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@marzand

Lead at Frantic Waltz. Creative coder and videogame maker. ✨ Previously: SEMF, Ramjet Anvil, Volo Airsport, Aurora Wager

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i was righter than i knew... this plays so much better without any dialogue

21.02.2026 02:11 👍 48 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 1

Huge fan of this. I once spent a whole day making an edit of a mission impossible film to remove all the spoken dialogue. Love the change of focus that it brings, how you get meaning from the screen this way.

21.02.2026 03:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Oh hi ✨

17.02.2026 21:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Giving our desktop buddies an environment to live in. 🟥🌳✨

No underwater world yet. The assets are not ready. So forest it is!

Integrating all of this tightly with the Windows desktop experience is taking a lot of engineering time, but the result is so satisfying.

13.02.2026 18:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Offended my desktop bros 🥺

09.02.2026 00:56 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

If games are most similar to theater, then the desktop background is a very interesting place to perform some.

All the rules are different.

07.02.2026 19:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Oooh, underwater is where we should be. 🫧

I really adore the design space of interactive desktop backgrounds. So many fun ideas opening up! Looks like that is February's jam locked-in.

07.02.2026 19:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Little desktop buddies

06.02.2026 22:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

unbelievably grim to see Valve announce a delightful and exciting compact Linux box approximately 15 seconds before RAM became the more expensive material in the known universe.

05.02.2026 00:33 👍 3113 🔁 845 💬 6 📌 0

Literally the first post I see after completing the game Horses. Poetic.

27.01.2026 23:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Second game jam of the year was a total blast! Dualtris turned out amazing, very thankful for the experience with this team.

Play: franticwaltz.itch.io/dualtris
Jam: itch.io/jam/composer...

#unity3d #gamedev #gamejam #tetris #arcade #dualism #trailer #fmod

26.01.2026 20:27 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Dualtris: Tetris with a twist. Switch sides and play in Mirror Space.

A game produced in 7 days for 1st edition of the Composers 'n Devs jam.

Play: franticwaltz.itch.io/dualtris
Jam: itch.io/jam/composer...

26.01.2026 20:18 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

19.01.2026 16:06 👍 18266 🔁 5085 💬 213 📌 497
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This Brazilian woman hates AI

30.12.2025 22:25 👍 6141 🔁 2708 💬 49 📌 428

Beautiful 🥵

29.12.2025 12:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ein Screenshot aus dem Spiel Seed of the Dead. Darauf zu sehen ist eine junge Frau mit großen Brüsten und eng anliegendem, bauchfreien Oberteil, die an einen Holzpfahl gefesselt wurde. Sie blickt auf eine riesige Kreissäge, die sich scheinbar direkt auf sie zubewegt.

Ein Screenshot aus dem Spiel Seed of the Dead. Darauf zu sehen ist eine junge Frau mit großen Brüsten und eng anliegendem, bauchfreien Oberteil, die an einen Holzpfahl gefesselt wurde. Sie blickt auf eine riesige Kreissäge, die sich scheinbar direkt auf sie zubewegt.

Die neue Folge von Random Encounters ist online!

Wir haben uns eines sehr komplexen Themas angenommen, zahlreiche Interviews geführt, Studien gewälzt, und intensiv über unsere eigenen Moralvorstellungen nachgedacht.

insertmoin.de/random-encou...

CW: Sexismus, sexualisierte Gewalt, Mord, Inzest

12.12.2025 12:30 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

-.. . -.. .. -.-. .- - .. --- -. ✨

11.12.2025 00:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

no idea

08.12.2025 08:43 👍 16576 🔁 4802 💬 107 📌 60
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At first you're like, why does this have a wiki page

Then you find out it might be the best wiki page ever

28.11.2025 22:00 👍 1086 🔁 271 💬 31 📌 19

I started on Pikuma's PS1 coding series, and the MIPS32 assembly is super jumpy. 😁

Gotos in C#, not so much yet... But there's an algorithmic music engine taking shape so I'll keep them in mind.

26.11.2025 18:35 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Blender Development Fund Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.

Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org

18.11.2025 19:26 👍 5617 🔁 4997 💬 15 📌 94

📌 Three new papers at #aiide25 from me:

1. A 'vision' paper about why game design is like procedural design bsky.app/profile/mtrc...
2. A new system for generating mechanics called Pixie bsky.app/profile/mtrc...
3. A big group paper about speedrunning as an AI challenge bsky.app/profile/mtrc...

16.11.2025 16:53 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Mikaylaaaaaa!!! ✨

15.11.2025 16:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i owe so many video game designers an apology

03.11.2025 18:49 👍 6216 🔁 2012 💬 42 📌 10
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After nine years, Rez Infinite remains gaming’s greatest tease “If we're using the word ‘prologue,’ obviously something has to come after...”

We're kicking off a series of music game oral histories with a look back at Rez Infinite -- and why it's been nine years without a follow-up.

03.11.2025 20:12 👍 121 🔁 56 💬 0 📌 7

You're an inspiration Benn, this is incredibly based.

03.11.2025 18:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn will be collecting your data to train AI models — starting today.

03.11.2025 17:29 👍 417 🔁 256 💬 25 📌 61

Yeah, SFX pulling a lot of the weight

02.11.2025 23:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!

02.11.2025 08:07 👍 1419 🔁 645 💬 5 📌 5

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.

Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.

If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

27.10.2025 16:11 👍 8650 🔁 4832 💬 21 📌 43