Marky V

I took a little diversion from my usual TechnoVisual Space and ArcVenture devs this week and tried out a little prototype hover race game for mobile, web and desktop - created in #RogueEngine ( #threejs ) using Kenney's amazing space assets - much fun! 😎 #indiedev #solodev

Updating the Mobile Controls Before making the new online dig site available for testing I have been doing a round trip on the player controls and have decided that the mobile controls need an update. In previous browser based ac...

Update on the #ArcVenture Online project - on the website now - mobile controls upgrade 🤓#RogueEngine #threejs #historyteacher #indiedev arcventure.online/2025/08/31/u...

Sunday morning complete re-write to add first person elevator mechanism to move between rooms in the space stations #indiedev #indiegamedev #threejs #RogueEngine @technovisualspace.bsky.social - this works in #VR too and it's looking pretty groovy 😎

Updating the Mobile Controls Before making the new online dig site available for testing I have been doing a round trip on the player controls and have decided that the mobile controls need an update. In previous browser based ac...

Update on the #ArcVenture Online project - on the website now - mobile controls upgrade 🤓#RogueEngine #threejs #historyteacher #indiedev arcventure.online/2025/08/31/u...

Myth Confirmed! Youtube shorts use a FUBAR compression setting which you can't change 🤨 (or not as far as I can see 👀)

YouTube video by Mark Vanstone Three Little Bruins Great Adventure (Excerpt)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtuP...
Just posting this here to see if Youtube make the same pigs ear of the compression as it did with my previous short - I suspect the compression settings for shorts are FUBAR

A black cat sitting with a ginger cat in long grass.

Not enough cats on my timeline - here's Floki (ginger) with his uncle Widdy chillin' #catsofbluesky #cats #blackcat #gingercat

YouTube video by Mark Vanstone TechnoVisual Space Intro and gameplay demo August 2025

youtube.com/shorts/KJN7C...

Four black cats and one ginger cat sat on walls and a table in an english garden

All 5 of ours last night in the same photo together!!! 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

The TechnoVisual Space Game Development TechnoVisual Space, a 3D Online browser space adventure game for mobile, desktop and VR. In development at TechnoVisual Games.

New home for the new Space game development 👀space.technovisual.co.uk #indiedev #solodev #indiegamedev #threejs #RogueEngine #VR - check out the new intro video ⚡

The New Dig Site is Complete The new Bancroft digsite is now functional and working entirely in a browser and should work on a wide variety of platforms including mobile and VR headsets. There is a new working Reconstructor and y...

New updates on the #ArcVenture blog - check it out here: arcventure.online/2025/07/27/t... #threejs #RogueEngine #history #education

Well done ladies ⚽️ 😍

YouTube video by Technovisual Bernie Marsden Demonstrates his PRS SE Signature Guitar

I didn't use paint for my studio, I had a fabric backdrop - but the most important part is lighting - it must be evenly lit - I used long florescent tubes around the background and a couple of defuse boxes uplighting + one key-light from above/behind www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Vi...

Register for my @microbit.org game making workshop on 29th September with CAS 😁 It's online, 🆓 and will be awesome 🕹️🎮👾 Check here for more info 👉 www.computingatschool.org.uk/events/2025/...

This is the frame registration - the fly-wheel turns with a stepper motor and contacts with a piece of copper tape - if it hasn't reached the copper tape then the motor advances another step until the green led lights - then we're good to go with the frame capture.

And here's the scanning equipment in action 😱🧐🤪

Captured using a Raspberry Pi with Picamera (HQ) in HD from a 16mm cine film nearly 80 years old! The film runs at 24 frames per second but I have upsampled it to 60fps - the sound was captured separately using an optical sound read head on a Bell and Howell Filmosound.

$3 million grant to make that questionnaire - and that's all it takes to get your answer 🐈

This is part of a quick fly-through in VR to give you an idea of how things are coming together.
If you want to get early access to the game and tutorials about how it's being made. #threejs #RogueEngine
The full video was first shown on the Patreon Post: www.patreon.com/posts/full-o...

AI is like a Quad bike - it's really fun for a while - there are probably some good uses for it if properly used - but if you use it for everything you're gunna need a crash hat ⛑️

Yep - that's the look 🤪- but I was ZX81 machine code - poke 16514 - IYKYN 😉

YouTube video by Mark Vanstone TechnoVisual Space Travels around Lokia Harbour

Haven't posted any progress on my Space project for a while - but I have been beavering away converting the web elements into Rogue Engine - but you can fly around to different locations and move from room to room in the space stations. youtu.be/ktsH2IbZQTQ #RogueEngine #threejs #indiegame

For some context - this is a 16mm cine film from 1946 captured with a homemade converted cine projector bsky.app/profile/mark...

Replaced the '4K' camera in my 16mm cine scanner with an HQ Raspberry Pi cam - getting much better results now - getting quite happy with the output now. #16mmfilm #retrovideo #16mm #cinefilm #raspberrypi #opencv #python

Britain finally gets it, video games are big business.

The Creative Industries Sector Plan just dropped, and for the first time, video games aren't an afterthought, but part of the solution! This is a huge achievement for our industry and video games.

Read more: zurl.co/PRjeo

Still need to sort out the finer points of sprockets and rotations but the first output is looking promising 😀🤓

16mm projector with Raspberry Pi enhancements: stepper motor, HD microscope and LED backlight

I love it when a plan comes together 🤪 - 16mm cine film scanner project to convert movies to HD mp4 - converted Bell&Howell TQI projector using #RaspberryPi to control everything with python script using #opencv to capture and encode #16mm #retrocine #RPI #retrofilm #rpihack

I literally just made one of those with 4 white leds - for my new 16mm cine scanner project 😆white plastic cut from an old gel room freshener - makes a great mini whitebox backlight 👍

Got the dialogue tree code working using Drafft to edit and export to json - plugs straight into the NPC dialogue system - using #RogueEngine and #threejs #solodev #indiegamedev #indiegame