BoomBamZam
@boombamzam.bsky.social
A 3D artist who loves 2D artists
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Honestly my biggest gripe is that most modern games that utilise huge budgets almost always focus more on graphics than actually innovating on gameplay in an ambitious way, thus you just have to upgrade hardware to play mostly the same types of games but with comically larger file sizes
December 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Honestly my biggest gripe is that most modern games that utilise huge budgets almost always focus more on graphics than actually innovating on gameplay in an ambitious way, thus you just have to upgrade hardware to play mostly the same types of games but with comically larger file sizes
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PSA: Our roadmap for 2026:
December 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
PSA: Our roadmap for 2026:
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Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu
December 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu
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Here are some of the steps on this project. From modeling, texturing, rigging, animating to lighting.
#3DArt #DigitalArt #CGI #Blender3D #ZBrush #GameArt #Stylized3D #3DCharacter #3DAnimation #ArtistsOnBluesky
#3DArt #DigitalArt #CGI #Blender3D #ZBrush #GameArt #Stylized3D #3DCharacter #3DAnimation #ArtistsOnBluesky
December 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Here are some of the steps on this project. From modeling, texturing, rigging, animating to lighting.
#3DArt #DigitalArt #CGI #Blender3D #ZBrush #GameArt #Stylized3D #3DCharacter #3DAnimation #ArtistsOnBluesky
#3DArt #DigitalArt #CGI #Blender3D #ZBrush #GameArt #Stylized3D #3DCharacter #3DAnimation #ArtistsOnBluesky
going into 2026 like
December 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
going into 2026 like
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Sharing some of my thoughts from the other site but man I'm really pissed off about this shit.
December 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Sharing some of my thoughts from the other site but man I'm really pissed off about this shit.
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If you are familiar with the word “geas” from D&D, it might interest you to know that it's a Gaelic word for “taboo.”
In Irish mythology, a geas (pronounced "gaysh") would both grant someone who kept it vigor/magical power, but breaking the geas would spell doom.
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In Irish mythology, a geas (pronounced "gaysh") would both grant someone who kept it vigor/magical power, but breaking the geas would spell doom.
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December 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
If you are familiar with the word “geas” from D&D, it might interest you to know that it's a Gaelic word for “taboo.”
In Irish mythology, a geas (pronounced "gaysh") would both grant someone who kept it vigor/magical power, but breaking the geas would spell doom.
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In Irish mythology, a geas (pronounced "gaysh") would both grant someone who kept it vigor/magical power, but breaking the geas would spell doom.
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One of my last and favorite interviews of the year. Ryuichi Nishizawa might be my hero? www.gamesradar.com/games/i-feel...
"I feel a strong need to prevent Japanese-style game development from being lost": 40-year games veteran argues Japan devs should make "unapologetically Japanese" games
"If we create what only we can create, the world will gladly accept it"
www.gamesradar.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
One of my last and favorite interviews of the year. Ryuichi Nishizawa might be my hero? www.gamesradar.com/games/i-feel...
I would absolutely wear a sweater with this pattern today.
December 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I would absolutely wear a sweater with this pattern today.
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The agreement between the Walt Disney Company and OpenAl for Disney to license its content to Sora, a short-form generative Al video platform, raises several major concerns that not only affect animation workers but consumers and families around the world. Please read.
December 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The agreement between the Walt Disney Company and OpenAl for Disney to license its content to Sora, a short-form generative Al video platform, raises several major concerns that not only affect animation workers but consumers and families around the world. Please read.
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Come by the Peacock terrace and get a leaflet, or digitally spread them around online!
December 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Come by the Peacock terrace and get a leaflet, or digitally spread them around online!
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showing a trailer at the Game Awards costs anywhere from $450,000 to a cool $1 million.. here's my old-ass Tiny Tires trailer for free ❤️ #indiegames
December 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
showing a trailer at the Game Awards costs anywhere from $450,000 to a cool $1 million.. here's my old-ass Tiny Tires trailer for free ❤️ #indiegames
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THIS is what AI can't replace. A show we might have fond memories of was part of the creators' life story as well. There is emotional resonance in human creation. Through it, artists reach out to say, "This is how I feel. This is what I want you to understand." And we, in conversation, feel back.
