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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 30/09/2026

Update: the migration is going surprisingly well. The thing I thought would be the problem (converting TileMaps to TileMapLayers) ended up being pretty easy, and other things I thought were fine ended up having issues (like the weirdness with this menu). But ain't that just always the way it goes?

A screenshot of an action menu in game. There are a number of options listed vertically. The second-to-last option is currently highlighted, and the area highlighted is much larger than the text contained within it.

A screenshot of an action menu in game. There are a number of options listed in the menu and the last option of the list is currently highlighted. The icon and text for the option are misaligned.

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 02/09/2026

Another #PAX West is upon us and we are once again returning with our (in)famous panel, "Let's Make a Video Game: Live on Stage"! Come watch a handful of lovable idiots attempt to make a game live, before your very eyes, in an hour! Will we succeed? Either way, it'll be entertaining to watch!

A flyer for the PAX West panel. The image is a photograph taken during the panel from a previous year. Four developers are accompanied by two MCs. The text reads...

"Let's Make a Video Game: Live on Stage
Friday, September 4
9:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Firebird Theatre"

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 23/08/2026

Since it may be difficult to see details on that small gif...

A render of a model of a bee-themed Tamagotchi, shown in Unreal Engine 5.

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 23/08/2026

The bee Tamagotchi is finished! This was so much fun to work on. Thanks again to @berrycutepixels.com for the amazing concept and allowing me to model it! More info and higher quality images on my site: www.kieranlampert.com/work/bee-tam... #3D #tamagotchi #gameart #art #unreal #UE5

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 22/08/2026

A clean bake is such a beautiful thing 😍😍 #3D #WIP #art

A screenshot from within Marmoset Toolbag showing a Tamagotchi egg model with a baked normal map and ambient occlusion applied.

A screenshot from within Marmoset Toolbag of the same Tamagotchi egg model, but without the normal map and ambient occlusion applied. The wireframe is displayed on the model to show the underlying topology.

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 20/08/2026

I've loved the Tamagotchi concepts by @berrycutepixels.com for a super long time so, with their permission, I thought I'd take a shot at sculpting/modeling one. The bee one is my favorite! Still a ways to go but here's my progress so far. #tamagotchi #3D #fanart #WIP

A screenshot of a 3D sculpted, bee-themed fan concept for a Tamagotchi, taken from within Zbrush.

The original concept image by @berrycutepixels.com

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 04/08/2026

QRP with your most popular bsky piece! Still Porco Rosso: "I'd rather be a pig than a fascist." #art #3D #ghibli #fanart

A render of a digital 3D sculpture of Porco Rosso. He is facing the left, dressed in his flight gear, holding a cigarette in his right hand near his face.

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 31/07/2026

Adding a few details and polish to her hair and hands and then calling this done #3D #zbrush #fanart

A screenshot from Zbrush of a sculpture of a girl. She has dark blue hair, dyed red in patches, with an undercut and tied up in a ponytail. She is wearing a pair of overall shorts over a black t-shirt, held up by a thick black belt with a chunky belt buckle. She is running her right hand through her hair while looking wistfully offscreen left.

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 01/07/2026

Almost finished with all the land units. I've been putting it off, but now I need to figure out how to handle the human units (infantry and mech). #gamedev #gameart #advancewars #pixelart #lowpoly

A screen capture of a group of low poly, 3D models of units from the Advance Wars video game series. The units pictured (left to right, front row to back row): APC, tank, medium tank, mega tank, anti-air, artillery, missiles, rockets, recon, neo tank, piperunner.

A screen capture of a group of low poly, 3D models of units from the Advance Wars video game series. This image features the same units in the same arrangement from the previous image, but the image is captured from a different angle (lower and from the left side).

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 16/06/2026

Almost done with this little project, which is good because I don't want to spend more than a few weeks on it. It has been extremely fun playing around in PICO-8, though. I will definitely be making more little games with it. #gamedev #indiegame #pico8 #pixelart

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 09/06/2026

Things are gettin' juicy. The bird can move between wires now and I've started to add sound effects. #gamedev #indiegame #pico8 #pixelart

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 02/06/2026

"Why yes I AM a professional game dev, thank you for noticing. Recent projects, you ask? Well..." #gamedev #pico8 #pixelart

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 01/06/2026

Had an amazing time at PigCon this weekend. So many highlights, but if I had to pick a favorite it would be the PICO-8 talk by @lexaloffle.bsky.social followed by the PICO-8 workshop! Been wanting to try it out for so long and now I'm having way too much fun making these lil dudes. #pico8

A screenshot of the sprite editor in PICO-8. Several sprites have been made, and the one currently in focus is a little guy wearing a hat and a red bandana.

