Skysometric — Sky's Journal

welcome to a wholly improved skysometric.co! after years of dreams, sketches, redesigns, code, and slamming my head against the wall, i’ve finally fulfilled my dream of having a blog that matches my design language. i’m so excited to put it to good use as the front page for my creativity and journaling 💖

the blog’s still based on tumblr, using a new custom theme. in truth, it’s just a heavy edit of the default theme… and quite a mess of one, at that! but hey, it looks and works great, and isn’t that all that counts in the end?

(speaking of which, are you reading this on the tumblr app? come check out the new site!)

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well, that’s all the throwback thursday clips i had queued up! and i’m fresh out of other material for the time being…

i enjoyed having regular content out and reliving old memories, but now i’m focused on the final push towards wrapping up Retrush – not much longer to go!

i’m still aiming to release Retrush for my birthday at the end of next month, but i’m not 100% confident i can make it in time – and i definitely won’t make it if i spend too much time recording any more “regular content.” so that’s taking a break for now, but it will return!

Retrush only has three more levels to go, but there’s a ton more polish that i’ve been frankly neglecting (and who knows how long that’ll take…)

if we’re lucky there might be some final promo videos – but otherwise, see you at the finish line! 🏁

Throwback Thursday: Playing Super Monkey Ball The Hard Way

Throwback Thursday: My First Time With Tetris Effect’s Master Mode

new stream archive! in which we hop around various splatoon modes for multiplayer shenanigans. we’ve really gotta do this more often!

new stream archive! in which we rev our engines for some multiplayer mario kart fun, including checking out the new dlc courses. i’d really love to make this a regular thing!

Extra Temple | Gravitas (Mari0)

A secret temple?? Hey, this looks familiar – but you still can’t jump! How much harder could it be…? Very. The answer is Very.

happy Mar10 Day! to celebrate, here’s a jumping maze on mario’s jumping sprite. hop from color to color, but look where you leap, cause the arrows only go one way!

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Throwback Thursday: My Best Toad Impression

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and now for an entirely new maze! what started as an exercise in hexagonal spirals ended up quite a lot like a simpler version of my old maze Diamond Hex. i quite enjoy how twisty the passages get 💖

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SUPER 1

Super 1 was originally going to be a series of all the letters in the word Super, but like a true ADHD kid i stopped after the first one lol. this uses a perspective warping technique that’s less technically complex than it looks – i originally sketched this one on paper!

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Final Temple | Gravitas (Mari0)

The final corridor hides a treasure that’s key to exiting the temple… behind tough enemy encounters, and the most complex puzzle in the mappack. Don’t get discouraged – you can do this!

“op art”! i finally remembered, the term for my mazes is op art. art made from geometric lines and shapes that create optical illusions, distortions, movement, perspective…

considering that’s what my inspirations at megamazes called it too, i think i should start tagging it as such. i’ll go back and re-tag them when i get the opportunity

i’m a big fan of art that doubles as function, like op art mazes, voxel art stretchmo levels, etc. it gives a reason to explore the art from every angle and discover new perspectives

of course that’s related to why i like video games so much, hehe

Roughshod

this one’s a simple maze, but i really love the pattern and at some point i might do a bigger one like this! the underlying pattern here is an alternate take on a diagonal maze – so maybe i could adapt one of my existing diagonal mazes to match…