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A sewer in Big Hops with a big yellow rotating platform surrounded by waterfalls.

🧵 Big Hops Sewer Exit Level Design Deep Dive Thread 🧵

Inspired by @radiatoryang.bsky.social's excellent Big Hops level design blog post and encouraged by Chris @luckshotgames.com, here's a thread where I dove back through the commits to look at our iterations on a single level in Big Hops.

Cube casting a shadow with appropriate soft umbra and penumbra (given a point light source.)

Cube casting a shadow with appropriate soft shadow, with underlying geometry revealed. The geo cuts match the umbra and penumbra such that Gouraud shading is sufficient for complex (static) lighting.

Before we had the processing time for all this CPU/GPU path-tracing, there was a cool technique for baked vertex-lit geo. It managed to achieve some sweet soft shadows.

It didn't really catch on for several reasons. In games, because lightmaps were Close Enough and realtime.

YouTube video by ZIPIT! g a m e s The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish - Release Date Trailer

The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish - Release Date Trailer

A story-driven photography game... on the back of a giant flying catfish! Transform clouds into sea creatures and bring abundance back to an empty sky!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFxG...

#indiegame #indiedev #indiegames #videogame

YouTube video by Panic DESPELOTE: FIFTH TRAILER (now on nintendo switch)

DESPELOTE: FIFTH TRAILER youtu.be/_MXKlgMZ3Jc?...

Assistant Professor Digital Arts, Game Arts 2026 (71102) The Department of Digital Arts at Pratt Institute invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in Game Arts at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning in Fall 2026. The successful ca...

Come work with me!



We've opened the search for a full time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Game Arts at Pratt Institute.



A good match would be an artist, game developer, or educator with an active creative practice in indie games, game studies and theory, playful coding, or art games.

We can all use a little help from our friends 👥

If you think Schrodinger's Cat Burglar looks like a cool concept, PLEASE drop a share! 🙏

Learn about the game on Steam ⤵️
store.steampowered.com/app/2111550/...

I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"

Home from the video art convention and I'm back to being stressed again

I have some really exciting projects and plans coming up but I desperately need to get out of the financial situation I am in. Our rent is too high, my car is overdue for repair, I'm not eating enough

ko-fi.com/glitch_wolfe...

HERDLING is coming out in just a few hours, so there's just enough time to go through some other fun tech-art stuff 👀

Here's another behind-the-scenes 🧵 with various other interesting tech-art stuff featured in our vast and furrious game ✨

a post from itch saying “I don't see any indexing restrictions on your game. Your game does have a content warning because of this setting on your page though (check the "Metadata" tab). It's possible at some point you could have added a tag to your page that is commonly associated with explicit adult content.”

a post from itch pointing out that an article is full of misinformation and trying to clarify.

itch.io has been nothing but supportive of LGBTQ+ work since the beginning. it pains me to see the community turn on them like this and so gleefully spread misinformation about them without even giving them a shred of benefit of the doubt.
journalists too...

Things are insanely tight right now while I’m between paychecks so I’m afraid I’ve gotta link this here again. Been dealing with a few unexpected costs the last couple days putting me a bit further behind than initially expected.

kofi.ompu.co

big news: TALL TRAILS is OUT NOW !!

🥾 an exploration game where EVERYTHING goes in the boot!!
🤠 you're a little golem on a quest to find his purpose
🚀 use items as fuel in your ROCKET BOOT to blast yourself through the air!!

get it now Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/2393760/...

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
After 4 years of work, my solarpunk game finally has a title, a trailer, and a Steam page!

Wishlist... Future? No Thanks!
👉 futurenothanks.com

are you fucking kidding me. the lens flares in DK Bananza are in the shape of a bunch of bananas

Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement:

This has a Codex Seraphinianus energy

i’m overwhelmed by all the nice reactions to the announcement of Bernband! 👽

it warms my heart to hear that the original version from 2014 was special to so many of you… thanks for sharing your excitement and nostalgia with me

icymi we just announced our release date @dayofthedevs.org last night!!

consume me is coming to steam on

📆 09.25.25
💥💥💥💥💥

✅ please wishlist the game,

🕹️ check out the HOUR-long demo,

& leave a review 💕✍️

it would help us out a lot!!! 🥹

thank you 🫂

👉👉👉 store.steampowered.com/app/3438190/...

turning your campaign office into a mutual aid hub is such a simple way to show you’re materially invested in the well-being of your community. it’s kind of insane more people haven’t done this

🚨HUGE News🚨

🐸BIG HOPS is a froggy platformer with deep movement, fresh tongue-gameplay, where you use powerful veggies to grow paths forward!

✨Free demo out NOW
🎮Coming to Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 in Q4 2025
💰Our publisher dropped us, so we're KICKSTARTING
(links below)

Discover the secrets of alchemical processes, the hidden secrets of world and even deeper secrets hidden within us…

All Living Things has a steampage, wishlist to be notified for the upcoming early demo!

store.steampowered.com/app/3681340

The End of Gameplay is out RIGHT NOW!
My masterpiece.
A pixel art adventure through my mind, broken by kill gameplay 🔪

love, droqen

store.steampowered.com/app/3120040/...

First update of my online webgpu particle life simulator: the number of particle types is now also randomized each time (from 2 to 16), leading to greater variety!

lisyarus.github.io/webgpu/parti...

I’ve been a bit quiet about it, but I am actively looking for new opportunities!

⭐️ 15+ years in games as a programmer, designer, team lead, and working on a platform team

🌎 Remote preferred but able to relocate

❤️ Technical Design or Portfolio Management roles

Players discuss this most often when it comes to rendering?
Like - the point of Nanite/Lumen IS NOT gigashit graphics for players. It's to smooth over a million iteration-blocking workflow issues... at a known runtime performance cost.

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okay

this is an emergency assistance thread for anyone who got this National Endowment for the Arts email today

some of you can still get your money and I’m going to tell you how

article to come later this weekend but here is the Cliffs Notes version:

Made a short game about the grim reaper: In Death we Love.
and it's now out on Steam!

no context inspector screenshot

How does ROLLBACK NETCODE work, why is it so difficult to program, and why is it the gold standard for fighting games? A whirlwind tour of different solutions #pixelart #gamedev #AnimationVERSUS

The setup: you have a video game with couch co-op and want to add online multiplayer. Easy, right...?

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