Marky V
@markyv.bsky.social
Educational Software Author, Technical Consultant, Indie Game Dev, Animator, Musician and Master cat herder, suspected greybeard #UE5 Dev - arcventure.online - #Three.js Dev - TechnoVisual Space adventure at www.patreon.com/c/TechnoVisualSpace
I took a little diversion from my usual TechnoVisual Space and ArcVenture devs this week and tried out a little prototype hover race game for mobile, web and desktop - created in #RogueEngine ( #threejs ) using Kenney's amazing space assets - much fun! 😎 #indiedev #solodev
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I took a little diversion from my usual TechnoVisual Space and ArcVenture devs this week and tried out a little prototype hover race game for mobile, web and desktop - created in #RogueEngine ( #threejs ) using Kenney's amazing space assets - much fun! 😎 #indiedev #solodev
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Update on the #ArcVenture Online project - on the website now - mobile controls upgrade 🤓#RogueEngine #threejs #historyteacher #indiedev arcventure.online/2025/08/31/u...
Updating the Mobile Controls
Before making the new online dig site available for testing I have been doing a round trip on the player controls and have decided that the mobile controls need an update. In previous browser based ac...
arcventure.online
August 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Update on the #ArcVenture Online project - on the website now - mobile controls upgrade 🤓#RogueEngine #threejs #historyteacher #indiedev arcventure.online/2025/08/31/u...
Sunday morning complete re-write to add first person elevator mechanism to move between rooms in the space stations #indiedev #indiegamedev #threejs #RogueEngine @technovisualspace.bsky.social - this works in #VR too and it's looking pretty groovy 😎
October 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Sunday morning complete re-write to add first person elevator mechanism to move between rooms in the space stations #indiedev #indiegamedev #threejs #RogueEngine @technovisualspace.bsky.social - this works in #VR too and it's looking pretty groovy 😎
Update on the #ArcVenture Online project - on the website now - mobile controls upgrade 🤓#RogueEngine #threejs #historyteacher #indiedev arcventure.online/2025/08/31/u...
Updating the Mobile Controls
Before making the new online dig site available for testing I have been doing a round trip on the player controls and have decided that the mobile controls need an update. In previous browser based ac...
arcventure.online
August 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Update on the #ArcVenture Online project - on the website now - mobile controls upgrade 🤓#RogueEngine #threejs #historyteacher #indiedev arcventure.online/2025/08/31/u...
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Just posting this here to see if Youtube make the same pigs ear of the compression as it did with my previous short - I suspect the compression settings for shorts are FUBAR
Just posting this here to see if Youtube make the same pigs ear of the compression as it did with my previous short - I suspect the compression settings for shorts are FUBAR
Three Little Bruins Great Adventure (Excerpt)
YouTube video by Mark Vanstone
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August 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtuP...
Just posting this here to see if Youtube make the same pigs ear of the compression as it did with my previous short - I suspect the compression settings for shorts are FUBAR
Just posting this here to see if Youtube make the same pigs ear of the compression as it did with my previous short - I suspect the compression settings for shorts are FUBAR
Not enough cats on my timeline - here's Floki (ginger) with his uncle Widdy chillin' #catsofbluesky #cats #blackcat #gingercat
August 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Not enough cats on my timeline - here's Floki (ginger) with his uncle Widdy chillin' #catsofbluesky #cats #blackcat #gingercat
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New home for the new Space game development 👀space.technovisual.co.uk #indiedev #solodev #indiegamedev #threejs #RogueEngine #VR - check out the new intro video ⚡
The TechnoVisual Space Game Development
TechnoVisual Space, a 3D Online browser space adventure game for mobile, desktop and VR. In development at TechnoVisual Games.
space.technovisual.co.uk
August 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
New home for the new Space game development 👀space.technovisual.co.uk #indiedev #solodev #indiegamedev #threejs #RogueEngine #VR - check out the new intro video ⚡
New updates on the #ArcVenture blog - check it out here: arcventure.online/2025/07/27/t... #threejs #RogueEngine #history #education
The New Dig Site is Complete
The new Bancroft digsite is now functional and working entirely in a browser and should work on a wide variety of platforms including mobile and VR headsets. There is a new working Reconstructor and y...
arcventure.online
July 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
New updates on the #ArcVenture blog - check it out here: arcventure.online/2025/07/27/t... #threejs #RogueEngine #history #education
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Register for my @microbit.org game making workshop on 29th September with CAS 😁 It's online, 🆓 and will be awesome 🕹️🎮👾 Check here for more info 👉 www.computingatschool.org.uk/events/2025/...
