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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Sunday Showoff time again-I have put some more stuff into Outpost Delta One Zero-and you can now save and load your game position now (not shown in this clip cos it's boring 😒) here is the new Admin building at D10 with brand spanking new Flight Controller - I think I'll call him Bob 😁#indiegamedev

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

New Admin Building for Outpost Delta One Zero - to house a Courier Depot, Trading Post and Flight Control. Super low poly at 3.5K verts - ready to bake the textures and get it in game. #Blender #IndieGameDev #webgl #browser #scifigame space.technovisual.co.uk #solodev #ShowoffSunday 😁

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Sunday Showoff time 😁 - I have incorporated my VR PunchIt fitness thing into the VR FitGame thing - so now you can punch things as well as cycling/running round tracks 🎉video of game running standalone on #Quest3 #threejs #RogueEngine #solodev #indiegamedev #VR

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

New addition arriving in the TechnoVisual Space Universe - Still in the shipyard but close to being gameworthy - the LSI-505a - catchy name huh? #threejs #RogueEngine #solodev #indiegamedev

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I took a little diversion from my usual TechnoVisual Space and ArcVenture devs this week and tried out a little prototype hover race game for mobile, web and desktop - created in #RogueEngine ( #threejs ) using Kenney's amazing space assets - much fun! 😎 #indiedev #solodev

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Sunday morning complete re-write to add first person elevator mechanism to move between rooms in the space stations #indiedev #indiegamedev #threejs #RogueEngine @technovisualspace.bsky.social - this works in #VR too and it's looking pretty groovy 😎

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Not enough cats on my timeline - here's Floki (ginger) with his uncle Widdy chillin' #catsofbluesky #cats #blackcat #gingercat

A black cat sitting with a ginger cat in long grass.

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

All 5 of ours last night in the same photo together!!! 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

Four black cats and one ginger cat sat on walls and a table in an english garden

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

This is the frame registration - the fly-wheel turns with a stepper motor and contacts with a piece of copper tape - if it hasn't reached the copper tape then the motor advances another step until the green led lights - then we're good to go with the frame capture.

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

And here's the scanning equipment in action 😱🧐🤪

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Captured using a Raspberry Pi with Picamera (HQ) in HD from a 16mm cine film nearly 80 years old! The film runs at 24 frames per second but I have upsampled it to 60fps - the sound was captured separately using an optical sound read head on a Bell and Howell Filmosound.

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

This is part of a quick fly-through in VR to give you an idea of how things are coming together. If you want to get early access to the game and tutorials about how it's being made. #threejs #RogueEngine The full video was first shown on the Patreon Post: www.patreon.com/posts/full-o...

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Replaced the '4K' camera in my 16mm cine scanner with an HQ Raspberry Pi cam - getting much better results now - getting quite happy with the output now. #16mmfilm #retrovideo #16mm #cinefilm #raspberrypi #opencv #python

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Still need to sort out the finer points of sprockets and rotations but the first output is looking promising 😀🤓

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I love it when a plan comes together 🤪 - 16mm cine film scanner project to convert movies to HD mp4 - converted Bell&Howell TQI projector using #RaspberryPi to control everything with python script using #opencv to capture and encode #16mm #retrocine #RPI #retrofilm #rpihack

16mm projector with Raspberry Pi enhancements: stepper motor, HD microscope and LED backlight

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Ahh - first sunset of the season from the Crows Nest 😍 - lovely day in the garden cutting stuff back and coating the fence.

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Here's the start of the dialogue in Drafft - nice visual design outputs in json format. #indiegamedev #drafft #arcventure

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Rebuilding #ArcVenture in Rogue Engine - using Drafft for the dialogues - here's Lizzy introducing herself at the digsite. #gamedev #threejs #rogueengine #solodev #archaeology

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This guy comes to the office to watch me work - he's a stray with what looks like some stiffness in his back legs - we call him Stiffler 😍 #cats #catswithjobs

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Saturday morning tutorial drop! 🤓 Here's the third in my run of #retrogame coding first published in the Wireframe Magazine source code section - designed for #beginners in #Pygame Zero - source code and pdf article available in the github link: github.com/TechnoVisual... #gamedev #learntocode

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It's not a water simulation - but I think it's quite pretty - using Quarks in #RogueEngine #threejs #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

OK, while checking out the upper floor of the Lokia Harbour Traveler's Lounge I realised that I had forgotten to put glass in the windows - doh! 🤪😂😱 #gamedev #indiegamedev #solodev #spacegame #threejs #RogueEngine #b3d #rapierphysics

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

OK - I think the texture resolutions are a bit better now and I've got a security barrier actuator working - the idea is that this will be controlled with your security pass (which happens to go walkies in one storyline) #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #threejs #RogueEngine #b3d

