{"id":705,"date":"2026-09-17T12:35:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/?p=705"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:35:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:35:53","slug":"ocean-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/ocean-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not my usual kind of doodle and I think it shows! I\u2019m not entirely convinced I\u2019m cut out for \u201ccute\u201d and I had a hell or a time with the colours on this as well. A few weeks after doodling it and I\u2019ve managed to get them a little better but they\u2019re still not where I could comfortably say \u201cI\u2019m happy with these\u201d but some you win, some you lose and some you probably should have just stuck to space fish and lasers instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The picture itself is of a sleeping octopus, kinda inspired by the nice little merge game, <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/4144000\/Ocean_Pop__Calypso_Collision\/\">Ocean Pop<\/a>, that I\u2019ve been enjoying off and on for a while now. It\u2019s dead cheap on Steam, just the right side of jolly and perfect for days like today where my brain has left the building after judging videogames and I just need something relaxing to press buttons to. Also, importantly: fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Just glancing at the store page there and the game still needs a couple of reviews to meet Valve\u2019s threshold so if you do give it a go, pop a review down because games need all the help they can get these days)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0975-1-scaled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"722\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0975-1-722x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0975-1-722x1024.png 722w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0975-1-211x300.png 211w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0975-1-768x1090.png 768w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0975-1-1082x1536.png 1082w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0975-1-1443x2048.png 1443w, https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0975-1-scaled.png 1804w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not my usual kind of doodle and I think it shows! 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A few weeks after doodling it and I\u2019ve managed to get them a little better but they\u2019re still not where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[151,39,11,152],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-videogames","tag-ocean-pop","tag-pc-gaming","tag-robs-art","tag-sleeping-octopus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spooky.punchingrobots.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}