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

Delicious! I fear I might have discovered a new hyperfixation... Did you know there are whole sets of Demon Slayer minifigs? And Spy x Family and Alien? (deleted previous version as I had wrong scaling settings turned on for export)

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I did a new spaceship too. This is an enemy ship for Rumble B. I just need to write code to let you blow them up and then I'll post some video of them in-game.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I did another costume design for Delta, because I'm me. I was a nice break from programming spaceships on a day off :)

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's a lot to be said for how much you can achieve just by kitbashing past aborted projects.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Last night, as I was trying to sleep, I had the idea, "What if Defender but bullet heaven?" This morning I put this together with scraps from other projects. I want the whole thing to look cute, though like Fantasy Zone or Twin Bee. So time for some art.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Surprise Sunday morning delivery. AliExpress delivers the goods, Frieren LEGO-likes. And surprisingly, they're actually really good quality. I've got a couple of Delicious in Dungeon figs on the way too.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The creature (figure) walks among us. That time I tried a premade food service for a week and it came in a foam box with dry ice... so photo time! #halloween

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's October 1st here, so I'm going to repost some of my old spooky stuff and try to do some new bits, just for you. First up: Shibuya: Rave Witch. #halloween

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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 · 26/09/2026

It's obviously going to be Condorman

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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 · 23/09/2026

What was your first computer growing up?

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And The Secret of Monkey Island was the one that cemented the idea that making story games was a thing at a time when I was breaking into comics (just as there was a crash). I had played the earlier adventures but this was the one that clicked at the right time.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Space Wars - Just before Space Invaders came out in the late 70s - there was one near my parents shop. I loved it because it had the Enterprise fighting a Star Destroyer. From the early 90s to the mid 90s I used to hang out at arcades whenever I could.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Me and my weird space boats from Gunwale.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This big fluffy butt turns 7 today. Happy Birthday, Mickey! Still a master of the side-eye.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I forgot to mention that I bought the big deluxe Appleseed manga collection. Is very nice.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Scout gets a new bunny girl look... just because.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I bought a Retroid Pocket Nova and exported my old Starslayer game project to it (it’s android based). It runs really well so I’m going to spend a little time here and there updating it. Here’s a look at it currently.

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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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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Spent the morning working on updating the layout for the big collected Art of TY book. Fixed up another 40/520 pages. Now I can spend the afternoon painting some background layers for Gunwale. Oh, and the week after I swap controls from Joypad to mouse, my Steam controller shows up😑

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hey twins! My Steam controller just showed up this morning. A week after I just replaced my xbox controller.

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

I made some dough this morning for pizza for tonight's dinner. Fired up the Ooni and they turned out great. Grabbed some new pepperoni from Costco yesterday and I love it - first ones here that cup. This is the third one I cooked after we finished off 2x 4 inch ones too quickly to take photos.

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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 · 07/09/2026

Crested pigeons are the bestest pigeons. On the roof of the garage the other day, coming home from walking the dog in the morning.

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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

Drawing tonight with this on in the background

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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 · 01/09/2026

Trying to experiment this month. Today - An old character design reinked in Clip Studio Paint. #spacetember

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Lots of EVA suits for my comic Mech Skin: Enceladus

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Opened up Photoshop this morning to do some drawing only to find that there's some bullshit new slop button taking up space on the toolbar. You can remove it from the Window menu dropdown. You're welcome.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Spring starting early, the big blue tongue that lives in the backyard has stirred.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Today's Drawings. Spending more time getting re-used to Clip Studio Paint again because it's much nicer to ink with than Photoshop, thanks to the vector layers.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Spent a cloudy Saturday playing around with 3D spaceships because I can. Tempted to try and make a game I wanted to make last millennium. Maybe I'll just keep messing about with it while I work on gunwale for a change of pace. I rarely feel like drawing for fun lately.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The world needs a new Megaman Legends game with a big Breath of the Wild style world. And it needs to look like the promo art. I have scientific data to back this up.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Some aircraft from the greatest marsupial air combat game that never came to be, TY: Gunyip! We put in about 6 months of work on it for the PS2 before we got the chance to do Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

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