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These are the slides from the talk I gave at GDC 2026: HOW WE DRAW A 3D SPRITE WORLD: The Stylized Art of Never’s End.

Check out the trailer below: Wishlist now Never’s End is a turn-based tactical RPG where you return from death into the midst of a global cataclysm.

Back in fall of 2018 I posted a breakdown of the first two years of INVERSUS sales that you can see here.

While working on some new graphics features, I needed to store and load an intermediate image files with floating point pixel data.

I’ve always made time for reading postmortems about sales.

I suspect I’d get significant value from writing about systems earlier in their development because breaking a system down in words often leads to new insights.

Online skill ranking was one of the big features added to the Deluxe edition of INVERSUS and building it was uncharted territory on my part.

The official INVERSUS Discord server (found at discord.gg/inversus) has grown to house an active community of both veteran and new players.

This post will be a bit different than my normal technical posts.

When discussing the visual style of INVERSUS, there has always been an amusing contrast between the random YouTube comment saying that “this could run on an Atari” and the periodic questions asking how I’m actually managing to draw what is happening on sc…