Taj Rauch
@tajrauch.bsky.social
Immersive Game Developer, Theater Designer & Filmmaker
Winner - 2025 Black Immersive Creator Grant
https://phillyfringe.org/events/after-worlds/
Winner - 2025 Black Immersive Creator Grant
https://phillyfringe.org/events/after-worlds/
Any #Philly folks interested in immersive events? I’ve got a show I’ve been writing for the past year that I’m excited to premiere next month.
After Worlds: The Immersive Installation
Check the link in my bio for tickets 👌🏽
#gamedev #3Danimation #liminal #immersive
After Worlds: The Immersive Installation
Check the link in my bio for tickets 👌🏽
#gamedev #3Danimation #liminal #immersive
August 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Any #Philly folks interested in immersive events? I’ve got a show I’ve been writing for the past year that I’m excited to premiere next month.
After Worlds: The Immersive Installation
Check the link in my bio for tickets 👌🏽
#gamedev #3Danimation #liminal #immersive
After Worlds: The Immersive Installation
Check the link in my bio for tickets 👌🏽
#gamedev #3Danimation #liminal #immersive
May 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
So excited to share with y’all the newly released trailer for WESTERN MEMORY. It’s a free to play multiplayer AR game developed by myself and @nebula-a.bsky.social and funded by the Niantic Developer Accelerator.
#blacksky #gamedev #Liminal #ARgaming #afrofuturism
#blacksky #gamedev #Liminal #ARgaming #afrofuturism
March 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
So excited to share with y’all the newly released trailer for WESTERN MEMORY. It’s a free to play multiplayer AR game developed by myself and @nebula-a.bsky.social and funded by the Niantic Developer Accelerator.
#blacksky #gamedev #Liminal #ARgaming #afrofuturism
#blacksky #gamedev #Liminal #ARgaming #afrofuturism
A new form of 3D scanning is being developed using voxels instead of splats.
Personally I’m not into the boxed aesthetic, I dig the digital brushstrokes of Gaussian Splatting and how organic they look, instead of this.
But new techniques, more options, are always good.
#gamedev #digitalart #3D
Personally I’m not into the boxed aesthetic, I dig the digital brushstrokes of Gaussian Splatting and how organic they look, instead of this.
But new techniques, more options, are always good.
#gamedev #digitalart #3D
March 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A new form of 3D scanning is being developed using voxels instead of splats.
Personally I’m not into the boxed aesthetic, I dig the digital brushstrokes of Gaussian Splatting and how organic they look, instead of this.
But new techniques, more options, are always good.
#gamedev #digitalart #3D
Personally I’m not into the boxed aesthetic, I dig the digital brushstrokes of Gaussian Splatting and how organic they look, instead of this.
But new techniques, more options, are always good.
#gamedev #digitalart #3D
March 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
3DGS ABSTRACTIONS 004
“Brooklyn Subway Station Through the Eye of a Needle”
#gaussiansplatting #gamedev #DigitalArt #3DArt
“Brooklyn Subway Station Through the Eye of a Needle”
#gaussiansplatting #gamedev #DigitalArt #3DArt
March 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
3DGS ABSTRACTIONS 004
“Brooklyn Subway Station Through the Eye of a Needle”
#gaussiansplatting #gamedev #DigitalArt #3DArt
“Brooklyn Subway Station Through the Eye of a Needle”
#gaussiansplatting #gamedev #DigitalArt #3DArt
It’s been cool to work with Splats because it feels very similar to working in projection design, in that it takes up space, but can’t be touched. Instead of it being a 3D model with collisions, it’s more like a virtual cast of light. Love it.
#gamedev #digitalart #liminal #gaussiansplatting
#gamedev #digitalart #liminal #gaussiansplatting
March 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It’s been cool to work with Splats because it feels very similar to working in projection design, in that it takes up space, but can’t be touched. Instead of it being a 3D model with collisions, it’s more like a virtual cast of light. Love it.
#gamedev #digitalart #liminal #gaussiansplatting
#gamedev #digitalart #liminal #gaussiansplatting
March 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
February 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
3DGS ABSTRACTIONS 001
“Between Side Streets of Germantown, Philadelphia”
#digitalart #3DGS #3Dart #gamedev
“Between Side Streets of Germantown, Philadelphia”
#digitalart #3DGS #3Dart #gamedev
February 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
3DGS ABSTRACTIONS 001
“Between Side Streets of Germantown, Philadelphia”
#digitalart #3DGS #3Dart #gamedev
“Between Side Streets of Germantown, Philadelphia”
#digitalart #3DGS #3Dart #gamedev
Update: Finally importing my scans into Godot and having a blast. Got a FPV controller going, now to dig deeper into the level design.
Also should probably resize the scan cuz rn I’m playing from the perspective of a toddler lol.
