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Added lots of different dither styles.

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another doodle. I really need to get on the dither pattern selection UI next -- r.n. I just have a debug key to cycle them 😅

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Multiple dither patterns (image made from several rectangles) 🥳 Choosing a pattern has no UI yet but the file loads/saves correctly, etc. #pixelart #gamedev

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Deluxe Poly @deluxepoly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

More dithering work today. Support for multiple patterns.

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Working towards supporting more dither patterns today. Converted some of the rendering over to this new system. More work to do, and more UI to design, but overall I'm happy with the progress. #pixelart #vector #lowpoly #gamedev

A selection of simple shapes, polygons and line art shaded with a striped pattern.

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Deluxe Poly @deluxepoly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Uhm, I should probably make these 3 mode buttons white instead of the primary colour, or if you choose black they'll be invisible 😅

Deluxe Poly @deluxepoly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Made some small changes to the "colour state" box by showing the primary colour with the current pattern in dither mode and using a more interesting icon for 'mesh transparency' mode. #pixelart #gamedev

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Make a quick change to layer "Add Indices" blending so that it 'saturates' the resulting addition to the size of palette. This seems like the least onerous solution to a fairly ambiguous problem. #pixelart #vector #illustrator #gamedev

Bright red (index 9) added to yellow (index 8) creates index 17 - but it is now clamped to 15.

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PC-98 Bot @pc98bot.gang-fight.com · 28/09/2026

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Brandish 2 // Falcom // PC-98

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PC-98 Bot @pc98bot.gang-fight.com · 28/09/2026

Looks like enhanced dithering is next on my list 🥳 -- The actual implementation of arbitrary patterns is pretty easy but I'll need to have a big think about the UI design for that to make it a good experience to actually use.

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Puyo Puyo // Compile // PC-98

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Push scrolling is done - here's me editing a polygon that's larger than the viewport by pushing the camera. No need to zoom out. #pixelart #gamedev #vector #illustration

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PC-98 Bot @pc98bot.gang-fight.com · 27/09/2026

I've been looking at a lot of PC-88 and 98 dithering lately and I'm definitely inspired.

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Dōkyūsei 2 // Elf // PC-98

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Push scrolling going well! I've added it to the Select tool as a test. Next to roll it out to the drawing tools... #pixelart #vector #illustrator #gamedev #solodev 🖌

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I realise I've made a mistake! - the hitboxes should be *outside* of the viewport. Having them where I first put them meant you can't begin drawing from the edge of the canvas or it would immediately start scrolling away ! 🤦‍♂️

Deluxe Poly @deluxepoly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Beginning work on push scrolling (or auto-scrolling as I called it internally). This will let you draw and selected large objects, even when zoomed in, as the mouse approaches the edge of the view port. The first step is to define some hitboxes and register collisions with them. #gamedev #pixelart

The Deluxe Poly user interface with a select box being dragged out from the middle and moved over the hitboxes on the right and bottom. Some debug text is displayed showing the words Right and Down with numbers indicating how deeply we've moved into the hitbox.

The Deluxe Poly interface with very faint lines (in red, yellow, green and blue) indicating where the scrolling hit boxes are located.

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Just a quick reminder that I don't use any "AI" for this project, as in 0% for coding, art, video production, etc. (I don't even know how to use it; I'm probably unemployable 😅) I love working on this project by hand and I support anyone doing the same on their thing too. #gamedev #pixelart #noai

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Colour cycling and hi-res Amiga AGA landscapes: A clip from the Mark Ferrari art slideshow production from 2023.

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Deluxe Poly @deluxepoly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

wow, those sure are some codec artefacts 😬

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Deluxe Poly @deluxepoly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Finished up the scroll bars on the main view. Feels even more like real software now 😌 #pixelart #vector #animation #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #noai

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Deluxe Poly @deluxepoly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is one of the rare times where the ZX is actually more graphically powerful since it has an intensity bit !

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Deluxe Poly @deluxepoly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Made a new palette "RGB8" which is only allowed to be used for programmer art 😄 #pixelart #gamedev

A palette of 8 colours formed from the combinations of red green and blue being fully on or off.

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Deluxe Poly @deluxepoly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Working on scroll bars for the viewport. Got them rendering and detecting clicks. Now to make the 'handles' resize based on the ratio of canvas to view area, and place them based on the current scrolling.

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Deluxe Poly @deluxepoly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Upgraded the new document dialog to let you specify a default layer type and whether transparent background should be enabled. -- One day this dialog will get a "color mode" option - but for now it's Indexed only, so no option yet. #pixelart #gamedev

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Thanks! - It helps to... borrow.. great demo art :D

Timeproof Games @timeproof.games · 22/09/2026

Took a screenshot of Another World from YouTube, traced it into a bitmap layer with the correct palette, added a layer on top and set the blend mode to Add. Now I can make my own headlight shapes 😄 #pixelart #gamedev

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The Last Express (PC, Smoking Car Productions, 1997) Designed by Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia, this mystery adventure delivers a story that unfolds in real time.

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Made good progress on additive blending today. Still some edge glitching to deal with and various other bits, but overall a success! #pixelart #gamedev

A polygon added over some others with palette trickery to make it appear translucent

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I'm changing that now to preserve the palette index and then converting to RGBA as a post-process at the end. This allows me to do arithmetic on the indices (e.g. add them) to get a final translucent looking result.

This is involving a bit of a rewrite of how the final image is rendered within the application. Prior to today, I was converting from palette index to RGBA at the point of drawing the polygons ...

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