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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 25/04/2026

Yard work and a haircut before we get hit with another storm on Sunday 😭

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 25/12/2025

My basque cheesecake turned out perfect 👌 The giant crack doesn’t matter. Look at the color!!

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 20/12/2025

Put on the back burner after a role change at work. But like many of my hobbies, it’ll get picked back up eventually

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 20/12/2025

Work, work, and working 😅 (and Threads mostly)

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 16/12/2025

This is my semi-annual Bluesky check in. 👋

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 12/03/2025

Thank you, Deven!! 💚 it was pretty good!

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 03/02/2025

Not a lot of progress made on the “Space Game” #UE5 project since last update. World is on fire.

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 27/01/2025

It’s gonna be rough. We’ll do our best to keep coffee selections available, but there comes a point where the costs will prevent us from keeping things in stock. We haven’t even adjusted for the last surge in coffee prices, but opted to take the hit and keep our prices the same 🫠

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 25/01/2025

I do a lot of my art through video game dev now, but I also post my pottery and portraits 👋

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 25/01/2025

Small update on the #UE5 project. Haven’t had much time this week to put towards it, but I’m almost finished with this black hole material! #indiegamedev #gamedev #unrealengine #art #space

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 25/01/2025

The color gradients for the lights! This is beautiful!

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 18/01/2025

Anyone that exports meshes & armatures from #Blender3D to #UnrealEngine, what are your export and import settings? A screenshot would be fine! Struggled w/ child bones importing w/ unwanted rotations last night (root bone was fine though). Armature & mesh transformations looked good in blender 🤷🏻‍♂️

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 13/01/2025

Quick asteroid placeholders made in blender and thrown into #UE5. They look pretty good with some random rotation and sizes but they'll look even better with more mesh variations. #gamedev #unrealengine #space

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 12/01/2025

We're still using cube maps, but with them applied through an ExponentialHeightFog volume we're able to reduce them to just a 2K texture with almost no noticeable loss in quality. Overall, I'm really happy w/ this look and cant wait to start adding in asteroid fields and celestial bodies!

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 12/01/2025

Making small steps towards building out the background. We scrapped the original skysphere implementation for nebulas. They were far too big and an unnecessary waste because the camera only looks down the -Z axis. #gamedev #unrealengine #UE5 #space

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 10/01/2025

Are there block lists I can subscribe to for accounts with a following over like 200K/300K? I don’t care where they claim to fall on the political spectrum. I’m tired of seeing them and they almost always exist to profit off your outrage.

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Child of Zeta @contagion.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Greetings Bluelings! Solo dev here hoping to connect with likeminded. If you like the look of this little medieval 👽 fella and his melee moves give me a follow and I'll keep videos coming as my game progresses. We come in peace! #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 07/01/2025

Adding them to the list! Great idea!

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 07/01/2025

My dev partner (@dasmfta) is fighting illness at the moment so I haven’t had a solid opportunity to work in-engine with him just yet. So nothing here is guaranteed to make it into the game. (The grid warps under the ship’s mass like the fabric of spacetime btw 🙃) #UE5 #unrealengine #gamedev #space

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 05/01/2025

Here’s another nebula created in #Blender3D for our #UE5 project. Hoping to see how well they work in engine today. These could work really well as phone wallpapers too 🙂 #gamedev #unrealengine #space

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 05/01/2025

This was my first time working in Blender’s shader editor, but it’s node-based like Unreal Engine’s material editor so it wasn’t too different. (First time rendering too) Still, I spent most of the day stumbling through it lol. But I have a nice little tool to generate all the nebulas I want now!

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 05/01/2025

Spent all day building a shader in #Blender to create nebula textures for the #UE5 project. First render 😍 8K size #space #ADHDactivities

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 30/12/2024

Excuse the sloppy cropping & compression Got the new modular ship modeled, UV’s mapped, and imported into #UE5. Started on a legitimate master material for instancing. I’d like to be able to quickly adjust paint patterns, distressing, and colors. Maybe in-game for the player too? #gamedev #lowpoly

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 29/12/2024

A friend from high school reached out after seeing my little project in Unreal Engine. Long story short, my art + his programming background = OUR #UE5 project being taken a little more seriously? Anyway, I’m completely overhauling the ship modeling for modularity. 😅 #gamedev #blender #lowpoly

A low poly model of a fighter space ship in Blender, shown in 4 different perspectives and in a temporary but vibrant purple color

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 24/12/2024

“Easy” Minnesota is entering their annual slump it seems.

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 13/12/2024

Hahaha right? At first I was a little bummed. Then some of their shit went very public soon after and that feeling quickly changed to relief.

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 05/12/2024

🫥 Even at their cleanest, blueprint event graphs are... a lot. #gamedev #ue5 #unrealengine

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 04/12/2024

When I say, “I miss the Marine Corps” this is what I mean 😂 #usmc

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 04/12/2024

I wish every post-game NHL interview was like this 😂 Loving this version of the Minnesota Wild #toptitty #hockey #nhl #wild #minnesota

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 01/12/2024

Just completed Outer Wilds for the first time and now I’m sad I can never experience the game for the first time ever again. An incredibly rare 10/10 game for me.

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a frog sits around a campfire in a video game

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 30/11/2024

Haha I won’t leave the house for the first couple snows unless I absolutely have to for work.

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 30/11/2024

Started off with assets grabbed elsewhere as placeholders, but what’s shown here is created by me! (aside from the background grid, which is the default material modified to be darker)

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 30/11/2024

Coffee orders will be a little delayed going out today. We got some snow and nobody remembers how to drive in it.

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 29/11/2024

We’re running our holiday sale on coffee now! Gift yourself and loved ones some specialty coffee. It’s a great stocking stuffer. Just saying :)

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 26/11/2024

Thanks for taking the time to explain!

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 26/11/2024

Don’t Event Dispatchers cover this already? I might need to look into this message subsystem some more.

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 26/11/2024

I LIED! Next thing was to add a gun element to the HUD. and a bunch of dots that don't do anything on the damage element.

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 26/11/2024

A little more work on the HUD before moving on to something else. Unreal Engine’s UI designer is unintuitive & frustrating af to work in. I think enemies and enemy AI are the next thing to tackle. Need something to shoot at (and have shoot back!) #gamedev #indiegamedev #ue5 #space #gaming

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mors @mors.games · 24/11/2024

nobody actually warns you about the emotional rollercoaster of game development: "wow, this is kinda fun actually!" "nah, this is the worst thing ever" "wait, i might actually be goated" "nvm this is terrible, i should kill myself"

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aaronarted @aaronarted.foundfamiliar.com · 24/11/2024

Working on the HUD now. - Subtle movement parallax on HUD - Compass bar, but no degrees indicated on it yet. - Running game timer. Not sure about it mechanics-wise just yet. - Score text is a placeholder. No functionality yet. - Pew pew audio! #gamedev #indieganedev #UE5 #UnrealEngine #gaming

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