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Developer/Tech. Artist at http://eyosido.com - http://linktr.ee/eyosido - fr/en Maker of the HairTG hair/fur tools. #gamedev #material #3d #art #science #archeology #paleoanthropology #Interactivefiction #retrocomputing

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How to Start Making Games (Part 1): Finding Your Path | Rob's Game Shack So, you want to make games. Maybe you’ve always wondered how your favorite worlds are built, or maybe you’ve had an idea floating around for years. The good…

Quick read: How to Start Making Games (Part 1): Finding Your Path https://f.mtr.cool/scfrnkkkom #GameDev #IndieGames #RGS

07.03.2026 04:01 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Clever little budget-priced CPRG just left early access with a good launch discount, too.

A weird swampy fantasy setting, semi-real-time combat ala Vagrant Story and a cool claymation-esque art style. Also hugely undersold so far.

Go check it out, RPG folks.

05.03.2026 17:07 👍 368 🔁 143 💬 6 📌 0
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a man in a suit and tie is holding a jacket and asking where are you . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a jacket and asking where are you .

1,750 people signed up to @eurosky.social and received codes in the past 24 hours. Where are you all? 😀

06.03.2026 17:39 👍 56 🔁 11 💬 20 📌 1

Woaa I never found this one

05.03.2026 07:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📖 THE GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ is out NOW!

www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope

100+ essays on writing & narrative design, with articles from the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Control, Call of Duty, Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider, Sam and Max...

ALSO the Kaleidoscope Podcast with 2 full eps!

04.03.2026 09:54 👍 604 🔁 303 💬 18 📌 107

Un scénario extrême mais la vidéo a le mérite de montrer notre dépendance abyssale à la tech. US.

04.03.2026 09:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
https://eurosky.social __ __ /\ \__ /\ \__ __ \ \ ,_\ _____ _ __ ___\ \ ,_\ ___ /'__'\ \ \ \/ /\ '__'\/\''__\/ __'\ \ \/ / __'\ /\ \L\.\_\ \ \_\ ...

I just moved my account to eurosky.social using EU-Haul and it worked smoothly. My handle is using a custom domain name but I didn't have anything to change. Great work #eurosky!

03.03.2026 13:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🦋🇪🇺 @eurosky.social -or any alternative PDS. How? Why?

A short thread on what you need to know ⬇️

03.03.2026 10:10 👍 147 🔁 83 💬 5 📌 23

Prenez 20 minutes pour écouter cette vidéo qui résume et explique avec brio les raisons du backslash écologique actuel, en ce qui concerne les produits chimiques
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03.03.2026 11:46 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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a man holding a bow and arrow stands in the snow ALT: a man holding a bow and arrow stands in the snow

A 10+ year creative journey is about to come to an end. Only 30 days remaining until the launch of Episode Five, "The Light at the End of All Things".

To all our fans, thank you for being part of this story, and thanks -- most of all -- for your patience in enabling us to tell it our way. ❤️

01.03.2026 22:31 👍 323 🔁 42 💬 28 📌 5
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Banquet for Fools out March 5th!

🎃jam out to electro-gothic folk and go on an adventure!

#indiegame #crpg

01.03.2026 18:17 👍 36 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Indie Horror is the Future of Fear
Indie Horror is the Future of Fear YouTube video by horrorvisuals

Fun and interesting little video analyzing "indie" horror games.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emj1...

27.02.2026 04:50 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Finished my illustration of Eastern White Pine 🌲❄️
It felt so wintery and calm while drawing… now we wait for spring 🌿
So many beautiful things ahead!!

#BotanicalIllustration #EasternWhitePine #NatureArt #PencilDrawing #WinterToSpring

26.02.2026 16:31 👍 33 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Large tray lined with injera, covered in mounds of various curries, surrounded by rolled-up injera.

Large tray lined with injera, covered in mounds of various curries, surrounded by rolled-up injera.

Large tray lined with injera, covered in mounds of various curries, surrounded by rolled-up injera.

Large tray lined with injera, covered in mounds of various curries, surrounded by rolled-up injera.

Large tray lined with injera, covered in mounds of various curries, surrounded by rolled-up injera.

Large tray lined with injera, covered in mounds of various curries, surrounded by rolled-up injera.

Large tray lined with injera, covered in mounds of various curries, surrounded by rolled-up injera.

Large tray lined with injera, covered in mounds of various curries, surrounded by rolled-up injera.

I set a goal of hosting one big food party and one movie screening per month.

January’s dinner: Ethiopian food. All homemade but the injera.
(Not pictured: doro wat, thyme tea, Somali coconut cookies.) Attendance: ~25.

25.01.2026 18:42 👍 57 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Castle is situated on a high rocky peak, dominating the medieval town of Foix below

Castle is situated on a high rocky peak, dominating the medieval town of Foix below

Chateau Fort, Foix
Ian Strang, 1934

23.02.2026 16:55 👍 559 🔁 88 💬 5 📌 0
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6 Tips For Making Angeline Era-style Exploration If you've played, you might know that Angeline Era's approach to exploration is very unusual. There's only a very minimal map, about half the levels "Have No Point", and treasures aren't really the ma...

