Christian Sparks 🔜 GDC

That's p much it. Imagining working on the tech to make a tactics game in Unreal. Probably won't do it, but it sounds so fun to work on.

This week on

✨Obsessing Over Game Mechanics In Genres I'll Probably Never Make A Game In✨:

tactics games

I can assure you that small/not-AAA studios are a decent chunk of casework and not immune to the bullshit the big companies can throw on workers.

Sometimes they're worse!

Paint me like one of your ratons laveurs ❤️

Folks looking for an alternative to Discord should check out Root. I've been testing it for a bit w/ a friend and it's nice. www.rootapp.com

Vinyl haul! Accidentally messed up the sleeve on the Billie album taking stickers off 🤦

Thank you so much for everything you’ve produced to help the community! I’ve turned to your resources countless times and will certainly continue to do so in the future.

Congratulations on the new job! Can you say yet where you’ll be working? Any team would be insanely lucky to have you!

I got a new phone and the wide angle lens focus distance is super low and I

You never know what battles some people are fighting.

You never know how much a wishlist can help.

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Rebuke is a rad word, I love expressing my disdain for something by saying "I rebuke [thing]"

We truly put our all into this game. Please support us and help us get this game made!

Anna out here CRUSHING IT with the #snaccoon art 🔥

Reeeaaaally wanna remake these in 3D

The trick to making a great video game is to put animals in it.

new ink new ink new ink

I was v irresponsible & didn't post this event link earlier please forgive me

Christian Sparks; Unreal Engine Tooling and Rendering Workflows, Thu, Feb 12, 2026, 6:45 PM | Meetup Our first speaker is Christian Sparks, Senior Technical Artist, who’ll be diving into Unreal Engine tooling and rendering workflows, including Geometry Scripts and the tech

Kinda super short notice but if you're in Houston & wanna hear me blab about rendering & procgen, I'm doing a talk in like an hour and a half www.meetup.com/houston-unre...

3am, go to take brother to airport, pulled over for a headlight out, insurance app won't load, double citation, booked parking at the wrong terminal, tram down for repairs, shuttles unavailable, TSA short staffed, CLEAR agents in full force soliciting sign-ups, lfg dude hell yeah brother fuck yeah

Twitch Twitch is the world

Doing some goofy tech stuff for @snaccoongame.bsky.social, come hang out! twitch.tv/hippowombat

Is it hubris to think we could even make something that won't eventually become bullshit like the other things have?

Wondering if this is just my own perspective, would love to hear from other folks about community/communication for indie gamedevs.

...I've been feeling less connected than I previously did, and I miss that connection & excitement. Does it make sense to come together to try to make something to facilitate this that's independent of all the other platforms that are either bullshit now or are likely to become bullshit later?

Is the idea of having a large cohesive indie dev community like what pre-Elon Twitter had a pipe dream moving forward? Have others experienced/interpreted similar group splintering with these platform collapses? I got an enormous amount of value out of these communities, but over time...

...it feels like we could be facing further splintering/loss of communities who don't want to carry on, on a new platform.

This thread isn't advocacy for staying on bad platforms; we should move on from them. But how can we retain our gamedev groups & communities in the face of continual shifts?

I feel like Discord has some great indie gamedev groups as well, but facing the likely transition and looking back to Twitter's impact on what felt like a large cohesive community into smaller, segmented communities...

Twitter prior to Elon, for its faults, did have a pretty awesome & interconnected indie gamedev community. It's since splintered to various platforms & feels more scattered. (Mastodon, Bluesky, some others for a while, but nothing feels like it's reached the scale Twitter had)

Something I've noticed w/ ongoing enshitification of communications platforms like Twitter and now Discord is the subsequent fracturing of indie gamedev communities as they transition to other platforms.

🧵 How should we collectively deal with the potential indie gamedev community fracturing as tech platforms collapse?

As I'm seeing people talking about ditching Discord (which I think is the right move) I worry about how established communities will transition.

AWESOME album

This James Baxter animation bit from Gumball is absolutely annihilating me