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Steve Stamatiadis

@spacecaptsteve.bsky.social

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Krome Studios co-founder Award-winning Australian video game designer & drawing guy. Blade Kitten, TY the Tasmanian Tiger series, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, The Crinoline Crime Club, and the upcoming Gunwale. https://linktr.ee/spacecaptsteve

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · Oct 21

Greetings. I'm a 30+ year veteran of the games industry. I've made Lots of my own original IP like TY the Tasmanian Tiger and Blade Kitten. As well as directing some smaller lesser known IP like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed :D

I like to design characters and make comics in my "spare" time.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 11h

Slowly building things up.

Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · 11h

Trust the process.

Today I painted some rocks and tree layer elements, as well as coloring in the boat layers.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 11h

Slowly building things up.

Gunwale @gunwaleregis.bsky.social · 11h

Trust the process.

Today I painted some rocks and tree layer elements, as well as coloring in the boat layers.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 11h

Finally getting around to updating my website after too many years. Moving over to WordPress since Adobe dropped Muse (which wasn't perfect but did the job). Spent all night just messing around with getting all the plugins up to date and working.

I hate it, but at least I can actually start now.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 11h

I just backed A1 DEADLINE SPECIAL on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/dee...

A1 DEADLINE SPECIAL

A1 and DEADLINE, two landmark UK comic book publications ARE BACK! The heart of UK counterculture returns to print.

www.kickstarter.com

Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 18h

Yep, that one's going to rocket up the charts and remain at number 1 like an iceberg, cos it's such a gem.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 18h

At this point, it feels like you've just given up trying...
🥱

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 19h

Made a sandwich for lunch and actually remembered that I had some lettuce instead of forgetting and throwing it on on rubbish day.

The Elf mage Frieren looking off screen with the text "Does this mean I've changed?"

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, he'd already died and comback one time, two would be an extravagance!

Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 1d

It's already at that point inthe year where I start my day before 6:30 to take Mickey for a walk before it gets too hot. When Summer hits full on we'll be out just after dawn. I really should head down to the park early one day to maybe see the wallabies.

Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 1d

and
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TY the Tasmanian Tiger 2 is Steam Deck Verified

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 1d

Some more of mine...

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TY the Tasmanian Tiger is Steam Deck Verified

store.steampowered.com

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 1d

I like the new Steam Deck game landing pages.

Blade Kitten @bladekitten.bsky.social · 1d

Cool, Steam has new Steamdeck verified landing pages for games... Like Blade Kitten!

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Blade Kitten is Steam Deck Verified

store.steampowered.com

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 1d

Summer is never over... There is only a little less Summer.

Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 1d

Took a break from the detailed background stuff today to take yet another crack at the interiors. Previous version was isometric and just felt very technical drawing vs the more cosy feel I was after. Experimenting with some simple 3D shapes and sprite stacks. I like the new feel, so far.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 4d

WIP line art for a new room for Gunwale. I'm trying to make sure that each location has lots of detail for you to look at since that's a pretty major point of the game.

I actually can't wait to color the layers and put them in the engine to see them in parallax.

That's the best bit.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 2d

My weekend of Gunwale boating lineart.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 1d

When we wrapped on Fortress back in '91, I was talking to Simon, the Art Director about his next gig. He was thinking of maybe taking the job on Super Mario Bros next. And he did.

I saw the Goombas at CES in 93, and they were very big and intimidating in real life.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 2d

That makes two of us!

There's a little bit of rough planning at the start, then I just let my hand do what it thinks is right. Being digital means I can change things on the fly pretty easily.

But yeah, I point the art in a direction then let it go.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 2d

My weekend of Gunwale boating lineart.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 3d

Thankfully, that storm was a bit of a non-event. Mickey was getting anxious with that early non-stop thunder but I gave him a treat and that distracted him enough to calm down.

Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 3d

Probably time to power down.

Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 3d

First big storm of the season on the way. The rolling thunder has been going on nonstop for about 10 mins and it's still ages away. (I'm about 1/2 way between Sunnybank and Logan)

Gotta love living in the sub-tropics.

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 4d

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Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 4d

I don't know about using the bsky login but I was recently looking at a plugin for Wordpress to do a forum/board.

I also miss the old ezyboard forums of the early 2000s.

Steve Stamatiadis @spacecaptsteve.bsky.social · 4d

And let's not forget that it was quicker for Scotty to just use the keyboard 😊