Daniel James Freer

@dfree.bsky.social

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Pixel artist and game developer Making Pipsqueak! Follow the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pipsqueakgame/pipsqueak Previously made RITE

A little dialogue mock-up from my game Pipsqueak!, featuring Tofu a special guest; Mina the Hollower. A small pixel art scene depicting the two characters talking. Tofu: Happy launch day, Mina the Hollower! Mina: Oh thank you, Tofu the follower!
An animated loop of a pixel art tileset featuring bubbling lava, made for my game Pipsqueak!
A scene from my pixel art game Pipsqueak!, after the scene has art added to it. The scene depicts our hero Tofu, a small mouse with a big sword, standing near a ledge overlooking a pit of spiky vines. The environment is made up of dirt, stone, and wooden platforms, and is very lush with overgrowth everywhere.
Some gameplay footage of the starting area in my game Pipsqueak! Tofu, the tiny mouse protagonist, is exploring a lush underground environment avoiding spiky vines and fighting hostile enemies
A small scene from Pipsqueak!, my in development video game. The scene consists of a lush underground environment, with our protagonist - a tiny mouse with a big sword - waiting to time a jump down between flying shurikens
A pixel art animation of spikey cannonballs spinning around
A screen capture of the earring equip screen from my game Pipsqueak!. The screen shows the protagonist Tofu's head, who is a mouse with 2 big ears and plenty of room to equip earrings for unique perks. The capture is animated showing the player moving an earring between available slots (piercings), and the earring sways from the movement each time.
A quick pixel art doodle of Hornet leaning on a silk spool with text below reading "Silk issue".
3 enamel pins of video game characters. Featuring Hornet and Lace from silksong, and Tofu from my game Pipsqueak!
An animated gif of some pixel art earrings for my game Pipsqueak! Features a static image, a wiggle, and a rotation of each earring. Earring shapes are a heart, a sword, a shield, a boomerang, a shuriken, and a skull.
A small pixel art mockup of a skill tree
a small pixel art scene featuring a copper laced tileset, tropical plant growth, and a very breakable looking pot
an animation of a pixel art mosquito enemy. there are 2 versions - one has little legs flailing about while this other has no legs
A pixel art piece displaying the first draft and final render of a spooky looking crypt door with a huge skull on it
an animated gif of some pixel art conveyor belts for my game Pipsqueak! Pipsqueak! is a side-scrolling metroidvania, so the conveyor belts are from a side-on perspective. The goal is that they will affect your momentum when you land on them in the game
An animated gif of some pixel art cogs made for my game Pipsqueak!
a video showing the spinning cogs in game. They have platforms attached to them that spin around aligned with the cog animation
a step by step process of how I animated a high framerate spinning cog in pixel art
A pixel art animation of some "hot rocks" for my game Pipsqueak! The rocks heat up from a cool grey to a hot yellowy-orange before cooling down again. While hot, the edges jiggle around as though the heat is almost tearing them apart
a short video showing the swimming physics and water splash animations in my upcoming game Pipsqueak!
a pixel art animated gif showing 4 big hammers in a row bonking the foreground sequentially. the hammers appear to be spring loaded, with cogs at the base of their handles winding up and then releasing for each hit
A pixel art animated gif of a hazard called a "clamper" from my game Pipsqueak! Two rectangles with sharp teeth quickly clamp shut and re-open shortly after.
An animated gif of a hazard called a "chomper", from my game Pipsqueak! The red box with spiky teeth lunges toward the camera while doing a big chomp
A pixel art scene made up of dirt, stone, and grass tiles. Extra details include mushrooms, roots, a wood log platform, and a rope platform.
a screenshot of a work in progress tileset featuring chunky stones with grass and mushrooms growing between them. Some wooden platforms on stilts sit on top of the grassy rocks
A blue-coloured pixel art tileset with an aquatic stone theme
2 pixel art crab sprites, one looks spooked while the other looks mad
a pixel art scene set in some kind of aqueduct environment featuring some floating spiky fish and running water in the background. A mockup for my in development game, Pipsqueak
A screenshot of my upcoming game Pipsqueak! featuring a small mouse with a big sword in a lush, overgrown environment.
A pixel art scene featuring some square pumpkin platforms
A pixel art background of rocks, plants, and small waterfalls
A screenshot of Mouse Game, currently in development. Showing a lush pixel art environment with the hooded protagonist in the center