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@imakecoolstuff.bsky.social

I make cool stuff | he/him Developer of Roarr! The Adventures of Rampage Rex. Trying to atone for my gamedev sins.

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Latest posts by imakecoolstuff.bsky.social on Bluesky

Holy shit, I have no idea how I nearly missed it, but it's a Ludum Dare weekend! Shall we make a game? Mayyyybe :o

04.10.2025 02:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Oh yeah, as you can imagine I'm back to shitposting (and some devposting) and generally hoping I can get through the dreaded first line of code any time soon. Today would be nice.

18.09.2025 10:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Don't you hate those days when you suddenly have a really cool idea to implement something, and then have a realization 'Oh wait, @sebastianlague.bsky.social already did that and better than I possibly ever could' and go back to sulking?

One of those days though, I will be innovative and cool!

18.09.2025 10:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sometimes you just enter Bluesky and are greeted with a vibecoded AI bullshit spam that is cross-promoted and retweeted by obvious bot accounts managed by same person.

Can't they just stay on Twitter?

18.09.2025 10:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Oh yeah we ricing that NixOS :D

Still some setup left to be at the point where I had my Garuda, but I am decently happy with what NixOS gives me.

06.09.2025 22:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Garuda Linux was awesome, ngl. But I crave MORE.

Installing NixOS over the weekend. Wish me luck.

05.09.2025 14:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So it's not really short throw and I don't even have any idea how it stacks in gaming, I use it as a cinema screen in my house.

02.09.2025 15:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I have LG CineBeam HU70LS. Used to be a relatively high shelf consumer grade.

What I needed
-LED (no lamp switching)
-As bright as possible
-4k
-As quiet as possible
-Throw long enough to sit I wanted to put it (about 3m-ish)

There are probably better ones out there, but I'm quite happy with mine.

02.09.2025 15:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I want to make my next game 2D just so I can get Vincent's amazing drawings. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeesh.

02.09.2025 12:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Experimenting with the visual feedback for the dialogue. When the Player chooses the wrong answer, they take damage points (shown by the heart meter) and have ๊œฑแด€แด แด€ษขแด‡ แดแด€ษขแด‡ษดแด›แด€ on their face.

They should enjoy it and come back for more.
๐Ÿ‘๏ธ ๐Ÿซฆ ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ

#UX #UI #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #videogames

01.09.2025 22:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

RIP BOZO

02.09.2025 05:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh yeah, this was processed on Linux in RapidRAW. And I'm quite happy with how the process went. I can finally ditch Lightroom.

Screw Adobe.

29.08.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I have managed to capture a hummingbird hawk-moth in the garden!

I've been hunting for this one for quite some time, but it never appeared in a full sun. Until today. I didn't have my macro lens on me unfortunately, but used my main wildlife Tamron 150-600 lens as a decent approximation.

29.08.2025 16:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Maybe a little late to the party๐Ÿ˜… but this trend perfectly describes our journey with LEVEL 11.11
If you like what you see, please wishlist the game on Steam it helps us massively!

store.steampowered.com/app/3698140/...

#indiegame #gamedevs #UnrealEngine5 #blender #HorrorGaming #WishlistNow

25.08.2025 11:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Two covers of pitch decks - one for a short stop-motion animation, and one for an artistic indie game.

Two covers of pitch decks - one for a short stop-motion animation, and one for an artistic indie game.

It's a pitch deck season. Finally I have 2 personal projects in the making, that I deeply believe in โค๏ธ
and I'm searching for funding.

Keep the faith (for me) ๐Ÿ˜Š

#indiegamedev #indiegame #stopmotion #animationart

25.08.2025 17:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I used to be youg and have long hair, now I spend my days at the laundromat.

22.08.2025 09:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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So I was making a chicken soup, and the carrot gave me a perfect Tinder profile picture.

20.08.2025 15:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm sooo close to buying the Cube. Anbernic is really on a roll. I'm currently rocking RG35XXH as my daily driver, but I would really love to see Pico-8 games on that glorious square screen.

20.08.2025 11:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ ISO OF QUEER INDIE DEVS ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ

Welcome to #QueerGameShare!
Share to join the QGS starter pack.

WHO
๐ŸŒˆ LGBTQ+ #IndieDev
๐ŸŽฎ LGBTQ+ #IndieGame

HOW
๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Reply with name, pronouns & info on your game
๐ŸŒ  Add a link or 1-4 pics
โฐ Priority to new games
๐Ÿ”ž 18+ OK if labeled
๐Ÿค Support othersโ€™ posts

๐Ÿ” RT & Share! ๐Ÿ”

14.08.2025 22:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 126    ๐Ÿ” 92    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Plans are for some road trip, either zoo or wildlife expedition, to do a variety of different pictures (low light, action, close up, zoom, etc) and see how it stacks up.

18.08.2025 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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GitHub - CyberTimon/RapidRAW: A beautiful, non-destructive, and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor built with performance in mind. A beautiful, non-destructive, and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor built with performance in mind. - CyberTimon/RapidRAW

I've found this and it is looking VERY promising. I will be testing it out this week.
github.com/CyberTimon/R...

