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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 17/09/2026

Honestly, I didn't expect playing #Quake in 2026 to be this satisfying. And I can't remember feeling this level of hyper-focus! Even programming, which is my daily work, rarely gets me there anymore. Although it comes with a price – the intensity exhausts me faster than 30 years ago.

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 15/09/2026

30th anniversary of #Quake release evokes all the good memories and the irresistible urge to experience it all again. And it's still possible to configure the visuals exactly as in 1996 with 256 colors and overscaled textures.

Screenshot of the start level of the Quake 1 mod “Dimension of the Machine” running in vkQuake engine on Apple Silicon macbook. Color palette is reduced to 256 colors and the textures are underscaled with the GL_MAX_SIZE command.

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 03/09/2026

I recently quit Phonopolis mid-game. Not because it's bad – it's gorgeous and well-made – but because it was not the experience I expected to have when I launched it. It seemed like a good material for a blog post, so there you go: blog.vigeo.dev/post/8267452... #gamedev #indiedev #gamedesign

After watching a fragment of a Let’s Play with the solution of this puzzle (in which the player needs to obtain an extra bulb for the projector), I’ve just closed the game and watched the rest of the let’s play to find out how the game ends…

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 18/08/2026

Whole streamlined workflow in action. After the initial setup (model clustering, setting up export pipeline) from @blockbench.net to #Unity within seconds. Still a bit rough around the edges and with some issues but already usable in “production”. 🥳 #gamedev #indiedev #lowpoly

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 18/08/2026

Slowly but steadily forward! 😄 Recently I've prototyped a Blockbench plugin that allows palette-based vertex coloring of the models and streamlines export to Unity (via a modefied FBX exporter). But could be Godot as well! 😉

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 14/08/2026

After additional work on the prototype of my vertex coloring plugin for @blockbench.net I'm able to apply vertex colors and directly export them into #Unity. No more destructive mesh operations with ProBuilder, the workflow is a breeze now! 😌 #gamedev #indiedev #lowpoly

Screenshot showing a model with vertex colors applied in Blockbench and the same model exported in FBX format and then imported and rendered in Unity with vertex colors applied as in Blockbench.

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 12/08/2026

Prototyping a (yet another) Vertex Colors plugin for @blockbench.net: works in Edit Mode (with color/palette panels), semi-transparent colors on the palette, FBX export... Attaching a video since it's easier to show than explain! 😄 Would anyone find this useful? #Blockbench #gamedev

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 03/08/2026

This came to my mind when I read “decent wall materials next”... 🥲

A line-drawing meme based on the "illusion of choice" format shows a cow standing at the entrance of a curving, concrete chute split into two paths. The left entrance is labeled "features first," and the right entrance is labeled "graphics first." A caption near the cow reads, "should I first focus on features or graphics...?" Behind the dividing wall, both paths immediately converge into a single corridor that leads to a text label at the exit reading, "needs features AND graphics," conveying that both aspects are ultimately required regardless of which one is prioritized initially.

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 01/08/2026

Random fact about “Wright Files: Egerton's Pickle”: initial version of the inventory system was very versatile. Too versatile in fact: player, drawers, cupboards, wardrobes, and even items had separate inventories. Items could be stored inside other items. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

A two-panel hand-drawn comic humorously illustrates the hidden complexity of
game development. On the left, a zoomed-in view shows a stick figure confidently
climbing a small hill labeled "Scene concept, animations and State Machine"
while saying, "Hey game development's easy." The right panel zooms out to reveal
that this hill is merely a tiny bump at the foot of a towering, nearly vertical
mountain labeled "Inventory," showing how overwhelmingly difficult building a
game inventory system actually is compared to basic scene and character setup.

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 20/07/2026

Social nightmare of every introvert detective: surrounded and overwhelmed by NPCs waiting for interaction. #detective #mystery #adventure #game #indiegames #gamedev #indiedev

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 15/07/2026

Today marks exactly the fifth anniversary of starting the “Wright Files: Egerton’s Pickle” project. What started as a tiny love letter to Sam Manthorpe’s “The Detective” on the Commodore 64 has gradually evolved into something much bigger and more ambitious. #indiegames #mystery #adventure #gamedev

Title screen of “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle” video game celebrating full five years of development.

