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UZDoom @uzdoom.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

#UZDoom 5.0 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) just got released! If you were on RC1, use our built-in Updater by clicking About tab in the launcher, then "Check for Updates". Optionally, set it to update automatically in the Options tab Otherwise, download from github.com/UZDoom/UZDoo...

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Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We’ve reached the Renaissance Patron era of video games.

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UZDoom @uzdoom.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Another day, another fake, AI-generated UZDoom website 😂 Beware, folks, spread the news and do NOT download anything from this site!

Screenshot of another fake UZDoom website as of 6th August 2026

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River Salmon @riversalmon.itch.io · 15/07/2026

Just released the Material base I use on Vesper to get nice, chunky anti-aliased pixels with meaningful shimmer reduction. Check it out! riversalmon.itch.io/retro-surfac... *example image uses Makkon Textures, not included. #unrealengine #retro #gamedev

Floor corner demonstration of Retro Surface. A Makkon floor and wall texture are used, and the camera is at a grazing angle to demonstrate that shimmer is mitigated and anisotropic filtering still works, which it typically would not with point filtering. The scene is with dark teal lighting, and dark carved stone and tile surfaces.

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River Salmon @riversalmon.itch.io · 17/01/2026

Art is communication. I don't care about talking to an algorithm.

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UZDoom @uzdoom.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Rest well in Valhalla, Burger Becky. Your contributions to the video games industry, and of course - DOOM - will live on with us here on earth forever

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Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

HEARTBREAKING NEWS: Ubisoft was asking too much for the "Tonic Trouble" IP, so unfortunately my acquisition bid fell through at the last minute

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Kronok @kronok.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

What UVing in a good level editor tool is like: Select a face and Alt + RMB on hovered faces to flow it to that face. I can also flow it from the hovered face to the selected faces with Shift + Alt + RMB (coming in Scythe 0.7).

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Kronok @kronok.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

New update to Scythe, my Source 2 Hammer inspired level editor for Unreal Engine 5! New features below! 🧵(1/6)

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River Salmon @riversalmon.itch.io · 17/07/2025

Hey all, I've been maintaining a games-focused community fork of #unrealengine available to UE licensees over at github.com/River-Salmon.... Come on in, we've got User Defined Shading Models!

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

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Victor Careil @phyronnaz.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Property History is out! Quickly see the history of any property in Unreal Engine

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fw @frwthr.bsky.social · 05/08/2023

Hey y'all! I am Fairweather, and I make singleplayer levels for Quake, Team Fortress 2 and Doom! Here's some of my work, I typically focus on encounter design, but here's some pretty visuals to catch your eye. Reposts appreciated.

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 06/06/2025

If I was a dev and I had spent years working on a game and my boss went on stage and looked like this much of a jackass I'd be so pissed

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soup_ @estroclysm.neocities.org · 25/05/2025

one of the saddest things about western masculinity is that it comes with a predetermined set of life goals from the very start. a kind of life that one should live, and things they should strive for lest they be a failure as a man. none of that sounds like freedom

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River Salmon @riversalmon.itch.io · 25/05/2025

another shot of the Retro Surface material I'm making to make using nice crunchy pixel textures look right in #unrealengine

An outdoor air conditioning unit rendered using Unreal 5 and the Retro Surface material. Point filtered details are preserved without Moire patterns forming in the distance.

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River Salmon @riversalmon.itch.io · 25/05/2025

Using some UV tricks from Inigo Quilez's blog, I was able to get very convincing pixel textures but still using regular samplers - meaning you get to use shared samplers, anisotropic filtering, etc! I also have some PBR inference from color textures worked in too. Textures by Makkon.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Honestly the only thing anyone needs to know at any age is that anyone who says they have the “answers” to anything I life is 100% full of shit

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The problem with "you're wrong about" type podcasts is that eventually they get around to covering something you actually know quite a bit about and when they get major things wrong it bursts the illusion that the hosts know anything other than how to make a podcast.

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Kronok @kronok.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Look at what a simple temp pivot + shift drag extrude can do in Unreal Engine now with Scythe (coming in the next version).

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

before I forget, here's some art I made in Quake

screenshot of a retro gameart cathedral interior

screenshot of a retro gameart cathedral exterior, the floating spires of the under section

screenshot of a retro gameart cathedral, the front spires and main door

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

Google maps screenshot of the Drake passage between South America and Antarctica

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River Salmon @riversalmon.itch.io · 07/02/2025

I'm that purple marine there. Much exciting new possibilities in multiplayer classic #Doom!

