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I made a thing. It's a game. it's on DotBigBang. It's a submission for a game jam they've been hosting. You can play it without an account or anything [Here]

One thing I want to note though is that, while the level design is my work, a lot of the components that make up my game world were provided by the devs or others in the community. That said I did create some of my own things for this game and shared said creations with the larger DotBigBang community as well.

I found out DotBigBang quite some time ago from an ad on facebook. I've been since keeping an eye on it because it reminded me of a time when Roblox was.... more fun (to me), and had less child labor exploitation. Early December DotBigBang announced a Winter Obby Jam and I felt compelled to participate since I use to love playing obby's on Roblox as a kid.

Lastly allow me to share some thoughts on DotBigBang's editors and my experience in creating. 1) Their voxel editor has a forced render lighting that made it impossible for me to distinguish different shades of white as the "light" shining down on it made it too bright. 2) DBB allows you to "Remix" (edit) someone else's object and make it your own (provided said someone enabled remixing). I remixed an object to find out it's voxel size as it was around the same scale of something I wanted to make and now that remixed object was mine forever I could not delete it off my profile, I could unpublish it so only I saw it, but that was still gonna bother me. Ultimately, I made the most of it and made an object that was very different but spiritually similar. 3) The voxel and game editor are in browser which is great because its all saved online and in the middle of this my computer had went through some changes and troubles, but also while using said editors there were several instances where I managed to keyboard shortcut my way into opening new tabs and google searching, so that part was less ideal. 4) There is no autosave, which kind of makes sense since currently this whole process is all online and there is only one save instance so it be quite annoying for an autosave to kick in on things you were just messing around with, but man it always made those times where I'd accidentally open up like a new window scary like, did I just lose all my work?? But no it was all good.

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Wanted a new desktop background for awhile decided to try and replicate that tutorial I did before just as a 192x108 so I could scale it back up to 1920x1080

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I've always liked that abstract pattern thing of just a bunch of squares so I tried to make it a pixel card back.

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Tried to make something like the tutorial I followed yesterday! I am colorblind (protanomaly) so I used Coolers to randomize a palette. The free version is kind of limiting but it gives me names for the colors which I like and it's random which I also like. I'm not terribly happy with my implementation of the colors but whats done is done.

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I followed a pixel art space tutorial today. I always end up following the tutorial very closely. Maybe someday I will learn to go off script. The Tutorial I followed: Here

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Tbh, I don’t like the end result here, but like practice is practice. It’s the schoolhouse from “Freddi Fish 2: The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse” Which I played a lot as a kid. Made in Blender.

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“Weeping” Willow Made in blender.

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Random assortment of things but haven’t uploaded. hopefully they’re in the order that I see them se got 1) A dinosaur who died in my park in Jurassic Word Evolution which I streamed. Made with Clip Studio Paint. 2) a brb screen card for said stream. really like the aesthetic. Made with Gimp. 3) My current Space background. I like space. Made with Gimp 4) Some abstracty thing I tried to make like in the good ol days but I don’t care too much for it. Made with Photopea

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I’ve been using the same background for so long it’s time for a new one. I kind of like this one over my first attempt at space. This space scene was made by following this tutorial https://www.maketecheasier.com/create-space-scenes-in-gimp/ and obviously using the freeware Gimp.

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The Pnife is mightier and more versatile then the pen and sword.

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If you tell me not to look a gift horse in the mouth, I will be 300% more suspicious of said gift. The people of Troy didn’t look their gift horse in the mouth and look where that got them.

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I rarely give this blog love. Today my gift to my blog is my cat badly photoshopped to be in Christmas spirit. I have a few other random photoshops I’ve done in the past that I’ll probably slowly upload to breath some life in to this blog occasionally.

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I'm a seven year old with money.

I don't think I'll ever be able to call myself an adult because I just bought an entire album of spongebob music solely because Stadium Rave (the song from when spongebob takes a jellyfish home) was an album only song.

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Broke

I bet my future children step on lines all the damn time because my spine does not work right.

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I wrote some haikus are you proud mom

Hello world, welcome to the void that is my heart now go and fuck off A well placed fuck off guarantees that stupid fuck gets out of your face I apologize I've been very rude to you I am so sorry

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Hype

Me: Don’t get too hyped up about this new thing Me to me: Look up everything relating to this new thing.