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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Little dawn hike along the cliffside

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Bor | Goblin Town @pyotrroma.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't like the posterise node in shadergraph

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Also saw a weird bug that looked like a partially-pupated tiger moth or something similar. It had two useless little wings, and legs along the front of its body, but it wasn't really great at moving.

A moth-like larvae or something. The front half just looks like a mature tiger moth or similar, but with stunted wings and no legs in the back half the way a larvae would.

A third angle showing the coloration of the moth(?)'s tiny wings

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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 · 24/09/2026

You're likely to use this twice and then lose track of it in a closet

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I guess I do have like 30 or 40 different pieces of scenery props I could have thrown up there but

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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 Candycorn 💛🧡🤍 @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 · 04/09/2026

I didn't even know the devil was dating, he moves fast

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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 Candycorn 💛🧡🤍 @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...

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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 Candycorn 💛🧡🤍 @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 Candycorn 💛🧡🤍 @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 Candycorn 💛🧡🤍 @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

thank you bluesky for making that loop so weird and bad :]

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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

And here's the pocket mouse! For scale, the rat's body is around 25cm long not including tail, but the Desert Pocket Mouse here is a mere 7cm (with a 10cm tail!) You see them all over the deserts at night when stargazing and they're super cute (from a distance, they have diseases) #lowpoly

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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 · 31/07/2026

this is the only Sim-branded game that I've never been able to make sense of, as a kid and as recently as a month ago

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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 · 29/07/2026

I don't understand why so many designers shy away from stuff like Atkinson Hyperlegible and other sans-sarif fonts that actually differentiate the I and the l. I use it on my website and had a designer buddy tell me it was "an unprofessional font" lmao

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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