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StarlingDoesStuff
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Bad attempt at Pixel Artist
Even worst attempt at writter
Autistic af
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starlingdoesstuff.bsky.social
Ok, well, a bit late, again- I've been somewhat busy these past 2 days so I couldn't get much done, I AM starting the first enemy, with a very bad animation for the time being, so here #Gamedev #PixelArt
The player's movement. I insist it looks good in-game, even if not as much from up close. Hey, I claim to be bad at Pixel Art, gotta keep that claim up 😅 Just a temporary moving animation to get the job done tp implement it, will upgrade it later. So here's a closer look. This fella is the Hood. A living puppet hidden under a cloth. These will just be your basic canon fodder, they run from right to left and... that's it
August 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
starlingdoesstuff.bsky.social
Oops, almost a whole day after I said I'd post sorry bout that. Anyways, here I pressent Nocturne Ballad, which hopefully won't be cancelled since so far it's a solo project, inspired by Metroid and Zelda (and Dead Cells a little bit) #Gamedev #PixelArt
The screen size is the NES (or at least I'm quite sure it is-) 256x240. Since this time around I'm not restricted to follow someone elses "vibe instructions" this time around I'm trying to be more detailed with wnvironment. I'm still horrible at pixel art tho, so while tiles look fine, I can't get the 2 parallaxing background to look just right, then again, I'm sure I'll be able to find somebody to do me the favor of making the 2 skyboxes A better look of the general view of Level 1. Not that level 2's tile will be very varied tho- for now the idea is to have 6 long levels, following the next order: Level 1: Outdoors. Level 2: Indoors. Level 3: Interior Gardens. Level 4: Cave Rooms. Lvel 5: Indoors again. Level 6: [Final Boss name] Lair. Idk how the Cave Rooms fit in, but honestly? It's mostly because i can reuse the stuff from Mission Omega, so tyat effort doesn't go to waste due to me and my pal breaking out the game 😅 Here is the lovely player character, Vlad "Dracula" Hellstar. If you cannot tell, the shirt is literally copy pasted from the weird thing Eggman used to wear on TV shows, and the cape is mostly there just because I STILL suck at making arms. Funnily enough, it wasn't meant to be Dracula, but because the idea is that you get HP by killing enemies close to them, the idea pf the player being a vampire sounded cool. So I made this guy, who's not the real Dracula even in this universe, but he gets called Dracula because that's juat what people call vampires here, Dracula, wven if they look nothing alike. The 2nd frame of his "walking" animation. He just kinda floats instead, which surprisingly looks very well considering the animation has literally 2 frames that don't look great up close but in game? Looks good enough which I mean, hey, the more frames I can cut, the better to make it reslly feel janky, I'll make a gif later and show it over here too. Originally this was gonna be a dash and the player was gonna just slowly walk through the level, but I decided "nah" and cut the walk because, honestly? It was tedious even if it sounded great in my head to just menacingly walk towards enemies, but I guess it's better to just have a more decent speed and float around.
August 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
starlingdoesstuff.bsky.social
I know I said I had to do a bunch of stuff on paper for now, but looking st the player character, I didn't want to just have a slightly edited Metroid 2 sprite, for obvious reasons, so here, take a look st the old and the new version, which may be subject to changes
#PixelArt #GameDev
The newer version, still figuring out the arms or if I should even HAVE arms, since this does make it a whole lot easier to animate. The old version, you can JUST tell this bad boy is a recolor edit of Samus from Metroid 2, even if made from memory.
July 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
starlingdoesstuff.bsky.social
Hope you like what I turned your creation into ^^
July 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
starlingdoesstuff.bsky.social
Jokes on you, I just now made a steak out of the colors of the little Buzzybug and am now making a shopkeeper eith ablittle lava pond with the express purpose of making you a steak that gets you 1hp back for 999 coins, an economy wasn't planned, but guess it is now.
"Lava burnt outside, sweet honey-tasting soft interior! Coming right away!"
July 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
starlingdoesstuff.bsky.social
Look at this silly fella! The first enemy for Mission Omega, right now it's functionality is half done but won't be finished until I finish some stuff with the player. As of right now, this lil guy is basically just a red Koopa who jumps when you or a wall when close.
#PixelArt #GameDev #GDevelop
Image upscaled, obviously. I'l be posting some stuff on paper now, as I need to do some more planning, I've nearly run out of the stuff I can already do thay are for Zone 1... I really need to start making the player mechanics, but I really feel like leaving that for later so I don't have to later go scene through scene just changing all the behavior again and again
July 16, 2025 at 6:28 AM
starlingdoesstuff.bsky.social
A small screenshot from my project, Mission Omega!

#PixelArt #GameDev #GDevelop
Zone 1 "Wild Caves" Room 1. Not yet any UI, but it will be minimal once there is.
July 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM