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David Walters

@hiddenasbestos.bsky.social

Added a heightmap loaded from a little greyscale image, and a directional light and suddenly it's looking like some kind of #lowpoly video game 😅 #gamedev

February 6, 2026 at 10:42 PM

David Walters

@hiddenasbestos.bsky.social

Got my terrain texturing experiment working over a simple heightmap. Definitely feels 'lunar' to me. #gamedev

A moon-like surface with simple texturing.

February 6, 2026 at 9:47 PM

David Walters

@hiddenasbestos.bsky.social

Working on more textures for a terrain demo - R&D for a possible next game TM. It ended up quite moon-like so I guess I'll go with it :) Mainly it was Photoshop practice, gotta get my skills back up after years of flat shaded 3D.

February 6, 2026 at 3:51 PM

David Walters

@hiddenasbestos.bsky.social

Deluxe Poly - still working on the UI rewrite - the layers/timeline panel is done now. Was a tricky one due to its complexity.
#pixelart #gamedev #wip

Deluxe Poly user interface showing a timeline panel with a chunky retro aesthetic.

February 6, 2026 at 11:09 AM

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Tuba Zef

@tubazef.com

at this point... I'm happy with this

February 6, 2026 at 12:45 AM

Reposted by David Walters

📉𝙇𝙤𝙬-𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙮 📈𝙃𝙞𝙜𝙝-𝙍𝙚𝙨

@lowpolyhighres.bsky.social

A colossal thanks to everyone liking, commenting, sharing and to all the new followers, arriving at exactly 1666 follows, so I thought it would only be sensible to post one of my favorite games as well as being the first PC game on this account. Thank you! 💖

Quake (MS-DOS) (1996)

1/4

A hellish stone brick corridor with spiky iron protrusions and a collasped bridge, showing the lava below while little chunklets of lava balls boil, shooting upwards and illuminating the dim walls and the numerous crucified zombies.

A teleportation portal stands as a monolith at the end of the corridor with the words HARD written on each side.

When you think about hardcore gamers, this is who you're thinking of - miserable souls, forever fixated on self-torture and pain. Videogames, man.

Crashing the party by blowing up a conveniently placed explosive box, showering the sci-fi base walls with hundreds of little fiery particles and sending the couple of grunts flying sideways as they poop out huge backpacks full of ammo like some kinds of poop piñatas.

Standing on a pressure plate on the floor with a pentagram on it and hoping for the best.

What you get instead is a Fiend, a nasty beastly, human-skinned monster with sharp teeth, deadly horns and claws for hands, lunging at you at a terrifying speed, ready to glomp on you uwu.

A massive lava demon called Cthon with a vertical teethy maw for a head covered in horns, crabby claw hands and six spiky nipples, rising from the lava floor and flailing red-hot rocks to shoo you off like you're interrupting its bubble bath.

February 5, 2026 at 5:13 PM

Reposted by David Walters

salad bar ham cubes

@flangy.bsky.social

February 4, 2026 at 6:47 AM

David Walters

@hiddenasbestos.bsky.social

5 second recreation of the MechWarrior 3 intro FMV 😅

Loki and Mad Cat - Battletech miniatures

February 5, 2026 at 4:06 PM

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Shallow

@shallowthinking.bsky.social

I updated my throwaway 7DFPS game so it's now in line with the original plan, and you stand a far greater chance of figuring it out.

Update to There Is No Exit - There Is No Exit
shallowthinking.itch.io/there-is-no-...

#indiedev #gamejam #7dfps

Update to There Is No Exit

I started my 7DFPS 2025 game late, due to a couple of false starts on concepts I thought would be a good way to test 'simple' mechanical ideas I had, but which turned out to be not so simple. I still....

shallowthinking.itch.io

February 2, 2026 at 6:19 PM

David Walters

@hiddenasbestos.bsky.social

Tiling "rock + lava" game texture. 128x128, 64 colours. Made using photoshop and my homebrew palettising tool. Was fun, I would do this again. #pixelart #gamedev

February 4, 2026 at 12:36 PM

David Walters

@hiddenasbestos.bsky.social

Deluxe Poly is still ticking over behind the scenes. Currently rewriting the whole UI to maintain the dpaint style retro UI but also allow native lines for a "pixel grid", etc. Still working on that - e.g. todo: the palette area 😅

Deluxe Poly user interface with some parts looking retro chunky, some not.

