I usually cross-post between here and Mastodon, but skipped this one since I figured it wouldn’t get many replies anyway… but it did. And there’s a bunch of good stuff in there. It’s about finding ways to add detail to the silhouettes of low-poly models. mastodon.gamedev.place/@jonikorpi/1...

Ditching Photoshop for Krita, day 3

Not sure why it took me so long to figure out this One Weird Trick for fitting more artwork into your home: artbooks! A bookshelf fits 10,000x more pictures than the wall space behind it would.

left this meme on the shelf to ripen for a couple months but here you go "just make it exist first"

🤖🌟 Issue 6 of APWOT is live on Kickstarter! 🌟🤖 Featuring a beautiful lenticular cover of Astro Bot marking both our feature interview with the game’s director, Nicolas Doucet, and the 30th anniversary of PlayStation. Get in there! 💫 kck.st/4i1GAHT 💫

What’s this little guy’s name? 🤖 Wrong answers only!

I'm particularly proud of the old sailor who has a lot of personality packed into very minimal geometry!

CYBERSPACE 2 for(float i,z,d;z+i++<7e1;o+=vec4(z,1,9,1)/d) {vec3 p=abs(z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy));p.z+=t*5.;p+=sin(p+p);for(d=0.;d++<9.;p+=.4*cos(round(.2*d*p)+.2*t).zxy);z+=d=.1*sqrt(length(p.xyy*p.yxy));} o=tanh(o/7e3);

Two new art prints in the Palace Life series out tomorrow from @blackdragonpress.co.uk . Intruder from Beneath the Palace and Entrance to the Dead Garden come in editions of 80 copies each. 18x24 inch. Signed and numbered. Out tomorrow November 6 at 5pm UK time through: www.blackdragonpress.co.uk/

Rewatching Double Fine’s Psychodyssey. If you never worked in a game industry - I really recommend you to watch it, to have an understanding how things are going there. 7 years of Psychonauts 2 development compressed into ~30 hours of videos. Play Psychonauts dilogy in advance #gamedev #doublefine

We reached the goal in an hour. The quickest yet. I didn’t have time to make a graphic to celebrate so here’s an emoji 🤯

Slow Roads version 2.1 is now live on slowroads.io, featuring new vehicle physics, autosteer/autospeed modes, one-pedal drive, draggable camera controls, and a handful of QoL upgrades. Next up for 2.2 will be improvements to the environmental detail and weather effects 🌧️

Got my first issue of @apwot.bsky.social. The cover’s by one of my favourite artists (blurring_my_day), and I can’t remember ever seeing such good graphic design and printwork together. It’s big and thick too, more like a book than a magazine. Expectations exceeded!

Car vs Mattress Tower

little friend

Dwarf Fortress' classic "babies take control of those who carry them (like a rider controlling an animal mount) and perish of dehydration because they're babies that don't know how to pour drinks" bug is back:

The Duchess of Death

When you email issues to Obsidian Entertainment (the video game company) their AI support hallucinates and tells you to email Obsidian (the note-taking company) instead. If the reward function is to reduce the number of touches in a support ticket, this is one way to do it.

going to great lengths to make my outline shader as hand-drawn as possible

What I wish someone had warned me about with these “tented" ergonomic keyboards, where keys float at different heights from the table: after 2 months I'm stillm aking typosl ike this. Change-averse neurons loaded with decades of optimised keypressc ombo timings for flat surfaces, now obsolete.

The look of an island after completing it #indiedev #GodotEngine

Ramón Casas (Spain, 1866–1932) "After the Ball" (1895)

What a book cover. Holy shit.

Dunno if this is a side effect of AI or what, but popular websites are becoming more broken in Safari again. There was a period of stability just now, probably thanks to Interop, but it's beginning to slip. So once again I make this plea: my fellow web developers, please test outside Chrome.

I watch this sometimes to tap into the feeling of a public euphoria and surprise youtu.be/fgPAWUO0464

I think spreadsheets as a concept are brilliant. Can you imagine computers *without* them? They are simultaneously databases and user interfaces. Manipulation is direct: the input is the output. Reactive programming and no need to reason about outdated state or cache invalidation. Simply brilliant

Prototype character for @ewoud.dev #b3d #godotengine

The way that Carthage, an obscure Psygnosis strategy game for Amiga from 1990, renders its landscape a bit a time is very soothing to watch happen in real-time.

Happy halloween and old paintings for thee

Atticus Blue ship renders www.artstation.com/artwork/lGvgxz

You left. Now they're dead. Immersive sim narrative first person cleaner AMBROSIA SKY is coming out NEXT WEEK! "beautiful, intimate, and deeply affecting" - @ign.com "equal parts System Shock and Powerwash Simulator" - @pcgamer.com Steam & Epic, November 10, 9am EST. Links below!

Aquarium Caves!

I almost can't believe this but the game we've been working on for a, uh, frightening long time now is launching into Steam Early Access NEXT WEEK! November 4th, 9am PT Wishlistin' plz and thank: store.steampowered.com/app/2963240/...

one day i will learn to draw arms

It’s still remarkable that Disney produced - and released - this segment in 1940. A horror short that should rank with its Universal monster movie contemporaries… The animation is lush and experimental, and really shows off the Disney special animated effects team…

Always liked to play Freelancer in 16-bit color depth, it resulted in this sort of gentle posterization. #gamedev #space #godot

it is always so fun working on high areas of the map and fine tuning the beautiful vistas you see from up top :) - work in progress! (game is ABYSS X ZERO for those who do not know! an upcoming low-poly 3D metroidvania, developed by me and @ironfairy.bsky.social) #gamedev #lowpoly #indiegame

I recently did this poster illustration for the Tunic: Design Works artbook (Deluxe edition) published by @lostincult.co.uk !

after spending over two decades experimenting with different ways to disarm toxic players in competitive game matches, i've finally discovered that the best strategy is to "mother" them "hmm, it seems like you're struggling with your emotional regulation skills right now?" they mute ME

Almost Home

Here's an update on my small-voxel renderer, inspired by the look of games like Doom and Quake. The work I shared last year focused on handling simpler environment geometry. Since then, I've greatly expanded the scope of what I can depict in this art style. More info in thread.

I’ve gotten away with meager math education in my career so far, but have finally hit a wall with spherical harmonics lighting. dickyjim.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/s...

Another STUNNING image from JWST, this time of the Red Spider Nebula—the vast, wispy, gaseous remains of a now-dead star, the white dwarf core still glowing in the centre.

Illustration for the Castlevania Piano Collection vinyl

A wonderful interview by Interlude. Mount Holly was given its soul by Trigg & Gusset.💙 "Blue Prince, Bart Knol, and Bass Clarinet" An Interview with the Composer Behind the Smash Hit Indie Game interlude.hk/blue-prince-...

Really pleased with that translucent glow on the leaves

I spent some quality time in Messenger, a tiny Japan-themed open-world game where you make deliveries alongside other players. Brilliant level design and sharp, minimalist writing. It runs in the browser, and you can finish a quest in just a couple of minutes. You have no excuse! messenger.abeto.co