Idolon
@idolon.bsky.social
(They/Them)
I make videogames as "Two Headed Deer". I also do level design for other games informed by my degree and career in architecture.
Current project: UDLR
https://deertwoheads.com/
pfp by Osmoru
I make videogames as "Two Headed Deer". I also do level design for other games informed by my degree and career in architecture.
Current project: UDLR
https://deertwoheads.com/
pfp by Osmoru
To move this to the GPU, I baked what I call an Animation Map that targets the appropriate UVs for every tile at every animation frame. The tileset is repeated 8 times vertically, and each tile jumps from one set to the next on every animation tick.
November 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
To move this to the GPU, I baked what I call an Animation Map that targets the appropriate UVs for every tile at every animation frame. The tileset is repeated 8 times vertically, and each tile jumps from one set to the next on every animation tick.
Awful, Still Bad, Good
November 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Awful, Still Bad, Good
clover's quadrants GPU death edition (i am debugging shaders)
November 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
clover's quadrants GPU death edition (i am debugging shaders)
Someone made a video that shouts out my 2017 TF2 map mvm_steep. Neat!
October 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Someone made a video that shouts out my 2017 TF2 map mvm_steep. Neat!
Palette-swapped an already artpassed level and I don't hate how it looks? Definitely needs some tweaking. Makes me want to go back and add more harsh contrast like this to older levels.
September 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Palette-swapped an already artpassed level and I don't hate how it looks? Definitely needs some tweaking. Makes me want to go back and add more harsh contrast like this to older levels.
I've been working on UDLR the last week or two but it's all backend stuff. Completely overhauled the editor's file management UI. It used to just put every level in a single giant list, but now it shows only one chapter at a time. Much easier to navigate the 200+ level files in the game.
July 28, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I've been working on UDLR the last week or two but it's all backend stuff. Completely overhauled the editor's file management UI. It used to just put every level in a single giant list, but now it shows only one chapter at a time. Much easier to navigate the 200+ level files in the game.
My first contribution to TF2 in 10 years is removing my deadname
July 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
My first contribution to TF2 in 10 years is removing my deadname
Worked on UDLR in earnest for the first time in a few months. Today I happened upon a pack of scanned textures of paper (and other materials) and decided it was time to replace what I had. Now the paper textures have some randomness, and have a different style of texture for each chapter!
July 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Worked on UDLR in earnest for the first time in a few months. Today I happened upon a pack of scanned textures of paper (and other materials) and decided it was time to replace what I had. Now the paper textures have some randomness, and have a different style of texture for each chapter!
Sure! Here's a puzzle game I'm working on:
store.steampowered.com/app/3191170/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3191170/...
June 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Sure! Here's a puzzle game I'm working on:
store.steampowered.com/app/3191170/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3191170/...
Modern brick walls often aren't actually load-bearing and are only a single "wythe" (layer) deep. "Header" bricks like that one don't serve any unique structural purpose in this case, but architects are finding all sorts of fun ways to still make brick walls "3D".
June 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Modern brick walls often aren't actually load-bearing and are only a single "wythe" (layer) deep. "Header" bricks like that one don't serve any unique structural purpose in this case, but architects are finding all sorts of fun ways to still make brick walls "3D".
May 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
shes such a little freak sometimes
May 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
shes such a little freak sometimes
Doing art for every puzzle is certainly a lot of time and effort, but it's been worthwhile. This tileset is so much fun to work with, and I'm really excited for people to see all the art when it's done.
May 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Doing art for every puzzle is certainly a lot of time and effort, but it's been worthwhile. This tileset is so much fun to work with, and I'm really excited for people to see all the art when it's done.
Someone pointed out to me that "Quincy Quadrants" is a silly name given that "Quincy" refers to the number five, not four. Oops.
Reintroducing: Clover! I don't know if Clover even knows they have a name. All they know is collecting tokens.
Reintroducing: Clover! I don't know if Clover even knows they have a name. All they know is collecting tokens.
April 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Someone pointed out to me that "Quincy Quadrants" is a silly name given that "Quincy" refers to the number five, not four. Oops.
Reintroducing: Clover! I don't know if Clover even knows they have a name. All they know is collecting tokens.
Reintroducing: Clover! I don't know if Clover even knows they have a name. All they know is collecting tokens.
All tuckered out from solving puzzles? UDLR now features the ability to take a nap. This is what I spent my afternoon implementing instead of savefile checksums.
April 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
All tuckered out from solving puzzles? UDLR now features the ability to take a nap. This is what I spent my afternoon implementing instead of savefile checksums.
I invented Quincy Quadrants as a joke, but people really seem to like them! I'm keeping them and giving them a bit of personality.
April 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I invented Quincy Quadrants as a joke, but people really seem to like them! I'm keeping them and giving them a bit of personality.
Focus testing UDLR has revealed that players engage more strongly with a game when the player character is easier to emotionally identify with. Thus, I am happy to announce that puzzle games have a new gender-nonspecific character! Say hello to your new best friend, Quincy Quadrants:
April 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Focus testing UDLR has revealed that players engage more strongly with a game when the player character is easier to emotionally identify with. Thus, I am happy to announce that puzzle games have a new gender-nonspecific character! Say hello to your new best friend, Quincy Quadrants: