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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 16/09/2026

Its fucking crazy that "you should expect less support from groups you target with unfavorable policy positions" is a bedrock uncontroversial rule of politics right up until the group in question is trans people and their families

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

its probably bad to have an ascendant political movement whose main animating philosophy is "it is based to have oppositional defiant disorder"

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 28/08/2026

I think anyone who implements this policy is just as undeserving of sleep as the people who wrote it

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 28/08/2026

Monstrously and pointlessly cruel. A new Section 28, doomed to the same place in history but nevertheless causing mass suffering on the way there

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty Tech artist: can it be entirely empty OR a full-but-closed bottle

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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

a true simulationist game for sickos operates on roger rabbit rules. it can only replicate (or diverge from) reality when doing so is funny

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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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Game Devs of Color Expo @gdocexpo.com · 18/08/2026

SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT📢 Fiona Jeeva: Solving Technical Constraints with Shaders in Ambrosia Sky From volumetric destruction to animated fungus pipelines, Fiona breaks down the shader-driven solutions behind Ambrosia Sky's most visually striking systems. 🎮 #GDoCExpo2026

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 16/08/2026

Immersive sim is when player participates in encounter design

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

A kind assumption but ehhhh - I like some parts of it, the request batching strategy is pretty good and the way it handles invalidation worked pretty well. The output I'd do differently a second time around - this Mk1 is prone to produce multiple events where a single one would do

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

This avoids ECS as the simulated object is *high* (~40k simulated objects in some levels). It's a custom thread running off to the side, requests in and events out. The game thread gets a 1ms/frame budget for consuming events, so it can fail by ignoring events or adding latency instead of hitching

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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 · 07/08/2026

The entire "don't network the computers" subplot in Battlestar Galactica is in reference to what happens when you let a smart TV connect to your wifi

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Ambrosia Sky 🪐 @softrains.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ambrosia Sky is now available on Steam & EGS! ✨ Featuring: 🪐 A vibrant space colony + alien ecosystem to explore ⚙ Simulation mechanics + progression 📖 A sombre homecoming 🍄 Exo-fungus to discover + cleanse 💜 Your lost love Start your journey today at ambrosiasky.com

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Boo-rad Shankar @bradshankar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I loved @softrains.bsky.social’s Ambrosia Sky: Act Two. The level design is more intricate and the world-building even richer this time around, but I found myself genuinely moved by Dalia’s journey, especially in how much I relate to her strained relationship with her step-mother. A brilliant game.

mobilesyrup.com

Toronto-made Ambrosia Sky is sci-fi storytelling at its most heartfelt

The "clean 'em up" gameplay is satisfyingly meditative, but it's the melancholic narrative that ends up hitting surprisingly hard.

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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 · 04/08/2026

might fuck around and ship a game this week

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 01/08/2026

“You can’t change your sex” motherfucker I can and I did

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Kitten Cup Studio @kittencupstudio.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Happy International Friendship Day from two Toronto indie studios cheering each other on! 🤝 We’re grateful for friends like the team at @softrains.bsky.social & this year we’re sharing one very big date: August 6! Two very different indie games, one shared launch day & so much hype for next week🎉✨

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Ambrosia Sky 🪐 @softrains.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We got a big ole' spaceship, and it's up to @julesfern.gay & @astroscout.ca to clean it! 🧼 We've got our penultimate episode of "Exploring Ambrosia"! In this edition, we befriend a box, look under the hood, and chat hard sci-fi. 📺: youtu.be/Rnfd6HzRi1A

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Exploring Ambrosia [EP.6] - The Stargazer

YouTube video by Soft Rains Games

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This game is so damn good

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Ambrosia Sky 🪐 @softrains.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is your informal (not formal) notice that Act Two (the second half) of Ambrosia Sky (an atmospheric sci-fi cleaning game about saying goodbye) comes out next week (August 6th). It's a free (🚫💰) update for all existing owners, which could be you (the person reading this)! ➡ ambrosiasky.com

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 22/07/2026

why isn't it "taters tot" like attorneys general

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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 · 16/07/2026

I feel like I'm watching people sprinkle thousands of mouse traps around their house and then walk around barefoot with the lights off

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Respec @respec.net · 10/07/2026

“Why not embrace our direction - go for it” - Ambrosia Sky's @softrains.bsky.social are sticking to the vision, not becoming “market palatable” www.respec.net/interview/93-why-not…

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

Standard $500USD reverse consultancy fee for strangers who want to explain my own areas of expertise to me

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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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FIFTYcc @fiftycc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

"Sitting at 91% positive reviews on Steam at the moment, the next update to Ambrosia Sky is expected to close out the story which began in Act One." @softrains.bsky.social @gamingbible.bsky.social www.gamingbible.com/news/platfor...

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91% Rated 2025 Sci-Fi FPS Reveals Free Story Expansion

Much more to come in August!

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 30/06/2026

This is a pragmatic and good policy

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 29/06/2026

i make a folder called "crap" and drag everything into it. once a year i delete it completely, under the rationale that anything important should have been rescued from it by now

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 26/06/2026

I curse you to never again be served food at its ideal temperature

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 18/06/2026

if i could go back in time i would hold this post under the water until the bubbles stopped

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Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ @julesfern.gay · 18/06/2026

i know in my heart this post is bad and i did it anyway

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