Nick Quackenbush

Our team is killing it!

Just under two weeks till we give everyone at
@officialpax.bsky.social a first look at Starseeker gameplay!

We cannot wait to watch everyone go on a Tephra Expedition. 🍃🫧🥕

Alien 3 (1993)
#SNES
#Nintendo

I think the term grindset has fried some folks brain...cause doing shit to a high level, is just grinding over and over again with incremental improvements until people start lobbing the "you are so talented" or "you are a unicorn" phrase at you.

Many people think "talent" is innate. Even people who are deep into their creative skill set often parrot the idea that talent "just happens" or it's a physiological trait of a person.
What happens when we reframe "talent" as tedium, hardwork and persistence? How do we get all folks to embody that?

I also think AI is showing that allure of Creating is incredibly strong and baked into our societies. I think it is also showing how we have failed as a society to make sure people understand that THEY can create. They don't understand you don't need AI to do it, our structures has failed.

I actually think this is part of the allure for normies and AI.

Today's Substance Designer practice/play, 3d material renders, working on a personal project that is part of a mixed media idea. More to come.

Something Like Games | Export image sequences with Substance 3D Designer This post shows you how to export image sequences from Adobe Substance 3D Designer using my free plugin.

I have finished my plugin for exporting image sequences directly from Substance 3D Designer, and if you are interested, you can download it for free: www.somethinglikegames.de/en/blog/2025...

#gameart #TechArt #TechnicalArt #MadeWithSubstance #indiegames

"Tree, In Warm Summer" Made by a human with code, #art #generativeart #genartclub #creativecoding #javascript

Ok Alien: Earth, ok!

Abandoned House by the canal

Maybe I should finish "Girl with a snapping turtle earring" some time.

Just published a #godotengine asset that uses voronoi texture scattering to remove repeating artifacts when textures are tiled! Very proud of this.

godotengine.org/asset-librar...

Only 9 days to go until HERDLING is OUT!

Until then, here's another behind-the-scenes tech-art thread on some of our terrain workflows ⛰️

Let's get started! 🧵

Tremors totally holds up in almost every way. Such a campy fun movie.

hello! are you ready for this Wednesday??

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Today's progress:

a thousand billion years later i finally rendered that scene, now to the next one #b3d #blender3d

the blips be blooping
#b3d

I'm making a game about fighting weird fantasy creatures on a slot machine!

If that's your kind of thing, it would genuinely mean a ton if you could retweet this and wishlist the game on Steam 🎰⚔️🖤

store.steampowered.com/app/3631290/...

MeshBlend is finally here! 🥳

So proud to finally release what I've been working on for 16 months!

MeshBlend brings next generation blending to Unreal. Easy to use, fast and great quality!

Available on Fab for #UE5 now!
#gamedev #unrealengine

A normal dog doing normal things.

Pie chart. Title reads "2021. Game engines used to create 5651 GMTK Game Jam Games" Unity has 61%. Godot has 13%. Other is unlabelled. Game Maker has 9%.

Pie chart. Title reads "2022. Game engines used to create 6078 GMTK Game Jam Games" Unity has 61%. Godot has 16%. Other is unlabelled. Game Maker has 6%.

Pie chart. Title reads "2023. Game engines used to create 6835 GMTK Game Jam Games" Unity has 59%. Godot has 19%. Other is unlabelled. Game Maker has 5%.

Pie chart. Title reads "2024. Game engines used to create 7711 GMTK Game Jam Games" Unity has 43%. Godot has 37%. Other has 10%. Game Maker has 5%. Unreal Engine has 5%.

And here is the historical data, from 2021 to 2024.

Pie chart. Title reads "2025. Game engines used to create 9724 GMTK Game Jam Games" Unity has 41%. Godot has 39%. Other has 11%. Game Maker has 5%. Unreal has 4%.

These are the engines used to make 9,724 games for the GMTK Game Jam in 2025!

1️⃣ Unity - 41%
2️⃣ Godot - 39%
3️⃣ Other / No Engine - 11%
4️⃣ Game Maker - 5%
5️⃣ Unreal Engine - 4%

Lady Knight:

Check out Range, my latest exploration of how far we can push a scene using Nanite Voxelization, 200 Trillion Polys Scattered with PCG on a 16k x 16k Resolution Houdini Landscape.

#UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #EnvironmentArt #NaniteFoliage #Cinematic

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one more since there’s new areas in the game. still wip tho ✨