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Liza Knipscher (a game developer)

@lize.bsky.social

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Game dev who loves making procedurally animated critters and does so as often as possible. Developing Cookie Gardening, and also an unnamed sandbox sim about moons with evolving ecosystems. Owner of Meep Engine: https://www.meepengine.com/

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Liza Knipscher (a game developer) @lize.bsky.social · Oct 21

Adding some pretty foliage to Cookie Gardening. Are there lore implications to adding flowers to a world of sentient vegetables? Yes, of course

#gamedev

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Liza Knipscher (a game developer) @lize.bsky.social · 51m

Many-eyed bipedal bug

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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 22d

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.

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Campbell 🐛 Making Critterrarium! 🐌 @critterrarium-game.bsky.social · 5d

finished the custom IK logic for limbs with more than 2 bones!!

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Liza Knipscher (a game developer) @lize.bsky.social · 14h

This is so cool!! Is it FABRIK-related, or something totally different?

Liza Knipscher (a game developer) @lize.bsky.social · 18h

More fun with shaders. Apparently this is what happens when I set the alpha of my atmosphere mesh to -100

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Liza Knipscher (a game developer) @lize.bsky.social · 21h

If possible, could you add me to the solo devs list please?

Liza Knipscher (a game developer) @lize.bsky.social · 1d

If these are vertex colors, it can be surprisingly doable to grab the color of the nearest vertex (at least in Unity)

Liza Knipscher (a game developer) @lize.bsky.social · 1d

Curious lizards

Liza Knipscher (a game developer) @lize.bsky.social · 3d

Yes!!

Here’s the link to the demo in case anyone is looking for it: store.steampowered.com/app/2697000/...

The Legend of Khiimori on Steam

Take on the role of a brave courier rider in The Legend of Khiimori! Bond with your horse and tame the open wilds of 13th century Mongolia. Breed and train horses with specialized abilities to explore...

store.steampowered.com

Liza Knipscher (a game developer) @lize.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! I’m really proud of them; they came out better than I expected

Liza Knipscher (a game developer) @lize.bsky.social · 3d

Also this was a super fun party, good time had by all, highly recommend

Liza Knipscher (a game developer) @lize.bsky.social · 3d

Forgot to take any process photos, but my first move was to sculpt and bake a bunch of spheres, teeth, and a nose. Then I put a face on a tinfoil ball, added an upper and lower jaw with tinfoil inside each, and pressed the eyes/teeth/nose into it. Painting involved a dark undercoat and drybrushing

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Liza Knipscher (a game developer) @lize.bsky.social · 3d

My friend hosted a spooky “Make Your Own Labubu” party where everyone cut the faces off stuffed animals and replaced them with new ones made with polymer clay and acrylic paint. Here are mine!

Two homemade Labubus. They were made out of identical tan stuffed rabbits with red bows around their necks. One has a sort of clay wolf’s face with giant teeth and a cluster of eight red eyes. The other one looks mostly normal, but three red eyes are peeking out of holes in its face

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Liza Knipscher (a game developer) @lize.bsky.social · 5d

I’m going to tag in @lukewasthefish.bsky.social, who developed one of the very last games ever released for the 3DS and still does work in that style

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Cyan✨ @cyanilux.bsky.social · 13d

GPU-Instanced Grass 🌱
Old video but just published a proper/full tutorial with info for multiple unity versions~

🔗 www.cyanilux.com/tutorials/gp...

#unity3D #shaders #shadergraph

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Liza Knipscher (a game developer) @lize.bsky.social · 7d

Experimenting with randomized offspring

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Xor @xordev.com · 8d

Neat article on code golfing. Many techniques that I use:
blog.pkh.me/p/45-code-go...

Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity

blog.pkh.me

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Liza Knipscher (a game developer) @lize.bsky.social · 9d

Same

Liza Knipscher (a game developer) @lize.bsky.social · 9d

A cluster of goofs

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Liza Knipscher (a game developer) @lize.bsky.social · 12d

Organisms in the game breed, and their offspring have a mix of their traits and will also be able to randomly mutate over generations. It’s comparable to how the Creatures series worked, but with more variety in body shape and other traits