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Alain Bellemare

@alainb.bsky.social

Game Dev | Senior Programmer • Working on www.Scaravan66.com • Marvel’s Deadpool VR • Dwarrows • Psychonauts 2 • Horizon (4X) • Cel Damage HD (Switch) Co-founder & Technical Lead Lithic Entertainment Inc. https://www.lithicentertainment.com

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OH! I see myself on the second list, very cool thank you :)

09.12.2025 01:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Marvelous, thanks for the list!

@andyyywood.bsky.social and myself are Toronto based ( cofounders of @lithicent.bsky.social ), if there's room for 2 more!

09.12.2025 01:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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One of my favorite ways to utilize the twist warp is to align it with the cross-fade frontier. This way the shape blend happens in the coiled up region, which looks super neat. :)

04.12.2025 09:37 — 👍 25    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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Keeper's morphs are authored as scene-graph or more specifically as a scene-tree, which is evaluated bottom-up. I wrote a “compiler” which turns the tree into a command list which can be executed on the GPU. The compiler does a fair amount of optimization (e.g. dead branch pruning) to minimize cost.

18.11.2025 19:14 — 👍 28    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 0
A screenshot from Double Fine's latest game, Keeper.

A screenshot from Double Fine's latest game, Keeper.

I genuinely believe that Keeper is one of the game's industry most excellent and exciting achievements of the decade. A seemingly un-pitchable game that stands strong on its core tenets of emotional connection and teaching the player to let go of preconceived game notions. I thoroughly enjoyed it

19.11.2025 09:23 — 👍 175    🔁 24    💬 3    📌 1
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

06.10.2025 22:03 — 👍 15542    🔁 5278    💬 127    📌 795
Cover of the world according to mister Rogers by Fred rogers

Cover of the world according to mister Rogers by Fred rogers

Text from the book: The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we care about so deeply become endangered, we become enraged. And what a healthy thing that is! Without it, we would never stand up and speak out for what we believe.

Text from the book: The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we care about so deeply become endangered, we become enraged. And what a healthy thing that is! Without it, we would never stand up and speak out for what we believe.

what would mister rogers do?

get enraged

seriously. his word choice. he gave us permission, said it's healthy:

01.05.2024 03:19 — 👍 2871    🔁 1248    💬 15    📌 44

It's ok, we've invented zip drives for this very problem!

05.10.2025 14:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Time well spent! This looks great!💀

05.10.2025 13:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Hey folks, haven't been very active here of late, but for good reasons!

I've been using all of my free time to focus on my game and get it to a stage where I could showcase it.

Here's an updated teaser, playable demo very soon!
#indiegame #pixelart #gamedev #ドット絵

05.10.2025 12:36 — 👍 53    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 0
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lol

04.10.2025 15:51 — 👍 4386    🔁 1325    💬 33    📌 41
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Really weird to see people try to portray Bluesky as a radical website when you’ll scroll past about 10 straight posts about how great spaghetti is

13.09.2025 00:38 — 👍 4633    🔁 417    💬 301    📌 110

Yea for sure, some key events could have icons or highlighted rows. Minor events could have icons too, though I'd say with neutral colours only to not stand out at all.

If it's not too difficult, maybe adding a new line above the seasons to cleanly separate "sections" or milestones of in the logs.

31.08.2025 18:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I enjoy event logs more than I should tbh.

31.08.2025 16:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Come for the hashtags, stay for the fancy Scaravan 66 clips.

store.steampowered.com/app/3238240/...

#indiegames #indiegame #roguelite #gamedev #carcombat #gaming #indiegamedev #gamedeveloper #indiegamedeveloper

31.08.2025 16:44 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

The types of death are a variation on things like
- Which suspension breaks and by how much. This helps catch the road and force some flips or otherwise just look broken.

- Which tire to eject in a fireball, if any.

- Should it go airborn this time? How high?

- When is the final explosion?

28.08.2025 15:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When we kill enemies in Scaravan 66 we have different types of "death animations" that are relying on physics to do most of the fun stuff, like flips.

#gamedev #indiedev

28.08.2025 15:09 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

If you're asking the audience, the answer is definitely not D or A or C

27.08.2025 16:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Reworked the Burning Rubber upgrade from Scoville 🔥 in the latest demo update. It's much more useful now and feels a lot better.

I'm considering making it feel heavier with some screenshake or something?

#Scaravan66 #GamingCommunity #IndieGames

27.08.2025 16:47 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Scaravan 66 - Burnouts & Buffs. This Update Hits Harder. - Steam News Demo Update v0.7a-7

New Scaravan Demo Update available!

This update focuses on reworking the aiming systems, adding crunchiness to player weapons, and overall re-balancing upgrades/weapons/enemies.

Read the devlog on Steam (it's got moving pictures!): store.steampowered.com/news/app/323...

#indiegame #indiedev

27.08.2025 16:33 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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I haven't looked deeply into it but I believe the dreamlist is for reviving old games.

Have you applied this way already? www.gog.com/submit-your-...

28.07.2025 16:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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BViG Recap Day 5!

You're Naomi, a teen on wheels looking for a way out of a sleepy summer town. Your MP3 player? It’s more than just vibes. Every track shifts the story, so get ready to roll through this narrative adventure set in the mid-2000s.

#BlackVoicesinGaming #indiedev #Recap

21.06.2025 19:39 — 👍 33    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 0
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Long time no quack 🦆 Progress is slow, but I'm still doing important work on @awaddlefullife.bsky.social!

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev

21.06.2025 19:49 — 👍 2790    🔁 290    💬 70    📌 18
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Oh that sneaky photographer snapped a candid on me. I was looking right at him and I didn't even notice.

Well done secret picture box man.

21.06.2025 13:58 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh this is a pretty slick magic girl transform, looks great Sedona!

21.06.2025 12:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Dwarrows is such a ChillGuy™ You can build a town and have a friendship battle with a goose who becomes your buddy and go on adventures with you in the woods.

21.06.2025 00:57 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The Zomboyz bus is so dumb and fun

20.06.2025 06:12 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Double Fine folks are some of the best I've ever worked with, your excitement is warranted! Congrats!

18.06.2025 17:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm glad society has moved passed deliberately sneezing at things, allergy season must've been an absolute mess.

18.06.2025 16:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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