Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

streaming some #gamedev junk on Twitch, come hang out! twitch.tv/hippowombat

Unfortunately I needed to revisit straight skeleton for some level design tech. Outward sliding works surprisingly well, inward sliding works unsurprisingly horribly. For now I can use the outward slides for gutters/trim on procedural buildings, if I can fix inward slides then I can do roofs too.

Snaccoon dev, come hang! twitch.tv/hippowombat

Okay, I booked flights & a hotel. Not buying a pass, but I'll be in SF hanging out during GDC for the first time. Very stoked.

Celebrating 16 years with my best friend today 💕

If I go to San Francisco during GDC specifically to meet up with people, I don't need a pass to like actual GDC... right? Not like rules-wise but like practicality-wise.

LMAO

SNCN News Special Report: Local convenience store ransacked by a raccoon, who was too stuffed & sleepy to even leave the scene. Officials say the raccoon was released back into the wild after a hefty nap.

Working with a team is infinitely more fun than working by myself.

Snaccoon is a game about being a raccoon and doing raccoon stuff, made by professionals. #indiegame #gamedev #snaccoon

Translation: Snaccoon has made it to Bluesky!

My oldest is 13 today. Freaking insane.

I made another ham

"Studio wide consultation" for somewhere with hundreds of workers is just grotesque. And if you're the type of person that is gonna post something like "imagine all the new indie studios that'll come out of this ☺️☺️☺️" have a think before you speak and a look around first.

Currently obsessing over the idea of buying a chunk of land in Colorado, building a cabin, and disappearing 2-3 times a year.

Another entry in my SpongeBob holiday painting adventures.

Lol

NEW VINYL NEW VINYL NEW VINYL Courtesy of my lovely wife who isn't on Bluesky

back on my bullshit

Blender anim question - the mesh is skinned to a set of deformer bones, but I'm using non-deforming bones w/ custom shapes to constraint-transform my deformer bones, do I have to key the transforms of both the controllers & the deformers if I'm exporting the animations with Ony Deform Bones checked?

They let me put stuff in a game that's available on a console. Insane. What were they thinking?!

Azuria Sky and Joel Corelitz awaken dreams and nightmares with the Possessor(s) soundtrack, a world of decayed pianos, haunting textures, and ambient melodies echoing what was and what remains. 🎹 🎶 Now available for streaming on your favourite platforms: lnk.to/possessor-s

Possessors is out today! The team all worked really hard on this, please play it to make us smile! ❤️

I need a perforce tier between free for 5 users and $40 a month for 50 users. Gimme like $20 a month for 10 users or something, please.

My heart is heavy & I might have more to say on that later, but I've got news today that my time at Heart Machine will come to an end after POSSESSOR(S) ships. I'm honestly too busy... literally shipping the game to start actively looking for work, but I'll be looking for my next gig in December. 🥲

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Swamp time

More lmao

Making spreadsheets, kill me

Lmao

Update: it's pretty good

Adventures in cooking: our friend group is getting together to carve/paint pumpkins tonight & everyone's bringing food. I don't know how to cook much but I'm trying out making a brown sugar honey glazed ham. Following a tutorial, I made a glaze, ham is cooking now, final pictures once it's done:

I've reposted many posts made by folks who were recently laid off from Heart Machine, but here is a thread that highlights them all. I am also including folks who were previously laid off & are still looking for work. I will be linking their Bsky posts, as well as LinkedIn. Please, share this. 🖤

I've done three "Hire X HIRE X" posts recently, but genuinely I'd like to ask that anyone looking for staff right now please look at the posts here or on LinkedIn from folks that are being laid off from HM, these people are SO talented and SO amazing and I'm heartbroken to lose them as coworkers.

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It's that time again, folks. I have been told I will be let go from Heart Machine next week. The people there have been amazing friends and coworkers and anyone else who has been affected deserves all the love and support. I will be updating my portfolio soon; any Env Art leads would be appreciated

[waking up]: oh, fuck off

Just watched Scream for (somehow) the first time. HILARIOUS.

Couple more finds courtesy of my rad wife who is not on Bluesky

Can't believe I'm saying this again so soon, but I've been laid off from Heart Machine. Please check out Possessor(s) on Nov 11th, I'm incredibly excited for you all to experience what I've been working so hard on the past year. Gonna just keep on moving forward and makin art mattgraczykart.com

Matt is an IMMENSE talent and a super sweet & cool person. Any team looking for an environment artist should scoop him up quick.

Hey I got to touch some stuff for this

"What goes on under your desk Christian?" I am SO glad you asked!

The talk I co-delivered at #EverythingProcecduralConference earlier this year is up on YouTube, lots of neato details on the stuff we did for #procgen in #HyperLightBreaker at @heartmachine.bsky.social youtu.be/AWzepoestQ4?...

Had a period of intense non-productivity and exhaustion basically all of last week, then randomly got insanely motivated and stayed up until 5am working on stuff last night. Chat are we so back or am I about to nosedive into brutal burnout?