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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Saw some great birds today on our hike

Three woodpeckers (acorn woodpeckers???) perched in a hole-filled tree.

Two ravens perched on top of a pine tree. The tree line was filled with them all doing the same thing - perching on the highest point of the tallest trees, and watching a pair of red-tailed hawks flying around the meadow below.

A red-tailed hawk, wings spread gliding on a thermal or something. It was followed with a constant escort of annoyed ravens, and watched by dozens more in the trees. They weren't attacking it, but they were shepherding it away from the tree line

A small blackbird perched in the dry grass. I think it's a brewer's blackbird but I'm no good at identifying blackbirds that aren't ravens, crows, coots, or scrub jays

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I feel kind of bad for making a "prop of the week" section on my webpage and then proceeding to spend 2 months working on level geometry that doesn't really fit in with the theme of a "prop"

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

wife and I doing some dark souls coop mod, and I love that fromsoft just gives you the zweihander immediately after the tutorial

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

One of the most-important things I've learned doing solo gamedev is to keep a planner or something where you can write down ideas for future games. It's partially so I can keep track of the ideas before I forget them, but mostly it's so I can exorcise them and get back to my current project.

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Silver 🏳️‍⚧️ Alicorn @silveralicorn.online · 05/09/2026

Obviously not a dragon, but I think it passes the screen test :)

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

my greatest enemy continues to be me from a month ago, deciding to put off doing PBR layers on all my textures until later

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Silver 🏳️‍⚧️ Alicorn @silveralicorn.online · 29/08/2026

Finally! These tracks get their Bandcamp release! Newly remastered and including a never-heard-before intro track. Let me know what you think! silveralicorn.bandcamp.com/album/only-r...

silveralicorn.bandcamp.com

Only Ruin Awaits (Part One), by Silver Alicorn

8 track album

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I am just accumulating a big list of video games I want to make "some day" Half-life but nothing goes wrong and you just have a job with meters and an apartment and a boss Space game but you're a flight attendant SimCopter

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'll probably need to uproot most of these and replant them into their own things, but the basil seedlings are sprouting already!

A shallow planter with soil and a bunch of basil sprouts peeking out.

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

lego cities skylines is my gta

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Silver 🏳️‍⚧️ Alicorn @silveralicorn.online · 23/08/2026

I’m well on the way to getting music in game

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

herbarium status: 's all good smells real nice

Planters on a wire rack indoors. Leftmost is chocolate mint, next to normal rosemary. Next planter over, from back to front, is lemon thyme, tarragon, and hot oregano. I planted some chive and basil seedlings way on the other side from the rosemary to see how they hold up with this kind of lifestyle.

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Silver 🏳️‍⚧️ Alicorn @silveralicorn.online · 19/08/2026

Well I've fixed the worst graphical bugs, getting some performance issues now though I am pretty sure I know how to fix them. I will hopefully put the source code up soon, I don't know if it's polite to just fork it though!

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Silver 🏳️‍⚧️ Alicorn @silveralicorn.online · 16/08/2026

Well! I actually took a big detour into 3D mode... now it has flipped tiles and hardware scaling!

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Right now the texel density is too high for Poisoned Gravity, but here's my guy! Made him about a year ago for a more-realistic game where you can talk to him and feed him pizza just like IRL In poisoned gravity there's a whole colony of these guys, stowaways on a decade-long journey #rat #lowpoly

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I have a fully rigged and animated rat model (and a mouse) that I made for my other game, and i'm planning to make central to my space game, Poisoned Gravity so maybe I should just go ahead and retexture it this weekend to match the style of the new game so I can have a little rat to post

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Got the rough idea for the hallways set up in Blender. Still need to finalize the layout, build some cutouts for sparse greebling, and figure out what I want to do about corners. Drawing some inspiration from Alien obvs, Event Horizon, TNG, and my pediatrician from when I was 8.

A blender render of a space ship hallway with padded walls. A bulkhead door control panel with a rough draft texture sits in the front of the view.

A view from inside the quarters showing the bulkhead door retracting. A sign reads "Promeande" at the top of the door, but I'm not married to that name for the hallway.

A quick and dirty blender global illumination pass showing the hall lights. In Unreal I'm going to bake some lighting for these panels, which run symmetrically on both sides of the hallway. I want the lighting to be ample, but dim, so brighter than this, but in the sort of way that a hospital is after midnight, where it's lit, but only just.

