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Charles Horwood @charleshgamedev.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Hey folks, it's been quiet for a while as have been cooking on multiple games, firstly progress is really good with Avalon Lords and I will be posting progress reports, dev clips and update logs, Meridian Divide has got new content which I will be posting very soon with devlogs 💪💪💪💪

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Avalon Lords: Dawn Rising @playavalonlords.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The team has been grinding this week, and I’ve finally gotten time to test the latest dev build. The next patch for the live game is just around the corner. 👀🏰 #GameDev #RTS #AvalonLords

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Avalon Lords: Dawn Rising @playavalonlords.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Aaaand its done! The next Patch is out and we worked hard on fixing / improving a ton of content. We might have also sneaked in the first naval units and more... Read the full patch notes here: avalonlords.wiki.gg/wiki/Patch_1... #GameDev #RTSGame #AvalonLords

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Patch 1.9.9.2

Patch 1.9.9.2 was released on 11.02.2025 and introduces several new features, including UI sound effects, a loading screen for Skirmish mode, a random name chooser for bot players, and a revamped UI r...

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Avalon Lords: Dawn Rising @playavalonlords.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Our UI/UX designer is reimagining the campaign menu to make every chapter feel like an epic journey! Here are three design concepts - each with a unique vibe. Which one is your favorite? Let us know! 👇 #GameDev #IndieGame #UIUX

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Meg Owenson @megowenson.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Architectural design from Jumanji Next level. Working out how to depict the different animals in the stonework. #conceptart #jumanji

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Han 🦝 @haneliz.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hey everyone! Im a 3D environment artist from the UK who worked on Zombie Army 4 & Sniper Elite 5. Excited to post some game art content on here (and some life stuffss) and connect with fellow game devs ✌️👀 hdickson.artstation.com

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Hannah Dickson

3D Environment Artist

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Charles Horwood @charleshgamedev.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Next part of the detailing done, walkway is complete and adding beams, frames, vents and other juicy details

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Charles Horwood @charleshgamedev.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Adding ladders and walkways to the exterior of the building

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Justin Frazee @justin-frazee.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I've been sketching out an original pistol design in plasticity. Getting all the curved connecting surfaces has been a fun challenge.

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Charles Horwood @charleshgamedev.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Happy First Weekend of 2025 folks, got a question for all you Unity coders, when fetching the RectTransform of a Game Object which of these methods do you use (if you have any others I'm keen to see them 😉) So do you A: use GetComponent directly. or B: recast Transform as RectTransform

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Kirk @kirkwoodes.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Finally implemented texture blending on the terrain. The tile textures still need some work but it looks much better up close and gives me a lot more options than the giant single texture I was using for so long

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Charles Horwood @charleshgamedev.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Bit of work on my game today, subject is the command centre that can deploy/pack-up like the traditional MCV from the C&C games, here is the current building block out and a quick door animation test

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Charles Horwood @charleshgamedev.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year to one and all, I hope you all have an amazing day with family and friends, 2025 is going to be a very good year, full of gun, learning and progress across the board 💪💪💪🥳🥳🥳🥳🫶🫶🫶🫶🙏🙏

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Charles Horwood @charleshgamedev.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I've been working on a model for a Medieval Siege tower, I wanted to test my abilities on something different, it drops in at just over 3k tris and wheels can be instanced, so here it is so far

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I don't know who needs to hear this, but go ahead. Get that treat. Get that overpriced thing of oreos. Get a pint of ice cream. Spend an extra half hour in bed curled up with a pet. There's a lot of shit going on right now, and while treats won't fix it, you also won't survive without dopamine hits

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Avalon Lords: Dawn Rising @playavalonlords.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The dawn is rising! ⚔️✨ Watch King Arthur’s call to reclaim Camelot in our first Avalon Lords: Dawn Rises teaser. Re-launch preview at the Steam RTS Fest on Jan 20th! #AvalonLords #RTSReborn #SteamRTS #MedievalFantasy

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Avalon Lords: Dawn Rises ⚔️ Teaser Trailer | Reclaim the Throne of Avalon!

