@pxlinspace - about

* Hobbies *

Making games
Playing games ofc
Drawing art (both digital and traditional) & animating
Building papercrafts
Making origami! Especially paper cranes

Goals for this summer:

Publish a game on Steam!
Learn an instrument (guitar or piano) - at least good enough to play some songs

* fav things *

Games

Minecraft: ofc
Deltarune: I'm inspired a lot by the music, mysteries, and world-building!
Undertale: My fav part about this game is that the graphics are so bad that they are good.
Oneshot: One of the most immersive RPGs I've played! The colors, music, and meta aspects blend together very nicely.
Stardew Valley: So much love, time, and effort was put into every detail of this game and it shows! It was also hella inspiring watching the 10-year anniversary video and seeing how it changed over time.
Balatro: When I tried it for the first time I was so captivated by how polished and flexible it was in its mechanics! LocalThunk's passion and humility remind me of why I enjoy gamedev so much in the first place.
Rhythm Doctor: Y'all should play this game it's so easy it's only one button.
Celeste: Playing this game and listening to Maddy talk about her process taught me a lot about level design!
Hollow Knight: PEAK PEAK PEAK PEAK
Omori: This game genuinely influenced my art a lot, both the cartoony artstyle and the low-res photoshop visuals. The 2020 trailer was like the coolest thing to come out during the pandemic.
Everhood: this game was so weird wtf

Shows + Manga

Toilet-Bound Hanako Kun: The manga art is so detailed and beautiful. It's very aesthetically distinct and colorful!
Nichijou: This anime is so silly and cute! I also found it to be oddly meaningful?
City the Animation: Like Nichijou, it's very lighthearted and chaotic at the same time! The colors are very vibrant and it kinda makes me take life less seriously.
Mob Psycho 100: I love this anime's goofy ahh art style and animation. The alien episode and its ending was so weird that I keep thinking about it from time to time.
Chainsaw Man: I love the character designs, especially how they range from humans with weird eye patterns to the most horrendous looking monstrosities ever.
Bloom Into You: This was the first yuri I read and it is so cute omg! It approaches love in a very interesting way!
Bocchi the Rock!: Bocchi is literally me frfrfr
Arcane: PEEAAAAKKK PEAK PEAK PEAK PEAK PEAK
Star Trek: The Next Generation: A little out of place with these other shows lol. My dad introduced Star Trek to me and I actually got really into it! Every episode always comes up with a new idea to think about.

* Tools *

Art+Animation

Adobe Animate: My go-to animation software, though it honestly feels like it's gotten a bit more buggy and annoying to use.
Krita: Super high quality for a free and open source drawing software!
Procreate: Great for when I'm on the go or for quick concept sketches!
Aseprite: It's a joy to make sprites with this program! By default it's payed, but you can get it for free if you compile the source code .
Pixelorama: Another open source pixel art software. This was what I used when compiling Aseprite was too hard. It's cool in that you can bind different tools to either mouse button!
Flipaclip: Very fun for making quick animation sketches when I'm bored.
Tahoma2D: It's just the Opentoonz animation program but more simplistic! The vertical timeline makes me feel more professional than I actually am.

Languages I know from best to worse

GDScript: It's the language of the Godot game engine! The syntax is very similar to Python, with a few differences that make it more integrated with the engine.
Python: It's basically the easiest programming language lol, though I put it below GDScript since I don't really have that many use cases for it right now.
Lua: Unlike everyone else who learns Lua for Roblox scripting, I learned it for the LÖVE framework. It's fun, but it's differences make it feel a little weird and annoying to use.
JavaScript+TypeScript: Ehhh it's okay. Very flexible, but I find web development to be more of a hassle than game development.
C/C++: This is what we used back in my old high school Robotics team. Haven't had much need to use it since then, so it's slowly phasing out of memory.
Java: I literally only studied it for the AP CSA exam. I had enough extra time to make a full drawing of Hatsune Miku on the scratch paper which they then proceeded to take away :(
C#: My first game engine was actually Monogame (based on the XNA framework). I was following in the footsteps of my idol ConcernedApe, but gave up on it because it was too hard at the time :(
Vietnamese

Misc.

I currently use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Linux with Niri as my window manager!
Godot is my primary game engine, but I used to be a big fan of LÖVE.
Zed is my general purpose code editor
I use AFFiNE for notes, planning, & journaling
Todoist for task management
Zen Browser for web!

* Inspirations *

Toby Fox: My biggest inspo for being a gamedev rn! His IndieLiveExpo message lowk got me super into indie game development during the pandemic.
Nicky Case: Biggest inspo for web development! Her interactive sites, games, and her writing have made me more curious and invested in learning than school has ever made me.
Temmie Chang: I also discovered more of her stuff during the pandemic, but her work influenced my current chibi art style a lot! She's a super skilled animator, and seeing her learn to make her own games motivated me a lot too.
LocalThunk: Balatro is such a masterpiece game, and reading the timeline for how it was made left me in awe! He's a humble developer with a passion for a hobby, and reminds me of why I love game development so much in the first place.
NomnomNami: I love her short and digestible games and VNs! Her stuff influenced my art style a lot too.
Alan Becker: Stick figures were basically my introduction to animation! His animation tutorials, especially his 12 principles video, helped me a lot during my animation journey.
Aimkid: I used to be addicted to her animations because they are so ridiculously smooth! I'm in love with her geometric & dynamic art style, and I think it's influenced my art to be wackier too.
Cuptoast: I was addicted to her animations too. She got me into Jack Stauber and FlipaClip and I own her hoodie. It was because of her that I made that Last Cup of Coffee animation!
Daidus & Emirichu: Spilled Ink is my favorite art YouTube channel right now! Seeing these two learn traditional art mediums despite being primarily experienced in digital art made me get more into traditional too.

...and a lot more people that I can't name from the top of my head, but I'll add more later. There's also friends, family, teachers, etc. but I won't name them.