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Dare Looks
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a.k.a. Marig • 37 • he/they • aro/ace • game developer. professional lynx.

🌐 http://darelooks.dev
🎮 Get 'Stack Prootocol' on Steam: https://s.team/a/3937000
🎮 Get 'Pawperty Damage' on Steam: https://s.team/a/2154650
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Stack Prootocol is out NOW! 🎉

Puzzle and bounce your way through 40+ levels, to help little Meep get RAM and repair a broken toaster!

Get the game on Steam:
store.steampowered.com/app/3937000/...

#indiedev #gamedev #godot #lowpoly
Sampling way too many gradients and passing the colors into a custom sky shader, haha
January 11, 2026 at 3:33 PM
What a mess to set up, but at least it gives me a lot of visual control!
January 11, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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Times flies.

I've been polishing the game's day-night-cycle!
#screenshotsaturday #godot
January 10, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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Working on dat panda character controller got an aiming mode AND a silly run animation.

#godot
January 10, 2026 at 6:59 PM
thank you :D
January 10, 2026 at 7:06 PM
High-speed reeds!
January 10, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Times flies.

I've been polishing the game's day-night-cycle!
#screenshotsaturday #godot
January 10, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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sending away the first order of my shop! Finally! Hoooray!
ko-fi.com/eosfoxx/shop
check it out :D there might be a perfect valentines gift for a foxy friend
Visit EosFoxx's Shop!
I've opened a shop. Come take a look!
ko-fi.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Thank youuu
January 9, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Thanks :D
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
THANK YOU!!
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
It occurred to me recently, and I have been letting everyone around me know, haha
January 9, 2026 at 5:06 PM
💜
January 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Danke, danke! ^^
January 9, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Thank you :D
January 9, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Thank you!!
January 9, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Thanks! :D
January 9, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Thank youu 💜
January 9, 2026 at 4:14 PM
My favorite flower? Marigold. 🌼
Because I am Marig, and I am old.

Birthday time. 🎉
January 9, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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For No Reason in Particular Here’s a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis
For No Reason in Particular Here's a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis - Hard Drive
The Nazis are the most despicable scum to ever walk the face of the earth. Thankfully they were defeated in World War... Get the full story
hard-drive.net
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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"No fucking AI assets" - a reminder that many good publishers that will disqualify any prototype with genAI placeholders, and that using it is at your own peril. Hooded Horse happens to be one of the best publishers out there at the moment, so this is a big one.

kotaku.com/hooded-horse...
This Publisher Is Banning AI Because Of Ethics: 'It's Cancerous'
Hooded Horse won't work with developers that use gen AI
kotaku.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs
January 9, 2026 at 6:48 AM
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I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice:

www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1...

I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.
January 8, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Thank youuu! 💜
January 9, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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Better late than never: Here's my yearly tradition of making a compilation of WIP videos and projects I've worked on, over the course of last year!

Mostly COYL and Stack Prootocol—my first full year of Godot!
#gamedev #indiedev #godot
January 8, 2026 at 7:35 PM