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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Loving the new Ghost in the Shell. Read the comic before the movie even came out so it's great to see this version in motion finally. It's a long shot, but I'd be doubly excited if they did Orion after this as well. The character energy and animation would be perfect for capturing Seska and Susano.

A screenshot from the end of The Ghost in the Shell (2026) episode 4.
Aramaki walks contemplatively through a park, a tiny silhouette against the tall shining city buildings, counterbalanced in the foreground by tall, wild grass and a vibrant orange leafed tree.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Oh man, Cosmic Encounter is my actual favorite board game. I even organized my set in this carry case to lug it to game nights, lol.

A set of the board game Cosmic Encounter with a number of expansions organized inside a reinforced carrying case instead of the cardboard box it comes in.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Dumb meme joke idea I got watching an FF8 play through by @taxincluded.bsky.social .

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Wanted to get a copy of Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games for a while now, and finally picked one up. Such a quality book. Also it’s too nice not to keep it protected, so I made a slipcase for it.

Photo of the front of A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games sitting on a wooden table.

Photo of A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games sitting on a wooden table, opened to the entry on Final Fantasy for NES.

Photo of A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games protruding from a dark red cloth covered slipcase, sitting on green cutting mat.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Working on some sprites for Street Cleaner 3 bonus content.

Mysterious closeup from Street Cleaner 3. Pixel art, NES palette. A cat sleeps somewhere.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Dispensing vigilante justice by beating up criminal punks and an evil wizard bent on unleashing supernatural terror. streetcleaner3.com

Screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. Pixel art, NES palette. Sukeban Honoko punches a street punk while riding a flat bed train car.

Screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. Pixel art, NES palette. Vigilante Jack Slade dive kicks over some spikes towards a gunner street punk in the mall.

Screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. Pixel art, NES palette. Evil wizard Wu-Fang stands in front of a giant phoenix sigil, rallying his ninja troops.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Here's another one of my old #pixelart studies. The chip-maestro himself, @danimalcannon.com as a heavy metal JRPG bard.

A pixel art rendition of Danimal Cannon holding a lute, wearing a black vest covered in numerous buckles. His booted leg is propped on a treasure chest, and he his throwing the horns with his right hand.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

We're just a month away from releasing Street Cleaner 3 to the world, with the companion album of new Street Cleaner music! If you're into challenging retro 8-bit platformers we'd love it if you could help out and add it to your wishlist for the final stretch! #indiegame #pixelart streetcleaner3.com

A screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. Pixel art. A girl in a sailor uniform with blue hair runs away as a giant mechanical dragon driven by a ninja crashes through the wall behind her.

A screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. Pixel art. Riding a flatbed train car, a bald man readies his chain whip against a giant four-legged mech as its weak point opens.

A screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. Pixel art. A girl in a sailor uniform stands in a darkened cemetary grove looking up at the moon shrouded by tall trees and a trio of praying statues. There is a payphone nearby.

A screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. Pixel art. Jack Slade, the titular Street Cleaner, rides his motorcycle down the palm tree flanked highway, dodging a hail of bullets from a pair of skull-shaped cannons, and bouncing orbs released by a three-wheeled car.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Another mysterious room finished on stream today. This is locking down the last of the content I have planned for Street Cleaner 3's launch. We're so close! Wishlist at streetcleaner3.com, and watch us dev at www.twitch.tv/creakylantern! #indiedev #pixelart

A screenshot of Street Cleaner 3 showing a mysterious room. NES palette pixel art. The Street Cleaner stands in the fog, apparently trapped by the rocky terrain.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Can't wait to see what happens when people finally encounter this room. There's more to it than there may seem.

A screenshot from Street Cleaner 3 in the mall stage. There are horizontally symmetric platforms in three tiers. Five different types of enemies appear.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Had to cut stream early, but in the couple hours online I was able to make plasma beam emitting rats! The final sprite won't be rats, but I usually use that when I need a temp sprite.

