Brooks Bishop

@brooksb.bsky.social

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💫 Dreamer of Dreams at Creaky Lantern Games. @creakylantern.com 🕹️ Made Street Cleaner: The Video Game and bullet hell shmup Aeternum. #pixelart #indiedev 🟪 he/him ▶️ https://creakylantern.com/

A set of the board game Cosmic Encounter with a number of expansions organized inside a reinforced carrying case instead of the cardboard box it comes in.
A looping gif from The Simpsons where Homer hears a knock at the door with the announcement "Hired goons." to which he muses out loud "Hired goons?"
A quick meme draw over of Homer Simpson saying "Every time I learn something new it pushes the old stuff out of my brain." except it's written over to read "Every time I *junction a new GF* it pushes the old stuff out of my brain." and Homer and Marge's heads are pasted over with Squall and Quistis's respectively.
Photo of the front of A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games sitting on a wooden table.
Mysterious closeup from Street Cleaner 3. Pixel art, NES palette. A cat sleeps somewhere.
Screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. Pixel art, NES palette. Sukeban Honoko punches a street punk while riding a flat bed train car.
A card from the game Cosmic Frog showing the “Visionary Frog” with some amazing art of a psychic frog having a vision of two smaller frogs rendered I. Smoke emanating from its eyes.
A pixel art rendition of Danimal Cannon holding a lute, wearing a black vest covered in numerous buckles. His booted leg is propped on a treasure chest, and he his throwing the horns with his right hand.
A screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. Pixel art. A girl in a sailor uniform with blue hair runs away as a giant mechanical dragon driven by a ninja crashes through the wall behind her.
A screenshot of Street Cleaner 3 showing a mysterious room. NES palette pixel art. The Street Cleaner stands in the fog, apparently trapped by the rocky terrain.
A screenshot from Street Cleaner 3 in the mall stage. There are horizontally symmetric platforms in three tiers. Five different types of enemies appear.
An in progress screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. 2d NES style pixel art. The player jumps down a hallway dodging super-heated beams being emitted by rat sprites.
The Creaky Lantern Games logo being drawn as 4096 randomly placed and rotated overlapping quads. You can't even see the beautiful cornflower blue background any more.
A simple looking screenshot displaying a single textured quad of the Creaky Lantern Games logo over a cornflower blue background that belies the technical complexity of using a Vulkan compute shader to generate the vertices on GPU.
A screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. NES palette pixel art. Player character Honoko (in her unlockable City Pop costume) performs a wall jump to dodge between sets of electrical spark hazards.
The "skin select" screen from Street Cleaner 3, except a bug has replaced one of Honoko's player skins with the rat animation.
A photoshop of a gag from The Simpsons where Homer excitedly calls a home shopping line to see if the "limited" microphones are still in stock and the man on the other end says "Yeah, a few." while sitting in front of a warehouse of said product, except replaced with X hats.
A short clip of a graphical test of a strip of polygons from a perspective view lined up as a "road." The strip is oscillating vertically in a trochoidal wave pattern. The mesh is textured with a tiling Creaky Lantern Games logo.
A screenshot of some code used to generate the vertices and indices of a spline-based road mesh, along with a window of the output showing a perspective view of a wavy "road" featuring the Creaky Lantern games logo.
A screen capture showing some graphics code using SDL3's GPU library, along with the output: a rectangular window featuring a calming cornflower blue background (thank you XNA), and a pair of triangles with corner colors forming a rectangle. Red in upper left, lime green upper right, white in lower left and blue in lower right.
Screenshot from Street Cleaner 3. NES style retro platformer. The player is interacting with an arcade cabinet that depicts the playable characters for selecting character skins.
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom wide cover art showing a shot of stylized Hyrule, Zelda waves the Tri-Rod, with Link and Ganon floating ominously in the background.
Screenshot of 3d tile map editor using Dear IMGUI showing an example of dirt and grassy hills, projected global shadowing and a water shader plane, in isometric view.
A clip from the Boardwalk stage of Street Cleaner 3. 8 bit retro platformer game. The player as the character Honoko (a girl in a long skirt Japanese school uniform) runs past a payphone to an outdoor arena where two giant mermaids sit in the background. After a moment the one on the right puts her thumb and index finger up to her mouth, and begins to blow a bubble that grows to the size of the player character.
A pixel art mermaid. Green skin, brown hair, blue tail, adorned with gold bracers, choker and diadem.
A screenshot from Aeternum. An anime style bullet hell shmup. Purple-haired demon school girl Ellica faces off against Archibald, the Cat Wrangler, a large flying orange squid in a duel of bullets. Archibald is firing lines of bullets at Ellica, who has summoned Buer (a demon with the head of a lion surrounded by five goat legs) to protect herself as she fires back. The arena is a grassy path in the early morning with large blue fluffy clouds hanging in the air in front of an oversized moon.
A work in progress screenshot of a boss fight from Street Cleaner 3, boardwalk stage. Pixel art in NES palette. The player character stands center with his chain whip extended. A pair of identical twin mermaids flank the sides of the screen, towering over the player. They have light green skin, blue fishtails, and are adorned with golden arm bands, diadems, and chokers. They stare down at the player with empty white eyes. An oversize full moon hangs in the background.
