Pixel Art Lighter is out now! I first made this tool for my game, but am releasing it free and open source for everyone. Generate and edit normal maps and light masks, while keeping your sprites pixel perfect. Hope it helps with your art or gamedev! #pixelart #indiegamedev
Seeing the Director’s Cut of THE DEVILS on the big screen in a theater packed with strangers tonight was legitimately one of the most transcendent moviegoing experiences I’ve ever had in my adult life. Tonight was special and I am so lucky that I got to experience this.
Leaving Canning Town, the train winds its way along the sweeping curves of the track.
every photo of red sprites is so sci fi horror, wow
I also find it incredibly useful to write a crucial scene with a new character’s dialogue in it to find their voice, or to write phrases that they’d say into their bio. Once you have the flavour of how they speak, it’s so much easier to find them as a person
Mysterious Z (DATE OF BIRTH AUGUST 2ND)@mysteriousz.bsky.social · last mo.The Cartoon Network leak revealed that the team actually wrote fake interviews for the Powerpuff Girls in-house so that the writers could understand them better and honestly this is incredibly useful for learning how to characterize your characters holy shit
Amy CUI / Jonathan ROGERS free skate at 2026 Lombardia Trophy to selections from the soundtrack of Ryan Coogler's Sinners #FigureSkating
Kala Paint is out! I'm @olawson.bsky.social , professional artist for 15 years, then game dev, now wrote the painting software I wish I'd been using all this time. GPU-run creamy brushes, no subscription, no gen AI crap, hand-coded with ideas from artists in our Discord, and more added weekly!
Here’s an example of the multi track workflow in my DAW. You can edit the start and end ranges of clips and swap tracks. It all syncs up with the Rust backend which handles playback natively using a Mixer class that combines all the tracks together. whoisryosuke.com/blog/2026/cr...
We throw newbs in a pit. We tell them they must be competitive auteurs from day one, and that they’re disposable. Young professionals need space to learn. Apprenticeships and junior roles. They don’t know what they don’t know. We need entry level jobs. We’re moving in the opposite direction.
Destiny 2 at about 50% power: Here's a new word for you to look up. Destiny 2 at 100% power: Here's a word that's impossible for you to look up because we made it up.
ABN Painterly Normals is now available on Gumroad! 😊 A Substance Painter tool for generating tangent-space normal details from albedo, with Auto and Manual workflows for painterly, hand-painted, and stylized projects. Link in the comments! #SubstancePainter #HandPainted #GameArt #GameDev
New blog post: a long one going over my approach to running story breaking sessions with video game writing teams. azhdarchid.com/how-to-run-a...
How to Run a Story Breaking Session
Writer's room technique: How to lead a meeting to break a story as a group.
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A video game studio should be allowed to make a bad game and gain some institutional knowledge without being gutted, skinned, and melted it down into glue every fiscal year.
I've implemented better fog (atmospheric perspective) in my shaders, so distance fades not just towards a single color (like classic fog), but a color which itself gets paler with distance. This adds so much depth to distant parts of the view and I feel it makes the landscape "breathe". #GameDev
"Best Story" was probably the one I had to think hardest about. grids.fun/t/about-me-v...
Christian Sparks@hippowombat.bsky.social · 7mo agoI feel like I'm missing some titles but I feel like that's just how it goes grids.fun/t/about-me-v...
MIDNIGHT IN BABYLON, the first episode of AZATHOTH BLUES, is now out on all major podcast platforms, including Spotify. A dark journey into paranoia, conspiracy, murder & ritual. How do you fight back in a world that seems increasingly insane?
📖 THE GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ is out NOW! www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope 100+ essays on writing & narrative design, with articles from the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Control, Call of Duty, Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider, Sam and Max... ALSO the Kaleidoscope Podcast with 2 full eps!
The DHS funding bill is effectively dead in the Senate.
Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹@snarkranger.bsky.social · 10mo agoNew: @cortezmasto.senate.gov is a no on the DHS funding bill.
