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Jacob Marks
@jacobmarks.bsky.social
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I make rpgs, programs, 3d art, and other weird things...

My largest projects are the Vaarn Atlas, Exalted Order Of The Mystic Moose, and Penumbral Oasis.

Find those, and my other games at: https://siofragames.itch.io/

Blog at: https://jacobmarkshasablog
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Maybe going to make a Vaults of #Vaarn #PS1 style game?
Video game screenshot with PS1 style graphics. A lady with 3 arms looks out at a blue desert landscape. The landscape is stormy, and there are pink trees rising out of the fog. The trees look like Socotran bottle trees. The lady is wearing a backpack, combat boots, purple pants, and a ragged coat. Her clothes is stained with blue sand. Her hair is purple.
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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My game is going to have more accurate bronze age armor than Christopher Nolan's Odyssey movie.
A small game character with gnome like proportions. They are wearing a bronze plate cuirass with a boar tusk helmet. They are carrying a bronze khopesh and a torch.
October 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Working on a game idea. #gamedev #unity #blender
October 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
jacobmarks.bsky.social
I have just discovered Balatro and it has ruined my life.
Smoking cat meme wearing the pixelated clown outfit from Balatro.
October 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
jacobmarks.bsky.social
Here's another shot.
Another classic UFO image viewed from the side over a desert landscape with sparse bushes. Black and white. Rendered in Unity.
October 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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I'm looking back at the UFO game I was working on and thinking maybe I should try returning to it.

#gamedev
Black and white image of a classic 1950s UFO flying in the night sky over a mountain. You can see the rough edge of pine trees on the mountain. The image is rendered in the Unity game engine.
October 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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I added a perchance generator to my Vaarn jam submission. Should make it easier to roll.

siofragames.itch.io/travel-event...
September 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
jacobmarks.bsky.social
Would some Santa Fe critters work? Been seeing a lot of interesting things in my yard.
Very large black and orange orb weever spider hiding beneath a gutter A sleepy plateau fence lizard lounging on a beautiful rock
September 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Now that I'm thinking about it in the DCC Day 2021 Adventure Pack the adventure Temple Siege is essentially a 1 room adventure.
August 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Vaults of Vaarn?
August 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
jacobmarks.bsky.social
Updated my zine shelf. #rpg #osr
Sad you can't really see what the zines are, but not a lot of options there.
Photo of the top of a bookshelf. Rpg zines are arranged in zine holders covered in stickers.
August 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Go back this! I made some fun little promotional art for the page 😄
3d render showing the Vaults of Vaarn 2e book rising out of blue sand dunes like a giant monolith. A small person in a yellow outfit with a Moebius style hat looks up at the book
July 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Looks like Noble Knight Games is using AI for promotional art 😑
Post card 10% bonus coupon with some ai generated fantasy art on it.
July 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Makin a crab map. #ito #intotheodd #bastion #collage
Collage of a crab and steam ship components combined. Numbers and sketchy lines superimposed on top turn the crab ship into a map.
July 19, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Working on some collages for an Into The Odd polar adventure.

#ito #bastionland #osr #nsr #collage
A very yellow collage image using 4 different paintings. There is a base of a realistic arctic scene with a sailing ship. An ancient Greek ruin sits on the short. An ocean worm has been enlarged and wrapped around the ruin. Overlaying the whole image is a painting of shooting stars falling over the scene. A blue collage. Base of the spooky prow of a ship. A flying saucer with dripping tendrils floats over the prow. Faint images of amoebas overlay the scene.
July 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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An old Vaults of Vaarn render. #blender
Realistic 3D render of a colorful mesa with a metal orb embedded in it's side. The mesa is rising out of blue sand dunes, and there are small white humanoid figures walking towards the mesa. The sky is purple and slightly cloudy.
June 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Makin art
Goofy doodle of a frog like creature with a concerned look and a small orb on their head.
June 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Printed Kala Mandala and some adventures by @munkao.bsky.social to hopefully try this weekend!
May 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Maybe something like the Track To constraint applied to the camera?
April 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Video of the dialogue UI from my Chicken Hacker 64 game for the Dungeon Crawler Jam 2025.

#gamedev #dcj25
April 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Working on a game for the Dungeon Crawler Jam 2025.

#gamedev #screenshot #nintendo64 #dcj25 #dcj2025 #dungeoncrawler #cyberspace
Retro video game screenshot. Low res textures, and low poly makes it look somewhat like a Nintendo 64 screenshot. It is an image of a neon grid cyberspace with a rotund chicken made of green wire surfing through the air. Large UI elements show the chicken pulling down sunglasses and winking at the audience. Another UI element shows a cyberdeck with a smiley face. A dialogue box in the center of the screen has the name Tamago-Sendai and says "Watch out Chicken Hacker! That bot has a rotisserie ray!".
April 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Added speakers above some mummy alcoves in my game. Playing weird sounds almost like throat singing.

Visions of #Vaarn #gamedev #screenshot #indiedev
April 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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More mummies for Visions of #Vaarn.

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev
Low resolution video game screenshot showing retro 2D billboards in a 3d space. 3 grey mummies sit crosslegged in a blue brick alcove. Their teeth are blindingly white. All 3 are missing the top of their head from the eyes up. It looks like their brain has been scooped out.
April 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Adding mummy alcoves to the dungeon in my Vaults of #Vaarn game.

#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday
Low res video game screenshot. Shows a grey mummy sitting cross-legged in a blue brick alcove. The textures are very low resolution, and the mummy is obviously a flat image. The mummy has prominent white teeth, and is missing the top of the head from the nose up.
April 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Added weather to Visions of Vaarn. At least the starts of it with changing clouds and haze.

#gamedev #vaarn #indiedev
April 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM