Christian Sparks
@hippowombat.bsky.social
He/Him Opinions are my own Senior Tech Artist at Heart Machine Prev Senior Tech Artist at Bad Robot Games Working on @snaccoongame.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/hippowombat
The homie @emoryisme.bsky.social put out a super dope plugin for Unreal Engine - Graph Comment Notes. Such an intuitive feature to add to the engine! ueta.xyz/graph-commen...
Graph Comment Notes Plugin
I'm here with my first free download: the Graph Comment Notes plugin! It's pretty self-explanatory, but the idea is that this plugin adds a new comment type - one that allows for a note in the commen...
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Celebrating 14 years of marriage with my best friend today!
this popped into my head last night, almost all at once soundcloud.com/twobearshigh...
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Stupid computer shit. Sometimes music. SHS founder, developing Woodbound.
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Trying to get back into blogging. I used to really love writing about process, but I got really insecure about people seeing how I do shit & worrying about being judged. When I didn't know any better & wasn't worried about that I had a lot of fun just making shit & sharing it. www.animalcombo.com
ANIMALCOMBO | Game Development Blog
ANIMALCOMBO - a technical art & game development blog by Christian Sparks
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upgraded from a 25 key to a 61 key midi keyboard today, trying to branch out & practice more ad-libbed/jazz inspired stuff. This is my first swing at incorporating chords from like disparate keys so it's a little aimless but I enjoyed figuring out different weird chord combos
It took me nearly 27 hours to reach the "end" of the main quest in Moonlighter 2's early access. Honestly very impressive for a pre-1.0 version of a game, and there's still a ton of content for me to play towards. Really can't speak highly enough about this game.
Absolutely batshit run, greed colosseum goes SO hard
When sci-fi movies showed AI destroying humanity it was always "gain sentience, build machines, slaughter humans" when in reality it's "eviscerate the economy, inflate the worst people's egos, and watch humans slaughter themselves"
Nighthouse… something I’ve been faffing with for a while now. A fictionalised view from Coille Ghillie in Applecross (there’s no castle or lighthouse, never mind one like this). It’s a bit clunky and I’m not sure where to go with it from here (maybe a picture book).
I'm p late bc my backlog is a mile long but Moonlighter 2 is awesome, I'm once again hooked on the loop.
Don't Starve Together is 90% off on Steam right now, it's really really fun, if you haven't picked it up yet now it's a great time to get it!
More important than ever to make sure your indie game runs well on lower end hardware.
Kotaku@kotaku.com · 2mo agoSorry, folks, video game industry analysts are telling us that gaming hardware is going to keep getting more expensive, and the price hikes probably aren't going to stop until at least 2028. https://kotaku.com/analysts-gaming-hardware-more-expensive-2028-2000702104
It's more important to make games in general run better on lower end hardware PERIOD. So many AAA or even AA devs get these super rigs and don't remember a lot of people are still working with stuff from the GTX 1000 and RX 500 era.
I am once again soliciting advice on how to get over burnout. thank you in advance & I'm sorry I feel like I've asked this so many times by now
Hello everyone, I just made this starter pack for game devs who refuse to use generative AI. In any capacity at all, including for ideas or placeholders or code or inspiration or whatever excuses people have. No AI use, period. Let me know if you want added. go.bsky.app/6DRdowf
Making 20 potstickers at 1am because I'm an adult and can do what I want
I promised you THOUGHTS on Lars Wingefors' ongoing attempt to rewrite the fabric of reality and position himself as a Very Good Guy, actually. Here they are alongside a personal anecdote I've been waiting to talk about for YEARS:
Opinion: Lars Wingefors is out of his mind
One of the video game industry's most infamous execs is still attempting to rewrite reality.
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I would like to fully disappear into the forest, never to return
The Verge@theverge.com · 3mo agoGmail is going to start talking to you
Super fucking cool that the Houston area is dominated by privatized freestanding emergency clinics that are legally disallowed from accepting Medicaid. What an awesome fucking system man our country is so fucking cool take that liberals FUCK
