Tyvon J. Thomas | |
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 Tyvon, 2008, wearing a
Gears of War 2 t-shirt | |
| Born | Tyvon Jamaal Thomas September 22, 1990 |
| Other names | Alpha Six, T-Rex |
| Occupation(s) | Game designer, pixel artist, site administrator |
| Employer(s) | PixelxCore Independent Gaming, Nicalis, Inc. |
| Website | http://www.pixelxcore.net/ |
Tyvon J. Thomas (born September 22, 1990), also known as Alpha Six, is a game designer and a freelance pixel artist. He is also the founder and administrator of PixelxCore Independent Gaming, which was founded in late 2008.
Tyvon first showed interest in game development and pixel art at the early age of 8 years old, where his creativity flourished after playing his first Super Nintendo. Tyvon spent his free time in school reading up on game design theory. His first venture into game design was with experimenting with the game development tool Game Maker at age 13, but never finished a project, due to coming up with multiple ideas simultaneously and getting bored with old ideas.
Tyvon has cited many different elements that have inspired him to become a game developer and pixel artist, some of those elements being SNK, Konami, Capcom, Nintendo, action movies, Team Ninja, Arc System Works, and other independent game developers like Konjak. [1]
Tyvon founded PixelxCore Independent Gaming in 2008, originally being a moderator/administrator of an offshoot of Pixeltendo, the old forums that used to be associated with The Spriter's Resource. In 2009, he began a project to drop association with Pixeltendo and The Spriter's Resource completely and turn his community into its own full blown independent game development website. On March 25, 2009, after a lot of hard work and community input, the new community was officially founded as PixelxCore Independent Gaming. Since then, he has been hard at work improving PixelxCore IG and developing projects. Tyvon is an avid supporter for new pixel artists and indie devs, offering any and all assistance he can. [2] He plans on bringing PxC into a bigger section of the indie scene, eventually making all of his projects multiplatform.
Tyvon has done animation work for the Luc Bernard RPG project SteamPirates and the fighting game Skullgirls, as well as directing the PxC projects Fate's Mirror, Reach For the Top, and the freeware Wolfgang and the Evil Four, all three projects slated for Q3 2010 releases. [3]
Tyvon J. Thomas | |
|---|---|
|
Tyvon, 2008, wearing a
Gears of War 2 t-shirt | |
| Born | Tyvon Jamaal Thomas September 22, 1990 |
| Other names | Alpha Six, T-Rex |
| Occupation(s) | Game designer, pixel artist, site administrator |
| Employer(s) | PixelxCore Independent Gaming, Nicalis, Inc. |
| Website | http://www.pixelxcore.net/ |
Tyvon J. Thomas (born September 22, 1990), also known as Alpha Six, is a game designer and a freelance pixel artist. He is also the founder and administrator of PixelxCore Independent Gaming, which was founded in late 2008.
Tyvon first showed interest in game development and pixel art at the early age of 8 years old, where his creativity flourished after playing his first Super Nintendo. Tyvon spent his free time in school reading up on game design theory. His first venture into game design was with experimenting with the game development tool Game Maker at age 13, but never finished a project, due to coming up with multiple ideas simultaneously and getting bored with old ideas.
Tyvon has cited many different elements that have inspired him to become a game developer and pixel artist, some of those elements being SNK, Konami, Capcom, Nintendo, action movies, Team Ninja, Arc System Works, and other independent game developers like Konjak. [1]
Tyvon founded PixelxCore Independent Gaming in 2008, originally being a moderator/administrator of an offshoot of Pixeltendo, the old forums that used to be associated with The Spriter's Resource. In 2009, he began a project to drop association with Pixeltendo and The Spriter's Resource completely and turn his community into its own full blown independent game development website. On March 25, 2009, after a lot of hard work and community input, the new community was officially founded as PixelxCore Independent Gaming. Since then, he has been hard at work improving PixelxCore IG and developing projects. Tyvon is an avid supporter for new pixel artists and indie devs, offering any and all assistance he can. [2] He plans on bringing PxC into a bigger section of the indie scene, eventually making all of his projects multiplatform.
Tyvon has done animation work for the Luc Bernard RPG project SteamPirates and the fighting game Skullgirls, as well as directing the PxC projects Fate's Mirror, Reach For the Top, and the freeware Wolfgang and the Evil Four, all three projects slated for Q3 2010 releases. [3]