James D. Jarvis
@jamesdjarvis.bsky.social
Technical Illustrator. Hobby programmer. RPG-aficionado.
Output from a color ASCII map generator I did for fun a couple years ago. Meant to generate retro-style maps fotpost apocalyptic campaigns. The look is vaguely similar to the big insert map from the 2nd and 3rd edition Gamma World boxed sets.
August 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Output from a color ASCII map generator I did for fun a couple years ago. Meant to generate retro-style maps fotpost apocalyptic campaigns. The look is vaguely similar to the big insert map from the 2nd and 3rd edition Gamma World boxed sets.
Project idea. "100 Level Dungeon" a massive and fun Old School TTRPG MEGADUNGEON. 100 levels deep and supporting level and class style play up to level 100. I've been toying with the idea for a while and thinking of moving forward on it. Bad idea? Good idea? Why not in any case?
August 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Project idea. "100 Level Dungeon" a massive and fun Old School TTRPG MEGADUNGEON. 100 levels deep and supporting level and class style play up to level 100. I've been toying with the idea for a while and thinking of moving forward on it. Bad idea? Good idea? Why not in any case?
Vectorizing a circuit dungeon map (which generates bit map graphics) is proving to be time consuming. Might have to rework the code so the program generates a vector image or maybe embrace the bitmap?
August 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Vectorizing a circuit dungeon map (which generates bit map graphics) is proving to be time consuming. Might have to rework the code so the program generates a vector image or maybe embrace the bitmap?
finished breakfast and did a but of tinkering with a program I made a while back based on a much older program. Circuitboard graphic repurposed as dungeon generation for a computer game or TTRPG.
August 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
finished breakfast and did a but of tinkering with a program I made a while back based on a much older program. Circuitboard graphic repurposed as dungeon generation for a computer game or TTRPG.
An attempt to translate the Magnoquill Driftflare Quiverbloom to QB64 from a programming/scripting language I am not familiar with. It's not 100% successful but it looks interesting.
July 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
An attempt to translate the Magnoquill Driftflare Quiverbloom to QB64 from a programming/scripting language I am not familiar with. It's not 100% successful but it looks interesting.
Swordswoman of Tékumel. An in-progress series of a piece of genre/gaming art.
July 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Swordswoman of Tékumel. An in-progress series of a piece of genre/gaming art.
Rocker Gal. I haven't done a piece like this in ages. I used to take images of models from fashion and rock magazines and apply classic format dot, line and screen patterns as opposed to using color to create a finished image. Here the subject is becoming one with the lights and music.
July 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Rocker Gal. I haven't done a piece like this in ages. I used to take images of models from fashion and rock magazines and apply classic format dot, line and screen patterns as opposed to using color to create a finished image. Here the subject is becoming one with the lights and music.
In progress piece "Future Chase" very early on but enough to share.
July 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
In progress piece "Future Chase" very early on but enough to share.
A sci-fi piece I did yesterday. A Dralasite and his human buddy for the Star Frontiers setting in the old TSR game by that name.
July 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
A sci-fi piece I did yesterday. A Dralasite and his human buddy for the Star Frontiers setting in the old TSR game by that name.
Piece of Fantasy art. Just vectors for now with no painting or shading yet.
July 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Piece of Fantasy art. Just vectors for now with no painting or shading yet.
Bugbear Lurking Behind a Pillar. Here's a multi-step Illustration from line work to finishing up the piece.
June 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Bugbear Lurking Behind a Pillar. Here's a multi-step Illustration from line work to finishing up the piece.
Under 12 hour personal coding challenge. Graphics work (some of the graphics were pre-existing made for public use by a third party) and coding. youtu.be/yy9vUhDp1lk?...
oneroomdungeonvideo
YouTube video by James Jarvis
youtu.be
June 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Under 12 hour personal coding challenge. Graphics work (some of the graphics were pre-existing made for public use by a third party) and coding. youtu.be/yy9vUhDp1lk?...
Experimenting with video projects. This was off the cuff and spontaneous with a little bit of editing. A brief "how to" demo for programming in QB64. Just making it made me relearn a few things about microphones and keyboard noise. youtu.be/nHbUsXhzsjQ?...
QB64 instruction demo
YouTube video by James Jarvis
youtu.be
May 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Experimenting with video projects. This was off the cuff and spontaneous with a little bit of editing. A brief "how to" demo for programming in QB64. Just making it made me relearn a few things about microphones and keyboard noise. youtu.be/nHbUsXhzsjQ?...
As a companion to my last post. What a project looks like before the graphics are added: youtu.be/TdpYGPMs-HQ?...
Early Roguelike Test with Inform and QB-64
YouTube video by James Jarvis
youtu.be
May 6, 2025 at 1:03 AM
As a companion to my last post. What a project looks like before the graphics are added: youtu.be/TdpYGPMs-HQ?...
So just for fun I thought I'd write a simple little game with old fashioned monotone graphics. Just sorting the graphics out to include has become a project of it's own. I have to write a program to collect the little graphics and put some of them on a reference sheet for further consideration.
May 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
So just for fun I thought I'd write a simple little game with old fashioned monotone graphics. Just sorting the graphics out to include has become a project of it's own. I have to write a program to collect the little graphics and put some of them on a reference sheet for further consideration.
Big Sprites to squash the little ones. Greater Elementals and Winterdeath in scale with one of my Gnome Warriors.
February 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Big Sprites to squash the little ones. Greater Elementals and Winterdeath in scale with one of my Gnome Warriors.
Surely someone cleverer than I knows this. But I've seen no mention of this in the press and nothing from thousands of talking heads on social media.
February 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Surely someone cleverer than I knows this. But I've seen no mention of this in the press and nothing from thousands of talking heads on social media.
Don't agree with all of it but yes... get busy. There are decades of plotting that have to be caught up with.
February 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Don't agree with all of it but yes... get busy. There are decades of plotting that have to be caught up with.
If you think this isn't funny you need to play more chess.
January 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
If you think this isn't funny you need to play more chess.
Evolution of sprite critter.
January 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Evolution of sprite critter.
Playing with 2-Bit Graphics encoding and rendering schemes and updated an old ascii-games of mine to have "fancy modern graphics".
January 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Playing with 2-Bit Graphics encoding and rendering schemes and updated an old ascii-games of mine to have "fancy modern graphics".
I updated a little programming tool I wrote a year or so ago.
December 15, 2024 at 2:44 AM
I updated a little programming tool I wrote a year or so ago.
Critters of the wilds. Created for my hobby project. Some of hundreds.
December 13, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Critters of the wilds. Created for my hobby project. Some of hundreds.
Checking my FB feed today and it is absolutely filled with complete garbage. I blocked, hid, or reported 24 groups in as many minutes. All were laced with right-wing political or culture war dog-whistles or outright propaganda. Here's hoping that doesn't happen here on Bluesky.
December 12, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Checking my FB feed today and it is absolutely filled with complete garbage. I blocked, hid, or reported 24 groups in as many minutes. All were laced with right-wing political or culture war dog-whistles or outright propaganda. Here's hoping that doesn't happen here on Bluesky.
More roguelike sprites, this time Trow, Zards, and Troldes. (Man-sized trollkin, buzzard people, and Big trollkin).
December 12, 2024 at 5:36 PM
More roguelike sprites, this time Trow, Zards, and Troldes. (Man-sized trollkin, buzzard people, and Big trollkin).