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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thinking of sci-fi niches for the human race that aren't "adaptable," which is the coward's choice. I feel like we'd be famous for being good physicists. Splitting the atom before sending a human into space feels like it would be a rare sequence of events.

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John Nesky @johnnesky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For those keeping score at home: it looks like Metroid Ravenous uses the "silhouette" environment art style again. See: johnnesky.com/twitter-shak... My only other question is: does it have earworms? The song in the trailer sounds cool in the moment but doesn't qualify.

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John Nesky on Twitter (archived)

I made a reference chart for ways to design environment art for solid boundaries of 2D video games! For indoor scenes, we don't draw the front wall so you can see the avatar, but what should other wal...

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John Nesky @johnnesky.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Octaves aren't eights. Fifths aren't fives. Black key naming conventions are fitting a square peg in a round hole. FM synthesis isn't frequency modulation. Decibels are a disaster: blog.coredump.cx/p/decibels-a... Logic and reason were never an option. Unless you're referring to the DAWs.

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 02/09/2026

What if our ears were like our eyes, and only had three (types of) receptors? Interestingly speech is still more or less intelligible, but not much else to me this shows how much more discriminating of frequencies our hearing is than our vision. Of course our vision has much more spatial resolution

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Oops! All Paperclips @all-paperclips.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Introducing fluoddity.com! Hundreds of thousands of particles self organize into a stunning variety of structures. Explore a world of possibilities with mutation and artificial selection! This is my personal tool for exploring Fluoddity, rebuilt for the web by Opus 5

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Andrew Willmott @andrewwillmott.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Fascinating. I knew a bit of this (e.g., fingers/pick near the bridge on a bass gives you a harsher sound with more bite due to the differing harmonics), but the variety of oscillating shapes from different excitation methods are wild. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYdX...

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Strings Don't Vibrate The Way You Think

YouTube video by minutephysics

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mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

stumbled on this interesting reverb allpass delay calculator website - polarity.me/posts/helper... - i think trom a member of the bitwig grid community. the IR it generates is quite nice in my initial quick test, tho i suggest an allpass feedback of 0.75 rather than 0.5

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All-Pass Reverb Calculator - Diffuser Delay Times for Bitwig Grid

Calculate all-pass delay times for smooth reverb tails. Pick a preset for plate, hall, shimmer, or metallic reverb, set the first and last delay in ms, and the calculator spaces each diffuser stage to...

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Erin Catto @erincatto.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I’m happy to announce the release of a new open source 3D physics engine called Box3D. I’ve been working on this project for a few years now, but it represents over 20 years of experience writing physics engines for games. Read more here: box2d.org/posts/2026/0...

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Announcing Box3D

I’m happy to announce the release of Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine. It is now available on GitHub. Box3D repository You can think of Box3D as a fork of Box2D, extended with many features nee...

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mcc @dryad.technology · 30/06/2026

"BECOME A GREAT ARTIST IN JUST 10 SECONDS" The award-winning game/glitchy art program @smestorp.bsky.social and I made in 2013 has now been rereleased on Itch for modern OSes. Try it out!, and make sure to tell any friends you want to play a weird prank on mermaidindustries.itch.io/become-a-gre...

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Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I made a video about the smooth-maximum function, I hope you like it! youtu.be/6Qb6QtC6QMs

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A function you cannot do without

YouTube video by Inigo Quilez

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

My erosion filter is out! Video, blog post, and shader source. It emulates erosion without simulation, so it's fast, GPU friendly, and trivial to generate in chunks. Explainer video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4V2... Companion blog post: blog.runevision.com/2026/03/fast... #ProcGen #vfx #GameDev

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torcado @torcado.com · 25/03/2026

As promised, here's a writeup of how this system works :) torcado.com/blog/simple-platformer There's a playable demo and download for the p8 cart on that page. It's CC0, do whatever you want with it ❤️

A screenshot snippet of the linked blog post, showing part of the collision checking process

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I made this a while ago. There are some vertebrates in here but the inverts steal the show. I especially love the triangular plaid on the velvet worm.

25 rectangular pictures of close ups of animals with different patterns that would make good prints. We’ve got purple and green stripes on a chiton, there’s blue rings on a yellow octopus, there’s navy blue and sky blue triangular tartan on a velvet worm, mottled black spots overlaid on a rainbow gradient on a lizard, blue and green eye spots on a turtle shell, labyrinthine ridges on brain coral, red and white candy stripes on an amphipod, Rorschach test blots on a crab, and teal and coral colored geometric shapes on a beetle.

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Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

If you enjoyed my posts about Metroid games you might like to learn that I made a fully drawn strategy guide for the original game several years ago. It's free! www.handdrawngameguides.com/free-guides/...

