iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Congrats on the release to the talented team behind Burn With Me! I got to draw some alternative card illustrations for the game, so go ahead and try to unlock them… if you DARE!

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Also, shoutout to this highly complicated piece of geometry nodes engineering:

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Wait, this is so cool, is this booleans? I always forget they exist. I managed to build a kind of similar setup by tricking an object to do a union operation on itself. It's an oddly satisfying way to build levels, that's for sure.

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Can you really not attach more than one video per post? Boo!

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tried turning some of my drawings into tiny vertical videos to see how well they perform organically on Instagram. I like how much juice you can squeeze from more or less a single PNG with some minor flashy edits. I think the emergent vibe so far is «ad bumpers you swear you saw on tv at 4 AM».

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Thanks! Doing what I love most: subjecting drawings to strange Substance Designer experiments.

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Sorry there hasn't been much in terms of art recently. I'm pretty consistent about picking up a stylus these days, but most of it is either for bigger unannounced things or just me scribbling absent-minded doodles for fun.

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Went to do a little exploring yesterday. Really wish I didn't forget to charge my camera flash though.

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Up on Friday night stacking concrete blocks.

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

All my ideas just end up being Mallory again, don't they? Well, technically not true, I have at least one prototype where you shoot a gun.

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

An update on this thing: after making a couple more environments this way I realized that I don't really enjoy the slow, overengineered pipeline I've built. And also I ended up adding the lights engine-side anyway for better character shading, so what is even the huge win anymore? 🤷

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

They're late for lowpoly FPS crawler enemy archetype school.

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I hope they're not an invasive species.

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Me every six months: Okay, but what if I added outlines to my game for no good reason whatsoever.

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

That's a good stopping point, I think. Maybe just a couple more rooms and it'll be about the size/complexity I imagined for an average level. It's really fun to build stuff once you already have all the necessary lego pieces in the content browser, I should do this more often.

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

It's shaping up nicely. The signs really tied it together. I don't want to use English or anything too common for signage, so I'm utilizing constructed languages instead. At least ones with an online translator. For the underpass it was Interslavic, but I thought Esperanto would fit here more.

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

It appears that the pet project for this vacation is a new area for my slowly-made first-person exploration game. Which I should title. This level's inspired by exposed ground floors of apartment buildings I see around the city. There's just something so eerie about them to me, especially at night.

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Even more art tests. This one is for the point-and-click game idea I keep meaning to flesh out a bit. Played around with baked lighting this time. These are 3D, in-engine and almost entirely procedurally textured. Didn't have to lay down a single brushstroke. Kind of excited about this workflow.

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Test character for a thing. I've never been able to crack the code on crunchy pixelated textures, they never look quite like I want them to. Even with the amazing Pixel8r tool that basically does all the work for me. PSX devs make it look so easy!

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Drawing sad catgirls with less than two hours left on the clock, heck yeah. Have a good 2026, everyone. ✨

A white cat person in a red Santa hat looking outside a square opening of a stone frame, red and green. The geometric patterns in the stone are very abstract, but in one of them you can almost make out the number 2026.

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

The ones that came before you. CW: trypophobia.

A white cat-like anthropomorphic figure stands in stone ruins in front of a wrought metal window at sunset. The figure looks back at the wide stairway behind it, revealing there's a black four-pointed star where its face should be. There are two lifeless bodies lying on the stairs, looking half-absorbed into the stone steps. It's hard to tell because of the state the remains are in, but they appear to be of the same cat-like species.

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Far distant eyes look out through yours.

A digital drawing of Gordon Freeman, the protagonist of the Half-Life series, posing against a sunset sky. He's partially lit by a bright light source from the front, likely a flashlight. The setting sky provides little ambient illumination. Freeman's HEV suit is slightly damaged, his face expression vacant, head slightly tilted to the side. His left eye, one most in shadow, glows a haunting green. A Combine helicopter is flying in the distance.

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Dreaming of a videogame that doesn't exist.

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Oh yeah they did have some similar-looking structures there didn't they?

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Entertaining the idea of making a card game.

Screenshot of a game featuring eight cards of different suits and values strewn around on a concrete floor.

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Starting the year right by drawing some random Half-Life silliness.

A digital painting of G-Man from the Half-Life series playing acoustic guitar and singing Mike Shapiro's song «Best Long Dog». Alyx Vance is singing back vocals in the background.

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Ivan Khoroshev @khorrorshow.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

I'm convinced that Thai skies just really do hit different, as the kids say. But here's a pretty iridescent cloud I tried to take clumsy photos of from inside a moving car.

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