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We also made the original soundtrack available for the first time! Both MP3 and lossless versions of @echolevel.co.uk's music are up on Steam. Purchase the soundtrack here - store.steampowered.com/app/5202020/...

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Transmission Shortwave, our lo-fi, low-stakes, high-vibes courier delivery sim set in 90s Britain to a chill jungle/d&b soundtrack wot I wrote is OUT NOW - again! This time for PC on Steam (2D & Steam VR). Just a couple of quid/bucks and 10% off store.steampowered.com/app/4348970/...

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Save 10% on Transmission: Shortwave on Steam

Deliver parcels as fast or relaxed as you like in the Pal-Co Virtual Cyber Megaspace! Enter a 90s retro-futuristic Great Britain complete with witty banter, wacky objects, and wonderful beats. Enjoy y...

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Chris Wilson @chriswilson.dev · 01/10/2026

We added a bunch of new features for the Steam release of Transmission: Shortwave, but by far the most important is the degauss button. store.steampowered.com/app/4348970/...

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 19/09/2026

Mine somehow contrives to be simultaneously "gentleman of unimpeachably immaculate taste" _and_ "basic-bitch 90s kid who checked out mentally and culturally in the early 00s but still huffs nostalgia fumes while muttering to his kids that 'Crunchy Roll? That used to be Manga - no, not manga; Manga"

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 03/09/2026

The Jokaero spy-flies are a Greek chorus consisting of 100 of these. They participate in all the musical numbers (of which there are many, all based on Vitali Googol's libretti)

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 27/08/2026

So no, very much not ashamed of reading that on a bus full of commuters and schoolmate eejits in city centre rush hour, because I was engrossed in confusingly evocative imagery that took my already evaporating Catholicism and threw in a load of boobs and sexy-lipped guys with possible daemon issues

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 27/08/2026

FWIW, I bought Inquisitor in year 7 (my route home took me past GW, Forbidden Planet, Waterstones and the library) and, honestly, despite the recent rash of supposedly progressive loretubers kinkshaming all over it, that trilogy is how I realised that sensuality/sexuality is a complicated spectrum

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 27/08/2026

Plenty of homophobia, but mostly used as a shouty blunt instrument - rarely against the (many!) who later came out, and my best pal felt able to safely come out in 6th form, which is pretty good for '98. (Then he gave away all his 2nd ed Space Wolves to a cousin and wow, they'd be worth a pile now)

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 27/08/2026

Not at all: all-boys RC comp in the early 90s, heavy on the sports (which I was able to heavily avoid in favour of every shade of dorkery). My theory is that performative masculinity had no captive female audience, so wasn't pursued as toxicly. Generic ladsladslads dickheadery abounded tho. Orky...

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 15/08/2026

I think this was my work machine for a while. Never opened it - fairly cute inside. Hope you make it suffer.

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Chris Wilson @chriswilson.dev · 12/08/2026

Somehow I am 40. To celebrate my continued existence, I'm doing a flash sale on my photobook OUTPUT 001. A physical object limited to 37 copies! Use discount code 'CHRISIS40' to get 40% off. store.chriswilson.dev/product/outp...

Flat lay of a photobook on a wooden table. The text reads 'OUTPUT 001' in the middle and 'CHRIS WILSON' at the bottom. The edge of the frame is surrounded by various plants and film camera equipment.

The same flat lay, with the book open showing two black and white street photography photos. The left photo shows a person riding up an underground escalator while unfolding an umbrella. The right hand shot shows a silhouette of a person and a bicycle at a train station.

The same flat lay, showing the back cover. The central image is a colour photo of a foggy country path with trees on either side. The leaves are a golden brown colour.

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 09/08/2026

Found this Gazetteer of Scottish Ghosts coincidentally(??!?) two days after being stuck behind a furniture van on the A75 between Dumfries and Annan, but what’s more alarming is that the author named it this despite ‘Och Aye The Boo!’ being right there (Aware of this one, @misterabk.bsky.social ?)

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Oh. Cassidy @ocassidy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My band is putting some bits of music out this year. First is ‘Dolphin Bay’, fusion-y, city pop-y, rock-y business. The remix comes from electronic masters Tunnel Club giving some of time euphoria. Check it out! distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

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Dolphin Bay by Twin Beam

Stream and Save Dolphin Bay - Distributed by DistroKid

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 04/08/2026

Accurate lyrics for I’ll Tell Me Ma but sung by a creepy robot to the tune of randomly generated diddly-dee, wtf

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 04/08/2026

That ferris wheel is blasting out non-stop slopcore (while we’re trying to have a real-humans session on the Barge). Fuckin wild

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 02/08/2026

Me: “Hey Belfast, where does your drinking water come from? It’s not Lough Neagh, is it? And I’m warning you, the answer had better not be enchantingly mysterious” Belfast: “er… The Silent Valley” Me: “asdfghj[]{}#%^”

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 31/07/2026

I’m 10 years sober and 40 years tighter than a duck’s arse: they’re charging me £6 for a Guinness 0.0% but I can spin one pint out all night and look like I’m enjoying myself (I’m not, of course)

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 31/07/2026

Kelly’s Cellars’ Belfast Trad Fest session yesterday with the wean

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 31/07/2026

Oh here, I took a walk around there this morning and the sun was splitting the rocks (ish). Didn’t even know about the féile, thanks for the heads up

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 31/07/2026

Hasn’t Belfast suffered enough? Ach sure I’m only messing, ONLY MESSING - love a good pluck. A mate of mine is teaching on it anyway, it’ll be class

Billboard for Belfast Ukelele Festival off the Ormeau Road accompanied by a very tired joke which is JUST A JOKE, only messing

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 31/07/2026

Kelly’s Cellars’ Belfast Trad Fest session yesterday with the wean

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jenspooki 👻🧛🎃🧟 @jenoki.net · 30/07/2026

Glitch2 is now available to download and use for free, in memory of its creator, Kieran Foster. AKA illformed / dblue. illformed.com

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Illformed :: Glitch²

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 22/07/2026

Also no, I will never set myself as 'active', stop asking. That's way more information than anyone needs about me, especially my colleagues.

