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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 20h

#nostalgia spent the day looking my old tech experiments for the #gba from the early 2000's - that device was superb for experimenting with.

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Richard Moss @mossrc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In case you missed it; my new documentary project is now going to be a book instead.

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I just tasked Claude on decompiling my 1991 Beyond Columns sequel (titled Fallout). What an amazing time to be alive. not that anyone cares but I will put the decompiled results on github

graphics dump from DOS VGA beyond columns sequel titled fallout.

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Ramón Wilhelm @ramonwilhelm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've started to check out FontStruct and PixelForge to create pixelart fonts for my adventure games. Both are cool and easy to use, but unlike FontStruct you can edit with PixelForge an already existing font and extend it with additional characters. ✒️ #pixelart #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Tony Barnes | RetroNinja @retroninja.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

VectaGuard - 2.5D neo-retro vector cave flying shmup with dynamic industrial/darkwave music. Solo dev - human made for arcade gamers! OUT NOW on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2892200/... #indiegame #indiegamedev #shmup #retrogaming #solodev

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

5Mhz for the win, at least you got decent sized heap

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

that's what kludges are for :) What do you do when you need to load data? (or is that on a big cart, I think you had mentioned trying that

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Aseprite @aseprite.org · 01/10/2026

Aseprite is 40% off during the Steam Autumn sale, until October 8th! Get it directly from our website: aseprite.org/buy/ or from Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/431730/A...

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

updated my cube app again - now supports 64^3 generations. My Mac M2 Max is a beast and handles ~100M cubes at ~29 fps (3B cubes/sec). lardratboy.github.io/testbed/show...

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Bimoblock Showroom — Infinite 2D Lattice

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Trezy @trezy.codes · 13/09/2024

Welcome to v4 of the Blue Sky Game Dev orientation 🧵! Let's get you started with the basics of Bluesky, finding other devs, and posting about your games! Btw, this is based on the artist orientation thread from @purlane.ink; make sure to check it out if you’re also on the art side of game dev!

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

just shy of 30 fps, man amazing times to be alive in.

stats image displaying a result so close to 100M @ 30fps, amazing times to be alive

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

an already working scripting language is better than a new one.. so that is a vote for a trimmed down version of what you have now.

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

lardratboy.github.io/dodgem.html - a minimal game that nobody asked for. Want to waste some time? Why not waste it playing this.

lardratboy.github.io

DODGEM — Grow bold. Stay alive.

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

that holds up surprisingly well

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

you are correct that is even nuttier :)

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

hypercard on the sega didn't have that on my bingo card

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

pure novelty, wish I did have bigger plans.

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I like the 3 orthogonal playfields, but I think there is a reason I haven't seen that layout it before..

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

like experimental slot machine like things? if so it's your lucky day - give this a shot and let me know what you think. lardratboy.github.io/lattice-slot...

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LATTICE SLOTS

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I haven't had work in months. I'm a good art director, expert pixel artist, and although I prefer to do art, I can also make entire games from start to finish if necessary, as pictured. Not the greatest coder, but I get the job done (like Chapell Roan I guess). please share

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Ron’s Computer Videos 🧍‍♂️🖥️📼 @ronscompvids.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Since YouTube is now supposedly reporting real viewership, maybe give my best performing video of all time a second watch? Star Trek, Macintosh computers, a bunch of celebrity voices and real-deal research insight gathered from the people that were there! Thanks (and share?) youtu.be/JHqiiPGPHFY

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How the Macintosh Plus helped make Star Trek history! #VFX

YouTube video by Ron's Computer Videos

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

added half a dozen more fields to the generator - still limited to 2^729 basic shapes - exports to .obj - and has an easy way to share finds via url lardratboy.github.io/research/bim...

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bimoblock contact sheet — symmetry group x archetype

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

nope :) Looks to be hitting frame rate good job!

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

On the Amiga are you using the 8bpp back/fore buffers and blitting the fore to the screen right? - I'm not certain that 7Mhz is enough to do it but.. you might be able to do a chunky to planer ordered dither on just the updated rects.

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

passing tiny sprites (< 13x13) through openai's image gen produces some amazing results without much direction, eventually this will be realtime can't wait.

a lattice of AI upscaled procedurally generated sprites. colorful, future-retro.

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I can see that, btw sorry for your loss.

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

without all the fun bit fiddling it wouldn't be fun right ;)

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Looking for a 9x9x9 blocky model generator? If so you are in luck there is a new version of my tool sporting seed exploration contact-sheet mode, camera rotation and exporting to .vox and .obj lardratboy.github.io/research/bim...

lardratboy.github.io

bimoblock contact sheet — symmetry group x archetype

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

lovely graph of interrelated models - data really is beautiful sometimes. (not my work run.cosmograph.app/public/ca9fd...

AI Model Atlas
Model Atlas visualizes entire populations of machine-learning models as an interconnected graph, showing how models evolve, relate, and transform through fine-tuning.

Learn more at horwitz.ai/model-atlas.

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

cool share the interesting finds :)

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm not sure what the end goal is but it sounds intriguing

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

makes sense - and honestly limbs are overkill for 90% of animation needs.. I just always love a good animation state machine :)

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

nice! it is a nice looking IDE, the costumes & choreography tool is the fun one :) - with all the limbs and concurrency, cell reuse etc it is involved - have you considered making aseprite exporter/importing pipeline?

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

imGUI has a JSON layout option?

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Neato! I'm a big fan of Claude, I had heard it does a good job with 6502 (and 6809). Time to find out about 65816 :)

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Sound has always been my weakness, but the answer depends on how much time. Probably I would have reached for capturing mt-32 output as adpcm (22khz) samples and used that (turns the task mostly into a production task).

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

hand selected procedural sprite generator results - kind of like panning for gold in a sea of random numbers

sprite sheet with some reasonable results, hand selected procedural sprite generator results

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

#screenshotSaturday - I am toying with procedural sprites again - if you are into such things here is the url lardratboy.github.io/research/sym...

A grid of early 80s 2d arcade game sprites.

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

honestly I don't know I suspect it was done by the external group with a producer managing it from our console group. 2MB makes it a good target for sure

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

sounds like time for a benchmark :)

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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

That is a crazy idea, has anyone shipped a product that pulls data from both?

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