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⚠️Actively looking for work⚠️ Freelance & Consulting work. Photogrammetry Environmental tech artist GFX & rendering historian http://www.artstation.com/makram https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@makram

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Day of the Tentacle | Intro remake | Blender
YouTube video by Daniel Fritsche (3DF) Day of the Tentacle | Intro remake | Blender

I love it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LYP...

30.10.2025 01:43 — 👍 210    🔁 39    💬 5    📌 1
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It's better than Avowed in some cases (it's not using FSR2 this time around thankfully) but Lumen seems to be busted? There's no denoising.. 🤔

29.10.2025 23:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Outer Wolrds 2 first impressions on Series X...IQ is horrendous. Lumen & shadows are a noisy mess.

29.10.2025 17:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A 3D Homer Simpsons walking past the library model from the original a993 Myst game, from "The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror VI"

A 3D Homer Simpsons walking past the library model from the original a993 Myst game, from "The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror VI"

30 years ago today, The Simpsons premiered the "Treehouse of Horror VI" Halloween special, in which Homer enters a 3-Dimensional world and crosses paths with the library from Myst island!

https://youtu.be/-cyf4RnjzTY?t=112

29.10.2025 09:39 — 👍 109    🔁 20    💬 3    📌 3
A chart showing where the 15 main AI companies get and spend their money. The arrows show that the money flows out and back to themselves.

A chart showing where the 15 main AI companies get and spend their money. The arrows show that the money flows out and back to themselves.

This is how you do wash trading. All these companies are investing in each other paying each other bits of the same trillion dollars in order to make it look like they’re so close to AGI so investors will keep giving them money to lose.

This is also known as a Junkie’s promise.

29.10.2025 09:21 — 👍 401    🔁 199    💬 1    📌 1
AWAYSIS - Coming 2026
YouTube video by ID@Xbox AWAYSIS - Coming 2026

Excited to announce that #AWAYSIS is coming to Xbox Game Pass right from day one for Series X|S, and PC.

We dropped a new trailer to celebrate as part of the ID@Xbox Fall 2025 Showcase.

youtu.be/QpgTfqxKbNk?...

#indiedev #gaming #gamedev

28.10.2025 18:07 — 👍 26    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 5
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I am excited to announce the release of Radical Pie, version 1.0! This is the professional equation typesetting application that I've been working on for the last year. See the website for details.
radicalpie.com

28.10.2025 22:39 — 👍 43    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0
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> run routine.exe
█ INITIALIZING...

Just revealed at the @idatxbox.bsky.social x @ign.com Showcase.

► ROUTINE arrives on PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One & Game Pass on DECEMBER 4.

█ Keep your C.A.T ready. Your arrival to the lunar base is imminent.

> awaiting input_

28.10.2025 18:39 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 2
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Expanded gameplay revealed today at the IGN x Xbox showcase for our upcoming game Planet of Lana 2 🤩🎉

m.youtube.com/watch?v=K7IZ...

Wishlist Planet of Lana II on Steam: bit.ly/4mOav8c

Coming early 2026! #indiegame #games

28.10.2025 21:01 — 👍 26    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 1

Amazon's official statement quoted in this article is incoherent word salad, and I hope they choke on their beloved AI.

28.10.2025 16:42 — 👍 17    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Another experiment we tried was to use (axis and surface aligned) voxels rather than surflets. The obvious benefit is that there are no holes the surface, but the voxelized look didn't fit Keeper and it was expensive to render due to the voxel density needed to make this work.

28.10.2025 16:06 — 👍 16    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe @ceruleite.bsky.social could help you out with the conference finding bit I think 👀

28.10.2025 14:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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unfuck google drive by shooting gemini
Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again!
Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever?
Open your gdrive (web OR app)
Settings > Manage Apps
Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push)
Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

27.10.2025 16:28 — 👍 11096    🔁 6385    💬 121    📌 350
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In order to get to the morphs we have in Keeper now I first experimented with different approaches. Here is one of the early tests in which "surflets" are used to transform from one to another mesh. I still love the "wiggly paths" during the transition.

