iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

New swimming mechanics. Character can catch on fire now, put himself out in water. Air tank shows air levels, can tread water, drown, splashes for character and pet. Air and damage connected to health bar. #unrealengine #UE5 #gamedev #developer #indie #swimming #mechanics #worldbuilding

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

New water physics. New mine/craft/build system. Fast travel. Edibles. New cave (not shown) Health. Damage. Destruction system. Updated landscape. 180fps. #indie #dev #solo #unrealengine #UE #gamedev #gaming #game #snapbuild #inventory #crafting #developer #building #hut #sandbox #openworld

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

It's been a long road, teaching myself: But now - Inventory, mining materials, crafting section, and now SNAP BUILDING. I can die at peace now. No wait... another bug? #unrealengine #UE #gamedev #gaming #game #snapbuild #inventory #crafting #developer #building #hut #sandbox #openworld

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Now available through me personally at a non-gallery price. Untitled. Oil on canvas 213cm x 122cm 2024 $15000. #fineart #art #painting #layering #layers #oils ##oiloncanvas #landscape #artist #collectors #richardbaxter #drawing #texture #richness #subtlety #australianartist #river #beauty #peace

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I could draw extremely well at 15, but it's taken me 44 more years to learn how to paint. My teachers were every other artist. #fineart #art #painting #layering #layers #oils ##oiloncanvas #landscape #artist #collectors #richardbaxter #drawing #texture #richness #subtlety #australianartist

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

cubeBIOMe richard baxter Opens tomorrow 4-6pm Cusack & Cusack Gallery 31 Piper St, Kyneton. #gameart #gamedev #cubebiome #contemporaryart ##contemporarypainting #openworld #artcollector ##artinvestment #painting

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

cubeBIOMe Where old master meets game world. richard baxter Cusack & Cusack Gallery, 31 Piper st, Kyneton. Nov 8. #gameart #cubebiome #cube #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #worlds #biome #oldmaster #openworld #painting #19thcentury #21stcentury #old #new

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

In the olden days, long before AI, was an ancient technology called Photoshop. And long before that was something called a pencil. The ground here is a pencil drawing, coloured in PS. And the balloon? Arial photography before drones. #universe #photoshop #pencil #drawing #skill #artist #balloon

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

My work goes from the sublime to the sublime. See more subliminal cubes @ CubeBIOME, NOV 8, Cusack and Cusack Gallery, Keyneton. 4pm. Presales available. (Original paintings used in this animation shown below) #gameart #gamedev #artist #oilpaintings #cubebiome #animation

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

2 pre-exhibition sales yesterday. CubeBIOME starts Nov 8 @ Cusack & Cusack Gallery, Kyneton, 4pm. These paintings are heavily game-world inspired, yet draw on the aesthetics of the 19th century. #gameart #paintings #gamedesign #gamedev ##artcollector #exhibition #richardbaxter #cubebiome #art

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

CubeBiome/YellowFactory. Oil on canvas. The CubeBiome series is the feeling of the strange, expansive, colourful, free but constrained world of gaming. It might be polished, brutal, or nonsense. No meaning. But always alive. #gameart #computergames #painting #gamedev #contemporarypainting #

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The CubeBiome exhibition will begin 1st week Nov, Cusack & Cusack Gallery, Kyneton. 36 CubeBiomes + other non cube paintings. Begin play. 'Toxic waster and yellow fox boss' #cube #biome #gameart #gaming #game #developer #UE #contemporary #painting #gamer #oilpainting #masterpieces #richardbaxter

The CubeBiome exhibition will begin 1st week Nov, Cusack & Cusack Gallery, Kyneton. 36 CubeBiomes + other non cube stuff. Begin play.
'Toxic waster and yellow fox boss'

#cube #biome #gameart #gaming #game #developer #UE #contemporary #painting #gamer #oilpainting #masterpieces #richardbaxter

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The CubeBiome series is inspired by gaming, but also draws on hundreds of years of painting history. Sometimes graphic & contemporary in feel, but sometimes being lost in all the joy & richness of nature, beauty and lush aesthetics. Often, hopefully, combining it all. Because game creation is art.

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

CubeBiome #30. Paradox of choice. Oil on board. 6 more to go. If you know what these are about, you know more than I. Hit play. #gameart #gaming #art #painting #gamedev #developer #artist #paradox #choice #cube #biome #RichardBaxter #oil #canvas #contemporarypainting #physics #philosophy #maths

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

The Cube Biome series is where Rembrandt's palett, UI and execution paths intersect. With glazes. IF colour is > TRUE, = enjoy. Wander through sunset trees with endless branching, press E and watch the rain fall up. #gameart #gamedev #art #painting #UnrealEngine #games #programming #developer

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

CubeBiome series. Oil on board. 29 finished, 4 or 5 more, exhibition in a few months. Where game worlds meet old master techniques & rich paint. These paintings sparkle like strange playful electric jewels. #gameart #gamedev #UE #developer #artist #contemporaryart #gaming #painting #biome #cube

