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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

LOVED POD RACER. Its top of my non-VR pile atm. Congrats on making a beautiful thing, miss your art <3 Only challenge is to get PS5 version or PC version and look at VR mods.

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Balance assistance ux assistance and memory vs annotation in puzzle design is tough. Would be curious from my puzzle design friends what's your vibe? Any personal rules?

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I will say it again only Apple and Sony make top level product design XR desperately needs. I would kill for a VITA VR device. Also we can debate timelines but I don't know anyone who long term is willing to bet against XR.

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When Sony decided not to increase OLEDoS fab units when Apple asked for it and pulled back from some of its really exciting work in the field I was hoping it was a longer reinvestment but not sure now. It's so frustrating because they were front of the wave with real RnD resource

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Seeing the Sony patent sell off to Meta makes me sad. No way to tell if my patents were sold but I don't think so. Looks to be Sony Group not PlayStation sub. Also its 419 patents some of which are XR related. Also there is likely a licence back clause. Still makes me sad.

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is also why small teams who deeply understand a problem and are innovative in their approach run rings around both open source and entrenched competition. Only reason you have not seen more innovation in spaces like photoshop is DRM/IP protections are custom formats and customer lock in.

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also most research into modern copyright finds that after a decade very few creatives and individuals are reaping the reward for the work. So it is inherently failing. Software can be hard but honestly if the software is 15+ years old and has solid OS competition it is likely not worth prot.

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If the thing is fundamental and discoverable like say math. Or the effort required does not justify protection then no copyright. These are political and policy choices we need to be VERY CAREFUL WITH! Don't just think about your usage but the abuses.

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Here is the thing you can't copyright sewing patterns, cooking recipes, any fonts (only the software) and deffo not math. This is because copyright was made to enhance the public domain by providing a space for individuals to do difficult things and make profit.

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In all seriousness have BUNCH of work & biz stuff todo... it will happen soon. Have some non-AP work atm todo and working hard on multiplayer but yeah "Campgrounds" or whatever I end up calling it will likely ship "soon" I can't help myself... I really wish I could

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

ADHD fun mode my brain was fully nerd snipped doing inktober sketch... Wait what if I did irregular sudoku but with letters, enter my favourite isogram (word with unique letters) campgrounds. Oh neat letters instead of numbers and augmental code kinda already works #adhd #gamedev

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I also probably overindex on the problem cuz I spent a bunch of time doing creative stuff in VR and brush strokes and what not have real impact there. Like you want to capture the actual data so you can get the fingerprint of the movement / brush strokes rather than a smooth average.

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh for sure in that case game logic makes 100% sense. I more thought from video you were talking about the classic overshoot from imu updating faster then camera track leading to the shake at the end of an aiming motion. Cause sharp shooters get strong arms to compensate for that irl

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you don't think coding is creative fuck you and you are the problem. Some of the most creative people I know are maths majors.

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

All this is to say awesome work. I love the filtering but you shouldn't need to do it and you're operating with way less data than the hardware in the API has and it should be their job to do it and they should be able to do a better job cuz they have more information with less latency

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Better yet from mixed reality they should be able to provide us the XR timestamp of when the estimated capture of the pass-through images and be able to be perfectly align. The digital controller and the physical controller image because weird sync up so there'd be no latency differential

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

OpenXR api were built with this in mind you sync your action set at a given XR time. And obviously if you sync at an older time you should in theory be getting stable results which for things like brush strokes make a lot more sense. We are talking milliseconds here. Tiny delay!

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's so dumb that you have to do this under the hood. All of the tracking models have a predicted model and a stable model. The predicted models the only one that has jitter who is the stable models built on 1000 plus frequency sample rate and is actually accurately integrated.

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Still off so no regular streams but going live now to do some puzzle setting, then afterwards we might play some of the #godotxrgamejam stuff depending on energy levels #cowork twitch.tv/kimau

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Kimau - Live on Twitch

Random dev bits | Streaming software and game development.

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh, it's even worse than that. Poisoning llms is easier than bot farms and there are already companies that offer the service. Easy solution is verified data sets. The issue is any commercial interest corrupts. Personal recommenders built on open tech with data from your trusted sources is the way

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I will do a post mortem tomorrow on stream I think and also play some other games there are some bits I'm very happy with. This week I'm travelling and visiting family a lot so mostly will be away.

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wanted to give more time to the #godotxrgamejam but life and taxes. Good news is a submission is in, just the target shooting. The wind stuff and shapekey stuff was fun to play with but the polish and balance is deffo not there. kimau.itch.io/balloon-dino...

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Balloon Dino Death Dome by Kimau

As a time travelling balloonist the slime queen has sentenced you to fight dinos in the death dome

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Working on wind visualisation for #godotxrgamejam Static mesh which samples windflow map. Loops lifecycle ensuring they spawn only in view. Compact posvel into float4 buffer with custom vertex transform gives us the update and custom streak in a cost effective billboard

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

No stream today because its a rest week this week and next but I might do the occasional bonus stream for #godotxrgamejam Atm I'm tweaking collision and controls for the Jam. Lost a bunch of time to air flow maps and tooling yesterday but progress today is good #vr #gamedev

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This stuff has been a long time coming. This with some reworks to shader templates / material bindings or at least some exposing of mesh/surf shaders to gdscript layer and we are COOKING! Though can't wait so my own fork already has these in a way that isn't acceptable to port back to main

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Need to fix spacing of ropes M: Flying T: Combat W: Game Loop lock T/F: Polish+Art Sat: Balance Not going hard as this is my rest week and I want to get some other bits and bobs done and chill out but I really like the idea.

