Clara Gale ✈️ NS 0.4.1 out now!

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Game dev making the arcade flight game Nova Squadron in my spare time. Opinions are my own, nothing here is related to my day job. She/her -- 🇬🇧|🇯🇵 OK You can play the Nova Squadron alpha demo on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1826830/Nova_

A pixel art portrait of AWACS Storm Chaser - a pale-skinned woman in a bomber jacket with long green hair, thick eyeliner, and pointy ears - grinning like an absolute dumbass (she is one) and wiggling her ears up and down.
Various responses to the gay plane: "Are we going to get gay AGMs? GayGMS?" to which I said "Okay, I checked with the Eventide's chief of engineering, she says all the AGMs are already gay" "not only are the pilots queer, the planes are too...hell yeah!" to which I said "the pilots are so queer I can't even make coming-out posts for them and I've had to start using inanimate objects. suffering from success." "just expecting some su-27 inspired craft that is actually trans and lesbian and i'm in" to which I said "we already had a Su-27 hybrid planned, taking notes"
The Valkyrie, one of the two playable aircraft in Nova Squadron, painted in bright rainbow colours. The shark-mouth decal painted around the nosecone minigun seems pretty happy about the whole thing.
A render of one of the new Pillars of Origin - a big rusty flying building - floating through some (much fluffier than in 0.4.0) clouds.
The work-in-progress model for one of the Pillars of Origin - three huge, angular grey columns held together with support struts, covered in tiny windows and haphazardly placed solar panels, floating via rocket thrusters in the middle of Jupiter's sky. It's partly obscured by fluffy white clouds. Faded text on the side of the Pillar says it's part of the UEPA's Galileo program...over a hundred years before Nova Squadron is set.
The crash panel from a Panavia Tornado, complete with black-and-yellow warning stripes, markings, and labels for the different components. Oh, and a slider, two knobs and a foot switch. Because it's the faceplate of a guitar pedal.
The grids.fun "About Me: Video Games" grid that's been going around. Favorite Game: Valkyria Chronicles Best Story: Tales of Symphonia Favorite Art Style: Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising Biggest Personal Impact: Final Fantasy XII Best Combat: The Battle for Wesnoth Overhated: Final Fantasy XIII Underrated: Resonance of Fate Overrated: Valkyria Chronicles 4 Needs a Remake: Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere Criminally Overlooked: Kid Icarus: Uprising Favorite Protagonist: Disgaea 4 Favorite Antagonist: Halo 2 Best Soundtrack: Final Fantasy VII Remake Best Multiplayer: Helldivers 1 Not Usually My Thing, But...: Just Cause 3 Turn My Brain Off: Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes Best With Friends: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Best Retro Game: Metal Slug Nostalgic Childhood Game: Sonic Adventure 2 Game Everyone Should Play: Ace Combat 04: Distant Thunder
A procedural texture that looks kind of like Jupiter's furthest Galilean moon, Callisto - a black and brown mottled surface dotted with white impact craters.
A procedural texture that looks kind of like Jupiter's third closest Galilean moon, Ganymede - a desolate gray surface, similar to our own moon's, dotted with brighter white impact craters.
A procedural texture that looks kind of like Jupiter's second closest Galilean moon, Europa - a flat icy surface, a rusty red colour in the centre and snowy white at the poles.
A procedural texture that looks kind of like Jupiter's nearest Galilean moon, Io - a yellowy/orange surface dotted with black volcanic splotches.
Sani's profile pic, ace pilot Amelia "Caracal" Felyna, from Aggressors: Fantasy Air Combat, in the pixelated style of Nova Squadron's character portraits (the only style I can draw). She's wearing grey overalls over a white dress shirt, has golden eyes, purple hair drawn into a long ponytail, and enormous fluffy cat ears. Oh, and a silly cat grin.
