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Daniel James Diggle

@danieldiggle.bsky.social
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Designer, Illustrator, Animator, Pixel Artist, Low Poly, Game Designer www.danieldiggle.com Co-founder of @Broxcorp.bsky.social Skies of Chaos & Sports Sports available on Netflix Games.

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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Always love running the trails in the New Forest 🌳🌳🌳 #running
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Prepping some assets and illustrator is such an ass ache im now pasting them into Figma before exporting 🤣😓🤦‍♂️🫠
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My god I hate using illustrator with such a passion. It is so shite.
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Warm up those legs before a match. #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev 🎾🎾🎾
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Neon Aces. 🎾🎾🎾 Just playing around with some loose style/vibe ideas for the ui #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🎾 Neon Aces 🎾 #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🎾 Neon Aces 🎾 #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Managed to survive my 80km 1700m elv trail race yesterday. But my god, the friction burn pain is real 😭😭😭
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yep, though I still had a fair few original ps store games on mine before I unlocked and got a larger memory card. Still prefer using it over the Vita or the OG psp!
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you could drop two of the Vita’s sticks onto a PSP GO then you’d have the best handheld ever… possibly
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🎾 Neon Aces 🎾 #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🎾 Neon Aces 🎾 #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have a 50mile/80km race this saturday and I am very very very unprepared. Will have to grind to complete this one, urghh. 🫠💀
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Neon Aces. 🎾🎾🎾 Just playing around with some loose style/vibe ideas for the ui #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's the quickest way to iterate! duplicate and edit! rather then hoping you've still got enough levels of undo to go back! I've got working files with even more layers than that! 😅🤣
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Some quick and rough character select heads. #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🎾 😠 #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Kano vs Manga would be the sickest battle.
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Richard Lems @handle.invalid · 10/09/2026
🦭🎣 Announcement! 🎣🦭 We’re partnering with @playismen.bsky.social to bring Sea Sniffers to the world! Today we’re revealing our brand-new trailer, launching our revamped Steam page, and sharing what we’ve been working on! #gamedev #pixelart #indiegames #construct3
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s a million times more comfy to hold at the very least! I have the big consoles for the major console games - and even a PS Portal to play them around the house - and the switch has great Nintendo exclusives - so the Steam Deck is struggling for a reason to exist! 🤣😅
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I briefly turned my dusty Steam Deck back on yesterday, but still can find any reasons to use it instead of my Switch 2. A bit like how its generally always better to play a title on PS5 rather than Xbox (which is also covered in dust) 😅
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So silky! Awesome!
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Prepping and packaging assets for engine has to be the most arduous part of gamedev from the art side 😅🫠💀. Cropping, re-ordering, re-naming, exporting endless assets is mind numbring at times! These are the moments I wish I was in a studio and had a helpfull junior to hand off to! 🤣 #gamedev
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ta! yeah those small touches could work really well with the pixel assets if done subtly. It would have to work slightly differently when it comes to being player controlled movement - but I think can work still! Will see!
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Thanks!
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Warm up those legs before a match. #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev 🎾🎾🎾
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Retro Redrawn @retroredrawn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Gotta Go Fast! 🦔💨 It's time for a #SonicRedrawn! Join us now! retroredrawn.com
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’m a season behind but surely no acting talent has come from Hertfordshires Hoddesdon?! 🤣
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Forehand and Backhand dive/dash. That's all the key south facing movements complete - bar some outlines. Just north facing left to do! #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thanks! 🤘🤘
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Forehand and Backhand dive/dash. That's all the key south facing movements complete - bar some outlines. Just north facing left to do! #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
SERVES UP 🎾🎾🎾 #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
SERVES UP 🎾🎾🎾 #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It needs polish and could probably do with some more extreme poses and maybe a few more frames for a charged shot, but starting to come together. Some coded squash and stretch might add the extra juice needed too. #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Janky squash and stretch
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You can see these getting implemented over at @businesskongdev.bsky.social soon!
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It needs polish and could probably do with some more extreme poses and maybe a few more frames for a charged shot, but starting to come together. Some coded squash and stretch might add the extra juice needed too. #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Looks awesome!
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm over 30 hours into playing @everspace.game on Switch, and I'm only in the second system - totally addicting gameplay loop!!! I keep thinking it would also be an amazing Star Wars game too, which I'm sure others have said. Great great fun!
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The new zelda remake looks like how I remember OG XBOX games looking - in a good way. Probably just triggering memories of Fable! I'm down for it though!
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
💥 #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The King is a right prick isnt he.
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My mate Olof Storm has done a fair amount of similar hand drawn and simulated 2d vfx - including some bits for me. www.olofstorm.com
olofstorm.com
Olof Storm
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s really sad but I think a lot of designers+developers have essentially given up fighting it. Their teams have got smaller at the same time as their workload increasing, so they accept having to pump out rubbish to keep their jobs. Design/Digital is changing from a ‘craft’ to a standard desk job.
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s more and more common. There’s been downsizing across the digital design industry for quite a while. It’s gone from managers “encouraging” designers to use AI tools to ‘mandating’ that they have to.
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
6 frame run cycle. Quite a bit trickier than an 8 or 10 frame cycle! but overall quicker when it comes to an doing an 8-way character! #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A very brief bit of tennis character exploration 🎾🎾🎾 @businesskongdev.bsky.social #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A tennis project I'm helping out with at the moment - and I think is going to be quite cool - you can follow the devs updates over at 👉 @businesskongdev.bsky.social. 8 way movement mostly complete. Next up the actual stroke animations! #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
More over at 👉 @businesskongdev.bsky.social !
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Daniel James Diggle @danieldiggle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
6 frame run cycle. Quite a bit trickier than an 8 or 10 frame cycle! but overall quicker when it comes to an doing an 8-way character! #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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