Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just noticed how superb the craftsmanship is for the CG FMV in Ecco Tides of Time SCD by the standards of 1994. Leagues ahead of basically any in-house 3D cutscenes at the time. Looks like this was contracted to Angel Studios who already had quite a pedigree by then www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YmF...youtube.comEcco: The Tides of Time - FMV CutscenesYouTube video by silenig 1111
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Actual wine glass mesh from a Skyrim mod I found and opened in a model viewer in wireframe view. And people wonder why they're having performance problems with their modded setups. 2164
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Some discourse on the artstyle consistency of WoW Forever going on right now, and I just wanna highlight this neat detail I noticed once with the vanilla cannonball stacks in fact being 2D sprites, but they were still drawn as octagon shapes to fit seamlessly with the surrounding lowpoly aesthetic 140
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Watching this I just thought how much I loved the unapologetic "learn how to draw manga" animation style, and then I was reminded that those books were literally published by Antarctic Press lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a7i...youtube.comFred Perry's Animated Antarctic Press Universe TrailerYouTube video by RedBored 3318
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Was not expecting this interview with Enya to literally be in Irish www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzij...youtube.comComposing in The Studio With Enya, Ireland 1985YouTube video by CR's Video Vaults 011
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Happy 25th to Portal Runner and Trip Hawkins' power trip against the scathing reviews "And do not patronize me by telling me the reader is the customer--your real customer is the one that pays you your revenue. And it is game industry advertisers." dubiousquality.blogspot.com/2005/01/sham... 031
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I love how John Lithgow's sprite in the Cliffhanger game is way bigger than Stallone's sprite 57921
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Going back to Civ 5 and it's striking how much better the game looks than its sequels. They hit just the right tone for the visuals, and even something as simple as making the fog of war clouds is vastly preferable to how they present it in 6 and 7. Got a soft spot for the leader models in 6 though 031
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I got a fever, and the only prescription is more guica www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqIV...youtube.comJurassic Park - Title (SEGA CD OST)YouTube video by Peppi the Dog ˆᴥˆ 040
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I don't know why games (seems to be almost entirely smaller budget games) got obsessed with this very specific shade of teal. I know it was around in some capacity before Hades 2 but feels like this trend really kicked into overdrive afterwards. Either as the main color or as a predominant accent 1120
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Happy 24th anniversary to Robot Alchemic Drive. Make sure to celebrate with some bread & water soup 1165
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026What gets me about DLSS5 is it feels like we've circled back over 2 decades to the early-to-mid 00s where they'd use photographed face textures with baked lighting, and now this thing is putting heavy frontal spotlights on faces regardless of context giving the same overall effect as baked light 1212
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Random obscure Sega CD FMV game turns out to have some pretty banging 90s industrial music www.youtube.com/watch?v=92gX...youtube.comIron Helix main menu themeYouTube video by BrigadorLemur 253
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Experimenting with MIDI sequencing tricks today, seeing if I can make some interesting kinda jungle just within the constraints of the GM framework. Doing some Korg Wavestation style sequences by just automating patch changes per note in one channel. Chimes-like FX using random tinkle bell notes. 3204
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Watching the ending to Witchhaven 2 and the CGI of the dragon taking off is just beautiful 071
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 17/08/2026A problem with doing a Quake E1M2 pastiche is that it uses the same 64px brick pattern everywhere, and using a different wall texture for variety ruins the feel too much. I tried to work around it by making different color variations and adding horizontal trims which seems to work for added variety 0110
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 16/08/2026These black & white Marvel comics are really pulpy, but I wasn't expecting Namor to be the one with the most gratuitously framed panel. 000
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Doom "soundfont" covers are trending right now, but we can take this stupidity one step further with some melodyne magic 34621
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Rewatching In the Mouth of Madness because of Sam Neill, and I just noticed this weird ass mixer console prop they made for the opening scene in the asylum 080
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Pretty satisfied with these parallax clouds I got working in zDoom. Also amazed at how well .png optimizes itself. Both layers are 1024x256 resolution which seems like a lot, but they're only 11 & 22 kb respectively. Probably because I chose to make them use 8 colors only for aesthetic purposes. 3192
Reposted by Savaged RegimeRomain Barrilliot @skacky.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This little project that was supposed to be out in a year is out now, 6 years later. It took a while but it’s great. It’s a whole new full length campaign for Quake with 32 maps and a completely new soundtrack, aimed at being compatible with winquake. I made a few maps for it. youtu.be/ViJMgLNLW08youtu.beTremor - Release TrailerYouTube video by Tremor 28939