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 06/07/2026

Oh, the joy of observing your little world coming to life with the residents trotting around the Egertonʼs mansion, minding their own business, looking past right you. 🕵️‍♂️ #gamedev #indiedev #detective #mystery #adventure

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 18/06/2026

My favorite kind of bug – when the NPC doesnʼt want to be interacted with so much that they just promptly disappear. 👻

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 09/06/2026

A #Unity helper tool to simplify repositioning of multiple objects via drag handles with movement snapping, on-hover name/position display and undo/redo support? Hold my beer! 🍺 #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 08/05/2026

me: I should focus on finalizing demo of “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle” also me: Oh, look, Iʼve found all those 10+ year old phones gathering dust at the bottom of the drawer! Letʼs see if I can make TΞNTΛKLΞS run with a decent framerate on this junk! #gamedev #indiedev

TΞNTΛKLΞS mobile game running on a bunch of 10+ year old Android phones.

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 05/05/2026

[5/5] Add literally one line of code: Input.backButtonLeavesApp = true; Re-submit. Instant approval. MFW 30 days of my life were deleted by a single line of code. #gamedev #madewithunity

Screenshot of a Google Play Console notification stating that TENTAKLES game has been published.

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 05/05/2026

[1/5] Be me, a professional Android (+15 yoe) and hobbyist Unity (+10 yoe) developer. Decide to build a “dead simple” Game & Watch remake in one week to clear the mind from a long-running main project (4 yrs). Finish the game, looks good, runs perfectly on my phone. #gamedev #indiedev

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 21/04/2026

I love pixels in me games large and crunchy but man... Peach comparison from thi article makes me want to have optional CRT filter in the game. www.datagubbe.se/crt2/ CRT screens really made our imagination and visual processing work wonders! #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Comparison of a blown-up sprite of Peach (from Super Mario RPG) to a photo of the same sprite on a CRT monitor.

Comparison of the same screenshot from TENTAKLES video game where one version has CRT filter effect applied.

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 04/04/2026

In case you missed it, I made a #game thingy: 🐙 TΞNTΛKLΞS – a DE/RE-make of the classic electronic game “Octopus” Go play it on @itch.io (link below)! #indiegames #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity #webgl #html5

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 05/03/2026

Hi! Iʼm Polish and Iʼm making an indie game! 🇵🇱🎮 #indiegame #indiedev

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 16/01/2026

Some people prefer AAA-tier graphics. As for me, I like my visuals strictly LO-LO-LO: – lo-resolution – lo-color – lo-poly #gamedev #indiedev #vfx #shaders #madewithunity #retro #lowpoly #pixels #dithering

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 18/12/2025

Are there any #pixelart #game #trailer experts here? I'd have few questions re: technical issue with YouTube #video compression. Image unrelated (well, kinda is). #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #madewithunity

Mona Lisa is extremely unimpressed by how much she's been compressed.

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 04/12/2025

That would be quite an unexpected life plot twist – and a huge irony – to be born in a generation that has to explain computers to its grandparents, parents, peers, children and grandchildren.

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 20/10/2025

Made a tool generating JSON with all dialogues in “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle”. Right now itʼs about 4000 words (not counting interaction texts, just dialogues for characters and cutscenes). Itʼs about 1/3 of all required text... ☠️ #gamedev #indiedev

Fragment of a JSON file containing dialogues from “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle”.

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 19/10/2025

Yeah, writing lots of text is hard when you want to have at least some degree of uniqueness and humor to keep the player entertained. Demo content production is in full swing!

Screenshot from “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle” mystery adventure video game showing inspection interaction with the Hallway drawer cabinet.

Screenshot from “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle” mystery adventure video game showing inspection interaction with the Bedroom corridor painting.

Screenshot from “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle” mystery adventure video game showing inspection interaction with the World map.

Screenshot from “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle” mystery adventure video game showing inspection interaction with the Library drawer cabinet.

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 19/10/2025

A very productive, although quite exhausting, weekend full of work on “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle”. Tons and tons of text written for various interactive objects. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #mystery #adventure

Screenshot from “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle” mystery adventure video game showing inspection interaction with the Telephone.

Screenshot from “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle” mystery adventure video game showing inspection interaction with the Reading corner.

Screenshot from “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle” mystery adventure video game showing inspection interaction with the Gramophone.

Screenshot from “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle” mystery adventure video game showing inspection interaction with the Standing clock.