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Now that’s what I call a pub night with that premise.

LEGLESS
LEGO
AT THE SKULL BAR
EVERY WEDNESDAY
FROM 6PM
BRING SOME LEGO HAVE SOME BEERS
SMASH SOME COCKTAILS
MAKE SOME FRIENDS
EVERYTHING IS ALESOME

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Charles Horwood @charleshgamedev.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I have been so excited to share more details about what I have been cooking since joining Animus Interactive nearly 5 months ago, I am happy to share that Avalon Lords will be going Early Access in the Steam Strategy fest, the game is set in Medievil times where the clash of light versus dark rages!

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Jessica Plowman (she/her) @designjunkie010.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The Why of Level Design Part 6 Player Motivations and the Player Economy The 6th installment of my ongoing #leveldesign theory tutorial series is here! #gamedev #IndieGameDev #UEFN You can also find it on the Epic Dev site: dev.epicgames.com/community/le...

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Level Design Fundamentals | Community tutorial

Level Design encompasses a wide variety of skills. The average level designer thinks about the overall game design, tone, narrative, gameplay goals, lev...

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✂️ Alex - Fold Up Toys ✂️ @folduptoys.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

download your very own Box Elf and leave it out for Santa alongside the milk and cookies folduptoys.com/product/chri... #papercraft #illustration #crafts

a photo of a papercraft depicting an elf, inside of a Christmas present

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I love Unreal Engine also because there is a Modeling Mode that allows you to create a Grayboxing of even such forms in a few clicks

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Mohit Malik🔸 @mohit3dart.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

carved wood material #b3d #procedural

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Charles Horwood @charleshgamedev.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I am so excited to get the go ahead to share what I've been cooking, have loved every minute of it so far and I have put every bit of my gained experience to use, from coding to 3D modeling and texturing, to shader graph, even making tools to improve production time 🙏🫶🫡

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Riley Brown (rileyb3d) @rileyb3d.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

In today's video I redo my first rendering, 17 years later. Pick up a few modeling and procedural texturing tricks along the way.

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Charles Horwood @charleshgamedev.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Just got my rts squad system running, selection of the squad is triggered by any member of the squad, hold ctrl to select a single squad member to move or retarget manually, more squad features coming, stay tuned!

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Charles Horwood @charleshgamedev.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

On the road to get my score up higher on Warzone Mobile, reached 26 kills and the win today, now on to 30 kills 😆💪💪

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Matt | DEMO OUT NOW! @pmrd.net · 06/12/2024

🥰 My first original character for the game 🤩 📣📣📣 I am currently looking for a voice actress with an american/canadian accent, so if you think you can bring Astrid to life, just leave your portfolio in the replies and I might get in touch! 👀

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Charles Horwood @charleshgamedev.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Yesterday was a very productive day, not quite 100% yet but improving steadily. Working on matchmaking UI and a mixture of other things including a custom squad system, did some substance painting and working on making the Bulldozer APV usable in Unreal inc weapon system 💪💪🫶

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Charles Horwood @charleshgamedev.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Good Morning to all who venture in the blue side, I've got a busy day doing RTS things in Unity (can't share more yet but will as soon as I can 🙏 then it's on to Substance and Unreal after work! What a day lined up, happy creating everyone 🙏💪 🫵 go and be incredible!!

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I like this site a lot but the drop from when the big move happened from artists willing to share other artists is extremely noticeable the past 40 days and it’s just a shame that energy evaporated so quickly. No one gets a chance without everyone doing some and everyone sharing others a little.

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Starlit Snow @starlitsnow.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Rebuilt my trim sheet material to utilize material layer attributes. Now, I can stack and tune all the attributes I want, and add extra tiled details on top of the trim bakes for a little extra character, as I've done here for both the stone and gold layers.

