Tim Soret

I choose to believe this is how most 90s arcade race tracks were initially conceived #gaming #retrogaming #arcade

Erosion demo based on @runevision.bsky.social's work fragcoord.xyz/s/avexf6ni

My erosion filter is out! Video, blog post, and shader source. It emulates erosion without simulation, so it's fast, GPU friendly, and trivial to generate in chunks. Explainer video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4V2... Companion blog post: blog.runevision.com/2026/03/fast... #ProcGen #vfx #GameDev

kept working on the 2.5D smoke thingy, it works by raymarching a 2D fluidsim and achieves interactive framerate on mobile (45-60fps) by reducing some settings. it"s quite limited but allows some cool variations. video captured on a (5 year old) iPhone12 mini. demo soon ™

Cloud City 💭

It turns out that basic economics 101 works after all and if you build more housing, housing prices drop. You don't need rent control, you don't need minimum affordable housing ratios, you don't need more regulations, you just need to build more housing. www.pew.org/en/research-...

Alberto Mielgo finds a previously hidden middle ground between abstract, exaggerated, explosive, and expressionistic stylization, and a harsh, immediate, realistic depiction of our reality. Unique. Unmistakable. In my opinion, he is one of the greatest artists of our time. youtu.be/FIvoPK-1t5w?...

Kino watching Flow.

The blue channel was originally just to add silt being kicked up but ended up used for more general long-lasting interations. It's used to carve out a path in the surface debris and the normal derived from this channel allows us to push the UVs apart a bit so it feels like you're moving it around.

Credit to @timsoret.bsky.social for teaching this lesson back on X: A quick, simple, and nondestructive way to check your art's values is to create a new layer > fill it with black > change the blending mode to "color" or "hue" (for me, they both do essentially the same thing, I am using CSP)

Haven't thought about this one in a long, long time. Colossal Katamari. Probably what most people knew me from before I started working on Owlboy #pixelart #ドット絵

Work over the past 15 years. (Still trying to get used to Bluesky.) #photography #art #sciencefiction