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Nash Muhandes @nashmuhandes.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Network test success. Slowly lifting the GZDoom netcode curse. Ongoing behind the scenes netcode improvements, and improved it has. 6 players across the world, no connection troubles (OGs remember the struggle), SMOOTH prediction (feels like playing single player), no jitter/rubberbanding. #GZDoom

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Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

A friend of mine just pitched something to a studio and the executive said, “That’s great, but nobody is buying anything with a point of view right now.”

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The only successful type of game going forward is the kind I make and like. All other types of game are doomed to fail because players don’t like those games, as demonstrated by the commercial failure of one specific example, Game X. Don’t be an idiot, be a clever person, like me.

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Joy Content 🏳️‍⚧️🐒 @joycontent.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

doctor who should bring nikola tesla back so they can do the opposite of the ending of vincent and the doctor and bring him to the modern day and have him hate what his legacy is

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walt @runningjump.games · 25/01/2025

my friends made an extremely cool Device

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River Salmon @riversalmon.itch.io · 24/01/2025

I'm once again trying to find a good way to do anisotropic filtering without enabling bilinear filtering in the process in #unrealengine. I can do the uv trick I described in an earlier post, but that looks blurry when applied to these high contrast textures

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Isabella Haro @isabellaharo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Attempting another Dark Fantasy project, this time in 5.5 with megalights All real time dynamic lights and lumen for everything #UE5 #WIP

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Kim Myatt⁷ @ysvyri.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Go make the art you’ve always wanted to make. Write the stories you’ve been dreaming of. Sing your heart out. Pick up an instrument & play. Do the things you’ve been holding back on because you’re worried about what others might think. Just do it. Do it now. Life is short. Life is precious. Please.

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Cape and Bow @jemmyspo.nz · 20/01/2025

dear fellow game developers PLEASE I BEG OF YOU stop shipping your game with volume settings at a deafening 100% by default. If you set it to 50% by default and let players increase it to a volume they want instead of blowing my eardrums out when I start the game I'll respect you immensely

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juicce @juiccedev.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Pls be aware that Engine =/= Art Direction Unreal Engine is just a tool and you can use it however you want. For example, I made this stylized indie game in Unreal Engine 5 - check it out! ❤️‍🔥 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

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River Salmon @riversalmon.itch.io · 15/01/2025

Mappers, modders, modders and mapmakers - please reach out if you want some paid mapping work for a classic/retro/boomer shooter in #unreal #ue5. Experience with #doom mapping appreciated!

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jazz mickle @queenjazz.gay · 11/01/2025

its my game!! please check it out and tell your friends and if you're really cool you can buy it!!! queenjazz.itch.io/world-pole-s...

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

As shit clamps down I would like to see things like personal websites and rss and forums return, we need to stop relying on the same 3 damn sites to be our Internet These things were the norm for ages, maybe we can reforge it

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PSX Bunlith 🪄🏳️‍⚧️ E2 OCT 16TH!!!! 🐰🌱 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 08/01/2025

please, please read this. the employee abuse thats been uncovered here is distressing. this needs to be spread to every corner of the games industry

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River Salmon @riversalmon.itch.io · 04/01/2025

Using tricks with UVs that has apparently existed for a long time, was finally able to get a point filtered look with anisotropic filtering. All this really is under the hood is 'pixelating' the uvs with the shader while still using all the other ordinary texture sampler stuff #unreal #retro #ue5

Unreal editor screenshot of pixelated textures at a grazing angle that doesn't turn into a shimmery mess at distance. The normal maps are also pixelated. The textures themselves are dark stone bricks.

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jazz mickle @queenjazz.gay · 30/12/2024

listen to my new song

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

now that i have Unreal games to show, i often get the response that my work is more sophisticated (high end, technically accomplished…) when plenty of my 2D games were just as hard to make. imo video game “sophistication” is just an aesthetic.

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Mr #PitchYaGame @liamtwose.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

It's important as a #GameDev to be aware of the games you are contending with. 🧐 1. Old(er) more established games 2. Genre power-horses 3. Trending games 4. Franchises 5. GTA 6.

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