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 19/05/2026

Working on some new low-fi Advance Wars units: #gameart #lowpoly #pixelart

A screenshot of a 3D, low-poly rendition of a Medium Tank from the Advance Wars series.

A screenshot of a 3D, low-poly rendition of a Mega Tank from the Advance Wars series.

A screenshot of a collection of 3D, low-poly renditions of units from the Advance Wars series (Artillery, APC, Tank, Medium Tank, Mega Tank, and Anti-Air).

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 05/05/2026

If you see this, post a sword 🗡️

A 3D digital fan sculpture of the character Beric Dondarrion from the series Game of Thrones. He is holding a sword aloft, it's blade on fire, and looking warily over his left shoulder.

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 14/04/2026

I did the thing everyone's been doing. It was a lot harder to fill out than I thought it was going to be.

An image showing a filled out list of prompts for games (such as "Favorite Game" and "Best Combat")

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 03/04/2026

Two very different games, but would love to remake both: 1) Bust-A-Groove 2) Descent

A screenshot from the game Bust-A-Groove showing two characters having a dance battle.

A screenshot from the game Descent showing a POV from within the cockpit of a spaceship, with another enemy spaceship blocking a large doorway.

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 15/03/2026

In my professional opinion, established through extensive research, I've found kittens make the best placeholder images. #gamedev #godot #indiegame

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 14/02/2026

I've switched gears recently to adding controller support for the game. Not glamorous, and hard to demonstrate through a video, but necessary (especially before I get too far into development). #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart #godot #turnbased #rpg

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 19/01/2026

"I'd rather be a pig than a fascist."

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 17/01/2026

For your base ship in Farmageddon I wanted to break from the grid-based locomotion you use in battle and instead allow you to freely walk around the environment to interact with things (channeling some Disgaea vibes). #ScreenshotSaturday #turnbased #gamedev #indiegame #gameart #godot #pixelart

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 12/01/2026

Finally started chopping up the assets for this scene and bringing them into Godot. It'll be nice to have a real looking "home base" to come back to between battles instead of just the placeholder UI I've been using up to this point. #gamedev #godot #wip #pixelart

A screenshot taken from the Godot editor that shows various assets being placed together to form a home base interior environment scene.

A screenshot of the character Hannibal, giving a thumbs up, from the "A-Team" television show. Text over top the image reads "I love it when a plan comes together", but the word "plan" has been crossed out and the word "scene" has been handwritten above it.

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 29/11/2025

Working on finally putting together an opening tutorial for Farmageddon. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #wip #godot

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 29/11/2025

Finally received my book from the TMNT Kickstarter campaign!! So many fond memories of this from when I was a kid, and the reprint looks gorgeous! Now I just have to find folks who are willing to play this with me...

A photo of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tabletop RPG core rulebook, titled "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness", from the recent Kickstarter campaign where the book was updated and reprinted.

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 25/11/2025

From the archives: space cats. Sorting through old sketchbooks I've kept in the garage, from once-upon-a-time when I actually used to draw. #art #sketchbook

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 24/11/2025

Just finished remaking this action menu. I had tried something fancier before, but there were too many edge cases and ultimately I needed to fall back to something a bit more straightforward but way more functional. #gamedev #indiegame #wip #ui #godot

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 13/11/2025

Super excited to announce that Glassbreakers: Champions of Moss is finally out NOW on Quest 3, Steam, and Apple Vision Pro! Incredibly proud of this team and what we've made here. It's come so far over the last 3 years we've been working on it. The first image is from May, 2022. The other is now.

A screenshot of Glassbreakers: Champions of Moss from a very early build taken in May of 2022.

A screenshot of Glassbreakers: Champions of Moss as it looks now.

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 05/11/2025

Had an ad pop up on Youtube for Photoshop and whatever their newest gen-AI bullshit is, but of course in the ad settings "AI" is not listed among the options I can filter out 🙄🙄🙄 Guess I'm just gonna filter out all Adobe ads instead.

