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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · Aug 31

Update on the #ArcVenture Online project - on the website now - mobile controls upgrade 🤓#RogueEngine #threejs #historyteacher #indiedev arcventure.online/2025/08/31/u...

Updating the Mobile Controls

Before making the new online dig site available for testing I have been doing a round trip on the player controls and have decided that the mobile controls need an update. In previous browser based ac...

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · 28d

Sunday morning complete re-write to add first person elevator mechanism to move between rooms in the space stations #indiedev #indiegamedev #threejs #RogueEngine @technovisualspace.bsky.social - this works in #VR too and it's looking pretty groovy 😎

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · Aug 31

Update on the #ArcVenture Online project - on the website now - mobile controls upgrade 🤓#RogueEngine #threejs #historyteacher #indiedev arcventure.online/2025/08/31/u...

Updating the Mobile Controls

Before making the new online dig site available for testing I have been doing a round trip on the player controls and have decided that the mobile controls need an update. In previous browser based ac...

arcventure.online

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · Aug 20

Myth Confirmed! Youtube shorts use a FUBAR compression setting which you can't change 🤨 (or not as far as I can see 👀)

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Just posting this here to see if Youtube make the same pigs ear of the compression as it did with my previous short - I suspect the compression settings for shorts are FUBAR

Three Little Bruins Great Adventure (Excerpt)

YouTube video by Mark Vanstone

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · Aug 19

Not enough cats on my timeline - here's Floki (ginger) with his uncle Widdy chillin' #catsofbluesky #cats #blackcat #gingercat

A black cat sitting with a ginger cat in long grass.

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TechnoVisual Space @technovisualspace.bsky.social · Aug 18

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TechnoVisual Space Intro and gameplay demo August 2025

YouTube video by Mark Vanstone

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · Aug 16

All 5 of ours last night in the same photo together!!! 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

Four black cats and one ginger cat sat on walls and a table in an english garden

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · Aug 12

New home for the new Space game development 👀space.technovisual.co.uk #indiedev #solodev #indiegamedev #threejs #RogueEngine #VR - check out the new intro video ⚡

The TechnoVisual Space Game Development

TechnoVisual Space, a 3D Online browser space adventure game for mobile, desktop and VR. In development at TechnoVisual Games.

space.technovisual.co.uk

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · Jul 28

New updates on the #ArcVenture blog - check it out here: arcventure.online/2025/07/27/t... #threejs #RogueEngine #history #education

The New Dig Site is Complete

The new Bancroft digsite is now functional and working entirely in a browser and should work on a wide variety of platforms including mobile and VR headsets. There is a new working Reconstructor and y...

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · Jul 27

Well done ladies ⚽️ 😍

Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · Jul 19

I didn't use paint for my studio, I had a fabric backdrop - but the most important part is lighting - it must be evenly lit - I used long florescent tubes around the background and a couple of defuse boxes uplighting + one key-light from above/behind www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Vi...

Bernie Marsden Demonstrates his PRS SE Signature Guitar

YouTube video by Technovisual

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Chris Lovell @mrlovellcomp.bsky.social · Jul 16

Register for my @microbit.org game making workshop on 29th September with CAS 😁 It's online, 🆓 and will be awesome 🕹️🎮👾 Check here for more info 👉 www.computingatschool.org.uk/events/2025/...

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · Jul 9

This is the frame registration - the fly-wheel turns with a stepper motor and contacts with a piece of copper tape - if it hasn't reached the copper tape then the motor advances another step until the green led lights - then we're good to go with the frame capture.

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · Jul 9

And here's the scanning equipment in action 😱🧐🤪

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · Jul 9

Captured using a Raspberry Pi with Picamera (HQ) in HD from a 16mm cine film nearly 80 years old! The film runs at 24 frames per second but I have upsampled it to 60fps - the sound was captured separately using an optical sound read head on a Bell and Howell Filmosound.

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · Jul 9

$3 million grant to make that questionnaire - and that's all it takes to get your answer 🐈

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · Jul 6

This is part of a quick fly-through in VR to give you an idea of how things are coming together.
If you want to get early access to the game and tutorials about how it's being made. #threejs #RogueEngine
The full video was first shown on the Patreon Post: www.patreon.com/posts/full-o...

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · Jul 6

AI is like a Quad bike - it's really fun for a while - there are probably some good uses for it if properly used - but if you use it for everything you're gunna need a crash hat ⛑️

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · Jun 30

Yep - that's the look 🤪- but I was ZX81 machine code - poke 16514 - IYKYN 😉

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TechnoVisual Space @technovisualspace.bsky.social · Jun 30

Haven't posted any progress on my Space project for a while - but I have been beavering away converting the web elements into Rogue Engine - but you can fly around to different locations and move from room to room in the space stations. youtu.be/ktsH2IbZQTQ #RogueEngine #threejs #indiegame

TechnoVisual Space Travels around Lokia Harbour

YouTube video by Mark Vanstone

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · Jun 24

For some context - this is a 16mm cine film from 1946 captured with a homemade converted cine projector bsky.app/profile/mark...

Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · May 25

I love it when a plan comes together 🤪 - 16mm cine film scanner project to convert movies to HD mp4 - converted Bell&Howell TQI projector using #RaspberryPi to control everything with python script using #opencv to capture and encode #16mm #retrocine #RPI #retrofilm #rpihack

16mm projector with Raspberry Pi enhancements: stepper motor, HD microscope and LED backlight

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · Jun 24

Replaced the '4K' camera in my 16mm cine scanner with an HQ Raspberry Pi cam - getting much better results now - getting quite happy with the output now. #16mmfilm #retrovideo #16mm #cinefilm #raspberrypi #opencv #python

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Ukie @ukieofficial.bsky.social · Jun 24

Britain finally gets it, video games are big business.

The Creative Industries Sector Plan just dropped, and for the first time, video games aren't an afterthought, but part of the solution! This is a huge achievement for our industry and video games.

Read more: zurl.co/PRjeo

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Marky V @markyv.bsky.social · May 25

Still need to sort out the finer points of sprockets and rotations but the first output is looking promising 😀🤓

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