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The gorgeous visuals of Bionic Bay that Juhana Myllys calls Painterly Pixel Art

PreMortem.Games

Physics-based 2D platformer Bionic Bay is a collaboration between the Finnish one-man-studio Mureena and Taiwanese indie game company Psychoflow Studio. The game started as a demo shown on Reddit, but picked up momentum when Badland art director Juhana Myllys offered to mix and match his distinct artwork with the gameplay.

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A Void Hope by Elden Pixels lacks violence and destruction “We’re proud of that”

PreMortem.Games

What began as a casual endeavor gradually evolved into a fully-fledged studio as the game’s success solidified their path. Now, with the new game A Void Hope coming up on almost 3 years of development, Forslind finds himself juggling his roles as both CEO and Game Designer of his company called Elden Pixels.

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Gerel: Against The Corvus Empire - a pixel art video game by CGS grads

CG Spectrum

He decided to start his own indie game development studio, Overwrite Interactive , and create a video game from scratch. For Alan's video game to come to fruition, he needed a team of capable artists to help him. for the pixel artist to use as a base. Pixel art by PieGlitched. featured]. [My Dogyeong L.

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Genres are Marketing Terms, and Your Advice is Bad.

The Bottom Feeder

He is a highly successful indie game creator who makes really good action games (Salt and Sanctuary is the best-known one.) My games, by the modern standard, look like absolute dogs. Yet, I'm going to have a full career writing indie games. Video games have similar terms: "RPG." Metroidvania."

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Making Lucid with Eric Manahan

Game Dev Unchained

The gaming world is filled with intriguing tales of passion, dedication, and transformation. This time, the narrative revolves around Eric Manahan , the former architect who found solace in pixelated characters and captivating storylines. Eric’s foray into gaming began late one night in an architecture studio.

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Five Bucks To Feel Like a God

The Bottom Feeder

I’m only being driven out of my shell by my need to push the Kickstarter for our next indie RPG, Geneforge 2 - Infestation. Let’s talk about games. There is a surprise hit indie game I really like, and breaking down that kind of thing is very much in my job description, so let's talk about Vampire Survivors.

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I’m making an RPG!

Keith Burgun

(Above: some WIP pixel art from Wizbane) You might have noticed I’ve been writing about and playing a lot of RPGs recently. Final Fantasy VI-inspired pixel art. Seen on the left: some WIP pixel art portraits by Blake Reynolds.) Over the course of my late 20s and much of my 30s, I sort of parted ways with RPGs.

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