need to write a blog about TRPGs as a strangely ideal medium reflecting buddhist relationship between desire and suffering. the main mechanic is literally to declare a desire and find out if the resolution brings suffering (which will show up and accumulate sooner or later)

experimenting with card game designs

was going to write venomous blog posts on this holiday vacation but it's actually super chill. i am like 2k miles away from videogames :)

playing around with pixels & elf concepts

wow everyone dunking on a new bad behavior every day is probably going to heaven

I've been handling colors pretty naively. The castle wall material gets re-used a lot and represents a creamy color that shifts from orange-y tones in the lower regions to stark white up top. If I want to offset the Z for contrast I've really just been duplicating the material. Same for bricks, etc.

people don't want an agentic os they want to do this

as someone who used to use Designer to make procedural textures I gotta say this might not be faster but it's not far off and I can feel snobbishly superior that I placed these all by hand

you should all play more indie games made by 1 to 4 gay people in their bedrooms

roses are red, violets are funky,

reading a study whose headline is "AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably" but which actually finds men and women have a 45-50% accuracy rate and nonbinary people have a ~65% accuracy rate. this is never commented upon

orchids to dusk is turning 10 today ⚘ polclarissou.itch.io/orchids-to-d...

i fucking hate unreal blueprints

minimum requirement for making a cool videogame imo

something I was not prepared for when starting a videogame with a castle in it is that pretty stone cobbling is not easy. it takes a lot of time to make bricks flow gracefully into each other without textures or procedural scattering. I hope any bricklaying ancestors I have are proud.

Our current issue comes to a close with a new article on Silent Hill f, by @zweiteturm.bsky.social bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/11/19/p...

Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk. please donate if you can! fund.blender.org

not really done with this area but I'm tempted to post a before and after #gamedev

everything is still really work-in-progress which is great because it's already looking super cool

I want to live in a creek so bad it's not even funny

"the only ""koan"" *i* know is SATOSHI 'kon', director and animator of 'Perfect Blue' (1997) + 'Paprika' (2006), in addition to several other poignant deep cuts" - a person in your life suffering from the infinite cycle of death and rebirth but familiar with respectable japanese animated features

Felt compelled to write about what malice, block towers, and the parakeets mean ahead of its rerelease. Had to make it into a blog. Hope people still read it. Reading The Boy and The Heron: autumnwright.bearblog.dev/reading-the-...

networking is an incredibly important part of maintaining a professional presence in your creative industry, but it can be daunting. have you tried being completely fucking ridiculous online

technology that makes people more productive is inherently used to perpetuate capitalism, that’s why I make videogames, technology that makes people less productive

good thread. IMO if you are one of the people on this website making a slot machine indie game, you must delete it.

listening to my team in a meeting today

I think the storyline of "LGBTQIA+ voters made the difference for Mamdani" (and then extrapolating that to the future, Everywhere) is a bit fraught when you consider that New York is one of the most diverse cities in America and exit polls still show more white people voted for Cuomo

youtu.be/ciIa0usT7wM?... FIGHT WITH PLAYING CARDS. Introducing 52 Duels, a 1 or 2 player duelling game coming to kickstarter next month. Sign up to get notified when we launch! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...

You can now WISHLIST my game HEART DRIVE on Steam, a driving 'n' fishing game! Every wishlist helps 🙏 looking forward to share more about this project over the next year :) store.steampowered.com/app/4026760/...

hope I live to see every car turn to rust and every asphalt lot break down and burst forth with green

nothing would revitalize the halo brand like another 9/11

went on a haunted trolley tour and the 19 year old guide sounded exactly like a youtuber

Parents, please check your kids' candy, this Halloween. Within a Snickers Mini I've just found the Furtive Pygmy, so easily forgotten

"interesting" "design" is player-forward servicing, one hundred miles away from artistry. you should just focus on expression and not care about who plays it.

I practice self-care by piping loud music directly into my ears for a couple of hours and then switching to BEST Tinnitus Relief Sound Therapy Treatment | 10 Hours of Tinnitus Masking which is also at max volume

decided to not use lighting near the beginning of this project and now that I'm doing an art pass, i am reaping the benefits of this restriction. to make a sunset without light, i must invite the Color Demons.

my freaks

It would take a million years of evolution – or a total reversal in the condition of the world – for your pain to end.

atfter weeks of labor i have at last finished "boy you talk to for 5 minutes" #gamedev

I have put my old comic "Ward" on gumroad. It's still the longest thing I have drawn. I have been out of the Riso printed edition for quite a while so I thought I might as well put it up. 56 pages, $2+ vulgarirex.gumroad.com/l/kpqxu

Made a little forest idler, out on steam 🌲 store.steampowered.com/app/3689060

Re-body is out. explore a dilapidated world while uncovering real personal confessions focusing on queer bodies darionmccoy.itch.io/re-body

we should bring back villages. we had a really good thing going on there. i would thrive in a village.

been working on clouds

#UE #Blender #UnrealEngine #tech #gamedev 🥳My 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 addon is finally complete and officially available as a Blender Extension! I spent way too much time coding it + writing a 150-page manual and over 2 hours of video tutorials. 😅 youtube.com/watch?v=hC2_... More detail in the🧵

Made a new wretched site and ported some of my old blogs to it. Probably going to change my approach and messily vomit my thoughts and yell into the void on here, so idk don't expect cogent articles thoughtgarden.site thoughtgarden.site/blog/EcoRevi...

✏️Draw and Carve out Detached Facial Features!🖌️ Use a regular mesh or make use of #GreasePencil! My FREE tool SMIRK for #Blender 4.4+ is finally out Use #geometrynodes to generate a 3D mouth from a drawing and animate it Frame by Frame Based on EdwardUrena's DFF #b3d

I finally got around to playing Anthology of the Killer. and its fucking awesome.