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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

if we are talking games that shaped me, then it’s different

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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

must be nice to sleep like this and never have to think of “realistic facial capture for metahumans”

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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Echoes by Pink Floyd is close to being the best song of all time BUT ONLY the Pompeii version and only the original mix every other version kind of sucks

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Marina Ryan @marinahascoffee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

haven't started Control Resonant yet but I'm happy to see a lot of people praising the exploration and appeal of the world itself. I interviewed @merlinogames.bsky.social about that topic earlier this year and it's still one of my fav @questmarkers.bsky.social episodes youtu.be/1NId9pvBvHI?...

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Appealing Video Game Worlds with Merlino Games Founder Antonio Freyre (Ep. 39)

YouTube video by Quest Markers Podcast

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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

my hope is that after this period of santizied, pandering, sexless art that avoids making anyone uncomfortable, the pendulum swings back to transgression, surrealism, and brutality i think the rough times we're going through will lead to that

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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

this beautiful muddy water is by @parametricavocado.bsky.social, who has many tricks up their sleeve (e.g. also the takedown + the locomotion anims)

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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I made a movie about 15 years ago. It was pretty decent, but I had some bad technical issues with the sound, which put me off from making another one Lately I’ve been thinking I should give filmmaking another try. Maybe it will be my next medium

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Mitchell Hammond 𓆙 @bipedalbastard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

hades 2 doodlin'

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Marina Ryan @marinahascoffee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

art is important because it helps us get to places within ourselves that we can't get to any other way.

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𝙑𝙀𝙀𝙏𝙍𝙄 : Blast Processed 🥑 @parametricavocado.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As usual, it's all just artisanal, carefully sorted multiple passes of alpha/additive layers, their opacities smoothly modulated per vertex.

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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

work hard so the dog can sit inside the coffee table

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Here's V2 from 2024 when we were polishing the visuals for the pitch demo. Redesign by Evan Palmer and Jack Covell. I like the more powerful attack...

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SeverLink - Wishlist NOW! @severlink.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

SeverLink crowdfunding campaign is LIVE We have a playable prototype - just grab it at: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c... If you long for early 2000s stealth revival and you like what you see in our build - GO FUND US and make it happen! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #y2k

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SeverLink - Wishlist NOW! @severlink.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Check out our new crowdfunding trailer! The campaign is already 60% funded, be sure to grab a custom pledge before they're sold out: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c... #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #y2k

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zøë wolfe @glitchwolfe.studio · 17/09/2026

This seg contains scenes of explicit violence and doors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5URI...

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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

HELP! looking for game recommendations the closest i can think of is Kenshi but that’s top-down another example are survival games, but those have too much emphasis on crafting

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Mitchell Hammond 𓆙 @bipedalbastard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Snake is Back

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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“I am not making art to give fun to people — I am not a clown, I am not a businessman making money. I am a human being. I am making art to heal myself; that is what i am doing and when I will heal myself, then I will start to heal others.”

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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

one of the most painful lessons you will learn is that you must always choose freedom over money

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Mitchell Hammond 𓆙 @bipedalbastard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

haven't animated Snake completely kitted out in 6 years... feels good...

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

New portraits integrated into the heads-up display in the top-left. Pilot reacts to: acceleration, shooting, kills, damage.

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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

how come now, in a before-and-after comparsion, a lot of people posts the after on the left what changed?

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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

watch Blue Velvet at the theater kind of night 😎

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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

1/? lately I've been trying to understand what kids like in games and it's SO different from what is being made at the AAA level (e.g. made for older gamers) kids = primarily play platform sandboxes like Roblox, Minecraft, or Fortnite

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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

sharing some of my brother's work diegofreyre.myportfolio.com

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Mitchell Hammond 𓆙 @bipedalbastard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I've helped with some character art for Antonio's upcoming game which is looking really awesome!!

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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

that’s correct! 3 years ago, I promised I would make this one that exact tweet is also why we even have funding to make it

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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

if you removed every single cutscene, dialogue and boss fight from Death Stranding and made the game 100% a sandbox of you and the baby making one main delivery that takes 30 hrs of gameplay to complete (with optional side deliveries on the way) it would be the best game of all time

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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I would like you to meet our boy Cormac and his nasty takedowns

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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

when you rub your eyes and it sounds like a geiger counter

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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

i cant stop thinking about this dress by angus tsui

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Nightshift Galaxy Proof-of-Life, haha. Working on a new heads-up-display that's a bit more stylish, and has a speedometer to help with some movements changes I've been making (higher top-speed with a custom acceleration curve, gravity-assisted descent, etc).

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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

i cant get over mario's look in this game (and the koopas lol)

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Azure Midsummer @millenia3d.net · 13/08/2026

working more on the coppery textures

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