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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#NowWatching Pretty cozy so far, and you really can’t go wrong with Simone Signoret and Marcello Mastroianni :)

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Jimmy Maher @digiantiquarian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This week on The Digital Antiquarian: "An Ion Storm!, Part 1: The Ascent to Gamer Paradise" www.filfre.net/2026/10/an-i...

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well, plus lots of absurd, childish humor to balance it out as well, tbf ;)

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Finally got around to implement Ink-based dialogs again. Really not sure at this point in which form to embed this into the interface, I do want to make this playable without mouse at some point. Gonna check out some best practices... #godot #sologamedev #indiedev

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lots of fun for hackers as well, turning grandpa into a walking drone (and probably walking corpse).

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Huh, I always found Lost Highway to be one of his funniest and most entertaining ones 😂 All these absurdly overdrawn characters, the dumb cops joking all the time, the score... it just throws so much stuff at you.

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reaching French New Wave territory now, but Godard feels rather style over substance tbh 😂 Early Truffaut has been working much better for me in direct comparison... #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Apartment The Human Condition I: No Greater Love The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity The 400 Blows

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thanks, on the list it goes! Someone crazy enough should try to adapt the Illuminatus! books to the screen at some point... though I guess few people would get the trippy humor these days, and it probably would end as a disjointed mess, haha.

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thanks for pointing out Decoder, sounds super intriguing, never heard of that one before! Wouldn’t have guessed this from the poster alone 😅 Not many German cyberpunk/hacker movies around, I can very much recommend letterboxd.com/film/23/ though.

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23 (1998)

The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and a home computer. At...

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Unreal soundtrack has lots of weirdly colorful and cheery tunes. You really feel the folks behind it had demoscene roots.

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Unreal 1998 Soundtrack - 15 Surfacing

YouTube video by Michail Alvanos

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Had exactly the same thought 😂 Maybe to safely hide away some raunchy FMV title...

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Watched a bunch of The Archer's movies as part of my chronological to-do list, and I have to say there were exceptionally hard to get into when having grown up in the 90s, and far removed from the influence of British culture and it's inner turmoils 😅 Artistically exceptional, though!

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

More like utterly moral-draining and not so much controller-breaking, I was playing Turrican on the Amiga, had a phantastic run and got farther than ever with lots of extra lifes to spare, felt like a king. Then got hopelessly trapped in a confusing level with a time-limit and lost everything 😩

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For these sorry clowns art and culture is nothing more than textured soup they want to come out of their tap. Nothing that communicates anything, tells a story or delivers a message, just shallow, completely disposable, exchangeable entertainment formed by half-digested cultural artifacts.

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nah, it's about as much a "job" as ordering food and requires about the same amount of skill. I'm not even saying that this is bad in itself (who wouldn't want their wishes granted?) but these bozos think ordering food makes them author of the recipe and the cook as well. They are just customers.

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'd call this having character and a personality, as "real art" (okay yeah, in a somewhat specific sense) is a personal expression, of emotions and a consistent state of mind, warts and all, instead of just a soup cooked up from the random remains of stale human artifacts.

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What I love about the setting is that, in contrast to the typical bland dystopian cyberpunk scenarios, this was an optimistic, non-dramatic look into the future from a technological standpoint, while of course ultimately being a "we weren't meant for paradise [on earth]" tale.

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

letterboxd.com/film/peeping... Stretching the definition veeeery far 😅 this was once-"popular" merely as a notorious career destroying movie that received disgusted reviews from every side. In hindsight it feels like it came like 20 years from the future and holds up really well.

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Peeping Tom (1960)

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he m...

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Recently watched this after having been made aware of it's existence through a blog post about a weird computer game adaptation of this from 1980 (yes!) Thoroughly enjoyed the series: - best intro ever - lots of trippy ideas (Rover) - watching McGoohan's face is like 50 % of the fun

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Limbo - absolutely unique, ominous atmosphere Firewatch - stellar voice acting and dialogues Nuclear Throne - never made it through but boy did this hook me for a while Hotline Miami - perfect flow

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, and it turns that one-dimensional "here is my game how _I_ want you to experience it, master it!" into a way to set your own priorities in a session. Also boost replayability...

