@imabuddha @mdhughes to me it seems odd to make a quirky handheld like the #PlayDate to begin with.

At a price point of $199 + taxes, customs and shipping, this thing is $20 below the #AnaloguePocket and since #PricesSetExpectations, it feels like a bad value proposition.

Want to play some nice games on the go?

• Get a used #GBA or even #new2DSxl instead or snipe a #PSP or #PSvita to #softmod...

Want to do some #LowSpec #GameDevelopment?

• Make #Homebrew for any #Gameboy or #NintendoDS or a @Raspberry_Pi / #Pi0W or even #PiPico: There are #Handheld #kits for these too!

Want some #RetroGaming on the go?

• Consider one of those cheap GBA clones that just run ROMs off a MicroSD!

Want to make some games that look good on a #monochrome #eInk?

• Just buy an eInk screen and shove that on a #RaspberryPi.

Want to build some quirky #controller?

• Get an #Arduino and you can make something go spinny...

It just feels like one of these Raspberry Pi Zero Clones that come with neither good documentation nor software support, and I wounder how they even got enough backers to make it.

• Granted I'm not the target audience and I guess the "Bass Fishing Controller" memes already exist...

Personally, I think for the specs and the type of games possible on that screen, even $99 would be a hard sale...

• $49 would've been an option if this had like a vibrant ecosystem like the #GameBoy...
• But hey maybe I'm critical of it because I never had played with one nor know anyone in person who owns one... Others seem to like it tho…

Did some pixel art today, it was some dithering practice. Remind me in the future that dithering takes FOREVER to do manually.

I made the icon for an in-development pixel art tool called CSprite, and I'm gonna be officially credited on the GitHub for it!
https://github.com/pegvin/csprite

To quote Stanley Pines, "Finally, I have them all".

For the last while I have been torturing myself making these HD beauts. I probably won't be making commissions of HD pixel art characters unless there's enough interest though... (as there's not a whole lot that will make a poor man opt to risk his sanity more than cash)

So, I made a little something for a collaboration.
NG post w more details: https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/dwarfbatman/relegated-relic-redux-collab-entry

So, I got a bit annoyed looking at my archives, specifically an old work of mine from just before lockdown. Check the comments to find the OG.

I recreated an Apple II in a 2-bit palette

If you are thinking that you are insignificant compared to amazing artists, just remember, every creation will first look like ass before it becomes looking amazing.

Working on something new...

Greetings fellow #pixelartists, about a week ago I started my own #fydotiles quilt, things are a bit slow, but thankfully not as slow as quilt 200 lol. If you want to check out the progress, look here >>> https://fy.do/quilt/217

As of me posting this, my starter tile 'Japanese Noodle Recipes' is the only one visible thus far.

I made a new #palette based on the #EasyJoe games from way back in the height of Flash. Here's to hoping #Lospec will accept the palette and the following palette example.

Working on something extra special for myself, a remake of the helmet my main OC uses. The intention was to get this to distance it further away from the Halo EOD that I initially used as a direct reference for the helmet I made last year.

1/3

So, I've recently been replacing all of my uploaded content on DA to this icon I designed to cock block content scrapers for AI shit. For those who want to see my older content before it vanishes, click the following link: https://www.deviantart.com/jamestdg/gallery/all

Checking if Masto handles sketchfab embeds at all

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/undersea-friendos-129257232ebf487eb8179dbc333391cc