Recently, I’ve been working with our associates over at the Okey Collective on a publication of theirs known as the Okey Collective Zine. It’s a homebrew diskmag with articles about their game development endeavors, and during my time working on it, I’ve met a lot of awesome underground chip artists, one of those artists being a guy named Big Lumby, who I had a chance to interview a few weeks ago about his latest project. Big Lumby is a self described “lofi chipist and web developer” who has been building a name for himself these past few months. He made his first move all the way back in Jul…

What’s up, everybody? We’re back at it again with our first blog post of 2019, and the first one on our set schedule. Made a New Year’s resolution to get smarter, more interesting content on the blog, and I really hope we can deliver on that. This week, I have a special article for you, as I have a co-writer, Quirby64 , who came aboard to provide some in-depth information about the soundtrack of an indie game she’s creating. Anyways, enough with introductions. Let’s get right into this week’s story. One of the hard things about game development is making the soundtrack work with the visual st…

Lately, we’ve been talking about newer, up-and-coming artists, but what have our veteran creators been up to lately? Well, the focus of our article this week is OG Café Artist Tobikomi, who has his own special project that he’s been working on. Tobi is pretty well known within our community, but on the off chance you haven’t heard about him, I’ll give you the rundown. Tobi is a musician known for his cutsey, upbeat style of music, scientifically proven to put a smile on even the grumpiest of people. His smooth tracks serve as a nice contrast to some of the more explosive, edgy music that ofte…

Last interview, we talked to Harieiv about the new album she’s working on, and one of the things that truly fascinated me about her music was how, as opposed to some of our traditionalists, she wasn’t afraid to dabble into the realm of non-chip when making her music. Elements like the harp at the end of Final Chaos added some extra spice that made her music stand out. This time, however, we’re going to be looking at someone who doesn’t just dabble with non-chip elements, they embrace them and crank the idea up to 11. Of course, the artist I’m talking about today is Bleeckrs, the hip-hop artis…