An in progress screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. 2d NES style pixel art. The player jumps down a hallway dodging super-heated beams being emitted by rat sprites.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Here's 4096 copies of the logo being transformed in the compute shader at 60fps. I'm sure this could do way better, but I have an absolute potato of a video card.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This may not look like much, but after a bunch of work on stream I managed to get a Vulkan compute shader to transform sprite info into a vertex stream on the GPU! This is probably way overkill for the kinds of games I make, but I enjoy the learning. www.twitch.tv/creakylantern

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I've been working on the end/post game stuff for Street Cleaner 3 to get this thing wrapped up. Actually designed a bit of it on stream today, so here's a peek at a bonus hidden platforming section. #pixelart #indiedev www.twitch.tv/creakylantern

A screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. NES palette pixel art. Player character Honoko (in her unlockable City Pop costume) performs a wall jump to dodge between sets of electrical spark hazards.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Was working on refactoring the skin system today on stream, and I accidentally made a rat player skin. www.twitch.tv/creakylantern

The "skin select" screen from Street Cleaner 3, except a bug has replaced one of Honoko's player skins with the rat animation.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Here's the road mesh from the stream work yesterday dynamically rebuilding, with a trochoidal vertical offset.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

During today's stream we got a big raid of people interested in graphics programming, so I switched gears and made a mesh builder to create a spline-based road using SDL3's new GPU tools. Learned a lot and had a bunch of fun! #indiedev www.twitch.tv/creakylantern

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Lately in between finishing up the final bits of content for Street Cleaner 3, I've been working on learning more modern GPU methodologies with SDL3 and I've got it drawing colored triangles! When I have a better grasp of this I plan on doing some code jamming on stream with a couple game ideas.

A screen capture showing some graphics code using SDL3's GPU library, along with the output: a rectangular window featuring a calming cornflower blue background (thank you XNA), and a pair of triangles with corner colors forming a rectangle. Red in upper left, lime green upper right, white in lower left and blue in lower right.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Today's on stream dev adventure was creating, from scratch, a UI for selecting player skins. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. #StreetCleaner www.twitch.tv/creakylantern

Screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. NES style retro platformer. The player is interacting with an arcade cabinet that depicts the playable characters for selecting character skins.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Given recent events I decided I needed a bit of a distraction, so I picked up Echoes of Wisdom and decided to play it on stream yesterday. Going to continue that today www.twitch.tv/creakylantern

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom wide cover art showing a shot of stylized Hyrule, Zelda waves the Tri-Rod, with Link and Ganon floating ominously in the background.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Today on stream I thought I'd take a little break from Street Cleaner dev and work on my 3d tile map editor. Fixed some things that had been bugging me, and implemented some other things it's been missing. Hope to use this to make maps for future games. #gamedev www.twitch.tv/creakylantern

Screenshot of 3d tile map editor using Dear IMGUI showing an example of dirt and grassy hills, projected global shadowing and a water shader plane, in isometric view.

Screenshot of 3d tile map editor using Dear IMGUI showing an example of dirt and grassy hills and a shader water plane, in projection view.

Screenshot of 3d tile map editor using Dear IMGUI showing an example of dirt and grassy hills and a shader water plane with the ambient color brought down to display lights of various colors shining off surfaces, in isometric view.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

Got quite a lot done as far as animating this boss on stream today. www.twitch.tv/creakylantern #pixelart #gamedev

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

Starting day ten of Street Cleaner dev at www.twitch.tv/creakylantern. Going to work on art and design for a boss fight today.

A pixel art mermaid. Green skin, brown hair, blue tail, adorned with gold bracers, choker and diadem.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

Hi, I'm Brooks! The designer, programmer, and artist at Creaky Lantern Games. We made Aeternum (bullet hell shmup) and Street Cleaner: The Video Game (8-bit retro platformer). We're making a sequel to Street Cleaner, streaming dev MWF at www.twitch.tv/creakylantern. See creakylantern.com for more!

