Mik Pick

@mikpick.bsky.social

Finished Taylor Jenkins Reid's "Atmosphere" this morning. My favourite novel of the past year and maybe one of my favourites of all time, fantastic work on the Audiobook.

Been having a good time with Final Fantasy XVI, but it's been an inconsistent experience. Love the spectacle and the gameplay, less enthusiastic about the fetch quest and dragging pace in between the big moments.

My mouse has been acting up and double clicking lately, so I googled the problem and a reddit post from 3 years ago popped up. It said to press the buttons really hard, shake the mouse, and blow underneath it. Sounded foolish but I tried it and now it's good as new. Bless up old Reddit post.

Aseprite work for today. A work in progress first frame of a horse, and a carrot. Very grateful for my roommate who's been able to throw these assets into a skeleton framework he made in GameMaker. Exciting to see a very rough draft of things come together. #gamedev #pixelart

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The completed Bob Ross Aseprite drawing I was working on yesterday. I feel fairly comfortable with the program now after learning the past week or so, my friends and I are going to try a game jam over the holidays, excited to see how it all goes! #gamedev #pixelart #bobross

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Tonight's update on learning Aseprite. Been fun getting a hang of the program. I used to do oil painting so it's been fun transferring over some skill from that to create images digitally. Going to be sinking more time into it over the break and hopefully start on a game soon. #gamedev #pixelart

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Played a lot of Brotato this weekend where it was free on Epic. Lots of fun but definitely frustrating to lose a good run. Great game to listen to podcasts during too.

Been messing around with Godot and Aseprite this week. I have an idea for a game and my roommates and I are hopefully going to dig in over the holidays. Looking forward to finally giving Gamedev a shot

Saw the Godot engine logo after finishing Case Of The Golden Idol, looked into some videos and actually feeling pretty inspired. I took some Computer Science in university but never stuck with it, may try sinking some time into Godot over Christmas to see if it clicks

Just finished Metaphor: Refantazio, excellent all around. I didn't realize the Persona team was making it so it sort of came out of nowhere for me, I'm very excited to see what they come up with next. It's been a great year for RPGs.