Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

It's getting cold enough here that it's pretty hard to get out of bed because it's just so warm.

Fixed the direction of the shading to make a bit more sense based on feedback.

Don't 100% know what I'm doing with shading but I'm going to attempt it and I guess I'll just have to be unafraid to make mistakes and improve.

Probably should try to draw more than just myself too. Back when I was practicing NES graphics I doodled a bunch of friends and it was fun trying to reduce other friends' characters down to something that works in 3 colors.

Playing with more colors and bigger sprites, and taking baby-steps towards SNES-style stuff. NES is a lot easier with its harsher limitations.

I want to learn how to draw SNES-level pixel art well. Guess I should practice using more colors and drawing bigger.

For some reason I like leaving redstone videos on in the background and I think I just like listening to funny terminology you don't hear anywhere else being said over and over.

I looked at how Bust-A-Move for SNES draws its playfield, and from what I can tell, the playfield is a software-rendered rectangle of 256-color tiles. That sounds like it would eat up a lot of space, especially in two-player mode, so that probably explains why it uses the smaller 4-color tiles for the background (to make everything fit).

Resizable, draggable window test in JavaScript, for eventual use in Tilemap Town. Still got a few problems to fix but seems mostly fine with relatively little code.

http://t.novasquirrel.com/test/stretch.html

As a test I went and tried the Nova pixel art I did awhile ago with a jumping animation. Also added boobs since Nova's supposed to have them, though not confident I'm doing it right? I don't have any intuition for that.

Even for this simple thing I'm finding out that GIMP's really not the tool for the job for pixel art animation and I can see why people go for things like Aseprite.

I kinda want to get one of those Christmas catalogs and circle stuff just for the nostalgia even though I'll probably not buy anything from them.

I like just sitting down with a cookbook (or similar) with lots of pictures and just sorta reliving what it was like poring over books and just soaking up info as a kid without a computer.

RPG battle

Amazing, with this newfangled technology "the coat" it's actually comfortable to go outside.

I bet Nova wouldn't need one though because platformer characters almost never bundle up for snow/ice levels.

A very green Minecraft house. I feel like I should extend the stained glass columns out and maybe make some sort of cage bars thing? It looks nice just in the corners too.

Probably the worst football I've ever seen, but being able to chisel things sent my mind right into memeland:

Luigi: Hey Mario! Look what I made!
Mario: It's a stone Luigi. You didn't make it.
Luigi: It's a football. I chiseled it.

I only just now remembered I own a coat. Oh, that would probably make going on walks in this weather easier.

Just realized that SpinDizzy always having "National Horizontal Day" on a Thursday is probably some "taursday" pun in disguise.

Me: I should go outside while it's still day
Outside: 35°F
Me: never mind inside is good too