A screenshot of the ad settings page in the Youtube app. There is a section labeled "See more or fewer ads like this" with two options listed underneath: "Photo Software" and "Adobe."

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 23/10/2025

Hey! My name's Kieran and I'm a solo dev working on Farmageddon, a turn-based tactics game set in the post-apocalypse where you balance your actions between farming and fighting while trying to save plant/animal hybrid creatures known as "farmiliars." #turnbasedthursday #gamedev #indiegame #godot

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 19/10/2025

Huge thanks to everyone who stopped by and played Farmageddon at PRGE yesterday! I got some great feedback and wrote down a ton of notes that are going to help me take the game in a good direction. More to come! #PRGE #gamedev #indiegame #godot

A picture of my table at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. On the table is a laptop running my game, Farmageddon, which is also plugged into a TV mirroring what is shown on the laptop. A sign atop the TV reads "FARMAGEDDON".

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 04/10/2025

So happy to be diving back into this project again. I've been fleshing out the terrain tiles to make for smoother transitions, filling in missing details, and fixing little issues I didn't have time to get to before. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #advancewars #pixelart #lowpoly

A screenshot of a variety of terrain tiles for a low-poly, 3D version of Advance Wars.

A screenshot showing the previous terrain tiles being used together to create a little diorama.

The same low-poly diorama shown from a different angle, this time much closer to the horizon.

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 10/09/2025

A bit delayed, but our panel "Let's Make a Video Game: Live On Stage" at PAX West was another huge success. This is the 5th time I've done this panel across 4 years and it's still so much fun every time. We're hoping to bring the panel to other shows in the near future, too. #gamedev #gamejam #live

A photo of 5 panelists on stage. An MC is on the far left while 4 other panelists are actively making a game live, on stage, in front of an audience.

A photo of the room in which the panel took place. The panelists are shown on stage on the right side of the frame, and to the left you can the audience filling up all seats in the room.

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 10/09/2025

The icon, the artist, the art.

A picture of me and my son at a restaurant

A 3D sculpture of a mole miner character. He is wearing blue overalls over a purple shirt, a brown backpack with a red bedroll, and a yellow hard hat.

A stylized 3D sculpture of the character Beric Dondarrion from the Game of Thrones television show. He is holding his flaming sword.

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 05/09/2025

Trying to get back into doing consistent dev work on Farmageddon, but I was struggling with making some changes to this UI element. Decided it might benefit from a state machine and after mapping out all the states and transitions... well, I see why I was struggling 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 #gamedev #indiegame

A chart mapping the various states of a UI element called "Unit Info." The various states are shown in blue rectangles with rounded corners, and the transition conditions are shown in yellow rectangles.

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 19/08/2025

Excited to say I have a very good reason for dusting off this very old project of mine... #gameart #gamedev #advancewars #lowpoly

A screenshot taken in Maya of three 3D models of units from the game Advance Wars: a tank, an APC, and an artillery unit. The models have a low polygon count and use low-resolution, pixelated textures.

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 15/08/2025

Looking back on this project, I wish I hadn't been so rushed. There's something pleasant in the textures and surfaces in this Zbrush render that I wasn't able to preserve when I went through the texturing process in Substance. Hope I get the chance to revisit this some time. #gameart #characterart

A render from within Zbrush of a character sculpt. The character is a young woman with wine-red hair, equipped in armor and a colorful, quilted tunic. She stands in a neutral A-pose.

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 10/08/2025

Hey, your progress report is in

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 14/06/2025

Only the Duck Bands left. I have a sneaking suspicion this is going to take a long time 😬😬 #GrappleDogs

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 06/06/2025

Hey! Thanks for hosting! I'm Kieran and I'm working on a turn-based tactics game set in the post-apocalypse called Farmageddon. You are trying to grow, save, and collect plant/animal hybrid creatures while being set upon by waves of radiation-mutated bugs. #TurnBasedThursday #GameDev #IndieDev

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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 12/05/2025

If you see this, post a sword ⚔️

A sculpture of the character Beric Dondarrion from Game of Thrones. His body is turned slightly camera-left, holding a flaming swords with both hands, and looking back over his shoulder and some unseen, off-screen threat.

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