Also, thank you for you tutorials. I have stumbled on some of them too.

I also enjoyed your pixel art tips for programmers.

A couple of years ago, I tried something in that direction[1] using Phaser[2], and it was quite fun. I used Tiled Editor[3] to create the map and some pixel art that I purchased from itch.io.

[1] - https://story.tuzemec.com (not very mobile friendly)

[2] - https://phaser.io

[3] - https://www.mapeditor.org/

https://lpc.opengameart.org/

There's also a character generator with plenty of options to choose from:

https://liberatedpixelcup.github.io/Universal-LPC-Spriteshee...

Not a bad job in the slightest, but fairly underwhelming.

> This was another time intensive task but I’m happy with how they turned out.

I kind of read past these comments (and a couple other similar ones) at first but looking back I realized how nice it is to read something like this. It's like, yep, I did something that was kind of hard and took a while, but it was worth it because I feel like I did a good job. I feel like this is something that's sadly getting replaced by "Well, this isn't the greatest because AI did it for me, but who cares, at least it was quick."

Fun article!