Nearly Tobias
@nearlytobias.bsky.social
computer game dev, synthesizer gremlin, perpetual tinkerer
Cymro yn Awstralia
Cymro yn Awstralia
ten days of blue kinda morning. what a record.
October 6, 2026 at 11:02 PM
ten days of blue kinda morning. what a record.
mate reached out to see if i was doing ok, which was appreciated but out of the blue! turns out anytime they log on to Steam, i seem to be playing CS2... had to explain i've been leaving Hammer 5 open for hours on end to compare mesh operations with a gdextension level editor im building for Godot 🫠
October 4, 2026 at 11:16 PM
mate reached out to see if i was doing ok, which was appreciated but out of the blue! turns out anytime they log on to Steam, i seem to be playing CS2... had to explain i've been leaving Hammer 5 open for hours on end to compare mesh operations with a gdextension level editor im building for Godot 🫠
bad insomnia recently so I'm getting stuck in on another PsychOdyssey rewatch. hard to find the words to describe how essential this documentary is. a towering monument to the power of collaboration and the creative process. a deep well of inspiration every time
Double Fine PsychOdyssey - YouTube
2 Player Productions and Double Fine Productions present Double Fine PsychOdyssey, an unprecedented documentary experience seven years in the making. Ten yea...
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October 1, 2026 at 2:54 AM
bad insomnia recently so I'm getting stuck in on another PsychOdyssey rewatch. hard to find the words to describe how essential this documentary is. a towering monument to the power of collaboration and the creative process. a deep well of inspiration every time
incredible textures here if you need a little quake grunge in your life
I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses.
makkon.itch.io
makkon.itch.io
September 29, 2026 at 11:50 PM
incredible textures here if you need a little quake grunge in your life
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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%
🤖 Godot - 47%
🎮 Unity - 34%
🛠️GameMaker - 5%
🚀 Unreal Engine - 3%
✨ Other - 11%
July 27, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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%
🤖 Godot - 47%
🎮 Unity - 34%
🛠️GameMaker - 5%
🚀 Unreal Engine - 3%
✨ Other - 11%
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'Everyone has got a plan, until they get punched in the mouth' - Mike Tyson on game design documents
June 11, 2026 at 11:23 PM
'Everyone has got a plan, until they get punched in the mouth' - Mike Tyson on game design documents
children queue for a service desk in a drab white wash nursery. those at the front babble in to a microphone. behind glass a faceless machine connected to a CNC crayon plotter rapidly draws a perfect house and stamps the child's name in the corner. the sheet ejects from a slot. next! #genai #art
June 7, 2026 at 1:01 AM
always exciting to see what Fumito Ueda + team are cooking up
gen ATLAS Reveal Trailer | Summer Game Fest 2026 [English Version]
YouTube video by genDESIGN
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June 6, 2026 at 2:16 AM
always exciting to see what Fumito Ueda + team are cooking up
Just got round to listening to the new Boards album. As haunting as it is beautiful, no one else does it quite like this. Well worth the wait.
June 3, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Just got round to listening to the new Boards album. As haunting as it is beautiful, no one else does it quite like this. Well worth the wait.
concentration of real insight in the game dev tutorial ecosystem is practically homeopathic. you'll see the same handful of points lifted from a GDC talk given 10 years ago, repeated ad nauseum by an endless string of channels who clearly didn't glean said insights from doing the work themselves
June 3, 2026 at 1:54 AM
concentration of real insight in the game dev tutorial ecosystem is practically homeopathic. you'll see the same handful of points lifted from a GDC talk given 10 years ago, repeated ad nauseum by an endless string of channels who clearly didn't glean said insights from doing the work themselves
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the worst thing about finding decent third party replacements for core Windows functionality is that the whole OS is built to resist and reject organ transplants, so you'll never get full coverage. the 15% of the time Explorer sluggishly pops open instead of FilePilot is just enough to be maddening
June 2, 2026 at 12:45 AM
the worst thing about finding decent third party replacements for core Windows functionality is that the whole OS is built to resist and reject organ transplants, so you'll never get full coverage. the 15% of the time Explorer sluggishly pops open instead of FilePilot is just enough to be maddening
David Lynch once ended a positive fan interaction with:
"Thank you, and remember, the universe is in your basement."
I think about it quite a lot
"Thank you, and remember, the universe is in your basement."
I think about it quite a lot
June 1, 2026 at 11:41 PM
David Lynch once ended a positive fan interaction with:
"Thank you, and remember, the universe is in your basement."
I think about it quite a lot
"Thank you, and remember, the universe is in your basement."
I think about it quite a lot
This is beautiful and just what I needed this morning. I love people who get a brain worm and then just go do the damn thing. Go make some weird shit, no one can stop ya!
OK Computer but everything is my voice
YouTube video by shonkywonkydonkey
youtu.be
June 1, 2026 at 12:45 AM
This is beautiful and just what I needed this morning. I love people who get a brain worm and then just go do the damn thing. Go make some weird shit, no one can stop ya!
Haven't seen Backrooms yet but I can say the following about Chiwetel Ejiofor being lost in an infinite labyrinth: go listen to the Piranessi audiobook. It's a great book but his voice really takes this thing to another level. The word 'vestibule' will never sound the same again.
May 31, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Haven't seen Backrooms yet but I can say the following about Chiwetel Ejiofor being lost in an infinite labyrinth: go listen to the Piranessi audiobook. It's a great book but his voice really takes this thing to another level. The word 'vestibule' will never sound the same again.
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Fly through of part of a Keeper level directly in the Unreal Engine editor. Part way through I turn on all of the game objects the player doesn't see -- it takes a lot to make games work.