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Still working on a texture tileset fusing Doom and Quake textures together into a single cohesive theme. Settled on a primarily gray color scheme to set it apart from Quake's brown with chartreuse accents coming from the tech elements. Ironically it's starting to look more like Quake 2. 060
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Messing around with the Quake grunt sounds and little did I know Trent Reznor's voice is actually a fount of infinite Arnoldisms 1102
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 15/07/2026My hyperfixation recently has been taking Doom textures and redoing them in a Quake style for my little mod project. Really getting into the dregs of the stylistic differences between them and learning a lot on how to work with low res pixel art-adjacent texture styles. 5366
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I never actually noticed before that the ogres have a very small Quake logo on their chest 0140
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 06/07/2026With how popular any Y2K-adjacent vibes are across internet culture today, I'm surprised we also haven't seen people throw together fake retro style 3D benchmark demos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQql...youtube.com3DMark 2001 SE | 4K 2160pYouTube video by James Mackenzie 050
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Building some Aria of Sorrow setpieces (not for gameplay) using Doom Builder. Translating sidescrolling 2D spaces into 3D is always an interesting creative challenge. Have to embellish a lot with the floors and ceilings here and make new assets to fill in the gaps. 1378
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I've always wondered how much bandwidth moddb.com wastes on people manually clicking the download link to skip the auto-download timer, but then the timer launches a second duplicate download anyways. 070
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Was curious how those asynchronously looping lifts were done in Doom's E2M2 so I looked at the map file and found it rather amusing. Since they didn't have any scripting, the "RNG" effect was achieved by 2 separate repeating move/stop triggers when you move in and out of the lines for a light beam 152
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Progress. Getting some of the cartoonier looking Doom textures to look more quakey needs a bit more wrangling. 0100
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Progress. Got some outdoor areas now where I learned how to use sloped surfaces to create better cliffscapes. I think it's about time I figure out how to implement a custom skybox too (preferably an animated one) 1113
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Progress. Implementing custom textures via SLADE was trickier than I thought even with simple truecolor pngs for modern sourceports. Not even sure what I did right to get them to eventually work. Now I've started working on these amalgamated Quake/Doom textures which was a shower thought I had once. 2131
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Progress. Gotta learn that less is more by keeping the texture usage concise and focused. 0172
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Haven't done any Doom mapping for about a decade yet it's incredible how fast it is to get started with Doom Builder. It's very cathartic to just screw around and make stuff without any real plan or end goal. Now I just need to learn how to import my own custom textures. 0171
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Tried getting a souvenir from the reflecting pool but they have a bunch of guards there now 16028
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 17/06/2026This scifi show by some X-Files cowriters did not last nearly as long as I remembered. I recall watching the final episode and just laughing at how the whole thing played out, probably because it was abruptly cancelled. Looks like the whole series is up on Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HLe...youtube.comSpace: Above And Beyond IntroYouTube video by Georgije2 130
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I swear Google image search results have been precision-engineered so that whenever you search for a particular animated gif, the first results are going to be some completely botched version with slideshow framerates or awkward editing that inexplicably cuts off at odd points. It has to be sabotage 030
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Want to reassert that Toejam & Earl 2 is underappreciated as one of the best looking games on the Genesis. They picked an art style and really went for it. 4261
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Slowly taking shape. Want to take it in more of a jazz funk direction with more improvisations further in 1496
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 13/06/2026I know there's been significant controversy surrounding Audacity, so as an alternative to that I would recommend www.wavosaur.com which has been my goto for simple audio editing. Lightweight with no fuss and best of all it doesn't make you jump through hoops with exports when you want to save a filewavosaur.comWavosaur free audio editor with VST and ASIO supportWAVOSAUR is a free audio editor for Windows with VST plugins support. The program is ASIO compatible, can do loop points edition, auto-trim, noise removal 2162
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Was just going to use this as a rough sketchbook for a FM arrangement but now I kinda wanna flesh it out to a full 70s funk production. Just frustrated I don't have any horn samples that feel up to the task 1214
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Operation Inner Space. An Asteroids-like for Windows 3.1 which generated worlds out of the folders and files on your hard drive, and had a fully dynamic relationship system with multiple rival NPC factions. Almost immersive sim like in how multi-faceted the gameplay and world simulation was. 0111
Savaged Regime @lazygecko.bsky.social · 07/06/2026It's funny how unhinged the millennial-pandering has gotten in the games industry at this point after the 00s and 10s period felt like the opposite in my experience. Guess it's a sign of the industry having effectively priced out younger people and market research now coming to that realization 290
