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Kieran Lampert

@kieranlampert.com
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He/Him 🌞 Indie game dev and toy sculptor 🎮 Making Aggroculture 🚫 No AI/NFTs 🖼️ PFP: @pita-m.bsky.social 3D character sculpt/model commissions open. Contact me via my portfolio site: www.kieranlampert.com

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses. makkon.itch.io
screenshot of my itchio store, showing several texture packs available for purchse
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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 · 29/09/2026
Attempting to migrate my game from Godot 4.2 to 4.7 today. Wish me luck.
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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 25/09/2026
Oh, it wasn't me! I just made the model and textures. @onetrickwolf.bsky.social made the website and did all the programming!
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onetrickwolf @onetrickwolf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DO NOT EAT THE BATTERY! bee.otw.gg original art by @berrycutepixels.com, 3D model by @kieranlampert.com!
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Bee Tamagotchi
An interactive 3D bee Tamagotchi. Original 2D art by BerryCutePixels; 3D model by Kieran Lampert.
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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 25/09/2026
Hell yes Escaflowne 😍😍😍
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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 08/09/2026
Just applied to this! Thanks for sharing!!
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Aggro Crab 💥🔪 @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
REBOUNDER. A new game developed by ThirtyThree, published by Aggro Crab. Rebounder is a hand-crafted precision platformer about a roughneck worker recruited for a hazardous job on a distant planet. Nail the run. Deliver your line. Dropping 2027.
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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 02/09/2026
Very sad. It's going to continue like this until we have solid, formal regulation on it, but with our government bought by the very people shilling this bullshit it's not likely to happen.
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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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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I absolutely loved this article. What a fantastic takedown of the bullshittery that is the AI industry. AI does not scale. The returns are diminishing. Line only goes up if it runs on hype and grift. Bc it's a grift run by the amoral sociopathic incel Nerd Reich.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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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 · 23/08/2026
Thank you!!
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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.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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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 22/08/2026
ICYMI: 🚨 AMNESIA FORTNIGHT IS BACK 🚨  It's a Kickstarter. It's a game jam. It's a documentary. It's a game jam documentary Kickstarter! Get notified when we launch on Aug 31:
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Coming soon: Amnesia Fortnight 2026, Indie Reboot
A Double Fine Productions Game Jam, Documentary, and Kickstarter Campaign
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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
Thanks! Still have a bit of work I want to do on it, but it's getting there. Glad you like it so far 😊😊
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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 · 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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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If you haven't worked in the industry in the last two years because you've been unable to find a job, it'll boot you out of the survey. So say you're self-employed.
"Why do you see yourself leaving the game industry [in the next twelve months]?"

AAA layoffs are decimating institutional knowledge and making a stable career impossible. Greed-first financial climate makes AA funding precarious. The job market is impossibly competitive. A lack of functional marketing systems makes indie success a coin flip at best. And cost of living in "industry cities" is too high to bear a long unemployment spell."What considerations or values guide your decisions about if, when, or how to use generative AI tools in your work?"

