Dazz - Spriters Resource & DYKG

📌 PINNED POST 📌 Hey, I'm Dazz. I've run The Spriters Resource for 2 decades+, a part of DidYouKnowGaming, and I try to support people making cool shit. Kept away from posting on socials for a long time, but I think I'm back. If you wish to support my work, I have a Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/tsrdazz

Just a heads up; lots of discussion online regarding Switch 2 reverse engineering. Data is cropping up, and models are being converted - however, we won't be accepting contributions for Switch 2 titles at this time. This may be disappointing to some, but it's self preservation.

Someone posts a video showing reverse engineering of Switch 2 Now every 5 minutes I'm asked when Switch 2 models will be ripped I love people's passion but can't hide how tiring it can be too. If it's not discussing AI for the 20th time a day, it's a repeated question I'm not qualified to answer.

how do people post about gamedev these days? here’s my game Would you play this? 🏝️

Yesterday we celebrated getting to under 1,000 pending uploads for Models Resource. Over night, 600 new submissions with no icons, and another 400 to the other sites. No matter how hard I fight the tide of this queue, it will never stop crashing and corroding the shores of my mind. I'm so tired.

The Suikoden II anime is actually better than I anticipated. Some deviation from the original that I like, some I'm curious as to why - but overall, faithful to the heart so far. Definitely recommended!

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

While it wasn't the greatest of games, Unlimited Saga on PS2 was so beautiful I reversed the animations to get them viewable for all, without having to slog through the less beautiful gameplay... www.spriters-resource.com/playstation_...

I'm so sick of Cloudflare checking I'm a human on every site. A necessary thing now for the internet to function because of AI scraping. I can't express how much stress, energy and effort goes into just keeping a server from setting on fire because one AI wants to click every fucking link it sees.

Pretty productive week! Huge steps on a new site for the Spriters Resource network, wrote a script for DYKG, applied for a quiz show (looking likely too!) and I even slept for a few minutes. Can't wait to actually show people any of it.

Aseprite is 40% off during the Steam Autumn sale, until October 8th! Get it directly from our website: aseprite.org/buy/ or from Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/431730/A...

NPC idle for the gbjam game this year ^-^

Started Alabaster Dawn. Fuck it's nice.

It sucks that people are so well versed to see AI art, but it seems nobody knows the telltale signs of AI web design... But it screams at me. I see countless people making the exact same design web tool to reverse engineer game data every week, and anti-AI folks don't seem to notice.

Anyway! #pixelart #ドット絵

Starting the steps for a new archive today, excited at seeing it take shape. Will be revealing more once it's close to release!

We're a few hours into Orbitals and I'm wondering when it gets as good as people say... So far it has been rather predictable, and hasn't really done anything new or interesting. Looks great, though feels a lil inauthentic in aesthetic, padded out and has no new ideas...

Some of you may remember I was working on a new website concept a couple years ago but faced some trouble with the immense volume of storage it would take. I may have come across a reliable solution that would make this much more feasible - will be working on it in my spare time. It's looking good.

Zelda looks good dunnit

Alex, Jon, And Felix Reunite For A DidYouKnowGaming Gamescom Quiz

We had so much fun doing this show, I hope you all enjoy watching - all of our guests were incredible!

Fashion label "Peace and After" is raffling the chance to buy one of 8 one-of-a-kind Live A Live art canvases to celebrate the game's 32nd anniversary. They are hand-painted (by who is unclear) and signed by Director @Takashi_Tokita. Price is ¥88,000. peaceandafter.jp/?ti...

Saw an Instagram reel about someone having ripped all the models from Katamari Damacy, but they didn't extract the rigging; so I ripped everything and categorised it by the in-game collections. models.spriters-resource.com/playstation_...

Saw an Instagram reel about someone having ripped all the models from Katamari Damacy, but they didn't extract the rigging; so I ripped everything and categorised it by the in-game collections. models.spriters-resource.com/playstation_...

lovely gamescom with many peoples!! featuring @neonxvoid.bsky.social @bloops.uk @jon.gvg.io @dazz.spriters-resource.com @bigseags.bsky.social @profbonk.bsky.social @ammaregg.bsky.social

Great Wednesday at Gamescom. Met lots of really lovely pixel people! Tomorrow is our quiz on the Hall 1 stage - wish us luck!

Looking forward to meeting new and old friends, exciting week ahead!

Looking forward to meeting new and old friends, exciting week ahead!

Joji "Screaming Mad George" Tani, The Man Behind The PS1's Oddest Game, Has Passed Away. (Image: @mad_screaming)

Join us at Gamescom! Thursday 27th, 2pm. Free to anyone attending, limited to the first 5,000 (😬) seats.

I think I stopped being interested in Kingdom Hearts the moment I found a good spot to find some ingredients

thinking cool shit making cool shit doing cool shit

I did a little procedurally looping display for Second Saturday. Hundreds of characters taken from The Spriters Resource to mimic the crowds walking through the hallway tonight. :)

Gen-Z streaming service concept; ScrollFlix. Shows the major beats of a film or game condensed into 5 minutes or less.

Wheels are in motion for DidYouKnowGaming's big quiz at Gamescom! Discussions being had to livestream the event so you can catch it live too - exciting times!

Frequently feels like Spriters Resource is the only space I have now not corrupted by shit AI artwork, depressing af news, and divisive conversations around basic human rights. I don't know if it's entirely my doing, but I assume my ownership of it and not being a massive twat has helped.

Ordered a replacement laptop before Gamescom. The agony is real.

[NEW VIDEO] Every Cancelled Zelda Game We take a look at every cancelled Zelda project and rejected pitch that never came to be. Watch [48 Minutes] youtu.be/12dPbzjDv6I

Made some Pokemon pixel art for another DYKG YouTube thumbnail

Pixeling more enemies for Vikings on Trampolines. Needed an enemy that could pop the balloons you're standing on. Like... a bird, that carries a saw. A Saw-Bird. Man... I made that beak real floppy. #pixelart #ドット絵 #gamedev