New blogpost on some @angelineera.bsky.social game design! Come and learn..
'6 Tips For Making Angeline Era-style Exploration'. buttondown.com/melodicambie...

22.02.2026 11:27 👍 154 🔁 45 💬 1 📌 6
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Tier 7 unit for the Yulan faction for Songs of Conquest- Feng and its upgrade. Christian Knutsson as art director. Ingame animations by Emanu Garnheim. #pixelart

16.02.2026 16:25 👍 510 🔁 94 💬 9 📌 0

J'espère que c'est mieux que Strange New Worlds sur laquelle j'ai pas tenu plus d'un tiers de saison

14.02.2026 15:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
bad boy on horseback against the sun.

bad boy on horseback against the sun.

A crop of two panels. A man riding a nice little horse and the back of a dorks head

A crop of two panels. A man riding a nice little horse and the back of a dorks head

Part 2 of my illustrated novel/ comic hybrid "Peregrine's Descent" is now up on my Patreon. I'm serializing the book there every month, as I make it. You can follow along and support it's creation by joining via the link. It's pay-what-you-want. www.patreon.com/c/zeburnay

13.02.2026 14:36 👍 169 🔁 44 💬 3 📌 5
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First post on Bluesky 👋

I’ve been quietly building this game for years as a personal project and this past year I pushed some of the hardest tech yet:
✨ Infinite chunk streaming
💡 Per-voxel bounce lighting
⏳ Sand simulation

#gamedev #indiedev #voxel #procedural

12.02.2026 09:36 👍 63 🔁 15 💬 6 📌 0

Check this sh*t out

04.02.2026 15:11 👍 145 🔁 44 💬 5 📌 19
Non c’est Non, Monsieur Duplomb ! - Non c’est Non, Monsieur Duplomb ! - Plateforme des pétitions de l’Assemblée nationale Pourquoi cette pétition est cruciale Le Sénateur Laurent Duplomb propose (une nouvelle fois) la réintroduction de l’acétamipride, un insecticide de la famille des néonicotinoïdes. Sous couvert d’urgen...

Petition contre la loi duplomb : ROUND 2. A Partager en masse.
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

10.02.2026 09:27 👍 23 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 1
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Hello there, my contract at RoartyDigital on EXODUS has ended so I'm open to work as an 3D Environment Artist again!

Portfolio: www.artstation.com/thomasgrosjean

Here is a look at an incoming personal project I'm working on in my free time, based on concepts by Ricardo Lima.

02.02.2026 16:45 👍 20 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0

I can totally relate to what you're saying in the introduction of you article! Regarding the UE test I'd rather have used a more powerful machine not to mix different types of difficulties. That being said, I am increasingly eyeing on Godot these days.

01.02.2026 17:55 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I tried to use Unreal on Linux… it’s rough Like most game developers, I am mainly a Windows user. Not so much by choice, but just because it is the default that most tools and basically all the games are developed for. That being said, I al…

New blog post!
Game Development, no matter the engine was always a very windows-focused industry. But in recent years, things started to change, with more and more tools offering native Linux support, even Unreal.
So I finally decided to give it a try:
#ue5 #gamedev larstofus.com/2026/01/31/i...

01.02.2026 11:39 👍 29 🔁 4 💬 8 📌 0
The Visible Zorker Project (and Patreon) Announcing the Visible Zorker Project and Patreon. The plan: deconstruct every Infocom game, one per month, and make the source code explorable.

Here we go...

Announcing the Visible Zorker Project and Patreon! Remember how I did Visible Zork 1 and 2? I'm going to do Zork 3, and then continue through Infocom's entire canon -- in chronological order, one per month.

blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/the-...

26.01.2026 23:12 👍 30 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 1
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Blender Foundation is thrilled to announce that Netflix Animation Studios is joining the Development Fund as Corporate Patron.

This support will be dedicated towards general development, to improve content creation tools for individuals and teams working in media workflows.

fund.blender.org #b3d

27.01.2026 17:57 👍 383 🔁 64 💬 12 📌 14
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Ce soir vous devez tous être devant la télévision à 21h sur FR2 pour voir "France : il était une fois demain" de Michael Pitiot. Et pourquoi pas une orangeraie à Chambord ? Dans fruitiers dans les cultures dans le Beauce ? De la mangrove à Montpellier ? Un sol plus vivant pour mieux gérer l'eau? 1/6

27.01.2026 13:43 👍 167 🔁 62 💬 14 📌 4
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French indie studio Accidental Queens are closing and delisting their games from Steam A few more games are going to be lost to history, as the French indie studio Accidental Queens announced they're closing down.

French indie studio Accidental Queens are closing and delisting their games from Steam
#IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming

21.01.2026 08:40 👍 24 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Sur les traces des Néandertaliens
Sur les traces des Néandertaliens YouTube video by Musée de l'Homme

A découvrir : Sur les traces des néandertaliens, une conférence d’Antoine Balzeau au Musée de l’Homme disponible sur Youtube, #ScienceCQFD
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXIO...

20.01.2026 15:18 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0