December 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
THIS is what AI can't replace. A show we might have fond memories of was part of the creators' life story as well. There is emotional resonance in human creation. Through it, artists reach out to say, "This is how I feel. This is what I want you to understand." And we, in conversation, feel back.
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WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership.
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
Moving Stories: Short-Form Graphic Novels for King County Metro Transit RapidRide
King County Metro and 4Culture seek six artists to create short-form graphic novels that illuminate community stories along new and existing RapidRide lines.
www.4culture.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership.
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
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Heroes of Great Britain advent calendar - door 7
December 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Heroes of Great Britain advent calendar - door 7
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✨Inside the medieval roof timbers at Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, one of the rafters has been dated (c. 921) and was a sapling during the reign of King Æthelstan, before England was an entity.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
December 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
✨Inside the medieval roof timbers at Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, one of the rafters has been dated (c. 921) and was a sapling during the reign of King Æthelstan, before England was an entity.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
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Happy old year
December 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Happy old year
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The Japanese commercial for Zelda 3 (SNES)
November 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The Japanese commercial for Zelda 3 (SNES)
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Gilbert says his recent return to action-oriented game design stems from his love of modern classics like The Binding of Isaac, Nuclear Throne, and Dead Cells.
After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death
Interview: Storied designer talks lost RPG, a 3D Monkey Island, “Eat the Rich” philosophy.
arstechnica.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Gilbert says his recent return to action-oriented game design stems from his love of modern classics like The Binding of Isaac, Nuclear Throne, and Dead Cells.
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demonschool credits all 145 people who touched the game over the course of its multi-year dev cycle AND explains what exactly they contributed. the rest of the games industry, which commonly omits people from credits entirely, should be taking notes
![“We worked [on Hyper Gunsport] with a localization company that refused to give the names of the people that actually did the work; they just wanted to have their company name in there,” Sheffield said. “They say they do that because ‘It's the standard’ and ‘to avoid poaching’ or whatever, but I hate that and think it's total BS. … I've also seen a lot of folks complain about how they weren't credited on a game because they'd left the studio before the game they worked on was finished. And indeed, our lead 3D artist left two years ago. But he's still the first artist credited because he set the style and visual tone for a lot of the game. Not working on the game to the very end doesn't negate the work he did.”
The more Sheffield thought about how to meet the needs of so many different types of contributors – and discussed the matter on social media – the more a comprehensive, detail-oriented approach to crediting started to make sense.
“That had all been percolating in the back of my mind as we got close to finishing, and then it just sort of hit me as it came time for me to write the credits,” he said. “I discussed this approach with the team and everyone was fine with it, so we just went for it. We always want to credit everyone that touched the game, so even though the core team was 7 or 8 people at any given time, we credited around 145 people in Demonschool. Who cares if it's a lot of people? Who cares if it's long? They all did something and they deserve credit. And you basically can tell who the core team was by reading the descriptions. None of us are precious about that anyway.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreibksibak2xsgvbrid7evym3utz6yzfccilowfs7apv7b2sddssd3q@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
demonschool credits all 145 people who touched the game over the course of its multi-year dev cycle AND explains what exactly they contributed. the rest of the games industry, which commonly omits people from credits entirely, should be taking notes
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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Spoke to a number of devs about how, in the face of CEOs claiming gen-AI is the future, their declaration of being genAI free is making waves.
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’
“We can produce results that meet our quality standards without its assistance.”
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Spoke to a number of devs about how, in the face of CEOs claiming gen-AI is the future, their declaration of being genAI free is making waves.
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the only good thing about genAI is that it got me to really love seeing bad art, because I know a person put in time and effort, made themselves vulnerable by showing it to others, and is trying to improve. I value that more than anything now
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
the only good thing about genAI is that it got me to really love seeing bad art, because I know a person put in time and effort, made themselves vulnerable by showing it to others, and is trying to improve. I value that more than anything now
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