Daniel J. Menezes 🎮

@danjohnston.uk

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Game dev 🎮 Making game assets, tutorials & fonts. Creator of Gyro Boss 🛸 3-time winner & former host of the GMC Jam. Find my stuff at https://chequered.ink/

A screenshot of aseprite showing some sprites for a scrolling shooter game. There are various shapes of little ships for the player, weapons, shields, collectables and effects all in different colour variations. They're 16 x 16 pixels big with a limited retro colour palette.
A screenshot of aseprite showing 6 space ship designs, each in five different colours: white, red, blue, yellow and green. They are 16 x 16 pixels and use a retro colour palette.
All Fonts Pack, 1200+ font styles for $19 Surrounded by colorful preview images of our fonts in various styles
A 90s chequered paper background with colorful shapes on top with offset outlines. In the middle is text saying "made in BRISTOL" in rainbow colours.
A picture of 56 dominoes - 28 black and 28 white - with all combinations of number pairs between 0 and 6. Text reads: 512 X 256 PNG, SVG and Afdesign Editables.
A screenshot showing custom referrals by adding a URL variable to a URL
A mock up of a map in a zelda-like game using tiles that show a forest, hot springs, desert, and beach-like areas.
9 new fonts and better license terms - written on a purple background with preview images of the 9 new fonts including sci ones, a piratey one, a military one and more.
The MEGA block building set of a small forest scene with Bulbasaur on a tree stump and Emolga flying around a tree.
All Fonts Pack, 90% off in big letters. Surrounded by colourful previews of various fonts in different styles.
A digital thermometer reading 37.1°C
Two fathers day cards, a box of chocolates, some hand cream and a photo frame with a photo of me feeding my baby with "I love you daddy" written over it in ms paint. It's all very charming.
a 1-bit top down tile set in the pico-8 secret palette, showing a graveyard, a house, a church and some railway tracks among other things.
Chequered Ink x Moonana Asset Bundle showing the thumbnails for our 12,000 Game Assets pack and Moonana's two songs packs
A screenshot of Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! from their Steam Page - it shows my font Candy Beans being used on the UI.
Me and Nana (from Moonana Games) playing Planted! By Cloth Cat Games
A colorful drawing made with acrylic felt pens on white paper featuring simplistic but cute cartoon animals: a frog, octopus, duck, bear, rabbit, lion, elephant fish, pig, snake and lizard.
A little greyish brown wild bunny rabbit sitting in some untidy grass between daisies and dandelions. The edge of a red brick wall can be seen in the background.
A banner for our 12,000 Game Asset pack with colorful sprites from various game genres, plus the album art for Moonana's 2 music packs. Underneath it says 11,000 sprites, 700 sound effects and 161 music tracks. $30 Bundle!
Screenshot of Dragon Warrior Monsters - the opening scene in a small house where Terry's sister is kidnapped by a monster
The orb gaming handheld console with 150 games in one for like 20 quid
Some cute little cartoony pieces of sushi, 9 in total, in a sort of wholesome-looking color palette. In the bottom left is a boba tea sprite and in the bottom right are some hearts.
Various sprites using a "wholesome" colour palette, includes boba tea, crystals, elemental symbols, a games console, hearts, letters, moons, numbers, sparkles and stars so far.
A tiny little zebra jumping spider with cute beady eyes looking upwards ready to pounce on a fly
A panel of six game Devs on stage at impact
Me standing next to the Impact! Indies vertical banner. Everything has a purple hue. I'm wearing a t shirt advertising our game asset pack (of course)
Planted! A party game with 3D cartoonish graphics. There are four players running around a farm carrying various foods and tools.
Lyndy and Ash dressed in characteristic purple impact shirts. Ash is holding a microphone for Lyndy who is talking.
The meme with the woman looking disgusted on the left and pleased on the right. The left is overlaid with images from myfonts (monotype), Adobe Fonts and Creative Fabrica showing that they all support AI, have subscriptions, and massive price tags. On the right is Chequered Ink's All Fonts Pack showing that it's $19 for 1200 fonts for commercial use with no subscription.
