Hello random internet person! I'm Pixelin, a person that likes to make silly useless and occasionally useful things.

Things I'm doing rn + things I want to do soon are:

• Making silly games - aiming to publish one on Steam
• Practicing art & animation
• Learning an instrument (guitar or piano) - at least good enough to play some songs
• Play a lot of video games (I swear I'm not procrastinating I'm just studying game design :P)
• Fold 1000 paper cranes (I have no senbazuru wish, I just feel like it)
• Make a lot of money yum yum

Games I like - Minecraft, Undertale, Deltarune, Oneshot, Balatro, Stardew Valley, Rhythm Doctor, Baba is You, Hollow Knight, Omori, Everhood

fav shows + manga + whatever - Toilet-Bound Hanako Kun, Nichijou, Frieren, The Gaslight District, City the Animation, Mob Psycho 100, Chainsaw Man, Bloom Into You

Favorite art tools - Adobe Animate (I used to use a school-provided Creative Cloud subscription but now I just pirate Flash CS6), Krita, Procreate, Aseprite, Pixelorama, FlipaClip, Tahoma2D (it's just like OpenToonz animation software but more simplistic!)

languages I know from best to worse - Python, GDScript (Godot language), Lua, JavaScript+TypeScript, C/C++, Vietnamese

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 LOVE2D fan. I use Zed editor for general purpose coding stuff.

Other misc tools I like - 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.