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Zaphos

@zaphos.bsky.social
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Currently making geometry tools and algorithms at Epic Games. jimmylands.com howtobeatree.com jimmylands.com/experiments/kissing

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Jon Perry @perryjon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hard at work on development for Party House: the Deckbuilding game & getting very excited about all the fun new characters I'm adding! Our joint Kickstarter campaign with the Baba is You Board Game has less than 3 days left. Go check it out now & back 1 or both games!
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Baba Is You: The Board Game & Party House: Deckbuilding Game
Two sensational award-winning video games — Baba is You and Party House (UFO 50) — leap off the screen and onto your table!
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this.
Research [25] shows that people [26] enjoy the feeling of winning games [3,5,19]. Enjoying things can lead to longer life expectancy [2], higher economic productivity [9,22,33-40,302] and improve mental health [9]. Yet many games still include losing players [67,4]. A recent study showed that less than half of the players in a Chess [1] match win on average [42]. We have developed an LLM-driven co-creative [66], user-led [11], mixed-initiative [80] assistant for Chess [2], through which players can redefine the rules of Chess [3] using generative AI prompting such that they are the winner of Chess [4]. A study (n=3) showed that 100\% of people felt better, healthier and more self-actualised after using our tool, showing that this may be the way forward for games and human culture more broadly in the future.
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bilge @bilgetbd.itch.io · 04/10/2026
I just released an early demo version of 'Maybe... I'll go to the beach' on @itch.io hope you like it! link: bilgetbd.itch.io/maybe-ill-go...
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increpare @increpare.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.bfxr.net BFXR major update. I need to spend a *lot* more time with the presets of the instruments, but I was so immediately sold by the Mixfxr tool (that just overlaps two existing synths) that I had to put it live RIGHT AWAY. Try it out!
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Matt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 28/09/2026
hi friends I'm very excited to announce Halfspace, my experimental cross-platform IDE for solid modeling with distance fields! This has been in progress since midway through last year, and it's finally "done enough" to make it more public.
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Halfspace
An IDE for solid modelling with distance fields
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Zaphos @zaphos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
feels like people are still trying to figure out how to give players a non-overwhelming steering wheel ... thought MIO did something interesting w/ having the option to turn down a boss's difficulty each time you lose vs that boss
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Baptiste GENEST @baptiste-genest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As graphics researchers or geometry teachers, we speak about 3D using screenshots, and that's just sad... What if you could make SLides on top of PolyscOPE? You can using SLOPE! Slope allows you to synchronize a 3D viewer, animated meshes, shaders, live demos, equations (& more) with your slides!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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MONOMOON | Gentle Giant Games @gentlegiantgames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
MONOMOON, my non-linear game about exploration and discovery launches on Steam November 11th! With no proper instructions, you must deduce and achieve your goals as you solve puzzles, find mysterious items, and uncover secrets hiding right under your nose.
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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 03/09/2026
You asked, and the unknowable has answered the call: 🚨 KEEPER is coming to PS5... TODAY 🚨 All available platforms will receive two more Keeper updates today: PSYCHEDELIC MODE (a wild new way to experience the game), and a sweet price drop across all platforms!
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Messhof @messhof.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Blood Dungeon is out! If you like roguelikes with lots of jumping and climbing, get in my dungeon!! blooddungeon.com #boneup
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Metanet Software Inc. @metanetsoftware.com · 10/07/2026
TGIF, IYKWIM. ;) Also: please wishlist N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO! And reskeet this! And then make a second Steam account so you can wishlist it again!!
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Nicole Feng @nicole--f.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
At #SIGGRAPH2026, I presented "points as tori" (PAT) for fast pointwise evaluation of signed distance for point clouds. Some code (Python w/ C++ extensions) and demo up: github.com/nzfeng/point... Contributions from people/LLMs welcome. Explainer thread below for the project: 🧵
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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
this is a tough read, be forewarned. but people need to know what the US government's contractors are doing in their name.
