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Cairn4

@cairn4.bsky.social
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Developer of MewnBase and senior UX/UI artist at Demiurge Studios - into modular synths, gardening, oss/linux, and outdoorsy stuff. Massachusetts 🚀 store.steampowered.com/app/743130/M… 😺 cairn4.itch.io/mewnbase

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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I’m on the puter
Design consisting out of a lot of elements related to computers videogames and tech, with momo on his keyboard on top. Upper and bottom text reads “not now, I’m computering!”
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itch.io @itch.io · 18/05/2026
You can now push builds with butler directly within the itch app, no terminal needed itch.io/updates/push...
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Pushing builds with butler is now in the itch app
The itch.io app has recently gotten a major upgrade for developers: You can now upload with butler directly in the app with a friendly GUI. In the latest version of the app you can find an Upload sect...
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Poorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Get this comic as a limited edition print! poorlydrawnstore.com/pages/poorly...
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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 30/04/2026
I love this. you go to the link (on desktop) and you're in and immediately participating. this kind of playful entry should be more commonplace in games
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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 26/03/2026
Here's #GodotEngine 4.7-dev3, and it's feature-packed with great workflow improvements! 🧃 Control transform offset 🔎 PopupMenu search bar 🧲 3D editor vertex snapping 🖼️ Android Picture-in-Picture 📚 MeshLibrary editor 📸 Linux Wayland HDR ✨ And a lot more! godotengine.org/article/dev-...
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.7 dev 3 – Godot Engine
A snapshot that will transform the way you design GUIs in Godot.
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WBUR @wbur.org · 26/03/2026
"So it means a lot that we have the opportunity to have a microphone to speak into. If you have a microphone, you better be using it right now. We don't want to be a band that has looked back and says, 'Oh, we didn't do our part.' "
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Ahead of No Kings Rally, Dropkick Murphys' Ken Casey on resistance as celebration
The Celtic punk rockers are taking the stage as part of Saturday’s No Kings Rally on Boston Common. The lead singer spoke about staying true to the band’s message and “taking part in resistance.”
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Sarah Forde 🌙🪡 @sailorastera.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Wilted flower 🥀
Orange and white cat wearing a purple flower cone sleeping on a chair with her head dangling off the edge
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Christophe is making Prerolled! @qaqelol.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
If you use #Krita you should really know about this plugin!! It exports selected layers/groups as separate images, cropping the empty space around each!! You don't have to download anything, it comes with Krita, but its disabled by default!! 🧵How-to in comments 🧵 #Godot #GameDev #Art #2D #Tip
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Cairn4 @cairn4.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Today was exhausting... but hey, happy 303 Day.
Top down view of the Roland TB-303 "bass line synthesizer".  Photo from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TB-303#/media/File:Roland_TB-303_Panel.jpg
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Cairn4 @cairn4.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Nailed it. 😹
screenshot of cartoon cat in a spacesuit from the game MewnBase.  But the head's y-scale is way too big, making it appear stretched out and goofy.
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💥 Cassidy 💥 @caswasshere.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Quote Reposting too because this is SO important. We need to pay attention. CALL YOUR REPS!
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Cairn4 @cairn4.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Super pleased with progress from this past weekend on rolling my own drag-and-drop system for Godot version of MewnBase, gonna feel so nice and responsive with snappy bouncy anims. Next step: combining and splitting stacks. #ui #godot #indiegames
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Cairn4 @cairn4.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Yep, fuck this: "as of September 2026, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google." keepandroidopen.org
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Keep Android Open
Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.
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Cairn4 @cairn4.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
It's @sailorastera.bsky.social's birthday! Happy birthday hun! ❤️❤️ 🎂🍫🍷
very low-res zoom of our old orange cat Pekoe's face - with cut out photos of chocolate cakes and heart emojis overlaid on their eyes.