#gamdev #3DGS #immersive #godot
Also should probably resize the scan cuz rn I’m playing from the perspective of a toddler lol.
#gamdev #3DGS #immersive #godot
January 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Update: Finally importing my scans into Godot and having a blast. Got a FPV controller going, now to dig deeper into the level design.
Also should probably resize the scan cuz rn I’m playing from the perspective of a toddler lol.
#gamdev #3DGS #immersive #godot
Also should probably resize the scan cuz rn I’m playing from the perspective of a toddler lol.
#gamdev #3DGS #immersive #godot
Working with 3DGS in blender using the KIRI addon and though I love what I’m seeing, I need a way to import this into Godot. Exporting this as an obj file gives me an unusable MTL (sighted right), so it’s just gray.
3DGS is so dope, but the documentation and compatibility rn is 🙄
#gamedev #3DGS
3DGS is so dope, but the documentation and compatibility rn is 🙄
#gamedev #3DGS
January 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Slavoj Žižek on “shamelessness”. The whole speech is a fascinating listen.
January 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Slavoj Žižek on “shamelessness”. The whole speech is a fascinating listen.
In early stages of designing an unbeatable #boss that always follows the player. Curious on if I go with a singular entity, or an encroaching boundary of sorts. An entity can be #fear personified, whereas a boundary can symbolize the #unknown and be harder to empathize with.
What scares you most?
What scares you most?
December 24, 2024 at 2:22 PM
I love how creative the devs got with the solutions behind beating each Colossi in Shadow of the Colossus. The 11th having the fear of fire in a torch lined room was great, and the 12th was my favorite when I discovered striking the teeth of its crown drove it forward.
#gamedev #leveldesign #boss
#gamedev #leveldesign #boss
December 23, 2024 at 4:33 PM
I love how creative the devs got with the solutions behind beating each Colossi in Shadow of the Colossus. The 11th having the fear of fire in a torch lined room was great, and the 12th was my favorite when I discovered striking the teeth of its crown drove it forward.
#gamedev #leveldesign #boss
#gamedev #leveldesign #boss
Remember the moving newspapers in Harry Potter? I tried emulating the same feel with my #projection design for a production of Lady Day earlier this year. I loved how it turned out.
I masked out #jazz icons from archival videos to do it. Would love to try this again with another project.
#editing
I masked out #jazz icons from archival videos to do it. Would love to try this again with another project.
#editing
December 22, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Remember the moving newspapers in Harry Potter? I tried emulating the same feel with my #projection design for a production of Lady Day earlier this year. I loved how it turned out.
I masked out #jazz icons from archival videos to do it. Would love to try this again with another project.
#editing
I masked out #jazz icons from archival videos to do it. Would love to try this again with another project.
#editing
Yo Bluesky! I wanna get some #gamdev and #teachers heads on this and start a discussion.
So one of my jobs is being sent to inner city highschools to teach #theater and gamemaking.
Here’s a recent exercise taught to us teachers at a workshop, would love to know where everyone lands on this.
So one of my jobs is being sent to inner city highschools to teach #theater and gamemaking.
Here’s a recent exercise taught to us teachers at a workshop, would love to know where everyone lands on this.
December 19, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Thinking back to a session of mocap work at the CIM, part of the University of the Arts, where I used to teach before it shut down.
Mocap suits are dope, but I’m excited for the future of accessibility with single camera mocap, anyone try new platforms out there like MoveOne?
#gamedev #mocap
Mocap suits are dope, but I’m excited for the future of accessibility with single camera mocap, anyone try new platforms out there like MoveOne?
#gamedev #mocap
December 19, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Still love this edit I made a year ago with Ghost in the Shell
Song: 89 Earthquake - Larry June, The Alchemist
#animesky #blacksky #blackanimesky
Song: 89 Earthquake - Larry June, The Alchemist
#animesky #blacksky #blackanimesky
December 17, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Still love this edit I made a year ago with Ghost in the Shell
Song: 89 Earthquake - Larry June, The Alchemist
#animesky #blacksky #blackanimesky
Song: 89 Earthquake - Larry June, The Alchemist
#animesky #blacksky #blackanimesky
Last night was one of the craziest nights I’ve had in a while. Made a 3D game in 6 hours with my developer partner for Niantic’s Game Jam and honestly? I’m waking up to something I’m really proud of.
#gamedev #3DGS #narrativedesign #gamejam
#gamedev #3DGS #narrativedesign #gamejam
December 10, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Last night was one of the craziest nights I’ve had in a while. Made a 3D game in 6 hours with my developer partner for Niantic’s Game Jam and honestly? I’m waking up to something I’m really proud of.
#gamedev #3DGS #narrativedesign #gamejam
#gamedev #3DGS #narrativedesign #gamejam