People love giant goldfish.

I can tell because its my most popular deviation (by far) over at dA. I didn't think much of it when I was making it other than it was a pretty nifty idea, somewhat stolen out of a conversation with my girlfriend, but just about everyone seems to love this thing. I'll be posting some of my older (and newer) pixel art here when I run out of stuff to say, I hope you like it.

Final Fantasy: Dawn of Souls

This game is easier than it looks... and it looked pretty easy. At first I thought it was that I had done the optional dungeons, so I had done a game without those dungeons. It was still far too easy, I decided to try a solo character challenge, I picked Red Mage since he has the sexiest map sprite, I let all my characters die before finishing one battle, so they all had 0 exp, except ol' Gilly boy there. However that didn't really seem to matter much, I wound up hitting level 99 by the time I got to Chaos, and he still went down pretty much without a fight. I then ran through the optional dungeons, and had some fun with Shinyruu and Omega, they were tough, but still the game was too easy :(. Fun, but no challenge.

Frozen Bubble 2

Frozen Bubble

The one thing I don't expect to find on Linux is good games: usually what I find is shitty clones, or the trash packaged in gnome/KDE's suites. Frozen Bubble is a clone, but a very good one, it doesn't try to hide the fact that its Puzzle Bobble, it just throws in some penguins and calls it a day, there is some multi-player, but I haven't tried that out yet. One of the nice things is when you run it from the terminal, it gives you an output of just how much time you've wasted, and bubbles you've popped, nice little touches like that are what makes it so much fun to play, great engine, great game, and thats saying something because I don't even like Puzzle Bobble all that much. Unfortuntaely for windows users, this one looks to be linux/mac only :( Sorry.

Introduction

So I dig Linux, retro gaming, pixel art, and some other junk along those lines, like maybe rewiring a snes pad to a parallel port if I could afford any solder. I'm making this blog for a few reasons: I suck at writing, and I might be slightly better if I, you know, did it every now and then. I've got no grasp of time, doing something every day could help slightly with that, but as is I couldn't tell you what day of the week it even is, I'm just proud I've got the month down. Lastly, I actually figure out some interesting shit every now and then, and it could be nice to share.

For now, just some links:
arc-nova.org - great chiptune archive.
pixeljoint, deviantart and sheezyart - Some places I post my pixel art (a, b, c).
forums.sonicretro.org - Check out that retro blue theme, sexy.
kongregate - I must admit I am a bit of a tower defence junkie :(