iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 12/03/2026

I made a Plato's Rave idle game to be completed while listening to the infamous #MBMBaM episode. platosrave.club free, ad-free, young, dumb, and full of... you know (humour) source code link on page @justinmcelroy.bsky.social @travismcelroy.bsky.social @griffinmcelroy.bsky.social plz and sry

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 25/02/2026

v0.12.0 - Entropy-Locked Lighting Flickers (and what the f*ck is entropy locking?)) - DEEP YELLOW aebrer.itch.io/deep-yellow/...

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 15/02/2026

Every Texture is a Python Script - DEEP YELLOW aebrer.itch.io/deep-yellow/... #indiegames via @aebrer A blogpost about how I'm using python and generative art practices to make all the textures for my game.

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 13/02/2026

Working on a lighting system now!

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 12/02/2026

DEEP YELLOW v0.10.0 — DOORS The Backrooms now have doors. DOORS. 30% of eligible hallway tiles spawn doors. They open when you walk into them. They close behind you. They never spawn adjacent to each other (a door has standards). #GODOT #backrooms aebrer.itch.io/deep-yellow

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 12/10/2025

aebrer.xyz/works/beginn... Finally working on my homepage. Going to make it a detailed gallery of my art. Context and commentary provided. Claude is helping me in the role of archivist, and its behaviour may or may not be getting a little weird the more it understands from the codebase as we go

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 24/01/2025

GM from my Standard Issue Cat to yours

World's best and cutest cat sleeping in a sprawling position

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 13/01/2025

Seeing some of the lists I get added too never fails to make me laugh. This one was "unethical generative AI"... not sure what I've done to cross that line but okay. Earlier I got put on an anti-furry list, for blocking furries... I'm not a furry nor even affiliated... Entertaining at least lol

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 09/01/2025

In this photo, a Redditor confirms that anyone who has ever used a stock photo as part of their art or as a reference is in fact not an artist.

A screenshot in which a Redditor condescending insults a wide swath of artists by saying "Those aren't artists, sweetie"

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 04/01/2025

Just published the final version! It's interactive and pretty fun to explore if I say so myself, check it out :) teia.art/objkt/863454 #genart

screenshot of this page: https://teia.art/objkt/863454

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 31/12/2024

some major progress on my next #genart piece, this one will be another interactive exploration piece like the Ideocartography series for now I'm titling it "Catalogue of Fragile Things", under the hood it's one of the weirdest algos I've made oh and for some reason, somehow, they all loop forever

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 28/12/2024

Yes haha I cannot fool you. There is some focus and image stabilization shit going on but otherwise not a panoramic photo. This is how that turned out with the same source (could be better but I lack the physical skill)

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 27/12/2024

Taking a page out of @celadoor.bsky.social's playbook and messing around a bit with generative photography

A hand holding some weird orb thing in front of a screen

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 06/12/2024

Mine is not split but it is a bit "weird". I use a Planck, it's ortholinear and tiny, so I use macro layers to get access to the all characters. I push the firmware to it with my customized layout, so it works on any device. When on homerow keys, you only ever need to move one finger one space.

A small red and black Planck keyboard with a wooden case

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 23/11/2024

finally the triptych ends with Equilibrium: teia.art/objkt/861409 This final piece represents a middle ground between the two previous, incorporating ideas and methods from both, while creating a result that stands out from both of them.

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 23/11/2024

next in the sequence is Corrupted Growth: teia.art/objkt/861407 For each of these pieces, you can press "Z" on the keyboard and open the debug menu. From the menu you can save exportable looping gifs, and edit the settings to tweak the loop as you like.

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 23/11/2024

GM everyone :) I present my contribution to #art4artists 2024, a triptych of pico-8 pieces titled: 1. seed_of_order.p8 2. corrupted_growth.p8 3. equilibrium.p8 I'll start this thread with #1, Seed of Order: teia.art/objkt/861406 Each runs live, looping, and interactive.

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 19/11/2024

Probably they're using some block list for NFT folks or something. There's still an active hate train on NFTs, though it's less trendy now. I'm also pre-blocked

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 08/10/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #25,724 apparently lol I was still too late to get the username "Andrew"

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #25,724, 🔺aebrer - (Andrew Brereton) ‪@aebrer.xyz‬, joined on Apr 19, 2023"

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 16/09/2023

Doug Ford but it's Attack on Titan and he's eating people in the Greenbelt and saying "oh geez that just went right down the hatch"

Screenshot of when Doug Ford ate a bee live

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 05/09/2023

The "moss" forest. Seedpods, moss, void, trash, and fire (light blue) on display. Naturally this piece is kinda about/inspired by the wildfires. My goal is to have sweeping waves of flame cleansing the screen at an equilibrium with new growth.

A screen displaying generative pixel art, doesn't look like much yet just a bunch of colored dots.

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 05/09/2023

Oh we're so back baby Just added spores to this. This is a departure for me for sure. I'm still not even sure it'll turn out visually interesting, which is devastating, but it's only v1. It's a cellular automata but also a primitive life sim, only I'm restricting myself (continued in reply)

A pocket computer with WIP on display, next to a nearly finished glass of beer

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 26/08/2023

My workspace for art as of about a year ago

A desk, monitor shows some abstract generative pixelart. There's a tiny Planck keyboard.

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 26/08/2023

Just had the most amazing dumplings of my life at a place called Chun Li

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 26/08/2023

Not sure what's stronger: excitement to return home or dread of the long flight lol

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 23/08/2023

Finally I've beaten one of these things

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 02/07/2023

We got gifs on this mofo yet or what?? pic unrelated

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 02/06/2023

Why are my google review photos so much more popular than my art 😆 (don’t answer that)

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 11/05/2023

Just made "E.L. Spirals 006" on the Pico-8!It's a gif but you can view it animated here: objkt.com/asset/KT1LNtgRnfyFgP85M9z…

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 11/05/2023

This is less about the photography but the content, but I was super excited to find a wild Morel growing in my yard

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 10/05/2023

The brush of choice today is rotating stars

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 10/05/2023

First bike ride of the year! Legs are jelly but I’m recharging by drinking beer and making some art!

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 08/05/2023

if the Twitter diaspora is gonna leave us with multiple platforms then I'm gonna have to pick one for my most deranged posting and I'm SORRY not SORRY but the vibe dictates the posts... in this essay I will

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 08/05/2023

SPIRES wip video journal update 3 where it started today to where we got (though it's animated and I'm not posting every frame like dancing baby) link to the video from the live coding session: youtu.be/42DUrqNgiuA

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 05/05/2023

frame 0 from a gif of my current WIPI'll be working on this live on Twitch on Sunday afternoon (EST)! Hopefully see ya then (but don't worry if you miss it, youtube will be there)You can also catch the previous eps here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhBF…

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 05/05/2023

This is where I skeet from, don't say anything mean about it please, I'm aware it's dusty

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 04/05/2023

"Manifestation 016" sometimes when working with an AI image generator the output has nothing to do with the prompt, and a mysterious figure appearsthis is Manifestation 016 of that figure in my explorations

"Manifestation 016" by @aebrer.xyz

ominous figure standing in a red room

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🔺aebrer - (Drew Brereton) @aebrer.xyz · 04/05/2023

"television" p5.js -> generative recursive glitching + pixelart

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