The Crabshack Gallery » Pixels http://crabshackgallery.com/blog Art and Game Dev Blog of Marina "MashPotato" Siu-Chong Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:13:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Mushroom n’ Zombie Mayhem http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2011/03/24/mushroom-n-zombie-mayhem/ http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2011/03/24/mushroom-n-zombie-mayhem/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:09:44 +0000 MashPotato http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/?p=390 Well, just some news that we have just switched servers and so this site was down for a while. But we’re back now, with a faster, better(?) blog ;) The reason for the switch? HostGator couldn’t handle the traffic for the IndieStone when Lemmy & Binky (now with Nick) announced Project Zomboids, and when we relied on them the most they could not deliver the service (and not only pulled down and locked the site, but displayed a 404 error which made it look as though the site was not legit, a HUGE problem when money is involved).  HostGator can serve basic needs, but if you want your site to have any level of popularity, I cannot recommend them anymore.  Hence the server change.

But enough about that!

I was cleaning up some of my files on the server and came across some sprites that I made a good while back for the TIGSource Assembly competition, in which artists/musicians made assets that were used by programmers to make games. I thought I’d put them up here, so anyone can download them.  Yup–they are free for use in any game projects requiring a violent mushroom (although credit should be given, and a link to my site is highly appreciated), no need to ask permission :)

Animations and a tile demo up here, and the spritesheet and tilesheets are after the break for your downloading needs :)

Sprite and tilesheets:

]]> http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2011/03/24/mushroom-n-zombie-mayhem/feed/ 6 Beaver Fever! http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2010/10/09/beaver-fever/ http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2010/10/09/beaver-fever/#comments Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:44:07 +0000 MashPotato http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/?p=313 Just some practice sprites I made in the PAWS style.  13 or 14 colours with transparency, I can’t remember ;)

What sound does a beaver make?

Speaking of PAWS, if you were wondering where it is… it took a largish break in production due to a spiffy game called Privates, by friend Zombie Cow Studios (the other members of the PAWS team were the ones working on it, btw–I was just a scientific fact checker ;) ).  I have been that assured PAWS will be finished some day!

]]> http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2010/10/09/beaver-fever/feed/ 1 The Lady of Decay http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2010/01/31/the-lady-of-decay/ http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2010/01/31/the-lady-of-decay/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:49:47 +0000 MashPotato http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/?p=301

In the heat of summer day
Walks the Lady of Decay.
Her skin is pale like gone-off milk,
Her clothes are made of rotted silk,
Millipedes surround her face,
Her dress is trimmed with dirty lace.
With maggot pet and fungi’d hair,
She parades around the square.
She’s a sight from head to toes,
But whilst you look, hold your nose!
For nothing festers like Decay
In the heat of summer day.

14  colours, and the poem was written spur-of-the-moment when submitting to PixelJoint ;)

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First, a little beagle puppy holding a Cintiq stylus I made for Captain Binky’s birthday! (waaaay back in April!)

And now some minis, which I’m showing at 2x here so they can be seen more clearly :)
Ghostbusters for Nickenstien’s birthday! (also waaaay back in April!)


Some Dan and Ben sprites from Time Gentlemen, Please! (with accurate walkcycles! ;) )

And some Muse fanart! (made before my disappointment with their last album :(  Giving it another chance as I type)

]]> http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/09/27/pixel-roundup/feed/ 0 Dinner Date http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/04/17/dinner-date/ http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/04/17/dinner-date/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:49:14 +0000 MashPotato http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/?p=169 …an INTERSPECIES dinner date!  Think of the herds are saying! :o

Based on the work of the awesmoe artist iLKke, although it didn’t really come through in the end.  I still like it for what it is, though :)

16 colours

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A late bday gift for my buddy Buloght :D  It’s been a long time since I worked on a complex pixel piece, and it was fun to do.

Shoutout to Captain Binky :)

16 colours (I have to admit I’m pleased with that ;) )

]]> http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/02/09/a-dragon-and-his-princess/feed/ 6 The Best Pies in London http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/01/15/the-best-pies-in-london/ http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/01/15/the-best-pies-in-london/#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:30:44 +0000 MashPotato http://crabshackgallery.com/wordpress/?p=49 What’s my secret?
Frankly, dear forgive my candor
Family secret,
All to do with herbs.
Things like being
Careful with your coriander,
That’s what makes the gravy grander !

Mrs. Lovett from Sweeney Todd.  16 colours

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12 colours

]]> http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/01/15/emerging-from-the-cocoon/feed/ 0 The Alkonost http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/01/15/the-alkonost/ http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/01/15/the-alkonost/#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:19:04 +0000 MashPotato http://crabshackgallery.com/wordpress/?p=40 They say the alkonost has a song so sweet that to hear it means to forget everything… but her songs are of joy as well as sorrow.  This was based on a work that was originally started by the wonderful pixel artist Fool :)

14 colours

]]> http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/01/15/the-alkonost/feed/ 0 Don’t Look Her in the Eye… http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/01/15/dont-look-her-in-the-eye/ http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/01/15/dont-look-her-in-the-eye/#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:13:06 +0000 MashPotato http://crabshackgallery.com/wordpress/?p=38 Gah, now you’re stone!  Medusa, the monster with a beautiful face.

9 colours.

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