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Starforge Pets is a fever dream created on a whim when Sketchy and Nightmare were left unattended too long.
The site draws inspiration from classic sci-fi, fantasy, MMOs, and pet sims of the era. (Really, we just wanted to make sparkly woodland creatures, so...)
All art on the site is 100% human-hand drawn by Sketchy (and possibly other contributors who take pity upon Sketchy).
No art assets are AI generated in any way; every curve and line and god-forsaken awful shadow was lovingly cursed by Sketchy personally.
Meet the team behind Starforge Pets: aka, the people who Compile & Cry.
Lead Artist & Developer
Sketchy draws, Sketchy hates the drawing, Sketchy posts it anyhow, then Sketchy does some coding to pretend it's alllllll good. When not coding or drawing or crying, Sketchy praises their four cats, tinkers with yarn, and manages their life as if they're almost an adult.
Co-Founder & Developer
Nightmare does the coding and fixes what Sketchy breaks and then breaks things for Sketchy to fix and in their spare time, they eat really, really strange hot dog creations, spend time with their awesome family, and pet TOO MANY DOGS.