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

cool blender tips and tricks: 1 - Use shift-tilde for a first-person camera mode. Hit tab for collision and you can test out level layouts without exporting to an engine! 2 - Add 2-3mg thc to some tea so you don't feel high but do lose track of time and shrimp for 4 hours and hurt your hips. #tip

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Sometimes with blender you spend like two hours with a calculator trying to rotate part of a mesh just right to join with another mesh, then you realize you can just build new geometry for the joint and it takes like 5 seconds.

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

every home cook has two sets of knives, the good ones you hang on the wall that cut like a dream, and the horrible shitter's knives you run through the dishwasher and don't want houseguests to know about.

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

office supplies in microgravity mysterious pens... who can say what brand they are at this texture resolution. Modeled this after the shitty velcro setups they have on the ISS

a 3d render of some tools and folders pinnned to a red board with velcro strips

an alternate angle of the tools and pens and stuff on the red board

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

a nice evening in the desert, checking out the aftermath of those rainstorms we saw last weekend.

A view of borrego springs and the mountains behind from an overlook.

A photo of a fence separating different parts of the anza borrego desert state park. Shrubs in the foreground, mountains in the back

A little sun spilling over the mountains, succulents and grasses in the valley below

some more succulents in the falling twilight

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

charging my camera battery for a trip to tha desert tonight. It's only gonna be 110 f

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Tragic: the unique horror story you're enjoying is an unattributed adaptation of a 15 year old's SCP article

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

trying out blender with a vertical mouse today

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

there's no "I" E1M1 but there is a "me"

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Cool hike today along a ridge looking down into the anza borrego desert

A photo of a cliffside over the desert. There's storm clouds and some rain in the distance

Another cliff looking down into line after line of mountains.

A tiny scrub of some kind growing out of a rock. Cliffs and desert rain sits behind it.

A shot of the anza borrego right before we left, as the storm was intensifying.

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

the epic of gilgamesh is the first literary example of the "gaycation"

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Don't remember if i posted the chair animated and textured or not, but here it is! #blender #lowpoly

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Just got a new keyboard and typing on it sounds like rain on the roof. Something I definitely miss living in socal for the last 7 years.

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

fish don't think about me at all

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

a lot of the games industry news got me down so I'm finally getting around to the ancient aliens doom wad after 10 years (!?) and it holds up great. Turns out doom: its still good and there's more of it than you can possibly play in one lifetime. www.doomworld.com/files/file/1...

doomworld.com

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I'm sorry, in my culture it's considered rude to use the regular shotgun after receiving a super shotgun

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

my software in christ that is like a hundred dollars worth of SSD space

a screenshot of the Steam library page for DCS World, showing a 264 gig install size

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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 11/07/2026

Standing around at the park and there are parents nearby talking about DCS and buying a HOTAS and it’s sickening! We’re in public!

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

any time i use anyone else's computer

The damn bitch you live like this goofy meme but with fucked up windows mouse settings in the background

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Added a prop of the week archive to my website: sumac.neocities.org/Props Every week I'm uploading an animated gif of a different prop from my game! Maybe it'll rotate, maybe it'll animate, maybe it'll eventually crash your browser if I keep it up long enough. Let's find out together!

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Prop of the Week Archive

Gifs and screenshots of different props from the game

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

New PB for Cactus Canyon! Finally got that table down. Crazy how much better I am at pinball just having the pinone controller instead of a gamepad. It feels way more real but more than that, the buttons are a lot easier to feather the flippers with than like, shoulder buttons ever were.

A screenshot of the high score for Cactus canyon showing me getting 128 million points.

A full playfield screenshot of cactus canyon.

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Pretty much done texturing and animating the sleep pod for my game Poisoned Gravity! Let the powerful hydraulic arm tuck you in securely for a good year's sleep :) #blender #gamedev #lowpoly

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Never let anyone convince you that shitty things are inevitable yeah you can't stop everything by yourself but shitty things happen a lot easier and more often when they can convince everyone it's not worth the effort to oppose it

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Spent a good 10 mins trying to figure out why I named an idle animation for a zero-g treadmill "Babette's Feast" p sure I must have had the wrong window active when I was looking for it on criterion channel a few months back and renamed it? who can say

The channel tab of Blender's action editor. The animation is called Babette's Feast.

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

My favorite thing in DF is getting petitions for guilds and temples. I love making little themed buildings for each, decorating libraries, making dance floors, whatever!

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