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Lokia Harbour Lounge - first look at ground level. Close inspection reveals the need for more work on texture resolution for some elements. #RogueEngine #threejs #gamedev #indiegamedev #spacegame

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I'm guessing this was probably '94 as well - a rowdy rabble if ever I saw one! I'm on the far right 😎

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Here's an ancient one of me with the then minister for education, Eric Forth 😱

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Our resident #Archaeologist , Lizzy has arrived at the dig site - ready to tell us all about the finds in Trench Three. #gamedev #RomanBritain #threejs #RogueEngine #solodev #history #edusky #archaeology

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I'm just going to try uploading that again with a different encoding setting as that video seems very munged - this video is encoded using the "discord" setting and is 1/4 the MB

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Got our first animated character onto the digsite - ARC1 - the helpful flying drone-like robot thingy - Cinema screen size video 😀 #threejs #RogueEngine #gamedev #indiegamedev #arcventure #webxr #vr #mobilegames #superHDVideo

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

#caturday here we are again Floki wondering why I am pointing a camera at him while he tries to sleep 😾#cats

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Real-time lights in a 3D scene are very expensive to the frame rate - this scene here has only one directional light, everything else is texture mapping - for static objects this can make a very efficient scene - vital when developing for #mobile or #VR #gamedev #indiegamedev #threejs #RogueEngine

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

So apparently this box was more interesting than what was inside ... Widdy has a new hiding place - but Floki decided it needed altering to his own specifications #cats #medpetsmoments

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The dig site is getting quite tasty now - got furniture in and most are shadow texture baked to get max fps - a few more trees and bushes and I think we are ready to get it into the game. #threejs #RogueEngine #gamedev #indiegamedev #webXR #Romans #history #education #historyforschools

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The mobile version in UE5 was not so well lit as the PC version and highly optimised to keep the framerate up so there is actually probably less difference between that version and what I have already running on #RogueEngine #gamedev #indiegamedev #solodev #ue5

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

So this is where I'm going with this #RogueEngine Digsite - I am trying to see if I can get close to the original UE5 digsite in #ArcVenture - The Romans - My initial releases only work on PC, Android and Quest using UE5 - I'm working out much work it would be to make a cross-platform #PWA version

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

OK - got the tent up on the dig site - time for a drone's eye view - I reworked the tent from the original UE5 game - it was 25K polys - this one is much tidier and only just over 4K polys. #threejs #RogueEngine #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #WebXR #Romans #HistoryTeacher

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Hi Max - this is Widdy coming out of his workshop - ohh hello Steve too 😁

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The Digsite is coming together now - random stones with bushes and trees filling the landscape now 😀 #threejs #RogueEngine #gamedev #webXR #ArcVenture still maxing out the FPS - now we need a finds tent! 🤠

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

OK - getting fixated with the grass now 🤪- got it following landscape mesh - written a caching system to load the data in super fast - 1.5 million blades in a browser at 165 FPS - next step, little stones and trees using the same method except using meshes. #threejs #RogueEngine #webxr #gamedev

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I think this is getting better now - grass following the landscape height and clumping to selected areas - running at 165 FPS (maxed out) in a browser - which is nice 😁 #threejs #RogueEngine #webXR #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Having much fun with some grass 🧐... component in Rogue Engine - just need to get it to go into clumps ... in the right places ... ... on a non-flat landscape 😁🤓 - Thanks to James Smyth for the shader starter: github.com/James-Smyth/... #threejs #RogueEngine #webxr #indiedev #gamedev

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Which cat? - I have five 😍 Floki, Widdy, Edith, Ziggy and Gilly #Cats

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I think it's great that just around the corner from where I grew up there is now a retro arcade museum! 😎😍https://www.retrocollective.co.uk/ #retro #retrogames #arcadegames #videogames

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Floki - look at the camera ... no that's my foot ... no, that's a tree ... no , that's the deck ... no that's .. oh that'll do 😽 #cats #catpics

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Did you know? There's 50% off the new ArcVenture all month! Get your budding archaeologists a super educational game this Chrimbo! #historyteacher - head to arcventure.online for details. #indiedev #gamedev #romans #archaeologist #ancientrome #romanbritain

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Sunday morning tutorial drop! 🤓 Here's the second in my run of #retrogame coding first published in the Wireframe Magazine source code section - designed for #beginners in #Pygame Zero - source code and pdf article available in the github link: github.com/TechnoVisual... #gamedev #learntocode

Image of Ant Attack game - Make an Isometric Game Map with Pygame Zero

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Whiteboxing the entrance lobby/lounge area of the Lokia Harbour Space Station #gamedev #indiedev #b3d #blender3d #spacegame #sundayscreenshot

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Ziggy discovers the catmint - "I can give up anytime!" #cats #catpics #caturday

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