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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Nocturnal Mai practice sketch. Might finish it later, should finish Shermie first though 😅

Sketch of Mai Shiranui pointing her fan at the viewer.

Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Nice Z axis range there. Got the 1CC again, still super rusty (last time was in 2013) but I think a no-miss shouldn't take too much more effort. Got robbed at Bushwacker and then lost a life from messing up the infinite on Kingpin (plus a generally messy Stage 6 before that) but the rest is solid.

An enemy from Capcom's The Punisher beat'em up hitting Punisher with a bat from very far into the Z axis.

End game score tally for The Punisher, after a 1 credit clear on the last life. Punisher standing over the massive corpse of Kingpin on the background.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Never did one of these for music, so there it is. Mostly 70s and 80s metal and hard rock. I don't listen that much to Los Redondos or La Renga anymore, but they were tremendously formative for most working class rock fans here and I was not the exception. Still love Pappo's Blues though.

9 important albums in my life, from top to bottom, left to right:

Un baión para el ojo idiota - Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota
Somewhere in Time - Iron Maiden
Machine Head - Deep Purple
Rising - Rainbow
Volumen 3 - Pappo's Blues
Painkiller - Judas Priest
Rust in Piece - Megadeth
Despedazado por mil partes - La Renga
Dehumanizer - Black Sabbath

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

Managed to get the FM Towns version running in Tsugaru, you have to set game port 1 to "none" or the game freezes after any input, seems to happen in real hardware too apparently? Music is nice, but the track loop pause is looooong. Also the devs were probably big fans of Night Striker.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

Went ahead and removed Solanin with Jaadugar/A Witch's Life in Mongol, always a big fan of historical manga and the anime adaptation was very good too (even if they stressed flashbacks a bit too much at times).

List of 9 favorite manga, from top to bottom, left to right:

Otoyomegatari / A Bride's Story, Mugen no Juunin / Blade of the Immortal, Dorohedoro, Jaadugar / A Witch's Life in Mongol, Dungeon Meshi / Delicious in Dungeon, Golden Kamuy, Yotsuba&!, Hakumei to Mikochi, Takemitsu Zamurai.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

First mahjong 1CC I guess lol. Will try to get the original difficulty next. I wonder how well this game prepares you for actual arcade mahjong games.

Beat Akira Hayasaka with no continues on casual difficulty, in Super Real Mahjong Venus Returns (NSFW).

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026

If you are a non-English speaking artist, don't forget to add English to your post's language! This site by default filters what you see on your timelines by language and English is by far the largest userbase here, so you'll greatly limit your reach if your post is set to only your own language.

Language selection menu for your post that you can find on the bottom right of the post menu. If you are not a native English speaker it will be set by default to your own language and will make it show only for users that speak that language (or that have enabled more languages, which is not the default) greatly limiting your reach as this site's userbase is largely from the US.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026

OK, I think I know how to solve this. Whenever you post you have to check what language your post is, as it shows in the picture here. Otherwise no matter what language you post in, it will detect it as what is selected there.

Language selection for posts. Choosing the language there will label your post as that language, regardless of the content of the actual post. If an account has language filters (by default set to only show your system language) your post won't in their timelines if it has a different language indicated in this option.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026

I always have so much fun going through arcade flyers. Japanese ones generally say something like: "AMAZEMENT, SPEED, go crazy with 200 techniques full of EXCITEMENT", or some stoic story blurb with sick art. Then US ones are like "PROFITS, INCREASE YOUR EARNINGS, DROWN IN TOKENS" in plain text.

US flyer for Alien vs. Predator, with a bunch of text talking about profits and a few in-game screenshots, no illustration.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 02/07/2026

Progressed some more with Shermie, will probably finish it by Monday. Slightly NSFW-er than before. Hopefully this is not too much for main 😅

Orochi Shermie doing a Stand CD towards the camera.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026

Got her figure and... sadly it is quite a disappointment. Where did her tan skin go? The colors seem all off. The base I knew was quite bad from promo pictures, badly trying to imitate the floor in her KOF'97 fight, but the rest looked much closer to correct in those. Do not recommend!

