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My latest artwork is a shinto shrine inspired by the town of Sawara, Japan. Also, the first pixel art I've made in Krita on Linux! I could never get Clip Studio Paint to work with Lutris so knowing I can transfer this workflow is awesome.

Long image description (with some anatomy of a shrine type terminology) on my site gallery: https://pixelglade.net/artwork/pixelart.html#pixelart-shinto-shrine-sawara

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Today marks 25 years since the release of Vagrant Story, an underrated PS1 action RPG, that stood out for its art style, atmosphere, storytelling, and unique mechanics. Arguably a title that played its own part in paving the way for the "Souls-like" genre.

The game never got a proper remaster, but it is currently available to vote for in GOG's Dreamlist, with the possibility to be revived and preserved as part of their library:

🔗 gog.com/dreamlist/game/vagrant

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🧵 #PixelArt for a Radarsoft point-and-click adventure, early 1990s.

Radarsoft was an early game developer in the Netherlands. The game had to run on MS-DOS PCs with CGA graphics, limited to a resolution of 320 x 200 pixels and 16 fixed colors. I used pixel patterns for the illusion of mixed colors.

Connaisseurs will recognize the #Amiga 1000 computers I depicted in some locations. 😎

🧵 In 1992, my two dev partners and I made the first "advergame" in the Netherlands, for a 75-second national TV commercial.

This is my 16-color isometric background.

In the commercial, a boy jumps into the game to get a Calvé peanut-butter jar for his girlfriend.

Subsequently, the game was played by kids in a Dutch TV show called Telekids. Those who completed the game won their height in stacked Calvé peanut-butter jars. 🙂

A video of the commercial and more info in the description can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz3hQw-OL9o

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