Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Arcadian Rhythm👾💿

Taffy (scarey)🍬🐇🎃 @taffywabbit.bsky.social · 6d

it's International Lesbian Day! which, among other things, reminded me that this big cool SLARPG ensemble piece I did at the start of 2023 never got posted on here. so here's that!

shoutouts as always to pretty furry women who kiss other women and punch gods, you could say I'm sort of an enthusiast

9 340 830

Reposted by Arcadian Rhythm👾💿

Mamok Zalku ☎️ @mamokzalku.bsky.social · 8h

birthday stream !

Twitch

Twitch is the world

twitch.tv

3 3

Reposted by Arcadian Rhythm👾💿

Pokey. you know. that bitch from the crypt. @pokeyscrypt.bsky.social · 8h

going LIVE with voices of the void. let's get scared get shrimped get scared
twitch.tv/pokeyscrypt

4 4

Reposted by Arcadian Rhythm👾💿

the Boucer !! @barriertrio.bsky.social · 8h

shinobi on the sega saturn! what's the worst that could happen!! twitch.tv/barriertrio_...

barriertrio_bean - Twitch

this is what shinobi graphics will look like in 2014

twitch.tv

2 1

Reposted by Arcadian Rhythm👾💿

Amy Farbright 💻🦔 (CHECK PINNED) @amy.fruitbasket.gay · 9h

hey #portfolioday and #gamedev!
i'm a programmer with >7 years of commercial+hobby gamedev experience, across many disciplines. recently a commercial game i worked on shipped! but now i'm looking for other work to cover my bases. check out my site for other projects+contact info foreverwip.github.io

In late 2022 I was hired by GalaxyTrail under contract to work on various projects, with work centered around prototyping core game systems, integration of assets, and implementation of certain graphical effects. The first project out of this to release is Chrono Gear: Warden of Time, a hololive game published under the holo Indie label, released in September 2025. Shown here is one of my contributions, the "Stasis" ability which was adapted from a variable-timescale prototype I designed for another project. The technical design of this ability was used throughout the game for similar time-control effects.

In late 2023 I started working with STUDIO//LYNFLO offering general development assistance with their upcoming game DRAGONFRUIT: a mother's love, powered by Godot Engine. Here is just one example of what I've worked on: a dynamic shadow system that switches between realtime shadow casting and a static "directionless" shadow sprite based on distance and intensity of surrounding lights.

This is a work-in-progress full port of Sonic the Hedgehog (revision 1) for the Mega Drive to C, designed and built over the course of roughly 19 months as of April 2025.

The intent of this project is to provide a base from which the game and its mechanics can be experienced and ported to a variety of platforms, without any compromise to how the gameplay handed in the original. The version of Sonic 1 currently promoted by Sega is not a port but a remake of the original, made with a completely different game engine (in fact, it's the same Retro Engine that I've hacked on in my other hobby projects, go figure). Unlike that version, this project is built off of the original Mega Drive game's machine code, with as few changes made as possible.

All game code has been successfully converted (barring some inaccuracies my testing might not have picked up), so now all current work is centered on cleaning up the generated code, further decoupling the drawing code from the VDP, and adding additional features. In this screenshot, I demonstrate the additional features such as widescreen support and custom shaders (blurring the background to make the foreground more readable).

Screenshot of work on Sonic the Hedgehog 2 HD, a fan remake of the original game, showing a full 3D rendition of the special stage. What was once a 2D background with perspective tricks is now a full 3D scene, with objects positioned in three axes instead of two. When I first joined the team, there was already some work done on a procedural 3D renderer that generated polygons on the fly based on the original game's data, but it was very simple and offered a very limited view of the stage.

One of the main goals I wanted to achieve with the new renderer was for the player to be able to see the twists and turns of the rest of the track in the distance as they went through the stage; The main draw of the stages in the original was their 3D look and being able to look ahead of you, so it felt like a natural step forward. At the time though, the renderer was only designed to generate the track relative to where you were in it.

I ended up doing an almost complete rewrite of the renderer; I wrote my own spatial hash implementation and camera class in order to cull geometry, and rewrote our geometry generator to calculate all vertices only once at load time. Along with some extra shaders I integrated into the renderer, it provided an incomplete, but still more engaging visual demonstration of what the game could do to give a classic scene a modern coat of paint.

1 18 43

Reposted by Arcadian Rhythm👾💿

Andes Chucky @wendeego.bsky.social · 9h

why should you watch simoun?
- heartfelt sf story about politics, gender and religion
- postcard memories
- beautiful art direction by shinichiro kobayashi
- early scripts by mari okada
- sho aikawa is there (under a pseudonym??)

Luna 💖 @sinyanju.bsky.social · 11h

YOU could be watching Simoun today.

A silhouette of two girls dancing in a large empty cafeteria

3 19 49

Reposted by Arcadian Rhythm👾💿

meltyKitt 🫠💦 Ooze VTuber and Artist @meltykitt.bsky.social · 9h

i'm live now, finally, sorry!
gonna talk for a little bit since i haven't streamed in months, then play some Balatro or somthing
www.twitch.tv/meltykitt

1 2 2

Reposted by Arcadian Rhythm👾💿

🌻The Killing of a Sacred Snep🪐 @fm-synth.bsky.social · 10h

Playing this hole game reminds me of Katamari so I had to do the obvious thing

4 3 9

Reposted by Arcadian Rhythm👾💿

Kurt @ Hardcore Gaming 101 @hg101.bsky.social · 13h

Earthion, a real banger of a Genesis/Mega Drive shoot-em-up from Yuzo Koshiro's Ancient www.hardcoregaming101.net/earthion/

1 24 94

Arcadian Rhythm👾💿 @arcadianrhythm.com · 12h

Feel better soon!

