steven z
@stevenzwahl.bsky.social
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nb he/they making a walking sim with a conversation in it
https://thoughtgarden.site/
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Hi, I'm Steven! A software developer working in fire safety who struggles to make games on the side. I also like to paint, draw, and play guitar, and my blog has some ok essays on ecology in games. I grew up and live in the lower Missouri watershed in the great plains, which I love dearly. :)
about 1 year ago
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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)
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2 months ago
experimenting with card game designs
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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 :)
4 days ago
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echerry
7 days ago
playing around with pixels & elf concepts
add a skeleton here at some point
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wow everyone dunking on a new bad behavior every day is probably going to heaven
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about 1 month ago
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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.
13 days ago
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davemakes๐ถ
14 days ago
people don't want an agentic os they want to do this
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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
14 days ago
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Monochromesoft
16 days ago
you should all play more indie games made by 1 to 4 gay people in their bedrooms
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depths of wikipedia
18 days ago
roses are red, violets are funky,
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Jay Castello ๐ป
21 days ago
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
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24 days ago
orchids to dusk is turning 10 today โ
polclarissou.itch.io/orchids-to-d...
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hellojed
26 days ago
i fucking hate unreal blueprints
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minimum requirement for making a cool videogame imo
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 month ago
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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.
about 1 month ago
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Bullet Points
about 1 month ago
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...
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Makkon
about 1 month ago
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
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Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
https://fund.blender.org/
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not really done with this area but I'm tempted to post a before and after
#gamedev
about 1 month ago
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everything is still really work-in-progress which is great because it's already looking super cool
about 1 month ago
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I want to live in a creek so bad it's not even funny
about 1 month ago
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"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
about 1 month ago
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autumn wright ๐
about 1 month ago
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-...
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dr. hazel ๐
about 1 month ago
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
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Jan Willem Nijman
about 2 months ago
technology that makes people more productive is inherently used to perpetuate capitalism, thatโs why I make videogames, technology that makes people less productive
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about 2 months ago
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good thread. IMO if you are one of the people on this website making a slot machine indie game, you must delete it.
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about 2 months ago
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Anh Dang
about 2 months ago
listening to my team in a meeting today
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Lotus ๐ค๐งก๐ค๐ฉทโค๏ธ
about 2 months ago
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
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Postmark Games
about 2 months ago
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...
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52 DUELS - A fight with playing cards for 1-2 players
YouTube video by Roll Them Bones
https://youtu.be/ciIa0usT7wM?si=GdOdFie562q4l1rB
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Jonas Pfeiffer ๐ฟ
about 2 months ago
You can now WISHLIST my game HEART DRIVE on Steam, a driving 'n' fishing game! Every wishlist helps ๐ looking forward to share more about this project over the next year :)
store.steampowered.com/app/4026760/...
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Heart Drive on Steam
Catch giant fish from the top of your car, upgrade your equipment and uncover the mystery behind the legendary โHeart Driveโ. Embark on a journey of action, friendship and letting go, in this fast-pac...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4026760/Heart_Drive/?curator_clanid=4777282
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hope I live to see every car turn to rust and every asphalt lot break down and burst forth with green
about 2 months ago
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2 months ago
nothing would revitalize the halo brand like another 9/11
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went on a haunted trolley tour and the 19 year old guide sounded exactly like a youtuber
2 months ago
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Nick Capozzoli
2 months ago
Parents, please check your kids' candy, this Halloween. Within a Snickers Mini I've just found the Furtive Pygmy, so easily forgotten
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"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.
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2 months ago
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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
2 months ago
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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.
2 months ago
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my freaks
3 months ago
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Disco Elysium Quotes
3 months ago
It would take a million years of evolution โ or a total reversal in the condition of the world โ for your pain to end.
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atfter weeks of labor i have at last finished "boy you talk to for 5 minutes"
#gamedev
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3 months ago
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Marcus Jernberger
5 months ago
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
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Colorfiction
5 months ago
Made a little forest idler, out on steam ๐ฒ
store.steampowered.com/app/3689060
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_D
6 months ago
Re-body is out. explore a dilapidated world while uncovering real personal confessions focusing on queer bodies
darionmccoy.itch.io/re-body
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we should bring back villages. we had a really good thing going on there. i would thrive in a village.
5 months ago
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been working on clouds
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5 months ago
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Ghislain Girardot
5 months ago
#UE
#Blender
#UnrealEngine
#tech
#gamedev
๐ฅณMy ๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ง๐ผ๐ผ๐น๐ 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. ๐
youtube.com/watch?v=hC2_...
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GameTools Blender Extension - Introduction
YouTube video by Ghislain Girardot
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hC2_rdXWgCA
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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...
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Thought Garden
Thinking Place
https://thoughtgarden.site/
5 months ago
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Krysidian
5 months ago
โ๏ธDraw and Carve out Detached Facial Features!๐๏ธ 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
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Legoian
5 months ago
I finally got around to playing Anthology of the Killer. and its fucking awesome.
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