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Jason E. Dunlap, Valeyard @redeyedjedi.bsky.social · 20d

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Thee Champion✊🏾🏳️‍🌈🎮🎲 @christheechampion.bsky.social · 28d

[INDIE ALERT] 📢

Deficit by @item42.bsky.social - You are a corporate espionage freelancer. Your latest assignment: steal the reality-shifting Interpolator from the sprawling research labs of Project Sidereal.

Wishlist
store.steampowered.com/app/1193170/

#CoolIndies #indiegames #immersivesim

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · Nov 12

I thought I knew the story of the "lost world" off the east coast of Britain, inhabited by Mesolithic people until rising sea waters engulfed it around 8,000 years ago...

But I didn't know about the *tsunami*.

Holy hell.

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Close-up of a map showing the proposed extent of Doggerland, the land mass between the UK and mainland Europe that existed when sea levels were much lower.

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Reload Magazine @reload-magazine.net · Sep 13

FPS FANS: Every week we like to highlight something cool in the indie FPS world - like Zlimbratski's Brutal Indies Unleashed Showcase, which you can check out now ICYMI yesterday!
FPS DEVS: What have you been up to this week? Show the goods!

ZlimBratSki @zlimbratski.bsky.social · Sep 12

WOW!!!! Thanks to everyone who showed up in the Brutal Indies Unleashed Showcase! Now if you missed it check out the VOD that's been cut down to only goodies. And don't miss the Steam event running now! (Everything down below)

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Dofresh @dofresh.bsky.social · Sep 13

Laboratory designs made for Gareth Edward's Jurassic World Rebirth.

futuristic laboratory, all white and shiny, with giant glass tanks containing strange creatures.

futuristic laboratory,lit in a ultraviolet lighting

Futuristic laboratory, flooded and abandoned.

Futuristic laboratory, flooded and abandoned. Giant glass tanks now empty and dusty.

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Zalmon ザモン @zalmon.bsky.social · Nov 10

Lamassu, one of the few angelic orders who ever come permanently to earth. Pairs of lamassu are known to watch the gates of highest temples and holy relics, making them just about the only angels that are easy to find.

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Immersive Arts UK @immersiveartsuk.bsky.social · Sep 8

We’re three weeks away from closing our final round of funding.

On our Links & Downloads page you'll find FAQs, guidance on making an application, and useful links:

immersivearts.uk/resources/application-links-downloads

Deadline: Mon 29 Sept at 14:00.

Application links & downloads - Immersive Arts

Find links, guidance, access support, and downloads which include guidelines — everything you need to help with your application.

immersivearts.uk

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · Sep 5

"Noiseman Sound Insect" animated short film by Koji Morimoto & Studio 4°C (1997) is back on Youtube for free (with 20 languages as subtitles).
Available until October 10.
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixdu...

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · Sep 5

Semiotic Standard icons designed by Ron Cobb for the USCSS Nostromo in Alien (1979).

They're everywhere in the USCSS Maginot from Alien Earth (2025).

A chart titled "Semiotic Standard" showing a collection of futuristic safety and system symbols designed for spacecraft. Each symbol is inside a square with red, black, white, gray, yellow, blue, or green coloring, and labeled with meanings such as “Pressurized Area,” “Cryogenic Vault,” “Airlock,” “Hazard/Warning,” “Exhaust,” “Radiation Hazard,” “High Radioactivity,” “Refrigeration,” “Direction,” and “Life Support System.” A legend at the bottom explains the color codes: red for visible/solid/alive/abnormal, white and grey for life-supporting conditions, black for vacuum and danger, yellow for harmful atomic/chemical processes, blue for lowered thermal condition, and green for biological substances. The chart is signed “R. Cobb.”

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · Aug 30

Sharing all of my blender texturing secrets in this in-depth ucupaint guide, hope it helps 🙂

Texturing in blender with ucupaint

What is ucupaint? Ucupaint is a free and open-source layering and baking addon for blender. It abstracts away the shader graph into a layer stack to allow texturing with layers rather than nodes: The ...

passivestar.xyz

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Chris Lewis Lee - available for work @chrislewislee.com · Aug 8

Just a reminder, I love making item art for games. If you think you'd need some for your game, please get in touch.