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 22/07/2026

Oh it turns out Miles Davis themes are, like, a blue colour scheme called Kind of Blue. Cheers lads.

They turn out to be colour schemes with names such as 'Kind of Blue', 'Funky Fresh' and 'Jazz Club'. Nice...

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 22/07/2026

What the shitting fuck is wrong with Slack? What are "Miles Davis themes"? Genre-redefining innovation, smack addiction and guest starring on Miami Vice? I'm at work, I haven't got time for any of that

Slack has found a new way to bother and annoy me, this time with a notification that reads "Miles Davis themes just dropped" with a sunglasses emoji and a trumpet emoji in case I wasn't sure who Miles Davis was

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 17/07/2026

But character development must be arco

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_lemon @andylemon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Shame I couldnt make it down to #developconf this year, hope folks are having a good one down on the beach & at BIT's, sending remote happy #amiga #chiptune beep beeps + good vibes <3 :)

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 14/07/2026

A £20 spring tank from a guitar amp is the summer-est dub reverb (if you drive it hard enough)

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Colin Le Sueur | By Odin’s Beard RPG @byodinsbeardrpg.com · 10/07/2026

If you're struggling to stay cool, this will chill your blood: The Midnight of the Century hardcover is now available! A 104-page black and white (and red) rulebook for my ‘90s occult serial killer investigation TTRPG inspired by Millennium and Twin Peaks. shop.byodinsbeardrpg.com/products/mid...

Midnight of the Century. Black, red, and white image showing a woman screaming and split into multiple faces in front of a stark forest. A mid-'90s pre-apocalyptic serial killer investigation roleplaying game. Writing and Design Colin Le Sueur.

Two page spread from Midnight of the Century. Investigators. Creating an Investigator. The second page is a full page image of an Investigator smoking a cigarette and examining a piece of film.

Me holding up a copy of the Midnight hardcover.

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 09/07/2026

We should shut this down while we figure out what’s going on

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 09/07/2026

Terrible zebra disguise, be careful out there folks

What on closer inspection turned out to be a horse wearing a zebra outfit

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 07/07/2026

The plumbing: mostly rolling your own preset save/recall - but even that is largely taken care of automatically if you use Dear ImGui's .ini system, which stores child window size/position/hierarchy per user. You can build a default layout for new users, then let them immediately decide it's stupid.

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 07/07/2026

Finally switched to Dear ImGui's docking branch for Metron. With only a little plumbing (after ditching my own clumsy floating panel system) it does an huge amount right out of the box. Trackers are info DENSE so split tabs, showing/hiding, toggling layout presets etc is crucial. #dearimgui #gamedev

Screenshot of Metron Tracker demonstrating the highly flexible layout options facilitated by Dear ImGui's docking branch

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 06/07/2026

Shit, I didn’t know - I’m so sorry

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jenspooki 👻🧛🎃🧟 @jenoki.net · 06/07/2026

My dear friend Kieran passed away on Thursday 2nd July. Many of you will know him as Illformed or dblue, the creator of the famous Glitch VST plugin. He was the most genuine, no-bullshit, kind-hearted, generous person I have known.

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 03/07/2026

New battery day for the @dirtywave.bsky.social M8. What a handsome boy.

A Dirtywave M8 tracker alongside a new replacement LiPo battery

A Dirtywave M8 tracker in the process of having its battery replaced

A Dirtywave M8 tracker showing off its smart new battery

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✨chipzel @chipzel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Watch the full @playtopia.bsky.social talk: Tell Me What to Feel www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWXX... Buy my music chipzelmusic.bandcamp.com/music

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Chipzel | Tell Me What to Feel

YouTube video by Playtopia

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 01/07/2026

Tea towel with a boxty recipe on it. One will have been issued when your house was built, check the back of the pan drawer.

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 25/06/2026

Undervolted the GPU, halved max CPU, capped FPS at 30 and unplugged second monitor to survive in my windowless, unventilated studio (and because I can’t afford to replace any components that die). Metron doesn’t care! My heaviest song still only hits 3.5% of CPU budget and I get to be sweatily smug

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 23/06/2026

Wrote a wee file browser for Metron with WAV and MOD importers, preview playback, and a load of gnarly samplerate conversion fixes under the hood. Also floating mixer windows and ever more sample edit features. Human-coded C++: all bugs and unwise 1990s-ish UX decisions are my own work #gameaudio

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Dan Reynolds @dannthr.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Hey fam! I'm still making Unreal Engine features! In this case a feature I've been wanting to make for a while, a Transient Shaper effect! I'm hoping to make several such features in the coming weeks! Check out the listing here: www.fab.com/listings/db4...

"Transient Shaper Pro" text over a waveform colored in blue, white, and pink.

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 21/06/2026

I believe Chortling Evilly is a priority by-election target for Restore [etc]

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 21/06/2026

No Voronov-Vaux? No Gulfroot Gym-gam? Wtf?

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