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Justin @ archmag.us
@archmag.us
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Cloud-based architecture developer turned XR gamedev. Working on new types of experiences designed from the ground up for virtual and mixed reality.

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Building a home for villagers in our game exploring and understanding an alien world. Also some more polish on the day/night cycle. #indiedev #gamedev #ue5
October 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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The day/night cycle works! When the sun goes away, the mycelia comes out to play

#gamedev #indiedev #ue5
October 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Experimenting with day/night cycles. That's no moon (there is supposed to be a moon, where is the moon)

#indiedev #gamedev #ue5
Image showing the UI glowing in the darkness Image showing mushrooms glowing in the darkness
October 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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What a fascinating take from <checks notes> Hollywood
Condescending Wonka
August 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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When you try applying an effect designed for post-processing on a transparent object just to see if it works (not as intended, no)

#ue5 #unreal #unrealengine #gamedev #indiedev #shaders
Transparent blocks which show the highlighted outlines of the objects behind them
July 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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What kind of alien vegetation wouldn't retract when you ran through a patch of it?

#unreal #unrealengine #ue5 #gamedev #indiedev
July 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Exploring #Unreal 's #PCG system has lead to some interesting results. Case 1: mushroom tunnels are cool. Case 2: a whole bunch of mushrooms placed perfectly evenly in a pattern looks a lot like scales.

#gamedev #indiedev
The gloom penetrating a mushroom forest Evenly spaced mushroom caps look a lot like scales of a lizard or scale armor.
July 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The previous upload didn't animate, here's a retry, introducing our new character in our game via extreme close up

#indiedev #gamedev
May 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Who is this who is this? We're delighted to share the first view of a major character in our quirky game about cozy villagers figuring out how to survive in an alien world. We can't wait to share more!

#gamedev #indiedev
Close up of the mask of a character in a new game we are building
May 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Swapped shaders and math for modeling and Blender for the past few days as we begin work on the starter village. One landmark building down, a village's worth of houses to go. Anyone recognize the real world building that inspired this one?

#godot #indiedev #gamedev
Screenshot of a tudor-style inn under the force shield covering the village and wilds beyond the village. Screenshot of a tudor-style inn under the force shield covering the village and wilds beyond the village.
February 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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"Tell me you're enjoying your new game project, without telling me you're enjoying it".

#indiegames #indiegame #gamedev #godot #shaders
January 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Making force shields under which entire villages are trapped that the player will need to uncover how to shut down to proceed further into a mysterious world.

#shaders #godot #gamedev #runonsentences
January 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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"The best time to learn how to plant a tree in Godot was 10 years ago. The second best time to learn how to plant a tree in Godot is today." #gamedev #godot #prototyping
Screenshot of a tree, some grass, a textured ground, and a partly cloudy sky in the Godot engine.
January 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
Mark Hamill as Colonel Blair, Wing Commander 3 and 4
December 20, 2024 at 10:27 PM
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In #VR #gamedev, one of our goals is to design what you interact with to feel as real as possible. This selector allows you to pick the prey you want your hunters to pursue. Now only the elk is available but we'll update it for the others as the models are done. It's fun to see this coming together.
A selector that can be rotated to each target selection for a VR game.
December 19, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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If you see this, post a knight.
Bastila Shan from Knights of the Old Republic
November 29, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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Many years ago I wrote a script to run a dictionary against the .us registrar to see what interesting domain names were still available. This one was always special to me and always makes me think of
Shot of Merlin from the 1981 movie Excalibur
November 20, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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Gizmos are helping but boy are rotations difficult when I haven't done trig in 30 years. Figuring out how to program turning a crank in XR using OpenXR interfaces. #gamedev #trig #xr
Game screenshot showing using Unity gizmos to handle rotation of the handle of a box.
November 20, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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Post a ship that's neither Star Wars nor Star Trek
Screenshot of the cockpit view of Wing Commander, copyright Origin Systems
November 20, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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Sometimes! (Also @freya.bsky.social is on here! 😸 )
A chart showing how various 3d modelling programs and game engines handle their 3d axes.
November 14, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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It is better! For now.
Meme showing users enjoying bluesky but Cory Doctorow is coming to ruin the fun
November 14, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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Well that's new. I wonder if posting something will clear things up?
Bluesky error message showing "The server gave an invalid response and may be out of date" when trying to show my post feed.
November 14, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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Meme of users enjoying Bluesky but being approached by Cory Doctorow
October 25, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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When I first got a VR headset, I was surprised to find what I found most engaging wasn't the immersive view, though that was cool, it was the tactile experience of interacting with virtual objects and how easy it was to fool my brain into thinking they were real... 1/2
October 23, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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Clever lad. I'm sold
Screenshot showing we've adopted our domain name as our handle.
October 22, 2024 at 2:29 PM