February 3, 2026 at 6:27 PM

Reposted by David Walters

DIGITAL IMAGE DESIGN Ltd.

@did-ltd.bsky.social

F-22: Air Dominance Fighter comes to Steam!

We release the 1997 classic – overhauled for modern systems with almost 100 fixes and improvements.

Wishlist now!
store.steampowered.com/app/3146140/...

Shout out to MicroProse for helping us to make this possible!

FAQ below🧵

February 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM

Reposted by David Walters

videogame history

@vghistory.bsky.social

jungle trouble, concept art (1983) www.mobygames.com/game/74962/j...

sprites laid out, pixel by pixel, on graph paper, up the top, a human, walking or running and below, a crocodile opening its mouth wide and not so wide.

February 3, 2026 at 8:16 AM

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou

@kanaratron.bsky.social

We build to 4K resolutions, but it's always worth a reminder that the majority of players on Steam still use 1080p.

A screenshot of an article that reads:-

"As seen above, 52.83% of gamers still use 1080p resolution, and while the count has dropped by 3.15%, it still represents more than half of Steam’s user base. 1440p is now gaining traction, with the percentage rising to 20.79% as of November 2025.

4k resolution accounts for only 4.21% of the market, with a slight 0.62% gain over the past year."

February 2, 2026 at 11:28 AM

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David Walters

@hiddenasbestos.bsky.social

I've just uploaded a FOSS command line tool that'll do basic batch resizing of images with nearest or bilinear filtering and can optionally apply a palette+dithering to the PNG output. HTH

#gamedev

github.com/davidwdev/fr...

fragments/imgsize at main · davidwdev/fragments

A collection of miscellaneous projects. See individual files/folders for specific licensing. - davidwdev/fragments

github.com

February 2, 2026 at 11:43 AM

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Batfeula

@batfeula.bsky.social

Mini Chun Li NES style

February 2, 2026 at 4:03 PM

David Walters

@hiddenasbestos.bsky.social

Bit of R&D today trying to recreate "Windows 95" style fog. Using a 256 colour palette (this is from Quake 1) with 32 steps of fog, each fogged colour is remapped back onto the original palette, which causes a kind of 'posterize' effect as the remapping choices dwindle. #gamedev

A grid of boxes with a brick texture applied. A grey fog is present.

February 2, 2026 at 4:27 PM

David Walters

@hiddenasbestos.bsky.social

I've just uploaded a FOSS command line tool that'll do basic batch resizing of images with nearest or bilinear filtering and can optionally apply a palette+dithering to the PNG output. HTH

#gamedev

github.com/davidwdev/fr...

fragments/imgsize at main · davidwdev/fragments

A collection of miscellaneous projects. See individual files/folders for specific licensing. - davidwdev/fragments

github.com

February 2, 2026 at 11:43 AM

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David Walters

@hiddenasbestos.bsky.social

12 hour AMIGA stream for cheeerity
m.youtube.com/watch?v=BnG3...

Amigathon 2026 - 12 HOURS of Commodore Amiga Gaming to Benefit Children's Miracle Network Hospitals

YouTube video by Amigos Retro Gaming

m.youtube.com

February 1, 2026 at 2:06 PM

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KinoFabino 🇵🇸

@kinofabino.bsky.social

First person shooters

February 1, 2026 at 9:18 PM

David Walters

@hiddenasbestos.bsky.social

12 hour AMIGA stream for cheeerity
m.youtube.com/watch?v=BnG3...

Amigathon 2026 - 12 HOURS of Commodore Amiga Gaming to Benefit Children's Miracle Network Hospitals

YouTube video by Amigos Retro Gaming

m.youtube.com

February 1, 2026 at 2:06 PM

Reposted by David Walters

JC 🪐📚🍉

@jcdenton.xyz

@catacombgl.bsky.social holy shit look at this www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcUq...

Making Catacomb 3-D

YouTube video by John Romero

www.youtube.com

February 1, 2026 at 12:23 PM

Reposted by David Walters

Shallow

@shallowthinking.bsky.social

This Sunday we did not muck about with DOOM levels. I decided to spend some time this weekend doing a bit more to my terrible jam game from December, so that someone who doesn't already know how to complete it has some chance of actually doing so.

#indiedev #godot #lowpoly #gamejam #7dfps