I just had a masochistic binge reading several forum threads on the Paint.NET forums (from the past two decades!) all from users requesting a "File > Export As" feature separate from "File > Save As" which flattens all of your layers as the file is no longer a PDN file. Every single thread […]

Hey #b3d #blender folks in the UK! We're looking for a senior animator to work with us for 6 months. It's a hybrid position, coming to the office at least 1 day a week. Come work with me! https://www.mediamolecule.com/jobs/senior-animator-6-month-contract/5751525004 #animation #gamedev #jobs #uk

One of my biggest #retrogaming issues is re-releases seldom include the manual. The actual, printed, full-color manual with art, maps, diagrams. Players were expected to read the manual before playing from at least the NES era to PS2 era, and a lot of description/story is simply not in the game […]

*DUNE music* https://mastodon.social/@wonderofscience/115782593587692086

Almost forgot, happy winter solstice!

An illustration teacher told us one day “an artist is only as good as his reference folder” and I still think about that. Delegating the ref-gathering & moodboarding to genAI, aside from all the ethical concerns, seems to me the single most cruel and devastating thing you can do to your design.

My PBR infected brain seeing this: Mary, you have Metal set on your apple material! The Albedo shouldn't be affecting the specular highlights on this only semi glossy fruit! Mary! https://tech.intersects.art/@pomological/115738875467032551

I am begging, begging, begging cool people making cool things to please have any presence on the web other than Instagram.

So here's Planet Jellyham, the movement focused metroidvania game I've been doing VFX and shaders for with a team of friends. We're ramping up for release to release this early next year, and for free! #gamedev #metroidvania

Hey! Yeah so this Metroidvania grew out of a game jam we did a long while back. I was involved in just about every animated character you see in this game! EXTRA for enemies, I animated 100% of every enemy in the game, including the bosses! Super hype to announce this!!✨ #Metroidvania #gamedev

Yeah, like, I *know* trying to normalize a vector of all zeroes is undefined because of the division the operation, BUT whyyy does your library function silently give me NaNs?? And undocumented to boot https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.numerics.vector3.normalize

I'm about to crest a hill with my 3d project because I took a detour to relearn collision physics, and things are clicking together again. I want to start an progress thread once I had visual things to show, but we'll see

I wonder if you could get people to auto balance metro train cars adding places to tap their metro cards on each car and giving out trip discounts for getting on emptier cars, eg. ones further from the platform entrance.

Travel tip: Use your 3DS as a pedometer instead of a spyware smartwatch! Also, use the camera for lo-fi digital pictures! #3ds #nintendo3ds #ニンテンドー3ds

Happy Halloween! 🎃 Remember to exorcise your normal maps! 👻 #gamedev

A few weeks ago I hit a really fun personal milestone: my text editor is now sufficiently complete that I can start using it as my daily driver. Now that I'm using it full-time, I'm finding so many opportunities to make tiny productivity improvements here and […] [Original post on social.coop]

Deeply disappointed by Fedora's new AI policies that allows AI contributions. It is impossible to argue *who* owns any snippet of AI generated code. Is code that is generated by OpenAI is owned by OpenAI? The person who sniped it from their chatlog? This is ignoring that the AI industry itself […]

A project I have no time or expertise for: A FOSS sample/sound effect manager that can organize my libraries with tags, play back sounds, and importantly make subclips from sound files with multiple sounds

Anyone ever done a meta-analysis research study (?) on 3D character movement in games? I've been finding academic styled papers on Quake and Team Fortress 2 movement which got me wondering

A funny idea I want to try for rendering a game would be to render the world with real time tracing but at like a game boy resolution

Some of the articles I've written for my blog have been things I've been passionate about, but the next one I do might be out of spite

Thanks for hosting Davis! I'm Spex, 3d generalist/tech artist and hobby gamedev who likes to branch out into whatever seems interesting. I have a few games I'm working on, and I post about game jams a lot - but you'll mostly see me posting bright low/midpoly 3d art and the occasional 3d print!

Wow I don't think I've had such a visceral reaction to a new UI design as I've had to the Android 16 brightness and volume bars. Just straight up bad.

