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Instead of drawing textures for a character model, I'm considering a workflow where I go to thrift shops and buy outfits as a photographed texture source.

Question for anyone with Blender/texturing experience. What would the workflow look like to buy actual clothes (shirt, pants, hat), take photos of them together laid out flat (as if someone was wearing an outfit), and then mapping them to a low poly 3D character model?

Also found this interesting TTRPG where you need to solve a small town mystery through a group chat. "...instead of speaking, send text messages back and forth to the other characters in a group chat, as well as individually, as though they aren’t in the same place together."
www.aliceismissing.com

A Passing in the Night on Steam In the dead of night, Kai wakes from a dream. Walk aimlessly in a surreal town among apparitions, to escape reality, to pass the time. Time only matters to the living.

One of my favourite things to do in Tokyo is to put on some headphones and a dark ambient playlist and just aimlessly walk in a far away location for hours. This game speaks to me. There's a haunting beauty in the experience of night walks. A rare feeling of tranquil detachment.

At GÆMZ Tokyo meetup tonight, @thisisdotiris.bsky.social showed this meticulously crafted, deeply atmospheric liminal exploration game based on walking through Tokyo suburbs at night. Being made with a lot of care and attention by a two person (husband and wife) studio. Really looking forward to it.

@illuminesce.net check this out

Tech-Noir Brain Hacking Games | Exhibit:Play Dive into minds and hack memories. Neural interfaces, memory manipulation, and dystopian mysteries in this curated collection of tech-noir brain hacking games.

New Exhibit:Play Curated List
Curated by @farfama.bsky.social

🧠 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡-𝐍𝐨𝐢𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 🧠
exhibitplay.com/tech-noir-ne...

Neural hacking interfaces, memory manipulation, and dystopian mysteries in this curated collection of tech-noir brain hacking games.

YouTube video by Game Assist David Lynch in Games: The Politics of the Surreal

Today’s the day!!! “David Lynch in Games: The Politics of the Surreal” going live at 6pm GMT
youtu.be/xhojVR8vRjk?...

"WELCOME TO THE GAME JAM! "

Have a good time! Can't wait to play the submissions.

Woah, that's the exact location of the first one I ever went to like 6 years ago. I remember the tiling and chairs. Same reaction. A solid itsalright/10

I plan on doing a list like this for every console. The only TV series here are American or Japanese. I don't think much has changed. A list like this reveals trends at the time. What media in the era was popular enough to be turned into a game? How does a PS3, PS4, PS5 list look in comparison?

YouTube video by Thomas Flight Why Do Terrence Malick's Movies Look Like That?

Love his films. Always wanted to make a game that is inspired by his cinematography. Saw a good video about him recently.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=waA3...

messed with some shaders and it turned out really cool

Exhibit Play Welcome to Exhibit Play. We're dedicated to discovering and sharing hyper specific curated game lists. All human curated.Created by Farfama

My game curation project @exhibitplay.com received its first supporter! This will go towards a fund for commissioning written pieces and original micro games based on one of the current lists. A call for pitches will happen soon. If you have the means, you can support the project on buymeacoffee.

David Lynch holding a cola can, with a garland of flowers around his neck, sitting in a car. The original caption is him saying "I just had two cookies and a coke. It's phenomenal." But it's been edited to say "two cookies and a Gaza cola", and the coke has been replaced in photoshop with a can of Gaza Cola

On Monday 2 February at 6pm GMT, grab two cookies and a Gaza Cola, and join us for Game Assist’s first ever video podcast! We talk about David Lynch’s influence on games and the politics of the surreal for 3 hours, and we’ve even made some skits for you… Link to the premiere in reply!

prologue goes hard

art in the after-culture book notes

I have a lot of saved highlights from the book in my digital garden I'm building on my website. Still need to transcribe the second half of my highlights.
farfamahar.github.io/digital-gard...

Forgot to cite this quote. It's from the book 'Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy' by @benadavis.bsky.social. It's an incredible analysis of the current state of art. The quote is aptly at the very end of the 'AI Aesthetics and Capitalism' chapter.

Next Wednesday I'll be hosting our first experimental games meetup of the year. Come share what you're working on! Everyone is encouraged to share a bit about what you're working on. Share the ups, downs, sideways, and insides of your passion projects in this cozy little space.

This is super insightful, thanks for sharing. I'm in the slow process of making something sludge life like (small explorable world, lots of NPCs and interactions), so these resources help a lot.

I wish all games had a mode where it turns off all objectives, UI, encounters, quests, etc and just lets you vibe and appreciate well crafted environments. It becomes a completely different experience when you roam with only your own zero distraction curiosity.

Nice! This was the first game I engine I ever used. 20 years ago! Good memories. Glad to see it's still popular.

I'll be at Tokyo Indies tonight to support my friends presentations about his game Doom Spiral. I've been helping out with the project a bit and it'll be releasing soon! He'll be sharing how the feedback at various Tokyo Indies demo sessions has helped the project.

picture of black keyboard button usb keypad. Has a bunch of text everywhere in gold gradient rounded boxes that say custom keyboard, ordinary single key, shortcut key, macro key delay, multimedia key, mouse button

maybe you can buy one of these single button keys and program it to only output the æ

Operator Digitalfest : 2026 January 17th at Taipei The first Taiwanese demoparty, gathering of graphics programmer, digital artists and newmedia artists

A public viewing of the film was shown at Operator Digitalfest in Taiwan. It's a cool community event run by CIOSAI(石獅) that celebrates demoscene culture across many different mediums
ciosai.github.io/operator-dig...

The Procession of Horses in Motion. A 5 minute 55 second experimental software film made with Unity3D that renders thousands of horses in realtime. The focus for this was purely on cinematic poetics rather than interactivity.

Download and watch
infinitetears.itch.io/the-processi...

"Do you know what the most popular type of art is—a genre so broadly loved that it is collected utterly apart from any market value or popular acclaim? Art made by children. Before art is visually splendid, before it is even articulate, it is valued as a connection to a consciousness in formation."

Had a fun design session with some friends to brainstorm the art direction for a community organization focused on forging connection. It embraces messiness, natural texture, collage, handwriting, tactility. The process will be more analog and take more time. But it will contain the full human touch

design doc: 3 minutes of you scrolling a bunch of brain rot until the "beep...beep...beep" slowly goes "beeeeee..."

Prototyping a game concept titled "deathbed doomscrolling"