A pencil drawing of two beaten up looking robots

Tin Men - concepts for clash of the ascended

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Deficit by @item42.bsky.social - You are a corporate espionage freelancer. Your latest assignment: steal the reality-shifting Interpolator from the sprawling research labs of Project Sidereal.

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Close-up of a map showing the proposed extent of Doggerland, the land mass between the UK and mainland Europe that existed when sea levels were much lower.

I thought I knew the story of the "lost world" off the east coast of Britain, inhabited by Mesolithic people until rising sea waters engulfed it around 8,000 years ago...

But I didn't know about the *tsunami*.

Holy hell.

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futuristic laboratory, all white and shiny, with giant glass tanks containing strange creatures.

futuristic laboratory,lit in a ultraviolet lighting

Futuristic laboratory, flooded and abandoned.

Futuristic laboratory, flooded and abandoned. Giant glass tanks now empty and dusty.

Laboratory designs made for Gareth Edward's Jurassic World Rebirth.

Lamassu, one of the few angelic orders who ever come permanently to earth. Pairs of lamassu are known to watch the gates of highest temples and holy relics, making them just about the only angels that are easy to find.

Application links & downloads - Immersive Arts Find links, guidance, access support, and downloads which include guidelines — everything you need to help with your application.

We’re three weeks away from closing our final round of funding.

On our Links & Downloads page you'll find FAQs, guidance on making an application, and useful links:

immersivearts.uk/resources/application-links-downloads

Deadline: Mon 29 Sept at 14:00.

"Noiseman Sound Insect" animated short film by Koji Morimoto & Studio 4°C (1997) is back on Youtube for free (with 20 languages as subtitles).
Available until October 10.
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixdu...

A chart titled "Semiotic Standard" showing a collection of futuristic safety and system symbols designed for spacecraft. Each symbol is inside a square with red, black, white, gray, yellow, blue, or green coloring, and labeled with meanings such as “Pressurized Area,” “Cryogenic Vault,” “Airlock,” “Hazard/Warning,” “Exhaust,” “Radiation Hazard,” “High Radioactivity,” “Refrigeration,” “Direction,” and “Life Support System.” A legend at the bottom explains the color codes: red for visible/solid/alive/abnormal, white and grey for life-supporting conditions, black for vacuum and danger, yellow for harmful atomic/chemical processes, blue for lowered thermal condition, and green for biological substances. The chart is signed “R. Cobb.”

Semiotic Standard icons designed by Ron Cobb for the USCSS Nostromo in Alien (1979).

They're everywhere in the USCSS Maginot from Alien Earth (2025).

Texturing in blender with ucupaint What is ucupaint? Ucupaint is a free and open-source layering and baking addon for blender. It abstracts away the shader graph into a layer stack to allow texturing with layers rather than nodes: The ...

Sharing all of my blender texturing secrets in this in-depth ucupaint guide, hope it helps 🙂

Just a reminder, I love making item art for games. If you think you'd need some for your game, please get in touch.

Took part in this year's GMTK Game Jam with 5 friends, two of which are from @item42.bsky.social We ended up making "Anadrome" defaultsound.itch.io/anadrome-gtm... Pretty happy with what we managed to achieve! #godotengine #godot #indiedev #gamedev #gmtk

We tried our hand at the @gamemakerstoolkit.com game jam along with @defaultsound.bsky.social and made Anadrome.

You are a marble stuck in an infinite loop.

Reveal a liminal frontier fraught with recursive puzzles

itch.io/jam/gmtk-202...

#GodotEngine #GMTKJam #gamedev

Do we still like cutaway pictures?
I've been experimenting with turning my scans into cross-sections.
#photogrammetry

Yes! Helmets > hair, anything else is cavalier madness

Slight tangent but one that really stings me even though the rule is to pay only distant attention is that some people/gamers are now experiencing "phantom slop" - a tiny minority of people might moan about your game being made with AI even when you are explicitly a no gen AI indie studio.

#animation #art #mecha

look dev & concepts for a project from a couple of years ago. #madewithunity #gamedev #indiedev

The DEFICIT demo has been updated with some big changes!

Oversight Officers now have a little more self-preservation in mind; they will block and strafe around you during melee combat - along with a bunch more!

Full patchnotes here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/119...

#SteamNextFest

Couldn't have put it better myself, the fact that the UK currently even has a Labour/centre-left government is nothing short of miraculous, to say nothing of its profound issues or effectiveness.

DEFICIT is not just guns and bullets: it's about using all the creative tools around you for maximum chaos.

Play the 2hr-long demo on Steam for free now!

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#SteamNextFest #indiegame #immersivesim #UE5

Nearly 2 hours of pure action im-sim gameplay, please wrap your eyeballs around DEFICIT in the #steamnextfest because it's ready to play right now!

#indiedev #gaming #pcgaming #steam #action #fps

There’s an invader turning huge swathes of Britain into deserts – and these dead zones are spreading | George Monbiot Vast areas of land are now dominated by one species – purple moor-grass – and good luck with seeing a bird or insect there. How do we revive these habitats, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Deserts are spreading across Britain, yet scarcely anyone in public life even seems to have noticed. This week's column seeks to open our eyes to something that has been too big to see. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The DEFICIT DEMO is out on MONDAY in the STEAM NEXT FEST

Grab a peek of the imsim madness we've been cooking up here

Wishlist and get ready to play: store.steampowered.com/app/1193170/...

#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev #UE5

DEFICIT Demo Gameplay Trailer YouTube video by ITEM42

Get your fisticuffs out and blow up some towers - playable demo out tomorrow on Steam! youtu.be/50RdjNk_iNA

@item42.bsky.social #indiedev #gaming #unreal #dev

Tomorrow I will be releasing the demo for Isles Of Rain! Been working solo on this for almost a year now. If you like chill and cozy games then this might be one to check out. store.steampowered.com/app/3676550/... #godot #godotengine #gamedev #indiedev

Retro Dino Horror, Dredge but Trucks and Bustling Taverns | Wishlist YouTube video by Second Wind

Here's five upcoming games we think should be on your radar!

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Absolutely loving working on this at the moment.

Moreover:

It's over one hour of free demo gameplay. In just over a week's time!

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