So... It started with "haha, maybe I can do a small art gallery in GBStudio." And then I started to mess around and suddenly, I have this project I fell in love with. I'm currently making a prototype, working my ass off to make something cool and I'd like to unnofficially announce it right here since I simply can't stop thinking about it lol

Welcome to Weiderland (just a working title lol)

A point-n-click comedy/puzzle game inspired by a bunch of things, like Deltarune and Alice in Wonderland. Currently there's not much besides a kinda decent intro sequence and a single explorable lil map (pictured up there), but progress is working fine. I'll make a proper announcement once I have a demo with actual content, so keep an eye out if you're interested lol

I'm expecting a lot of lil mechanics and to see what I can achieve with the limited engine.

ALSO, Shoutout to Not Jam & bard_pixel for inspiring me!

Sadly I have no art to share, cuz I didn't knew the anni was today lol. On the other hand, I want to thank this place. I finally found a small corner of the internet where I can express myself and share my art. I've been here for like, almost two months and it's been the happiest I've been feeling in a long time. Being able to share art and being accepted is such an amazing experience.

Thanks for being awesome, Newgrounds. May we celebrate the 31th anni together!

This is Ruffs, the astro dog. The walking animation is 5 frames long and the jump animation is 3 frames.

Still really ruff, but it's just a draft for now.

So, I've been making art in 160x144px canvas for a while. for those who don't know, this is the exact size of the OG gameboy screen. And just for fun, I've decided to slap some art in GBStudio to see how it would look and... It kinda rocks?

Of course, some of the art is too detailed to run some have too many unique 8x8 tiles, making them glitch and some have way too many colors to be supported, even in color mode.

The thing is I have art made specifically to work on hardware (respecting the tile/color limit) and some that just kinda work anyways and...

Yeah. Somehow, I made a small art gallery that can be dumped as a rom and in theory, can run in hardware (I can't test it properly, since I don't really have hardware to test it). It's really barebones - You can look at the art and change them with the arrow keys/d-pad. And like, the only image that lost significant detail was Lilith (scene 4).

Here's the gallery running in the in-engine preview/test build. This image has 230 unique 8x8 tiles. The engine only supports 192 unique tiles, but it runs fine. I love how intuitive the software is, you can just change palettes on the fly.

Neat little thing, this GBStudio. I wonder if I can make something cool like that in the future. Art galleries and such. Huh.

Thanks a lot, everyone. I'm glad people like my art even tho I'm still getting the hang of it. It means quite a lot for someone like me.

I'll keep working hard to follow my dreams of becoming an artist and I'll keep improving, just watch me!

Yesterday, I crossed the 300 hour mark on Aseprite. I don't feel super confident in my art and I'll be always developing a style/my skills, but it feels like I just reached the 1st mile in a marathon. I know there's a long way ahead of me but I can't help myself to feel a lil proud of achieving a small goal. I also got some followers and people that truly like what I draw, which makes me super happy. Thank you for being you!

So if you're also practicing, improving and running forward, keep going. It's gonna be worth it in the end.

I want to set a few goals I hope to achieve (and will be updating this post when and if I get those lol)

• Improve my art style and make something cool enough to get frontpaged
• Collab/trade more and get myself some art friends
• Learn/improve animating stuff
• PRACTICE MORE

Also, I wanna thank everyone. I didn't expect my art to be received this well. I'm really glad I started posting here.

Keep being awesome!

YOU THERE!! DO YOU WANT TO COLLAB/TRADE? (CLOSED - WILL CHANGE IF OPEN AGAIN)

I'm looking forward to collab/trade with other artists (and make some art frens), so if u want to do something let's talk and mush some pixels together!

A FEW THINGS BEFORE WE COLLAB/TRADE

• No NSFW/Extremely violent stuff (Suggestive things are mostly fine)
• Let's not complicate things (I won't be compromising to big projects or anything like it, but small animations/art are fine)
• I'll probably be game to make a gameboy-style sprite sheet for your OCs lol

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And if ur not an artist, consider following. It helps a lot!

Also follow me on bluesky!