July 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Register for my @microbit.org game making workshop on 29th September with CAS 😁 It's online, 🆓 and will be awesome 🕹️🎮👾 Check here for more info 👉 www.computingatschool.org.uk/events/2025/...
Captured using a Raspberry Pi with Picamera (HQ) in HD from a 16mm cine film nearly 80 years old! The film runs at 24 frames per second but I have upsampled it to 60fps - the sound was captured separately using an optical sound read head on a Bell and Howell Filmosound.
July 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Captured using a Raspberry Pi with Picamera (HQ) in HD from a 16mm cine film nearly 80 years old! The film runs at 24 frames per second but I have upsampled it to 60fps - the sound was captured separately using an optical sound read head on a Bell and Howell Filmosound.
This is part of a quick fly-through in VR to give you an idea of how things are coming together.
If you want to get early access to the game and tutorials about how it's being made. #threejs #RogueEngine
The full video was first shown on the Patreon Post: www.patreon.com/posts/full-o...
If you want to get early access to the game and tutorials about how it's being made. #threejs #RogueEngine
The full video was first shown on the Patreon Post: www.patreon.com/posts/full-o...
July 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This is part of a quick fly-through in VR to give you an idea of how things are coming together.
If you want to get early access to the game and tutorials about how it's being made. #threejs #RogueEngine
The full video was first shown on the Patreon Post: www.patreon.com/posts/full-o...
If you want to get early access to the game and tutorials about how it's being made. #threejs #RogueEngine
The full video was first shown on the Patreon Post: www.patreon.com/posts/full-o...
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Haven't posted any progress on my Space project for a while - but I have been beavering away converting the web elements into Rogue Engine - but you can fly around to different locations and move from room to room in the space stations. youtu.be/ktsH2IbZQTQ #RogueEngine #threejs #indiegame
TechnoVisual Space Travels around Lokia Harbour
YouTube video by Mark Vanstone
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June 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Haven't posted any progress on my Space project for a while - but I have been beavering away converting the web elements into Rogue Engine - but you can fly around to different locations and move from room to room in the space stations. youtu.be/ktsH2IbZQTQ #RogueEngine #threejs #indiegame
Replaced the '4K' camera in my 16mm cine scanner with an HQ Raspberry Pi cam - getting much better results now - getting quite happy with the output now. #16mmfilm #retrovideo #16mm #cinefilm #raspberrypi #opencv #python
June 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Replaced the '4K' camera in my 16mm cine scanner with an HQ Raspberry Pi cam - getting much better results now - getting quite happy with the output now. #16mmfilm #retrovideo #16mm #cinefilm #raspberrypi #opencv #python
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Britain finally gets it, video games are big business.
The Creative Industries Sector Plan just dropped, and for the first time, video games aren't an afterthought, but part of the solution! This is a huge achievement for our industry and video games.
Read more: zurl.co/PRjeo
The Creative Industries Sector Plan just dropped, and for the first time, video games aren't an afterthought, but part of the solution! This is a huge achievement for our industry and video games.
Read more: zurl.co/PRjeo
June 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Britain finally gets it, video games are big business.
The Creative Industries Sector Plan just dropped, and for the first time, video games aren't an afterthought, but part of the solution! This is a huge achievement for our industry and video games.
Read more: zurl.co/PRjeo
The Creative Industries Sector Plan just dropped, and for the first time, video games aren't an afterthought, but part of the solution! This is a huge achievement for our industry and video games.