9 mission buttons superimposed over a map of Jupiter: Mission 1 - Bomber Interception, Obviously Mission 2 - Operation Scalding Water Mission 3 - Battle Against a Formidable Duck Mission 4 - Breaking the Siegebreakers Mission 5 - Bringer of Missiles, Ultimate Mission 6 - The Goddamn Duck's Back Again Mission 7 - Operation Sapphire Wrath Mission 8 - The One Where You Play As A Tank Mission 9 - Why Won't This Stupid Duck Leave Me Alone
A screenshot of Nova Squadron (the game I'm working on) with the sky and cloud colours tweaked in-engine to the lovely pink and blue pastel hues of the trans flag. A plane painted in non-binary flag colours is flying towards the sunrise.
A Phoenix fighter plane surrounded by clouds. Said clouds have decided to be jet-black where the sunlight's reaching them, with radioactive green shadows.
Pillars of Origin - Bonus: Earn extra Credits for each target destroyed. Penalty: Your squadron will come under fire from Pillar-mounted long-range SAMs. The region in which the first settlers arrived on Jupiter, dotted with the 170-year-old townships they first built. Though old and falling into ruin, their salvageable resources and strategic positions are still sought after by both sides of the conflict.
In the order I drew them: Fenrir, one of the two protagonist options, a young woman in a flight suit with long, bright orange hair and a slightly bemused smile. Commander Özdemir (or just Öz to most people who know him), a stern, grey-haired man with a pristine white uniform, bionic eye, and magnificent moustache. AWACS Storm Chaser, a purple-eyed emo girl with dark green hair tied into a messy ponytail and a brown leather bomber jacket. Perigee, the other protagonist option, a young man with blue hair, a slightly scruffy beard, and kind pink eyes. He's also wearing a flight suit, but his is, well, actually rendered properly.
A man in a partially unzipped flight suit, with long blue hair tied up in a short ponytail and a short blue beard. His purple eyes look kind but also a bit silly. (This is because he’s kind but also a bit silly.)
A ton of comments I've had on the chat log feature: "that's so good, ace combat should have that too" "Galaxy-brained idea." "Ive always wanted this feature" "I *despise* missing conversation in a game when I'm trying to focus on the gameplay. Having a chat log available is A+!" "ooo thats a good idea!" "oh this rocks, wishlisted" "Man thats so useful" "Nice! I'm still annoyed with Ace Combat 7 for missions that you fail without knowing why because the comms make no sense."
Pixel art of a girl with dark-green hair tied into a ponytail, wearing a stripy pink-and-black shirt and a leather jacket with a fluffy lapel. She's got a dumb grin on her face and her pierced pointy ears are wiggling up and down.
A pixel art portrait of a woman with purple eyes and lipstick, and green hair tied into a ponytail. There's a little silver cross dangling from one of her pointy ears, a silver crescent moon necklace around her neck, and she's wearing a fur-collared leather jacket and a stripy black-and-purple top.
A screenshot of a Discord conversation that, um... So we have a guy named Stinko saying "clara have plant on profile. need eat it. cover it in vinegar." Me saying "stinko that was auto-attached to my profile by Discord for TWO MINUTES" Then Sanikku, who by the way is our server moderator, showed up to say "SOBBING LMAO, we need to EAT CLARA'S PLANT" Back to Stinko: "WE HAVE TO EAT CLARA PLANT" I quietly suggest "maybe that's why it's not on my profile any more" This doesn't help. Stinko again: "EATING CLARA HAIR-- wait why am i banana" Robin, another NS developer: "eat stinko banana" Sanikku, watching the tables turn: "Robin you can't say tha--" "you can't stop me"
Pixel art of a grey-haired man in a white naval officer's uniform, with one piercing blue eye and one robotic prosthetic eye. And a gigantic handlebar moustache.
Pixel art of a woman with tanned skin, long ginger hair and green eyes, wearing a pilot's flight suit. She looks like a bit of a dumbass (because she is in-game).
A screenshot of one of the briefings from Nova Squadron, now featuring a pixelated, CRT-filtered portrait of a ginger lady in a flight suit in the bottom-left corner. She's saying "Oh, come on Öz, one silly little superweapon isn't going to stop us, especially with the Admiral backing us up! We'll handle it."