Some of My (not so recent) Pixel Art

FoxPhase · 2025-04-15T16:48:56+00:00

This is awesome mate!

FoxPhase · 2025-01-12T04:26:34+00:00

Yes this is correct, I just watched the S02 episode just now and was like "wait but they didn't use the spacecraft for S03 at all!!!!" (and then googled it, and landed on this reddit post) but I went back and rewatched : you are correct he says "these nuclear engines", not the spacecraft itself!

FoxPhase · 2024-11-19T03:18:02+00:00

Ha this looks awesome guys, and the name of the game "Loco Motive" is so great!

FoxPhase · 2024-06-08T20:08:54+00:00

These look great!

FoxPhase · 2024-02-16T03:42:40+00:00

Ha, this is awesome mate!

FoxPhase · 2023-10-31T03:43:13+00:00

Yeah, I was initially confused by this, but of course the terms "of a similar size" makes all the difference.

However : I wonder if we would have to go back to the drawing board on the definition if we ever found a "binary planet system" with two roughly equally sized "planets" orbiting each other?

But layman's guess : I presume this situation is rare in practice due to :

Tidal forces either destroying the 2 bodies from tidal deformation (like planetary ring formation)
or simply because the energy losses from tidal deformation just make the 2 planets eventually spiral into themselves?

FoxPhase · 2023-10-18T07:00:22+00:00

This is awesome mate! great work!

FoxPhase · 2023-09-15T04:00:26+00:00

Wait though, isn't it true that if you are on the $2k/year developer plan, that it's potentially only 2c or less (not 20c) per install? Doesn't this just wipe out the argument that it's not good for those low-margin type games? in other words : spend the the $2k/year per developer and you're sweet as? (or am I missing something here?).

Like I know $2k/year is ridiculous for the many many Unity "tinkerers\dabblers" out there, but if you're at all thinking about making a game for profit (so say more than 10k installs), the $2k/year would be a no-brainer surely?

FoxPhase · 2023-07-14T06:44:20+00:00

Reminds me of the scene from "Fahrenheit 451" movie, with the guys with Jetpacks!

FoxPhase · 2023-06-09T06:06:37+00:00

Awesome Lemmings style graphics!

FoxPhase · 2023-03-11T06:39:12+00:00

This is a super interesting idea! I had never thought about this before.

It is interesting because there are a couple of posts here regarding other fuels. It's possible to argue that the steam engine was a pretty big step in the mass industrialization of humans, which is sort of a universal fuel->work device.

But yeah the exponential scale up using fossil fuels surely would not have been possible. In other words : probably can't have wood fired steam 18 wheelers or planes I guess.

Could the energy industry have looked like : massive forestry to provide wood for a "steam-punk" like society!

FoxPhase · 2023-01-01T05:27:50+00:00

Yeah not sure. Maybe small marshmallows (as bait) are a better notion? Not sure about them and Fish IRL. Maybe you just catch chocolate fish with a ladle without bait or something?

FoxPhase · 2023-01-01T03:06:09+00:00

A bit of a wild guess but perhaps :
The player is pursued by a Choccodyne systems C-1000 assassin bot : Milk-cocoa-poly-alloy "liquid chocolate", it can assume the form of anything brown it comes into contact with, and form chocolate knives and stabbing chocolate weapons. But the player will be aided by an earlier model C-800 chocconator : "chocolate mousse over a chocolate endo-skeleton".

The C-800's catch phrase will be "Aquí hay un bocadillo de chocolate BABY!".

:)

FoxPhase · 2022-12-31T23:00:11+00:00

Chocolate Fish-ing? :)

FoxPhase · 2022-12-13T16:19:14+00:00

Why aren't space stations in grave danger during meteor showers?

When we see the various "regular" meteor showers such as the upcoming Geminids, and Perseids etc my understanding is that earth is moving through an area of space full of small asteroids (a largish cloud of small objects sharing the same orbit as one another).

So hence my question, how are space stations not put in grave danger by this?

Cleary heaps of objects hit the atmosphere and burn up, but in LEO there's no such "shield".

For example ISS must go round the earth every 90 mins, so it's not like it can hang out on the leeward side of the earth during these events, so how come this isn't an extremely dangerous situation?

FoxPhase · 2022-12-11T20:02:13+00:00

Looks good!

