I suppose that it's that time of the month again where I need to say I'm looking for contract work again. My full portfolio is at thatartisan.carrd.co I'm also opening commissions for static sprites. DM me on Bluesky or email me if you'd like to get in touch.

In At the Mountains of Madness Lovecraft calls penguins "grotesque". I'm starting to think this guy might have issues?? Not everything is an existential horror, dude.

Felt this in my soul.

New president: Did they really blow up a sun? I love that Stargate is low-key a comedy.

It's hilarious to me how all the headlines are like "CONCERNS GROW FOR HIS HEALTH SITUATION" and we all know - WE ALL KNOW - it is not concern, it is the anticipation of explosive, schadenfreude-fuel rejoicing and relief.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Screen Ireland is seeking to recruit a Head of Digital Games. This role will lead the agency’s strategy and policy for the Digital Games sector. 📅 Deadline for applications: 16th April, 5pm 🔗 screen-ireland.jobs.personio.com/job/2529275 #JobFairy #IrishGames

Prime Video is excellent at digging up movies from 2002 with 3.9 on imdb.

have you tried restarting it? turn it off and on again. turn it alll the way off and then on again. stop arguing and restart it STOP ASKING QUESTIONS AND TURN IT OFF AND ON AGAIN

"I would be able to learn the alien language in Arrival" is the kind of conceited I am.

a lovely snippet from our latest episode which shows the importance of developers sharing their creative process. Without @obsidianent.bsky.social showing their work via devlogs, we may never have gotten the beautiful isometric world of Disco Elysium.

That duck on the track past the counter is masterful low-key comedy.

"This time is different" I feverishly tell myself as I yet again contemplate starting a new, smaller game. "Quick six month dev process" I continue to lie.

I'm not sure how the Bluesky algorithm works but I'm gonna need it to stop showing me "AI artists" because I have never clicked the mute button faster.

Sorry if I haven't been doing any updates on my game lately. Rest assured, in the background I'm not doing much either.

Did you also have a crush on Matt Damon's character in Titan AE or were you normal? www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0lg...

Edge browser update. Corporations are cramming AI into places it has no business being with such frenetic energy it's like they need it to breathe. Like they're actually going to run out of air if they don't find a new place to stick it, with all the usefulness of a banana glued to a car.

Oh, no, I couldn't possibly join you for that. I need to stay at home and ruminate on the things I'm worried about.

The new Katanaut gameplay trailer went up on @ign.com! Huge thanks to @piratepr.com for the support, and @splintersa.bsky.social for the music!! More cosmic horror, more cursed weapons, more reasons to lose sleep⚔️👽 Link: youtube.com/watch?v=JeFQ... #indiegame #gamedev

Anyone have strong opinions on genre for games? Should I pick one or two or can I get away with a swirl? I think first-person existential horror/puzzle/platformer might be too much at once. #gamedev

Feverishly day-dreaming about my next game while trying to finish the last 30% of my current one.

Oh no, The Masquerade curse has taken another victim.

A much more complex follow-up demo to my audio occlusion system post. I have upgraded it to be much more tuneable. I need to divide the video to meet Bluesky's limits. #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

Aggressively refactoring my old code: Why is this even here? I'm deleting all of this. What an idiot. Moments later when everything's broken: I may have underestimated you, past-Gary...

My janky but effective audio occlusion system. Very few out-of-the-box tools for things like this. Google Resonance just does binary occlusion and Steam Audio does full (expensive) acoustic simulation. Where's the option for people who want something just good enough? #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

I love how the ship is bascially the Rocinante. Like how the Ebon Hawk was basically the Millennium Falcon.

Resisting the urge to go back to ChatGPT and explain how I solved my C# issue.

Apparently "AI gen imagery is bad" is a controversial stance on r/solodevelopment and that is not a sad discovery I expected to face today.

You ever get that feeling where you solve a bug or finish a new system you didn't think you'd be able to and you just want to cry in relief and do an instant git push to make sure you don't somehow go back in time and lose it?

Does this look and sound sufficiently dangerous? #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

I really underestimated how confusing and complex light-baking would be. Combine that with a custom shader and trying to make sure everything is compatible has been a journey.

It's a must-watch for everyone. Especially for those who, like me, still feel like being "bedroom coders" and are happy with that. 😁 #gamedev #indiedev #bedroomcoder

I just want an RPG where I can say something like "You have defied the Skull Throne for the last time!" - is that so much to ask? Tyranny was the closest we came.

Tentacles are also for climbing! I need you to believe me that despite all evidence to the contrary I am not obsessed with tentacles. #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

Entirely procedural run cycle for these tentacle guys. #indiedev #gamedev #unity3d

Though undoubtedly creatures of darkness themselves, they cannot help but reach for the light. #gamedev #indiedev

Squiggly Guy™ and the Tentacle Boys™. #gamedev #indiedev

Work-in-progress of this squiggly little guy. #gamedev #indiedev

I have received a complaint from the Unity big wigs that some of you are still capturing when there is hot control. It is absolutely, positively vital that you should not be capturing while there is hot control.

Here is a little demo of a procedural cave-generating system for my existential horror first-person game. It works by taking base blocks and a bunch of different variables and producing semi-random tunnels/caves/tombs. You can scale it, swap textures, tweak lots of things. It's all just blocks.

We've been doing stylised art since at least 2000BCE. This is the so-called "Priest King", from the poorly understood Harappan culture, in the Indus Valley in modern-day Pakistan. Look at how much personality they gave this guy. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest-...

Assertively training my niece and nephew to say "BEEP BEEP!" when they need someone to move.

Introduce yourself with four video games. I'm really showing my age with most of these.

A first look at some prototyping for interactive objects in my game. I've worked on trying to make some satisfying sound design and I've tween everything to hell and back to make it fun to interact with. Everything you can see here is made with unity primitives 🤦‍♂️

My arbitrary game awards list which features a surprising preponderence of games set in space: Best Game Design: Subnautica. Most Disappointing Game Design: Subnautica - Below Zero. Best Spooky Space Game: System Shock 2. Best Epic Space Combat Game: Freespace 2.

The Half Life 2 documentary is fantastic and not long enough. Each chapter could be an hour. I'd watch a whole series on their playtesting process. @dannyodwyer.bsky.social Any chance they'll let you do an extended cut with all the unused material?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCjN...

I am rewatching the X-Files for the first time since they originally aired, and I had no idea how good the comedy episodes are. S03E12 (War of the Coprophages) features Mulder investigating mysterious deaths, while Scully stays at home having a cop-girl evening - cleaning her gun, eating ice cream,

One small innovation I use as a rank amateur in Unity is a ScriptableObject I call an AudioClipReference. It is to an audioclip as a Material is to a Texture. It allows you to take an audio clip and preload it with volume/pitch/spacialisation settings, and feed it straight into the audio system.