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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 26/09/2026

Thank you! It's been a very exciting week! 😁😅

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Paralives @paralives.com · 21/09/2026

happy release day to Dressmaker!! check out our discounted bundle with @cozylivesgames.bsky.social available now on Steam 🎀🧵

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Tiny Bookshop ✨ @tinybookshopgame.com · 21/09/2026

We have a new Steam bundle with Dressmaker, which JUST got released today!! 👗🪡 Get 10% off on both games together <3 @freelives.bsky.social @techartjon.com

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Relooted by Nyamakop @nyamakop.co.za · 10/02/2026

“Please enjoy the museum”: Relooted is OUT NOW! Please share!

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 26/01/2026

Oh great! Thanks for getting back to me.

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 08/01/2026

I've been a @dailymaverick.co.za subscriber for years because I want to support journalism that isn't funded by a billionaire. But they're partnering with pro-AI companies, hosting AI workshops, using AI to do research, parroting AI investors, blind to the dark future they're helping to push. :(

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hunter (comms open!) @hrpixelart.com · 08/01/2026

Boy, I tell ya. #pixelart

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 02/01/2026

I spent a bit of time with Vivaldi, in part because I used to really like Opera before the company got weird. I think the only thing preventing me from fully jumping over is some form of "containers". I rather like siloing social media/ads/shopping cookies off from the rest of my browsing.

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 20/11/2025

If you and Lena ever decide to visit the southern tip of Africa, let me know! 😅

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 18/11/2025

(our studio eats the model fee.) I try to find cosplayers and stuff too, I love getting dancers and athletes, but I wonder if it's the nature of timed study. Some folks find it stressful, or feels too much like work, staying at the studio after hours for it. I'm not sure how to improve it.

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 18/11/2025

With the weekly group that I run our model rotation only repeats every 4+ months, though we tend to lack male models. But yeah, aside from a few dedicated regulars (who are friends and use it as a way to hang out), most people come for a few sessions and then fall off. We don't even charge entrance.

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 16/10/2025

It was a really long time ago, but I remember it feeling like software that was taped together by hobbyists. Like programmers making a thing to make programmer art? Maybe that's how open source and proprietary stuff differs, but I feel like Blender and Krita think about the artist as the end user.

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 16/10/2025

Having basically fully switched from 3ds Max and XSI to Blender and knowing that a change in mindset was critical, I'm going to go in not expecting it to be PS, but to learn what sort of workflow it wants to have and to try and streamline that. But I just can't do that under work deadlines. 😅

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 16/10/2025

I had a really bad experience when I tried it over 10 years ago, but 10 years is a long time, and I should probably give it another try, especially with a different mindset.

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 16/10/2025

So I'm currently dual booting Linux Mint after being a lifelong Windows user, and instead of doomscrolling I've been reading documentation, wikis, tutorials and figuring out whether to try and make Photoshop work. Krita is starting to look really good...

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 16/10/2025

@marmoset3d.bsky.social Hello! I don't see anything about the team on the website. Last I met folks from there was Joel, Andries, Mira, but they all (perhaps wisely) seem to have dropped off social media? Are any of them still at marmoset?

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 02/10/2025

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 06/10/2025

And I don't know how much of this is your direction vs the models being good, but there's so much more expressiveness and storytelling going on, as opposed to just "pretty person existing". The ones with Neri in particular are incredible. Thank you for putting these together!

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 06/10/2025

Hi Abbey, I subbed and was really impressed. I buy reference pretty often for for-fun paintings, and often in packs of like 1000+ images, arguably less than 10% are actually good reference photos (tbf for $10-$15 sometimes it's worth it anyway). TrueRef photos are like 90%+ winners though.

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 18/09/2025

Dressmaker is coming to Steam... ❤️❤️❤️ store.steampowered.com/app/4019220/...

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 18/09/2025

That's so good! Your consistency is really inspiring! I said in my head "good ol' Sriracha" about a second before the VO said it. XD

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 18/09/2025

Thank you very much for the write up! 🌟 We've just released an update that adds lace, and makes the sewing a lot easier. We also got the go-ahead to make a Steam page for wishlisting!

