, being a homage to Toaplan games and all that.

Thanks! I have been a fan of this style for a long time and have analysed it a lot (it's not very complicated really)
The most important thing is to come up with cool shapes, really.

Nice, bought it. You deserve some money given how much I played this back in the day :)

Really liked the original version of this. What is different in this one compared to the free versions?

At least there is some cool concept art by Moebius that exists bc of the He-Man movie.

I have on and off been thinking that I should make a homepage again, and if I ever do I will probably have a blog kinda section with stuff like this. No promises tho.

Yes, I have known about that one for a while now as well. Things like this for sure happened a bunch of times. Also if you go into the effort of ripping game art, esp arcade games, you come across weird shit a good deal.

I have a feeling that nothing will happen to any of the ICE guys after all of this, maybe some public ostracism if names come out and people care enough.

I feel like any security related worker, cop, whatever, who has the power to arrest people and then does this to an already apprehended person should be tried, and also barred from working in any job like this ever again, in a just society (which is sadly a big caveat in our world).

I think this legit is the kind of shit that happens if you have people design stuff that never have used the kind of product they make, and also don't ask people who will potentially use their products. I have no explanation other than this for how things like this could happen.

That is interesting. I just used a free A5ish notebook I got from Mansion Press for free when I ordered some stuff there. Simple stapled kinda deal but nice paper, and decent size, so it will last a while.