Oh My God, This Is Masterfully Done Pixel Art.

A fun thing about computer skills is that as you have more of them, the number of computer problems you have doesn't go down.

This is because as a beginner, you have troubles because you don't have much knowledge.

But then you learn a bunch more, and now you've got the skills to do a bunch of stuff, so you run into a lot of problems because you're doing so much stuff, and only an expert could figure them out.

But then one day you are an expert. You can reprogram everything and build new hardware! You understand all the various layers of tech!

And your problems are now legendary. You are trying things no one else has ever tried. You Google them and get zero results, or at best one forum post from 1997. You discover bugs in the silicon of obscure processors. You crash your compiler. Your software gets cited in academic papers because you accidently discovered a new mathematical proof while trying to remote control a vibrator. You can't use the wifi on your main laptop because you wrote your own uefi implementation and Intel has a bug in their firmware that they haven't fixed yet, no matter how much you email them. You post on mastodon about your technical issue and the most common replies are names of psychiatric medications. You have written your own OS but there arent many programs for it because no one else understands how they have to write apps as a small federation of coroutine-based microservices. You ask for help and get Pagliacci'd, constantly.

But this is the natural of computer skills: as you know more, your problems don't get easier, they just get weirder.

I drew this silly sketch last spring, and it's been hanging on our refrigerator for months. Don't be jealous Kaz & Ocelot. Snake needs petting just as much as you do!

Strangelove walking animation! (Weapon animations and all that fun explodey stuff with actual gameplay coming real soon!) (This is all for our MGS:PW fangame, Peace Day)

Just the most basic level possible to test out the platforms and sprites, and some backgrounds.   We know Mother Base is supposed to be hexagonal, but that geometry is way too complicated to depict in a 2D 8-bit-ish environment!   There will most definitely be a Hello Kitty AK-47.  After all, this is 1974 and that’s about the time when Hello Kitty first appeared.  

Oblivious guard (and an actual guard tower!) Both Glowdust and I got really sick this week and couldn’t work on the game too much. :-(  And the stuff that we did accomplish is all unfulfilling back-end stuff like smoother flow, one-way platform physics, and a lot of animation that isn’t quite done yet.  I want to get more stuff done, but I’m just feeling a bit ~blergh~ still.       

Today I made some of the animations for Snake holding a pistol for our Peace Day retro-game fanfic. The pistol sprites could be changed out.  Fun and tricky!

Dumb bbkaz doodle for my soul

Just best friends 🫶

Just a gif of Snake destroying a kidnapper in our game (in debug mode).  Sorry for the grain, Tumblr only allows pathetically small gifs! 

One of my favorite pieces of MGSV art of all time.

Finally posting the piece I did for the mgs fan anthology “Our Beloved Monsters” by STARLOCK!

I’m so glad I’m part of this amazing book next to all the AWESOME artists and writers!! :D