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WIP Wednesday: March 29, 2023

will — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 01:17:59 +0000

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Hey everyone, I’m here for a Work-In-Progress Wednesday to show off what I’ve been working on!

This week I’ve been working on… More skill icons! They’re so fun, and I feel like I haven’t even scratched the surface of all the different things I can draw yet with these. Here’s a sneak peek of Super Pixel Skill Icons Pack 3!

Clockwise from top left: Bone break, enrage, regrowth, vengeance, enlighten, and soul siphon. All fantasy icons so far, but some sci-fi ones are on my list too for this pack as well. Have any icon ideas you’d like to see drawn? I have a big idea list, but I’m always looking for more!

My schedule has been updated and rearranged a bit for April and May. Have a look!

The effects and projectiles packs are usually more difficult, so I spread them out a bit. The skill icons will be coming next, followed by effects, then more sci-fi pickups to kick off May. But first, I’ll be doing a little asset pack update! I’ll be adding more color themes to the item pickups in Item Pickups Sci-fi Pack 1 and Item Pickups Fantasy Pack 1. Originally I wanted to stick to just three color themes per item, but I think there are some that would really benefit from additional colors, such as the energy pickups.

I also want to add a whole rainbow spectrum of keys, so you can have color-coded ones for different purposes!

I’ll see you in early April with the color update for those two packs. Until then… I’ll be drawing a lot!

– Will

New Asset Pack: Item Pickups Fantasy Pack 1

will — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 23:17:43 +0000

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This post is also available on my Patreon. Join up and get pixel art for your game!

Hey everyone, I’m here today with a new asset pack: Super Pixel Item Pickups Fantasy Pack 1!

Before I show it off- I’d like to say welcome to all the new patrons this month! Thank you very much for your support, and I can’t wait to do more cool and useful game art for you!

Back to the asset pack: As the name might suggest, this is the fantasy-themed counterpart to Super Pixel Item Pickups Sci-fi Pack 1 from earlier this month. Let’s have a look!

Like its counterpart, this pack has 12 item types in all, including spinning keys, hearts, coins, and more!

Each item has multiple color themes. The hearts are so cute!

The gang’s all here! My favorites are the key, the triangle coin, and the heart. They all turned out very smooth.

This asset pack is currently available to $5+ patrons via this link: https://untiedgames.itch.io/super-pixel-item-pickups-fantasy-pack-1/patreon-access

See you soon with more art and videos!

– Will

WIP Wednesday: March 15, 2023

will — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 03:52:45 +0000

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Hi everyone, I’m here again for a Work-In-Progress Wednesday to show off what I’ve been working on!

Only a couple visuals today: The first finished sprites from Super Pixel Fantasy Pickups Pack 1!

Heart A:

Heart B:

This would have made for a great Valentine’s day post… Haha!

Anyway- While the sci-fi pack had slightly more realistic collectibles, the fantasy genre is a place where symbolism is everything. Lots of games need heart-like things to refill the player’s health! I’ll be doing two sizes for the spinning heart. I think it would work well as a health pickup, whereas the shining heart might be suited to a permanent HP upgrade when collected.

Next, a WIP sprite:

This is going to be some kind of “soul” collectible. It needs a few more frames and a coat of polish on the motion. But the idea is there!

I actually came back to programming this past week for the first time in a while. (Too long!)

For those of you who are new here or just haven’t heard about it yet, I’m both an artist and programmer and I’ve been developing SparkBolt Studio, a tool that unifies pixel editing + animating, tileset design, and level design. It’s going well! I wish I had a fancy GIF or something to show off, but my current task is putting together the undo/redo system, which isn’t exactly show-offable. It’s going well though! I’m still hoping to work ahead on art enough to be able to release SparkBolt in the second half of the year. Stay tuned!

…I just can’t leave you without SOME kind of GIF of it though. Here’s one from a while back!

The above GIF shows off tile placement. The brick tiles are just normal 16×16 tiles, while the pipe tiles (with the yellow debug circles) are large 32×32 tiles composed of 4 16×16 tiles. They act as one object: If you erase/overwite part of a large tile, the whole thing gets erased. Above I’m testing out how the stamp tool works with the large tiles, demonstrating how it works no matter which part of the large tile is selected. I think it’s going to be pretty slick for level editing!

I’ll see you on the 24th with Fantasy Pickups Pack 1! I’m also going to be trying to work ahead on the more involved asset packs in the meantime. Wish me luck!

– Will

Pixel Quickie: Sandy Desert Tileset

will — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:05:37 +0000

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New Asset Pack: Super Pixel Item Pickups Sci-fi Pack 1

will — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 21:20:03 +0000

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Hey everyone, I’m here today with a new asset pack: Super Pixel Item Pickups Sci-fi Pack 1!

The name is a bit of a mouthful, but the items are awesome! Let’s have a look at them.

