Project Pixel Prime

May 8, 2026

Hey everyone,
Ultra here with the first game project related post! I created some mockups for my game project titled: ‘Project Pixel Prime’ (name’s not final). This project has been in my head/sketchbook(s) for a long while and I’ve been working on different areas of it throughout the years. I actually made two mockups of it a few years ago:

I initially envisioned this as a traditional shoot ’em up, just something basic as a first game project. As I began to flesh out the world and characters more, I changed up my approach and ended up with these:

My inspirations for this are Bangai-O, Unicorn Overlord, and Fire Emblem. Pretty weird mix of games, but they all have something I’m trying to capture. I also had to learn a lot about making tilesets for this because I’ve never made ‘em before, it was a little tricky to get different connecting tiles to look seamless at first, but I think I got it looking pretty good. My backgrounds are fine for now, but I’m definitely going to update them later in development. Most times, you just need to make it first then make it better later. This was a fun little project and I can’t wait to make it come to life (even though I’m not looking forward to coding)!

Quite a few assets will change, one example are the ships as I needed to capture them at different angles. I made low poly 3d models in PicoCAD2: They look OK for now, but there’s a certain Aseprite extension I’m waiting for that will hopefully work out well for this project.

Lastly, here’s some old character art I made a few years ago:

And here’s some old character concepts:

Once again, even though I have minimal coding experience, I’m really looking forward to the game dev journey and I hope you’ll join me in my projects. Project Pixel Prime doesn’t have a set release date or anything like that, just something I’m going to do when I have the time and it may be way beyond my skill level as of now, but I have something easier in mind to gain some game dev and coding skill. Stay tuned for that!

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