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Catonator @catonator.net · 28/09/2026

if you meet sans can you get me an autograph

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Catonator @catonator.net · 28/09/2026

Sploob music is now available on my webzone catonator.net/music/

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Music // Catonator.net

FUCKING METAL

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Catonator @catonator.net · 08/09/2026

It kinda feels like they changed plans midway through development and only updated the main cast. I think a lot of the rando NPCs look fine, since their designs are more cartoony and less busy

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brad, Love Yokozuna 🔞 @blasternation.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

CHANGE MY PIK UP SMACK MY BULB ORP

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Silvia "CosmicTailz" @cosmictailz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

the modern computer experience. #SilvArtz

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Catonator @catonator.net · 11/08/2026

me when I obtain the synthesizer that makes me scream in agony

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Catonator @catonator.net · 11/08/2026

please don't turn me into a highly marketable indie game

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Catonator @catonator.net · 08/08/2026

oh man are you also a nondescript tungsten block collector that's so cool

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Catonator @catonator.net · 06/08/2026

It looks like the Gimmick sequel that everyone instantly forgot existed

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Catonator @catonator.net · 01/08/2026

you got a new thing, a neo geo if you will

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Catonator @catonator.net · 30/07/2026

I think you did an LP of Breakdown on the Xbox but I think that game would also be a good candidate for a longer analysis because it's a very strange beast. And I don't think anyone else even remembers it exists

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Catonator @catonator.net · 25/07/2026

I choose to believe that he canonically died on stream here and you cannot convince me otherwise

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Catonator @catonator.net · 24/07/2026

new sonic character Mike The Bisco

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Catonator @catonator.net · 17/07/2026

"bro watch this, I'll do the sickest otamatone solo you'll ever hear"

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Catonator @catonator.net · 13/07/2026

Bought a bass (left) that goes really well with my beloved guitar (right) so now I (behind the camera) just have to make music (in my head, very hard to find)

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Catonator @catonator.net · 12/07/2026

That entire scene is so goofy that they could've played a comedic slide whistle for when the airport security guy drops the oil vial

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Catonator @catonator.net · 11/07/2026

Oh yeah, I have to admit that I'm a little outside the AAA space today 'cause I stopped liking it years ago, but the main thing I feel like has stuck around is trying to copy that Rockstar games Euphoria locomotion stuff, which might be equal parts lineage from movie games and soulslike clones

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Catonator @catonator.net · 11/07/2026

Modern games on the other hand seem to bring cinematic movement and camera and lengthy walking sequences into games because it's the convention now and because they are afraid of seeming too gamey, even if it clashes with the rest of the project and feels contrived and sometimes really annoying

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Catonator @catonator.net · 11/07/2026

I mean yeah, but wanting to elicit the same feelings as a movie isn't inherently a bad thing, it's more a matter of intention. For Uncharted ND clearly aspired to make something different from their platforming roots and took a lot of inspiration from various adventure movies cuz they found it cool.

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Catonator @catonator.net · 11/07/2026

I think for Uncharted it makes sense since they wanted to recreate the feeling of playing an Indiana Jones movie or something like that. Modern AAA has just taken the "ooh movie game smooth" idea from it and ran with it for decades, because videogames feeling like videogames is bad or something...?

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Catonator @catonator.net · 30/06/2026

I am starting to kind of get why people rave on about MPCs so much. I bought an MPC 1000 like 3 years ago and every time I need some feature for messing about with a music idea in a jam, that thing has it featured, or at least JJOS does. I think I could make entire albums with just this device

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Catonator @catonator.net · 27/06/2026

I'm in the house-like carpet

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Catonator @catonator.net · 20/06/2026

Epic really is taking everything Unreal was ever good at and lighting it on fire because...?? UE4 blew up like it did because they got rid of UnrealScript and instead let people write C++ on actors directly, and now they're removing that, to add a shittier UnrealScript and a lame Unity scene system?

