My basque cheesecake turned out perfect 👌 The giant crack doesn’t matter. Look at the color!!

This is my semi-annual Bluesky check in. 👋

Still alive, just busy with life. See y’all in another handful of months.

Not a lot of progress made on the “Space Game” #UE5 project since last update. World is on fire.

Not pictured is the hay bale that I fell off of and broke my foot with in October. Who knew they could be dangerous?! Started this art piece in 2017, forgot about it, finished it 2025. #midwest #dangerbales #forgottenprojects #farm #night

Small update on the #UE5 project. Haven’t had much time this week to put towards it, but I’m almost finished with this black hole material! #indiegamedev #gamedev #unrealengine #art #space

Anyone that exports meshes & armatures from #Blender3D to #UnrealEngine, what are your export and import settings? A screenshot would be fine! Struggled w/ child bones importing w/ unwanted rotations last night (root bone was fine though). Armature & mesh transformations looked good in blender 🤷🏻‍♂️

Quick asteroid placeholders made in blender and thrown into #UE5. They look pretty good with some random rotation and sizes but they'll look even better with more mesh variations. #gamedev #unrealengine #space

Making small steps towards building out the background. We scrapped the original skysphere implementation for nebulas. They were far too big and an unnecessary waste because the camera only looks down the -Z axis. #gamedev #unrealengine #UE5 #space

Are there block lists I can subscribe to for accounts with a following over like 200K/300K? I don’t care where they claim to fall on the political spectrum. I’m tired of seeing them and they almost always exist to profit off your outrage.

Greetings Bluelings! Solo dev here hoping to connect with likeminded. If you like the look of this little medieval 👽 fella and his melee moves give me a follow and I'll keep videos coming as my game progresses. We come in peace! #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame

My dev partner (@dasmfta) is fighting illness at the moment so I haven’t had a solid opportunity to work in-engine with him just yet. So nothing here is guaranteed to make it into the game. (The grid warps under the ship’s mass like the fabric of spacetime btw 🙃) #UE5 #unrealengine #gamedev #space

Kansas City is closed ⛔️ #blizzard #winterstorm

Here’s another nebula created in #Blender3D for our #UE5 project. Hoping to see how well they work in engine today. These could work really well as phone wallpapers too 🙂 #gamedev #unrealengine #space

Spent all day building a shader in #Blender to create nebula textures for the #UE5 project. First render 😍 8K size #space #ADHDactivities

Excuse the sloppy cropping & compression Got the new modular ship modeled, UV’s mapped, and imported into #UE5. Started on a legitimate master material for instancing. I’d like to be able to quickly adjust paint patterns, distressing, and colors. Maybe in-game for the player too? #gamedev #lowpoly

A friend from high school reached out after seeing my little project in Unreal Engine. Long story short, my art + his programming background = OUR #UE5 project being taken a little more seriously? Anyway, I’m completely overhauling the ship modeling for modularity. 😅 #gamedev #blender #lowpoly

In nicer news, @lindsay.foundfamiliar.com and I just celebrated 16 years of marriage! 🎊 Woo!

Purchased a table from this company a while ago before any of this (and more) came to light. In a weird stroke of luck the table arrived without their logo on it. So, despite already having given them money, I at least don't have to overtly display their brand in my home.

🫥 Even at their cleanest, blueprint event graphs are... a lot. #gamedev #ue5 #unrealengine

It’s a great song, okay? #everythingeverything

When I say, “I miss the Marine Corps” this is what I mean 😂 #usmc

I wish every post-game NHL interview was like this 😂 Loving this version of the Minnesota Wild #toptitty #hockey #nhl #wild #minnesota

Just completed Outer Wilds for the first time and now I’m sad I can never experience the game for the first time ever again. An incredibly rare 10/10 game for me.

Coffee orders will be a little delayed going out today. We got some snow and nobody remembers how to drive in it.

We’re running our holiday sale on coffee now! Gift yourself and loved ones some specialty coffee. It’s a great stocking stuffer. Just saying :)

Fall is finally here 🍂🍁🍃💩

A little more work on the HUD before moving on to something else. Unreal Engine’s UI designer is unintuitive & frustrating af to work in. I think enemies and enemy AI are the next thing to tackle. Need something to shoot at (and have shoot back!) #gamedev #indiegamedev #ue5 #space #gaming

nobody actually warns you about the emotional rollercoaster of game development: "wow, this is kinda fun actually!" "nah, this is the worst thing ever" "wait, i might actually be goated" "nvm this is terrible, i should kill myself"

Working on the HUD now. - Subtle movement parallax on HUD - Compass bar, but no degrees indicated on it yet. - Running game timer. Not sure about it mechanics-wise just yet. - Score text is a placeholder. No functionality yet. - Pew pew audio! #gamedev #indieganedev #UE5 #UnrealEngine #gaming

Ich lerne wieder Deutsch! Sprachen lernen für mir ist schwer, aber ich kann nicht stoppen. Ich werde eine neue Sprache lernen. Grammar is probably shit, but I’m learning German again after picking it up here & there over the years. Do I know any German speakers? #languagelearning #deutsch #german

Oh my god, Zuc. How did you even skate off the ice? 😰 #hockey #nhl #minnesota bringmethenews.com/minnesota-sp...

For every like or comment that my posts get on Threads, the same posts get 5-10 on Bluesky. Engagement is practically non-existent in comparison. Probably not going to be on Threads much longer. Feels very much like shouting into a void.

Put some time towards my little UE5 project yesterday: - Made a new ship - Added projectile firing - Created a health system with health bar, damage application, healing, death, and respawn management. - Tweaked ship speed, acceleration, and handling #gamedev #UE5 #UnrealEngine

Concerning that it’s almost December and I’m still harvesting peppers and herbs from the garden.

Good luck getting me to concentrate in your camps without my adderall. futurism.com/neoscope/rfk...

Just re-upped my @foundfamiliar.com supply after too long. One more order probably needed before the end of the year. Support @artificerind.bsky.social with code OREX Support me with code CYPHER Go get coffee, you're gonna need the fuel to get through the next four years.

It turns out that #gamedev becomes exponentially harder the more progress you make 🫠

Hey, guys! I found this cool mobile game called Flo?? I’m not sure exactly how it works yet, but you guys should download it and just mess around with it. We’ll figure it out eventually. I’ve been randomly inputting things without much thought.

If I hear “your body, my choice” irl, the “Aa” in my name is gonna stand for “aggravated assault”

Been toying around in Unreal Engine 5 again! Started something, but not sure what it’ll be yet. I’ve got a few systems working: - Dynamic camera, speed driven zoom in/out and lag behind - Thrusters, speed & orientation driven - Ship roll on strafing - Health system (not shown) #gamedev

Might end up crossposting here as well. I’m usually on Threads, but it’s looking a lot like 2016 Twitter did at the moment. Anyway, I ran a 10K recently and smashed my last PR. Also got some very flattering finish line photos #running #fitness #strava

Hey, everybody 👋 It’s been… awhile. I’ve mostly been on Insta after leaving Twitter. Not sure how much I’ll use Bluesky tbh. Just checking in I guess? Still kicking.

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Forgot to share this over here. 10 months of hair growth!

You got any games on your phone?

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Finding new music always helps when I’m having a bad week… uh, month. What’s everyone listening to? Share your favorite tunes with me! I listen to almost everything except modern country and really like weirdness.

Forgetting about the coffee you made and then walking past it throughout the day.