Two phones with screenshots of our TikTok and Instagram account profiles @ChequeredInk and @ChequeredInkLtd
A makeshift sign on the back of a flat bed truck that reads "To the filthy individual who keeps putting their dog's shit in my truck please stop!!"
A bar chart showing that Plaid Cymru won 43 seats in the Senedd (Welsh Parliament) while Reform won 34, Labour 9, Conservatives 7, Greens 2 and Liberal Democrats 1.
A colorful image showing categories of fonts with examples and the number of each type of font in our All Fonts Pack. Blackletter (13), Brush (25), Cartoon (96), Computer (35), Grunge (41), Handwriting (73), Horror (35), Outline (11), Picture (35), Pixel Art (48), Heavy Sans (126), Light Sans (94), Sci-Fi (153), Serif (35), Square (204), Stencil (57), Vintage (50), Western (14), World (18) plus 83 more uncategorized fonts.
The original Nintendo DS on a blue background showing the stylus touching its touch screen
Over one hundred miniature cards with colourful, cartoony illustrations of characters, items and locations associated with our games. The aim of the game is to collect 20 pieces of gold before the CPU opponent, or knock them down to 0 HP.
All Fonts Pack - colorful font previews in a wide variety of styles. The logo for the all fonts pack is imposed on top with a sticker saying $19.
With Claude Code in the CLI, developers can now query project structures, hunt down bugs, and manage build configurations thruogh natural language prompts in the terminal. Routine tasks that once meant navigating menus can now be handled in seconds.
An article in the Daily Telegraph where former Green pacifist Dale Vince argues that we should stop spending money on heat pumps and spend it on war instead
The model inside Kenney Shape with no issues
Me and Baby JM standing next to a poster full of Pikachu in a forest clearing with text describing their various habits at the Natural History Museum in London.
A book called GO GENTLE next to a book called DO NOT GO GENTLE
The Nahilis from Keylocker - weird creatures with fingers for legs and their entire top half zipped up in some kind of all-black hoodie / gimp suit with a red flag on top. I've placed them on a pink and purple hearts background.
An ad for one of those physics games where you have to remove the pins to make certain liquids / items fall in a specific order. Only, the level environment itself is some kind of sexualised green giantess.
A screenshot of Doki Doki Literature Club
A screenshot of the tool for transferring Pokémon from Pokémon home to Pokémon champions, showing that the vast majority of Pokémon are invalid for use in the game.
A screenshot of Affinity Designer with a girly cartoon character made up of geometric shapes. She's got a simple happy face and pink pigtails. The objects are all highlighted to show the various vector shapes.
The Geordi La Forge meme template, showing him unimpressed with our 10,000 Game Asset pack, but super stoked for the 11,000 Game Asset Pack April update
All Fonts pack, 1200+ Font Styles - logo is surrounded by colorful previews of our fonts in all different styles. A sticker on top says $19
Pipes - an image of 64 connecting pipe tiles in Green, Silver, Gold and Bronze which have been added to our Puzzle Games Graphics Pack.
A screen showing Spellworm. A worm zig-zags across a grid of letters to spell words, in this case the names of countries in the Americas.
A screenshot from inside affinity designer showing two complete tile sets of connecting pipes - one green and one silver. The tile set includes pipe sections for vertical, horizontal, corners, 3-way junctions, 4-way junctions, and ends of pipes.
A mock-up of Keylocker on PS5 and Nintendo Switch, with box art showing Bobo and Rocket in the alley way of Soundwave City. On the right of the image is a sticker sheet with characters from the game, and a concert ticket which is a link to a downloadable soundtrack from the game.
My team in the hall of fame: Gengar, Golem, Persian, Venusaur, Porygon, Lapras.
My rival challenging me to a battle.
My level 44 Gengar taking down Lance's level 60 Dragonite with Destiny Bond.
Elite four Agatha would like to battle!
Elite four Bruno would like to battle!
My party before starting the elite 4. Venusaur L42, Gengar L43, Persian L47, Porygon L41, Lapras L44 and Golem L44
A dumb video of the Lego handheld console with a scribbled picture of Gyro Boss behind the screen.
Lapras using Surf on Giovanni's Nidoking