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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 18/08/2026

Easy. And I'll make more than that on my own before the year is out

Cover art for Elite Dangerous showing a dusty planetscape with a gas giant in the background. Two spaceships are jetting across the sky and a ground rover is driving across a hillside.

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 18/08/2026

The new AI-powered game engine lineup

Screencap from a simpsons episode. Homer and a small crowd are being shown the big tanks for Duff, Duff Lite and Duff Dry, which are revealed to all come from the same pipe. I would have photoshopped "Unity," "UE6", and "This Shit" onto the three tanks but I didn't feel like it

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 07/08/2026

Super early version of electrical fungus. I still love a lot about how this one looks, like its a thick glass tube full of plasma, but it didn't read well in mixed lighting conditions so we moved on. The sparks that run along the charged pieces were cool as hell so we did keep those

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 07/08/2026

The single most upsetting gym I've ever made. This was to test our "weird gravity" but it is also just the Orb of Saṃsāra

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 07/08/2026

The time we figured out the same thing that drives electricity can also be used to handle structural rigidity. Fungus bits touching solid level geometry provide a fake resource called "structure" to any connected pieces.

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 07/08/2026

Early playable of sprayables and electrical simulation. Yeah, electricity doesn't work like that, but consider: the moment when you flip on a big light switch and the lights turn on one by one with a "thunk" noise, is cool

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 07/08/2026

Early playable of Dalia's tether. This version let you do some cool stunts but was REALLY hard to use in interior environments. The final version pulls you much more decisively in the anchor direction while still punishing careless use.

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 07/08/2026

Early test of volumetric damage. Shortly after we discovered exploder fungus is best when the fruiting bodies are placed close enough to chain react

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 07/08/2026

Early version of the Houdini tool we use to path fungus. The level geometry gets sent over from Unreal, then Houdini comes back with a nice, natural distribution of possible paths for the fungus to follow.

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 07/08/2026

Ambrosia Sky development gore thread Here's the very first time the cleaning tech worked. According to my file naming this was the 8th attempt to get a good result

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 05/08/2026

Y'all should really check out Fiona Jeeva's upcoming talk at GDoC! She's an incredible tech artist and creative partner. Ambrosia Sky's cleaning gameplay quite literally could not exist without her mad science www.gamedevsofcolor.org/sessions

Excerpt from the Game Devs of Color schedule page. The talk abstract reads:

Solving Technical Constraints with Shaders in Ambrosia Sky

Fiona Jeeva (She/Her)

This talk breaks down the shader-driven approach behind Ambrosia Sky’s volumetric destruction system and fungus animation pipeline. It covers how we overcame technical constraints while creating dense, reactive fungus species in our environments to meet art, design and gameplay goals. Through examples from development, it explores a hybrid pipeline of Houdini and Unreal Engine, using Vertex Animation Textures (VATs) alongside shader-based vertex deformations in Unreal to achieve visual complexity in reactive environments.

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 18/07/2026

I’m nothing in between, You know you wouldn’t want it any other way-e-ay —

Toronto Star column reading “I’m a cyclist, I’m a driver, I’m a TTC rider” like Meredith Brooks taking a position on Toronto public transit

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 09/07/2026

For those who want to avoid this, it's Razer. This is what you have to agree to just to configure the hardware you paid for. www.razer.com/legal/servic...

Terms of service on the Razer website. The pertinent text reads "Use of Data for AI Development. Razer may collect, process, and utilize personal data and non-personal data, including but not limited to user-generated content, transactional information, and usage metrics ("Customer Data"), for the purposes of developing, enhancing, training, testing, and maintaining proprietary artificial intelligence systems, algorithms, and related technologies ("AI Systems"). By using Razer’s Services, you acknowledge and expressly consent to the inclusion of Customer Data in the datasets used for such AI-related purposes, subject to applicable data protection and privacy laws."

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 09/07/2026

I don't think the software that changes the colors of the little lights on my mouse needs to "collect personal data" for "purposes of developing, enhancing, training, testing, and maintaining proprietary artificial intelligence systems"

"Freedom of Speech" painting by Norman Rockwell. Man in a casual grey jacket and blue plaid shirt stands up above his peers and appears to be yapping

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 12/06/2026

important emails watching me beeline for a pizza coupon and leave

its the ghost of christmas future from Scrooged (1988). He's a big skeleton. Trapped within his ribcage are three creatures that appear to be suffering

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 28/05/2026

its just a stray collision. i am an adult. my mind is an undisturbed oasis

collision object made of a capsule pointing up at 45 degrees with a sphere at its base. being real but totally mature about it it does look a bit like a penis

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 04/05/2026

ah yeah i can totally see why this is a trillion dollar industry now good job

It came time for me to once again check in and see if AI coding models have started producing useful output. So here's what AI suggested as an autocomplete on some code. The code is just an empty class, so you'd think the AI would knock it out the park with like a default constructor or something. Possibly even some stubs inferred from the class name and nearby comments. But no, what we get is a constructor copied from some other class followed by a malformed copy constructor that falls into model collapse and starts repeating "affor affor affor" and "miniatur miniatur miniatur" like an utterly k-holed billionaire trying to tell joe rogan about his warhammer army

It remains fucking *bonkers* that people let this shit run unsupervised on production code. I think on balance I'm quite happy writing code using my brain and hands actually

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 26/02/2026

the future doesn't have to suck ass. we can stand around doing air guitar to In Time by Robbie Robb instead

Bill and Ted stand under a spotlight in a sparkly silver futuristic hall. In front of them are the 3 most important dudes in the universe and all around them are future people doing air guitar in their sparkly silver futuristic clothes

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 02/12/2025

Have you ever had a utility provider do something so absurdly user hostile that you consider dropping them on the spot

T-mobile push notification sent to my Apple Watch trying to sell me Little caesar for some fucking reason

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 20/11/2025

if you see this, quote with the energy you bring to bluesky

The painting "Young Woman On Her Death Bed"

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 13/11/2025

Ambrosia Sky is VERIFIED on Steam Deck, including support for Intel XeSS 2! We put a lot of love into performance on this device so you can clean up space fungus anywhere