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increpare @increpare.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Camera rewrite proceeding apace: it casts two spheres - one the size of the camera, the other slightly bigger, it uses the latter as a soft target, with the former as a hard limit on how far away you can go. Satisfying - I had been far too tolerant of penetration until now. #OeufGame #GodotEngine

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Made a little VR locomotion tunnel vision shader. This is a pretty standard trick to mitigate motion sickness for players that want to use smooth locomotion. It works by showing a stationary environment in the peripheral vision during smooth locomotion. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Adam Scott @adamscott.studio · 26/08/2025

Are you able to tiptoe like this with a Switch 2 JoyCon? Well, you can't without a 28.09 mm physical extension to your stick. For more info about "thumb-travel range" and its impact on retro-gaming and on our general joystick knowledge, see stick-it-up.adamscott.studio

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John Nesky @johnnesky.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

@jonaskyratzes.bsky.social Hi! Is the soundtrack to Phenomenon 32 available anywhere? I don't have a windows computer anymore but I'm getting nostalgic for it. :)

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 25/05/2025

Scavengers Reign (2023) The best recent sci-fi show that almost no one has seen.

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Wave (Slime 64) @waveparadigm.com · 21/05/2025

I've spent *years* researching 3D Platformer Cameras in hopes of making Slime 64's camera "not terrible." In this thread, the White Cylinder is the Camera Target (slightly above the player!), and the Orange Cones represent the "vertical dead zone" where the camera won't follow player movement.

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droqen and 24 others @droqen.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

beepbox.co isn't listed on @itch.io as a tool so i started the process of listing it except (!!!) you have to include three example games and i don't know who uses beepbox because it isn't searchable on itch!!! anyone use beepbox & got a project on itch that i could include?

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BeepBox

BeepBox is an online tool for sketching and sharing instrumental music.

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🍔 Izzi8bit 🍔 @izzi8bit.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Here are 50 Bowsers all in different pixel art styles! #BowserPosting

This is an image with a purple gradient background and 50 different Bowsers from Super Mario Bros franchise but he is done in pixel art styles based on various games such as but not limited to Donkey Kong, Punch Out!!, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Sonic Advance, Undertale, Pizza Tower, and Cave Story. They are in numerical order from the year released for the games that Bowser is in the style of. The image is an overwhelming amount of Bowsers.

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Animal Photo Reference Repository @animalphotorefs.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

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Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository

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Thomas Feichtmeir @cyangmou.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I updated "Perspective in 2D games", an already 11 year old tutorial, with all the knowledge I gained through the years. Never stop improving yourself! #gamedev #pixelart You can download a lossless single sheet version on my Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/cyangmou

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Sean Barrett @nothings.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The contract is that I will willingly suspend my disbelief and accept the storyteller's contrivance. But in return I expect them to earn or minimize their contrivances. I expect major coincidences to occur at the beginning and start the ball rolling, not provide solutions at the end.

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Yuri @yurisizov.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

🎯 Straight to the point: Bosca Ceoil Blue 3.1 is now in beta! In this first update for the new Bosca you'll find - Browser version! - New editing tools - Reworked export and import - Improved GUI - And, many many fixes and tweaks! Read on and download it NOW! yurisizov.itch.io/boscaceoil-b...

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Bosca Ceoil Blue 3.1 is now in beta!

After several months of development version 3.1 is ready for testing! Everyone is invited to help ensure that this release is as solid as it can be before we officially break open champaign. In a week...

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Kai @raylaxkai.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

A radius in a square (or other regular polygon) is the distance from the centre to a corner, because these are always the same length, but distance from radius to any arbitrary point along the edge will vary. Apothem is distance from centre to the middle of an edge (where it meets@ 90°)

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Kieran 🦘🇨🇦 @hellbendermuseum.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Not sure if I'm just slow to realise this- but I follow a lot of international art accounts, especially Japanese and Spanish language ones, and I wasn't seeing them in my feed as my content language was set to English. If you deselect every language under content language you should see everything.

The languages settings tab within bluesky. The "content languages" section is set to "select languages"

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Matt Nava @mattnava.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

10th anniversary Journey thread, recreated: I was the art director of thatgamecompany's Journey. It set the course of my career and my art. I'm forever thankful to the community of players and their incredible love for the game. This is a thread comparing early dev images and how things shipped.

The intro title shot from the PS3 game Journey. This is from the finished game. The title "Journey" is displayed above a distant mountain, with the player character seeing it from atop a sand dune.

The intro title shot from a work in progress version of Journey. The title's font is different, the composition is asymmetrical, and the distant mountain is not as tall as the final version.

My initial sketch for the title shot for the game Journey. A simple, small line drawing featuring the player character in the foreground and the mountain in the distance.

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

hello to many new followers. I offer upon you this huge webcomic to which I have devoted some years of my life: rice-boy.com/3rdvoice/ i wish you well

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