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Rémi Verschelde @akien.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers. If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of: fund.godotengine.org
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Cairn4 @cairn4.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Wee, gonna be a self and peer review writing day at work... my fav 💀
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Jimorian @jimorian.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
And now this adorable little city builder hit my YT shorts feed. I need more hours in the day! At least this one is for later in the year. A Little Age. Steam link in reply. www.youtube.com/shorts/tmtYd... #IndieGames #GameNews #CityBuilder #ALittleAge
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A Little Age #ScreenshotSaturday #CozyGames #CityBuilder #IndieGame #GameDemo
YouTube video by Benerot Empire
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PatT Games @pattgames.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Scorefall officially has a positive rating on Steam. Time to retire. #indiegamedev #gamedev
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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
subscription software is a subscription first, software second
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Cairn4 @cairn4.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Almost every time I'm unpatching/repatching my synth while listening to it... I think of the scene in 2001 A Space Odyssey where HAL 9000 is singing "Daisy" as Dave slowly pulls his memory chips out 😅😭
Eurorack modular synthesizer viewed up close at an angle, huge mess of patch cable / wires in lots of diff colors all over the place connecting things together. My poor snake plant in the background that desperately needs to be repotted.Shot from 2001 A Space Odyssey where Dave is in his space suit, floating inside HAL 9000's logic center room, ejecting HAL's memory modules one at a time, while HAL sings the song "Daisy" which becomes slowly more and more distorted.
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Sarah Forde 🌙🪡 @sailorastera.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Happy third birthday, Cherry! Today you're allowed to bite everybody as much as you want. 🥹
Orange and white Kitty sitting on a chair next to a Sunny window
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Cairn4 @cairn4.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
😺😺😺😺
Screenshot of MewnBase running in Godot with 4 clients connected to the same host.  4 tiny cartoony cats in space suits walking around a Mars-esque planet with some constructed habitat modules, storage, crafting tables etc.
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Cairn4 @cairn4.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
first successful tiny habitat module for SpaceCat... although now also needs an airlock 🤔 also those corner joints were annoying to fit together, so will probably try to simplify them some more
wooden laser cut model made of small pieces that tab and slot together to form a little space habitat module for cartoon space cat from the game MewnBase. roughly 3x3"
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💥 Cassidy 💥 @caswasshere.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
9hrs in and already pretty much 75% of the way to the fundraiser goal!! <3 www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...
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Cairn4 @cairn4.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Oy, that it's so easy to build out menus in #Godot - it's been fun to make tools and debug menus for MewnBase to help with testing and for easily reviewing data resources in one place. Always wanted an item menu kinda like this for creative mode etc - way nicer than typing in console commands.
Screenshot of an in-game popup in MewnBase over gameplay - multiple columns of item icon+name buttons that let you quickly add things to your inventory without having to actually craft or harvest them.a crude "Item Manager" tool screenshot - a data table with a row for each item type in MewnBase. Shows their icon, internal id, localized/translated displayed name - and can view what ingredients are needed for each crafting recipe.
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Cairn4 @cairn4.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Made a little MewnBase SpaceCat standee / mini last night - also wanna design a habitat module for them to live in at some point 😸
A small flat version of SpaceCat from MewnBase (cartoon cat wearing a space suit) etched and cut out from plywood sheets and glued together into something like a board-game standee / miniature.  In the photo it's placed on top of 3rd party SNES controller's face buttons.
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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 26/01/2026
#Godot 4.6 is out, and all about your flow! This release puts you and your workflow first with a new theme, flexible docks, and dozens of UX improvements. And Jolt Physics by default, revamped IK, better reflections, and more. Less wrestling with UI. More making games. godotengine.org/releases/4.6
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Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow
With the stability gained over the past five releases, it's time for polish and quality of life improvements for everyday development.
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Cairn4 @cairn4.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Latest laser design that I finally finished this past weekend. Happy with how it came out but will probably try a few more once some thicker wood sheets to come in the mail to give it all a bit more depth. #DeepRockGalactic
hexagonal wood laser cut project that reads "Rock and Stone" in the DRG logo font. Pickaxe design behind it. placed on a window sill with small group of minerals and crystals around it. messy computer desk. Lightburn software with the Rock and Stone design on the screen. orange cat in profile on the right side.
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
We love to see it! Community-created harm reduction infrastructure to contest the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) ♥️ github.com/zoicware/Rem...
