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✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Go-Man Vs. the Star Dragon OUT NOW! @hamishsteele.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't know anything about Digimon.... or at least I didn't until @derekbgayle.bsky.social gave me a crash course on the latest @glitterjaw.bsky.social Presents!

Artwork depicting the eight digimon og kids (Sorry I dont know their names) longside their digimon (sorry I dont know their names either)

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Robin - VFXlabs @vfxlabs.bsky.social · 8h

There has got to be a term for the urge to create something physical and tangible after seeing way too much AI slop. Like making things out of spite?

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the ghost of heron's skeleton @thxnywy.art · 8h

i think you should design your game to also look good on low graphics settings

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 12h

Someone just reblogged this on tumblr with this tag and I just fucking died I've been on this shit for over a decade and it's only getting worse

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written about this before but whatever.

Videogames as an artform have a problem with nostalgia. Not that people shouldn’t have nostalgia. Or that games shouldn’t draw from the past. But instead the weight we give to nostalgia.

When people go back to enjoy old games, we assume it’s a nostalgia thing. Do people assume that with books? Or movies? Or music? People certainly do go back in time with those mediums for nostalgia! It happens! I know when my sister is listening to certain cheesy old boyband pop or punk she’s often having a musical nostalgia trip! That’s cool! But we still don’t ASSUME, CONSTANTLY thats why people go back to stuff.

People like old stuff because it’s cool and interesting. It’s historic. People go watch Metropolis still, but how many people alive could even be nostalgic for a movie like that?

I almost want to see the word Nostalgia excised from discussions about video games – not because nostalgia is bad but because we over use it to the point where it’s actually harmful I think.

I mean I made IWBTG and am making an NES style game right now and even for me, the obsession with ‘nostalgia’ seems crazy.

Old stuff is cool. I know this because I see a lot of you kids on my tumblr feed talking about games I know you didn’t grow up with. It’s like finding your parents record or CD collection. Thinking the primary greatness of old games is bringing back memories of eating cereal and playing games on a saturday morning is a great injustice, even if those memories for some are perfectly worthwhile things.

#this post is 11 years old and still holds true

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Daniel Knightley - Polishing polygons @danielknightley.bsky.social · 6h

We reached season 3 of Silo yesterday evening. It's been a while since a show got me so hooked on its mystery boxes, every time a new layer is unwrapped it keeps me wondering if they'll stick the landing on the final big mystery.

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Shubbabang @shubbabang.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Another classic, not sure if I've already posted this one here.

The image is a six panel black and white comic.

Panel 1 - a girl sits at her desk in front of a computer, looking disheartened. She says, "I dont know if I should post this art, who would even want to see it?"

Panel 2- A new person bursts through the door in the background with a loud BAM

Panel 3- The new person pushes the girl out of the way, smushing her face in the process, while slamming their fist down on the keyboard.

Panel 4- The computer shows that the art has been posted

Panel 5- The person makes direct eye contact with the girl while pushing their finger against their own phone screen

Panel 6- A motion blur is added to the last panel, enhancing the impact of the new notifications on the new post. It reads, "(Friend) Liked Post just now" Followed by "(Friend) commented 'I FUCKING LOVE THIS AND I LOVE U'"

Underneath the last panel is a watermark that reads, Shubbabang

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19h

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Daniel Knightley - Polishing polygons @danielknightley.bsky.social · 6h

The TCG makes the silliest designs look so cool

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DigitalHazard @digitalhazard.bsky.social · 15h

I love these birds

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Daniel Knightley - Polishing polygons @danielknightley.bsky.social · 18h

How are we feeling about chunkier antenna? *Cycles through these like I`m customizing my WoW character*

Option A, smaller curved antenna following the hairline

Option B, antenna with thicker endings.
They droop forward, breaking the shape of the face and giving me another emotive element.

Option C, thicker antenna flowing backwards, looking more like Tiefling horns

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 10h

Somehow I have a gut feeling that the Venn diagram of "people who say AI will customise a game to your exact liking" and "people clout chasing by rallying against difficulty settings, accessibility, and diversity" are somehow pretty much two concentric circles.

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The Dansome @thedansome.bsky.social · 21h

Nothing bonds a party closer together than colletively not dying in a spike pit trap. Although there are certainly healthier alternatives...Here for none of those alternatives! #myart |#wbn

image of Philby (halfling rogue), Dahlia (emberling cleric) and Nil (goblin witch) exhuasted but laughing after they pulled up Dahlia from over a pit trap. The background is dark with the gleam of spikes below. The walkway is narrow in which everyone is plopped on.

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Daniel Knightley - Polishing polygons @danielknightley.bsky.social · 17h

They kinda turn into bunny ears from this angle, don't they..

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Daniel Knightley - Polishing polygons @danielknightley.bsky.social · 18h

How are we feeling about chunkier antenna? *Cycles through these like I`m customizing my WoW character*

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Daniel Knightley - Polishing polygons @danielknightley.bsky.social · 22h

Depends on how long you've been in the cave. Vibe coded BlueSky comes to mind, part 3

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Koffie Kobold - Gnollsome Adventures! @bemusedbehemoth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Super happy to see how warm the tones are on this friend in daylight too!

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Daniel Knightley - Polishing polygons @danielknightley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So the very threatening file name did not dissuade you from opening it

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Mad(s) @digitalflinch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Every fucked up WIP you can't stand the look of, every pose you don't know how to finish, every mistake is something you'll one day be able to fix No choice is indelible. Make it first, you can make it better later

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Daniel Knightley - Polishing polygons @danielknightley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

found a cute cat in a cute cemetery in the steam workshop. It looks like Tommy!

