iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 11/08/2026

Did a huge refactor and now I have baked tile lighting. I love the way it reveals ore as you mine now.

Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 08/08/2026

I told my dad about how I was looking at buying a kei truck and now he's sending me facebook market place links. I think he wants one now.

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 08/08/2026

Some good progress during the week. Added a crosshair, breaking animation, and physically simulated items that drop and can be picked up. I also figured out how to make a radar/minimap by drawing directly to a bitmap.

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 02/08/2026

started working on my entry for the gba jam 2026

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 26/07/2026

It's refreshing to see a readme without emojis now. So sick of this slop that reads like a linked in post. I just want to see a code example.

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 25/07/2026

Now I wait to see if this project continues or gets canned...

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 12/07/2026

just added a feature to my current project that will ensure i can't see what users are jerking off to. this will all make sense if i actually release it

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 10/07/2026

The only reason I have the reddit app on my phone now is so i get notifications for my town's subreddit. This week there have been 4 posts about UFO sightings.

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 07/07/2026

I'm in uri encoding hell at 1am

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 28/06/2026

Working on this project again. Finally added a notification toast system and used windows live messenger as my inspo. I want to recreate the frame around the profile pic at some point.

A notification from Windows Live Messenger

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 18/06/2026

seeing how fast my phone can detect me playing fireflies

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 16/05/2026

It works with the new area light and reflections too!

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 16/05/2026

Somebody put my bloxorz gba port on retroachievements and now they are speedrunning it retroachievements.org/leaderboardi...

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 17/02/2026

Downloading the android beta just to feel something

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 16/02/2026

Somebody tell me why I shouldn't make my own game laucher/updater right now

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 14/01/2026

I ported the classic flash game Bloxorz to the Game Boy Advance. You can play it now at nostabyte.itch.io/bloxorzgba Anyway, here's the trailer I threw together for it #gamedev

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 14/01/2026

I ported the classic flash game Bloxorz to the Game Boy Advance. You can play it now at nostabyte.itch.io/bloxorzgba Anyway, here's the trailer I threw together for it #gamedev

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 06/01/2026

It's weird having a project so small in scope that I might actually finish it this week

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 26/12/2025

I got a GBA SP for Christmas with a flash cart and now I'm running code I wrote this summer on it

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 22/12/2025

It turns out you can snap the LIGHT_VERTEX to the nearest tex coord to make it look like the realtime lighting is baked into the texture. I've been wanting this effect since I saw it in a minecraft shader years ago. Now I'm going to add it to StandardMaterial3D. #godot #gamedev

ball with a pixelated shadow with the pixels of the shadow lining up with the pixels of the floor texture

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 16/12/2025

Has anyone coined a term for when the geometry is really fucked up due to some graphical glitch like this?

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 10/12/2025

I got some basic rope physics working. I decided I needed it for the next mechanic I want to add. If you look close enough you can probably figure out how it works. #godot #gamedev

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 08/12/2025

Why did nobody tell me gimp has non destructive editing now? I have been avoiding it for over a decade because of it's workflow so maybe I'll give it another shot.

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 01/12/2025

I made a lot of progress over the long weekend but I would have made more if I didn't make my reflection probe test into a bouncy ball. I have probably spent over an hour just doing this and tweaking parameters. #godot #gamedev

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 29/11/2025

I was looking for something on my drive and found a bunch of screenshots from a project I abandoned 2 years ago. Looking through them is making me want to return to that project again. #godot #gamedev

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 12/11/2025

I want the new steam controller

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 17/10/2025

I made another addon for Godot instead of working on my game... jacobcoughenour.com/posts/gdscri...

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Faking generics in GDScript with GDScript - Jacob Coughenour

Faking generics in GDScript with GDScript

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 18/09/2025

I haven't been doing a lot of gamedev this week. I'm almost one week into my usual two week Minecraft phase

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 15/08/2025

I remember buying portal for my white 2010 MacBook from school because my sister and her friend were watching @hankgreen.bsky.social play it. It ran like shit on that MacBook and I only played the first 3 chambers.

Steam purchase history: portal, half life 2, FEZ, Garry's mod, gta 4, Lego lord of the rings, CSGO

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AJ Moser @andmoser.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The wise man bowed his head and laughed. “Video games have come a long was since Pac-Man” he said, finally.

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 20/07/2025

My cats watching the birds on the bird feeder from the window

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 28/06/2025

I just figured out you can use the Color Picker tool from PowerToys to debug shader values

Screenshot of a color picker overlay displaying the current red, green, and blue values of the pixel that the mouse is hovering over.

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 19/06/2025

I've been waiting years for the stencil buffer PR to get merged. just in time for me to redo my postprocessing stack with some crisp outlines

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 15/06/2025

I love how extensible the godot editor is. I just threw together this launch profile switcher this morning to make it faster to switch between single player and multiplayer launch settings.

A drop down displaying the options "Default" and "2 player"

A window displaying various launch settings for the game

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 10/06/2025

I recreated the animated bars icon you see in every music streaming app in a godot shader. godotshaders.com/shader/now-p...

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 07/06/2025

I spent most of last night making a custom godot editor panel for controlling my relay server. I also made a debug only websocket endpoint on the server so I could add some commands later

A new panel labeled Server added to the bottom of the Godot Editor. It has buttons which read Stop Relay Server, Open in vscode, and Clear with a log output displaying logs from the server.

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 06/06/2025

Slept for 5 hours, made a full track in fl studio in 4 hours, slept for another 5 hours

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 26/05/2025

I finally updated my site and made a blog. Here's the details: jacobcoughenour.com/posts/intro/

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The blog - Jacob Coughenour

The blog

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Jacob Coughenour @jacobcoughenour.com · 19/05/2025

Targeting web for my godot game is forcing me to actually focus on the gameplay since so many of the engine features are not there. The game is actually in a playable state now which is rare for my projects to make it this far.

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