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026

Sorely needed to do art for myself so I started drawing O.Shermie just for fun. Also to practice some non animation art for a change. WIP. She's doing her 2k2 stand CD so marked it as suggestive just in case. Will finish and polish later, maybe once I get her bishojo figure.

WIP art of Orochi Shermie doing her KOF 2k2 stand CD.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 20/04/2026

I wonder who's the illustrator for these. Tried to search for a name but didn't have any luck. Reminds me a bit of Tsukasa Kotobuki, but probably is not him.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 11/04/2026

Saw this going around and feels like a good way to distract a bit from work. I'll add some commentary in the thread below so it's not just posting a list. Some of these categories overlap quite a bit for me so I tried to not repeat games too much (best combat would be a fighting game otherwise).

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 05/04/2026

KOF*97/'98 Daimon is by himself a "fighting game normals greatest hits" character, but out of all his amazing normals his 3C is easily the scariest. In a series know for its jump offense, you are putting your life on the line every time you jump on Daimon from this range. Pray you don't get CH!

Daimon doing 3C in KOF '98, "Zujou Barai", with visible hitboxes.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 03/04/2026

I have been looking at a lot of PC-98 art lately and it is quite fun to spot the references to fighting games in some of their character designs, but even more so to see characters that might have influenced fighting game developers too.

Kawai Rie from Love Escalator (1998) cosplaying a character based on Honey/Candy from Fighting Vipers.

Kaori from Power Slave (1995), clearly influenced by Morrigan and Chun-li.

Eriko Takeda from YU-NO (1996). Resembles Shermie from The King of Fighters '97.

Emily from Queen of Duellist (1993). Resembles Lucia from Final Fight 3 (1995).

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 01/04/2026

"I have almost 75% life left, nothing should go wrong".

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 14/03/2026

They definitely share base features but also they did go extra with Ax hahaha

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 05/03/2026

Did the manga one too, they had the lowest resolution possible cover for Hakumei to Mikochi lol.

9 favorite manga, from left to right top to bottom: Blade of the Immortal, Dungeon Meshi, Golden Kamuy, Dorohedoro, Otoyomegatari, Takemitsu Zamurai, Solanin, Yotsubato!, Hakumei to Mikochi.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 05/03/2026

Picking only 9 games is very hard. Limited it to 1 game per genre, otherwise Vampire Savior, KOF'98, Armored Warriors, Dragon Blaze, Resident Evil Remake, etc. could have made it in. Void Stranger snuck in despite being rather new, but it did leave a big mark on me.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 02/03/2026

What are your favorite CRT specific pixel art effects outside of the usual "composite TVs make Sonic waterfalls and SOR 2 light cones look transparent"? Mine is how SNK used scanlines for subpixel detail with Ryo's belt. Without them you get a solid gold line instead of separate dan stripes.

Ryo in KOF '98 with a CRT filter. Scanlines allow for subpixel detail in his belt, making a solid golden vertical line show as 5 dan stripes.

Same Ryo idle sprite but with raw pixels, where you see a solid contiguous vertical line in his belt instead of individual dan stripes.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 27/02/2026

Just received a Mami Itou Capcom illustration book. I feel she's such an underrated Capcom artist, probably because most of her work was used outside of the games for manga and Gamest stuff, but she did some of my favorite depictions of Capcom's characters.

The cover of Que Quieres (meaning "What do you want?" in Spanish), a Mami Itou illustration book for her Capcom works. It depicts the Devil May Cry 3 version of Lady holding a gun.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 17/02/2026

Capcom's biggest survival horror moment. Most of my 1CC training playtime will go here.