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Defaultsound @defaultsound.bsky.social · Aug 3

Took part in this year's GMTK Game Jam with 5 friends, two of which are from @item42.bsky.social We ended up making "Anadrome" defaultsound.itch.io/anadrome-gtm... Pretty happy with what we managed to achieve! #godotengine #godot #indiedev #gamedev #gmtk

Anadrome by Defaultsound, ITEM42, Kromenoi

Escape the loop. A marble finds its way through a forgotten city.

defaultsound.itch.io

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ITEM42 @item42.bsky.social · Aug 3

We tried our hand at the @gamemakerstoolkit.com game jam along with @defaultsound.bsky.social and made Anadrome.

You are a marble stuck in an infinite loop.

Reveal a liminal frontier fraught with recursive puzzles

itch.io/jam/gmtk-202...

#GodotEngine #GMTKJam #gamedev

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David Fletcher @artfletch.bsky.social · Jul 3

Do we still like cutaway pictures?
I've been experimenting with turning my scans into cross-sections.
#photogrammetry

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bretgamedev @kromenoi.bsky.social · Jul 4

Yes! Helmets > hair, anything else is cavalier madness

bretgamedev @kromenoi.bsky.social · Jul 1

Slight tangent but one that really stings me even though the rule is to pay only distant attention is that some people/gamers are now experiencing "phantom slop" - a tiny minority of people might moan about your game being made with AI even when you are explicitly a no gen AI indie studio.

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Zalmon ザモン @zalmon.bsky.social · Nov 15

#animation #art #mecha

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Nick Carver @nickcarver.bsky.social · Jun 18

look dev & concepts for a project from a couple of years ago. #madewithunity #gamedev #indiedev

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ITEM42 @item42.bsky.social · Jun 13

The DEFICIT demo has been updated with some big changes!

Oversight Officers now have a little more self-preservation in mind; they will block and strafe around you during melee combat - along with a bunch more!

Full patchnotes here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/119...

#SteamNextFest

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bretgamedev @kromenoi.bsky.social · Jun 12

Couldn't have put it better myself, the fact that the UK currently even has a Labour/centre-left government is nothing short of miraculous, to say nothing of its profound issues or effectiveness.

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ITEM42 @item42.bsky.social · Jun 10

DEFICIT is not just guns and bullets: it's about using all the creative tools around you for maximum chaos.

Play the 2hr-long demo on Steam for free now!

store.steampowered.com/app/1193170/...

#SteamNextFest #indiegame #immersivesim #UE5

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bretgamedev @kromenoi.bsky.social · Jun 9

Nearly 2 hours of pure action im-sim gameplay, please wrap your eyeballs around DEFICIT in the #steamnextfest because it's ready to play right now!

#indiedev #gaming #pcgaming #steam #action #fps

ITEM42 @item42.bsky.social · Jun 9

DEFICIT DEMO IS LIVE EARLY!!!
#STEAMNEXTFEST

DOWNLOAD AND PLAY NOW
store.steampowered.com/app/3411550/...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jun 9

Deserts are spreading across Britain, yet scarcely anyone in public life even seems to have noticed. This week's column seeks to open our eyes to something that has been too big to see. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There’s an invader turning huge swathes of Britain into deserts – and these dead zones are spreading | George Monbiot

Vast areas of land are now dominated by one species – purple moor-grass – and good luck with seeing a bird or insect there. How do we revive these habitats, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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ITEM42 @item42.bsky.social · Jun 7

The DEFICIT DEMO is out on MONDAY in the STEAM NEXT FEST

Grab a peek of the imsim madness we've been cooking up here

Wishlist and get ready to play: store.steampowered.com/app/1193170/...

#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev #UE5

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bretgamedev @kromenoi.bsky.social · Jun 8

Get your fisticuffs out and blow up some towers - playable demo out tomorrow on Steam! youtu.be/50RdjNk_iNA

@item42.bsky.social #indiedev #gaming #unreal #dev

DEFICIT Demo Gameplay Trailer

YouTube video by ITEM42

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