Ah. So it never did unquarantine for some people. (A friend of mine pointed out it was quarantined by itch right about when the jam ended. I considered removing the entry entirely, but left it to see if it would lift the suspicious activity marker on its own. Some people commented on some assets only in the files so it must have lifted for some people.)


I don't think itch liked that I made the account three days before posting it to the jam. I can't think of any other explanation. It's literally a few indexed pngs and a text file.

I'm used to working in a 30-color palette, so I've had a bit of practice dithering to make halftones and textures. Grayscale was a change of pace, but a welcome one.

Though the monster here was larger than almost every other pixel art I've tried before (and I think the largest I've completed to-date). It was somehow both liberating and daunting to have that much pixel space.

I've always thought of myself as an over-ditherer; compared to nearly every other pixel art style I've encountered I dither more. So it is refreshing to hear that it works for people to have that much dithering in my art.

The heart-eyes frame was supposed to be when they get gold, although without the context of the game that is absolutely not clear.