Photo of a TV screen showing the integrity capsule in free fall, having just deployed some parachutes. A white long-haired cat has her paws up on the console in front of the tv. She is watching the parachutes.
My cat watched the Integrity re-entry with me
I was thinking about how if you're on the Moon, the Earth basically looks like it's always in (nearly) the same place to you, and then I wondered how that would look over time, and then I got a little carried away and modelled it all in Unity to see for myself!
I love the phrase, "this is not discourse, this is praxis" :)
The flyer for the London Games Festival: an illustration of a kind-of weird mecha made of various London landmarks, looming over the London skyline while some humans frolic, blue sky behind, title reading "LONDON GAMES FESTIVAL 13 April - 19 April 2026"
Hello! Are you someone in London who's interested in weird playful experiments and commercially implausible games? I've written up some of the stuff happening as part of this year's London Games Festival that I think you should check out
buttondown.com/holly/archiv...
If ya'll could boost my game I'd very much appreciate it!
Trying to get to 50 reviews for the Steam algorithm. I already have glowing reviews from the likes of Raigan Burns (N++) and Daniel Linssen (Leap Year) and just need a handful more.
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/...
Congrats on the launch!!
🎉 FIND YOUR WORDS IS AVAILABLE NOW! 💬
Jump into a scenic adventure full of cute new pals and activities! Collect symbols and use them to communicate around Camp Pals!
Download it NOW for FREE on Steam, or get the optional supporter pack! 👇
I was once knocked off my bike and attacked by a large off-leash dog. The dog was on top of me trying to bite me, and I was yelling at the owner to get his dog off me, *while the owner yelled at me that “it’s ok, he’s a nice dog”*. So I agree. 🙂
NASA is putting out a whole bunch of unbelievably cool images taken from the moon flyby yesterday images.nasa.gov
Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth.
A close-up view from the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II crew’s lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, captures a total solar eclipse, with only part of the Moon visible in the frame as it fully obscures the Sun. Although the full lunar disk extends beyond the image, the Sun’s faint corona remains visible as a soft halo of light around the Moon’s edge. From this deep-space vantage point, the Moon appeared large enough to sustain nearly 54 minutes of totality, far longer than total solar eclipses typically seen from Earth. This cropped perspective emphasizes the scale of the alignment and reveals subtle structure in the corona during the rare, extended eclipse observed by the crew. The bright silver glint on the left edge of the image is the planet Venus. The round, dark gray feature visible along the Moon’s horizon between the 9 and 10 o’clock positions is Mare Crisium, a feature visible from Earth. We see faint lunar features because light reflected off of Earth provides a source of illumination.
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![Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation.
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Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation. [alt text from NASA]
#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍
A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.
I know this happens every year, but I still choose to view snow in April as a personal attack
Amateur astronomers with telescopes equipped with video cameras are requested to look for impact flashes on the Moon tonight, to coordinate with #ArtemisII observations. Details here: www.geodes.umd.edu/impactflash
A view of the interior of the Orion capsule. A window takes up most of the frame, through which Earth is visible. About 1/3 of the planet is shown, with cloud patterns over the ocean
A view out a window of the Orion spacecraft. Earth is visible as a slim crescent in the distance, with most of the field of view being black space
Can you image what it would be like to go from the first image to the second? To literally watch your home planet shrinking behind you until most of what you see is the emptiness of space? For every minute to further hammer in our insignificance against the vastness of the cosmos? (1/2)🧪🔭
Screenshot: Key lunar flyby times, milestones All times Eastern, subject to change based on real-time operations 1 p.m. NASA+ coverage of lunar flyby begins 1:56 p.m. Crew passes distance from Earth record set by Apollo 13 in 1970 2:45 p.m. Lunar flyby begins 7:02 p.m. Orion closest approach to the Moon (4,070 miles) 7:07 p.m. Orion reaches maximum distance from Earth (252,760 miles) 8:35 p.m. Orion enters solar eclipse
NASA #Artemis II flyby coverage schedule; all times in Eastern. You can follow along live on NASA+ (plus.nasa.gov) or on the NASA YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@NASA).
It should be amazing to watch!
Did you see his recent talk at the NYU Game Center? It’s really good and he talks about why he has made the games that he has www.twitch.tv/videos/27148...
A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
More context on this #Artemis II image:
* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right
* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕
Spectacular high-resolution image of our home planet viewed through the Orion Crew Module window by the Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon on Flight Day 2, 3 April 2026 (pic: NASA)
A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning.
@exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int
That's home. That's us.
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
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Screenshot of a live stream video taken from the Orion spacecraft. On the left part of the craft is visible in sunlight. In the distance Earth is visible as a crescent, lit up partially by the Sun.
The live views from Orion right now are amazing www.youtube.com/live/6RwfNBt... #artemis2
Hey #gamedesign folks in the greater Toronto area!
I'm planning to run an event at @torontogamesweek.com in June, showcasing "alt control" games (ones with unusual interfaces)
If you are or know someone working on such a game or interested in playing them, please fill in / pass along this survey:
Screenshots of Fred Armisen from Parks and Recreation stacked vertically on top of each other, looking increasingly emphatic. The first is a "Hold on" message from Unity; above it, as subtitles to the Armisen photo, reads: Opening Unity? The next subtitles read: Entering Play Mode? A Unity pop-up reads: Entering Play Mode? The next subtitles read: Exiting Play Mode? The Unity pop-up reads: Hold on. The last subtitles read: Closing the editor, believe it or not. The Unity pop-up reads: Importing.
just one of those days 🫠
Close up photo of a long-haired white cat with grey stripes on her face, lying on her back, eyes closed, paws curled in front of her in the air.
We are approaching dangerous levels of cuteness here! If I don’t share this photo, we could be looking at a cuteness overload!!
My erosion filter is out! Video, blog post, and shader source.
It emulates erosion without simulation, so it's fast, GPU friendly, and trivial to generate in chunks.
Explainer video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4V2...
Companion blog post:
blog.runevision.com/2026/03/fast...
#ProcGen #vfx #GameDev
I'm building an ultra-realistic soccer simulator, ama.
This is the part of game dev that every child dreams of when they think, “someday I’d like to run my own game studio.”
Fresh out of the kiln! 🔥 My little ceramic cliffside town is finally done! I’m really happy with the result. I carved it from a solid block of clay. It is hollow so that I can put a light inside, and the light can come out of some of the windows.
Thanks, Dave!
It's fairly small. It stands about 15cm tall from base to the very top of the highest roof.
