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Liza Knipscher

@lize.bsky.social
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Game dev who loves making randomly generated critters and does so as often as possible. Developing Cookie Gardening and Biolune. Owner of Meep Engine: www.meepengine.com Biolune: store.steampowered.com/app/3070190/…

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
IDK if it works for yinz, but when I was experimenting with anime outlines, I used an SDF for the inner line-work (generated from hand-draw inks with hacky c-program I wrote), whose threshold is modulated by depth.
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am partway to Velociraptors
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
These animals remind me of maple tree seeds; something about the way their heads spin, I think
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PureAsbestos @pureasbestos.com · 27/09/2026
god, 0.002 seconds before making velociraptors:
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think I will make Velociraptors
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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.
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Alpha Beta Gamer @alphabetagamer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What if SimCity was made of yarn? Cotton City is a SimCity-esque cozy city-building game where buildings aren't built, they're knitted! Free Alpha Demo: n1kozor.itch.io/cotton-city-... by indie dev n1kozor #gaming
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ompuco @ompu.co · 23/09/2026
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zep.p8 @lexaloffle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
more planet generation for #pico1k #pico8
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Pink bipedal wobblemouse
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I think the animals that are sort of recognizably mammals under several layers of uncanny, impossible legs are actually worse than totally incomprehensible animals
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Little turtle just doing its best
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Evolution in my simplified model of an ecosystem tends to defy my assumptions about what animals should look like. For example, perception at the moment does not account for binocular vision, eye size, or even which direction the eyes are looking, so animals rarely end up with two eyes on their head
A striped blue animal with two webbed legs, a third similar leg sticking out of the top of its head, a sort of flat horn, several rounded spines on the bottom of its body, and a teeny tiny red eye. If this sounds confusing, it's because the animal looks really confusing. It stands on a yellow rounded planet in front of water, with several magenta eggs behind it
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One challenging thing about letting organisms evolve over generations is that this is a legal way to move, and has outcompeted every other animal in the simulation
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Zooming in does not make these animals more comprehensible
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yet another exciting worm
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Wiggly shrub boy
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Blood-Eyed Rabbithawk
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Made an even worse animal
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Finally! The IKEA/Skyrim/Matt Berry collaboration everyone has been asking for
youtube.com
KALLAX STORAGEBORN, a free creation for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim™ from IKEA.
YouTube video by IKEA UK
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Excited to check "even more unsettling animals" off the to-do list
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 07/09/2026
I feel like the main struggle developers have when trying to write marketing copy is that they are describing the game they made instead of the player's experience of it
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This feels like a real "you dang kids get off my lawn" scenario
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
About two weeks ago I took my greyhound to get x-rays for his worsening limp and learned he has bone cancer. Last week he had his leg amputated. (He’s doing well!) It’s shocking how quickly everything happened. I’m hopeful that we get at least another year with him. Hug your pets; time goes fast
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hi all, I'm looking for testers for a big Cookie Gardening update! If you have a Quest headset, I would love to get your feedback, and you can request free access to the game here: www.meta.com/s/9Z1gPDkDZ #VR
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hi all, I'm looking for testers for a big Cookie Gardening update! If you have a Quest headset, I would love to get your feedback, and you can request free access to the game here: www.meta.com/s/9Z1gPDkDZ #VR
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Cody - games and such @codyswanson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Happy approaching #autumn! 🍂 #madewithunity #toy #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames
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Fidel Destro @fideldestro.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Alright, let's test this new video compression! Here's a swarm of 1,600 procedurally animated butterflies. Back in old Blender before things like simulation and repeat zones, something like this was very difficult. It's procgen bottom to top. #Blender #CreativeCoding #ProcGen
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
How stately! How elegant! This animal was born without a brain
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Ian Zell @ianzell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
experimenting with 3D scanning one of my plushies I made and sticking it into a Blender scene
3 orange guys sitting on each others heads in a fuzzy mossy environment
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Slightly thicker legs add a lot of character, especially to the monsters made almost entirely of legs
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Good dog
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I like the worms a lot and want to show them to my friends, who are never as excited as I would prefer them to be
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The alien crab is Nature's Roomba (bonking into furniture until it gives up)
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
My child!!!
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Is that a... walking tooth?
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Egg machine's broken
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Ahh! No!!!!!!
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Climbing the mountain because it's there
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Was trying to get this guy to roll over onto his side and walk on his row of head-legs, but alas he is too stable for his own good
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Watching this guy drag his head-arm and useless tentacle makes me feel oddly optimistic. You can do it! You have two sets of insect mandibles, and you can do it
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is probably some kind of bug related to colliders or foot position raycasting, but I prefer to think of it as a moose doing a telekinetic mime performance
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Holy antlers, Batman! (The antlers have holes in them)
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
What is he doing
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The giant crab is just getting in there and messing everything up for everyone, which (to be fair) is also what I would do if I were a giant crab
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Somehow these monstrosities won natural selection this time around :(
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I've been making low-poly versions of my veggie meshes and I find them so weirdly charming. Such cuties
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Locomotion is getting betterworse
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Sleepy ear wiggles of the legless unicorn
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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Hedgehodge
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