Member Spotlight - Mokazar

It's a short hop over the English Channel for us, as we've got Mokazar, from France, taking the Member Spotlight this month. They've been a member on GDM since Jan 2019 and have a portfolio mainly made up of pixel art based assets, though also have a couple of low poly assets included as well. 

You can check out their full collection here.

GDM Username: Mokazar

Name/Nickname: Mokazar or Arludus for games creation.

 

Age: 40

 

Country: France

 

Developer, Asset Creator or are you a bit of both?:   

 

Asset Creator and little game dev.

 

Full Time, Part Time or Hobby?: 

 

Part Time but I would like to devote more time to it !

 

How long have you been doing this?: 

6 or 7 years

 

 

I have always loved video games and by playing them I wanted to create my own games, as I was good at making graphic assets people asked me for them, so I decided to make packs and sell them.

Favourite software/tools to use?:  

 

Gimp and Blender.

What’s one tip you would give to someone starting out?:   

 

Start with simple things, be patient and persevering, sometimes the levels to level up are long to pass so you have to work on your art regularly until unlocking the next level to progress. Work and patience are always rewarded. 

For game creators, doing game jams is the best way to progress.

How do you promote your work (games or assets)?:  

 

A little bit on some creator groups on social networks for assets. For games it's more important, because there is a huge choice and people are going to search less, so you need cool videos and distribute them everywhere on social networks, X, YouTube, Reddit, etc.

What project are you working on now?:  

 

New pixel art asset packs, for games I'm taking a break after creating several 3D horror games, I'm thinking about what's next.

Any completed projects/work you want to promote?:   

My projects and games are available on my itchio page here : https://arludus.itch.io/

And finally, favourite game ever & why?:

It's too hard to choose one so I'm going to choose 2, Super Mario bros 3 and Final fantasy 7, a part of nostalgia but also their incredible qualities, these are games that we always want to redo, they are masterpieces, the gameplay, the heroes, the music, the design, everything is incredible.

You can connect with Mokazar here;

My YouTube channel has trailers for my games and sometimes I make tutorials for certain software. https://www.youtube.com/@arludus17/videos