Ross Karchner

Level editor for my Spin Doctor/ClockWerx-inspred game. #screenshotsaturday

Finished reading: Criminal Deluxe Edition Volume 1 by Ed Brubaker 📚

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

I’ve been working through Complete Blender Creator 3: Learn 3D Modelling for Beginners , and the first project was this lighthouse scene. I think I pretty much understood what was happening. I’m a little fuzzy on sculpting, but I can loop cut and extrude shit all day.

Ross Karchner

Bird Bonkers ranked 234 out of 699 (that received ratings) in the GitHub Game-off. That puts it just on the edge of the top and middle third. I’m OK with that. I did basically ignore the theme, and I could have used my time more wisely during that month. Congrats to the folks that did well!

Which games?: https://ross.karchner.com/2026/01/07/which-games.html

Ross Karchner

DC Tech Events is now on Bluesky and Mastodon. Thanks to the internet archive, I’ve brought back the circa-2007 logo I used on Twitter.

📅 DC tech events today (Jan 7):

• Lead AI Change Outside The Tech Bubble
• AI In Hyperconverged Infrastructure .: AWS-Crystal City, Virginia :.
• Co-Hacking with Hack The Box Labs

https://dctech.events

Giving away copies of Kenney Game Assets All-in-1 to help boost my profile here on BlueSky and leave the other place!

Here's the first one, be quick to claim;

kenney.itch.io/kenney-game-...

Finished reading: Fishflies by Jeff Lemire 📚

Finished reading: ERASED by Loo Hui Phang 📚

Not only a perfect denouement, it was the end of an era. Thirty years ago today, this strip was published.

Ross Karchner

Thinking about SpinDoc since I mentioned it yesterday. I’ve been poking at it this evening and after some tweaking, the movement actually feels pretty good. I think the last time I walked away, I was hung up on the idea of b... https://ross.karchner.com/2025/12/30/thinking-about-spindoc-since-i.html

As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back

You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative

Finished Listening: Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick 📚

Gifts

Gifts: https://ross.karchner.com/2025/12/25/gifts.html

awww

Popup from demo of Devil's Due asking: Skipping the tutorial and then blaming the developers for poor onboarding, are we? #gamedev #gaming #steamdemo #demo

Shots fired #gamedev

Bird Bonkers by Ross Karchner Bonk Birds, eat fish, fly high

Bird Bonkers is live on itch.io. It’s not going to win any awards, but I think it’s fun and challenging, and it let’s me cap off a weird year with at least one non-embarrassing jam submission.

Not a bird

Cool that Zork is now open source, but it’s kind of wild that Zork is now a Microsoft property.

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this gog.com survey is pretty weird

Still making birds

Hello! I was on bluesky before, deleted my account for some dumb reason, but now I'm back.