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Rob Davis
@rd4vis.bsky.social
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🕯️ Tech Artist and VFX Artist for WaxHeart 🕯️
👾 Solo dev 👾
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Rob Davis @rd4vis.bsky.social · Oct 24
Hey everyone! My name is Rob, I’m a game developer who’s especially interested in tech art, graphics programming, and most recently realtime VFX!

Here’s the completed piece I’m most proud of: a realtime ocean simulation in Godot 4 inspired by @acerola.gg ‘s videos!
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waxheartgame.bsky.social
Sometimes Making a Game Means Creating Your Own Genre…Sort Of 🤔 #indiegame #indiedev #waxheartgame
October 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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lorenschmidt.bsky.social
one wonderful thing about the new game making philosophy i'm seeing emerge is that people aren't trying for a commercial edge, they're just doing things they're excited about. we're all doing weird specific and complimentary experiments in parallel. we're all collaborating and enriching one another.
February 1, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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joeyschutz.bsky.social
went and wrote about gameplay loops :)

blog.joeyschutz.com/the-case-aga...
screenshot of a paragraph from the blog, which reads: The whole premise of the core loop game is to figure out a thing you can do for hours and hours. Refine that mechanic until it’s something broad enough and bendable enough, without specificity, to be deployed in a thousand different contexts. And then you go and make a lot of stuff with it. It’s a harsh delineation between the form (the mechanics) and the content (what you do). And usually it leaves me feeling unmoved. Usually it leaves me feeling like neither has much of a purpose. The content is there to justify the mechanics, and the mechanics are there to give you something to do with the content...and we never make anything with a real purpose. What is any of this for?
December 28, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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rasheedabueideh.bsky.social
After years away from game dev, I couldn’t stay silent about my people’s dehumanization. I made Dreams on a Pillow 🍉a game inspired by a famous Palestinian folktale about the 1948 Nakba.

I’m crowdfunding it now—please back & share!
🔗 launchgood.com/1948
Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood
A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land
www.launchgood.com
November 28, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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jacobgeller.com
I'm absolutely becoming the annoying Nine Sols guy but DO NOT SLEEP ON NINE SOLS!!!!
November 19, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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austinmwav.com
no matter what you do in games, no matter how successful or unsuccessful your game is: you are on the chopping block. the executives will sacrifice you to pad their wallets.
lukeplunkett.com Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · Oct 29
"we did everything we were supposed to"
October 29, 2024 at 8:44 PM
rd4vis.bsky.social
Hey everyone! My name is Rob, I’m a game developer who’s especially interested in tech art, graphics programming, and most recently realtime VFX!

Here’s the completed piece I’m most proud of: a realtime ocean simulation in Godot 4 inspired by @acerola.gg ‘s videos!
October 24, 2024 at 1:43 AM