The original artist behind Minecraft’s pixel art recalls Notch asking them to help out on his ‘weird indie hobby game’-
You know all the tiny, pixelated paintings that you can decorate your walls within Minecraft with? Many of them were created by Swedish artist Kristoffer Zetterstrand, who “shrunk down” photos of his oil paintings to produce the now iconic pixel art canvases.
On Twitter, Zetterstrand recently reflected on his contribution to Minecraft and shared the png that started it all.
“Back in 2010, Markus (aka Notch) asked me if I could do some pixel paintings for his little weird indie hobby game ‘Minecraft,'” Zetterstrand explained in a tweet. “So I shrunk down some pics of my oil paintings and played around with them a bit. Then, I sent him this file. kz.png”
In response to a question about whether he considered how many times his paintings have been viewed…
Starfield player jury-rigs 100+ Star Wars mods together to make a convincing Boba Fett simulator- ‘I basically added every single Star Wars mod out there on Nexus’-
Starfield’s modding community is straight-up cooking, now. While we’re still a little ways out from Star Wars: Outlaws (and those overpriced editions have me a smidge nervous), don’t worry—we’ve got space gunslinging at home.
Created by modder and YouTuber DeityVengy earlier this month (thanks, Kotaku), the compilation features over 100 Star Wars mods from the Nexus community, smushed together into a functioning whole—using Bethesda’s less-than-interstellar RPG as a convincing backdrop for shooting blasters and gunning down AT-STs.
“I basically added every single Star Wars mod out there on Nexus as a foundation,” DeityVengy explains, with all the confidence of Tony Stark building his first Iron Man suit in a cave with a box of scraps: “And then I started doing cu…