Crossy Road Castle on console!! [presskit] [links] [media vgchartz, gematsu, nintendoeverything, xboxhub, IndieWorldNintendoAmerica]

Hey Castle is finally more widely available for more peeps to play when it comes out!!! (Nintendo Switch, Playstation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox X|S and co-op, cross platform too!)

Peeps have been waiting for this for years :’D

I can finally say I was a part in the development of a console game now :’0

Not sure if Piffle counts as I didn’t feel too involved in that game. None of my few pages of concept art or illustrations got in there and I did some art asset bits as at the time I was learning vector art for it and another project? I don’t remember exactly. All the same I still got kindly and gratefully got credited in Piffle so I guess I feel like a fraud when it feels like I didn’t really do much art in it :’)

Digressing! Note I am not part of the hard working core Castle console port team! Congrats to the team, they will continue to be busy leading up to and around the release too!!

Under the art direction of Alice Walsh, I helped Crossy Road Castle console with:

• all the PS and Xbox achievement art (over 40)
  • I did 9 completely new and repurposed sticker art
  • the rest of the art is reusing existing sticker art that Kevyn Stott, catshriek and I did (we need to save time & resources)
  • one of the console team coworkers exported things again to it make it less artifact-y
• PS activity card graphics
• helping the UX/UI artist boss James Camilleri with one UI art task where some of it made it through approvals
• finally for those new: for the main/original Crossy Road Castle game, since 2019 on/off I did:
  • almost all the background decorations,
  • all the stickers for 2 towers
  • all the stickerbook doodles
  • I’m just listed in the original game credits so to not double up my name in the credits

Subtitled video of my little gif animations!

My fanart was shown at the Crossy Road Central discord as part of their early announcement!! :0

Disclaimer: I am not paid to make my video or blog post though! I am just happy to share what I’ve been working/helping with. ^{_{I can’t tag the HW youtube channel for some reason as the link breaks :’)}}

Crossy Road Castle on the Nintendo Switch!! I did this Nov 2023.

Hello! This is my 1st proper voxel illustration and fanart to celebrate Crossy Road Castle coming out on consoles soon!

My actual first voxel illustration. It was more of a self directed, rough test and MagicaVoxel practice.

At the time I wasn’t expecting or sure if this would be used for anything.

Yes I am biased to the Switch and I actually have one ;P

Crossy Road Castle on Xbox Series X!! I finished most of this in Dec 2023 & animated it recently.

So I didn’t intend to do voxel illustrations for the other two consoles but I was asked to do my thing! Ultimately things didn’t work out and the illustrations reverted back to being my fanart in the end – not surprised haha. Still it was a fun challenge to tackle consoles I don’t actually have/own/use!

I really like how this Xbox console is shaped like a huge brick :0

Crossy Road Castle on the Playstation 5!! I started this in May and finished it in July :0

Gosh it was awkward trying to keep it blocky when it’s quite curvy as a console.

Yes I stuck with the game drive version ;P

Leonie rambles…

• Leymarie Patrice’s series on social networks
  • well I’m selling my “brand” to grow and keep an audience and get good remote jobs?
  • So it’s more my brand, then I can keep doing what I enjoy?
  • My dream is to learn, keep doing art I enjoy for a living really and sharing that journey
  • so I’m really niche because I don’t really break out of my social bubble :’D
• Ōkami, Bayonetta & Devil May Cry creator Hideki Kamiya: unblocking memories with Ikumi Nakamura
  • gosh the weeks of sulking – I felt that, when you put too much of yourself and you’re just in the pit of self doubt, despair and disappointment as things just don’t work out but you make the most with what you can do
• AI is ruining the internet (Drew Gooden)
  • twitter, adobe, instagram, google, facebook, character.ai, sofi, netflix, spotify, tiktok, ai video, slack, tumblr, wix, web hosting on wordpress, reddit, pixiv, pinterest, etc
  • there’s nowhere safe :’)
  • but you do control where and how you want to connect with people in the long run
• How AI Stole the ✨ Sparkles ✨ Emoji (David Imel)
  • noooo I use it for decorative, happy, shiny feelings :<
  • also how emoji means “picture character”, a mistranslation in video
• How A.I. Killed the Internet (Kyle Hill)
  • this is depressing
  • yeah the internet is just becoming more algorithmic/optimised slop if you’re not careful with what you consume
  • it makes me hide more at my own site, discord and some other platforms I cross post to :’)
• The Ai Scam That’s Devouring YouTube (Henry Lewis)
• #3 プロトタイプを作る【ギャラクティック・ノヴァのからくり時計を作ろう】(Japanese mechanical art/ Karakuri channel) It’s Galactic NOVA from Kirby!! This is so much work to make them in real life :0

🐀 Venting about mice troubles, don’t mind me 🐁

I’ve decided to not do a comic but here’s a doodle of my first standoff / eye contact / staredown with a rat(?)/mouse in my wardrobe that started it all. At the time I just finished the whole health scare thing and in that same week this happens. I haven’t had much time to enjoy my bday due to all the stressful things happening in my birthday month 🙁

Update so far since my last update / rambling and venting about the same things as I’m frustrated