27.10.2025 19:26 — 👍 48    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0
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I havent posted a lot of art here lately but a few weeks ago Little Nightmares III released and im so very proud of this project!! I spent 2 years working on this with an amazing team and im glad the game is finally out 🫶🏻

27.10.2025 16:23 — 👍 18    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
WTF Is Going On?
YouTube video by GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy WTF Is Going On?

As I've been saying for years this is nothing more than money fucking laundering on a galactic scale in broad day light 🫢
youtu.be/h3JfOxx6Hh4?...

26.10.2025 23:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a man in a red bull shirt is holding a trophy in front of a sign that says 2022 ALT: a man in a red bull shirt is holding a trophy in front of a sign that says 2022

"The steward decisions are so inconsistent every week"
Stewarding in F1 has been a corrupt cess pool since the 80s.
They just don't give a fuck after being able to pull what they pulled in 2021. Ratings are up. That's all that matters (applies to all pro sports but F1 has absolutely no shame)

26.10.2025 22:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Shouting as loud as possible to anyone listening that our newest game is just as strange and full of energy as this little creature. Wooooooo!

Keeper - Available NOW on @Xbox.com or @Steampowered.com!

doublefine.com/games/keeper

26.10.2025 18:02 — 👍 157    🔁 15    💬 8    📌 5

@leepetty.bsky.social @p1xelcoder.bsky.social @ianmcque.bsky.social Keeper is an artistic and technical masterpiece! Bravo! Utterly unique in every way. Gobsmacked.

Never would I have guessed that a Doublefine game would rise to the top of my list as a showcase of #ue5 tech.

26.10.2025 02:59 — 👍 19    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

It definitely is the best showcase for UE5 (Senua's Hellblade being a distant second IMO). Absolutely incredible use of the engine's feature set. IMO the best looking game ever.

26.10.2025 03:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Another visual effect @leepetty.bsky.social, Jeremy Mitchell and I talked about a lot for Keeper was the Mandelbulb fractal. It didn't make it into the game in it's "pure" form, but the experiments I did were fun. :)

25.10.2025 20:00 — 👍 37    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Ghost of Yōtei – tech deep dive Sucker Punch delves into the tech that helped them bring Atsu’s engrossing journey to live.

Some information about Ghost of Yōtei's rendering systems blog.playstation.com/2025/10/23/g...

25.10.2025 15:49 — 👍 38    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

I’m definitely more than 22 and I never realised it either…

24.10.2025 19:24 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0
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kermit the frog is sitting in a car and looking out the window . ALT: kermit the frog is sitting in a car and looking out the window .

Well I've learned something new today

25.10.2025 14:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Seriously.. Who the fuck wants to play Halo 1 again for the millionth time ? (with shitty IQ based on the released footage of the current build*)
On one hand you have Keeper (à masterpiece) on the other you have creative bankruptcy 😩

24.10.2025 20:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Can Computers Create Art? Lessons from art history
YouTube video by Aaron Hertzmann Can Computers Create Art? Lessons from art history

Here's a recording of my talk on the role of computers in making art, including so-called "AI", which was presented as the opening keynote of SIGGRAPH 2025, incorporating lessons from the history of computer graphics, photography, modern art, and philosophy of art. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2YR... 1/

24.10.2025 15:33 — 👍 48    🔁 16    💬 3    📌 1
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elsa from frozen is dancing in the dark and saying `` let it go , let it go '' . ALT: elsa from frozen is dancing in the dark and saying `` let it go , let it go '' .

😩😅🤣

24.10.2025 16:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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spongebob squarepants from spongebob squarepants is holding a box on his shoulder . ALT: spongebob squarepants from spongebob squarepants is holding a box on his shoulder .

If that 9070XT isn't needed anymore..I could put it to good use 👀

24.10.2025 16:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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In case you are wondering what is involved to make a game like Keeper… here is some (but by no means all) the hardware I used.

24.10.2025 15:59 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

👍🏼 Was this ever implemented in a real project?

24.10.2025 13:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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