Pixel Art & Games

Pixel art

Knight Rider

Personal project

Take care of your shelf

Personal project

DevRelCon London logo

Logo I created for DevRelCon London 2023.

DDOG logo

Logo I created for the Dutch DevOps and GitHub group.

Ferris

Of one the many VSCode Pets I created.

Rubber duck

Of one the many VSCode Pets I created.

Python

Of one the many VSCode Pets I created.

MVP Award

Animation I craeted to celebrate receiving my MVP award in 2022.

A-team

Silly 80s TV show with loads of shooting but no-one ever died.

Optimus & Megatron

I just <3 80s cartoons!

Star Wars

Big fan of Star Wars!

Most of the pixel art I make is completely for fun and are personal projects or open source contributions such as VSCode Pets.

Occasionally, I do commissioned work as well, if you're interested in this, please visit my Ko-fi page.

Games

Some years ago I got interested in Pico8, a fantasy game console for making, sharing, and playing retro games. I made a small game around Azure Functions, which you can play below. I really enjoyed making this game, but it was also a lot of work. I started just doing pixel art with Pico8 and later changed to Aseprite, which is a great tool dedicated for making pixel art.

Every now and then I still enjoy making a small retro game, such as my announcement to join Diagrid as a Sr Developer Advocate, but most of the time I stick with drawing pixel art, either for my own enjoyment, or when people commission me to design a logo, or draw their online avatar.

For KubeCon Paris 2024, I made a Dapr inspired retro game that people played at the Diagrid sponsor booth. The player needs to avoid rogue messages, collect Dapr coins and the Dapr hat, in order to get to the development team and share their Dapr knowledge. The game has an educational element because after a level is completed some Dapr information is shared with the player. The game was very popular at the conference, see the KubeCon Paris blog post.