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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 25/09/2026

In a level design meeting rn

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 19/09/2026

free will exists, it seems.

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 12/09/2026

I know this is some raw ass earnestness, but I *did* kinda "make some art about it". Very early in finding the artstyle for HYPERBEAT, the JWST star was always prominent. I'm a big space lover, and this little star makes me feel like we aren't *completely* fucked. It's a symbol of trying our best.

A screenshot of a very early unreleased version of the videogame HYPERBEAT, featuring 6 pointed stars in the sky

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 12/09/2026

It is fascinating the ways in which the defraction spikes of a big tube in space has so shaped our shared cultural vision of "what a star is". To me, the spikey asterisks of the JWST represent a future where we *CAN* do better. It's hope, man. It feels like we need hope more than ever nowadays.

Webb Telescope Captures Young Star Cluster That May Unveil Early Days of the Universe

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 12/09/2026

This is, truly, a tragedy. But I come to you with a ray of hope... an new star: the beautiful 6 (or 8) points of JWST. Just as Hubble once opened our eyes to the heavens above with 4 pointed masterpieces, so too has James Webb brought a new longing in the hearts of man for the 6 pointed beyond.

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 11/09/2026

fun fact pipedog actually used to have bhopping in like, the very first prototype

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 11/09/2026

did a blockout of the hub world, I'm liking the flow so far

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 08/09/2026

getting ready for the party

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 07/09/2026

For any dev friends in Seattle for PAX, let me know if you're going to be at the Orient Express tonight, I'd love to say Hi! (unrelated wip pic)

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 26/08/2026

before I do the cleanup you can see how much I hand animate position and scale of the video frames to give it more sauce

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 25/08/2026

I've said it before and I'll say it again: indiedev is a weeiiiirrrd job

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 25/08/2026

Nah they've just got a black tab. I dropped it while filming so that's why it's dented in

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 25/08/2026

by the end of filming this thing was a goddamn pipe bomb

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 24/08/2026

y'all are gunna lose your shit over this hahaha

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 19/08/2026

a new knife just dropped and it spins

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 19/08/2026

I was testing networked physics and Chance sent me this lmao

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 18/08/2026

I'm gunna say it, this game is starting to look gas as fuck

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 12/08/2026

Back on home turf, time to make sick videogames

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 31/07/2026

This is going to have knife technology CS:GO was too afraid to give you

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 27/07/2026

lmao this doesn't even work on reboot, jesus christ. Godot continually punishing me for doing simple things like caching results.

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 27/07/2026

If you want to add tool script functionality to a node that does things with the editor, you have to access "EditorInterface", except EditorInterface doesn't exist in a build, so your build will fail to load those scripts. "SafeEditorInterface.ei" is a drop in replacement that won't throw errors.

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 27/07/2026

Every time I really start liking Godot, I have to write some shit like this and it tanks moral

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 25/07/2026

I'm starting to get my tech-art sea-legs in Godot, sorta

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 21/07/2026

experimenting with some portal shit

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 09/07/2026

I'm an expert at character design

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 01/07/2026

I look away for ONE DAY and Chance cooked up Source 3

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 25/06/2026

HYPERBEAT!!! LESS THAN $10!!! TELL YOUR WIFE!!!

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 06/06/2026

You are a dog, lost in an infinite pipe world. Find your pack, meet strange creatures, and navigate a bizarre world as an outsider searching for a home. It's pipedog, the dog MMO! #PitchYaGame @liamtwose.bsky.social @pitchyagame.bsky.social

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 20/05/2026

The radio silence recently has been due to me being in "The Software Mines"

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