A screenshot from Aeternum. An anime style bullet hell shmup. Purple-haired demon school girl Ellica faces off against Archibald, the Cat Wrangler, a large flying orange squid in a duel of bullets. Archibald is firing lines of bullets at Ellica, who has summoned Buer (a demon with the head of a lion surrounded by five goat legs) to protect herself as she fires back. The arena is a grassy path in the early morning with large blue fluffy clouds hanging in the air in front of an oversized moon.

A screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. 8-bit pixel art in the NES palette. The eponymous Street Cleaner in blue jacket/pants/helmet carrying a white baseball bat strides down a path at night flanked with trees towards a pink graveyard wall. A jiang-shi crouches just ahead of him, ready to pounce.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Spent a bunch of today's dev stream feeling out a design for a boss fight and ended up with this. It's still very much a work in progress, but it's a start! I'll be back to working on it more on Friday! www.twitch.tv/creakylantern

A work in progress screenshot of a boss fight from Street Cleaner 3, boardwalk stage. Pixel art in NES palette. The player character stands center with his chain whip extended. A pair of identical twin mermaids flank the sides of the screen, towering over the player. They have light green skin, blue fishtails, and are adorned with golden arm bands, diadems, and chokers. They stare down at the player with empty white eyes. An oversize full moon hangs in the background.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Put some good work into this Street Cleaner 3 boss on stream today. Getting close to completing development of the game, and I would love for more people to come hang out next time! Follow www.twitch.tv/creakylantern to get notified when. Almost affiliate! #pixelart #indiegame #gamedev

A screenshot from Street Cleaner 3 of a boss fight, 8 bit pixel art. The eponymous vigilante is facing off against a hulking brute of a man in a bright pink Chinese opera style outfit, carrying a cannon shaped like a long dragon. They are both plummeting to the ground, wind rushing by, in front of a cityscape in shades of blue.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

A fun little thing I made a while ago after watching one of my cats curled up asleep.

Samus Aran as in Super Metroid standing at a Chozo statue. Instead of an upgrade orb, the statue holds a white cat, curled up with its tail flopping around. Text at the top reads "If there were cats on Zebes."

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

A lot of devs do "greyboxing," where they use simple un-textured geometry to get a feel for a design element. I like to practice "ratboxing." streetcleaner3.com #pixelart #gamedev

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Another one of my older character sketches. My take on a non-binary cyber punk sword master. I don't really have plans at the moment to do a game where a character like this would fit, but it's fun to stretch out from time to time. #pixelart

A pixel art character. They have short turquoise hair and matching eyes. They are wearing a tight black bodysuit with a turquoise vertical stripe up the side, covered by a white cropped tank top and white pants tucked into knee-high black boots. They are holding a thin bladed sword with a turquoise handle.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

I take little clips of what I'm working on from time to time, but I've held off really sharing them outside the team. So here's one showing off the background and parallax in the graveyard intro. I'm particularly proud of the tree tiles. streetcleaner3.com #pixelart #gamedev #wishlistwednesday

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

One of my favorite animations that I've done for Street Cleaner 3 of this spider mech walking. It was tough coming up with an interesting dynamic boss to show up on a moving train, but the constraint really drove me to do the work. streetcleaner3.com #IndieGame #PixelArt #WishlistWednesday

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

I was watching the Harris rally tonight with Megan Thee Stallion performing, and she was really setting off the thing I have for sexy women in suits. Had to pixel her!

A pixel art rendition of Megan Thee Stallion as she appeared at the Harris rally in Georgia. She is wearing a blue suit and tie, with a crop top white button up, and short jacket.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

I had this idea for a carousel horse boss in the mall stage of Street Cleaner 3. It has proven to be a bit too out of place for the vibe of the game and is thus getting cut, but damned if it didn't turn out majestic as hell.