Joline as a rigged 3D model in a steam workshop Halloween environment.
The styling matches the character textures.
Joline's new rigged face allows for cleaner expressions, but the eye tracking is still a bit off.

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Daniel Knightley - Polishing polygons @danielknightley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Boy put on some pants! I think I'll ditch the boots and give him some proper feet, so that there is geometry when I decide to give him flipflops. And I gotta take a closer look at the pelvis; I think something is pointing out while it should be valleys..

A very naked man, with gray skin and green hair.
He is Barbie Doll naked, basically wearing a codpiece.

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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 07/10/2026

I know this is like the third or fourth time this has happened but trust us we really need to verify your age so we can ban trans p- I mean protect kids from seeing a boob. So give us your ID and this totally won't happen again!

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Daniel Knightley - Polishing polygons @danielknightley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ever get stuck on a creative issue? No me neither.

the Artist, sketch. He is crouched on the ground, cradling his knees as he is poking a brain mush thing on the floor in front of him with a stick

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Daniel Knightley - Polishing polygons @danielknightley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Spent the evening hand delivering Halloween flyers and sending out some related emails again. The traction seems slower than last year, but 25 houses signed up so far so it's going good!

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HeedlessNomad · Seagazer @heedlessnomad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A low camera, and my boat sails right past it. The reflection is a boat-only planar mirror: each water pixel samples where its view ray crosses a plane fitted to the swell, so the image keeps its size on moving water. Seagazer, early development footage. #godot #godotengine #WishlistWednesday

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Quick model of Nightshift Galaxy playable character 3 done. Ready for rigging + fix-ups for articulation.

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 07/10/2026

btw since i get this question a lot: buying on itch means we get almost 150% as much money from your purchase compared to buying on steam

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Daniel Knightley - Polishing polygons @danielknightley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's just some moisture! Best case scenario you can swim out of there. What are you gonna do when the mountain comes down? 😨

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Ayme @catcoconut.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The way my site works the ClawShot pages are collected per episode that you scroll down to read so that url will have all the s2ep3 pages even as new ones are added. 👉My site has no ads or rss. I’ll post pages in batches, probably 3pgs at a time, every 2 weeks. Word of mouth shares are appreciated!

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Kevin Reijnders @kevinreijnders.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Everyone go check out this cool as hell comic!!! If you like Trespasser, you'll love Deck!

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William Davis @willdavis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Every day as an indie dev is scary as hell and I do it anyway.

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Daniel Knightley - Polishing polygons @danielknightley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You can always try backflipping out of burnout. As for myself, I tried picking up adjacent but mostly unrelated tools and experiences. Sculpting in 3D and real clay, a bit of cosplay, soldering, game design, and in time 2D art just came flowing back. But I didn't need to earn my money with it.

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Vidya (Redebut 11/6) @vidyagames.live · 07/10/2026

November 6th, 8pm EST at twitch.tv/vidyagames A lot of hard work from a lot of really cool people helped make this possible! And I can't wait to show off all their hard work! #vtuber #redebut #vtuberuprising #envtuber #promosky

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Rather than seeing AI users in the arts as lacking intent, we should instead see them as *intentionally taking the average*. The problem isn't that they're saying nothing - the problem is that they're saying, to a million tiny things, instantly and silently: "Just steal the rough average".

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BenoitRc @benoitrc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don't know if I will ever have time to do giant fantasy bust again ^^ It was so much fun to do ^^ I think the mustache is my favorite thing i ever created ^^ #ttrpg #papercraft

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#PortfolioDay @portfolioday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Look alive artists! The next #PortfolioDay is in one week on Tuesday, October 13th. Visit portfolioday.art for more info!

Image of the #PortfolioDay mascot Oli holding a paintbrush and pointing up at information that reads: #PortfolioDay! October 13th, 2026 MORE INFO AT WWW.PORTFOLIODAY.ART

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Kelina1080 @kelina1080.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

this is good to know! in case i added someone to a starterpack and they’d like to opt out! :>

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Daniel Knightley - Polishing polygons @danielknightley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why the heck am I being so picky about an "Ugly" Christmas sweater? Or better yet; Why isn't seemingly anyone else? Most of these are crap and not even "so bad it becomes good"!

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Daniel Knightley - Polishing polygons @danielknightley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I browse the Merchandise options and while some look great, I have this voice in the back of my head that says: "Sure you like Star Wars good enough. But enough to wear THAT?" "Yeah PacMan is safe but there must be something more relevant" "This Pokemon one is just key art with minor Xmas theming"

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Daniel Knightley - Polishing polygons @danielknightley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Y'know, I've been looking at ugly Christmas sweaters because this year we'll be hosting the family and I wanted to keep it silly. But you either get; - off brand Dr Seuss - offensive or immature imagery - merchandise Why is that?

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Daniel Knightley - Polishing polygons @danielknightley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've been doing everything by hand so far, using the Mirror modifier and sticking individual vertexes onto the faces of my sculpt. I forsee that the new Artist sculpt might be getting too big to do that with, seeing the related timeinvestment.

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Daniel Knightley - Polishing polygons @danielknightley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Okay, RetopoFlow is a bit out of budget at the moment. Does anyone have a recommendation for good retopology tools / addons for Blender? Preferably something that is easy on the budget. superhivemarket.com/products/ret...

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Retopoflow 4

RetopoFlow is a powerful retopology add-on for Blender that helps make quick work of creating custom, clean, mid or low poly meshes on top of high resolution sculpts. The tools in RetopoFlow mode are ...

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Daniel Knightley - Polishing polygons @danielknightley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For years I've been tweaking a Minecraft based 3D model before realizing; "But what if I want to do more? Do I NEED a Lego avatar for Lego stuff then? What if I want to stream Digimon?" While stream specific avatars would be fun, MAN what a load of work that would be to get started.

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