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ThunderOwl @thunderowl.one · 02/12/2024

Looking for a break from crap "AAA" games? Nostalgia for railroads models of your childhood? Well... 😉🌞☃️🚂 #Trains #Trainspotting #ModelRailroads #ChooChoo #SteamEngine #Railroad www.3d-modellbahn.de

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Today I finished designing the scheme of the space station. Next I will do it in Unreal Engine. I decided to show you one more location that will be in the demo (17 locations and several elevators). This is a schema of a two-story hangar location

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Charles Horwood @charleshgamedev.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Not sure Bluesky is working out for me, not sure I'm good enough to be noticed 🤷‍♂️ either way interactions are all time low even less than I get on Twitter 😔

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Charles Horwood @charleshgamedev.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Just about to head to bed but had a play with Substance and my Bulldozer APV, let me know your thoughts..... but please be kind 🙏

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ThunderOwl @thunderowl.one · 01/12/2024

in "Vol.3 Flyable Starfighters Constructor" there is a "showcase - launch - pad", you can choose from pre-constructed Starfighters, and fly it. There are a LOT of prefabs included, all of them did not in this 1 minute video.

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Charles Horwood @charleshgamedev.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Next stage of the vehicle sensor system is in, mapped all 6 sensors to trigger on overlap start and end, this modifies the units detection position priority, no tick, just an event timer with a very slight delay, also using the systems interface for checking if the overlapped actor is a vehicle

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Charles Horwood @charleshgamedev.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

After spending a little time unwrapping and rigging my Bulldozer APV, it is now loaded and ready to use in Unreal, and started mapping out the overlap avoidance sensor system

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Saffron & Her Majestic Floof @saffronsfloof.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Bluesky, looking for a home for an adorable bonded brother and sister born in the same litter in Northern VA. Kitties are 16 MO and need a loving home. These are 2 super affectionate and adorable furballs. Help me amplify this message to find these little ones a home this holiday season.

Long-haired tan and black tabby cat perched on a blue ledge of a cat tree.

Long-haired, gray and black tabby, cat standing and looking straight at the camera from the inside of a cubby. There’s a gray blanket on the ground.

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Charles Horwood @charleshgamedev.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Good Morning Creators of all, been a bit quiet, had my 12 week injection yesterday so should start bouncing back within the next few days and will be more active again with all that I work on 💪 I have lots of plans to put in motion and finish models, see you all soon 🫶🙏

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I created this prototype a month ago. This will be part of the demo. Visual backup fast loading mode of the protagonist's AI neuromemory #scifi #games #gamedev #UnrealEngine

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MI Pixel @mipixel.co.uk · 25/11/2024

Good morning all. I'm in my Monday morning #Costa office, doing some work on Little Devil. What's everyone else up to? #IndieGame #IndieDev

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MI Pixel @mipixel.co.uk · 23/11/2024

After listening to your feedback, I have made another attempt at this wall made of Skulls. What do you think? Any further feedback would be greatly appreciated! #PixelArt #PixelArtist #Feedback

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

High poly I made for the Jurassic world Evolution Gyrosphere. #3dart #vehicleart #hardsurface #gamedev

High poly I made for the Jurassic world Evolution Gyrosphere. Showing front and back of the model.

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Juhana Myllys @juhanamyllys.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Prototyping with exaggerated zooming to give Bionic Bay a greater sense of depth and scale. It's also quite cinematic.

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Amalia Liakonis @aliakonisart.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Working on tiling textures and trim sheets! Making my own tiling textures in ZBrush has been a ton of fun so far. Plus it’s been a fun challenge figuring out the ultimate trim sheet method. Can’t wait to get these polished and textured! Yup yup yup 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

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MI Pixel @mipixel.co.uk · 22/11/2024

Here is a "finished" version of the bone walls from yesterday. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated as I am sure it can be improved! #PixelArt #PixelArtist #PixelArtists

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MI Pixel @mipixel.co.uk · 20/11/2024

After improving the doors for Little Devil, I had a crack at re-drawing the walls. What do you all think? #PixelArt #IndieGame #IndieDev

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Charles Horwood @charleshgamedev.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I treated myself to a Gamesir G8 Galileo Type-C as my hands getting cramp playing cod, well I'm not disappointed, 3 BR's no wins but 15 kills on each game, my usual is 5-10 kills avg 💪💪

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