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Cube Biome #25. Oil on board. This series is *loosely* based on game environments and cubes. So loose, there isn't even a cube in this one. But there IS a health bar. Where game worlds meet texture, oil, & master techniques. #gameart #cubebiome #cube #gamedev #UI #painting #prayer #satellite

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Apart from a new mining and crafting system which I will show very soon, I've just added a night sky & different clouds. I want to be there. #gamedev #gaming #developer #daylightcycle #responsive #unrealengine #UE5 #coding #blueprints #stars #game #dev #indie #cubemap #clock #environment #light

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

CubeBiome#23 Oil on board. Don't look for meaning! Why would you want to spoil a perfectly enjoyable experience with tawdry meaning? Stop it! #gaming #environment #gameart #oilpainting #cube #biome #creature #inside #outside #worlds #within #worlds #mining #materials #inventory #health #hearts

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This is a VR gallery I've made in UE. It features my own paintings. (and a few AI animations) A few NPCs wander and chat in the gallery, going from painting to painting. #VR #UE #unrealengine #gamedev #virtualreality #3D #gallery #virtual #art #unrealengineVR #3Dartgallery #indiedev #indiegame

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

'There's nothing at the end'. Another in the 'CubeBiome' series, very loosely inspired by gaming and environments. 22 finished, 11 to go. #cube #biome #gaming #art #gamedev #gameart #time #linear #closedsystem #thejourney #information #intelligence #life #death #paint #texture #love #depression

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Self portrait in the 1950's interviewing a dead rabbit. Oil on canvas. 2004

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Mineable nodes with shake, health, Niagara effects, scaling, respawning after time and saving in current state. What more does a node need? #gamedev #gaming #developer #nodes #resources #unrealengine #UE5 #coding #blueprints #mining #game #dev #indie #inventory #materials #tools #stacks

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Chaos or order, it depends how you define it. We're all 1. Order in chaos in order. You choose. 'Now I can see the moon' Oil on canvas #chaos #order #complexity #theory #Godel #sets #oiloncanvas #painting #choice #freewill #richardbaxter #contemporaryart #science #logic #skulls #zen

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Cube is very happy about moonrise. From the CubeBiome series, based on gaming, but with actual thick paint. Kind of. Or something. Do I need reasons? #cube #biome #gamedev #developer #unrealengine #gameart #game #art #gamer #painting #artbot #richardbaxter #art #insideouterart #moonrise

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

From the CubeBiome series. Oil on board with perpetually correct clock. (Always now) An enhanced 80s production line painting, ex hospital corridor. Was probably making people sicker. Original in comments. ##gameart #gamedev #palworld #gaming #UE5 #Grizzbolt #fanart #meandmyson #gamers #girlpower

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Let go. Let go of the future. Let go of the past. Let go of the present. Let go of all those ropes & strings you are holding, that you are pulling, that you are tangled in and tied to. Let go. Let go Breathe Disappear #release #meditation #peace #oilpainting #floating #art #painting #timeless

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

On the day my father died, late that night, I came across this scene in the middle of 'nowhere'. Fire, stars, a road to... eternity. I took a time exposure, which became this painting. #fire #stars #eternity #death #infinity #emptiness #nothing #everything #love #loss #heartache #yearning #grief

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

A peaceful little (mostly 2D) animation I made years ago in AE, incorporating one of my first 3D models, the windchimes (& smoke + tree) #animation #peaceful #meditation #animator #windchimes #Blender #Modelling #Physics #Moonrise #Australia #Night #country #calm #stars #magpies #RichardBaxter

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

For pros it might not be much, but to finally be able to equip, unequip, drop items, have all inventory items and state machines save & load in their last state, even dropped items that have been kicked or moved still save correctly - feels pretty amazing. #gamedev #unrealengine #UE5 #developer

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Memory is fragile. So easily corruptible. Is it ever even accurate, ever? And who are you, without it? Are you accurate in the first place? From the 'CubeBiome' series, oil on canvas. #game #theory #memory #programming #gamedev #identity #choice #chaos #fragility #loss #I #corruption #collection

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Life on earth is predicated on violence, from the molecular level up. We need to level up and recreate the platform itself. From the CubeBiome series, oil on board. #gameart #gamedev #life #violence #bioengineering #rewrite #rules #choice #god #freedom #dissatisfaction #fight #conditions

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Sometimes the cube is barely there. From the CubBiome series, *loosely* based on gaming environments. oil on canvas. Sometimes the theme borders on complete meaningless abstraction, which is like my game development . #biomes #environments #gameart #gamedev #oilpainting #concept #richardbaxter

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richard baxter @synapse-fingers.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

#1 of the CubeBiome series. Oil on canvas. Maybe inside is the same as outside. Where game imagery meets 19th century Naturalism. Sometimes. Kind of. Painterly, anyway. #transition #enter #biome #world #choice #if #condition #branch #environment #nature #game #chance #complexity #chaos #paint

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