Mustapha about to get destroyed by double Slisaurs in Cadillacs and Dinousaurs by Capcom.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 03/02/2026

(WIP) Another protagonist idea I had for a simple game concept. Single screen beat'em up (like Fairy Bloom Freesia mixed with arcade single screen platformer elements). Smaller sprite but in color. She's a dragon demon supposed to be evil but always ends up helping people. #pixelart

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 21/01/2026

Been thinking about character concepts for a simple game lately. This is for a dungeon explorer girl. #pixelart

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 19/01/2026

Yeah, works on the puppet midboss at stage 2 too, which is nice because I hate that fight lol.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 19/01/2026

Ah, gottem ggs Got the 1CC too! Could have been a no-miss but I messed up the boss' last stand right after this, but whatever it works for me. 99% of the difficulty in this game is on stage 6, the final stage feels like a breeze in comparison.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 16/01/2026

It is a throwback to her Memories of Stray Wolves design. I think it is a solid mix with her RBS version, although the new haircut makes her look too much like King.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 15/01/2026

Thank god there's an easy exploit for this POS, time to attempt the 1CC now.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 22/09/2025

I had the pleasure of drawing @titobeansz.bsky.social 's Anjo and Odette, go give 'em a follow if you like beautiful ladies! #pixelart

Wrestler Anjo is doing a jump kick against Odette the witch who is using a scarf deflection to defend herself.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 05/08/2025

I recently got an All Japan Puyo Association bulletin from March 1997, a few months after the release of Sun in arcades. In it the chairman of the association mentions that the latest Japanese national tournament had 20000 entrants. For reference Evo 2025 had 8541 registered players.

The chairman of the All Japan Puyo Association gives a report of the latest competitive Puyo Puyo developments, mentioning that the latest All Japan Tournament had 20000 entrants.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 28/01/2025

I have been having a lot of fun with the combo system for Wendigo Blue. Check it out if you are interested in beat'em ups! (sorry for the audio delay)

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 23/01/2025

Advanced a bit with the Lilith animation. Still has quite a bit to go yet. #pixelart

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 14/01/2025

Hello, I'm Alias McDoe and I'm a pixel artist animator. I'm currently doing pixel art for *NDA* (can't wait for the announcement) and developing my own beat'em up/fighting game on the side. #PortfolioDay #pixelart

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 06/01/2025

Current discourse reminds me of this article I recently saw in Neo-Geo Freak 32 about an Asian promotional tour SNK did for the release of KOF '97 in Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jakarta and Shanghai. A small glimpse of how important KOF was at that time for these places.

1997 promotional event for KOF'97 in Seoul, with large crowds of people and rows of arcade machines for a tournament.

1997 promotional event for KOF'97 in Hong Kong. Large crowds of people, long lines of people waiting, and what seems to be a musical show.

Huge crowds and rows of arcade machines for a promotional KOF'97 tournament in Singapore, 1997. In the lower right photo we can see a 3D render of Nakoruru on a big screen, probably to promote Samurai Shodown 64?

Events for KOF '97 in Jakarta (top half) and Shanghai (bottom half). Article mentions that Samurai Shodown was even more popular than KOF at the time, at least until this point when 97 was released and became a legendary game for China.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 06/01/2025

All of these are KOF'97 machines from an arcade in Shanghai. Taken in December '24 by heartia2 at twitter. Game was insanely huge in China, probably why SNK does so many collabs with games from there.

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 01/11/2024

A commission I did for Shiver on the other site a couple years ago. Monday is back to game project posts. #pixelart

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 31/10/2024

Idle animation I did this year for an anonymous commissioner. #pixelart

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 30/10/2024

Continuing with old commission week (?) here's an animation I did for @bear7.bsky.social a couple years ago. #pixelart

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 29/10/2024

Another old commission, this time for @maraudingpyrate.bsky.social . If you are on desktop, letting the animation loop for a bit gets rid of the video compression a bit. #pixelart

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Alias McDoe (No commissions) @aliasmcdoe.eurosky.social · 28/10/2024

Idle animation I did a couple years ago for @melisandefaye.bsky.social , I still like how it looks. #pixelart

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