18.08.2025 15:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I got to know of them only two years back (I wasn't big into retro emulation before), and really grew to like this laptop in particular. It feels 'just right' for me and my needs.

15.08.2025 10:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

a 2023 GPD Win Max 2. A laptop with builtin gamepad, so you can test your games on the go easier. It's aimed at retro emulation crowd (which is why I came to know it), but it's imo perfect for indies.

15.08.2025 09:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it also came with polish language version, I just usually install english OSes so it's easier to troubleshoot errors online.

15.08.2025 09:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh it definitely runs blender. Installing blender was one of the 'post launch' installator questions. The only thing it doesn't run is the Adobe suite, but I really want to get rid of them. Right now I'm browsing the internet, looking for decent OS Lightroom alternative.

15.08.2025 09:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah! That's why I wanted all the firmware/drivers to run smoothly. The GPD Win Max 2 (I've got old model, about as powerful as a Steamdeck) is such a great indie development hardware. You have a very portable laptop, builtin controller so you don't have to carry additional one, and a tablet in one.

15.08.2025 09:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I'vee finally decided to do the big step and moved my game development to open source alternatives. At first I wanted to use FreeBSD, which I know from times long past, but it turns out that it lacked the necessary drivers. I ended up on Garuda Linux and so far it's great: everything just works.

15.08.2025 09:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Rami, as always, delivers an absolutely excellent talk.

I learned a lot! Maybe you will too?

08.08.2025 18:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There's Slavic Game Jam going on right now, plenty of cool people there. I am on summer holidays with my kids, so I'm missing it.

02.08.2025 20:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Vekari: Remote Bypass homepage

Has tabs along the side for quick navigation as well as a regular menu bar, the world time and date, and a short poem as an intro

Lay thy head to rest, souls quickly spent.
The world has fallen, left no means to its end.
A harrowed sea bathed in neon light,
Steel yourself. Metal tends to bite.

Vekari: Remote Bypass homepage Has tabs along the side for quick navigation as well as a regular menu bar, the world time and date, and a short poem as an intro Lay thy head to rest, souls quickly spent. The world has fallen, left no means to its end. A harrowed sea bathed in neon light, Steel yourself. Metal tends to bite.

Vekari: Remote Bypass's collection of discovered characters, showing the three main characters: Acro Kameko, Enoch Favonius, and Iliana DuNeotov. Alden Kemp is barely seen underneath under Antagonists.

Vekari: Remote Bypass's collection of discovered characters, showing the three main characters: Acro Kameko, Enoch Favonius, and Iliana DuNeotov. Alden Kemp is barely seen underneath under Antagonists.

Enoch Favonius
Part 7

Enoch gives Kori a tired look before waving his hand to freeze her in place, her angry expression frozen in time as he plucks the purple VR token from her hand, preventing her chip from scanning it.

"I told you, I really don't like doing this."

He steps just out of the room, grasping the token tightly and quickly patting himself to ensure the box hasn't been lost in the mess, before he unfreezes her and begins to walk back down the hall. Her yells and the sound of clattering metal is heard from behind him, but he doesn't stop or look back. Before long, Kori's footsteps approach him from behind. Rapidly.

"YOU'RE JUST GONNA LET HIM GET AWAY?"

Enoch steps to the side, watching the small woman sprint past him and tumble onto the floor in a failed tackle. He lets out a sigh.

"No, quite the opposite. I'm making sure he can't. Are we really doing this again?"
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Enoch Favonius Part 7 Enoch gives Kori a tired look before waving his hand to freeze her in place, her angry expression frozen in time as he plucks the purple VR token from her hand, preventing her chip from scanning it. "I told you, I really don't like doing this." He steps just out of the room, grasping the token tightly and quickly patting himself to ensure the box hasn't been lost in the mess, before he unfreezes her and begins to walk back down the hall. Her yells and the sound of clattering metal is heard from behind him, but he doesn't stop or look back. Before long, Kori's footsteps approach him from behind. Rapidly. "YOU'RE JUST GONNA LET HIM GET AWAY?" Enoch steps to the side, watching the small woman sprint past him and tumble onto the floor in a failed tackle. He lets out a sigh. "No, quite the opposite. I'm making sure he can't. Are we really doing this again?" Continue Reading


Gareth's Gears

Gareth looks up from his desk when you step in, a warm smile on his face.

"Ah, always good to see a familiar face 'round 'ere! Glad ya came back in one piece. What can I do you for?"

"Of course I'm not dead" 
"I was going to offer for free" 
"How much for 30 minutes of you?" 
"How much do you know about breakers?"
"I got your message"

Back to Faktoria

Gareth's Gears Gareth looks up from his desk when you step in, a warm smile on his face. "Ah, always good to see a familiar face 'round 'ere! Glad ya came back in one piece. What can I do you for?" "Of course I'm not dead" "I was going to offer for free" "How much for 30 minutes of you?" "How much do you know about breakers?" "I got your message" Back to Faktoria

Hi, do you like reading/games?

Are you aware I write cyber-fantasy with gay people? Like a giant, open, choose your own adventure with real consequences? That the polls are open and plot ongoing? And that you can explore the world as yourself? And it's free? And has human art?

vekari.net

15.07.2025 23:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

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