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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Took a break to get back into Clip Studio Paint, which frankly gets better every release and is probably actually worth it - side-eyes Photoslop. Whatever the next BK thing is when I get to it, it's probably going to be some super cute-looking 2D thing, with mechs... and grappling hooks.

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Print and Kindle editions of both the Blade Kitten collections, Ultomato and the new Ultomatwo, are now available on Amazon. Together, they contain all the Blade Kitten and spin-off comics I've done to date. 25 years of catgirl action in over 500 pages of art. www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3Z4ZG1C

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Some pixel art Kit just for funsies.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

After all that printing pain on the arse, here’s me playing around with a (yet another) new kit look.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

On the weekends I've been trying to not work on Gunwale (even though I'd be happy to) just to make sure my brain isn't over focused on it. So I've been playing around with ideas for a new Kit design. 2nd shot is some of the old ones I've done previously.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Random weekend new Kit design for shits and giggles.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The Kazawa Industries Shiva mech. The A-99 production run, not the A-96.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Lean, green, running machines! #marchmecha

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

It's not a new Kit costume unless I don't do a chibi version. It's just the rules, I don't make them.

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Today started off pretty poorly but some pizza and ginger beer turned things around this afternoon. So, here's a new look for Kit for 2026...

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The Kit and Justice Halloween Spectacular!

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Cool, Steam has new Steamdeck verified landing pages for games... Like Blade Kitten! store.steampowered.com/verified/9940

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Blade Kitten is Steam Deck Verified

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Here's the very first trailer we released for Blade Kitten, which we used to promote it to media and publishers at GDC 2009. We were going to publish it ourselves on PlayStation but Atari picked it up, and we ended up on Xbox and PC as well a year later. Cool huh?

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Still a few days to go! Don't miss out!

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Here's a little Asteroids-like shooter I was experimenting with a few years back. Blade Kitten: MOBI. There's not much to it as it's really just a stream of unfinished ideas. But it's still pretty fun to fly around and shoot stuff. Made in #construct3

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Blade Kitten MOBI

Arcade spaceship shoot-em up adventure set in the Blade Kitten universe.

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Back in 2010, we had a limited run of figurines made. 50 all up, which we sold on the Krome website the day the game released. They sold out in a couple of hours. One day, I'd love to get an articulated one produced.

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Do you, or someone you know, need Blade Kitten on their Steam Deck? 70% off says "Yes". store.steampowered.com/app/9940/Bla...

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Do you, or someone you know, need Blade Kitten on their Steam Deck? 70% off says "Yes". store.steampowered.com/app/9940/Bla...

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I'm going to drop some alphas of some of the BK games I've experimented with over the years here over the next week, as well as some cool deals on the comics and the game. Prepare thyself.

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Cover cat-girl. Getting on the relaunch #1 of Gamefan was a highlight for me. Gamefan and EGM were my two go-to mags in the SNES/Megadrive era to scour the images of Japanese games.

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I'm experimenting with various layout designs for my dialogs. My current fave is this one which uses the cute little Greley head for the cursor. I'm thinking of having various heads to use as emojis to represent the text. It'll look super cute.

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Cover cat-girl. Getting on the relaunch #1 of Gamefan was a highlight for me. Gamefan and EGM were my two go-to mags in the SNES/Megadrive era to scour the images of Japanese games.

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I like drawing cute chibi versions of the characters as much as I like designing costumes. So yes, I do them a lot 😊 I have a huge print of this as the first thing you see when you enter my front door.

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

As proud as I am of what we did in the game, I'm still bummed that I didn't get to have the original idea that the levels were all separate "2D dungeons" that you found as you flew around the overworld on a GT.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Drawing some Crime Club comic page layouts today with this playing on loop... as always.

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Bubblegum Crisis - Konya wa Hurricane (English Subtitles)

YouTube video by LazyGamerNyx

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

This was my first "list" of potential costumes for Kit in the game. We did get most of them in the game which makes me pretty happy. Anyone have a favorite from this list?

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

ME: Maybe I should draw fewer Kit costumes? NARRATOR: He did not, in fact, draw fewer Kit costumes.

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

The very first version of the BK comic was more outland sci-fi with a group of farmers being attacked by Darque and Kit saves them. I decided to drop us into Kit in a fight instead. These characters are now getting used in Gunwale 20+ years later. Reuse/recycle 😊

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

So in the early 2000s I really wanted to finally make a game with a full-on anime aesthetic as opposed to the semi-anime stuff I had done previously. I figured the best way to get things going was to make a weekly comic for the web, which was also a new thing back then.

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

This month marks the 15th anniversary of that time I passed on working on another hit Star Wars game to make my dream 2D platformer. Here's the first pic I did of Kit's new game costume. I'll try to post something new or old every day this month to celebrate.

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Today it's all about the gear. Here's the concept sheet for Kit's breaker gear, even down to the boot pattern. Not that we needed it, but I thought it would be fun to have.

A model sheet for Kit Ballard featuring a turnaround and close-up shots of bits of her costume.

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Today it's all about the gear. Here's the concept sheet for Kit's breaker gear, even down to the boot pattern. Not that we needed it, but I thought it would be fun to have.

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Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Here's the full manga-fied version of "A Tail of Two Kitties" part 1 for your reading pleasure. You can get all the other comics in the books here - spacecaptsteve.gumroad.com

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Also, it has this cool update I did to the manga style Blade Kitten comic I drew last year. I fixed the tones and made it look like it was printed on crappy paper, and now it looks exactly like I originally imagined it.

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