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Game Dev and Math Nerd. Making a couple projects: - Dark-Fantasy Ancient-Greek Retro-FPS - Meditative game about canoeing the Great Lakes - Goofy Off-Road Rum-Running game https://taconitegames.itch.io/

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07.03.2026 00:50 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

THE LOW POLY RAT JAM IS OPEN itch.io/jam/low-poly... #ratjam
I WILL PLAY AND REVIEW EVERY GAME. GIVE ME YOUR RATS

06.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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Frog

24.02.2026 01:42 πŸ‘ 871 πŸ” 160 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 1

I discovered a new type of shape one time

05.03.2026 07:59 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Please stop saying this country is on the edge of Nazism. We're oppressing dissenting cities. We're vanishing queers and browns. We're taking over other countries. We're threatening our neighbors. We're starting foreign wars. It's not 1933, it's 1938. This IS who we are, right here right now.

05.03.2026 06:26 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I discovered a new type of shape one time

05.03.2026 07:59 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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With Us or Against Us, Again Congress didn’t authorize this war, and the only response to questions is a loyalty test we’ve fallen for before.

Afghanistan started at 92 percent approval. Iraq started at 71. Iran started at 27. The "whose side are you on" rhetoric is identical. The country underneath it isn't. I wrote about how the framework works, and who's deploying it. www.readtpa.com/p/with-us-or...

03.03.2026 23:31 πŸ‘ 2394 πŸ” 572 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 32

Introducing the <Low Poly Rat Jam>!

Team up or go it alone - submissions open 6 - 22 March.

No ranks, no prizes, only a promise: I will play and review EVERY RAT GAME.

itch.io/jam/low-poly... #ratjam #gamedev #lowpoly #lowpolyratday

03.03.2026 10:27 πŸ‘ 264 πŸ” 124 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 26
Gandalf encourages you to join the Low Poly Rat Jam on itch.io

Gandalf encourages you to join the Low Poly Rat Jam on itch.io

#ratjam itch.io/jam/low-poly... #lowpoly #gamedev #rats

03.03.2026 20:51 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

It's not too bad, you just gotta bend the evil rectangle to your will

03.03.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

caves of qud

03.03.2026 19:06 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

CQ is going places

03.03.2026 15:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Gave them a simple animation all done through the vertex shader. Gives them a lot of personality, though the deformations are decidedly no volume-preserving...

#gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d

03.03.2026 01:34 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, I should go to bed

03.03.2026 06:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm not the most experienced 3D artist by any means but my girlfriend has been unemployed for a while and we need money.

So I can make you a prop or other 3D object with either the flat style or more PSX.

$10-25 per model depending on complexity

DM me if you are interested!

#blender #lowpoly

02.03.2026 21:08 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Would you consider adding rotation options to the placement?

It might as some cool possibilities with the larger polyhedra

03.03.2026 06:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Programmer affirmations

03.03.2026 06:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨ATTENTION GAMERS:🚨

Spectra demo THIS THURSDAY MARCH 5

wishlist in repliesπŸ‘‡

02.03.2026 22:05 πŸ‘ 322 πŸ” 114 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 11

Gave them a simple animation all done through the vertex shader. Gives them a lot of personality, though the deformations are decidedly no volume-preserving...

#gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d

03.03.2026 01:34 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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02.03.2026 05:25 πŸ‘ 1178 πŸ” 258 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 26

Always liked these little guys from the Medievil (1998)

02.03.2026 00:06 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Please keep doing it then

02.03.2026 05:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

hire dana shes a fucking genius at what she does and a delight to work with

01.03.2026 20:15 πŸ‘ 67 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey all! My current contract ended unexpectedly, and I'm looking for game design work with some urgency.

I'm a multidisciplinary technical artist, game designer, and programmer. I turn concepts and aesthetic vision into shaders and systems.

Boosts welcome. Leads on projects even more so!

01.03.2026 20:05 πŸ‘ 88 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Always liked these little guys from the Medievil (1998)

02.03.2026 00:06 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
Screenshot of title of academic paper: 

https://people.clas.ufl.edu/avince/files/P-adic.pdf

Screenshot of title of academic paper: https://people.clas.ufl.edu/avince/files/P-adic.pdf

Psst

28.02.2026 23:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Diagram of a truncated octahedra

Diagram of a truncated octahedra

Big fan of the truncated octahedra personally

28.02.2026 22:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

death to america

28.02.2026 11:52 πŸ‘ 108 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

28.02.2026 06:41 πŸ‘ 738 πŸ” 314 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 9
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Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77 I went into Hyperion blind, decades ago, knowing almost nothing about it. I was never the same.

Dan Simmons died. Weird feelings about this.

On the one hand Hyperion was a defining reading experience for me & absolutely holds up & the first half of his career was incredibly strong.

On the other his personal politics were horrid & eventually infected his work to its obvious detriment.

27.02.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 157 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 7