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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 5h

Took yesterday partly off, binged the new Brigador Killers update a bit. Finally reunited with my dearest Mirabelle. As beautiful as the day I lost her...

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Haven't played Starship EVO in a while but had some lore lying around

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

SteelFront was a humbling lesson in "it's never as simple as you think". After all we poured into it we ended up with some neat tech, cool assets, and proof we could get things done fast and loose, but no game we could sell. But I still have those assets, so the IP may yet live.

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Think it'd be fun to do some fun halloween thing for RF like previous years, a couple things I was messing around with last year like SF zombie scenario but with repos, or Altirus but you're lost in the woods in a blizzard and something's out there with you

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Question to level design folks, how do you usually go about environment-building, particularly things like cities? These days I find working from a single blender file goes more smoothly than making everything separately and putting it into the scene, but also prolly suboptimal

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Varzov @varzov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A little something about ships in my personal setting. Here's the A12 patrol frigate, a humble workhorse of the shipping lanes and patrol routes.

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Additional wippage: Whole set including country houses, monastery

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tried reading Phillip K Dick's Ubik many years ago; ended up putting it down I think cos certain scenes were way to drawn out. Picked it back up as an audiobook and the narrator sounds suspiciously like Harlan Ellison.

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nivalis Nights looks like a good time but (1) I'm in a spending freeze and (2) got a lotta client + personal work to catch up on, plus some Ravenfield stuff I been meaning to get done. Maybe as a reward to myself after the next batch of comms gets done.

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Kom.10 Druzhok, or "Druz", didn't make the cut as TIDEC's standard PDW, but it did draw some eyes in special forces. Infantry adopted it wanting to look cool too, and wound up with a capable weapon for doorkickers, hole-crawlers, heavy weapon crews, and any boots with extra pistol ammo to waste.

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's been almost a week and this damn cough still isn't going away despite all I'm doing to zap it, was so bad yesterday I got barely any work done. This better not be pneumonia again istg

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"I wouldn't fall to the Evil Artifact I'd just tell its eldritch whisperings to fuck off" meanwhile I can't even get a bag of jalapeno chips without being falling to the urge to scarf down the whole danm bag in one sitting

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Simon Roy @simonroy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Extrasolar mamluks in revolt, from this month’s comic…

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Realized the eggs in my fridge were almost a week past their sell by date. Ate them anyway cos they didn't look, smell, or taste unusual. If they end up taking me out, apologies in advance to anyone whose work I may miss as a result.

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Offhand qrt on twitter about Avatar went off the rails and got me wondering, what would the na'vi look like if they were a result of more earnest specbio rather than marketing? And how much would the storytelling have to catch up the more alien they got?

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Been tryna push myself to do that after work but hours of fiddling with map props and pathfinding make me question my life choices and I end up not being able to sleep :\

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Quick set of 2am doodles - Public's got certain expectations of what a mech pilot looks like. Wouldn't do for them to be random schlubs, but the suit can help with that.

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Feeling like I oughta make more "general purpose" maps with different themes/regions for RF again, but a tad stuck on the actual LD end. Wondering if I oughta snag someone to help with actual design n grayboxing, or maybe run sum kinda contest

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Still got crud, hacking and wheezing all morning. Beef lentil soup sounds p. fucking good rn

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

tryna come up with cheeky retrofuture alt-history versions of real arms manufacturers and being extremely disappointed to discover "Armadyne" as a fictional armalite successor is taken >:(

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Had some folks with some fuckin awesome projects express interest but not have the budget for a commission. So I'm pondering how to set up terms for revenue cuts or trades (ex, programmer wants me to make art assets, in exchange they help me with the technical side on my stuff)

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Remembered one time in high school when I was talking with classmates about how I was doing competitive trap shooting, and one of them went off the hook at me for how cruel I was for "shooting defenseless animals in traps". Trap shooting is about shooting down flying clay disks.

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Need to make up lost time from hosting some overseas friends; got a long-term contract coming up, but can open slots in advance provided there aren't any tight deadlines.

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Rocketengine @rocketengine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ferves Ranger 4×4 silodrome.com/ferves-range...

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Autumn trying its best to poke its way out of the last dregs of summer

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"all art is political" actually hollow semantics. everything is political. Culture War Georg, who lives on the internet & rallies against any perceived ideological threat in media, is actively manipulating people adn should have not been regarded

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In contemplating a return to SteelFront in some form, I feel some redesigns are in order (fun fact: Most of the unit models were pumped out in less than 2 weeks). Namely, not a huge fan of the Land Fortresses, especially the Anvil.

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Logistics Command Module (deployable base system) from the old version of FF; thinking of reusing it, updated with some systems made for the Deployable Command Center mod

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Was sick and unable to focus today When in doubt, draw memes

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One thing I'll say about Sprawl Zero is that while it creates these super satisfying flowstates, it feels like the game creates them for you. In OG Sprawl, when you get into the flow and are bouncing offa walls doming fools without even using slowmo, if feels more your own doing.

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

tbh I kinda resent the term "All Art is Political". I know it's supposed to mean "political circumstances shape a cultural landscape", but it seems to translate into "the value of a creative work does not extend beyond its utility as an ideological tool in the context of a culture-war".

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hosted an event w/ some international guests last weekend, then took them on a roadtrip tour the following week. A nice change of pace and excuse to peel myself offa my desk but now I've gotten out of the groove and am even further behind. Gotta catch up between now and Christmas

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Stellar Jockeys @stellarjockeys.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Flyingdebris cannot be stopped (spoilers for the plot of Brigador Killers, probably)

Go and watch John Carpenter's "They Live" from 1988 and this ought to make sense.

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Revisiting old SteelFront mod stuff Despite being for a video, I still think Point Hanegawa turned out pretty fun. A version with dynamic enemy activity as opposed to fixed waves still sounds appealing, though something standalone (and maybe co-op) would be the dream.

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Despite the issues we ran into with SteelFront itself, I did confirm I do still have permission to utilize the IP and assets. So there could be places I might be able to take it if the opportunity arises.

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anyone got good reading material on pre-WW2 espionage / covert warfare? May try to carve out some time to make Altirus specops / partisan stuff soonish, but worried about stuff (silenced weapons in particular) feeling a bit too WW2 / Cold War esque

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

lotta IRL stuff til the end of next week. Contract work not going ahead til after that. Tending to Ravenfield mods while portfolio and personal projects stagnate. Feelin kinda stuck. Here sum 3D sketchbook bits

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Forever Winter came up on twitter, with folks saying how it should've been about fighting the big war instead of trying to survive in the middle of it. Won't deny the game has issues out the wazoo, but "wrong genre" isn't one of them; rather, shortcomings in delivering on the core survival idea.

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