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Zaphos @zaphos.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Fwiw matt is just doing a riff on a statement by a drone company exec, also fwiw I think you can sign up for his newsletter emails without a Bloomberg subscription
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
i don't really know how "the government is sending deportees to dangerous countries on purpose to imprison or kill them" is not a bigger story
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Nicole Feng @nicole--f.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I recently completed my PhD thesis, where I developed algorithms for making geometric inferences from imperfect data (i.e. incomplete and inaccurate observations/representations of shapes, like broken meshes or point clouds). A thread 🧵:
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.ajgenerated @clone.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I drew some stuff onto this game!
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
But Trump ran on bringing down food prices! So on Feb 1 2025, he re-opened US ports to cattle imports from Mexico. Then in March, he canceled a screwworm monitoring program. So we have even less info on where it is & how serious it's getting. www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...
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Bird flu, screwworm monitoring among foreign aid programs killed by Trump
Among the more than 5,300 grants and programs killed as a result of the Trump administration’s USAID cuts are a slate of U.S.-funded programs at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, including eff...
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Christopher Batty @topher-batty.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026
We have a fun new paper to appear at SIGGRAPH 2026, led by Columbia PhD student Xiana Carrera, that extends dual contouring to work nicely with [pure] signed distance samples. It avoids classic DC's additional requirement of providing accurate Hermite / […] [Original post on mastodon.acm.org]
A 3D model of a fan disk, reconstructed from signed distance data using (left) classic dual contouring with finite difference estimates of surface normals/gradients, which shows bumps and unevenness near expected sharp curved features, and (right) our improved method, which produces much cleaner and sharper reconstruction of features.
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Bennett @foddy.net · 16/05/2026
Gabe's Baby Steps GDC level design talk just got set to free - obviously I'm biased but the session feedback scores were also off the charts. Recommended: gdcvault.com/play/1035806...
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Curating the World of 'Baby Steps'
'Baby Steps' is a 3D hiking game with a vast open world created by a very small team. While the world is completely fixed, exploring and curating undesigned random levels was an integral part of the c...
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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Really enjoyed this PICO-8 puzzle platformer, Carrot Kingdom! www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=156...
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Carrot Kingdom!
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Meanderware: Things I loved about cyberspace 💥 tetrageddon.com/meanderware/ 🔥 - A short playable essay and poetic breadcrumb trail of thoughts about cyberspace, the internet, and ephemeral digital worlds. - 🔥💀🔥💀🔥 #IndieGame #WebGame #BrowserGame #IndieWeb #IndieDev #GameDev #Cyberspace
a screenshot of columns towering over a wireframe landscape. errors dot the skyline. there's a skeleton in the corner talking about how the point is to leave something behind for others to find.a giant CRT monitor sits atop a wireframe landscape with errors dotting the sky above it.a giant skeleton towers over error signs. the sky behind it is glitching.aninated gif fire burns the wireframe landscape. the sky above is glitching. a skeleton in the corner talks about how this is a secret corner of the internet.
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Chevy Ray @chevyray.dev · 27/04/2026
hey look at my fonts in these cool games: ninja gaiden, ball x pit, titanium court, cadence of hyrule... these fonts could be in your cool games too because you can buy them off me and they are not expensive chevyray.itch.io
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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 23/04/2026
📣 Titanium Court is OUT NOW! ⚾ To the detriment of humanity, the IGF award-winning game has escaped to Steam “Delightfully weird” and "incredibly clever" have been used to describe this game. We wouldn't dare to try... Stop reading this and play the game!👇 🏰 bit.ly/TC-Steam
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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 14/04/2026
Apparently, some joker leaked the Titanium Court release date‼️ Don't be alarmed, we have our top maintenance worker on the case. In the meantime, please avoid the leak and avert your eyes ⚠️ 🏰 bit.ly/TC-Steam
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Bennett @foddy.net · 14/04/2026
amazing run. I was authentically astonished! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQx_...