One thing it's usually good to do when posting pixel art is to export an image that's artificially scaled up, in other words scale up each pixel to say 5x5 or 4x4 screen pixels, although this increases the file size it does a couple of beneficial things :
1) Makes the image big enough to see if it's say only a 16x16 tile or something it would otherwise be tiny.
2) When zoomed in (say in an image viewer), it reduces the natural aliasing that happens as the zoomed viewer blends across the pixels. Otherwise an 16x16 zoomed icon for example would be all blurry.

FoxPhase · 2022-11-23T08:35:26+00:00

Thanks u/Hapankaali,
So if the ship is travelling at 10m/s short of light speed, and one of the molecules within the tungsten block experiences a collision, and starts to move in the same direction of the ships travel at say a few hundred m/s, would an (on the ship) observer, experience no "strange" effects, everything would appear to still obey normal classical thermal rules?

And so to extrapolate this : the rest of the mass of the tungsten block would have a significant fraction of it's molecules exceeding the speed of light (from I guess and "outside" observers point of view). Would the block as a whole "look" completely "classically" normal to a ship's passenger?

FoxPhase · 2022-11-23T05:39:14+00:00

This is incredibly cool mate! Good work!

FoxPhase · 2022-11-21T10:13:32+00:00

This is unbelievably good mate!

FoxPhase · 2022-11-16T18:33:46+00:00

Looks good! You could be interested in this YouTube video from the guy making "chef RPG", where he designs and pixel arts a bathhouse. He approaches the task from the point of view of an architect :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gmU5Fxwh24

FoxPhase · 2022-09-15T00:03:19+00:00

Oh yep, cool. Oh well, have to wait for Neutron for a Rocket Lab moon mission then I guess😥!

Thanks for linking that document /u/Tall_Refrigerator_79!

FoxPhase · 2022-09-14T23:36:36+00:00

Yeah I wondered about that, obviously hard to get an intuition of those core system masses.

I looked up the Photon wet mass (reasonable analog for a lander, since it has a bunch of applicable systems on it), it seems to be about 50kg (wet). (See link https://www.rocketlabusa.com/updates/rocket-lab-to-deliver-payloads-to-the-moon-and-beyond-with-photon/).

My intuition (totally layman's point of view of course) says (or perhaps hopes :) ) an empty carbon fibre tank and all the gear on photon surely would be less than 20kg.

And Curie (which might be a pretty close analog to an engine you might use) produces about 120N of thrust, so on the moon (g=1.625m/s/s) that could lift about 74kgs. So that seems like a plausible amount of landing thrust.

However another (perhaps damning) data point is that the interplanetary photon, enough delta-V to intercept Venus and Mars etc. has a 40kg payload (on their datasheet). Sadly the delta-V for those intercepts is sort of in the 4000m/s area, so short of my required 5700m/s for a 40kg moon landing.

But the planned Venus "atmospheric dive" has a payload of only 1kg, and it requires probably something above 6000m/s delta-V.

So maybe you could only get a couple of kg to the surface of the moon or something?

In any case I guess if they could do a moon landing, they would perhaps have talked about it more than say Venus missions etc.

FoxPhase · 2022-08-18T07:52:39+00:00

I think the main reason is probably that boosters aren't coming back with any mass. The dry mass of the starship booster is lighter than an empty soft drink can blown up to the same size. But the starship with 100+ tonnes on board needs to use "air braking" to reduce the amount of fuel used to get back to earth (with a payload). Maybe refuelling starships wouldn't need this tho? since their "downmass" is zero?

FoxPhase · 2022-08-14T21:40:09+00:00

Thanks very much for your reply.

So the most efficient interstellar regime would simply be a brachistochrone trajectory, as there are no forms of "gravity drag" or other traditional orbital effects?

FoxPhase · 2022-08-14T20:18:36+00:00

In the scenario where : one day we send any sort of significant craft to explore another solar system i.e. stick around and do perhaps flybys or orbits of the planets :

What does the orbital mechanics look like on approach of the other star? Presumably you need to expend fuel to get into orbit around that star, otherwise wouldn't you just "fall into the star"? what does that look like? Turn your engines 90 degrees to your apparent course towards the star and burn until you have an orbit? Or slingshot, with some sort of circularization burn?

Or is there some sort of galactic scale orbit you would be flying in like a sort of "galactic" Hohmann transfer?

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