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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@christinacoffin.bsky.social
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Ex-AAA Rendering+Optimisation Programmer TechArtist, Designer. Stylized Art. #indiedev #gamedev 🏳️‍⚧️ Shader Illusionist AssassinsCreed2 / FarCry2 / BF3 / MidnightClub 2+3 #NoAI She/Her SoCal girl living in 🇸🇪 mastodon.gamedev.place/@ChristinaCoffin

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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
can't sleep, so trying out Kala paint, immediately in love with the lasso paint tool for high speed cutout knife background shapes in a couple minutes. Extremely sharp and responsive so far, this will be fun to dig into further for stylized experimentation.
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s time to pivot back to 3d and mech stuff for a bit ,but we are all taking it easy and catching up on sleep for a few lazy days. No emails, no alarms, the cats should set the schedule sometimes.
My cats quietly napping midday and sleeping in.
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Its time to install yet another upcoming shiny unreal engine korean mmo. Not my first kr mmo by a longshot, they're like those cuties at the club you know are fun for a short time but not longterm relationship material. Starting wednesday i'll find some temporary distraction with it
predownload for aion 2
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trying to organize and free palette space today. We can still cram so much more color+palette animations into Fire+Floe for pcengine that im helping @aeriform.bsky.social with. The 3bits per color channel is a bit limiting for dark shades, but more vibrant gradients and pastel colors come out nice.
screenshot from Fire+Floe for PCEngine in development by
@aeriform.bsky.social , @morkitten.bsky.social , @christinacoffin.bsky.social
Also shown, and the palette viewer in Mesen emulator
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
everyday im annoyed bluesky doesnt support 60fps video for showing gameplay.
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flame @aeriform.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
there has been huge progress on Fire+Floe with amazing work from @christinacoffin.bsky.social improving a lot of the traversal mechanics I started, and already squeezing out some super impressive abilities from the PCEngine <3 art @morkitten.bsky.social Build soon! #indiedev #gamedev #pcengine
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zep.p8 @lexaloffle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BBS Blog Post: Digable Planetoids // how to fit a planetoid procgen game into 1024 bytes for #pico1k (gif shows a slowed down version) + bonus Lexaloffle news at the end. www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=159... Play from #pico8 > LOAD #DIGABLE_PLANETOIDS
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
since im busy with coding things and have little time to game, getting my morning gaming dopamine from Black Desert that has an afk fishing mode you can minimize to systray. I love fishing irl and indulging in mmos when I have the time, so its like the perfect idle game compromise,Corsair main btw 🏴‍☠️
behold all the fish my character caught overnight while I was sleeping
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Block+Filter what you hate and move on with your life. Use your passion to create something beautiful with the time you have left in this world.
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radd @ethanredd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
not your dad’s shmup - wishlist Isiah Star on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/4823680/...
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A small but important ritual that I enjoy in my house is picking out fresh flowers to decorate with every week. It’s an uplifting reminder to myself to take the time to appreciate the ephemeral beauty that crosses one’s path when the weight of the world feels heavy.
Red dahlia and gerbera flowers
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anoxicart 🍤 @anoxicart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
enjoyed making some little thingies with gradient swatches
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I have so many questions about a tilemap editor that exports tilemap indices as -1 until I explicitly set tiles. Also some export formats index tiles starting at 1 instead of 0. Who hurt you and why are you like this? You know what,don’t explain yourself just give me the data. I love tool jank 🙃
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I think I just enjoy the freedom of tinkering about in gamedev as a technical hobby and staying in that lane forever? I despise many aspects of the biz+platform holders and the rent seeking ‘gimme 30%’ asshole storefronts that I just kinda don’t want to ever ship anything out of pure spite maybe :)
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
asm at 1am on the weekend aint it, flew to close to the sun and im cooked. shoulda just played videogame all weekend
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I dunno maybe eating Szechuan Chicken 4 nights in a row as my only meal of the day means something. Sometimes I crave the same food multiple days 🤔 Hooked on spicy mouth numbing food combined with noise cancelling headphone silence and focused mental visualisation of gamedev problems is going places
Szechuan chicken

Szechuan peppercorns create a lasting numbness that contrasts with spicyness and the subtle sweetness of the ricewine used in its preparation
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It makes me happy to see my cats deep sleeping, complete with cute purring sounds. We love peace and quiet cozy naps in this house
My dark grey cat Safir peacefully sleeping at the foot of my bedMy cat Saffran sleeping on the white leather couch
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CqcNorthFish @cqcnorthfish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
9/17
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zep.p8 @lexaloffle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
omw to @tokyoindies.com to talk a little about #doodlemud & #picotron scoresub() // here's a slide showing how to extend the world by wandering into empty rooms.
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Kala Paint @kalapaint.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Kala Paint is out! I'm @olawson.bsky.social , professional artist for 15 years, then game dev, now wrote the painting software I wish I'd been using all this time. GPU-run creamy brushes, no subscription, no gen AI crap, hand-coded with ideas from artists in our Discord, and more added weekly!
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
listening to a soft spoken cheerful japanese catgirl vtuber in the background while I have my coffee and write alittle code before I go to the gym this morning. What a timeline this is sometimes.
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
no graphics updates for awhile, I have chosen the pain to implement some tilemap collision and game physics stuff from scratch. #pcEngine 🙃
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Big election day for sweden. Looking past the doomers, Its uplifting to see with my own eyes the hundreds of young people out canvassing for the green party for the last few days across my neighborhood and surrounding areas. Real activism. In spite of the odds against you, don't stop fighting.
