Art & Visual Design

Practical guides for creating game visuals, from pixel art fundamentals to modern AI-assisted workflows. Learn techniques, tools, and approaches that help you bring your game's visual style to life.

Pixel Art Fundamentals

Learn essential pixel art techniques, from tool selection to animation considerations. Discover how constraints can help shape your unique style and improve your workflow.

UI/UX Design

Studying practical UI/UX design principles through game development. Learning how to create intuitive interfaces and engaging user experiences that enhance your game's appeal.

AI-Assisted Art

Exploring how AI tools can help teach you pixel art techniques. Seeing how to use tools like ComfyUI and Pixel-Art-XL to generate and refine sprites while maintaining an artistic vision.

posts on art & visual design

Vector to Retro: Pixelate with Shaders

Unlock pixel art aesthetics by 'demaking' your clean vector graphics with a simple Godot shader.

May 9, 25

Pixel Art Tips for Beginners

Things I wish I knew earlier about pixel art, from tool selection to the value of constraints.

Apr 15, 25

Practicing Pixel Art via AI Sketches

A setup guide to generate pixel art sprite sketches locally and learn from them in Aseprite.

Feb 27, 25

Designing an Animated Sprite Pipeline

Tasking an LLM system to design a pipeline for generating animated sprites from language.

Feb 12, 25

Minigame: MirrorMatch

A minimalist UX exercise in creating a puzzle game that challenges you to match colors and patterns.

Jan 9, 25

Casino-grade UI/UX Design

A practice in learning more complex UI/UX design via a baccarat simulation.

Dec 28, 24