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Chad Cuddigan @cuddigan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Holy shit, an old DOS issue of the 90s magazine GameByte included a screenshot of the level editor used for Ultima Underworld 1 & 2 - I don't think I've seen this anywhere before!

Screenshot of the level editor for Ultima Underworld 2 - showing a 3d view of the game on the left, and a 2d tile view on the right.

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ⓘ chloe @unluckychloe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

terrain litter

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Chad Cuddigan @cuddigan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Adventures in decompiling Ultima Underworld! Decompiling the DOS build gives an inscrutable mess, but the Power PC port looks more promising as the assembly code seems to have been ported to C for this port

The main menu background for Ultima Underworld's Pocket PC port

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026

I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I wrote a post comparing Quakeguy 1996 to remastered Quakeguy 2021 blendogames.com/news/post/20...

2 similar-looking quakeguys standing next to each other

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brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.dev · 06/08/2026

I used the power of the One Ring. I recognize that it's evil, and I expect a lot of people to be mad at me for using it. Sorry! However, I plan to continue using it. Here's why: (1/62)

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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

one of the hardest images ever made

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 16/07/2026

done this before but now can't find it, so... posting this so i can find it again from an old remedy talk. max payne level design scale. his house before and after they realised you can't just build shit at real-life scale and expect it to work as a level. i am always pulling this out for folks

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 15/07/2026

I keep seeing arguments for games being expensive due to hyper realistic expectations for art, or simply lots of art. What I don’t see is the actual most costly reason: Indecision Iteration is good, but the yearly rebuilding of entire characters, storylines, and levels, is the most expensive thing

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"The input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles and books to be written (Guest, 2025). The respective authors wrote those, not the search query!" Yes, chefkiss

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

bridges (complete with a new bug where a high bridge stomped a low bridge)

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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

SHELVED BY GENRE has begun THE RETURN OF THE KING, so come get Bilbofied with us: rangedtouch.com/2026/07/03/t...

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Trudi Castle @trudicastle.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Been playing the remake of Starfox 64 - I think these graphic are how I always saw it in my head! Slippy tries his best ;D

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 26/06/2026

Another game I worked on that is very cheap today is WEIRD WEST I don't get any money when you buy it but I worked for these folks for YEARS and never got fucked over even a little bit, so that's the energy you should be supporting on a day like today store.steampowered.com/app/1097350/...

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Save 85% on Weird West: Definitive Edition on Steam

Survive and unveil the mysteries of the Weird West through the intertwined destinies of its unusual heroes in an Action RPG from the co-creators of Dishonored and Prey.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

thomas is right. this situation is bad (bad means i dont like it) (it here being generative ai in games which is bad for reasons of value)

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Half A Goon and Half A God @discoursestu.marvelousdeath.com · 19/06/2026

I think Steam should reduce the cut they take of games (shit is almost all profit) and structure their fee like a progressive tax based on sales volume - so you take like 1% of an indie game that sells 10,000 and 20% of a $70 game that does iron man numbers. That'd help make things more sustainable

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[eve] @ninehydras.dev · 18/06/2026

Going to start a thread of all the areas I worked on for Marathon <3 <3 first up: bioresearch #MarathonTheGame #Marathon

Screenshot from Bungie's Marathon, showing the Bioresearch region of Dire Marsh

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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

After years of yearning for it, the latest SHELVED BY GENRE Bonus Episode has finally gotten around to watching the central text of millennial genre cinema, THE MATRIX. You remember when people believed in people believing in things? www.patreon.com/rangedtouch/...

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Anton @antonhand.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

007 First Light feels weird as a game, in that its sensibility feels over a decade old in the best ways. I'm surprised Amazon MGM paid to have a classic Uncharted System-seller style prestige have made instead of 4-player Live Service Co-op slop. Feels like it stepped out of another, better time.

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Nick Popovich @nickpopovich.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

#5 for all iOS paid games lets goooo

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

messing with dithering a bit more. i kind of want to try this with stricter color restrictions. i don't think i want to dither the colors though, just the shadows?

