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Philip Drobar

@philipdrobar.northsky.social
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Indie Gamedev (CHESTNUT GROVE, #GRIDHACK, #COGITO Godot template) at @thresholdanomaly.com VFX Editor (Spiderman NWH, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, etc.) www.philipdrobar.com he/him, Austrian 🇦🇹 in Canada 🇨🇦 Follows =/= endorsements.

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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 11h
❎ GRIDHACK, our sci-fi nonogram battler finally has a demo out! All our bugs are 100% organic. store.steampowered.com/app/5351100/...
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 18h
I know I've been pushing our demo hard, but its one of the few/only venues available. Steam Next Fest will reshuffle demos based on engagement tomorrow. If you can, please leave a short review on Steam! This helps a ton with GRIDHACK finding it's audience. store.steampowered.com/app/5351100/...
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
Special thanks to @indiealpa.ca who was a very early supporter of GRIDHACK, i'll never forget that. Huge thanks to @ramiismail.com for some candid advice at Reboot '24. And @amandafarough.ca & @futterish.fsquared.biz for all they do for Indies. Okay now go play some NONOGRAMS!
"I am going to create a picross game that is so stressful."
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
Shout out to current and former nonogram devs, it never feels like we're competing, instead just supporting each other. Check out @cyansorcery.com 's Fox Stamps (also in SNF) @lukathemouse.gay & @alexstrook.bsky.social's SQUEAKROSS needs no intro. And @edfear.co.uk 's Murder By Numbers!!!
The pope holding up ARA from GRIDHACK
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
It's not a proper Demo "launch" without last minute bugfixes and build updates.
Twin Peaks screenshot. Agent Dale Cooper saying "I'm tired and a little on edge.
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 18/10/2026
Dark Souls screenshot, with the caption: "Ken Sim evicted."
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 09/10/2026
Games finally catching up with what I've been trying in real life for years:
"Heal EMOTIONS with BREADS"
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 07/10/2026
The infamous game testers ad. Caption says "Hey Unity, tighten up the graphics on Level 3."
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wow, congratz! The trailer looks fantastic.
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 05/10/2026
Spent a few days on Vancouver Island and ran into this bear twice.
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 26/09/2026
9 years in this Country and this is my very first Slurpee
My hand holding a slurpee
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 23/09/2026
Arlo Parks concert last night was fantastic.
Arlo Parks performing live.
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 22/09/2026
Quote post with a meme that you lived.
"I saw this right before the outbreak." Says Joel while looking at a billboard poster of the Sonic The Hedgehog movie.
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you're at @fullindie.bsky.social today, say hi! I'm here to yap.
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 20/09/2026
We've decided to publish a release candidate for Cogito For Godot 1.2.0 so we can collect more bug reports and polish the stable release more. Please find it on Codeberg here: codeberg.org/Phazorknight... #CogitoForGodot #GodotEngine
COGITO for Godot Eninge 4 - Immersive First Person Template - v1.2
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 06/09/2026
TETSUOOOO!!!
Poster for Akira IMAX showing.
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 02/09/2026
Bush 9/11 meme with the caption: "Another MLA has quit the BC Conservatives."
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 29/08/2026
Remembered I never posted the otter family sharing a fish we saw at a random seawall walk a while back. They were weary of a nearby seal as well. #YVR #PNW #Otters
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 22/08/2026
Saw a bear today.
A black bear among trees.
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 20/08/2026
Woke up and immediately had to do the railing for the viral staircase. I'm don't know if this is physically possible, but I'm not an architect.
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 19/08/2026
Oh yeah i see. How's this:
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 19/08/2026
Making the viral staircase in COGITO #CogitoForGodot
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 17/08/2026
Oh, so that's what the new Instagram logo looks like to me:
The Olive Garden logo/image, but it says Instagram.
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 12/08/2026
Shania is the original Bene Gesserit.
Shania Twain in the music video for Getcha Good
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 11/08/2026
Most people know the Cogito template for ImSims, but you could also use it to make a fantasy game. Here's a quick test I did this morning. #GodotEngine #MadeWithGodot #CogitoForGodot
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 05/08/2026
Two skeets in the timeline that make it look like James Bond is pointing his gun at Hank Hill.
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 31/07/2026
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be doing a talk about the development of #COGITO for Godot Engine at the @fullindie.bsky.social Summit 2026 in September. Hope to see you there!
Talk announcement: Philip Drobar: Making tools with strangers - creating an open source game template.
Full Indie Summit 2026, September 20th, Track B, 11:30am in Vancouver BC.
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 29/07/2026
This whole page servers up a healthy does faith in humanity in general. Humbled to have my quote for @thresholdanomaly.com in there as well.
[..] Setting all ethical and legal issues aside, my main reasons for not using GenAI at all in any of my workflows is pretty simple: I started game dev to basically tinker, to see what I could make and to learn and grow my abilities while doing so. This process not only shapes my skills, but also the games itself and me as a person. GenAI basically removes all of that, and thus would completely erase the reason for making games for me.”
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 24/07/2026
Everyone has this experience sometimes:
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 23/07/2026
Feeling better than ever about having moved COGITO to Codeberg. #CogitoForGodot
Codeberg pop up mentioning their changes to their ToS, explicitly restricting LLM-generated content and not allowing cryptocurrency projects.
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 20/07/2026
FIFA lessons:
"Biggest problem we have to solve: Racism"
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 18/07/2026
Select your team:
Baguette guyKing and chainmail kid
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 14/07/2026
(tagged for minor spoilers)
Owlboy screenshot
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 07/07/2026
Why the fuck does my hardware monitoring app have a GIF search...!?
Screenshot of the NZXT CAM patch notes, mentioning that the GIF search provider has changed.
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 02/07/2026
Show me a cool physical game
Japanese "The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past" for the Super Famicom
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 01/07/2026
Xbox, Sony, etc. This week has felt very much like this.
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 01/07/2026
Wonder if Batou was inspired by Detective Stone.
Screencap from Split Second (1992) showing Rutger Hauer as Detective Stone.
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 27/06/2026
Its hard and for me never got any easier. But @futterish.fsquared.biz 's book helped me tremendously.
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 23/06/2026
Mad Men presentation: the whiteboard just says "double crouch"
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 17/06/2026
“[Game] player count is only [amount].“ Can you still play the game? Then...
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 12/06/2026
Very sad I have to miss @vangamegarden.bsky.social this weekend, but anyone who knows me from this: my DMs are always open. Have a deer scare/boar scare as a moment of zen.
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 09/06/2026
Aquabus pride.
Vancouver Aquabus with a rainbow decal.
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 05/06/2026
Updating this for 2026(ish): #Animation
Sabrina being fed pancakes meme, with animation projects: The Ribbon Hero, Arco, I Am Frankelda, Dealies, Dorohedoro Season 2, All you need is Kill, Nobody
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 04/06/2026
Fine then, I'll do it myself. Introducing the #Cogito Community Space: - No GenAI, ads or tracking - Hosted in Switzerland. - Public posts, private posts, DMs Now open to join, give it a go! community.thresholdanomaly.com/index.php?r=...
Screenshot of the Cogito Community Space website.
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 28/05/2026
Niiiice! Fingers crossed!
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Philip Drobar @philipdrobar.northsky.social · 27/05/2026
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