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GitHub - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11
Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI
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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
uh oh it s time for : new game. this one is ❄️ SPACE CORGI 2: SNOWHOUND PROTOCOL ❄️ 🐶 pilot my ACTUAL dog s 🔄 switch freely between dogs (UNLIKE space corgi ONE) 🌭 one dog is PRETTY LONG 🍞 the other is NOT USEFUL 🧱 30 levels !! what? in ONE GAME? listen adamatomic.itch.io/space-corgi-2
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Cairn4 @cairn4.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
We unlocked the last milestone in Satisfactory tonight, now just the last space elevator phase 🥳🏭 ... and then like actually explore a bunch of the map that we still haven't been to yet ^^;;
Steam Satisfactory achievement that reads "Efficiency first.  Unlock all milestones.  Unlocked Jan 9 @ 11:35pm"
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OWL @owlgamedev.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Loki's Revenge is now out on @itch.io for FREE (aka PWYW) This is the full version of the game, same as Steam (just missing Steam features like cloud saves, achievements, etc.) owlmakesgames.itch.io/lokis-revenge Going forward, all of my games will be free on itch #godot #indiedev #gamedev
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Loki's Revenge by OWL
A Norse mythology survivors-like
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Cairn4 @cairn4.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
it's clearly her office chair... she just shares it with me 😄
orange and white polydactyl cat asleep on a ragged office chair
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titsay 𓆏 @titsay.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
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Dave 💾 Powerhoof @dave.powerhoof.com · 31/12/2025
My kid Tom loves drawing cities, so we made a game where you can draw them like he does! Go play Tom City here -> tomanddad.itch.io/TomCity
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Cairn4 @cairn4.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Finally finished assembling and wrapping ornament gifts for friends and family yesterday, phew! Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁
wooden laser cut ornament hanging on a Christmas tree. middle says "2025 ❤️ The Fordes"stacks of wrapped ornaments23 ornaments all finally assembled with yarn hangers laid out on a table
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Cairn4 @cairn4.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Funky Xmas Eve noodling. Runner and Manis Iteritas (currently with BIA firmware) is suuuch a fun combo. #eurorack
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amila @amilanuh.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I wrote a bit more about this update here: www.patreon.com/posts/ending...
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The Pioneer Valley Game Developers @pvgd.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
We're not hosting this year, but we know someone who is! #ggj, #globalgamejam, #indiedev, #gamedev, #massachusetts,
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Cairn4 @cairn4.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Got a xmas ornament assembly line going on in the basement today! 🎄 #lasercutting
Laser cut ornaments stained with brown wood stain, drying on top of old laser cut scrap sheets.Gluing up wood ornament layers with clamps on a folding table.
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Sarah Forde 🌙🪡 @sailorastera.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
"Can I take your picture? You look so handsome!" Aloysius:
Orange and white cat in the middle of a yawn looking like he might be smiling or hissing.
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Cairn4 @cairn4.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Been practicing making a 2D magic potion shader today. #godot #gamedev
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Fat Bard @fatbard.com · 17/12/2025
Bscotch has a sweet lil demo out for How Many Dudes, check it out! It's already one of those "can't put it down" games, and there's still a lot of cool stuff coming in the pipeline.
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Chaireth, but if she were a Leinth @catsharkchaireth.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI
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amila @amilanuh.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
🚌BEEP BEEEEEEP we're live! Come read/watch how @astroeden.bsky.social and I worked together to develop Bus Game's first character, Nico 🦊 www.patreon.com/posts/beep-b...
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Inkscape @inkscape.org · 14/12/2025
Check out the #Inkscape 1.4.3 Release Candidate - the final test phase before this bugfix release will be launched! More than 120 bug 🐛 and crash ⚡ fixes (among them the macOS tofu issue!) and over 20 updated languages await you: inkscape.org/release/inks... #ArtWithOpenSource
Vector art of a young woman emerging from a tree while drawing it, CC-By-SA Inkonic
Texts: Release Candidate, Now available for testing!
With subtexts: Inkscape Draw Freely & v1.4.3 rc & Artist's Blossom
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Cairn4 @cairn4.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Prismatic Aloysius 🌈
orange cat laying on his side in a carpeted hallway in the rainbow colored sunlight from a nearby window.
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Fat Bard @fatbard.com · 12/12/2025
Yearly reminder that being in this industry and creating things that make you happy is the real award, the only one that really matters.
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Cairn4 @cairn4.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
More Godot practice from this week recreating the MewnBase popup panel textures (left) as a shader (right) which can be more flexible than just 9-slicing. Got the drop shadow already added too. Next need to start thinking about some bring-in anim fx. #gamedev #ui
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PatT Games @pattgames.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
After wayyy too long, I finally have enabled the Credits page. All of the incredible art was done by @cairn4.bsky.social creator of MewnBase. The music track was done by JPass, a childhood friend whose skill in everything music I was always super jealous of. pattgames.itch.io/scorefall/de...
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