Please comment why you're friending me, I don't add randoms.

If you send me a friend request, please tell me the reason you added me in a comment on my profile! As much as I'd like to make new friends, my friends roster tends to be almost full, and without you leaving a comment I will probably decline you if I don't immediately recognize who you are.


I play a wide variety of games; especially massively replayable games known for their modding support, niche indie gems, or just about anything with major mechanical complexity to keep myself sharp! A few favourites include RimWorld, Project Zomboid, and The Finals. Some of my favourite games, like Starsector [fractalsoftworks.com] and Vintage Story [www.vintagestory.at], aren't available on Steam.

I use the name Great Hero J everywhere, and at the end of the day I'm into some innocent, wholesome fun with friends. Alongside gaming, I look to constantly expand and refine my skillset where I have the time - as a pixel artist mainly, but also as a more general digital artist, music composer, modder, and designer. I am also interested in learning modelling, as well as both 2D and 3D animation.

I am almost always online on Discord and extremely active there, so if you have me added on both Steam and Discord, please try Discord first.

I'm an avid pixel artist and I LOVE making pixel art via Aseprite [www.aseprite.org]. My best work is showcased in my Newgrounds account [greatheroj.newgrounds.com], though I post most of my pixel art exclusively in other mediums such as private Discord servers. I'd love to chat about pixel art in general or my past work! I've been experimenting with animated sprites, voxel art, and low-poly models with pixel texturing as well. I am the original creator of the newer item icons used in the VFE mod for Project Zomboid. Most of my work went into gun sprites, but I have been responsible for other sprites too, including some that are not released yet.

I am a modder for RimWorld, and formerly was for Unturned. If you'd like to check out my publicly released mods, this is my mod portfolio featuring the rare few things that have survived to see the light of day.

I compose and mix original soundtracks using FL Studio and Audacity. My complete soundtracks can be found on my Newgrounds. I have a fairly large amount of WIP and unpublished soundtracks as well.

Many people may know me from old affiliations with the Unturned community, a game I was heavily involved with and have since largely moved on from - I'm still happy I was there during its prime. In the Unturned modding and mapmaking circles I helped out modder friends occasionally, so you might notice my name pop up in credits here and there. In the now-discontinued SDG Forum, I was a prominent regular and briefly a volunteer moderator, in addition to my previously mentioned modding connections, especially in the curated map space. I also was a major editor of Unturned's SDG Wiki.

Motivation is born out of choice, but willpower is born out of necessity.