• On edge on the small noises and creaks fearing that it’s around continues :<
• feels like tower defense continuing in my day to day life and that drains my energy
• trying to clean, sort and throw out old stuff that’s going to take a long time / months
  • there’s a mountain of trash outside that I fear it might become a home for pests too but we have no space in the bins anymore…
  • there’s still more stuff to throw out so not ready to get professionals to throw it all out yet
• the hoarder sabotaging the recycling garbage efforts – he just mixed trash types together!!! WHY
• I need to sort out clothes collection too but only when it’s not raining/not winter anymore :’)
• MUSKY smell room early last week noooo; now it’s barely there
• Spent days and days cleaning and sorting all the clutter and blocking door gaps and being defensive.
  • I find myself falling asleep and exhausted often afterwards in these past weeks 🙁
• I’ve been so out of it and run down
  • cleaning bit by bit,
  • buying new storage options oof
  • and being exhausted in the past several weeks
  • Slowly trying to rescue and clean kitchen, food and cleaning stuff that can be used and not be as limited with food…
• A lot of poop and pee to clean up by a family member.
  • Lots of trash and food thrown out, lots of clothes and memories to throw out
• seems like my very old and cheap slider plastic shoes is flaking black stuff around too
  • I had to double take on whether they’re mice poop pellets
  • note I’ve been wearing them for many, many years and they’re just falling apart and long worn out
• We thought that after 4-5 mice were caught it’s over but nope – silly wishful thinking!!
• Doesn’t help that it’s raining everyday so they’re around and keeping us on edge, tapping in the kitchen late last week
• We’re stressed, trying to protect food, bedrooms, bathrooms and so on
  • trying to protect and keep the home safe and clean.
  • But we think they’re still coming in/out??? But much more stealthily now :’)
• It keeps going when it’s cold and raining during winter
  • don’t feel fully safe and have to keep closing doors all the time now
  • And a lot of “keep watch” as we go across places too.
• Within the same day, I found a poop pellet in my box of noodles that I was going to cook (it was an expensive noodles treat that we didn’t get to try so got pretty bummed I had to throw it out)
  • then later I saw more poop over the huge container with all the rice (inaccessible) and had to bag that cardboard with poop away
  • thought it was a safe area but NO!
• so much hand washing and my eczema is acting up…
• This is all because the kitchen sink and table is soggy to its core and they’re somehow finding their way in from that area and the outside??
  • It means the decades old kitchen needs to change now…
• I’m not even keen on making a comic about the mice
  • It’s stressful, draining, frustrating and not funny to me at all.
  • plus I’m an anxious germaphobic that bungles a lot :’)
• It did force me to clean up and throw out a lot of things and make things better.
  • I’ve kept a lot of old things too that I’ve thrown out.
  • It’s a long time coming given that lots of things horded by a defensive and “I don’t care” jerk that is in the kitchen and other places – we finally threw a lot of it and decades old things out.
  • But there’s still a lot more that will take a long time to sort, clean and replace.
  • there’s a reason why it’s all neglected because he refused to change what he was doing, he was argumentative and it was his stuff – now we are forcing it due to the infestation
• arguments happened due to stress, anger, resentment, being upset, hurt and me not acting caring enough but I won’t go into too much detail
  • it did highlight that I don’t really ask “are you okay?” much because I don’t find that question helpful when it’s obvious that they’re not
  • If I’m not sure if they’re okay or not (ambiguous facial expression and vibe) then I will ask
  • I’d rather “how can I help?” or “what happened” or something else
  • my first instinct is to leave them alone to calm down first because I don’t want to be the target of it and struggle to manage someone else’s turbulent emotions, guilt tripping, fury, trauma dumping, sadness and anger
  • I just avoid and inevitably later it becomes an intense shouting and crying honest talk session with a focus on “how to do better” and teamwork later :’)
• As you can see, a lot of housework, life stuff and less with art and art learning 🙁
• remembering why it’s hard for me to find hats and shoes that fit me
  • my head is too big and my feet are wide and most womens shoes kill and hurt my feet…
  • finally bought a new mens pair because my size isn’t catered for but the arches hurt my feet and were too tight instead oof it was 40 AUD too 🙁
• tried crocs for the first time and I’m so glad it fit my wide feet! It’s so comfy!!
  • Wow I could have gotten theses earlier in my life but it scared me away due to the price tag :0
  • my previous slides were from cheap dollar stores and I wore them down for many, many years :’D
  • crocs last for 2-3 years depending on usage? Hm

Anyhoo please take care this week! I’ll be juggling and trying not to stress too much as usual :’)

Edit: Yeah as I make a rare exception and posted this at twitter (and other platforms/places), I’m reminded how I really don’t have a big audience. Trying to not let it bum me out too much again 🙁

My efforts don’t mean I’m entitled to anything, I know. A lesson I have to keep learning since 2005 at least. I made what I wanted to make and shared what I could – that’s all I can do!

Makes me appreciate the kind peeps that are still support and see my work 😭 Thank youuuu for being here💖

(Also twitter keeps not loading at times…!! I’m glad I don’t use Meta apps anymore)

Also: After I posted my voxel art past midnight and past 1:30am, I got anxious due to possible mice noises trying/tapping/rattling to get into my room again via my door gap but I walked over noisily and scared them off as they stopped making noises 😩🫠
So that kept up me up longer past 2am as I kept checking around for signs with my torch :’D

Was it a rat??? I don’t know UGH

Apparently mice aren’t this bold – this creature was trying to get into the room I’m still in. Again. Like the first time depicted in the doodles above and that time it kept going when I was talking aloud and making noise for them to stop. At least this time I taped up the door gap and blocked it off with a noodle door pillow.

Whelp…I don’t know if it’s a rat or not 🙁

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