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You know you’re feeling old when someone announces a game coming in 2030 and you wonder about your odds of being alive still to play it 💀 (I’m not that old, most days)
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
working on extra collision and projectile code for one of the #pcEngine project that needs 'fire', so back to the old trick of making 5 source art frames, get a full rotation with horizontal and vertical hardware sprite flips to get a full spin. precompute addr offsets+flip bits into a LUT for speed
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A local place was selling pins, sad they didn’t have the pinky ghost from Pac-Man. The ‘be a nice human’ pin speaks to me, I put it on my desk under my monitor and look at it when I see things on the internet that try to taunt me :)
Pins of Pac-Man along with the red , blue and orange ghosts from Pac-Man. And a ‘be a nice human’ pin
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It would be nice if people posted screenshots of their game instead of posting a steam link as their main post. People on their phones want to see your game first before clicking any links. Its not an attention span thing, its a my time is precious and this platform has so much to filter thru thing.
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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
arxiv.org/html/2609.03...
arxiv.org
Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
discourse on remakes and game IP is going to be really weird in a couple more decades as additional generations have their own favorite versions and stylizations,and some generations pass on. Certainly an interesting challenge of appeasement when a fandom fractures along lines of changing aesthetics
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
sometimes I have to make cutesy pixel art. A placeholder for another thing I totally didnt spend at least 1 hour on today. Its a good counterbalance to work on another style besides just mech and shmup things
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Bad Computer @badcomputer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Razing Core for SEGA Master System is now available. The full version and demo are here: badcomputer0.itch.io/razing-core
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flame @aeriform.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I have some updates soon for some of our projects including Red Veil and Fire&Floe that I am excited to share soon. In the meantime I have opened up a page where you can see a preview of what will be shared and available in the Veil, the space for our supporters aeriform.io/veil
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I NEED another Lost Planet game. I need mechs and armor suits and cool things to shoot with many weapons again. Its been 13 years..... :(
screenshot of a mech in a snowy environment in Lost Planet: Extreme conditionLost Planet 2 screenshot
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
currently stunlocked doing a pixel font size for a 0-99 collectible counter onscreen. 8px is too small, 16px too big proportionally for 256x224. floating them over a single layer bg so they have to be sprites not tiles and need a dropshadow/outline. I love low-res retro console dev art struggles :)
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Danilo Dias @daysdanilo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Made a new model and @ronisilva.bsky.social created this awesome thing that makes the muscle texture stretch and tile itself depending on the distance of the bones. Really cool! #lowpoly
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Anton @antonhand.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
After watching all the stuff coming out of Gamescom, the majority of which seems to be Unreal Engine games with that same Unreal Engine realistic lighting/rendering approach, I realize I've really slid entirely over to "I'd rather play random 6 dollar illustrative indie games on Steam".
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Lie of Caelum: Spirit @lieofcaelum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is just a minigame. In RPG Maker MZ.
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PiperMakes @pipermakes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I could not be more pleased with how this came out, Despite a few nitpicks that will either be ironed out, or aren't that visible xD Once I get back from the Exhibition, I'll take a few more with her next to the 1/100 but she's currently packed up for right now Hopefully they'll do well on the 29th~
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delta! @peachdelta.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I love this
Twinkle girl from mega man: dual override
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crisp @stillcrisp.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
CICADAMATA" Original Sound Collection VOL. I + TEAR FLESH FROM BONE. link below.
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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
again i am just not that interested in debating whether human rights should theoretically extend to robots and ai when we currently don't even extend them to all humans
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The whole week just flew by , making a bunch of pixel art for the collab project and wrangling PcEngine code. Motivated to keep good momentum so we can have a playable version and show something soon.
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Touching grass and Petunias today, sometimes the best color palette inspiration is from being outside instead of at a computer
Purple petunia flowers
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My familiars guarding a newly acquired Grimoire. Contains some empty pages to add spells and dark shader+code incantations inside 😈
A large old and heavy bespoke magic tome on the floor with my 2 cats standing watchA close up of one of my cats and the cover of the spell tomeSome blank Inside pages of the old grimoire, old and weatheredOutside view of the tome, contains 2 chain locks and a heavy worn and damaged cover
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
4 more days in the month, PCEngine dev will continue after my 'vacation'. I'm also going to spare some dev cycles helping another person with their PCEngine stuff, so I hope some of the learnings from my own project will be of some use to them, one hopes :)
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Stephen Hill @selfshadow.com · 27/07/2026
SIGGRAPH 2026 links: blog.selfshadow.com/2026/07/26/s.... I'll continue to add to the list as more things show up online.
blog.selfshadow.com
SIGGRAPH 2026 Links
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
cw: food Made a thick chicken+blackbean soup, smoked chipotle pepper, cream+aged sharp cheddar, jalapeno, avocado+more. Sometimes a girl craves a hearty stew-like soup in the summer. I need my Latam soup fix Ingredient info in alt text
my homemade creamy chicken bean soup made this evening, with a ton of spice and seasonings. No measurements because I freestyle all my cooking ratios of ingredients to taste :)
Ingredients list as follows:
- chicken breast + chicken stock
- black beans
- Lime juice, Garlic, Olive oil, Cilantro, Cumin, Smoked Chipotle Pepper, Jalapeno
- Grilled corn + sauteed chopped gold onion
- lots of sour cream (Crema Salvadoreña if you could get it) + 18months aged white cheddar mixed in the soup base to make it creamy.
- avocado, extra lime juice, and sour cream as topping.
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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Yes buying more art supplies will fix me. I crave additional colorful markers more than summertime icecream
Various new pens and color markers
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Seth Redd Commissions open! [ALSO WISHLIST/BUY OUR GAMES!] @saredd99.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Doodling
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