Dieting Hippo
@dhippo
i make games and maps and things Mastodon: @dietinghippo@mastodon.social he/him pfp by @bransonreese.bsky.social
a few sector shenanigans, and now the light is gradiented. plus an elevator reveal at the end of the sequence.
for anyone else getting The Bug it's BGR555 for the BIN files, those ones have pretty easy image data to display. here's a couple i quickly converted. haven't looked into enemy/object images too hard but i assume that's in the .GOB files.
this went very well and i finally got all the coins in hazy maze cave thank fuck
axe ghost dev is kind of a shithead AI apologist huh! don't buy axe ghost, on steam!
i took a dip in the nedroid pool for make a terrible comic day. they are very fun dudes. #makeaterriblecomicday2026
this tekken tag tournament pad's got a similar inner plate layout. the one you've got must have been someone's handiwork, there's a slug where the select button should go on it.
oh hey this tekken 4 stick matches the outer shell with the two gray buttons at the top. maybe the inner metal plate you got there is a custom job?
looks like it says HORI at the bottom. the only question is which ps1 hori stick since there's a boatload. i found a HORI tekken stick on ebay that's got a similar shell. www.ebay.com/itm/37694365...
ok one more, i'm expanding out to a bend in the river. i've got a lot of terraforming to do to connect some of these by land.
here is my town of Poopton 2 in the snow circa january 1st 2026, named after the town of Poopton that unfortunately collapsed because there was not enough funds for power. lessons were learned in Poopton 2 and its been thriving.
enough people responded to the KCLS survey (over a weekend!) that they sent out a followup. looking forward to driving the point home at the listening sessions.
started doodling a little comic in pencils about some alternate universe robotnik meeting the first robotnik and gushing in an elevator about how rad scrap brain is. mainly an excuse to draw my three favorite things: robotnik, establishing shots with greebles, and dramatic panel timing.
ooh a metroid i was in the middle of drawing a while back. you can see i ran out of steam drawing the greebles on the third ball.
i picked up an ames lettering guide! it's going to be nice having some more structured lettering.
here's the full setup without paper on it. it's slapped together for cheap but works great. i had no issues drawing on it, i kept about 2 previous frames under what i was drawing for reference.
i rigged up an animation lightbox from an LED lightboard, angled table easel, an animation paper guide, and two clips to hold the guide on the lightboard. check out this armature doing a backflip!
it's still gamemaker staff normalizing the use of AI via gamemaker even if it is opt-in. are their opera bosses telling them to push the ability to do it? yeah probably, but this guy is still a little worm for selling it.
the next webcomic island visitor: Jack from A Ghost Story (by @beesmygod.bsky.social!) looking just about as tired as he does in the comic. it's gonna be funny seeing him pop up on the news broadcasts.
the latest arrival to webcomicville is Shirley from @vigilsforfriends.com! she'd pop someone! also props to tomodachi life for letting me make her non-binary but with she/her pronouns As Established Canon. now to wait for the clothing shop to stock a puffy jacket.
a good ol' college try at adding in Lizzie from deadwinter.cc (by @rally.luckyraven.cc), the editor options aren't *perfect* but still pretty damn close! soon this will be webcomics island.