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Got an idea I'm happy with for #godotxrgamejam Time travelling hot air balloon ends up in dino times only to find them ruled by a race of evil flying jellies who throw you in a spiky thunderdome to fight dinos while their queen waches. Theme: Adrift I figure adrift in time, space and air

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Did a storytime video (audio mostly while I play a nonogram) of why early glimpse of Frame in '24 led to me starting my indie journey when I did. It's been a ride, mistakes made and such and I'm still kicking but yeah Frame has been a secret silent thread since the start. youtu.be/anCVvW9CWUA

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Saw Frame Early, Started a Company, and Never Gave Up

YouTube video by Claire Blackshaw

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

looking forward to having a rest period being a bit silly. I realised that this sounds like vague posting and I'm burning out but it's not actually that it was more. Oh I have a silly idea for a comic and then I was thinking about setting up a website and doing a bunch of bullshit and I'm like no

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Using the time to go XR Jam, visit family and do #Godot #XR #Jam. We just did some pitch work and I want todo something with NO commercial intent, or biz junk. Also catching up on some games and other bits and bobs. itch.io/jam/godot-xr...

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Godot XR Game Jam - Sep 2026

A game jam from 2026-09-21 to 2026-10-04 hosted by Godot XR Community & Bastiaan Olij. Welcome to the sixth Godot XR Game jam This game jam is organized by the Godot XR Community and offers a fun oppo...

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm taking a two week holiday. Since I started the company not been great at taking breaks and I tend to work 6 days a week. Can't just "turn off" the company So going to do like 1-2hrs a day on company for two weeks.

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Better short demo of the kind of stuff I was playing around with. It depends on some ML stuff and I was never happy with my results. www.youtube.com/shorts/yPibs... Through the raw waveform like from the micromotion would likely be a trippy input into a synth.

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5-gesture Gesture Recognition using IWRL6432 with CNN+ANN on Texas Instruments mmWave Radar

YouTube video by Akshay Kumar

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Come in a bunch of flavours the cheaper ones tend to be tuned for long range low precision for human presence detection in 24 range. You need something in 60GHz for close range stuff. Google played around a lot with it for wearables because it penetrates fabric Played with youtu.be/BdbWGezCCSg?...

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SparkFun Pulsed Coherent Radar Sensor Acconeer XM125

YouTube video by SparkFun Electronics

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Curious if you played with any of the mmwave sensors? They are really interesting. You get really good velocity data and tiny micro motions. Not to mention some models depending on access give you material surface properties

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Could not have done with without friends helping. Be kind folks it makes all the difference. Missed out on the waitlist slot so still no personal HW but this is by far our best standalone version. Runs SO WELL without android junk getting in the way. Making the effort paid off.

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I say a lot, not much in your case. Fragment techniques can lead you down an expensive road when there's a much cheaper way. Totes fine to do in fragment

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Totally valid way to do it. However, you are going to be burning through a lot of fragments shading time. A more efficient way that'll lead to a cleaner line is to subdivide that mesh pop the vertices on the UV map in a predictable way and do the calculation in the vertex shader.

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Been enjoying randomly grabbing my camera when I go places.

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 16/09/2026

We optimized draw calls by 99% (lol) in Hidden Folks 2 by writing some tools to find all textures used in a level, generate a level-specific atlas, and replace individual texture references with atlas textures. Thread below 🧵👇🏼 #godotengine

Two side-by-side screenshots showing before and after we applied a texture atlas optimization to our game Hidden Folks two, the before showing 13318 draw calls and the after showing 113 draw calls

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

and yes there is a spelling error on that slide. Blame @NoMansSky for keeping me up till 4am last night

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Some days I'm like am I doing enough... then I look at a slide like this and realise we have put out a patch every month with content. Alongside daily challenges, working on #Godot #PlayStation MIT port, giving talks and attending shows... 2026 I have been a busy lil #gamedev

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Triangular Pixels @triangularpixels.com · 14/09/2026

🎉 #UnseenDiplomacy2 has been shortlisted for TWO #TIGAAwards ! 🏆🎉 Nominated for both #VR / #XR /AR/MR Game and the Diversity Award! A huge thank you to TIGA and our incredible community. Read more & about VR #accessibility on our blog: blog.triangularpixels.com/uncategorize... #IndieDev #GameDev

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Shortlisted! Unseen Diplomacy 2 Nominated for Two TIGA Awards – Triangular Pixels

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Flammable Penguins Games @flammablepenguins.com · 14/09/2026

Good like chasing the Steam Frame everyone from your Puzzling Penguins

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm trying to get work done.... but but but...

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you enjoyed this and want to try our VR take on minesweeper check out Augmental Puzzles on Steam or Meta Quest. The End 🧵

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The '08 crash seems to have been the end with a buyout to Glu Mobile. Chris (Ian's brother) was the main 3d coder Stephen Northcott and Sean Ellis were two other key contributors to this journey. So yeah turns out it was all linked.

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Claire Blackshaw @evilkimau.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

They had FULLY pivoted to VR during the 90s boom renaming to Dimension International then Superscape VR. They made middleware and tools. When the bubble popped they transitioned to mobile early 2000s

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