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 11/09/2025

Lucas Lund is running a Kickstarter campaign to translate his Commodore 64-inspired novel “Murder on Park Lane” into English. If youʼre interested in retro gaming literature, consider checking out his project. www.kickstarter.com/projects/luc... #books #detective #mystery #retrogaming #c64 #8bit

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 10/09/2025

Reminds me of this meme template. 😆

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 02/09/2025

Important feature no player will actually notice in “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle”: Eugene and Charles can approach each other for a cutscene dialogue no matter which room they meet in (btw., not shown here but staircase was a real PITA). #gamedev #indiedev

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 28/08/2025

I came across a cover of a computer magazine from 1985. At the bottom thereʼs a title that roughly translates to: “Calculators – help or encouragement to laziness?” Replace “calculator” with “AI” and it turns out 40 yrs later we discuss the same problems, only technology differs.

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 25/08/2025

All this knowledge passed from senior devs down to LLMs during endless back-and-forths to get the generated code right, lost forever. As Roy Batty would have said himself:

Roy Batty saying: I've seen prompts for codebases you people wouldn't believe. Merge conflicts unresolved and comitted to the main branch right into production. I watched unit tests fail in the dark near the end of a CI build. All those Stack Overflow searches will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to restart the chat.

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 13/08/2025

A quick behind-the-scenes peek while I prepare the “Wright Files: Egerton's Pickle” demo. In the video you can see a system that selects the optimal position for two characters approaching each other for conversation during a cutscene. [1/2] #gamedev #indiedev

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 06/08/2025

Nice! For me it's a set of scope extension methods: Run(), Apply(), Also() (which are loosely based on scope functions from Kotlin language). I have them available as a GitHub package: github.com/VigeoGames/V...

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 27/07/2025

Share art lore about yourself. My first dabbing at 3D modeling was in high school when I created high-poly Karl Gerät in 3D Studio MAX 1.0 to get A+ in CS class. Then dropped 3D modeling for 30 yrs. Two yrs ago I retried, this time being wiser and doing low-poly Aston Martin DB5 in @blockbench.net.

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 26/07/2025

The characters in “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle” are finally becoming alive. Not a permanent state in a whodunit murder story. 🕵️‍♂️ #indiegames #detective #mystery #game #gamedev #indiedev

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 24/07/2025

Happy 40th birthday, #Amiga! I still have this Zeewolf remake waiting to be done some day... maybe for your 50th birthday...? 😅 #Amiga40 #Commodore #RetroGaming #RetroDev #RetroComputing #gamedev #in

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 22/07/2025

Some fragments redacted because spoilers! Although I'm pretty sure Polish language is a good enough encryption in itself. 😅

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 15/07/2025

** 🗓️ CHECKS CALENDAR 🗓️ ** Ah yes, today marks exactly the fourth anniversary of starting work on “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle”. 🥳 #indiegames #detective #mystery #game #gamedev #indiedev

Title screen of “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle” video game.

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 08/07/2025

I've searched “vertex color” on Blockbench wiki (no mention), Discord (some mentions it's not possible) and Googled it (but AI suggestions are hallucinating that it's possible).

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 27/06/2025

TIL [PL]: chemoterapia vs hemoterapia Po więcej zapraszam na: sjp.pwn.pl/zasady/zesta...

chemoterapia (= chemioterapia); hemoterapia (= krwiolecznictwo)

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 22/06/2025

Solo indie #gamedev sounds really cool until you find out it's 90% of the time deceiving yourself that your game is 90% complete. And that completion of the last 10% takes another 90% of the time. And another 90% is hidden in the last 1%. #indiedev

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 27/05/2025

Describe your game like a bad marketing intern: It's like Paper Mario but without any RPG, platforming or turn-based strategy elements whatsoever. You just walk around, search/analyze objects and items and talk to people trying to find out whodunit. Or didn't. #retro #indiegame

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 22/05/2025

P.S.: Itʼs worth noting that the vanishing point does not necessarily need to be on screen as would be the case on the last example on this screenshot (angle: -45° / FOV: 45°).

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 22/05/2025

My attempts were not exactly successful: objects farther from the camera are getting smaller and Iʼd want them to remain the same size (as in ortographic camera). The perspective effect should be only on X(?) axis.

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 22/05/2025

A good example would be “Spy vs Spy” but there were numerous point & click adventure games that used this kind of projection.

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 22/05/2025

Question to all #gamedev / #vfx folks out there: do you know if itʼs possible to create a custom camera projection matrix that would result in a hybrid of perspective/isometric camera similar to ones often seen in #retro #adventure games?

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@goshki @goshki.vigeo.dev · 18/05/2025

Long time no #screenshotsaturday – new title screen for Wright Files: Egerton's Pickle! 🥳 #gamedev #indiedev #retro #mystery #adventure #game #pixelart #lowpoly

New title screen for retro mystery adventure game: Wright Files: Egerton's Pickle

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