Read more: zurl.co/PRjeo
I love it when a plan comes together 🤪 - 16mm cine film scanner project to convert movies to HD mp4 - converted Bell&Howell TQI projector using #RaspberryPi to control everything with python script using #opencv to capture and encode #16mm #retrocine #RPI #retrofilm #rpihack
May 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I love it when a plan comes together 🤪 - 16mm cine film scanner project to convert movies to HD mp4 - converted Bell&Howell TQI projector using #RaspberryPi to control everything with python script using #opencv to capture and encode #16mm #retrocine #RPI #retrofilm #rpihack
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Got the dialogue tree code working using Drafft to edit and export to json - plugs straight into the NPC dialogue system - using #RogueEngine and #threejs #solodev #indiegamedev #indiegame
May 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Got the dialogue tree code working using Drafft to edit and export to json - plugs straight into the NPC dialogue system - using #RogueEngine and #threejs #solodev #indiegamedev #indiegame
Did you know? If you join our #ArcVenture newsletter (totally un-spammy) - you can download the whole original series from the 1990s ( #Romans, #Egyptians, #Vikings and #Anglo-Saxons) FREE! to play on Windows! 😱 #Archaeology #History arcventure.online
Welcome
to ArcVenture Online. This is the new development of the classic ArcVenture archaeology and history series to bring the award winning history adventure by Mark Vanstone up to date. Originally released...
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April 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Did you know? If you join our #ArcVenture newsletter (totally un-spammy) - you can download the whole original series from the 1990s ( #Romans, #Egyptians, #Vikings and #Anglo-Saxons) FREE! to play on Windows! 😱 #Archaeology #History arcventure.online
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What's goin' on with #ArcVenture? - here's what: arcventure.online/2025/02/28/t... #gamedev #indiegamedev #sologamedev #history #romans #archaeology #edugame
Talking to the Characters
Well the Finds Tent is filling up in the new browser based version of the dig site. There is even a working information PC available and the first three finds are there. The reconstructor still needs ...
arcventure.online
March 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
What's goin' on with #ArcVenture? - here's what: arcventure.online/2025/02/28/t... #gamedev #indiegamedev #sologamedev #history #romans #archaeology #edugame
Ahh - first sunset of the season from the Crows Nest 😍 - lovely day in the garden cutting stuff back and coating the fence.
March 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Ahh - first sunset of the season from the Crows Nest 😍 - lovely day in the garden cutting stuff back and coating the fence.
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Hey #gamedev friends! I've made this extract of a recent live where I showed how to select objects in a @threejs.org scene with Rogue Engine's Unity-like environment.
If you enjoy it, please, leave a like and subscribe!
And don't forget to join us in the next livestream!
youtu.be/ykYloB4PCdE
If you enjoy it, please, leave a like and subscribe!
And don't forget to join us in the next livestream!
youtu.be/ykYloB4PCdE
Selecting Objects In Threejs With Rogue Engine | Javascript | Typescript | Gamedev
YouTube video by BeardScript
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March 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Hey #gamedev friends! I've made this extract of a recent live where I showed how to select objects in a @threejs.org scene with Rogue Engine's Unity-like environment.
If you enjoy it, please, leave a like and subscribe!
And don't forget to join us in the next livestream!
youtu.be/ykYloB4PCdE
If you enjoy it, please, leave a like and subscribe!
And don't forget to join us in the next livestream!
youtu.be/ykYloB4PCdE
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Support an #indiedev! 🫂
Give this post all the visibility possible. Let's have Retronika reach new #VR players. 💙
50 levels, Endless Mode, tons of weapons and unlockables, and at a very accessible price for everyone!
Available on #MetaQuest. Soon, on other platforms, too!
Give this post all the visibility possible. Let's have Retronika reach new #VR players. 💙
50 levels, Endless Mode, tons of weapons and unlockables, and at a very accessible price for everyone!
Available on #MetaQuest. Soon, on other platforms, too!
March 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Support an #indiedev! 🫂
Give this post all the visibility possible. Let's have Retronika reach new #VR players. 💙
50 levels, Endless Mode, tons of weapons and unlockables, and at a very accessible price for everyone!
Available on #MetaQuest. Soon, on other platforms, too!
Give this post all the visibility possible. Let's have Retronika reach new #VR players. 💙
50 levels, Endless Mode, tons of weapons and unlockables, and at a very accessible price for everyone!
Available on #MetaQuest. Soon, on other platforms, too!