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Paula Vaynshteyn @paulavaynshteyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Dressmaker by @techartjon.com is one of those cozy games that lets you zone out while flexing your creative skills. Absolutely gorgeous, and I can't wait to watch development progress! Full article over on TNT👇 thenerdytype.com/2025/09/17/d...

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Dressmaker: Will you be the next virtual Vera Wang?

Stretch your creative abilities and craft up gorgeous (or not) dresses in this absolute gem of an indie game on Itch.io.

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Katy133 @katy133.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I played @techartjon.com's DRESSMAKER and really enjoyed it! I like the large amount of control you're given with designing your own dresses, and the textile gamefeel. The devs are looking for downloads to help find a publisher: elyaradine.itch.io/dressmaker Here are some of the dresses I made:

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< Back
Dress Process
Quality: 92/60
Workwear: 214/40
Dress Complete!
Dress Finished!
Complete Commission

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Dress Process
Quality: 88/80
Elegant: 177/65
Glamour: 177/50
Eveningwear: 177/45
Dress Complete!
Dress Finished!
Complete Commission

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Check it out! This is super cool, being made by some of the people behind the awesome Terra Nil, and I really want this to get a chance to become a full game! They just need downloads to be able to prove that it can be a full project... 🥺

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 03/09/2025

Wow, that corvid is gorgeous! Your work is beautiful, I'm sure you won't be searching for long, but best of luck! 🌟

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 01/09/2025

We've updated Dressmaker with a bunch of new things, like adding buttons and bows, viewing previously made dresses, more garments and fabrics and more! I'm making a push to get more downloads, because Free Lives is pointing at the "low" download count of 11k as not good enough to make the full game.

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 01/09/2025

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 28/08/2025

I use PNG, but with Photoshop I use the SuperPNG plugin that optionally preserves the alpha channel instead of premultiplying it. That way I get the low file size, high compression, and wide support of PNG while still being lossless.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 26/08/2025

This is Jetty. He never wants to hear you complain about his barking again. 13/10 (IG: ullalynn3)

a golden retriever sits on a living room floor looking over his shoulder. he looks extremely nonplussed. on the gray sofa in front of him, two kids are perched practicing trombone. the dog is going to work on his poker face before their first recital.

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 26/08/2025

I can never tell whether Bsky supports the files I post.

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 26/08/2025

I offer my favourite gif. 🫣

An instructor tells a toddler holding a baseball bat to keep his eye on the ball. The toddler walks up to the ball and puts his forehead on it. The instructor face palms, then gives the toddler a hug.

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 26/08/2025

Probably one of my least gamey pieces that's still in a game. I love how stern she looks while having a dead bird on her hat. People actually used to wear dead birds in their hats.

A stern-looking posh woman wearing a vaguely-historical dress and a hat decorated with a dead bird. The bird's eyes are comically crossed out.

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 25/08/2025

I'm so sorry, that's so fucked up. :(

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Wheeeen theee Bird in your room represents all your gloom Nevermoré When you're trying to grieve but that corvid won't leave Nevermoré It will rap Tippy tippy tap Tippy tippy tap Waking you from naps aaand Your dream-a Then will fly Never tell you why Even if you cry Landing on your sideboard Athena

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 16/08/2025

Watching this YouTube video of @spudcatsyt.bsky.social playing Dressmaker made me want to draw this... 😅 (I don't know what they look like and could be totally off, but the image in my head needed to be released!)

A large, bearded man wearing a cap and a checkered shirt hunched over a small sewing machine with intense focus.

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Ryo.Snaps @princessryo.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Made something kinda cute in @techartjon.com 's dressmaker game. Its super relaxing to play and I'm grateful to @deathbynyvz.bsky.social for sharing it with me. I hope to sew ballgowns soon!

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 13/08/2025

I really enjoyed your game at AMAZE earlier this year! It was cathartic reading/playing someone else frustrated with the state of the tech world, said more beautifully than I could.

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rémi @okremiok.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

horse

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Jonathan Hau-Yoon @techartjon.com · 02/08/2025

I love your art! Don't mean to be a nuisance, but there's also a typo in "thundestorm" in case you didn't know.

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rémi @okremiok.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

implemented midi

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