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

i am excited to say that basic collision detection + response are now working for this type of geometry.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

oh i'm so excited. this actually works?? wow, the fully 3d clouds give it such a sense of volume. zero polygon "layered" raycaster renderer, single thread CPU on an old computer in js 2d.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Ultimately you feel like you weren't built for this world, and you're right. You were built for a world where the skys were black with birds, and the herds of auroch stretched to the horizon, and the seas glimmered silver with fish; and you live instead in a deserted world.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

you don't have to shorten it to Met Gala, you can call it by its full name, the Sony Metreon™ Gala

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Chevy Ray @chevyray.dev · 27/04/2026

hey look at my fonts in these cool games: ninja gaiden, ball x pit, titanium court, cadence of hyrule... these fonts could be in your cool games too because you can buy them off me and they are not expensive chevyray.itch.io

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Chad Cuddigan @cuddigan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Was lucky enough to get a chance to visit New Zealand early this month. What an amazing place! Started missing it before I even left.

Mountains rise out of a lake, with sunlight filtering through the clouds above.

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Joshua Skelton 🎃 @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I love making art and writing code. Going through that process gives so much meaning to my life. Why someone would want to shortcut that and hurry up to the result… I just don’t understand.

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Joshua Skelton 🎃 @joshuaskelly.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Working on a small demo to show off the mode7 renderer for my custom game engine. github.com/joshuaskelly... #pixelart #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

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Possible Worlds Games @possibleworlds.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Realis—the debut TTRPG by @austinwalker.bsky.social—arrives this Wednesday, April 1 (no foolin') in a Kickstarter campaign that will run til the end of the month! Bookmark the pre-launch page today to get notified when it goes live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru... | featured art by @aurahack.ca

Realis Kickstarter: April 1-30, 2026. A squat frog person smokes a cigar in a sci-fi airport while their berserker companion looks at them with bemused disapproval.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

this site has a real bad "this post must be about me" problem and it's getting worse

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Ah we can finally say that @jfg.land and I had the real priviledge of working on narrative preproduction for several years on @marathonthegame.bungie.net ; it has an incredible narrative team, and a very special game that takes its narrative very seriously, in a fresh way that honors its unique past

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Chad Cuddigan @cuddigan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Been working on some automatic binding of Zig structs to Lua userdata at compile time lately for delve-framework, think I have it all ready to use now! Last bit was expanding it to support automatic boxing / unboxing of pointers.

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Chad Cuddigan @cuddigan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Missing my first GDC since starting to go over a decade ago, feels weird!

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Chad Cuddigan @cuddigan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Pieced together a little Steam OS box out of spare PC parts, Bazzite has been so close to being an easy plug and play Linux box but getting that thing to output clean audio without stuttering or dropping out was an odyssey.

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Howie Day @howieeday.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Here's some work on the Shuttle bay for that latest Star Trek shot - it'll be very visible when the Workbees come in to land. Making good progress, trying to not get lost in details we'll never see. :P

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 16/02/2026

Mario would get his ass stoned to death by baboons live and drink bsky.app/profile/cave...

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I have to say this is definitively not what you want when you're saying you're going to grow exponentially. like... really you don't want this. you don't.

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Howie Day @howieeday.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

WIP render of the next scene I've been working on for my ST short film. Stupid guy at the end is still skating on the top of the nacelle. :/

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Btw, in case y'all missed this on Friday, myself and much of the wanderstop team have been laid off and are looking for work!

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

This looks bad, right? But here is the thing... ITS WORSE This survey only reached a narrow selection of respondents. Notably cut anybody who has been unemployed for too long. Mostly just ppl who can afford to attend GDC. Many laid off before 2025 are still looking! variety.com/2026/gaming/...

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One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off in 2025, GDC Study Reveals

One-third of U.S. video game industry workers say they were laid off last year, according to GDC.

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Chad Cuddigan @cuddigan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Caves of Qud update: that's a wrap! Things got weird for my True Kin at the end when they had three guns (one floating and two shoulder mounted) and four melee weapons because they sprouted some extra claws. Tinkering up a bunch of Hand-E-Nukes was also very helpful :D

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Howie Day @howieeday.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Alrighty - my final update on this shot for now! Tons of revisions and fixes, as well as new Music SFX and VO. Added the welders welding, a few more work bees, the Arges in the background, and some changes to the lighting angle. 4K in the 🧵! I hope everyone likes it!

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Genuinely the only thing keeping me going—but it really is keeping me going—is how good it is to see people link arms and push for this to end. I cannot stop thinking about how much love people can have for their neighbors, and how much work and money is poured into breaking that love apart.

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