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Kieran Lampert
@kieranlampert.com
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🌞 Indie game dev and toy sculptor
🎮 Making Aggroculture
🚫 No AI/NFTs
🖼️ PFP: @pita-m.bsky.social

3D character sculpt/model commissions open. Contact me via my portfolio site: www.kieranlampert.com
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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · Apr 8
Hey #portfolioday! My name's Kieran and I'm a senior artist making games at Polyarc. In my (very limited) spare time I also sculpt toys and collectibles, and I'm working on a solo tactics game project in #godot called Farmageddon. I love stylized aesthetics and learning new things.

#gamedev #art
A fan art design/sculpture of the character Frida from the PlayStation game Bust-A-Groove. A 3D sculpture of a stylized rendition of Batman. Based off an illustration by Mike Bear. A stylized fan art sculpt of Skeletor (from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe) as a skateboarder. Based off a redesign by Vanja Todoric. A mockup of a turn-based tactics game called Tavern Brawl Dungeon Crawl done for a game jam.
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aggrocrabgames.bsky.social
REBOUNDER.

A new game developed by ThirtyThree, published by Aggro Crab.

Rebounder is a hand-crafted precision platformer about a roughneck worker recruited for a hazardous job on a distant planet.

Nail the run. Deliver your line. Dropping 2027.
September 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Another #PAX West is upon us and we are once again returning with our (in)famous panel, "Let's Make a Video Game: Live on Stage"! Come watch a handful of lovable idiots attempt to make a game live, before your very eyes, in an hour!

Will we succeed? Either way, it'll be entertaining to watch!
A flyer for the PAX West panel. The image is a photograph taken during the panel from a previous year. Four developers are accompanied by two MCs. The text reads... "Let's Make a Video Game: Live on Stage Friday, September 4 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM Firebird Theatre"
September 2, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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parkroseperma.bsky.social
I absolutely loved this article. What a fantastic takedown of the bullshittery that is the AI industry. AI does not scale. The returns are diminishing. Line only goes up if it runs on hype and grift. Bc it's a grift run by the amoral sociopathic incel Nerd Reich.
August 25, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott.

Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out. We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting. What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it. Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. No Contract? No Coffee.
August 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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The bee Tamagotchi is finished! This was so much fun to work on. Thanks again to @berrycutepixels.com for the amazing concept and allowing me to model it!

More info and higher quality images on my site: www.kieranlampert.com/work/bee-tam...

#3D #tamagotchi #gameart #art #unreal #UE5
August 23, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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The bee Tamagotchi is finished! This was so much fun to work on. Thanks again to @berrycutepixels.com for the amazing concept and allowing me to model it!

More info and higher quality images on my site: www.kieranlampert.com/work/bee-tam...

#3D #tamagotchi #gameart #art #unreal #UE5
August 23, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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doublefine.com
ICYMI: 🚨 AMNESIA FORTNIGHT IS BACK 🚨 

It's a Kickstarter. It's a game jam. It's a documentary. It's a game jam documentary Kickstarter!

Get notified when we launch on Aug 31:

Coming soon: Amnesia Fortnight 2026, Indie Reboot
A Double Fine Productions Game Jam, Documentary, and Kickstarter Campaign
www.kickstarter.com
August 22, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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A clean bake is such a beautiful thing 😍😍

#3D #WIP #art
A screenshot from within Marmoset Toolbag showing a Tamagotchi egg model with a baked normal map and ambient occlusion applied. A screenshot from within Marmoset Toolbag of the same Tamagotchi egg model, but without the normal map and ambient occlusion applied. The wireframe is displayed on the model to show the underlying topology.
August 22, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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I've loved the Tamagotchi concepts by @berrycutepixels.com for a super long time so, with their permission, I thought I'd take a shot at sculpting/modeling one. The bee one is my favorite! Still a ways to go but here's my progress so far.

#tamagotchi #3D #fanart #WIP
A screenshot of a 3D sculpted, bee-themed fan concept for a Tamagotchi, taken from within Zbrush. The original concept image by @berrycutepixels.com
August 20, 2026 at 6:42 AM
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I've loved the Tamagotchi concepts by @berrycutepixels.com for a super long time so, with their permission, I thought I'd take a shot at sculpting/modeling one. The bee one is my favorite! Still a ways to go but here's my progress so far.

