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yearly sign of life! been working on some fun tech art stuff again in Unity :] early version of driving a custom shader with material animations to get face tracking going, yippee~ sry for mouse <3 got a LOT of help from @vulcure.bsky.social, including yoinking their unity FT setup. thank you!!

In the last year, No More Robots has funded + is currently funding a dozen games, and has paid numerous devs to make prototypes happen for free But obviously, getting press is absolutely impossible for us, because only doom and gloom gets clicks

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NEW: Remedy's latest game, Control Resonant, is filled with art galleries. The galleries are filled with real art When I began talking to Remedy about it, I was delighted to discover who the artists are: many are the game developers' parents My story... www.gamefile.news/p/control-re...

from today’s #sketchbook, an inconsistent beast that is still somehow dragon-shaped #art

Sketchbook dragon 🐉

We report: in the past few days, clear skies have been hidden, revealed only parsimoniously through veils and gaps. At sunset, in the drizzle, the western horizon is all grey, but there is plenty more to look at elsewhere. In a brief gust of wind, we catch a piece of sunshine.

Messy cables? Worry not, we've seen the trend and added zip-ties to #AmplifyShaderEditor for #Unity3d 🔥

𝚃 𝚄 𝙴 𝚂 𝙳 𝙰 𝚈

If they manage to cram in every feature that the store page promises, this free community-made remaster could be better than 90% of official, professional attempts. Fingers crossed for both this project and Arkane. They're going through it right now.

Dark Messiah: Community Edition Promises Upgrades & New Content for the First-Person Punter

Death of a Dragon

𝓓𝓔𝓜𝓞𝓝 𝓣𝓘𝓜𝓔👹👹

The Same Place

#screenshotsaturday Got this forest tech demo thing moving in #Picotron. Needs 30fps to stay looking nice, but so far I've managed to procgen all the art in lua so it'd still be a small enough cart for BBS. All my other WIP projects exceeds 256k cart limit 😅 #indiedev #gamedev #scapes #forest

Repeating for anyone who missed it: While it was AI hell for the first two days, the Next Fest main page is now ranked by both public playtime and personal recommendations. I already follow WAY too many indie games, but just by scrolling down, I found another 50 cool ones I'd never heard of before!

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Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

Experimenting even more with the #VRChat material contacts. Made some lightning arcs that go between your fingers and other avatars! (Thank you @fivesva.bsky.social for helping me show this off!)

It always comes back to this for me; if AI was so good, such a disclosure would be a selling point. If AI was everything these slop jockeys said it was, they should be proud to let people know their game was AI made. But the proof is in the pudding, and they can't stand that people don't want it.

Once again I'm telling people to play Corru.Observer - one of the coolest things ever made to be played in a browser. It is a sprawling, genre-hopping sci-fi mystery with multiple albums of soundtrack now. Excellently written, both in terms of loveable characters and speculative hard sci-fi stuff.

Yay!! I'm in danger!! 🥰✨ (commission!)

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The book is nearing completion. Follow along. It is a very good comic and will leave you feeling existentially nullified... if you're into that sort of thing

I'm telling you dude it's the age of loser dipshits. This whole tech sector, from the chatbots to the art generation to the voices, is built on this idea that being good at stuff is stupid and lame and somehow by not getting to enjoy the same praise skilled people do you are being denied or slighted

omg Hera hiiiiii 🧡

中々進まないけど、元気に描いてはいるので

i hope the woim left behind is ok??? #godot #gamedev #puzzlegame #indiegame

Technically, a dictionary is a book of spells.

cat-sith inspired thing

Person: AI is helping humanity in so many ways! It's beneficial to us all Me: *grumpy old person face* Are we not all still working the same number of hours and days as before AI become mainstream, perhaps even more now? P: ? Yes..? M: Then it is not helping. P: 😶

As someone who needs a translator for whatever the tech people are talking about, this was quite helpful as an explanation

VRChat added advanced contact parameters in their newest Beta SDK. Allows for some neat stuff. I'm using the new sender position parameters here. This is using ONE contact receiver. Previously to get the same behavior you'd need at least 3 or more.