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Catonator @catonator.net · 19/06/2026

To be fair I'd probably still throw in sonic 4 music there as a remix, for the funny

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Catonator @catonator.net · 18/06/2026

Forgot to post this last night

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Catonator @catonator.net · 18/06/2026

Blender's whole export ecosystem is just bad unless you roll your own plugin to replace it all. There's just tons of weird inaccuracies with skeletons, file formats and materials that's really annoying. I wish they'd at least let you script with something besides python to make custom plugins viable

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Catonator @catonator.net · 17/06/2026

Corny is good, this is just cringe

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Catonator @catonator.net · 15/06/2026

I've been replaying GTA IV this week and it's immensely frustrating to see the few great characters with genuinely interesting outlooks being buried by so much unnecessarily miserable bullshit. GTA V gets flak for being cynical, but honestly all the games are that, just in different ways.

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Catonator @catonator.net · 15/06/2026

I encountered that same issue with OpenGL when working on my engine, on Intel's drivers. Annoyingly I still don't know what causes it, but my best guess is that it's related to how stressful the scene is to render - the artifacts went away when I switched from deferred to forward rendering

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Catonator @catonator.net · 13/06/2026

I hope your favourite game gets a reboot that misses the point of the original and is also being made with AI

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Catonator @catonator.net · 12/06/2026

...which permitted them to add off-the-cuff bits into the flow themselves, like gags or cool moments that would require models and sounds. These days that'd require like a dozen people, not including testing, and the less involved you are with design the less likely you'll be able to contribute

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Catonator @catonator.net · 12/06/2026

AAA is definitely suffering from a lack of generalists. It's not really that everyone needs to be a programmer to provide that kind of work, moreso you need to de-abstract some parts of the pipeline to permit artists to do more. People doing "level art passes" used to also do the level design...

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DeBisco @debiscomusic.com · 12/06/2026

New single "Hurricane" OUT NOW! Taken from my forthcoming LP, All Is Fair In Love And Bandcamp 🙂✌️ youtu.be/Rp8Cl_NGhb0 #seapunk #chiptune #bitpop #demoscene

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DeBisco - Hurricane [Seapunk]

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Catonator @catonator.net · 11/06/2026

Some yapping on the formerly-known-as-E3 season and the weird feeling I'm getting from them catonator.net/blog/post.ph...

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There Was An Attempt // Catonator.net

Reveling in some Post-Not (E3) Clarity

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Catonator @catonator.net · 09/06/2026

Hey Koizumi we need a new direct, get the Announce-a-tron 3000 out again

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FE MS Paint Memes for the Strategically Challenged @fepaint.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Been replaying DK64 and I will never understand what bullshit Funky was on in that game

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せきはん @sekihang.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

関東地方も梅雨入りしたみたいです。しばらく鬱陶しい天気が続きますね〜☔ #今日の過去絵

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Catonator @catonator.net · 06/06/2026

her cryptid design has been given a suitable cryptid photo quality

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Catonator @catonator.net · 03/06/2026

I've been hoping for someone to take a second crack at the game idea for years, doing choreographed gameplay is such an underused idea as a whole. Shame we didn't get any gameplay footage though, and the brand deal stuff scares me a little

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Distant Illusions @distantillusions.com · 01/06/2026

It's as always time for the monthly newsletter. This time there's talk about instruments and perhaps even noises. distantillusions.com/blog/post/di...

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DI MONTHLY #13: Studio Time // Distant Illusions

This time on Distant News, we set upon a quest to discover the legendary Brown Note.

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Catonator @catonator.net · 29/05/2026

Music studio time after god knows how long. I missed this so much. Game's making some progress now!

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Catonator @catonator.net · 27/05/2026

Now that RPCS3 is rapidly becoming actually good, I think the PS3 fits that niche pretty well too. The Xbox 360 might too if the softmod ever materializes

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