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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🥳 Crash Bandicoot Twisted just crossed 5000 downloads on Itchio,(and it’s close to 6000 browser plays). #gamedev #crashbandicoot

Itchio status bar, showing Crash Bandicoot Twisted with 19336 views, and 5000 downloads

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sketched a few more enemies for the sea diving levels. #crashbandicoot #pixelart #gamedev

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Did I overdo the subpixeling on this enemy animation? #pixelart #gamedev #crashbandicoot

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Progress on the ice level tilesets for my fan project Crash Bandicoot Twisted. #pixelart #crashbandicoot #gamedev #gba

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Alright, getting closer to a complete ice level. Still a few bugs to iron out/playability fixes. Right now turning my attention to drawing the remaining side scrolling parts of the stage #crashbandicoot #pixelart #GBA

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

New attempt at a #pixelart self portrait. Not sure it 100% hits my likeness, but close enough.

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Here is the timelapse. You can see how much iteration I spent on the composition and getting Cortex’s face right. It took 27 hours to complete. I’m not fantastic at drawing, but I find pixel art is forgiving enough to just keep iterating until you are happy.

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I think I’ve posted the full cutscene this is from before, but it took me forever to find a composition I was happy with for this piece for my fan game Crash Bandicoot twisted. #gamedev #pixelart #crashbandicoot

Pixel art scene of a lab, where DR Neo Cortex is on his knees pleading while the shadow of Uka Uka looms over him

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Another animation for my Crash Bandicoot fan game project. #gamedev #pixelart #crashbandicoot

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Another critter for my fan game Crash Bandicoot twisted. #pixelart #gamedev

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Penguin patrol animation for the Ice levels of Crash Bandicoot twisted. #pixelart #gamedev

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I actually drew the columns in 2D, and animated them using a bespoke tool as sprites/cards being scaled down and moved toward the horizon. So no 3D modeling required

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Making some progress with the background. I think I’m pushing close to the maximum number of tiles I can stream on GBA while still hitting 60fps. #crashbandicoot #pixelart #gba #gamedev

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Working on this character concept for the yeti chase for Crash Bandicoot twisted. It’s a bit of a departure from the original game, what do you all think? #pixelart

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

My wife’s favourite game is Stardew Valley, so I tried my hand at making a custom portrait for her. #pixelart #stardew

Stardew valley portrait of a dark haired woman

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Finally finished my intro cut scene for Crash Bandicoot Twisted. It's heavily inspired by huge adventure, but I felt like there were too many plot holes so I wanted to do my own take. Let me know what you think! #pixelart #gamedev #crashbandicoot #gameboyadvance #retro #indiedev #retrogaming

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

This was the original pixel art sketch/thumbnail for the cover. The airship and logo were reused from elsewhere. Unfortunately I haven’t figured out how to do a timelapse in Affinity Designer.

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Made a box art image for Crash Bandicoot Twisted. I had a first draft of this that was pixel art, but I realised vector art would scale better for printing. It was fun learning affinity designer to create this. #CrashBandicoot #gamedev #vector #GBA

Box art cover image for Crash Bandicoot Twisted for the GBA. Crash is falling, while a Cortex Airship is looking menacing in the background. Vector art illustration.

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Made this for fun this afternoon. This is a visual pun based on a company name. Any guesses? #pixelart #puzzle

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Another intro scene from my fan game Crash Bandicoot Twisted. Had a lot of fun making this, although drawing the crossed legs was a struggle . #pixelart #crashbandicoot #gamedev #GBA

Coco Bandicoot sitting on the beach working on her laptop, at golden hour. Pixel art style

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Here is a timelapse of my drawing process thanks to #pixquare . Think I struggled with the foreshortening of Crash’s left leg the most. Total time was about 17 hours #crashbandicoot #pixelart #gamedev #timelapse

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Another shot from my fan project Crash Bandicoot Twisted’s opening cutscene. #pixelart #gamedev #crashbandicoot

Crash bandicoot lying on a couch in the middle of the beach at twilight. A small crab and some wumpa fruit are in the sand. Pixelart

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Made a bit more progress on the intro sequence for my GBA fan game Crash Bandicoot twisted. This is ~50% of the opening I have planned. #crashbandicoot #pixelart #gamedev

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Messing around with some style ideas to differentiate cutscenes for Crash Bandicoot Twisted. I wanted something quicker/simpler to draw that evoked Saturday morning cartoons, (there are 11 panels just in the intro). IDK if it’s too much or a departure. Wdyt? #pixelart

Pixel art image of Neo Cortex pleading with Uka Uka

Dr Neo Cortex pleading with Uka Uka, Crash Bandicoot Huge Adventure

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I made this little sprite around 10 years ago now. #pixelart

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Here is the timelapse, I used the Endesga 32 palette for this one. About 13 colours.

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Crash Riding Polar. I made this in Pixsquare on iPad, and I think it might be my favourite pixel art editor. #pixelart #crashbandicoot #GBA

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Messing around with pseudo 3D on the GBA for Crash Bandicoot twisted. The crates are 2D sprites that have been rendered offline in different perspectives, (depending where in the camera they are displayed) and carefully placed/scaled to simulate depth. #retro #pixelart #gamedev

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Made a small animation of Polar from Crash Bandicoot. Starting to experiment with some snow level stuff for Crash Bandicoot Twisted. #GBA #pixelart #retrogaming

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

This is Walt the security guard. He is a character from a Point &. Click adventure concept I was experimenting with. Trying to mimic the Day of the Tentacle/Sam & Max HTR aesthetic. #pixelart #samandmax #adventuregames

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Just hit over 2k downloads and browser plays on itch.io of Crash Bandicoot Twisted! The biggest traffic drivers were itch itself,(it got ranked towards the top of the GBA page), YouTube and Google. Also big shout out to @crashynews.bsky.social for covering it early.

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crashynews.wordpress.com
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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

This is Tabby McWhiskers, defence attorney. This character was originally from a small Phoenix Wright homage I made for my wife. What crimes has your pet been charged with that he could defend in court? #pixelart #aceattorney

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Remade Jungle Jam from Crash Bandicoot’s Huge Adventure. Still a ton of bugs to fix, but close to done with the jungle art. Also shout out to raym.app for making it easy to inspect the level designs. #CrashBandcoot #pixelart #GBA

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Another sneak peak of progress on my Crash GBA prototype. #pixelart #GBA #crashbandicoot

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Darcy Rayner @drayner.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

My weekend hobby project over the last few months has been prototyping a GBA Crash Bandicoot game using Rust and agbrs.dev . Here is a preview. #pixelart #gba

A mockup of a Pixel Art Crash Bandicoot jungle level in the style of a GBA game.

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