There are 12 types in all, including spinning gears, nuts, bolts, and more!

Each item comes in three different color themes. This is especially nice for the energy capsules- One could be HP, one could be weapon energy, and one could be stamina. The nuts, bolts, and gears have gold/silver/bronze themes to allow for collectibles of different rarities. The nuts and bolts would also work great as projectiles coming out of an exploding robot. The sky’s the limit!

I mentioned last time that the energy capsules were my favorite, but that was before I drew the electric-zapping gadget. I think that’s my new favorite! I imagine a player collecting it and getting supercharged, but it could also be used as an in-game hazard.

I hope you enjoy them and can put them to use in your games! Drawing the nuts and bolts especially reminded me of Atmocopter, my own sci-fi game that’s been on hiatus for a little while. I’ll come back to it for sure, once I get this year’s projects done!

This asset pack is currently available to $5+ patrons via this link: https://untiedgames.itch.io/super-pixel-item-pickups-sci-fi-pack-1/patreon-access

I’ll see you this weekend with a new Pixel Quickie video, and next week with a WIP preview of the next asset pack!

Thanks for your support!

– Will

New Asset Pack: Super Pixel Skill Icons Pack 2

will — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 18:00:30 +0000

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Hey everyone, I’m here today with a new asset pack: Super Pixel Skill Icons Pack 2!

Like its predecessor, this pack includes 30 pixel art skill icon types with a resolution of 32×32.

Each icon type comes in three versions to represent leveled-up skills. That’s 90 icons in all!

Two new styles of HUD are included: One sci-fi themed, and one fantasy themed. Both are adjustable to accommodate any amount of icons! Of course, all icons and HUDs are compatible with the first pack.

Autocast, cooldown, and icon highlight animations are included! (They’re the same as the first pack, but will be included with all packs.)

I hope you enjoy them and can put them to use in your games! I really like drawing these, and there’s definitely going to be more of them this year. I’ve got a whole list of ideas, but if you have an idea for a skill you want to see in a pack, let me know in the comments!

This asset pack is available to $5+ patrons via this link: https://untiedgames.itch.io/super-pixel-skill-icons-pack-2/patreon-access

By the way, my tentative schedule for March-April is now online!

I’m a little under the weather unfortunately, so no video this weekend. We’ll make up for it next month! I haven’t decided on the subjects for the videos yet, but the time slots are there and I have a LOT of footage.

Next month I’ll be doing both sci-fi and fantasy pickup items! I’m looking forward to doing some energy canisters, hearts, gadgets, and relics. These are going to be fun, I think!

– Will

New Asset Pack: Super Pixel Projectiles Pack 2

will — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 18:00:18 +0000

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Hey everyone, I’m here today with a new asset pack: Super Pixel Projectiles Pack 2!

But first I want to thank you for your patience- Due to hurting my back in mid-January I lost some work time and couldn’t get this pack out by my original deadline. I think I was able to make the best of it though, by giving the asset pack all the time it needed to make one of my highest-quality works yet!

Let’s see some GIFs!

This asset pack is available to $5+ patrons via this link: https://untiedgames.itch.io/super-pixel-projectiles-pack-2/patreon-access

I hope you enjoy it! I’ll be trying something new this weekend by uploading a single-purpose video of the asset pack to my Youtube channel to keep all my fans there in the loop. It’ll demo each animation one by one.

Because everything got shifted around schedule-wise, here’s my updated schedule for this month:

Next month we’ll be looking at more videos, plus sci-fi and fantasy item pickup packs! Looking forward to drawing some cool little items.

See you soon with more awesome pixel art!

– Will

New Asset Pack: Super Pixel Skill Icons Pack 1

will — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 18:00:40 +0000

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This post is also available on my Patreon. Join up and get pixel art for your game!

Hey everyone, first asset pack of the year! Lots more on the way, too.

Say hello to Super Pixel Skill Icons Pack 1! This asset pack includes 30 pixel art skill icon types with a resolution of 32×32.

Each icon type comes in three versions to represent leveled up skills. That’s 90 icons in all!

Two styles of HUD elements are included, and are adjustable to accommodate any amount of icons.

Autocast, cooldown, and icon highlight animations are also included!

I hope you enjoy them! It’s the first time I’ve done icons like this, and they were pretty fun to draw. They should be really easy to use in-game, too!

This asset pack is available to $5+ patrons via this link: https://untiedgames.itch.io/super-pixel-skill-icons-pack-1/patreon-access

Just a reminder, a lot of links changed recently during the update I made to reward tiers. If you spot a missing/broken link on one of my store pages and can’t download an asset because of it, let me know!

The next pack will be pixel projectiles. Can’t wait to share more of those!

– Will

P.S. Thank you to the new patrons who joined recently!

New Year, New unTied Games!

will — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 23:23:03 +0000

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Pixel Quickie: Winter Village Tileset

will — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 17:05:17 +0000

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