Darcy Rayner

For something so cold, the ice rink sure brings out some fiery passion!
#pixelart #gameboy

Flappy Coot, a Crash Bandicoot Flappy Bird fan game, out now on itch and gamejolt

sam-gamedev.itch.io/flappy-coot
gamejolt.com/games/flappy...

#sAm_art #CrashBandicoot

Made a bit more progress on the intro sequence for my GBA fan game Crash Bandicoot twisted. This is ~50% of the opening I have planned. #crashbandicoot #pixelart #gamedev

Fantasy helmet design

Thanks, Spy Fox was one of my main references, so definitely the vibe I was going for

Nanite Tessellation Nanite Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Displacement was the next major feature I worked on after Nanite it...

I'm finally writing up how Nanite Tessellation works. The first few blogs posts are up. More will be coming.
graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani...

It is time! We've just released the second demo of Zabu, our beat 'em up for the Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis.

Check it out! 👊 zabu.team

Another old #pixelart mockup I did. It was a fun reimagined Sega Aladdin.

In game style for reference

Pixel art image of Neo Cortex pleading with Uka Uka

Dr Neo Cortex pleading with Uka Uka, Crash Bandicoot Huge Adventure

Messing around with some style ideas to differentiate cutscenes for Crash Bandicoot Twisted. I wanted something quicker/simpler to draw that evoked Saturday morning cartoons, (there are 11 panels just in the intro). IDK if it’s too much or a departure. Wdyt? #pixelart

Giant skeleton & human skeleton, #pixelart, 14 colors.

Gaiamaster inspired boardgame. From PS1

I'll post most of my old work here, including my #pixelart. Starting with this piece.

My fossil maker toy. An auto-generated ostritch-looking dinosaur skeleton sits in the middle. The text at the bottom just directs to the URL: castpixel.itch.io/fossil-maker

I didn't expect such a warm reception to my anime sfx generator. Thank you 😊

Here's another tiny toy; Fossil Maker. Create random, mostly silly-looking, fossils of creature skeletons

castpixel.itch.io/fossil-maker

This was a fun one to work on #crashbandicoot #pixelart #GBA

I made this little sprite around 10 years ago now. #pixelart

Boy, I tell ya.

#pixelart

Otsu.
#pixelart #vagabondmanga

Here is the timelapse, I used the Endesga 32 palette for this one. About 13 colours.

Pixel art image of a hand reaching for a fedora

#CloseCall #pixel_dailies #pixelart @pixeldailies.bsky.social

a noir femme fatale in a transparent dress depicted in 1bit hires pixel art posing as a pinup between two doors with dragon motifs on them in black and white

was thinking of this while doing my latest pieces… don’t think I ever posted it here

Coruscation

#pixelart #animation

Pixel art portraits of Harry and Kim from Disco Elysium

Pixel Elysium 🪩🧡

#discoelysium #pixelart #8bitart

Crash Riding Polar. I made this in Pixsquare on iPad, and I think it might be my favourite pixel art editor. #pixelart #crashbandicoot #GBA

Anyway, still a bit of work to do, next step is figuring out how to stream a multi frame background to simulate camera movement. I think I have a game plan, but we will see how it goes.

One other small limitation you can see is a bit of over rendering on some scan lines, causing sprites in the distance to clip when the scene is extra busy.

I think Huge Adventure on the GBA uses the same technique for its chase levels.

For performance I sort/order all the entities at build time, which is fast but means we can’t change the depth of entities dynamically. In this case though it’s fine because this is going to be used for a boulder chase style level, with Crash riding a Polar bear towards the screen.

Messing around with pseudo 3D on the GBA for Crash Bandicoot twisted. The crates are 2D sprites that have been rendered offline in different perspectives, (depending where in the camera they are displayed) and carefully placed/scaled to simulate depth. #retro #pixelart #gamedev

Made a small animation of Polar from Crash Bandicoot. Starting to experiment with some snow level stuff for Crash Bandicoot Twisted. #GBA #pixelart #retrogaming

Zabu by Zabu Team Zabu, beat 'em up for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive

Happy new year, and stuff.

We've just updated Zabu's itch.io page, with some sweet new screenshots: zabu-team.itch.io/zabu
We're getting ready for the release of a new demo, coming later this month. The first stage will be playable. 👊
#sega #megadrive #genesis #sgdk