thisisstar

Hi new followers! There sure are a lot of you. I’m Star, and I’m a #gamedev art department generalist. Here’s some of my work. #3D #uiux #pixelart

petition to make the 2027 Met Gala theme "Caves of Qud"

Stoked to have edited this trailer for the upcoming counting rougelike from Brainfruit!

Slime in the Ice Machine is out on Kickstarter today! Go look to get your hands on the game, or a number of pieces of choice merch including a tarot deck, a plush demon, and a coloring book. www.kickstarter.com/projects/aco...

icymi the cover for my new book, THE AGE OF IMMERSION is out! Here's why I wrote it, what's going to be in it (everything from medieval tournaments and pageants to panoramas, installation art, Happenings, the Starcruiser, and jubensha), and how I researched it.

i mean it is also true that a provocation and a 24-hour game jam is great pressure to make something bibliomancer.itch.io/poems-arent-...

bitsy is turning 10! to celebrate i've created an archive of every released version of bitsy, and i'm hosting an extra-special, extra-long 100th #bitsyjam :D blog.adamledoux.net/posts/2026-0...

I've been working on something cool and it has a kickstarter coming up soon, so you may want to hit the notify button. There is also a free demo if you haven't already checked it out. Cats! Demons! Slime! Texas! www.kickstarter.com/projects/aco...

Yikes. There are a bunch of accessibility reasons not to do this that are obvious, but if you ignore all of those like a jerk, can I just say that it looks bad? This is just terrible visual hierarchy. Get it together UI/UX folks!

I checked this out at AMAZE and it ruled. Go playtest it!

Grab this while you can & get their new one tomorrow!

The key art for Dana's book rules

This immediately looks like a game jam to me

Just found out about this Böcklin exhibition that'll be up in Berlin during @amazefest.bsky.social next year: www.smb.museum/en/museums-i.... Multiple Isle of the Dead paintings in the same show? Tagging @antihelios.bsky.social, @laststarfarer.bsky.social, and @calligramstudio.com for reasons.

once again thinking about how alex colville invented uncanny videogame graphics from first principles in the 1970s

I also made something for #manifestojam & I would love if you would check it out. thisisstar.itch.io/instructions...

“Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?”

Apply to make tiny games for money!

I have been saying mobile is dead for years, but this is making me have a real Frankenstein "IT'S ALIVE" moment.

Behold… our beautiful line up of croupiers who will be gracing the Car Boot Casino floor this Saturday 16 May at @amazefest.bsky.social … & pls especially enjoy my bootleg Horse Race Tests character art. 🐎 🦩 🎰

I'm delighted to announce the forensic recovery of the original single-stroke font data from Vib-Ribbon (1999) — exhumed from Playstation ROMs — and now part of my archive of procedural skeleton fonts for #p5js: github.com/golanlevin/p... #mediaArchaeology #typography #plotterArt #creativeCoding

This begins as a detective game and ends as a fever dream. If you haven't played it yet, go grab it while it's on sale. I played it a year ago and I'm still thinking about it.

new font (soon). fixing the crimes of VCR OSD Mono.

Anybody remember hell.com when it was an early showcase of weird flash art pieces that were all linked together? Circa 2000? My favorite was a watering can that poured out letters.

@unormal.bsky.social I made a card to describe my experience playing Caves of Qud 😁

With over 3000 specimens, this Flickr collection is still unrivalled when it comes to vintage hotel luggage labels. www.flickr.com/photos/waves... Type & illustration gold.

Running an old copy of The Print Shop on my grade school Apple II was where I discovered that graphic design was my passion- along with the joy of Carmen Sandiego and Facemaker

The icon || the artist || the work

everything is a UI problem, except memory allocation, which is witchcraft

Old man yells at Creative Cloud

Showing games in a cinema is not a new thing, but @gamerausch.bsky.social in Berlin is doing it at a different level with an excellent curation and trying different things out with the event format, in this case by pairing Baby Steps with the film Journey to the West www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXbI...

What a headline

Truly gutted to not be at GDC this year, or even in SF at all. Hit me up if you’re coming to AMAZE? I would love to see you.

#my9games is more or less what you’d expect. Though I’m sure I’ve forgotten something excellent and formative that I will bolt awake thinking about in a couple days. my9games.com/s/164dc55e0f...

Quote your art with glasses on 👓

The series is chronological, and we are thoughtful about spoilers up to particular quests. So, if you’re just starting to play Qud on switch, you can listen along as you hit specific milestones. Let us be your Qud buds!

This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous. Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...

If you see this, repost with a Sentai team that isn't the Power Rangers or Super Sentai Kamen Rider exhibit from my recent visit to Toei Studio park in Kyoto

I’m letting go of these original artworks & If you love them I’ll consider any offer. I can’t take them with me! ~CD sized, paint, xerox transfer and wire on wood. Pick up in San Francisco, or pay shipping.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1) Video Sculpture 2) Art, Life & Money 3) Lyric Diction 4) Beat Research 5) Math, Logic & Knowledge

It’s finally out! Go play this masterpiece now that you can!

I feel privileged to have experienced the glory of Nova Express, its Cthulhu statue and late night pizza in wacky flavors en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Ex...

I’m debuting an extremely early look at a new demo I’ve been working on in this show tomorrow!

This game was the best thing I played last year, and would have been my GOTY if it were, well, out yet. Always a joy to work with @inkle.co.

Caves of Qud update: poured warm static on my dog, it turned into a dromad trader that comes with guards and items. They are all my dog, the whole trade party and merchandise. I convinced my dog to sell me my dog for free while my dog, my dog, my dog and my dog were standing guard.

I posed this question in Jordan’s replies and people are amused so it might as well be on my timeline too.

So thrilled to be working with these lovely folks again!

Had a dream that I was officiating a wedding between Beyonce and a refrigerator- in Brazilian Portuguese- a language I do not speak.