Morning stroll through the alien meadow #gamedev

Curious animal

Tenazul Rambeest redesign - #speculativebiology #art #digitalart #artsky #specbio #specevo #exoton

added dogs

Nature and Slate

SUSHI BEN IS OUT NOW! 🎉🎉🎉 I've been working on this since 2016 yay! My team has been working on this since 2021 yay! Plz try it out, its cheaper than toro nigiri tysm im so sleepy going to bed now.

Deermin / 🦌 / #pikmin

The Venus girdle (Cestum veneris) is a large, ribbon-shaped comb jelly, or ctenophore, known for its transparent and gelatinous body.

I coded this atmosphere shader to only render if the camera is underneath it, but the atmosphere is a mesh with vertices and therefore not a perfect sphere, so I get these circles when the camera moves. Not going to be in the finished shader, but I thought it was neat and wanted to share

ancient friends

Been working on a fun little hobby experiment recently with relativistic ray tracing. Don't have everything working just yet, but I do have some really neat debug visuals:

Testing my changes to creature movement by calling all the animals to the player and gauging success based on how cute it looks when they're all chasing me #gamedev

some Bug Story time behind the scenes

Blender Tip: Blender has a lot of tools to automate repetitive tasks, and the very easiest of them is the Shift-R, which just repeats whatever the heck you did last. Need a row of things? Make a copy, then Shift-R, Shift-R, Shift-R.

Best friends

Same energy as my greyhounds when I'm carrying around food they aren't allowed to have

Bloodborne (2015)

Protowhales #sciart

Sweet baby aardvark #screenshotsaturday

Something in a shader somewhere got divided by zero

More fun with shadows

Added an energy cost for creatures to be large or have lots of body parts, which immediately meant that tiny critters have an easier time surviving. Here is a jumping burgundy mouse investigating a small octopus and an apple

Tractor beam copper collection

I love this animal so much

I love this animal so much

Swapped over to a new grass shader and it feels so fluffy and iridescent #gamedev #techart

Recently, I have been preparing some things.

Figured out how to get shadow attenuation in a custom shader graph node and I'm honestly kind of obsessed with this; oops gonna spend a day or two playing with shadows I guess

Behold! 22 seconds of Physarum-inspired particles! Emerging patterns from simple rules! Python and taichi implementation, 60fps while displaying! MIDI interface (coming soon).

Hat on a hat, but with heads

Boing

trees 🌿 #pixelart

This animal has developed fascinating shoe-like appendages

Creatures now turn their heads toward whatever they're targeting, which is visible here on this dog with mushrooms for ears

These wings don't seem like they're in the right place to do anything useful

Some of my favorite people to follow here are new game devs, especially when I see them learn and progress over months or years. Making games is hard. It takes grit and love. Most hobbyists seem to give up on it quickly, and I don’t judge them one bit, but it’s delightful to see people persevere

Ah, to be young and radially symmetrical in a world of giant many-eyed shrub beasts

A microscopic Tardigrade (water bear), walking across a glass slide. Extremely resilient, they can survive decades without food or water and can survive in direct exposure to space.

Who wants a bunch of delicious green grapes😋💚 #illustration #animalart #birdart #birdwatching #whiteeye #digitalart #green #cute #bird #drawing #originalart

Playing in a rainstorm #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

These guys REALLY took over this little moon. From a distance they kind of remind me of aphids clustering on a plant

dont forget to water your suzanne

Frilled frograbbit

HERDLING is coming out in just a few hours, so there's just enough time to go through some other fun tech-art stuff 👀 Here's another behind-the-scenes 🧵 with various other interesting tech-art stuff featured in our vast and furrious game ✨

Best friend, or favorite hat?

I got fed up with light probes and put most of my realtime lighting in a shader! It's a small change, but it gives me more control, and I'm excited to get it working with things like the day/night cycle and various environments

I think this dog is mad at me

It's hard to eat grass when you're this bouncy