#tamagotchi #3D #fanart #WIP
A screenshot of a 3D sculpted, bee-themed fan concept for a Tamagotchi, taken from within Zbrush. The original concept image by @berrycutepixels.com
August 20, 2026 at 6:42 AM
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coil.bsky.social
If you haven't worked in the industry in the last two years because you've been unable to find a job, it'll boot you out of the survey. So say you're self-employed.
"Why do you see yourself leaving the game industry [in the next twelve months]?" AAA layoffs are decimating institutional knowledge and making a stable career impossible. Greed-first financial climate makes AA funding precarious. The job market is impossibly competitive. A lack of functional marketing systems makes indie success a coin flip at best. And cost of living in "industry cities" is too high to bear a long unemployment spell. "What considerations or values guide your decisions about if, when, or how to use generative AI tools in your work?" Personally: it short-circuits any learning process and atrophies personal skill. Discipline: It's unsuitable for the work I do (design). Professionally: genAI output is not protected by copyright and may expose me to theft/plagiarism liability. Industry: it's being over-deployed for work it can't do and used as an excuse to lay off, under-hire, and overwork workers. Societally: the genAI industry is vacuuming up investment money and starving other industries, including games. Morally: LLMs and image generators are trained on creative work taken without declaration, consent, or compensation.
August 17, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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Looking for a new job this time around has just been so demoralizing. Finished a full round of interviews (recruiter screening, hiring manager interview, then 6+ hours of interviews with team members spread across 2 days), then waited 3 weeks for them to finally say they were hiring someone else.
August 15, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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"We're just softmen."
A still frame from the 1996 video showing an inside look within Capcom. A subtitle at the bottom of the screen translates what the woman is saying from Japanese into English: "...is the job of the programmers, also known as 'softmen'." A still from an old BBC show in which a dog puppet character (Hacker) is talking to his cohost (Lauren) and telling her "We're just normal men."
August 13, 2026 at 5:50 AM
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QRP with your most popular bsky piece!

Still Porco Rosso: "I'd rather be a pig than a fascist."

#art #3D #ghibli #fanart
A render of a digital 3D sculpture of Porco Rosso. He is facing the left, dressed in his flight gear, holding a cigarette in his right hand near his face.
August 4, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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kentremendous.bsky.social
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
August 4, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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gamemakerstoolkit.com
Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions.

🤖 Godot - 47%
🎮 Unity - 34%
🛠️GameMaker - 5%
🚀 Unreal Engine - 3%
✨ Other - 11%
Pie chart showing game engines used to create 10,511 GMTK Game Jam games in 2026. Godot has the largest slice with 47%. Then Unity with 34%. Other with 11%. Game Maker with 5%. And Unreal Engine with 3%.
July 27, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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Adding a few details and polish to her hair and hands and then calling this done

#3D #zbrush #fanart
A screenshot from Zbrush of a sculpture of a girl. She has dark blue hair, dyed red in patches, with an undercut and tied up in a ponytail. She is wearing a pair of overall shorts over a black t-shirt, held up by a thick black belt with a chunky belt buckle. She is running her right hand through her hair while looking wistfully offscreen left.
July 31, 2026 at 6:06 AM
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Noodlin' on some fan art

#3D #zbrush
A screenshot from Zbrush of a sculpture of a girl. She has dark blue hair, dyed red in patches, with an undercut and tied up in a ponytail. She is wearing a pair of overall shorts over a black t-shirt, held up by a thick black belt with a chunky belt buckle. She is running her right hand through her hair while looking wistfully offscreen left.
July 30, 2026 at 6:17 AM
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Moss launched on consoles today. I'm so excited for all the people who have never played the Moss games to finally get to play them. They are the reason I fell in love with Polyarc in the first place, and so much care went into bringing them to flatscreen consoles.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMwW...
Moss: The Forgotten Relic | Launch Gameplay Trailer | PS5 | NS | Xbox | Steam
YouTube video by Polyarc Games
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July 17, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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tvaziri.com
“A.I. Movies”

www.tiktok.com/@americanbar...
July 16, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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polyarcgames.com
ONE.

WEEK.

LEFT.

🐭🌿

Moss: The Forgotten Relic launches July 16

#nintendo #playstation #PS5 #Xbox #Steam
July 9, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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aarhed.bsky.social
Made some improvements to the volumetric fog and how it interacts with the words! Now you can still see the selection squares, and the fog is revealed gradually with the letters.

#indiedev #gamedev #solodev #wordgames
July 8, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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doublefine.com
Once again, Double Fine Productions will be an independent studio. We're thankful to Xbox for seven great years together, and for working with us to reach an outcome which preserves our history and culture, and returns ownership of our games to us. To everyone who reached out to us these past few weeks: Thank you for all your kind words, we've been deeply touched by your messages. We will share more soon on what comes next. Your continued support is greatly appreciated, Tim & Double Fine
July 6, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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ffacrafts.bsky.social
New infographic is here!! Y'all know I have a Patreon and offer discounts and stuff on there, right...? Right?? Yeah, I realized I really don't advertise my Patreon and Tribes as much as I should. My goal this year is to reach 100 patrons and 100 tribers! \o/

#patreon #ttrpg #dnd
An infographic image from FFAcrafts saying "Support Me On Patreon & Tribes!" The first panel reads: Have a 3D printer? New STL models every month + welcome pack STLs + exclusive loyalty reward STLS. 50% off all STLs The second panel reads: DON'T have a 3D printer? Discord Community, Sneak Peeks & BTS, Digital Bonus Content (maps, vtt, coloring pages, stat blocks, etc). 10% off Physical Goods
July 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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polyarcgames.com
Just two weeks until protecting this tiny mouse becomes your full-time job. 🫵🐭

#mosstheforgottenrelic #indiegame
July 2, 2026 at 8:34 PM