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SCOOZ @scoozvirtual.bsky.social · Jan 1

i'm the first woman to play Tonic Trouble in 2025. fuck you.

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Amy Farbright 💻🦔 (CHECK PINNED) @amy.fruitbasket.gay · 12h

hey #portfolioday and #gamedev!
i'm a programmer with >7 years of commercial+hobby gamedev experience, across many disciplines. recently a commercial game i worked on shipped! but now i'm looking for other work to cover my bases. check out my site for other projects+contact info foreverwip.github.io

In late 2022 I was hired by GalaxyTrail under contract to work on various projects, with work centered around prototyping core game systems, integration of assets, and implementation of certain graphical effects. The first project out of this to release is Chrono Gear: Warden of Time, a hololive game published under the holo Indie label, released in September 2025. Shown here is one of my contributions, the "Stasis" ability which was adapted from a variable-timescale prototype I designed for another project. The technical design of this ability was used throughout the game for similar time-control effects.

In late 2023 I started working with STUDIO//LYNFLO offering general development assistance with their upcoming game DRAGONFRUIT: a mother's love, powered by Godot Engine. Here is just one example of what I've worked on: a dynamic shadow system that switches between realtime shadow casting and a static "directionless" shadow sprite based on distance and intensity of surrounding lights.

This is a work-in-progress full port of Sonic the Hedgehog (revision 1) for the Mega Drive to C, designed and built over the course of roughly 19 months as of April 2025.

The intent of this project is to provide a base from which the game and its mechanics can be experienced and ported to a variety of platforms, without any compromise to how the gameplay handed in the original. The version of Sonic 1 currently promoted by Sega is not a port but a remake of the original, made with a completely different game engine (in fact, it's the same Retro Engine that I've hacked on in my other hobby projects, go figure). Unlike that version, this project is built off of the original Mega Drive game's machine code, with as few changes made as possible.

All game code has been successfully converted (barring some inaccuracies my testing might not have picked up), so now all current work is centered on cleaning up the generated code, further decoupling the drawing code from the VDP, and adding additional features. In this screenshot, I demonstrate the additional features such as widescreen support and custom shaders (blurring the background to make the foreground more readable).

Screenshot of work on Sonic the Hedgehog 2 HD, a fan remake of the original game, showing a full 3D rendition of the special stage. What was once a 2D background with perspective tricks is now a full 3D scene, with objects positioned in three axes instead of two. When I first joined the team, there was already some work done on a procedural 3D renderer that generated polygons on the fly based on the original game's data, but it was very simple and offered a very limited view of the stage.

One of the main goals I wanted to achieve with the new renderer was for the player to be able to see the twists and turns of the rest of the track in the distance as they went through the stage; The main draw of the stages in the original was their 3D look and being able to look ahead of you, so it felt like a natural step forward. At the time though, the renderer was only designed to generate the track relative to where you were in it.

I ended up doing an almost complete rewrite of the renderer; I wrote my own spatial hash implementation and camera class in order to cull geometry, and rewrote our geometry generator to calculate all vertices only once at load time. Along with some extra shaders I integrated into the renderer, it provided an incomplete, but still more engaging visual demonstration of what the game could do to give a classic scene a modern coat of paint.

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SCOOZ @scoozvirtual.bsky.social · 6h

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Kao the Kangaroo on GBA is cheating because no one alive has ever cared about it, but man is it ass. only an hour long tho

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pollo @pollovy.bsky.social · 1d

susie had an idea

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SCOOZ @scoozvirtual.bsky.social · 1d

TAMERS12345 MLP
wildly oscillates between the most outrageously offensive, disgusting bullshit and surprisingly endearing drama. it's kind of fucking awesome, revealed a lot 2 me about what i resonate with in comedy.
watched with a stupid lesbian who cried @ the uri & yaoi <3

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Gemlik_rogue @gemlik-rogue.bsky.social · 1d

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SCOOZ @scoozvirtual.bsky.social · 2d

CREEP
heartwarming look into romantic life of a gay guy on furaffinity with and a twitter AD that only has suicide bait & nudes. was he creepy, or was he just a lil autistic?

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SCOOZ @scoozvirtual.bsky.social · 2d

ADACA
cool lil fps game w/ some really neat valvey level design. didnt take any screenshots but it was a good lil FPS!!!!!!!!!

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SCOOZ @scoozvirtual.bsky.social · 2d

never kill yourself

SCOOZ @scoozvirtual.bsky.social · 5d

u are the embodiment of nice dot com AND epic dot net........

SCOOZ @scoozvirtual.bsky.social · 5d

happy birthday @fiffle.fruitbasket.gay !!!!!!!! it's scary that you're so old your all grey and gay but that's ok :)

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SCOOZ @scoozvirtual.bsky.social · 5d

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SCOOZ @scoozvirtual.bsky.social · 6d

only a few more left!

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SCOOZ @scoozvirtual.bsky.social · 6d

shes probably thinking, of sandwiches. or maybe about throwing jars of pickle brine at trains

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analog ladyland (comm slots open!) @cathodegaytube.bsky.social · 6d

oho? what's got her smilin like thaaaat :3c

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cute lil drawin of my fursona Fiffle from last week in one of my favorite outfits! ft. the fallsy new hair color i'm gettin soon :3

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SCOOZ @scoozvirtual.bsky.social · 6d

bought a stupid chud skeleson at the dollar store

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Vi99i8 @vi99i8.bsky.social · 8d

Comm work for Oatmeal !

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SCOOZ @scoozvirtual.bsky.social · 8d

realest shit ever written

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SCOOZ @scoozvirtual.bsky.social · 8d

whatever. go my jarleys

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Vulcan 🌙 @vulcanmoon.bsky.social · 9d

needy

3 traditional sketchbook drawings with blue and pink undersketches and black lines. they depict amuro ray and char aznable from zeta gundam.

in the left drawing, amuro stands fully dressed with one hand on his hip and the other on char's head. he looks down at char, who is on their knees naked with their arms wrapped around amuro's thighs, holding on.

in the top right drawing, amuro and char are in their turtleneck tank tops. amuro holds char's face in his hands, thumbs brushing over char's cheeks. char's hands hold amuro's to their face, eyes closed as they take in the touch.

in the bottom right drawing, amuro looks down at char, eyebrows furrowed but blushing. he asks, "what should i do with you?" char looks up at him, with amuro's hands on their cheeks and a reverent look on their face, and says, "whatever you want <3"

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Casval Rem Pike-un ☄️🍩 @redcomets.net · 9d

Good morning and happy Suletta Sunday

Suletta Mercury text post meme. "soon as she unblocks me the wedding is back on"

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 10d

Artwork used internally at DIC Entertainment during the production of the Super Mario World cartoon, replacing Marge Simpson with Mario. According to a former DIC employee, this was made due to an inside joke at the studio, though the exact nature of the joke has been lost.

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SCOOZ @scoozvirtual.bsky.social · 10d

MALIBU'S MOST WANTED
they made a movie about Dave Strider and it's horrible (in a positive way. kind of)

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SCOOZ @scoozvirtual.bsky.social · 11d

BRAINDEAD (DEAD ALIVE)
kiwi looney tunes w/ some of the most hilarious gore ever put 2 film. moves with a confidence, style, and craft that u rarely see in comedy-horror films. peter jackson PLEASE give me the 4k remaster NOW

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SCOOZ @scoozvirtual.bsky.social · 11d

made a salami buddy 2day out in the wild

SCOOZ @scoozvirtual.bsky.social · 12d

SWING LOWE SWEET CHARIOTE
watched it cuz of this clip i saw on tiktok. zero budget tubi movie but lowkey fuckin ruled, really well made 4 its budget. great campy crime drama. i watch lots of tubi trash but this was actually shot and edited like a movie.......... very fun dot com

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