Ted Martens

Seems like a good time for a new intro post. Hii (•ᴗ•)╯ I'm an artist and indie game dev. I worked on Cadence of Hyrule, Crypt of the NecroDancer + Amplified, and I made a cozy simulation game called Pixel Fireplace. Working on a new game, and looking forward to sharing more when I can! #gamedev

Some bad dudes.

Full moon tonight awroooo 🌕 #pixelart

Morrigan x Lillith #ドット絵

Hey #pixelart, the bsky compression is pretty bad lately, but if you enlarge your image *A LOT* it looks pretty okay. Here are 1x, 5x, 20x, 70x (10,780x8120)

Water tiles dusted. 👊 (+ many other revisions not pictured) Here's a peak at some of the new river & coast tiles. Had big momentum loss with an apartment-move followed by other happenings, and took some mega willpower to resume these water tiles which had been a big pain. Moving on!

👻Adventurers of the otherworldly!👻 I really do love doing mockups, especially related to anything ghastly! This is another of my favorites, a different take on Link's Awakening's graveyard.

The demo for Type Me Home, my new typing game/platformer hybrid, Is out now for Steam Next Fest! store.steampowered.com/app/4772200/... Type in commands to help a little lizard home!

I also recently took an interest into low-poly and pixel-to-3D animation / environment art. Here's one made with Crocotile3D and Blender for the 30th anniversary of pokemon.

Reminder that if you play Kyp's Quest now, in five years you'll get to tell everyone that you played it before it was popular!

scizor

『人力強襲飛行艇』 #ドット絵 #pixelartㅤㅤㅤ

Little koholint redrawn forest screen

My entry for Koholint Redrawn, a project to redraw every part of the map from Link's Awakening! #KoholintRedrawn #pixelart #retroredrawn

Thank you all for your immense support for my animation recently. I'm back to reviving this project now, and it feels great to do so. I haven't shown much of my improvement since Iconoclasts, but not just my animation has improved immensely. Here's another Pepperbee guy: #pepperbee

That's a really cool challenge ! I made these :))

N64 and PSX artists rejoice - my vertex/normal painter tool POLYPAINT is now (finally) live on the Unity Asset Store!! 🎊 Grab it 30% off for the launch week - I can't wait to see what you all do with it! assetstore.unity.com/packages/slu...

mini animaçoes de avatar novo #pixelart

Feel good #pepperbee

カルノフ #ドット絵

It was so cool seeing Cadence of Hyrule in the Zelda Direct 😊💚

Friendly reminder to be careful when you open a can of beans because the whole lid can pop off instead of peeling like normal and you may have to go to the hospital like me last night. (I'm okay. cut my finger.)

I really like "having access to an environment full of ideas you are discovering instead of inventing"

The gameplay and art look great, and I love the widescreen design solution of a gbc 10:9 window for the game with UI on the sides.

"This Is An Incredible Gift" - The Legend Of Zelda Gets Transformative Two-Player Mod For Its 40th Birthday.

Happy 40th birthday, Metroid! I made this in 2021 while playing Dread. I used to do lowpoly stuff a long time ago, so coming back to the 3D modeling workflow was nice after doing pixel art for so long. #Metroid #lowpoly #b3d

out now on early access! store.steampowered.com/app/952100/B...

#pixelart

bit of an update for my n64-style demo scene! (complete with authentic low-res crust)🌼 #madewithunity #lowpoly

I present: 5000 Years of The Legend of Zelda A flowchart of the media that influenced Zelda. Ranging from mythology and historical sources to ancient board games, D&D, 1930s pulp adventure films, and way more! Click through to see the full-size chart. namelessquality.com/5000-years-o...

Made some Lodoss War fanart

13/12: some portion of your audience simply will not buy your game if you use it! From a purely business risk, are you REALLY "making" enough productivity by adopting AI tools to offset the guaranteed revenue loss (and free marketing) from opted-out fans? My guess is, no way!

If someone ever needs a tangible list of reasons not to use AI, this is a great start!

Airship thing #lowpoly

✊ I don't use that shit and avoid it everywhere.

I've just set up the pre-launch page for a potential KS campaign for my little RPG. Any 'Notify me on launch' clicks are deeply appreciated. \o/ Link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pit...

Daring Fighter May, Dark Lord Od

some animations for the werewolf, gotta work on the other angles next #pixelart #gamedev

I did a quick clean-up on one of my favorite pieces from this 1986 #zelda guide by Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha/Studio Hard. The artists listed are MARUDA & Masayuki Hidaka I'm still high-res scanning the art but you can find the whole guide with my 600dpi scans here: archive.org/details/zeld...

snow monkey + bebé #pixelart

DID YOU KNOW my game design sketchbook runs on steamdeck and also a variety of toasters and is less than $5 🐕 20 new games (that could have been made in 1983) 💠 Most of them are actually good!! 🔥 Reclaim long lost sense of joy 📚 Unlockable making-of diaries! store.steampowered.com/app/4044300/...

indo pro role #pixelart