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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And yeah, sure, I've cancelled my Unity and Adobe subscriptions ages ago, but the convenience of google drive, office suite, spotify etc has kept me hooked for too long.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Getting rid of proprietary software, subscriptions and services arc officially started. Time to degoogle myself. 3D printed rack feels great. Cheap second hand hardware to host my shit on even more so.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

since i came around on the old mario film and consider it a fun popcorn movie (and I actually love the setting), I'm looking forward towards this one.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We are moving to a new location, and one of the thing we are bringing is a kid's bed. I unscrewed majority of it with a power tool but then there were two very specific hidden screws that I couldn't get to. Luckily I had a spare one of those with me and it just barely fit. Felt triumphant.

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 22/08/2026

My @godotengine.org kits are now available on the Godot Asset Store, completely free. Use these templates as a starter for your next game, or to learn from! 🎁 store.godotengine.org/publisher/ke...

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

One of my favourite arcade games, just like its spiritual successor, Mystic Warriors

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

shit. need to degoogle faster. what's the time between you uploading the data and it appearing in public search?

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

As a person who used to be THAT KID, reading all about astronomy, looking through telescopes, religiously reading any space related news, it takes a special kind of person to make me root against rockets. And yet here I am.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

When the strong throttle the weak it's called good business. When the weak resist the strong it's called terrorism. Fucking capitalism.

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mediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Capitalist states are gonna call it terrorism when people rise up against the billionaires destroying our societies & our world, when people resist fascist anti-immigrant violence and the ultra rich stealing our resources & ruining our economies. That will occur but it cant stop people resisting

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

While yeah, all the newer systems and consoles running on Ayn Thor are really cool, the capabilty to easily run 486+ era games in DOSBox is that little extra that makes it magical for me.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

My toxic trait is that I won't trust any tier list that doesn't follow gaussian distribution.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Honestly between Ayn Thor and GPD Win Max 2 I am living the cyberdeck dream

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

see, this is why relationships don't pan out - starting on lies

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Not gamedev or wildlife related, but if you have any spare time, check this out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dvu...

youtube.com

Can I Sneak This Boat Through A Military Blockade?

YouTube video by Boy Boy

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

oh wow this is the cutest thing ever <3

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

same in Poland. I still remember the absolutely atrocious bootleg English to Polish via Russian translations.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Ayn Thor is amazing. Managed to get my game running on it via GameNative. Wooo!

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 01/07/2026

I think given the scale @godotengine.org is now at, this is an incredibly incisive approach to combat generative AI's awful impact on people, code, and communication. Also focusing the ban policy on access & pull requests is a smart way of eliminating huge parts of the problem in a practical way.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A Lengthy Retrospective series by I Finished A Video Game is great. It goes into all aspects of game, including historical context and creation, not just gameplay. youtu.be/tsjkAraZkco

youtu.be

Panzer Dragoon Series Retrospective - A Complete History and Review

YouTube video by I Finished A Video Game

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Christophe is making Prerolled! @qaqelol.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Here is the same thing without position and scale tweening. The texture on the right defines what part of the button will be pushed when pressed. When pressed, An "offset_factor" shader parameter is tweened: UV.y+ texture(gradient_mask,UV).r-0.5) * offset_factor #Godot #GameDev

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Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

If you ever bought McPixel, you can play McPixel for the rest of your life. If the store is gone let me know I will show you where to get it. If you ever pirated McPixel and the torrent tracker is gone, let me know and i will show you where to pirate McPixel.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Hah, I played Alley Cat yesterday, testing my new emu setup on Ayn Thor xD

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Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

My game isn’t even out yet and it has already been cloned three times.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Oh god, yes. It's such a horrible feeling.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Holy carp! Katamari x Carrion! So cool! Gotta love kaiju games!

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Honestly, I don't get why with Crazy Taxi they didn't go for a heavily stylized fun graph... ah, AI used in the production process. Nevermind.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

About 10 years ago I hear the last call of golden oriole around these parts. More and more cats started roaming in the fields and I thought that the birds stopped coming. But this morning I heard the unmistakable whistles of what is one of my favorite birds singing outside my window. I am so happy.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Fantastic! Can't wait to see more creators joining Godot with this news.

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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 22/05/2026

We've been working on replacing the Asset Library with something built for the present and future. Here's what's coming. #godotengine godotengine.org/article/intr...

godotengine.org

Introducing the Godot Asset Store – Godot Engine

We've been working on replacing the Asset Library with something built for the present and future. Here's what's coming.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Ok, screw cutscenes. How in the everlovin flippin heck do ledges and cliffs in a 2D beat em up work? I spent the entire night thinking about edge cases regarding both in-game jump/movement pseudo-3D physics and AI interactions and I'm barely conscious now.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Sometimes it's the features you don't expect that are the most complex. In my game, that was the internal scripted event player I designed the framework with it in mind, with all the inputs routed through hot-swappable components, but even basic implementation still was somehow more than I expected

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

thick śmietana (30%) + sugar was the regular uhhh... topping? for sweet pierogi around my parts.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

My granny used to do amazing strawberry ones whenever I visited in summer. Damn, the memories hit hard.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

and as a single father I don't always have time to cook my own food, even though I try to do that as often as I can.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

jokes aside - mostly because I live in the middle of nowhere, and I tend to freeze a lot of my food. also my kids' allergies come into play, there's plenty of limitations on what I can give them, and sometimes the objectively crappier food is the one that they can eat unfortunately.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Me, looking to boil some frozen pierogi from Żabka rn: uhhh right, I would never do such a thing. Never! *slowly walks back into the hedge*

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Head east, there has to be some civilization there.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

It's friday! Time to *checks notes* continue working on my game!

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Yeah, the commit messages are atrocious. Hope you'll forgive me, future mantis. You know I love you.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Ever had that moment when you fix one bug just to discover that its quirks masked errors from untold layers of cross-related bugs and the code that you were actually quite proud of turns out to be a jenga tower one block removal from collapsing? Because oh boy did I. #indiedev

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

As I'm getting deeper into the project and started adding more complex overlaying and interacting systems, I have decided to take some time off to do a little cleanup. Little cleanup had me working till 2:30am yesterday and I'm still in the trenches, with like 50% more to go. Ouch.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My idea is to put up demo for June fest and try to do a release for October fest.

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

also enviro, did I mention enviro and UI :D

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

This looks amazing. Love the vibes, the character animations, vfx, everything!

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

obra dinn but you try to figure out how did it end up like this, it was only a kiss, it was only a kiss

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mantis @imakecoolstuff.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

why not both! I'm making thr game multiplayer!

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