Personally: it short-circuits any learning process and atrophies personal skill.
Discipline: It's unsuitable for the work I do (design).
Professionally: genAI output is not protected by copyright and may expose me to theft/plagiarism liability. 
Industry: it's being over-deployed for work it can't do and used as an excuse to lay off, under-hire, and overwork workers. 
Societally: the genAI industry is vacuuming up investment money and starving other industries, including games. 
Morally: LLMs and image generators are trained on creative work taken without declaration, consent, or compensation.
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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 15/08/2026
Thanks so much, Brandon. Really appreciate the kind words ❤️❤️
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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 15/08/2026
I've applied so many places and most haven't ever responded. I have a ton of experience, and I'm good at what I do. I'm so tired and I just want to get back to making cool things. 😩😩😩 Thanks for letting me rant a bit.
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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 15/08/2026
Looking for a new job this time around has just been so demoralizing. Finished a full round of interviews (recruiter screening, hiring manager interview, then 6+ hours of interviews with team members spread across 2 days), then waited 3 weeks for them to finally say they were hiring someone else.
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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 13/08/2026
"We're just softmen."
A still frame from the 1996 video showing an inside look within Capcom. A subtitle at the bottom of the screen translates what the woman is saying from Japanese into English: "...is the job of the programmers, also known as 'softmen'."A still from an old BBC show in which a dog puppet character (Hacker) is talking to his cohost (Lauren) and telling her "We're just normal men."
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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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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
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Game Maker's Toolkit @gamemakerstoolkit.com · 27/07/2026
Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%
Pie chart showing game engines used to create 10,511 GMTK Game Jam games in 2026. Godot has the largest slice with 47%. Then Unity with 34%. Other with 11%. Game Maker with 5%. And Unreal Engine with 3%.
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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 · 30/07/2026
I accept that blame with pride
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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 30/07/2026
Noodlin' on some fan art #3D #zbrush
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 · 17/07/2026
Moss launched on consoles today. I'm so excited for all the people who have never played the Moss games to finally get to play them. They are the reason I fell in love with Polyarc in the first place, and so much care went into bringing them to flatscreen consoles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMwW...
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Moss: The Forgotten Relic | Launch Gameplay Trailer | PS5 | NS | Xbox | Steam
YouTube video by Polyarc Games
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 16/07/2026
“A.I. Movies” www.tiktok.com/@americanbar...
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Polyarc Games @polyarcgames.com · 09/07/2026
ONE. WEEK. LEFT. 🐭🌿 Moss: The Forgotten Relic launches July 16 #nintendo #playstation #PS5 #Xbox #Steam
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Aaron @ Small Hours Games @aarhed.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Made some improvements to the volumetric fog and how it interacts with the words! Now you can still see the selection squares, and the fog is revealed gradually with the letters. #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #wordgames
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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 08/07/2026
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Doja Cat: Kermit 'Do It' Meme
ALT: Doja Cat: Kermit 'Do It' Meme
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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 06/07/2026
Once again, Double Fine Productions will be an independent studio.

We're thankful to Xbox for seven great years together, and for working with us to reach an outcome which preserves our history and culture, and returns ownership of our games to us.

To everyone who reached out to us these past few weeks: Thank you for all your kind words, we've been deeply touched by your messages. We will share more soon on what comes next.

Your continued support is greatly appreciated,

Tim & Double Fine
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Found Family Adventurecrafts @ffacrafts.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
New infographic is here!! Y'all know I have a Patreon and offer discounts and stuff on there, right...? Right?? Yeah, I realized I really don't advertise my Patreon and Tribes as much as I should. My goal this year is to reach 100 patrons and 100 tribers! \o/ #patreon #ttrpg #dnd
An infographic image from FFAcrafts saying "Support Me On Patreon & Tribes!" The first panel reads:

Have a 3D printer? New STL models every month + welcome pack STLs + exclusive loyalty reward STLS. 50% off all STLs

The second panel reads: DON'T have a 3D printer? Discord Community, Sneak Peeks & BTS, Digital Bonus Content (maps, vtt, coloring pages, stat blocks, etc). 10% off Physical Goods
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Polyarc Games @polyarcgames.com · 02/07/2026
Just two weeks until protecting this tiny mouse becomes your full-time job. 🫵🐭 #mosstheforgottenrelic #indiegame
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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 02/07/2026
Thanks! Modeled in Maya and textured using Photoshop
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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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Robin Sevakis @jadedsketch.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Great news! While the Crunchyroll store is going away, you can still get books of my webcomic, now through the MediaOCD/Animeigo store! mediaocd.com/product/anim...
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Anime News Nina!: The Complete Collection by Robin Sevakis - Book - MediaOCD.com
Anime News Nina!, the hugely popular web comic series that ran for over six years on AnimeNewsNetwork.com, is finally available in a deluxe hardcover collection! Join Nina, a naïve “newself” whose lif...
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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 30/06/2026
Thanks!!
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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 25/06/2026
I'm so sorry, Lisa. No one deserves this, especially you. Really hope you're able to find something soon.
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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 25/06/2026
I once heard debugging described as a murder mystery where the detective and the killer are both you, and I think about that a lot.
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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 24/06/2026
All the more frustrating since I was the one who wrote this stuff so I should remember what's going on!!
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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 24/06/2026
Diving back into code you haven't touched for a couple months like
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Man Squinting with Nosebleed
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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 21/06/2026
I'm at the end of my self-imposed deadline and now present to you... Crappy Bird! Feel free to unburden yourself and play this game. Consider it your duty. It may not be the best thing you see today, but I'll bet it's number 2. ...poop. 👀👀 klamp.itch.io/crappy-bird #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart
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Crappy Bird by klamp
Takin' Craps and Dodgin' Zaps
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