February 25, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Fly through of part of a Keeper level directly in the Unreal Engine editor. Part way through I turn on all of the game objects the player doesn't see -- it takes a lot to make games work.
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v1.0.0 of @icons, my icon library for #Godot developers, is now OUT! 🎉
🔣 400 icons designed to fit with the default editor icons ;
🎨 available in all 4 node colors (default, 2D, 3D, and control) ;
⚖️ free & open source! (MIT license)
i hope they'll be useful to you! :)
github.com/Voxybuns/at-...
🔣 400 icons designed to fit with the default editor icons ;
🎨 available in all 4 node colors (default, 2D, 3D, and control) ;
⚖️ free & open source! (MIT license)
i hope they'll be useful to you! :)
github.com/Voxybuns/at-...
GitHub - Voxybuns/at-icons: Open source icons for custom Godot nodes
Open source icons for custom Godot nodes. Contribute to Voxybuns/at-icons development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
May 26, 2026 at 5:19 PM
v1.0.0 of @icons, my icon library for #Godot developers, is now OUT! 🎉
🔣 400 icons designed to fit with the default editor icons ;
🎨 available in all 4 node colors (default, 2D, 3D, and control) ;
⚖️ free & open source! (MIT license)
i hope they'll be useful to you! :)
github.com/Voxybuns/at-...
🔣 400 icons designed to fit with the default editor icons ;
🎨 available in all 4 node colors (default, 2D, 3D, and control) ;
⚖️ free & open source! (MIT license)
i hope they'll be useful to you! :)
github.com/Voxybuns/at-...
Watched this last night. Really enjoyable Ukrainian sci-fi drama that is stripped back and focused but with some stunning space visuals. A nice tonic to Project Hail Mary which was a fun blockbuster but way too glossy and jubilant for my personal tastes.
U Are the Universe (2024)
After the explosion of the Earth, the Ukrainian space trucker Andriy becomes the only human in the Universe until French woman Catherine calls him from the faraway space station. Andriy decides to see...
boxd.it
May 23, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Watched this last night. Really enjoyable Ukrainian sci-fi drama that is stripped back and focused but with some stunning space visuals. A nice tonic to Project Hail Mary which was a fun blockbuster but way too glossy and jubilant for my personal tastes.
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Free your ass ... and your mind will follow
May 21, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Free your ass ... and your mind will follow
Picked up LUMINES REMASTERED to play on Steam Deck and it's got me good. Kinda game you can feel rewiring your brain in realtime. Woke up with this absolute bop lodged in there and now I feel like I can do anything
Lumines: Mondo Grosso - SHAKE YA BODY (live)
YouTube video by Tomnuki
youtu.be
May 21, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Picked up LUMINES REMASTERED to play on Steam Deck and it's got me good. Kinda game you can feel rewiring your brain in realtime. Woke up with this absolute bop lodged in there and now I feel like I can do anything
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im sure you know it already but this just reminded me of that incredible recording of him tearing apart the shite script for an ad he's doing. Gotta respect his dogged refusal to phone it in, even for a frozen pea ad. everyone should give this much of a shit when making something or why even bother
Orson Welles | Frozen Peas Animated
YouTube video by Dr Moon Rat
youtu.be
May 21, 2026 at 1:50 AM
im sure you know it already but this just reminded me of that incredible recording of him tearing apart the shite script for an ad he's doing. Gotta respect his dogged refusal to phone it in, even for a frozen pea ad. everyone should give this much of a shit when making something or why even bother
Finding reliable info online pre-LLMs was already like finding a needle in a haystack. Now it's like finding a piece of hay in a needle stack. Even more difficult and there are way more pricks to avoid.
May 21, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Finding reliable info online pre-LLMs was already like finding a needle in a haystack. Now it's like finding a piece of hay in a needle stack. Even more difficult and there are way more pricks to avoid.
So you're telling me tech artists have just been stashing secret hoards of data into every vertex color, UV channel, and pixel they can get their grubby hands on for decades? Right under our noses?
#GameDev
#GameDev
May 20, 2026 at 11:09 PM
So you're telling me tech artists have just been stashing secret hoards of data into every vertex color, UV channel, and pixel they can get their grubby hands on for decades? Right under our noses?
#GameDev
#GameDev
the state of tech journalism is more dire than it's ever been. 10 functionally identical articles across 10 different outlets, saying absolutely nothing at all, based on the same vague whisperings of nothingness posted elsewhere. a single mote of dust producing 100 cascading ripples on a lake of rot
May 20, 2026 at 4:32 AM
the state of tech journalism is more dire than it's ever been. 10 functionally identical articles across 10 different outlets, saying absolutely nothing at all, based on the same vague whisperings of nothingness posted elsewhere. a single mote of dust producing 100 cascading ripples on a lake of rot
my face on discovering how stately + complex you can make vertex animations when you have a combo of baked projection maps, vertex color ids and all the channels of a RGBAF texture to play with at runtime
I just fell down a very deep rabbit hole and I love it!
#Godot #GodotEngine #Blender #GameDev
I just fell down a very deep rabbit hole and I love it!
#Godot #GodotEngine #Blender #GameDev
a cat with big eyes is looking at a person holding a toothbrush in front of its face .
Alt: a cat with wide eyes looking shocked
media.tenor.com
May 15, 2026 at 5:57 AM
my face on discovering how stately + complex you can make vertex animations when you have a combo of baked projection maps, vertex color ids and all the channels of a RGBAF texture to play with at runtime
I just fell down a very deep rabbit hole and I love it!
#Godot #GodotEngine #Blender #GameDev
I just fell down a very deep rabbit hole and I love it!
#Godot #GodotEngine #Blender #GameDev