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I feel System Shock was way ahead in 1994 in that regard. It didn’t just feature general difficulty modes (which often feel super vague to me tbh), you could fine-tune your experience, turning off the story, puzzles, and higher "mission" difficulties would introduce a time-limit.

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

- Adding descriptions to exported variables in C# - and of course the big elephant in the room since a while: C# .NET web build export 🫠

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

that bassline gets me every time 😁

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Found out you actually can prepare .import files with desired import parameters, and Godot will just pick them up and do the rest. That offers some intriguing workflow possibilities, like presetting looping or bpm values for audio files exported from DAWs via script, hmmm... #godot #indiegamedev

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hmm, interesting, might have to give it a closer look and see if I could integrate some of it's ideas into my audio workflow. I'm working with Reaper (which is quite flexible for game audio preparation) + my own Godot audio systems. Setting up more stuff right in the DAW sounds intriguing.

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Stupid question, does FMOD have any specific killer features or this more like a industry-proven convenience package devs use so they don't have to set up their own dynamic sound/music system?

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can relate a lot 😅 I eventually caved and embraced switching to a different project if the fire is gone for the current one. At least in my experience, I switch back to the old one sooner or later, if it was any good, and often with a clearer perspective.

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

offset transform really is a godsend sometimes ^^

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Saw him recently in Visconti's "Le notti bianche" and he was magnificent!

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wasn't Dark City filmed on the Matrix set as well (or rather the other way around, Matrix reusing the Dark City set, from what I heard)? Guess he got quite a lot out of that set, hehe.

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yeah, especially with this kind of true top down view where all height info is missing or often compressed into blobs or rectangles.

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And it makes objects easier readable for the player for navigating and knowing which objects might be interesting or interactable. Not visible in the screenshot but I usually like to add small blinking animations to important objects to make the player aware of them.

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Had some fun (between all the bugfixing) to work on some pixel art for objects, giving the maps a sense of place :] And I’m realizing complementary colors and lighting can do a lot of lifting for a palette that has just a few to many gray and drab tones 😅️ #screenshotsaturday #indiegamedev #godot

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yeah, somebody told me at some point making games is _hard_, and after a day spent with fixing bugs, I totally feel it 😅️ But it feels super rewarding at the same time! #sologamedev #gamedev

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh man, Benefactor, this game is hard as nails, but I love these Olof Gustafsson tunes sooo much 😁 Really underappreciated title imho

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Noticed I've increasingly adopted turning more and more log messages about non-critical bugs and inconsistencies or even just warnings into full-blown debug asserts because my logs have becoming super crowded and I'm always too lazy to look dig thru them 😅 #godot #indiegamedev #solodev

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I remember this one very vividly, pretty trippy cyberspace game. I had no idea what the goal was (no manual and all). Learned only much later it was actually about helping someone on some kind of cyber heist.

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I wonder what the endpoint of all this will be. It's not unimaginable that at some point there will be services for people to just "dream up" games with no manual input or labor involved anymore. But wouldn't this get boring very fast and make people crave for actual human-authored stuff even more?

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I remember it was practically impossible to blow up buildings (crucial to some missions) without damaging the guy. In any way, I never found out how to do it right and it gave me nightmares.

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fire & Ice on the Amiga by Graftgold. I still have vivid memories taking home a copy from that one relative who had a massive collection of pirated games. Played it non stop for days until it turned out the second disk had an error, crashing every time at a specific point 🥲

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Name a Pokémon, wrong answers only.

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Made a fair bit of progress today implementing in-game cutscenes via my JSON script system :] Finer controlling the timing of specific script events will need a bit more work of though. #godot #indiegamedev #sologamedev

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Feeling this a lot 😅 I think it only really becomes an issue when you end up wasting time or shooting yourself in the foot by changing too much stuff and having to change it back later. Trying to balance this by keeping new features modular, so the worst case is a new module for another project.

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Nipsky @nipsky.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Had some fun adding a scanner mode. Might turn out to be just agimmick... or a central game play element, we’ll see :D #Godot #IndieGameDev #SoloDev

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Jimmy Maher @digiantiquarian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This Week on The Digital Antiquarian: "The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings" www.filfre.net/2026/09/the-...

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