Hello! Alex here.
I typically do these things solo, but thought it would be fun (and in the spirit of the jam) to see if anybody wanted to collab!
I'm a fairly new dev and new to programming in general, starting maybe a year ago, and really enjoy doing pixel art. I submitted a game for the BigMode Jam and got 8th in Originality and 69th (nice) on theme out of over 800 applicants. I did all the programming myself, which explains why it wasn't fun, and I think with a competent programmer we could really make something incredible with your skills and my unique visual style. As a collaborator, I'm casual, enthusiastic, polite, and easy-going. I really enjoy thinking of new ideas, but am always open to constructive criticism to help me stay within scope. I have a strong vision but no ego, I really enjoy working as a team. My main influences are David Lynch, Mega Man Legends, the Mother series, and Metal Slug. I love using really saturated palettes, and my current favorite is called HeartGem, a 16 color palette that takes influence from the colors of 90s anime. You can see this in the 2nd set of images, where I was making (but was ultimately unable to finish) a Celeste clone where you were a stunt-girl called No Reshoots. The larger image was a squished level mockup so I could see how all the colors fit together and the overall vision of the level where you'd run down the cabin, slide through the vent, and wall jump out of the crashing plane, jumping on crates until you got to the one that had a parachute.
Here is a sample of my art, all of what you see other than the "Rest!" and "Order Submitted! (et al)" text are original assets, created by me during the timeframe of the jam. The animated monster is something like 80-90 hand-drawn frames. It was a lot of fun to make!
If you like what you see, let's team up and make something incredible!
Here is my ranking sheet from the BigMode Jam. The theme was Power, and my game was about powering a gameboy by pedaling a bike on the left side of the screen to power the gameboy itself on the right side while a monster watched:
And here is my art for the games I've done:
