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Alex Figar
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Game Developer, 4 years experience working on VR/AR projects in Unity. Currently creating prettly little planets full of smol lil guys
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Alex Figar @alexfigar.bsky.social · Nov 21
Cooking my GPU for this.
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Finally, a worthy opponent.
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Path tracing is going swell
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Never kill yourself
July 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Whoops accidentally spent a month creating low poly pixel art materials in blender instead of doing actual work...

youtu.be/a09hcmgdrO4

#gamedev #b3d
Low Poly Pixel Art - Devlog #7
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July 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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This PBR, procedural, pixel art... thing is working better than expected.

The level looks ugly but all those rivets are expressed using just a normal map and the base color texture is procedural.

#b3d #gamedev
May 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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I've been playing around with some procedural pixel art materials in blender. Got something looking kind of like rusty metal.

#b3d #blender #indiedev
May 16, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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I found upload button

#gamedev #indiedev
Creating Spherical Worlds - Devlog #6
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April 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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The concept vs the asset
#blender #b3d
March 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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The concept vs the asset.
#blender #b3d
March 3, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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I reckon alot of fantasy music could be turned into sci-fi if you just replace the lutes with electric guitars.
February 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Unity version of planet geometry generation using jobs + burst is coming along.

#gamedev #indiedev
January 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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I just went and re-activated my Facebook account, just so I can completely remove it this time around.
kateconger.com kate conger @kateconger.com · Jan 10
internally at Meta:
-trans and nonbinary themes stripped from Messenger
-enforcement policy now allows for the denial of trans people's existence
-tampons removed from men's restrooms
-DEI programs shuttered
-Kaplan briefed top conservative influencers the night before policy changes were announced
January 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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I'm so good at multithreading...

#GameDev
December 16, 2024 at 3:43 AM
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GEOFF MENTIONING LAYOFFS!?!? EVERY BODY DRINK
December 13, 2024 at 1:46 AM
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Haha I have assignments due
December 9, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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midnigh.ht
Cave's of Qud released yesterday after 15 years of development and I am completely enthralled by the visual work on display here. The info density, palette, and visual artifacts hitting on all cylinders in both the menu system and the environmental design of the gameplay. It's fucking good
Screenshot from Caves of Qud gameplay highlighting its use of a limited color palette to direct attention. Screenshot from Caves of Qud menu system (Quests) showing it's information density and text-heavy aesthetic. Caves of Qud character creation screen. It's very minimal in contrast to the other information dense screens in the menu system. The environmental design of Caves of Qud has beautiful moments of symmetry and again a powerful color palette.
December 6, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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Installing Hannah Montana Linux and proton because I want the best of both worlds
December 4, 2024 at 11:29 PM
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Funny story: Journey had no automatic shadows. I painted them all by hand. The shadow texture was not hi-res. To get the iconic sunset columns to cast sharp shadows, I made sure that they aligned with the pixel grid of the texture. Here you can see the shadow map I painted.
The sunset tunnel moment from the game Journey, where the player slides from right to left past columns throwing shadows towards the camera. The bright glowing sun sets behind the distant mountain. The scene is tinted in glowing warm shades. This is a black and white texture I hand painted to map shadows into the downhill scene in the game Journey. Most games generate these textures automatically, but I did it by hand because we did not have the tools to do so during Journey's development. A close up of my hand painted shadow texture, showing that the shadows of the columns in the sunset tunnel were aligned with the pixels of the texture to achieve maximum sharpness in game, despite the resolution of the texture being very small for the amount of area it was covering.
November 23, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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Cooking my GPU for this.
November 21, 2024 at 1:00 AM
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Contained black hole
mini black hole
November 17, 2024 at 8:02 AM
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Getting better at this whole blender thing #b3d
A really cool render of boxes, with lots of glowing lights and reflections
November 17, 2024 at 3:29 AM
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This is probably a really easy problem to solve if I just sat down and worked out the index math, but I'm gonna just swap offsets around till it works.
A highly subdivided cube sphere with every second quad missing, because the programmer is very lazy, refuses to work it out on paper and has opted to try trial and error instead, ergo, the fucked sphere.
November 14, 2024 at 5:32 AM
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I've been messing around with planet rendering in the Flax engine, finished up on geometry generation and its stupid fast.
October 4, 2024 at 11:12 PM