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tanner petch
@tannerpetch.bsky.social
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a fun little poster for a pre-the mountain goats show magic event
September 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
version two of the boiler game controllers, it’s snake all the way down
August 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
this “mech” is getting replaced with a different kind of captive ball thing, but i love the idea behind this one
July 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
trashland getting absolutely torn apart
July 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
new parts day for trashland. this is kind of a minor/technical update, but at the same time should make a couple of key shots feel much better. i love my 3d printed parts in most scenarios, but for the ones these are upgrading they fall flat
July 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
i have been obsessed with william morris since roughly 2016. decoration, ornament, and craft are all both important to art and important art forms.
July 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
i needed some good photos of house of flesh and blood for something, so here is a nice photo of the playfield and the outside-the-cabinet loop. for context, the playfield for this game is 16” by 18” (compared to the normal 20.25” by 45”)
July 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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I did a hard thing that was on my todo list only to find it was not actually written on my todo list, thus denying me the satisfaction of crossing it off and now what is life for its rainy people I love are dead and I am so alone.
July 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
snake in a boiler! but now even better!
July 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
controllers in progress
July 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.
July 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
some exciting book pickups
June 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
wip restaurant shirt design. channeled something a little different than my graphic design predilections.
June 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
help! i’ve relapsed back into someone who reads theory!
May 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
it looks so good all lit up in the evening light.
May 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
it doesn’t do much yet, but i finally got this installation installed! roughly 4500 leds spread over roughly 300 distinct little pixels units. soon there’ll be a playable game for each half (mirrored to the opposite side)
May 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
like i need to another project, but i think i need to make a small video game.
May 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
@droqen.bsky.social ‘s new game, THE END OF GAMEPLAY, is a really, really lovely, beautiful thing. it’s made me feel a lot of ways. both for its content, but also its form (not that those are different).

i’m not sure when exactly the last time a video game made me feel this way about video games.
May 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
every so often i rediscover this print i made ages ago, and every time i’m like “if only i’d known what was next”.

it’s titled “william gibson” (after @greatdismal.bsky.social ) and is a block print on kitakata paper.
May 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Sigh…
April 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
the newest version of the upper playfield on trashland. it’s the happiest i’ve been with this play area yet, and performed well while people were playing it. this iteration, while retaining the stargazer flipper, was heavily inspired by the ship on jjp pirates.
April 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
March 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
i never had a twitter account, and i’ve never fully understood how to engage with that/this sort of platform. part of the issue is that my social media usage (insta) was always inextricably linked to my art practice as both my identity and my content. if it’s not a drawing, what do i even post??
March 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
rediscovered this video of this pinball kinetic sculpture thing i made a few months ago. i should revisit this. the operative word i wanted this to achieve was “elegant”.
March 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
i ❤️machines
February 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM