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“But what if we had our own 80s video game?"
- Forester

Behold! A love letter to the pixelated dragons, caves o’ gold, and overlong summons of the RPGs of yore.

Besides directing this nonsense, I also did the pixel animation and compositing. The sprites were done by hand in Photoshop, and the performance sections were made with a greenscreen and overuse of BGRA’s RetroDither plugin.

Special thanks to Keenan Kirk for the dope production design (and additional pixel art!), Ritchie Lyon for coming in clutch as DP, Rahul Abedin for enlisting his cousin Samir as the The Kid™, Kyle Bishop for picking up after me, and Humberto Corte of Parlante Sound for the wicked sound design.

 
 
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If your party is level 6 or higher, you can venture forth and watch the video below:

 
 
 
Film/TV, AnimationMatthew Barrett