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Baby Steps Developers React to 7 Minute Speedrun
YouTube video by IGN
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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
COOL STUFF ABOUT store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/... metroidvania progress is NOT gated by items. Your play skill as well as your knowledge of what's possible at the edges of the movement system is how you explore instead of boss fights, there are EXTRACTION RUNS: 1-hit backtracking challenges
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Save 15% on Derelict Star on Steam
A precise momentum-based platformer that emphasizes exploration and navigation puzzles. Run and jump your way through a wide variety of obstacles and challenges as you explore an abandoned derelict fr...
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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
the USA is committing war crimes.
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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The funding campaign for @austinwalker.bsky.social's Realis is live. It's so beautiful and I'm so excited to see it in the world. Here is an illustration I did for the book - "Honing"
a drawing of a river cuts into a high desert landscape
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Odd Object @oddobject.zone · 31/03/2026
Scrubbin' Trubble - a co-operative turn-based roguelike clean-em-up - is OUT NOW on Steam! Time to grab a friend and clean house!! (or just play solo that's fine too). Grab your sponge and yellow gloves and battle through levels chock full of Nasties to take down the Four Filths of the Apocalypse!
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NamaTakahashi @namataka.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Öoo Unused Ending Draft ②
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increpare @increpare.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Son: I want mobile puzzlescript Mum: we have mobile puzzlescript at home *mobile puzzlescript at home* FLICK-O-BAN www.flickgame.org/beta/play.ht...
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Odd Object @oddobject.zone · 06/03/2026
Guess what? Scrubbin' Trubble has a launch date! It's MARCH 31st! The world's first cooperative roguelike clean-em-up is coming soon. SOON. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtU5...
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Scrubbin' Trubble Launch Date Trailer
YouTube video by Odd Object
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.
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Zaphos @zaphos.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
worth highlighting, via the replies on the quoted post, that the AI here is badly plagiarizing / corrupting an old graphic from 2010 -- bsky.app/profile/nomo...
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increpare @increpare.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/... Oeuf demo released! Enjoy! #OeufGame
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Oeuf on Steam
3D physics-platformer where you are an egg! Roll, hop and slide your way back home.
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Zaphos @zaphos.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Katabasis by rf kuang you might like?
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Zaphos @zaphos.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Looks like further media is starting to happen for Dungeon Crawler Carl fwiw en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon...
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Dungeon Crawler Carl - Wikipedia
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Zaphos @zaphos.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
not sure you can find a consistent set of beliefs in what SBF says / has said over time ... beyond "he thinks saying this right now will help him"
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NamaTakahashi @namataka.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
We were hit by a strange issue that made it impossible to nominate Öoo for the Steam Awards… it was pretty disheartening 😢 But it looks like the problem has finally been fixed! If you have a moment, I’d really appreciate your vote 👍 🔗 store.steampowered.com/steamawards/...
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Zaphos @zaphos.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I guess it means Yann will continue his research on JEPA and similar things www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUmD...
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Yann LeCun | Self-Supervised Learning, JEPA, World Models, and the future of AI
YouTube video by Harvard CMSA
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Zaphos @zaphos.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Also kind of funny that Mark's narrative according to Mark looks like: he didn't learn team history, canceled current project, told them pitch anything, rejected the 'cool' pitches, and finally went back to basically what they had already been working on?? but told them to make it fun this time?
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Zaphos @zaphos.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
"It'd be useful if the price of cherries went down; then he could pick cherries"
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Zaphos @zaphos.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
yes, fwiw in case it's helpful, ryan schmidt did a tutorial on using mesh to collision to transfer collision between meshes here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGNr...
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UEFN Modeling Mode - Part 4 - Manual Simple Collision Setup
YouTube video by Ryan Schmidt
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Zaphos @zaphos.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
integer overflow theory of crimes (I am not meta's in house counsel, this is not my legal advice)
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Zaphos @zaphos.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
0 crimes clearly legal, 1 crime clearly not legal, but 100% crime? also legal?
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