Sam

@smbns.bsky.social

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🏞️ UI & Visual Designer 🧱 Building Geomancy - a sustainable indie studio 🕹️ 🎛️ Documenting the indie dev journey along the way 🏰 Worldbuilder, 📝 Writer, 🎮 JRPG fan

Video game screenshot from Final Fantasy 7, depicting the main character standing in front of a power company headquarters which stands looming in the distance, mammoth in size.
A screen recording of the playtester.io website and the drawer asking to install as a PWA blocking their main bottom navigation
A video of me placing my hand behind a plant leaf showing how the light changes the colour of the translucent leaf through subsurface scattering. The leaf changes from greenish to a crimson colour when light hits it.
A good example of Subsurface scattering taking place in the real world, as sunlight is coming from behind a plant and changing the colour of the leaf from light greenish to a crimson colour due to the way the light comes through the translucent leaf.
A screenshot from the Godot game engine showing some code which allows a user to cast a ray when clicking to fire in the game, the SMG model recoils and the raycast prints what the user shot at. The image shows a windowed game running showing the SMG model in a FPS shooter style.
A screenshot from inside the Godot game engine showing a sandbox level created with CSG objects in colours orange and grey. The level has cylinders to jump between, sets of stairs, some bridges and a few archways between walls.
A screenshot of a tower defense game called Babarian Blaster from a Godot course on Udemy. It has a beige path which 4 babarian character models are walking along and one tower situated in the middle of where the path loops. Several trees and rocks fill the grass land grid map and a castle is standing in the top left of the screen with. text overlaid showing 50 out of 50 health left. In the bottom left is some UI text showing gold 110.
A image with a gradient background showing some screenshots of the content in the first Tomes & Tactics newsletter. The screenshots show the email with a title for '2 inspiring worlds' then showing a screencap from Studio Atma's Gravastar game and some material images next to text for the 3 useful finds.
A screenshot of the Godot game engine, showing a script that uses raycasting to locate which grid-map tile is selected and update it to a different colour once found.
The book cover for the Diana Wynne Jones book "Howl's Moving Castle", the cover shows a blue sky with fireworks in it, gossamer clouds and a castle huge in sized peering through the clouds. In the foreground stand two figures on a grassy hillside with the wind swirling around. The book title is laid over the bottom of the cover.
A moodboard with a collection of screenshots of various websites, films and games for which are inspiration for the design of the Arcane Pyre website I am currently working on.
A screenshot of Eagle App on a mac desktop, showing a collection of references mainly for costume design on display in little thumbnails.
A screenshot of a notion page with a list of skills I think I need to learn at least the basics of to become a solo-dev. The list - [ ] Environment Art - [ ] User Interface 🟢 - [ ] VFX / Shaders - [ ] SFX - [ ] Audio - [ ] Animation / Motion - [ ] Marketing - [ ] Level Design - [ ] Concept Art - [ ] Worldbuilding 🟢 - [ ] Character Design - [ ] Rigging - [ ] Game Design / Mechanics - [ ] Programming - [ ] Narrative Design - [ ] Art Direction / Visual - [ ] Creature Design - [ ] QA / Testing - [ ] Community Management
A simple game created in the Godot engine, it shows a path which an enemy pill shape is moving along, at the end is a red cylinder with a number 5 floating above indicating its health.
The title art for Croc Legends of the Gobbos on PS1. It shows a cliff top with a small anthropomorphic crocodile jumping through the air with a little fluffy ball on some floating stone discs behind Croc. The title of the game is in a lock up on the top left hand corner with a yellow glow outline and purple scale like texture.
The Metal Gear Solid box art for PS1, its a white background with the words 'Metal Gear Solid' in the red classic lock-up design. Down the left hand side is the black playstation banding for all cases and the Konami logo sits in the bottom right corner.
An in-game screenshot of a cinematic, showing a conversation between Denam and The Holy Knight Lancelot. Their portraits are shown overlaid text speech bubbles that look like parchment. The conversation is layered over a pixel art background scene of a fantasy town.
An in-game screenshot of Age of Empires 2, showing a desert or tropical climate area of a civilisation, with a walled town. It has a archer range, a barracks and a marketplace visible in a feudal age style of buildings.
An in-game screenshot of an early battle in Final Fantasy 9. It shows a party of 4 characters including the main, Zidane, fighting in a wooden cabin like room against a lizard like monster. There is UI in the bottom section of the screen with options like 'Attack' and 'Defend' and then next to it is a set of character details for HP, MP and a bar for ATB.
An in game cinematic shot from Skyrim showing the hero in the foreground, back to camera holding a shield and sword, with a dragon swooping down into view in the background. The scene is a frosty tundra like landscape where the fight is about to take place.
An in-game screenshot of Ashley attacking an enemy for 77 damage in the pixel background of what looks like a castle setting. Another armoured enemy is close to Ashley and a red exclamation mark is shown on screen as part of the UI warning the player of an imminent attack.
The main protagonist in the game Bully shown in the middle of the screen wearing a full body bull mascot outfit for the school they attend. They are standing on a dirt road outside the town.
The title screen for the 1993 game Syndicate. It shows an in-game screen of a building with steps leading up to the front of it with some UI elements down the left hand side, and overlaid is the word Syndicate in yellow lettering with a red outline.
The Final Fantasy 10 cover art for the game, it shows Tidus, the main character with tanned skin, blonde hair, standing in the middle of a shoreline. He is wearing a set of black half dungarees and a little cropped hooded shirt that is yellow, whilst holding a sword with a blade that looks like water in black gloved hands. You can see some buildings over in the background across the bay. Along the top is the Final Fantasy X logo written over the sky.
A cinematic shot of all the possible playable characters you can control in Commandos 2, 6 in total arranged from left to right, one sitting with a minigun set up on what looks like a WW2 era street scene.
An in-game screenshot of Alundra walking down some steps in what seems to be a dungeon, there is flowing water either side of the set of stairs. Three large spiked balls hang from the ceiling in mid air.
An in-game screenshot of the dungeon in Diablo 1 showing three heroes facing off against a skeleton king surrounded by other evil skeleton enemies and a ring of lightning being used as a spell.
An in-game screenshot of Heroes of Might and Magic 3, showing the world map which the player moves around to fight other heroes, claim buildings for resources and find monsters to recruit or destroy.
An in-game screenshot of Breath of Fire 3 showing a dirt road with Teepo and Rei talking to a young Ryu and explaining about their life style. A text box on screen shows part of the conversation stating "We go there sometimes, and, well, mug people".
An in-game screenshot of a battle in Grandia using the turn-based system and showing Justin attacking an enemy with his sword.
The class tree system for a swordsman class in Ragnarok Online
An in-game screenshot of the main character in the game Wild Arms, Rudy, moving across a paddock around some horses.
An in-game screenshot of Dark Cloud with the protagonist in a forest setting completing a 'dungeon' as it were with mini-map on screen alongside health bars and other user interface elements.
A scene from the original Final Fantasy 7 game featuring a cinematic of Cloud slowly lowering Aerith into a pool of water as he says his farewells.