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Also included in the PSD Importer: If you name your PSD layers with an "OUT_" prefix, it will import all of them as separate textures, rather than flattening the whole file. Super useful if you want to work in a single PSD!

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Unity's PSD Importer is pretty sluggish with big files, so I modified it to be about 10x faster using Burst to optimize some of the copying / flattening. All the functionality is the same (and the change is actually pretty minimal). github.com/Kleptine/com...

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Boy the nice thing about shifting our focus back to art is that posting on Bluesky and Mastodon has become much easier.

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🚨 ATTN: Journalists crossing through a U.S. border 🚨 Alongside @eff.org, we now have an extensive guide on preparing your devices for travel through a U.S. border, including a digital security checklist and additional resources. Read, bookmark and share:

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Back to working on wheat physics! This actually uses Unity's hair package 😅 So we're covering the game essentially in a giant head of hair. Very normal.

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i really can't get over what rank choice voting does to the dynamic of campaigns and between candidates regardless of its merits (which seem very good), it's just a healthier political dynamic

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Starting to get some paint layers into the game! This uses some custom tech I've been working on to let artists paint directly on the scene.

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this is going to be an unpopular take but this is 1000000000% bait, this is 1000000000% vance intentionally driving far right traffic to this website, this is 1000000000% implicit brigading (surely to Musk's great joy), and therefore you should 1000000000% not take the aforementioned incoming bait

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Some experiments for our recipe codex for The Infernal Parade. 👀

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Rendering nerds! Check out our latest work "Vector-Valued Monte Carlo Integration Using Ratio Control Variates" that has just gotten the best paper award at SIGGRAPH 2025. This paper presents a method that reduces variance of a wide range of rendering and diff. rendering tasks with negligible cost.

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Yesss this game is so cool!

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Hey, we just announced our new game Arcane Eats today with @pcgamer.com at the #PCGamingShow!!! AHHH! Come get a taste of this fantasy cooking roguelike deckbuilder and listen to me ramble about how I love cooking but can't follow a recipe - t.co/hKbPCWna6h

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Announcing: Mandrake! You play the last of the Mandrakes, a sorcerous line of gardeners. Horticulture is a cursed practice... except to you. Your family line is steeped in the green and growing arts, so you’re able to grow such marvels as: runner beans! Cherry trees! The humble turnip! 🌳

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This is really good stuff.

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We're part of the Days of Play Promotion with #SaltseaChronicles. You can get the game 35-45% off in all regions!

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Works great in 3D as well... Here's it is driving volumetrics:

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I mean, I knew Rust was fast, but wow does it eat server workloads for breakfast. And only using .01Gb of RAM! What in the world.

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I've been working on some backend video streaming work (to store playtests). I was all expecting to need to scale out onto a few machines if the workload ever got too high (video compression is expensive!). Turns out Rust is insanely fast and I literally cannot even see the CPU usage. 😅

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apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"

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🤸🏾‍♂️ we've crossed 10 reviews on Steam if you had a good time with our game, please leave a nice review, a soccer ball emoji, or a ¡Sí se Puede! it really helps with visibility!

submitted 53 days ago • 5 comments

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

submitted 56 days ago • 319 comments

Ok look, I hype up games but when a game gets nominated for a Nebula Award, a Hugo Award, and a Peabody Award, like that right there tells you have amazing, stellar storywriting in that game. Please check out 1000xRESIST!

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The Electrifying Incident is OUT NOW on Steam and itch! Featuring the monster from A Monster's Expedition in a brand new sci-fi setting! Explore a mysterious facility, manipulate the electrical hazards and find a way to the source of the problem.

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Just an absolutely, fundamentally wrong way to report this research. AI models do not experience "anxiety" or any other emotion. This is misinforming the public. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/s...

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I spent hundreds of hours learning to draw so I could make pictures like this

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An E-bike battery burned my house down on the first day of GDC. Seeking mutual aid from financially stable colleagues. gofund.me/47306b15

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After a long journey (appropriate), 🚨 Downcrawl 2E #TTRPG & the Downcrawl Decks are now live for sale in print & digital!! 🚨 * Build a weird, wondrous underworld, alone or together * Journey System for dangerous travels * Optional rules for solo or GM-less play www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

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Worth sharing with alt text. Brian Eno's response to the Quaker arrests.

submitted 86 days ago • 36 comments

Look I have no idea who invented flexbox but they absolutely have not gotten enough credit. Wild how we used to struggle with this.

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I can't watch this and say nothing. The arrest of people lawfully here because of things they have said is nothing short of creating a new class of political prisoners. Then sweeping them away to Louisiana to evade the rule of law is atrocious. We cannot stay silent.

submitted 89 days ago • 94 comments

What is a social systems designer? A brief definition with links.

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This is super cool!! It generates an infinite labyrinth of fake pages to trap bots that are maliciously attempting to scrape text from the web. blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/

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@johnaustin.bsky.social proposed an amendment to my flavors of complexity examples that I like with Outerwilds moving into a Explorative Complexity category (+the Witness, Runic) and Disco Elysium taking up the Narrative Complexity spot. Thoughts? What games do you think fit these categories?

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GDC is providing an attendee Safety Hotline through April 4. Hotlines are staffed 24/7. Call +1 (925) 852-4361 to report an issue.

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Damn, if Dante keeps blacking out at the slightest whiff of damnation we're never going to get through all these circles.

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hi I'm speaking at #GDC! excited to join the classic Indie Soapbox microtalks, and share some weird new ideas about indie 👀 with @lisykane.com @chadtoprak.bsky.social @kreyes121.bsky.social @funkefly.bsky.social I'm around Sunday-Thursday, haunting the park 🤍 schedule.gdconf.com/session/inde...

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The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

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New Zachtronics game! So glad they didn't retire!

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Wild to me that the dominant reaction on here seems to be that this is bad journalism because it treats a Trump voter as a human. I'm not a strategist but if you belong to a party that wants to win elections, shouldn't you regard folks like this as part of your next coalition instead of the enemy?

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And the #DICEAwards for Immersive Reality Technical Achievement goes to Starship Home!

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