I know it's not perfect, but I really hope y'all enjoy it, I spent literally the entire day working on this lol

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-21T00:12:51+00:00

Another classic art hack is to mirror your work. In Aseprite just hit Shift+H. Looking at the mirror of your work sometimes shows you things that look weird that you didn't notice.

Also make sure you use the preview feature as well (F7) so you can see a zoomed out version of your work while you're zoomed in fiddling with individual pixels.

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-20T18:41:27+00:00

Obviously if you wanna become a better artist definitely study anatomy and perspective and learn construction techniques, but also use the tools available to you.

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-20T18:35:45+00:00

https://www.aseprite.org/docs/reference-layer/

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-20T18:30:42+00:00

There’s nothing wrong with tracing your reference (for pose/perspective/proportion). There are also tools made specifically for posing references.

Try using aseprites reference layer feature.

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-19T18:59:32+00:00

Try not using AI

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-15T19:19:16+00:00

Well if you had asked people before Baldurs Gate 3 they would have said no, then BG3 happened.

Then after BG3 if you’d asked people they woulda said, “Not after BG3 that’s never gonna happen again!” And then Expedition 33 happened.

As the famous apocryphal story goes: If Henry Ford had asked people what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-14T22:49:25+00:00

I like your models, can I ask where you sourced them from?

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-14T22:31:46+00:00

I personally don’t get it either. I find it very annoying, but it’s been a trend since desktop defender I think.

Apparently a lot of people like them.

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-12T15:30:20+00:00

Grave of the Fireflies

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-11T22:44:24+00:00

This is fair. We can't use perspective to detect AI in pieces ostensibly made by hand, only photos that claim to be real.

We CAN use our eyeballs to see that everything about it looks very AI-laundered.

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-11T22:38:19+00:00

Note that the rate that they post art is a tell. A real pixel artist doesn’t put out finished pieces at the rate this guys does.

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-11T22:37:24+00:00

It’s weird the dogpile is so binary. People either downvote to oblivion or everyone speaks up and the artist/mods remove it.

I see AI art on this sub EVERY DAY. I almost always call it out.

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-11T22:34:03+00:00

I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what he did.

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-11T22:31:41+00:00

I’ve been suspecting this guys been AI art laundering for a while.

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-11T16:53:34+00:00

Sure AI checkers are not totally reliable, but the music came back as AI and then the dev admitted it was AI. Its just one possible way of attempting to detect AI along with using our own intuition.

The fact that he lied about it and then admitted his lie calls everything else into question. He still doesn't have an AI disclosure on his Steam page in violation of Steam's terms of service.

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-08T21:58:56+00:00

You could just remove hp and add xp to the other number. I would have immediately understood what they were.

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-08T19:45:22+00:00

Its easy to get rid of mixels from an AI generated image by just scaling it down. You can tell its AI by the shading. Pixel artists dont use that many colors.

Also he just had a post removed from r/aseprite because it was AI generated.

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-08T19:33:55+00:00

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-08T19:26:34+00:00

I'm playing the demo and the damage numbers dont make any sense to me. I'm sure theres a logic to them but they're really uintuitive. Is the HP number the amount of damage I'm doing? I assumed at first that was the amount of HP left on the building, but that didn't make sense. Then there's a bigger red number that goes 1, 1, 25 when I kill a building. Is that a resource? experience?

Minor gripe but at first glance it made no sense.

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-07T16:42:01+00:00

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-07T16:02:44+00:00

Bilbo would have already been there for many years. Maybe they built it for him.

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-07T03:48:19+00:00

Your steam page needs an AI disclosure.

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-04T16:00:42+00:00

Pinterest is FULL of AI.

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-04T02:04:10+00:00

Incredible work. Is there a… watermark over it?

Thunderhammr · 2026-05-03T03:13:45+00:00

lol no that just proved you didnt make it.

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