Oh My God Look At This Snake.

I have some really bad news about our MGS fangame, Peace Day.  It’s not happening.  Not anymore.  We put in 4 months of work into it, making the sprites and interactions and a physics engine.  Backgrounds and storyboards and all kinds of fun stuff.  But we were working under the misleading concept of fair use.  You guys have been awesome support on our project and some of the sweetest people we’ve ever talked to.  This whole game was meant to be a love letter to the MGS:PW fandom.  I’m devastated that we can’t make it work, and that we created a shitload of vaporware.  If anyone wants the sprites for their own personal (noncommercial) use, they’re welcome to them.    We were so dumb.  Even the most basic research would have turned up that despite the fair use clause being a real thing, you can still get sued - or at the very least, have your stuff DMCA’ed.  You can defend yourself in court, but the question is, do you have the cash for that kind of legal defense? Not all companies do this.  Sega and Valve have given people permission to make fangames, and so has the creator of Undertale.  But there’s something about fangames - not fan art - that makes companies like Konami and Nintendo go nuclear.  Even if you’re not making money off of them.  Even if you’re not using any in-game assets.  Even if you’re just representing their characters and bits of story.  They will sue you and then slap you with an NDA so you can’t ever talk about it.  Maybe Glowdust and I are taking the cowardly way out.  But I’m not about to spend another 3-6 months of my life creating something only to risk being sued, or to have my work buried in the ground forever.  We’ll be making an original game that uses all the lessons we’ve learned in the last few months instead. And I’m so, so sorry. :-( https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/5pxldd/ultimate_as_promised_guide_to_legal_needs_and/ http://kotaku.com/5420240/how-to-make-a-fan-game-and-not-get-your-ass-sued http://www.wired.co.uk/article/investigation-are-fan-games-legal

Looks like Tumblr compressed the hell out of this image for mobile, but this is one of the last bits of pixel art I worked on lately!

One of the trees from the Basalt Bluffs level.  I finished it this week, using Pixaki to get through a lot of the more tedious parts on my ipad.  I’m using a lot of bristlecone pines as a reference to get the ancient look for the trees, but I know, I know they’re from a different ecosystem entirely… And yes, it’s inspired by Evynd Earle!  

This is very important and it must be known that these 19th C. farting competition scrolls exist.

Japanese art scroll, HE-GASSEN (Farting Competitions). Edo period (1603-1868).

Our game Unstable Scientific is coming along slowly but surely!

Screenshot (Sunday)!  Working on new levels - Basalt Bluffs and Silver Craters!  We’ve got new enemies - shield drones and giant damselflies - as well as manifold fruit that sucks in everything toward it in a vortex! 

I made vkaz dolls out of wool. A great adventure of a small hand-held vkaz.

Reblogging because it’s an amazing guide and I live in rural food desert.

Pixelart fishes. Have I done your favorite fish?

Past years

Trying to draw buildings

One of the animated Kaz sprites for the retro Peace Walker fanfic game we’re making.  

#kazuhira miller #peace walker #metal gear solid