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Indie Game Dev from Greece. Lightmapping enthusiast.

We made Lost Echo.
Currently working on Lost Echo: Resonance.

Nick posts. He/him

🔗 http://linktr.ee/kickbackstudios
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KickBack @kickback.bsky.social · Jun 29
I wrote a new blog post, for those that are interested in reading almost coherent musings that are loosely related to gamedev :P
Connection | a blog post about gamedev, life & Lost Echo: Resonance
Words are bad at connecting people and yet here I am, once again, choosing the wrong medium.
www.kickback-studios.com
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Some days are good and make you feel like what you’re doing has meaning.
New review on Jul 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM GMT I never thought a game could make me feel this way. The story was truly touching, as if it portrayed a part of my own life. Thank you for delivering such a profound and inspiring experience. a GOAT GAME EVER! I'm sorry if my english is so bad.
July 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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🥳 Lost Echo is featured on Google Play in category "Incredible Indies"
July 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Lost Echo promocodes!

iOS:
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MHAT4EPLMY4X
EAT4NE47YNLL
HPJRF9J4LLFX

Android:
CM6N2PPGPB60ER0ZGSYCXKH
GBRR42SP6RVM95HMPSDW1H5
W9JSBA1PBA4JHM7NAJ3JHNV
6AJGPWKRZN0B3SZKV8WDEP4
July 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Update is out on all platforms, make sure you update to version 9.
kickback.bsky.social KickBack @kickback.bsky.social · Jun 28
Latest Lost Echo has a major bug, where many parts of it break, because Unity broke adding animation events at runtime.

Fix will be released soon.

Apologies for the inconvenience.
June 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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This is clear enough for Unity's QA to understand the issue, right?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhyN...
Animator Bug in 6000.50f1 and after
YouTube video by KickBack
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June 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
kickback.bsky.social
I wrote a new blog post, for those that are interested in reading almost coherent musings that are loosely related to gamedev :P
Connection | a blog post about gamedev, life & Lost Echo: Resonance
Words are bad at connecting people and yet here I am, once again, choosing the wrong medium.
www.kickback-studios.com
June 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
kickback.bsky.social
Latest Lost Echo has a major bug, where many parts of it break, because Unity broke adding animation events at runtime.

Fix will be released soon.

Apologies for the inconvenience.
June 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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May 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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my AI company is shocked, SHOCKED that all the candidates selected by our AI tool are using AI to do the interview
May 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Anyways you ain't never had autism in the US until at least 2028 probably

Maybe 2026 depending on how the midterms go

All my homies ain't never had autism in the US
May 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Don't think LLMs are healthy for me.
March 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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One of my regrets is that I'll never be this cool
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ96...
Terry Cavanagh Completes Hyper Hexagonest mode in Super Hexagon on stage (78:32)
YouTube video by FantasticArcade
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February 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Did Unity 6 lose the ability to reload shaders when in play mode, or did I somehow mess up a setting somewhere?
February 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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So what's a decent minimum SDK to support for Android these days?

I have it set at 26 (which is Android 8), but I'm thinking of bumping it up to 29 (Android 10), or is that crazy talk?
February 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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In an uncharacteristic move, Unity seems to have fixed all the light mapping regressions I reported to them, so that’s cool.
February 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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*sigh* @unity.com
January 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Anyone else unable to set Environment Samples in Unity 6 higher than 2048 or is it just me?
January 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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As someone who has turned off motion smoothing on a ton of TVs so far... please don't make frame generation become the norm for games.
January 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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LUT blending now happens in Oklab space, instead of just lerping in gamma.
January 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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New least favorite phrase:

"NO ONE thinks like that"
January 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Still not sure how people use LLMs for non trivial code.
December 25, 2024 at 1:55 AM
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New Lost Echo patch release is out on Android. Soon on iOS.

It is using Unity 6 now and it also uses ASTC on Android devices that support it, so textures will look noticeably better.

(iOS was already using ASTC.)
Lost Echo v8 -Removed the Unity splash screen, which could cause the main menu to become unresponsive for some Unity reason -Texture compression improvements, uses ASTC now on devices that support it! -Minor dialogue edits -Minor visual improvements -Minor animation improvements -Minor bug fixes for rare bugs -Minor navigation improvements
December 24, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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I feel like I'm going crazy, but it seems like tapping the Unity splash screen once is enough to break input on Android... This happens consistently...

I...

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=alNw...
Main Menu Input Issue (tapping on splash screen?)
YouTube video by KickBack
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December 23, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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If anyone is having issues with Lost Echo's main menu not working on Android please contact us, we can't recreate it locally, we need more info.

Thanks.
December 23, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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December 17, 2024 at 1:27 AM