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Qay
@qaylikekay.bsky.social
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32 year old practitioner of the dork arts.
I program, draw, and work on lots of various projects.
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Here's after I got both the distortion and the dither effect working. The second image is with bloom re-enabled. At first I thought I was going to have to write my bloom effect as well, but with my own distortion I could run my effect before Unity's post process stack. #gamedev #indiedev #husk
A screen shot of the game with distortion and dithering enabled. There's only dithering on the cylinder's as this is a test scene. The screenshot shows a large interface taking up the bottom and one of the sides of the screen, and the remainder is a "window" into the room with the cylinders. Everything is cyan lines on a black background to emulate the feel of an old terminal. A slightly zoomed version of the previous image, but with bloom enabled. The bloom gives the lines a slight glow.
December 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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-shader as well, as using Unity's lens distortion meant that my pixels were misaligned, even before the dither, which was problematic as I was using alpha values to determine which dither pattern to use as seen here, the transparent bands tell the shader to dither that area of the cylinder:
Snippet of two blue cylinders on a wall. They have two transparent bands running down the side of different transparency levels. These bands will inform the shader what part of the image to apply its affect to.
December 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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(As single player games)
Quake > Quake 4 > Quake III (perplexingly) > Quake 2

Admittedly haven't played through Quake 4 in over a decade, but the body horror man-as-machine stuff was cool.
A picture of a man poking a swarm of bees with the Quake logo super imposed on it
December 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Finished a proper HUD for The Autumnal King.

I was messing with some color filters and got this cool corroded metal look. Unfortunately it left a bunch of white pixels around the edges, so I've been watching X-Files with friends while I clean it up.

#TheAutumnalKing #gamedev #indiedev
A health and stamina meter for a video game. It has looping metal "vines" defining the edges and to the left, the "vines" create a large circular loop that contains a glass lens over a dark mauve background.
December 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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And finished up the outside of the keep in the canyon.

I was struggling with the design of it for a while, because I thought it would be cool to work in some art deco influences, but everything kept coming out looking like a sky scraper or a casino lol.

#TheAutumnalKing #gamedev #indiedev
A work in progress shot of the castle in blender. It is untextured and mid-construction, but it shows the details of the outer wall well. If you want a better description of what it looks like, check the second picture's alt text and imagine that but made out of smooth grey clay. A picture of the castle in-game. The stone walls have angular columns and hard "fins" that jut out, calling back to the strong geometry and long rays of art deco while maintaining a sharp and imposing look. A large wall looms at the front, with a dark gate at the center. In the distance behind the wall is a large tiered tower. It has a column of dark, angular "fins" going up the center of each tier with a more splayed burst of rays sitting on the highest tier like a stone flame.
November 30, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Along that theme, was blocking out a level and have most of the terrain done now. The first pic is just cubes in Unity to get a feel for the layout.

It's a series of cliffs and plateaus high above the canyons below. Still more to be done, but the all of the paths are in. #TheAutumnalKing #gamedev
A blockout of a series of cliffs and plateaus in Unity. Everything is made of out boxes of different shapes and sizes. The (mostly) finished terrain. The terrain is now properly modeled and is importantly not a bunch of boxes. The plateaus are connected by a series of rock arches creating a bit of a spiderweb of paths across the gaps between them. There is an enormous thicc-boy arch in the middle of all of this that supports some of the paths crossing by. On the right is a large table plateau where a large keep or fortress will go. The plateaus fade out into the white fog below.
November 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Sometimes I'll be roughing stuff out and get kinda down about it, like "this'll never work out what am I doing" (e.g. first pic). But then I remember stuff like the second pic that I'm happy with and it was just a bunch of cubes in unity to start out
#theautumnalking #gamedev
A very rough series of plateaus being modeled in blender. An open area inside a dim dungeon. There is a pale green light filling lighting up portions of the room. The room is made out of limestone that has been molded to appear weirdly organic, the supports and beams for the room appearing like a rib cage. In the distance you can see a broken balcony.
November 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Working on some building destruction stuff, and figured I'd see if I could get away with just using built-in collision boxes. It works okay with a few boxes (first clip), but when you make the building out of many small boxes (second clip) it hitches and stops working correctly.
October 1, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Just finished out my last day at PixelTailGames. Didn't want to push any breaking changes this week, so mostly just worked on an old condo map I started years ago.

It still needs work, so who knows if it'll get shipped now that I'm gone, but I'm very pleased with how the skyline was looking
September 20, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Because it's the right thing to do, dipshit. If you have enough money to be a land developer than you don't need to squeeze every last penny out, you have more than enough.
July 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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I gotta be more careful when I'm tired. I'm too susceptible to bad bitch propoganda
June 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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huh??
June 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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cross postin'
April 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Was going through my followers list because it looked like I was getting some bot follows and, well, I'm not too sure about This Guy.
March 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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it's ordered by approval percentage, you have to look up a little bit
January 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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mister chef looking into the sun
January 27, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Super rough, but after being mired in weird, Unity coding issues for so long, it feels really good to get some level work done.
November 29, 2024 at 4:45 AM
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Pioneering a new concepting technique I call "MS Paint"
Editor screenshot that's been drawn on crudely with MS Paint. Attempting to get the idea across of a big tree on a plateau fed by a small pond.
October 29, 2024 at 2:47 AM
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Not sure if this is the best way to right this but it made the bees in my head less angry than the colossal if statement I had originally started writing.

(for determining what wall segment to place on a grid)
Code that reads: switch (Curr.Type) { case ETileType::WAL: { uint8 WallCode = IsWall(Left) ? 0b1000 : 0 | IsWall(Right) ? 0b0100 : 0 | IsWall(Up) ? 0b0010 : 0 | IsWall(Down) ? 0b0001 : 0; switch (WallCode) { case 0b1000 : // right facing end; case 0b0100 : // left facing end; case 0b0010 : // down facing end; case 0b0001 : // up facing end; case 0b1100 : // horizontal case 0b0011 : // vertical case 0b1010 : // corner from left to up case 0b1001 : // corner from left to down case 0b0110 : // corner from right to up case 0b0101 : // corner from right to down case 0b0111 : // T missing left case 0b1011 : // T missing right case 0b1101 : // T missing up case 0b1110 : // T missing down case 0b1111 : // cross }
August 25, 2024 at 8:52 AM
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First order of business:
Disable auto-exposure.
A round topped door that glows as though it has been imbued with the fiery power of 1000 suns. A round topped door using the default grid-material.
August 24, 2024 at 8:29 PM