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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Steam Frame is a headset I would finally prefer to develop VR games with over the Lenovo Explorer. #Godot #VR

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I fear hotels may have cooked with the desktop coffee machine.

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You can pair a bluetooth keyboard and mouse and the KDE Desktop just hovers in the air with the monochrome pass through behind it. You can use the virtual keyboard instead but its slow. Atm I'm using RDP to use Godot and then just putting the headset on and pressing play. Its just very flexible.

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mine likes to remove the wings of yellow jackets and then deposit them in the toaster.

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Steam Frame is so nice to develop on. I have tailscale setup and the Godot editor running natively on it I can't believe how nice the workflow is.

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Enough to be no longer eligible for a refund.

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

How am I supposed to get work done when he goes and does this?

Ginger cat with big ass paws stretching out

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Game Dev Garnet - wishlist ATLANTA TD now! @gamedev-garnet.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

🎮👾algorithm, do your thing please - show the game to the right people #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #pixelartist #retrogame #retro #game

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

This internal monologue shits exhausting. Spent the morning writing a script, my social battery is now empty and I've only been talking to myself.

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

You should peg a coconut at those teammates and watch their body turn into a beyblade as they reach terminal velocity.

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Whoops accidentally spent a month creating low poly pixel art materials in blender instead of doing actual work... youtu.be/a09hcmgdrO4 #gamedev #b3d

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Low Poly Pixel Art - Devlog #7

YouTube video by Alex Figar

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

This PBR, procedural, pixel art... thing is working better than expected. The level looks ugly but all those rivets are expressed using just a normal map and the base color texture is procedural. #b3d #gamedev

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

It really depends on what software you use frequently. For me it took about 4 weeks. I still occasionally run into something annoying (like Davinci Resolve not playing nice with AAC) but it’s been pretty good for the last 6 months. Finally ditched Adobe as well.

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Just got some pixel art normal maps generating as well. #b3d #blender #indiedev

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I've been playing around with some procedural pixel art materials in blender. Got something looking kind of like rusty metal. #b3d #blender #indiedev

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Even if I did want it, with the amount of power it consumes I just don’t see how it will ever be a viable alternative to actual people.

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I want more headsets that let you flip up the screen. Such a hassle when tryna make small changes to a scene.

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The harbour views from Taronga are amazing. The hills a bit steep but it’s worth it.

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I reckon alot of fantasy music could be turned into sci-fi if you just replace the lutes with electric guitars.

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Unity version of planet geometry generation using jobs + burst is coming along. #gamedev #indiedev

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 10/01/2025

I just went and re-activated my Facebook account, just so I can completely remove it this time around.

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

It’s a breath of fresh air

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Ray Apollo @rayapollo.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

GEOFF MENTIONING LAYOFFS!?!? EVERY BODY DRINK

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midnightgrocer 🌙 mikey @midnigh.ht · 06/12/2024

Cave's of Qud released yesterday after 15 years of development and I am completely enthralled by the visual work on display here. The info density, palette, and visual artifacts hitting on all cylinders in both the menu system and the environmental design of the gameplay. It's fucking good

Screenshot from Caves of Qud gameplay highlighting its use of a limited color palette to direct attention.

Screenshot from Caves of Qud menu system (Quests) showing it's information density and text-heavy aesthetic.

Caves of Qud character creation screen. It's very minimal in contrast to the other information dense screens in the menu system.

The environmental design of Caves of Qud has beautiful moments of symmetry and again a powerful color palette.

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Installing Hannah Montana Linux and proton because I want the best of both worlds

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Are you going to do another one?

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Matt Nava @mattnava.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Funny story: Journey had no automatic shadows. I painted them all by hand. The shadow texture was not hi-res. To get the iconic sunset columns to cast sharp shadows, I made sure that they aligned with the pixel grid of the texture. Here you can see the shadow map I painted.

The sunset tunnel moment from the game Journey, where the player slides from right to left past columns throwing shadows towards the camera. The bright glowing sun sets behind the distant mountain. The scene is tinted in glowing warm shades.

This is a black and white texture I hand painted to map shadows into the downhill scene in the game Journey. Most games generate these textures automatically, but I did it by hand because we did not have the tools to do so during Journey's development.

A close up of my hand painted shadow texture, showing that the shadows of the columns in the sunset tunnel were aligned with the pixels of the texture to achieve maximum sharpness in game, despite the resolution of the texture being very small for the amount of area it was covering.

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Well that’s going to be terrifying

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

When I lived in Sydney I used to get these lil fellas at my office window.

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Getting better at this whole blender thing #b3d

A really cool render of boxes, with lots of glowing lights and reflections

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This is probably a really easy problem to solve if I just sat down and worked out the index math, but I'm gonna just swap offsets around till it works.

A highly subdivided cube sphere with every second quad missing, because the programmer is very lazy, refuses to work it out on paper and has opted to try trial and error instead, ergo, the fucked sphere.

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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

I've been messing around with planet rendering in the Flax engine, finished up on geometry generation and its stupid fast.

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