A pixel art horse depicted in mid-trot. Very majestic. Its coat is white with flowing brown mane and tail, and a pink bridle and saddle.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

Got a window running using SDL with an OpenGL context written in the ODIN language, and it wasn't overly difficult. Considering using this for my tooling in the future, because maintaining and adding to my animation editor in C++ is super annoying.

A VS Code window with the code to show an OpenGL window written in the ODIN programming language. Overlaid on that is the executed window, cleared to the ever-so-comforting Cornflower Blue color.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 13/05/2024

New game has a mall stage, so of course I had to sneak in a bunch of parodies, jokes, and references.

A screenshot from the Street Cleaner game sequel. Pixel art. A brightly colored mall with two parody movie posters on the wall. One shows a buff man in the sights of a gun, the other shows a warrior woman holding a sword and dagger with the word "Huntra" above her. It shows these as best it can, I mean, this is only 400x224 pixels.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

Bit of a later game area we haven't shown off yet. But getting closer!

A screenshot from the Street Cleaner: The Video Game sequel. Pixel art, NES palette. Jack Slade stands, holding his trusty bat, below a row of street lamps and palm trees. The moonlit night sky backs an old school wooden roller coaster in the distance.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

One of the many bosses you can look forward to facing off against in the Street Cleaner sequel! #pixelart

Pixel art image from the upcoming Street Cleaner sequel showing Jack Slade staring up at an orange four-legged walking tank, three times his height.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Spider tank miniboss I'm working on for Street Cleaner sequel. #pixelart

Pixel art screenshot of a four-legged walking tank. NES palette.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

I’m a big fan of Sam Lake, and he recently posted a bunch of book recommendations. I thought it would be fun to go through those and picked up a few cheap used copies to get started. House of Leaves I already had and I’ve read a couple times now, so I think I’ll start with The Buried Giant.

A few books from Sam Lake’s reading list. “The Crying of Lot 49” by Pynchon, “House of Leaves” by Danielewski, and “The Buried Giant” by Ishiguro.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

After touring to a number of live shows, and going all the way to a Magfest, the Street Cleaner: The Video Game official arcade cabinet has retired and moved to a place where it can rest. I even built a nice shelf to display the Street Cleaner merch museum alongside it.

A photograph of the one and only Street Cleaner: The Video Game arcade cabinet set in a corner next to a shelf unit that contains one of every Street Cleaner CD and tape, the hot sauces and beer bottle, and the video game big box #1. Hanging over the cabinet are the game poster and a print of a painting of Creaky Lantern Games mascot Archibald the squid.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Nearly completed my Trollskull Manor model. Needs a few touch ups and some more fun little details, but it’s playable in time for game night this weekend!

Fully painted hand crafted model of Trollskull Manor from the Waterdeep: Dragonheist D&D campaign. A four story old English style manor with cream walls, red chimneys, and blue roofing with a solitary bare tree out front.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Working on my Trollskull manor model. Has to be painted by this weekend, so it’ll be a quick job, but should still look pretty good.

A hand crafted model of Trollskull Manor (from the Dragon Heist D&D campaign), split by level, primed and zenithal highlighted.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

A smear frame from the boss animation I'm working on for the Street Cleaner sequel.

A frame from a pixel art animation consisting of swooshes of blue, red, and black representing the high speed of an unknown attack by an unknown character.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Doing some pixel art "sketches," because I think the Street Cleaner sequel needs a couple more enemy types, and very often in trying to capture the essence of a recognizable person in NES palette/scale I find something that clicks, even if it's not exactly as the sketch itself.

Pixel art characters, mostly 80's actors and musicians, rendered in NES palette at a very small scale.

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Brooks Bishop @brooksb.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

Got a water shader going. From here it's more about finessing the art than anything else.

Test of 3d autotiler in iso view showing off a plane with a water shader. Slight ripple distortion, and color gradient based on water depth.

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