A screenshot from Street Cleaner 3 of a boss fight, 8 bit pixel art. The eponymous vigilante is facing off against a hulking brute of a man in a bright pink Chinese opera style outfit, carrying a cannon shaped like a long dragon. They are both plummeting to the ground, wind rushing by, in front of a cityscape in shades of blue.
Samus Aran as in Super Metroid standing at a Chozo statue. Instead of an upgrade orb, the statue holds a white cat, curled up with its tail flopping around. Text at the top reads "If there were cats on Zebes."
A short clip from Street Cleaner 3 of the player as Cogex using his chain whip to fight a miniboss that consists of a stack of placeholder art rats firing missiles.
A pixel art character. They have short turquoise hair and matching eyes. They are wearing a tight black bodysuit with a turquoise vertical stripe up the side, covered by a white cropped tank top and white pants tucked into knee-high black boots. They are holding a thin bladed sword with a turquoise handle.
A short segment of the Graveyard stage in Street Cleaner 3. Pixel art. Lush green trees line the night sky in parallaxed layers behind a spooky purple stone wall as the player runs down the path, punching a Jiangshi until it explodes, then approaches the entry gate. A mysterious shadow jumps in front of the moon.
A clip from a boss fight against a four-legged spider mech. It is walking in the background to keep up with the moving train while the player dodges an electrical area attack and a hail of missiles.
A pixel art rendition of Megan Thee Stallion as she appeared at the Harris rally in Georgia. She is wearing a blue suit and tie, with a crop top white button up, and short jacket.
A pixel art horse depicted in mid-trot. Very majestic. Its coat is white with flowing brown mane and tail, and a pink bridle and saddle.
A VS Code window with the code to show an OpenGL window written in the ODIN programming language. Overlaid on that is the executed window, cleared to the ever-so-comforting Cornflower Blue color.
A screenshot from the Street Cleaner game sequel. Pixel art. A brightly colored mall with two parody movie posters on the wall. One shows a buff man in the sights of a gun, the other shows a warrior woman holding a sword and dagger with the word "Huntra" above her. It shows these as best it can, I mean, this is only 400x224 pixels.
A screenshot from the Street Cleaner: The Video Game sequel. Pixel art, NES palette. Jack Slade stands, holding his trusty bat, below a row of street lamps and palm trees. The moonlit night sky backs an old school wooden roller coaster in the distance.
Pixel art image from the upcoming Street Cleaner sequel showing Jack Slade staring up at an orange four-legged walking tank, three times his height.
Pixel art screenshot of a four-legged walking tank. NES palette.
A few books from Sam Lake’s reading list. “The Crying of Lot 49” by Pynchon, “House of Leaves” by Danielewski, and “The Buried Giant” by Ishiguro.
A photograph of the one and only Street Cleaner: The Video Game arcade cabinet set in a corner next to a shelf unit that contains one of every Street Cleaner CD and tape, the hot sauces and beer bottle, and the video game big box #1. Hanging over the cabinet are the game poster and a print of a painting of Creaky Lantern Games mascot Archibald the squid.
A product image of a hand massager (a rounded box with openings on four sides and buttons for settings on top) with a right hand resting inside of it. Overlaid is a quote from Dune: "What's in the box?" "Pain."
Fully painted hand crafted model of Trollskull Manor from the Waterdeep: Dragonheist D&D campaign. A four story old English style manor with cream walls, red chimneys, and blue roofing with a solitary bare tree out front.
A hand crafted model of Trollskull Manor (from the Dragon Heist D&D campaign), split by level, primed and zenithal highlighted.
A frame from a pixel art animation consisting of swooshes of blue, red, and black representing the high speed of an unknown attack by an unknown character.
Pixel art characters, mostly 80's actors and musicians, rendered in NES palette at a very small scale.
3d autotiler showing off grassy steppes with a little hidden pond, and distance based fog.
Test of 3d autotiler in iso view showing off a plane with a water shader. Slight ripple distortion, and color gradient based on water depth.
Example of 3d auto-tiler engine in Perspective projection showing off SSAO, meaning there is a gradient of darker space near object corners.
Screenshot of pixel art 3d auto-tile editor. Stepped grasslands, showing off tall grass and pink flowers that cast shadows and are dispersed using a Poisson disc technique.
A screen snip from autotile test of 3/4 view pixel art made in a 3d engine showing off tiered grassland with soft shadows.
A news headline that reads: "Death investigated at Burning Man while 70,000 festival attendees remain stuck in Nevada desert after rain"
Screenshot of 3d tile mapped example showing shadow mapping in action in a perspective view.
A RenderDoc vertex output error that reads: "Error reading back vertex data from GPU"
Sample of autotiled 3d terrain in an isometric viewpoint which mimics 2d pixel art.
Pixel art of a pair of characters. The left is a young woman with dark hair, wild almond eyes and a wide, crazy smile. She wears a purple military outfit covered by a shawl with arm slits. The right is a white Pomeranian dog, his tongue out happily, standing on his hind legs, also wearing a purple military outfit. They wear matching hats.
Screenshot from Glory Gunner. Pixel art, overhead shmup. Flying over a cavern in the desert shooting at a large blue bomber.
A pixel art rendition of the character Triss from The Witcher. Her red hair is done up with a blue gem ferronière. She wears a light blue dress and matching winter shawl with thick white edging.
Pixel art of an aristocratic swordsman character. He has wild red hair and a slight smirk on his face. His armor is a fine burgundy color paired with white trousers and cloak.