a guide to why you should hire an artist and never pay for generative 3D services.

on the left is an AI generated Squirtle model posted earlier today. on the right is a Squirtle I modeled tonight using only that one reference image. my sculpt took an hour and a half.

When I signed up for GDC years ago, I made the fatal mistake of using my personal company email. Has anyone noticed GDC sells your email off to the spamosphere? My personal email used to be sacred and since then my email life is destroyed.

here's another WIP for Songs of Glimmerwick ✨Wishlist on Steam!! 🧙‍♀️

this cue is particularly fun to just run around to. it was one of the first ideas i wrote for the game where it felt like the music was starting to click with the game's feel/visuals. hope you enjoy it.

I made a spicy video about how product quality (especially quality at a glance) matters, and how to learn what is required to compete #gamedev youtube.com/watch?v=LCzhyU…

✨ NEW VIDEO ✨

You know I love magical games and there are so many great ones to look forward to!

So I put together a video about 20 (secretly 25) upcoming witchy games!!

Devlog #3 is up! This one is all about our character pipeline! youtube.com/watch?v=qTzuy8…

#gamedev streaming now! twitch.tv/eastshadestudi…

We're looking for a YTer or streamer for a remote private playtest! We'll pay 20 USD/hr and it will probably be 8-20 hours spread over 2-5 sessions. Details here! docs.google.com/document/d/1Ii…

here's a little work in progress cue for Songs of Glimmerwick ✨Wishlist on Steam!. hope you enjoy. :)

The City of Desolus

I've been building this virtual city for years at this point- what's visible here is less than half the game's explorable map so far!

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev

I made a video form of my Eastshade postmortem! youtu.be/5JKwr84_aXs?fe…

Is anyone a little burned out on the word 'cozy' as a game descriptor?

We are Steam front paging it at the moment with a daily deal! Woooo!

Eastshade is on its deepest discount ever. For the first time it is 60% off! store.steampowered.com/app/715560/Eas…

Our second devlog is now up! youtube.com/watch?v=N22YYc…