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Game designer who loves PS1 and Cosmic Horror Working on retro Lovecraftian game and a small horror game ๐ŸŽฎ #indiegamedev

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Watched several interviews with devs and decided to postpone the purchase, until itโ€™ll have planned DLCs and I will have time for almost infinite game :D
Will probably buy ROUTINE instead.

06.03.2026 17:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A Million Dreams

Came back to this song from The Greatest Showman
And you know, it literally describes my life as a game designer, a kid that played on PS1 and instantly knew that I want to materialize my dreams into the games.
Years passed and now I have skills and relative financial stability to make my own game.

03.03.2026 18:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Played Crank it!
That's a creepy game for sure. Highly recommend to try it.

In it you have to crank the handle to recharge the batteries and use those batteries to both: protect yourself and get the elevator running to get out of the mines.
It's incredibly intense.
#crankit #mikeklubnika #indiegame

01.03.2026 14:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Now I remembered why I was waiting for the weekend, cool!

01.03.2026 06:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ON THY KNEES started as a tiny side project/warm up for my next game.

I ended up expanding on it to learn some new techniques & ideas.

Ended up with a cool little game I think.

You can get it here for Free: toothandclaw.itch.io/on-thy-knees

#ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #horrorgames

28.02.2026 21:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 60 ๐Ÿ” 16 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It looks like Pokรฉmon, but due to international copyright law, it isnโ€™t!

Cool designs, jokes aside :D

01.03.2026 06:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For me itโ€™s like a plane made of glass, it looks cool, you can see the effort and skill put into this, you can enjoy looking at it, but it wonโ€™t f*cking fly.

Especially as you said - UI. It looks cool, but when you start to use it - it just doesnโ€™t work.

01.03.2026 06:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s Bungie, and I know for sure that they know how to make games, so I have no Idea what happened with Marathon.
Game let you feel like youโ€™re playing the video game for the first time. And not like โ€œVideo games are so amazingโ€ but โ€œWhat should I press? Where should I go? What am I supposed to do?โ€

28.02.2026 07:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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One simple example.
Look, hereโ€™s 8 skills. There are 4 types of them in this pic. Can you tell the difference?
Me neither.
#marathon

28.02.2026 07:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Played Marathon Server slam.
Style is unique, animations are awesome, shooting feels good.
Everything else is, well, I donโ€™t think the game will have a long life. I canโ€™t see ammo type, without opening backpack, TONS of text instead of pictures and colour code, etc

#marathon

28.02.2026 07:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When Iโ€™ll finish all my freelance tasks this week, Iโ€™ll gift myself Mewgenics.

26.02.2026 21:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Machin3 have several addons dedicated to Hard surface modelling, but I found Tools incredibly useful for low-poly stuff
I revisit documentation once in a while to remind myself of some features that Iโ€™m using not so often
Oh! Also I use align pie a lot to quickly align verts by just dragging mouse

22.02.2026 14:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Some I even donโ€™t remember not being a part of vanilla blender, so itโ€™s hard to say haha

22.02.2026 13:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Switching between modes with pie on Tab, connecting vertices by different rules with just one button (smart vertices) also creating new object out of selected faces with one button, mirroring objects
Also Shading Pie to quickly switch between shading views, Snap pie from previous message

22.02.2026 13:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I use MACHIN3Tools for all my day to day blender stuff and canโ€™t live without it (recommend checking documentation, maybe itโ€™s something you also didnโ€™t know you needed), my Shift + S looks like this in edit mode:
Lower options allows to quickly change origin to something, depending on context

22.02.2026 04:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Bearded man looking at a creepy rabbit toy in a deemly lit room

Bearded man looking at a creepy rabbit toy in a deemly lit room

If you like horrors - go watch Caveat without reading/watching anything beforehand.
Movie managed to surprise me, to scare me and gave an interesting story with unique premise.
Recommend.
#horror

19.02.2026 17:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Iโ€™m blown away by how good Parasite Eve 2 is and how much it differs from the first one. So many changes and improvements in both gameplay and graphics that I canโ€™t even process it :D
#ParasiteEve

17.02.2026 14:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cut scenes progress between Parasite Eve 1 and 2 is crazy!
#ParasiteEve #retrogames

17.02.2026 11:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I also like how they use Zebra instead of a critically acclaimed yellow paint :D

17.02.2026 01:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just finished replaying it with a friend too. Will go into DLC tomorrow :)

16.02.2026 19:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Finished Parasite Eve
Last boss is a nightmare
4 phases, the third one felt immortal on the first run really.
And after the boss thereโ€™s a chase sequence that you can fail easily.

#ParasiteEve

16.02.2026 14:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

311 and literally cleaning it up several times, yet it still have 311 great games. The problem is, I already have roughly 300 unplayed games in the library and 39 of them are marked like โ€œIโ€™d start playing it rn and I want it badlyโ€

16.02.2026 05:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well, I guess Ubi canโ€™t do things properly after all haha
Thanks for pointing out, but now Iโ€™m a little bit sad as well ๐Ÿ˜”

16.02.2026 05:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Both actors got replaced in the latest games. Both games havenโ€™t had sequels for like 10 years. And they met in Rainbow six, but this moment in the trailer warms my heart for some reason and gives me chills. I just see it separate from siege, as a treat for my young self, playing on ps2 back then.

16.02.2026 01:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I didnโ€™t know that seeing and hearing Michael Ironsides Sam Fisher greet and handshake David Hayters Snake will slam me so far back into the past, when I played both game series and adored them a lot.

16.02.2026 01:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Canโ€™t agree more

15.02.2026 11:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think they want either to look creative or to make a product for profit, not a game.

15.02.2026 11:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I adore the experience when youโ€™re looking at the boss and be like โ€œhuh, itโ€™s just a crab, ezโ€
And next second mfโ€™s eyes pop out of its head, start flying and shoot lasers at you for half HP.
#ParasiteEve #retrogames

14.02.2026 18:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And MGS 4 and Peace Walker? Wow! Whatโ€™s next, Bloodborn?

13.02.2026 10:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Dino Crisis 1 and 2 are now on Steam, Death Stranding 2 on PC March 19, is this Christmas?

13.02.2026 10:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1