1 1

Arcadian Rhythm👾💿 @arcadianrhythm.com · 14h

He even gets the CG de-aging treatment in the flashback (presumably, unless it's a dead ringer stand-in actor)

Reposted by Arcadian Rhythm👾💿

icHIROku@Skeb募集中! @3ihiroku.bsky.social · 15h

本日は声優勝生真沙子さんの誕生日です✨
🎉おめでとうございます❕
いつもみたいに集合絵描いてたんですが、調子乗ってキャラ増やしすぎて全く間に合わなくなりましたので大好きなみちるさん先あげです🌊

#勝生真沙子誕生祭2025
#勝生真沙子
#海王みちる #セーラームーン
#SailorMoon #SailorNeptune

Skebご依頼募集中✨
skeb.jp/@3icHIROku
I have just started Skeb.
I am looking forward to your request

#イラスト #Skeb募集中 #Skeb
#illustration

6 15

Reposted by Arcadian Rhythm👾💿

東屋十四郎🎨 @azumaya146.bsky.social · 17h

お絵描きしてる。

1 230 550

Reposted by Arcadian Rhythm👾💿

GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 1d

NeverAwake FLASHBACK, the single-session expansion to Neotro's nightmarish twin-stick STG NeverAwake, has been dated for December 10 on PC, and there's a demo up atm store.steampowered.com/app/3072510/... this was originally planned as DLC but, for various reasons, was spun off into a separate game

NeverAwake FLASHBACK on Steam

A twin-stick shooter is based on the nightmare world of “NeverAwake” and has been reborn as a roguelite shooter!

store.steampowered.com

1 7 8

Reposted by Arcadian Rhythm👾💿

台羽正 @tadashidaiba.bsky.social · 1d

32 120

Reposted by Arcadian Rhythm👾💿

meltyKitt 🫠💦 Ooze VTuber and Artist @meltykitt.bsky.social · 1d

stream schedule for this week
going to ease back into things

meltyKitt Steam Schedule
Tue: hi i'm streaming again
Wed: working on art and watching stuff
Thu: working on art (but not on twitch ;^p)
Fri: idk but i wanna stream somethin' fun

All streams starting around 1-2PM MDT

7 17

Reposted by Arcadian Rhythm👾💿

〽️ax krieger does the damn thing @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · 1d

having just finished my own buildout, in awe of bam margera's early 2000s editing chain

bam margera with the following in a beige early 2000s room:

a sony trinitron for live video
a vhs player
a betacam (pro ntsc format) player
a powermac g4
dual crt monitors
what looks to be a sony dcr-vx2000 minidv camcorder

6 39 230

Reposted by Arcadian Rhythm👾💿

Screamin'🎃 @dreaminerryday.bsky.social · 23h

youtu.be/DNFaAKtE4DM?...

VGM Hall Of Fame: Castlevania Pachislot - Divine Bloodlines

YouTube video by VGM Hall of Fame

youtu.be

1 4

Arcadian Rhythm👾💿 @arcadianrhythm.com · 19h

Also I don't know if this is Yasushi Asada (Castlevania Judgment, Harmony of Despair), but it's a damn shame he never got to do a real Castlevania game soundtrack

Reposted by Arcadian Rhythm👾💿

Screamin'🎃 @dreaminerryday.bsky.social · 23h

and Beginning
youtu.be/23piOiSOEvQ?...

Beginning Pachislot Akumajo Dracula Lords of Shadow (Castlevania) (OST)

YouTube video by ViviVGM

youtu.be

1 1 10

Arcadian Rhythm👾💿 @arcadianrhythm.com · 19h

The real killer is how Konami put out soundtrack CDs/downloads for almost all their pachislot games EXCEPT the Contra ones for some reason

Reposted by Arcadian Rhythm👾💿

Screamin'🎃 @dreaminerryday.bsky.social · 23h

Why did the Lords of Shadow pachislot of all things have this insane remix of Bloody Tears
youtu.be/vIUEGTzNmZM?...

Bloody Tears Pachislot Akumajo Dracula Lords of Shadow (Castlevania) (OST)

YouTube video by ViviVGM

youtu.be

4 9 26

Arcadian Rhythm👾💿 @arcadianrhythm.com · 19h

1

Reposted by Arcadian Rhythm👾💿

Froey 🏳️‍⚧️ @froey.bsky.social · 1d

Those We Keep Close - Part 1.

A visual novel written and developed by me. Alongside with others in @cutiecove.gay including:
@suchapple.bsky.social
@jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social
@rozenymph.bsky.social
@tangledvirus.itch.io
@aircrystal.bsky.social
@mollynoise.bsky.social

2026.

4 10 17

Reposted by Arcadian Rhythm👾💿

KodamaSoft / KodamaSounds @kodamasoft.bsky.social · 21h

The fury of their fight will bring an earth-shattering doom upon one or the other.
その戦いの音は、遥かなる地底に響き渡る。闘志がぶつかり合うその闘争は、どちらかに破滅的な結末をもたらすだろう。その境界へと、あなたを誘う。

#M3秋2025 #M3秋

1 6 5