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TheDuckCow
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Animator, gamedev, and creator of Moo-Ack! Productions | Product Manager at Poliigon | #MCprep #b3d #GodotEngine #vegan

Working on @wheelstealgame.com
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majormcdoom.bsky.social
What a year. 🐧

- Lots of progress on Penguin Festival
- Released TWO trailers
- A bunch of Godot PRs + free addons
- Many fun experiments
- Leveled up skills
- Said bye to Meta
- Worked out / lowered cholesterol / sugar
- Continued therapy + self-discovery

#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #VR
December 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Took ages but I finally got there - the new connection tool UX and refactor is done so you can now create, move, delete, and dissolve all your road points + procedural intersections with ease.

Try out the feature branch: github.com/TheDuckCow/g...
#godot #godotengine #gamedev #addon #roads
December 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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This month's devlog packs a whole lot of road generator goodies for the end of the year - including procedural intersection progress, road-side decoration updates, and some cooking new UX interactions #godot #devlog

www.patreon.com/posts/146328...
December Devlog Updates | Wheel Steal Game
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December 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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While reworking the connection UX tool for intersections, I got fed up with not having these shortcuts - already with the side adventure! Coming in the next Road Generator update, but still a WIP #godot #road #generator #addon
December 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Very scary and sad to see the devastating floods of our nearby counties and cities - 100K person evacuation is wild, looks like hurricane damage. Happily donated to one of the official funds, one of those "every bit helps" even if it is a long road to recovery regardless:

gofund.me/1add940a8
Donate to Flood Relief Fund 2025, organized by GoFundMe Org
We are currently responding to the Washington and Pacific Northwest flooding. Flooding is one … GoFundMe Org needs your support for Flood Relief Fund 2025
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December 13, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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cozycubegames.bsky.social
🌟 We're almost at 2,000 WISHLISTS on Steam 🌟

Help us get those last 18!

Share with anyone:
🥽 Wanting to dust off their VR headset
🐧 Who loves playing as a cute animal
😎 Just likes being a goofy goober

store.steampowered.com/app/3552090/...

#vr #indiegames #cozygames
December 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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The same road you know and love from the last post, now in HD!

(ie me testing with more realistic textures for once, and noting down lots of areas to eliminate repeating and stretching... but, not half bad to begin with, even with the intersection??) #godot #godotengine #road #gamedev
December 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Procedural intersection coming along. In this scenario, showing off how you can turn a forked exit into an add lane exit. Obviously, would need another type of UV/mesh generator longer term for this use case, but it's already super cool having it interactive like this. #godot #addon #procgen
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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And so begins the journey of assigning correct UV for this general purpose intersection (ie me doing trial and error instead of actually trying to think too hard to do it correctly)
#godot #roads
A textured road meets up at an intersection with a solid gray color, except for one corner where a face as the correct texture slice but rotated wrong
November 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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New month, who devlog? Highlights include some art style test updates from Wheel Steal, as well as a summary of in-progress features for the Road Generator by the community.

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November Devlog Updates | Wheel Steal Game
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November 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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I am drunk on power after realizing Godot lets you embed textures in RichTextLabels, and well... ViewportTextures are textures. 🤯
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev
November 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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You think my lock's company would sponsor a replacement if I shared in social media how the thief gave up 3/4th of the way cutting through and went for the cable lock on the bike next to mine instead?
Kryptonite U bike lock partially sawed through while still attached to bike and support pole Close up on the mostly sawed through lock The lock on the other bike who wasn't so lucky
November 5, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Centerpiece of my Halloween costume
An "I'm Kenough" hoodie from The Barbie movie with a handmade overlay pinned in to make it read "I've had Kenough"
November 1, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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steinmakesgames.bsky.social
Evolution of game difficulty: As games moved away from coin-based arcades who profited from restarts and into player homes, the financial incentive became to reach a wider range of difficulty, overall easier.

Rating from GameFAQs, study by TheEconomist.
#gamedev #gaming #retrogaming #arcadegames
October 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Just saw that the #godot Road Generator passed 800 stars on github right after the v0.8.0 update... I guess should hurry up with v0.9.0 to hit 900 then!

A big 💙 to the ever-growing list of contributors (and supporters)

github.com/TheDuckCow/g...
GitHub - TheDuckCow/godot-road-generator: A godot plugin for creating 3D highways and streets.
A godot plugin for creating 3D highways and streets. - TheDuckCow/godot-road-generator
github.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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"Even a broken clock is right twice a day".

Am I making political commentary? Nope - just noticed my profile's banner image is back in season, maybe I'll actually update sometime this year!
October 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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The October #devlog is out - learn more about the recent #godot road generator release (incl. Terrain3D flattening and underside geo) + insights on procedural intersections now in progress. Finally, check out some recent art style updates!

www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...
October Devlog Updates | Wheel Steal Game
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October 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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That's one small step for [mesh], one giant leap for [road].

Procedural intersections are officially in progress, major kudos to Picorims for the work thus far on this feature! #godot #procgen #gamedev

Details, if you are curious to follow along:
github.com/TheDuckCow/g...
Image of a road in a 3d godot editor looping around and connecting into a white triangle mesh without any materials or smoothing
October 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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drsybren.bsky.social
Blender 5.0 has gone to beta phase!

Every day there will be a new build. Please download it frequently and test everything.

I can fix issues, but only if I know about them. In Blender, go to Help → Report a Bug. Thanks! 😻

builder.blender.org/download/dai...

#b3d #blender3d #development #devfund
Blender Builds - blender.org
Continuous build delivery with the latest features and fixes. Use at your own risk!
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October 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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"The first man put at the helm will be a good one. No body knows what sort may come afterwards. The Executive will be always increasing here, as elsewhere, till it ends in a Monarchy" -B Franklin

Great history insights, interesting point on how primaries used to run

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5wQ...
The Declining Quality of American Leaders
YouTube video by Ryan Chapman
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October 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Hey all ye #godot Road Generator addon users - if you see this and you use the addon, please drop a reply with the version of Godot you're using (or join the poll in the community #coding channel itself to vote there).
Discord poll asking if Godot Road Generator users are on Godot 4.4 or later or not
October 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Another one bites the dust, this one has really hampered the ability to make procedural placements along roads. No longer!

#godot road generator, some testing tomorrow before merging and finally cutting the next release.

github.com/TheDuckCow/g...
September 28, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Officially at the stage of tutorial-driven-development for QoL improvements. Meaning, as I check how tutorial-worthy the current code is, I find and stamp out the awkward steps. Just here, a tweak to make it much easier to make bridge sections on the fly #godot #road #bridges
3D terrain from godot with various overlapping roads displayed
September 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Dang this took me awhile, but was an important issue to fix before the official release of the Terrain3D support for the #godot Road Generator addon.

To be merged shortly:
github.com/TheDuckCow/g...
September 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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This is a pretty wild graph.

Currently watching through Fads' latest video, who points out it's a pretty global situation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9my...
Chart titled "Percentage of Congress over the age of 70" which shows a sharp increase over the last 20 years, now exceeding 20%, more than double than any time previously.
September 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM