Ricardo Tucker 🔜 GDC!

Bump!! I fly into SF today and will be around through next Saturday!

Any mutuals also going let's meet up!

Screenshot of Nomad Sculpt on the iPad, where I sculpted my creature design Humongrasp

First time trying out Nomad Sculpt bc my lazy ass wants to 3d model on the couch. idk if I’d commit to doing 100% of my sculpting in it yet, but I like it so far!

#3dart #gamedev

Feels like the legacy of this game won't be the game itself but rather the fact that it's *the* case study for how unsustainable the current state of the games industry is.

Even if it's a fluffed PR number, 2 million players still not being enough to last longer than a month is totally wild to me

The concept of watermarking an AI generated image is frying me

"don't steal my image that I made using stolen images" 🥴

yep I can accept this for sure

Close up of Browt, the new and very adorable grass starter from Pokemon Winds & Waves

BROWT my beloved 🌱😭💕

One of the best first looks for a new Pokemon game we've seen in a looong time, praying the gameplay holds up to how good this trailer looked when it finally releases!

The 2027 release date gives me hope that GF actually has time to cook with this one 🙏🙏🙏

BROWT

Officially booked for GDC!! It's been 3 years since last time I attended, so I'm super excited to be able to make it again this year! 🎉

Gimme a shout if you're also gonna be there and want to connect!

A screenshot from the Nazi site. Geoff Keighley: Hope you're enjoying the show so far! gaming disorder pawg: You fucked her. You fucked Miss Piggy.

Screenshot of the main characters from Orbitals high fiving

Also very into this aesthetic for Orbitals!!! 🌟

Coven of the Chickenfoot is probably gonna be my favorite trailer/announcement of the Game Awards tbh, I'm a sucker for unconventional hero + animal companion 😍

I've genuinely wondered for years why anybody still held Geoff or TGA to any legitimate regard when they obviously don't care about the industry beyond pandering to corporations, but *even then* I still hoped to be a part of Future Class someday.

Clearly it got too in the way of the pandering... 🫠🥴

Just seeing this project for the first time since I haven't been on Bsky in a while, but this is genuinely one of the coolest looking prototypes I've seen in a while

Going down the rabbit hole (pun intended) of your progress has been awesome, excited to see more!

This is actually so sick dude!! I literally just finished Animal Well for the first time like a month ago and this is already making me nostalgic for it again haha

Blessed by the gods to have snagged the 2nd to last one at my local Best Buy for the launch event last night 🙏🙏🙏

Definitely was a DUMB idea to assume the Switch 2 pre-order reservation would actually come from Nintendo and not look into other options for getting a Switch at launch...

We'll see if I can snag one on launch week but I'm fully expecting to have to wait a bit at this point 😭

LOVE Short Hike!! Haven't played Viewfinder yet but looking it up I remember seeing videos of it when it came out!

On sale for 55% off right now too, gonna just nab it now 😍

100% yes would recommend! It feels like the world's most elaborate escape room so if you're into that then you'd absolutely love it!

⚠️SPOILER WARNING⚠️

(Are there spoiler tags here?? Sorry 😭)

If it weren't for the fact that 1 of the bunnies can't be found without looking it up, I'd have found all 16 on my own. I did get the true ending (65 egg) solo so I'm pretty proud of getting to Layer 4 almost guideless.

HUGE flex, ik 🧠

It is a very cool feeling to have a game switch me to a mindset of "they're showing me this for a reason, right?" about literally everything.

It's very rewarding to feel delusional about a thing being important, only to be right like 10 hours later.

If you like games like Tunic or DDLC, play this!

The beauty of this game is its ability to hide clues in plain sight to a point where you can revisit a room 3-4 times and find new information EVERY TIME.

I don't think I've ever had a game make me truly excited to backtrack the entire map AGAIN just because I found a new item or hint to a secret

I'm not a metroidvania fan in general, so at first I wasn't really that into the challenging platforming since the backtracking was killing me (esp when I died and had to redo a ton of rooms).

But the game does a pretty amazing job at easing the difficulty as you progress and collect key items.

a video game called animal well has two rabbits on the cover Alt: The title screen for the game Animal Well. It has 2 purple rabbits sitting on grass underneath the title text, with mystical colors swirling in the background

First 2025 game review: Animal Well!!

About a year late to playing this, but I'm genuinely surprised by how much I LOVE this game.

Didn't think much of it from the GDC demo a few years ago, but I'm so glad I gave it another chance after seeing the hype around it omg

9.5/10

Yes!!! Honestly I play almost exclusively indie at this point, Pokemon is probably the only AAA I consistently keep up with at this point.

Started with Animal Well, blazed through it in like 3 days bc I got obsessed, and now just started Blue Prince last night!! Really on a puzzle game grind rn lol

Ah this is great, thanks for sharing! ✨️

This is awesome, congrats on the launch!! 🎉🎉

📢 Announcement:

✨ VFX Vault is online ✨
➡️ www.vfx-vault.com

I'm part of this huge project we've been cooking for many months 🎉

➡️ High quality realtime-vfx asset library for UE -> materials & VFX are game ready for your own project

#vfx #rtvfx #UnrealEngine #gamedev #realtimeVFX #UE5 #indiedev

This is amazing! (Also marveling at all of your other procedural materials from this month too)

Do you have any resources or anything you'd recommend for getting more into making materials like this?