Had to put our dog Goldie down today, she was a golden retriever about 12-ish years old and she had gotten too old and started having really bad and sudden health problems in the last few weeks. It's hit me harder than I expected, but I will always love her and she will stand guard over our backyard now, looking down on us from doggo heaven.

(Goldie going for a walk, 2014)

Rest In Peace <3

FIRST TIME BEING USER OF THE DAY

HOLY CRAP, I've been making stuff on newgrounds since about late 2011 and today is the first time I've been made User of the day and I'm really really grateful to anyone who's taken the time to listen to the amateur music I write or check out my art that's been getting better over time.

Pixel Art has become my favorite artform and Newgrounds has always been the best place for me to share it and I'm grateful that this website exists. The people running it are genuine and they want to help people grow with whatever they create, feature them and give them more visibility when all other platforms are falling apart. I hope some day when I'm in a better place I can give back to Newgrounds. Thank you.

PLANS FOR 2024

This year I've set myself a goal to create at least one bigger pixel art piece each week, and I've already made the first one! If I miss a week then I'll have to do two pieces. Hopefully I can keep up this level of quality or get even better and be more consistent. Here's also a process gif of my Morrigan pixel art!



Aside from art I'm also working on myself IRL and I feel I'm in a much better place than I was a few years back. I hope everyone has a productive, healthy and happy 2024! Thank you for the support!

Hey, I've wanted to cover this song for a while, it ain't perfect but I'm still happy with how it turned out, hope you enjoy!

If anyone's interested, I opened up pixel art commissions a few days ago. Feel free to DM me here, but I'm more likely to respond if you email me or message me on Discord.

Hey guys, I recorded a new cover over the past 2 days. I'm mostly happy with it, the vocals could be a bit better. It's also my first time making a more proper cover with all instruments (aside from drums) recorded, first time editing a video like this too.

Hope you still like it despite it's shortcomings.

Here's another cover, of a song I've wanted to do for a few years now. I used a portable mic behind my phone, instead of relying on the phone's microphone, so hopefully the quality is better this time around.

Hope you like it!

So this might not be for everyone, but I feel like sharing it anyways. It's not a perfect cover but I'm still pretty happy with it and youtube flagged it for copyright, so it's probably decent.

Hope you like it even though it's a bit rough and thank you for supporting my art and music on here.

~Ivan

Wanted to just make a quick post to show off the small game we were able to make in 48 hours for Mix and Game Jam 2020!

GolfBomb!

Programmed by: SpiRiTs (Eduardo Perez)

Audio by: Joe_Chris_

Art by: Iviqrr

Excited to show off the the Weekly Game Jam entry I've been working on the past few days!

Midnight Manor!

Programmed by SpiRiTs - Eduardo Perez

Music by - Madeleine Chiodo

Art by - Iviqrr

This was my first game jam and my first time collabing with other people on a project and I'm really happy with how much we we're able to accomplish in just 6 days. SpiRiTs and Madeleine are both really talented in their field and I'd recommend giving them a follow.

Madeleine composed a really sick theme for the title screen as well as ambient music for the levels and sound effects.

Eduardo really spent a lot of time working his programming wizardry to make this game playable in time for the game jam deadline and he's the real MVP here.

I hope to get back to putting out art more regularly now that this project is done.

Until next time,

Stay safe!

I wanted to make a little update on what I've been up to and what my plans are. I've decided to move my unity project I made a post about last time from a topdown view to a 2d platformer. I have some early animation and tileset previews to show for that:

I figured that for my first game it'd probably be easier to start with a platformer than an rpg, luckily the character sprites from my mockups work for top down and 2d views.

Aside from that I've been feeling a bit burnt out on making art, I've been mostly consistent in putting stuff out since about july/august but at times it feels like I'm forcing it and that results in rushed/not so creative things. So I think I'll try to put stuff out less frequently but have it be higher quality (that's the plan atleast).

I also want to get back to writing music sometime soon but I haven't had any inspiration for that yet, maybe I'll get a surge of inspiration once I get deeper into my unity project.

That's all, thanks for taking the time to read my nonsense if you made it this far and to everyone for the overall support.

Stay safe guys.