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metagamemike.bsky.social
Lead Character Animator on Brawlhalla. Makes Game Boy games for fun. 🎮 https://metagamemike.itch.io/ 🎨 "Mike's Gallery" Feed 👇
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More Kero Kero Cowboy outlaws 🤠🎨

Don't just listen to players. If given the option, they'll optimize the game out of their games, and the story out of their stories. It's our job to filter information and data and feedback into good work, and while we'll sometimes miss it's better than blindly following surveys.

No screenshot Saturday today (mostly been on boring bug fixes lately) but here's some KKC enemy promo art in the meantime 🤠🎨

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Aaron did a great job with my Kero Kero Cowboy logo! Highly recommend his services 🐸 🤠

Update: The White House is already backing down on this. Keep calling your reps. Keep pressuring them. Along with your reps, the white house phone number is (202) 456-1111. Use 5calls.org to get all your reps in one place along with a guide. www.nysun.com/article/whit...

in a year where Money People want to strip the human touch out of art, it's wild to see something so lavishly made for something that kinda hasn't been a thing for over 30 years

スターフォックス #ドット絵

My game running on an actual Sony PlayStation 1. #psx #sonyplaystation #playstation #ps1 #gamedev #homebrew

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And we're live!!! ✨🎉 If you've ever wanted to make your own enamel pins but have no idea where to start I've got you covered! I crammed all of my knowledge of making pins over the last nine years into a 70+ page guide. Let's make some heckin' pins!✨ Get the guide here: jushmu.com/products/ena...

Hayao Miyazaki's short guide to watercolor painting -- we put this translation together a couple of years ago

We now have a website. udm14.com

BIG GREEN IS LIVE 🐊❤️🐊❤️🐊

If you haven't already, please consider playing Birdie Bartender by @metagamemike.bsky.social on your GameBoy or favorite emulator. 🔗 metagamemike.itch.io/birdiebarten... It is a lot of fun! 🍻 #gameboy #indiegame

schmoovin 🎨

Maybe I'm old but game manuals are a lost art: - You can jump straight into games and aren't forced to play a lengthy tutorial if you don't need to - You can play around and figure stuff out and if you get stuck, just go consult the manual - you get to flip through a little book with cool art

For anyone who may need it, Pexels is a reference site that does not allow AI imagery on it www.pexels.com

This meme in @lyz.bsky.social's 2/7 piece is 🔥 lyz.substack.com/p/whiny-whip...

Costco, which has come out saying it supports DEI, will make no changes to its existing programs, AND pays workers a minimum of $30/hour, is up 15% YTD. Target, which announced it is ending all DEI programs and has a minimum wage of $15-$24/hour, is down over 4%. Keep voting with your wallet.

chappell roan’s grammy performance made me cry like omggggg 🐴💘

all the concepts i worked on for our next @Brawlhalla legend before we really nailed Priya down!

If you're wondering if your new games aren't as good as your old games, ask the people who made your old games about it. If you've fired them all, you've found your problem.

at least @techdirt.bsky.social is not fucking around

Oldies 🍄🏰🔥🐢

This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm. The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him. Happy Black History Month.

Trying out some water geyser swimming segments 🏊‍♀️ #screenshotsaturday #gameboy #gbstudio

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

little man 🎨

Mike-coded characters

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

CAVE DAVE is out NOW for the Game Boy Color. 💨 Spelunk through retro console themed caves in search of Dave’s beloved PSP. 💣 No two games are ever the same. Available NOW on @itchio.bsky.social -> thalamusdigital.itch.io/cave-dave-ga... #GameBoy #GBStudio #GBDK2020 #indiegame

FYI google have now stopped "-ai" working at the end of your search string. So put this at the end (after a space) instead: &udm=14 Fuck you #google. #AI

I do believe that making small and niche games (actually, this applies to any creative pursuit) is, in some way, an act of resistance against the shittiest things in the industry. So keep doing what makes you happy y'all. #indiegamedev #indiegames #indiedev

This game is old enough to drink now. Time for a revisit.

Kind of a long title but this movie sounds wild

There is a lesson in this, and I’m going to ask you all to now turn your attention to the EO Trump just signed banning care for trans kids. Call your reps. Tell them to stop persecuting trans kids and their families. Tell them to leave us the fuck alone. 202-224-3121.