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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is the story of "Gunwale". You can read along with me in your book. You will know it is time to turn the page when... If you get the reference, you probably should schedule that colonoscopy. Anyway, here's a journal UI background from Gunwale.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Productive week. I rewrote the map screen from scratch getting rid of a lot of the gimmicky 3D. Here's the new mousified version. I just sorted out an issue that was bugging me for the last few hours so I'm making pizza and watching a movie now.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've got my new mouse UI changes in place now and I'm pretty happy with it. I added the little boat button to turn around and spent a little extra effort to make it face the right direction and have the cursor icon flip to show the correct direction. It's the little things that make dev fun.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

These are all the pieces for the current location(room) I'm working on for Gunwale. I did originally start out doing big single images but I discovered that smaller pieces with more parallax looked cooler in motion.

A selection of environment layers that make up a location in the game.

Some of the background bits assembled as they appear in the game. Along with Greeley and the Gunwale Regis in the foreground.

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So yesterday morning I wake up and decide I've been approaching the controls to Gunwale all wrong by trying to make it work for Joypad first. So I sat down and spent the day reworking things to work with mouse. Now it feels right.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

More of the little ones from the past in the future to be. Glad I did this, it's really helping me fill out the characters' stories for the game.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

ME: What if I made more work for myself and put together a prequel comic to Gunwale? YOU: Nobody could be that stupid. ME: Look behind you, a three-headed monkey! Drops art and runs away...

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Spent this week struggling with code but I did draw this last night, a new critter for Gunwale.

A fictional bear-like animal with moose-like antlers and tusks.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Today's sci-fantasy space verandah work.

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Greeley's spring, summer and beach looks.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This week in Steve draws sci-fantasy space buildings...

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Gunwale... the manga?

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Working on making up space houses today... Also, what's a straight line?

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Making with the cute stuff, as usual.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A new birb from Gunwale just dropped, the pinwing. I do pinwings now, pinwings are cool. They get their name from the venomous spurs on their wings (you can tell it's a bird designed by an Australian)

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

6 months into the year, I finally started putting this together. Part art book and part world guide. It's going to have lots of sketches and behind-the-scenes process, as well as heaps of world info and art.

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Character sheets but making them move :)

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Working the kinks out of the Spine plugin for Construct. By 'kinks' I really mean to say I'm leaning my way around it. Pretty happy with it so far and it's not even final release yet.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

A few test heads for Greeley made from various sub-objects. I've got a few more pieces to do but I'm pretty happy with the cartoony feel so far. These are going to be pretty small on screen most of the time as seen in the pic with her on the Regis.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Swapped one of the critters (the Waggletail) from a set of sprite frames to a Spine puppet. Same animation that I'd exported as frames from Spine before but now it's higher res, smoother animation and I get to use skins for variety. Also, less memory.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Me... desperate to make something that looks like an anime show on my own before I cark it. A sequence for a pretend OP for Gunwale.

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Some background character kids for Meggie's class at the Grand Library. Well, they're supposed to be background characters, but I can already see them having their own adventures. I think I'll end up threading a big adventure for them as a background thing for attentive players.

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I'm designing a bunch of background character sprites to fill out crowds in the background. The plan is to do one character pose each day. So far, so good.

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

New model sheet for our girl, Greeley in her summer outfit. Now with her fancy-looking dragonhead barge pole.

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I'm designing a bunch of background character sprites to fill out crowds in the background. The plan is to do one character pose each day. So far, so good.

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Trying out a different ink and color style for cutscenes.

Two characters with fair hair, dark skin and electric blue eyes in fantasy costumes. One woman on the left is surprised and looking at the other woman in the foreground on the right of the screen. She has her back to the camera and is turning to look at the viewer.

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I'd been wanting to do some sort of motion graphic for the current Gunwale logo for a few weeks now. I had some time last night to throw something together. It's nothing complicated but I think it's a nice starting point.

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Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Here we find the fossil remains of a Kynigo Drakos, the hunter dragon. These legendary beasts once roamed freely across the land of Kanali until they were wiped out. BONUS: the tapestry relic that tells the story of the fall of the Dragons of Astre.