Reposting for Fedi 👀. "Each October, the VFX Apprentice community joins the fun in a daily challenge called Flipbooktober. There are no requirements to participate every single day, but it's a great way to challenge yourself to create a flipbook […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

#Swordtember2025 Swordnik 24: Venom I sure did think that animating a snake would be easier than animating legs for some reason 😅 I do love how this Snake man's arms are pretty much magic bundles of coil instead of anything real though, that part was fun. #b3d #Swordtember

I'm going to start carrying around sticky notes to non destructively graffiti generated image posters and canvases I find in public spaces and shops. Like why are you ruining your nice cafe with this shit?

#Swordtember2025 Swordnik 16: Carved Today's design is simple and clean. Just a stone gorilla golem with a giant SLAB of a sword. Gave it a simple walk cycle, and we're done. The real trick here is having assets ahead of time. This repeating rock texture is one I made at least a year ago. #b3d

Ah I think an issue I'm having with this simple 3D physics I'm doing is my BoxCast isn't ray casting to find the collision point until my player collider box and other box colliders overlap, when I should be testing if a new AABB projected ahead of the player overlaps the other box

I've been stuck in the collision resolution mines. I chose this

Me wondering if you can turn a zine template into a animation flipbook 👀

#Swordtember Swordnik 04: "Scale" Tried going with a "Lady Justice" theme instead of snakes or something. Choosing a swingy set of scales with *flaming souls* and a billowy cloak sure was a choice for a single-day project though lol Also, the sword is a guillotine. Proud of that bit. #b3d

Some day I do want to sit down and jam out a sky box painting tool, with support for painting on domes, sphere, and cubes with multiple layers. Maybe even add generating clouds and stars to it, and maybe layering multiple sky box meshes to have multiple layers at different distances in game

Bahaha I'm loving finding more blogs sharing tested gamedev techniques. I still do enjoy a good, entertaining tech demo, but we need variety. > In this post I wanted to talk about what I affectionately refer to as “glue code.” These are things that manage your gameplay flow, let systems talk to […]

If I want dentures later in life that are my exact teeth, I should get on 3d scanning the ones I got right now huh

Exactly how I feel about buying and playing old (and new!) games for pre 7th generation video game consoles https://topspicy.social/@guffo/115066595906751252

I've had this idea in the back of my head about putting my game builds on to a portable retro console running RetroArch for easy demoing and it'd be cool. My Miyoo Mini can run PSX games pretty well, and that's all the level of fidelity that I need

And all of that is to arrive at my core question. Have you ever heard anyone offer or define our economy as “an economy of anxiety” or other similar terms? I’d love to see what others who have built opinions on it already have had to say.

So, I’ve been thinking about the macro economy and the behaviors it endorses. Our (Western/ definitely US) economy is undoubtedly based on exploitation. One thing I’ve been thinking about is that the primary backbone of the economies shifted over time: - barbaric kidnap and torture - brutal […]

Re implementing missing features from my half done prototype and I accidentally made Super Hot but only for gravity lol Also spot my remade health bar

So GMTK Jam ended today and this was the entry I helped with - Echo Rider! Mario Kart / F-Zero zero-grav hybrid where each lap you fight off the ghosts of your last laps with items for the fuel to survive 5 loops! finite-reflection.itch.io/echo-rider #GMTK #GMTKJam #Gamedev

I found a neat way to make smoke textures in Substance Designer over the weekend during the GMTK jam. Might fiddle around in Material Maker later to recreate it there to share

This hyper rocket powered flaming motorunicycle is everything you need to know about the GMTK Jam game I'm working on #GMTKJam #GMTK #Gamedev

I'm tearing up. I completed the basics of the swap over of my project over to ECS, right. Then today, I went to make it so the camera locks on to a target if there's an entity with a Target component. It surprised me by automatically swapping to the […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

GMTK Jam starts tomorrow and I can't wait 👀

If you see this, post a sword. ⚔️ Last year I made about 30 keyblade models in a month, one a day. This is one I think is pretty cool.

Boy am I thinking more about bringing games I've made on USB sticks and selling at local artist markets

Once again realizing I never post about my game even though I am *extra hype* about it. I finally got my custom homebrewed particle system linked into our movesets now!! Here's our Snow Leopardess using it to breathe out cold air despite being in the badlands. #platsky #gamedev #ProjectUkemi

Help me, I'm being ECS influenced