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Why this indie dev built its own game engine to push pixel art further | Creative Bloq
For Medeiros, the choice of a cute aesthetic isn't just to subvert it thematically, as your character's new life on a farm also involves becoming the immortal herald of a dead god, but also to amplify the horror.
Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2318330/Neverway/
Creative Bloq
Why this indie dev built its own game engine to push pixel art furtherIt meant creating a bespoke game engine.
Pedro Medeiros have a Mastodon account:
His pixelart tutorials are amazing: https://saint11.art/blog/pixel-art-tutorials/
saint11.art
Saint11 Pixel Art TutorialsPixel art techniques by saint11 with lots of 512x512 tutorials
I'm so glad they are both on Fedi. I've had "Neverway" wishlisted for a while. This article just gave me a good excuse to toot about it.
good stuff, related reading
- https://blood.church/posts/2023-09-14-whatistobedone/ by prophetgoddess
- https://noelberry.ca/posts/making_games_in_2025/ by
blood.church
what is to be done: custom engines and the death of unity | BLOOD CHURCH
