iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

God there's so much here that's sending me. The completely out of order reference citations. Casual mention of ref #302 💀. N=3. The lack of citation for the last sentence. 👌👌👌 Thanks, I hate it.

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It's my blueprint and I'm allowed to leave funny comments to myself if I want to.

Screenshot of a Unreal Engine blueprint code. There are two comments, reading "THIS MACRO IS AN OFFENSE TO GOD" and "AND ALSO ME"

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That's so exciting! My plan is also to definitely hire up and coming voice actors for games... once I have money of my own. And composers trying to break in. We're all indies to the scene, so it always feels nice to team up with other indies for things like this.

Tasty tasty character designwork going on over here 👌 🔥

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Did you want this to be separate from your horror pack? I'm in that one and didn't want to hog all your packs. But if so, I'm down to be included. 🙌

Mmmmm I love your character design work. 👌 ❤️ Eating these up with a spoon! Not sure if I've seen you mention, but do you plan on having voice acting for them? Or just keeping dialogue text based?

AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I do plan on allowing you to give customers free stuff to boost your store's yelp review, so I'll say this was just prepping for that 😂

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AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Or if I just... didn't give them any "change." 😂 My brain is too small for these multipart systems. But that's what playtesting is for! 😆

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AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Shoutout to the tunnel vision game dev gives you. Made a whole checkout system where the NPC brings their items up, I scan it, give them their money, and they leave. Real proud of it. Then I got asked when they give me money. I was paying them to buy things from the store. I'm so good at this.

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Chappu @chappuvt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's almost spooky month so time to share my starter pack of amazing horror #gamedev s who don't use AI. If you want to be added it would be awesome if you told me a bit about the cool #horrorgame you're working on✨ Also if I'm following you but you're not in this pack pls leave a comment as well♥️

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Right!? Such a fun term for such a fun effect

👀 You got a link to said blurring image vid? For a friend, of course.

God, ain't that the truth. I watched a video on intentional Data Moshing and how to make things in your UE game do it and I ABSOLUTELY need to use it in a game some day. There's just so many neat things you can do!

AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm really tired of being unemployed.

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Someday I'll work on beautiful, expansive levels in games with complex and unique systems and mechanics. For today, I am over the moon that I am simulating the retail experience, one janky interaction at a time. 😁 #UE5 #IndieGameDev #IndieDev #ItWorks #ITJUSTWORKS #RAAAAAAH

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AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This video from game trailer master Derek Lieu is extremely insightful for any indie dev unsure of whether they should make a Short or Trailer to promote their game. He highlights the goals and differences of both in a way I hadn't yet considered. Now I'm excited to eventually work on both!

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AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Absolutely! Definitely going to tie it into how this was conquering an area of game dev that I've had next to no knowledge of and so was dreading getting started with. The old adage really holds true: How do you eat an elephant? One print string, state tree task, and error at a time.

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AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

State Trees, release to me your secrets! Finding the pros and cons to putting AI behavior in a regular blueprint vs using the State Tree system has been fun. And demystifying NPC creation has been such a treat! It's all less scary once you start to get it to work. #UE5 #IndieDev #GameDev

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It's shaping up to be that way. :) I got spills + bottle shelving tasks done (and refactored shelves in the process) and realized there's no way to half make customer checkout. And so - I tackle an empty spot in my knowledge: making these little guys move around. Using State Trees since they're new!

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It's finally time to really absorb state trees and AI controllers. Starting off simple with a basic MoveTo loop before diving into the complex tasks. Honestly, though, this really isn't much different from your typical Sunday afternoon retail crowd... #UnrealEngine5 #IndieDev #ScootScoot

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Another magical math mystery for me to unravel in this engine 😌🌸

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Man! It's like lighting and post-process all in one. Transfixed by how neat this is. :)

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Finding several other women in a Deadlock quickplay game and one of us speaks over chat and the rest of us jump in like— There's dozens of us out there. Dozens!!

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Aah that makes sense. No shadows to hit performance at all means... no shadows period. I think I've seen this same technique used by the Baionlenja dev since he's making a stylized movement game and wanted performance above all, and been itching to look into it and at least see how it works.

We've got a basic whitebox! Working with state trees and moving models means getting a basic space up and running and see how they perform in it. Even this little simple set up has me itching to get into detailed level design. All in good time. #IndieDev #Indie #GameDev

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Man, I feel like blueprint coding is generally becoming easier and easier, but material code just feels like on another level. Thanks for the pic. I think I understand this. I think I'll give this a shot and see how it looks later. That's such a massive optimization and frame gain.

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Woah, I like how this looks. What does the shadow mat code look like?

AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hah, thanks for the heads up! Fixed it.

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AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm a copy editor currently out of work right now, and would be happy to help look over your script. My specialty is medical and technical documents, but I've been working on my own YouTube channel and dev logs, so have been gaining some experience with script tailoring. Feel free to DM!

Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 05/09/2026

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Daniel is sharing his starter pack of game devs that don't use AI, so I figured rather than just repost it, I would quote post it with my three no AI game dev starter packs. go.bsky.app/6DRdowf go.bsky.app/AS5R4p7 go.bsky.app/7K7JDCJ

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AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'd love to be included if there's still room! Happy to see so many other devs refusing to use AI here.

AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When attempts to fix bugs in your game somehow break things more so the bug list keeps growing and you're not sure which one to fix first and they ask you how you're doing— #UE5 #GameDev #IndieDev #WhyAreTheyDisobeyingPhysics #AndAllOfMyCode #AreTheyPossessed #Help

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AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am so SO proud of this interaction code between my bottles and shelf/box blueprints. Bottles can be picked up/placed in boxes and shelves, then boxes picked up and moved. It's basic, all things considered, but getting this working smoothly was a huge challenge! #IndieDev #GameDev #UE5

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AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

After spending two entire days on a multi-array problem I can firmly say that arrays were made by the devil and have been placed on this earth to test my resolve at continuing to game dev.

AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dude, how does Bluesky manage to bitcrush the absolute hell out of so many of my videos that look fine on desktop? Ho hum.

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AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When you spend an extra several hours in the engine working on your code for one 10-second bit. Loving how it's starting to look. 🥰 #UnrealEngine5 #IndieDev #GameDev #IHadACustomerLikeThisOnce

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AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oh yeah. It's all coming together.

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AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I love being able to showcase all the interactions I'm coding into my game, but man does my store attract some weirdos. #UE5 #HorrorGame #IndieDev #HorrorDev #GameDev #NightShiftAmIRight?

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AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It should be illegal to get sick in the summer when it's nice out. 🤧

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AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Bottle foundation is growing by the day. You can pick 'em up, put 'em down, break 'em, and clean 'em up with the squeegee. Task list in the upper left keeps track of how many are active. Can't leave broken shards around for customers to step on! Next up: Dev Log #2!

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God. I remember hearing that shit when I was first applying for jobs. If they find out you did that I guess it's an auto rejection... but I feel like they wouldn't notice at this rate, with them relying on AI for everything.

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Oh my god I've been recommended to change my resume to exactly match job postings in order to appease the almighty AI and it is so bone-crushingly inhuman. Copy and paste the job description as organically as possible! Or else you're auto rejected. I'm so fucking sick of AI's curse everywhere.

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GOD the AI shit. I am so sick of that popping up in interviews. Stop relying on it and stop wanting me to use it! FFS. I do a damn good job without using the plagiarism machine. I hope you're able to find something as well. 😔

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