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Shallow
@shallowthinking.bsky.social
Games idiot.
Former BIG GAMES design minion quietly attempting indie.
Tiny plastic guys enthusiast.
Living example of how eating bad food can have terrible results.
He/Him.

https://linktr.ee/ShallowThinking
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The Brutal Base texture pack is OUT NOW for all your grimly concreted environment needs!

shallowthinking.itch.io/brutalbasepack

80 authentically 90s/00s diffuse textures plus extra FX stuff in three formats to meet your needs, great for retro stylings.

#indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #gameassets
Brutal Base Texture Pack by Shallow Thinking Games
Retro texture pack in the style of 90s/00s shooter games.
shallowthinking.itch.io
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Nothing hits nostalgia harder than the era when people turned a corner of their house into a Deathmatch map.
January 7, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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Never forget that one of the artists on Redneck Rampage was Victor Antonov.

You know, the artist behind Half-life 2 and Dishonored.
Extremely accurate Pennsylvania highway
January 7, 2026 at 1:43 PM
I kinda wish there was a generalised login service you could hook all these things to that wasn't part of a US surveillance advertising outfit.

Also more software that I can just buy not subscribe to.
January 7, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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🎮 PSA for PlayStation collectors: Fake PAL holograms are now circulating! 🎮
I bought some so you don't have to.
As retro game prices climb, expect more counterfeits.
Check out this full breakdown with comparison photos: www.psxpaldb.com/blog/fake_ho...
#PlayStation #PSX #RetroGaming #GameCollecting
Fake Holograms
How to spot a fake case hologram.
www.psxpaldb.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:40 AM
This looks cool as hell, definitely going to give it a spin. Doing any sort of environment/level dev in Blender is slowed down so much by UVing, even compared to working in Max/Maya, let alone a dedicated tool like Radiant/Hammer/etc.
January 6, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Not having "I require this to function" pills in stock is as surely a crime as the last thing the cat did.
January 5, 2026 at 3:24 PM
This song has the same tune as "I only have ten bucks in Itch I'm not even going to ask to cash out" lmao.
January 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM
I sincerely hope that's two polygons not some unholy convex aberration!
January 5, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Only 4 hours left now!! Last chance, give it a like/share so no one misses out!
20,000 of royalty free commercial use video game music.

Available now until January 5th for only $10 on: moonanagames.itch.io/80-songs-pack

The sale ends in 25 hours!!

Is it worth it? Don't take my word for it, just look at what the ppl have said instead.

#gamedev 🎮 #ttrpg #vtuber
January 5, 2026 at 1:45 PM
I hate using "content" to describe creative work of any kind. It's the language of the enemy.
January 5, 2026 at 3:16 PM
I live in terror of weird Windows bugs manifesting in some future release of mine.
January 4, 2026 at 4:58 PM
On Sundays we muck about with DOOM levels.

#retrofps #doom #retrogaming #90s #doommaps #doomIIhellonearth #gameart
January 4, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Fun to watch them circle the player
January 3, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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Can't believe Stranger Things ends with them switching to Pathfinder
January 4, 2026 at 12:39 PM
I feel like Obsidian is really close, maybe there's some plugins to be found that would fix these limitations.
January 3, 2026 at 2:07 PM
I've been trying some of these.

A big miss for alternatives is no native screengrabs, which I use constantly in OneNote. It's massively faster than using a separate program then inserting the result.

Pulling in preview info for URLs is also important e.g. YouTube links need that context.
Is there a notes app that's basically OneNote but not Microsoft? Every so often I look but all have issues.

I want: Desktop software. Organise by page/section/subsection. Document-like UI. Pasted URLs do previews. Screencap direct to pages. Local/NAS save. Create separate notebooks.

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January 3, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Hi, I'm an old Fiat being catapulted into a wall 3 feet in front of me by a pick-up whose driver was reversing too fast into a parking space they thought was empty.
January 2, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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I enjoyed this video on why GenAI concepts of physical products are a bad idea. Good to remember that, for both real & virtual, that concept artists don't just make "cool pictures", but have rationale and holistic knowledge that informs the work. You can ask them "why?" m.youtube.com/watch?v=EU2r...
Why your Midjourney Design is NOT a real Concept
YouTube video by Design with Viktor
m.youtube.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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Today is the last day that you can repost this image
December 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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My RPG map making software Grid Cartographer just got a small update to add a (wip) PDF manual. It's also ON SALE !
store.steampowered.com/app/684690/G...
Save 50% on Grid Cartographer on Steam
Grid Cartographer is an intuitive map creation tool. Use it to quickly craft table-top dungeon encounters, block-out computer game environments, or as the perfect companion for classic role-playing ga...
store.steampowered.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Really need to watch this, and Krull, again. Did The Barbarians (aka Barbarian Brothers) the other day which might be my favourite quantifiably terrible/actually amazing 80s sword and sorcery flick.
December 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
It's cool how jailbreaking things used to require attaching weird custom devices but now it's essentially just copy-pasting vegan donut or crème brûlée recipes into AI chatbots until the guardrails snap.
December 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
There's definitely a need to give your following a chance to grow and not flake again instantly. Unless you were lucky enough to be on a starter list early on you will get a fraction of what you had. But we have way less bots, people who might as well be bots, and shit-stirrers here.
December 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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And Tiny Tim, who did not die, because
December 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I cannot imagine a new Swanboy ever disappointing me.

Meanwhile Marvel has been dead to me ever since I realised there is basically no chance we will ever see Paste Gun Pete on the big screen.
December 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM