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Robert Cadena @robertcadena.bsky.social · 9h

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Robert Cadena @robertcadena.bsky.social · 1d

Me cutting my kid an orange at 5 in the goddamn morning

videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · Jul 9

magazine screenshot (1987) archive.org/details/mico...

tiny red dressed protagonist, advancing towards a massive skeleton, holding a sword, on a lower platform. a flying skull is coming from behind but above.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 1d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 1d

Another seasonal toon from the Larchives.

cartoon of a little blep black cat peering out from a jack o lantern.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙.˚⊹.🎃₊˚𖦹⋆ @dungeonlust.com · 1d

Art by • Tim Hildebrandt

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 1d

Something from the Larchives just because :)

cartoon of Linus asleep while the Great Pumpkin leaves gifts and candy around his bedside.

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Sgif @sgif.bsky.social · 2d

6. Pierce

#inktober #inktober2025 #art #pixelart #digitalart #aseprite

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Robert Cadena @robertcadena.bsky.social · 2d

From Italian Skeleton on Mastodon:

"I've just found out a site specialized in preserving artworks made for/on the #Amiga computers and man ... if one could fall in love with a style, this would be it"

mastodon.social/@ItalianSkel...

Italian Skeleton (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image I've just found out a site specialized in preserving artworks made for/on the #Amiga computers and man ... if one could fall in love with a style, this would be it https://amiga.ly...

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Robert Cadena @robertcadena.bsky.social · 2d

Michael Scott is Jewish?

Robert Cadena @robertcadena.bsky.social · 2d

Pres trump is bucking tradition and lega precedent in grabbing women by their crotch, or pussy, as he refers to it, because, he says, “when you’re a movie star they let you do it”

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Gamedev witch🧙‍♀️ @jesslinuxera.bsky.social · 2d

Something’s watching from the shadows… 👀
#pixelart #retro #indiegamedev

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Vince Dorse @vincedorse.bsky.social · 3d

Welcome Great Pumpkin! Part One of our Halloween diorama is complete. youtu.be/bWSVr1UtF1I
#GreatPumpkin #Halloween

close up of Linus Van Pelt's head being sculpted with polymer clay, a silicone sculpting tool shaping his inner ear

Linus and Sally, rendered in grey, polymer clay, sitting on a wooden block

Close up of a paint marker drawing Linus' hair onto the top of his head

Image of finished diorama, part one, with Linus and Sally sitting amongst a grouping of pumpkins, surrounded by the leaves of the pumpkin patch. Linus holds a wooden sign that says "Welcome Great Pumpkin."

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 2d

A crt TV photo of Earthion's intro running on our Mega Drive, with an anime style cutscene of the protag in a red helmeted flight suit in the cockpit of her scifi space fighter

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Robert Cadena @robertcadena.bsky.social · 2d

Here's my little guy with new crouching animation. Discovered a bug where he can jump into a short space and he goes bonkers.

#pixelart #gamedev #indiegamedev #animation

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Robert Cadena @robertcadena.bsky.social · 2d

I haven’t opened this project in a few weeks and as soon as I did I chuckled at this little devilish gnome guy

#indiegamedev #gamedev #pixelart #godot

My drawing tablet and monitor displaying a funny little pixel art gnome on the bottom in asesprite and the same but in an animation sheet in Godot

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Lars • Iskotaa @lars.bsky.social · 2d

I finally buckled and wrote a tutorial I've been meaning to write for ages.

If you're a non-tech person that is tired of having to change social media platforms and want a simple blog on the web, this is for you 🪄

iskotaa.com/blog/2025-10...

Create your own free & portable website (for non-techies)

Astro is easy for anyone to set up, and hosting static files is often free, so you don't need to spend a lot to curate your presence on the web.

iskotaa.com

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Robert Cadena @robertcadena.bsky.social · 2d

Look at those covers and those screenshots. Dunno: I never felt betrayed by the illustrations not matching the screenshots and I never felt like they needed to match.

Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 2d

There's a 1991 SSI catalogue inside our copy, and it's an interesting look into this transitional period for them. There's still some life in the ageing 'Gold Box' engine, but Eye of the Beholder is the new shiny new hotness.

"Break through to new levels of computer role-playing.!" An eye of the Beholder cover art skeleton looms menacingly on the cover of this catalogue, with several other AD&D and Buck Rogers game boxes around it.

Eye of the Beholder gets a full page feature with box art, screenies, and descriptive and promo text, and so does Buck Rogers, Countdown to Doomsday.

Pools of Radiance, the OG Gold Box AD&D RPG gets plenty of love in this brochure and still on sale, and the first Dragonlance RPG under the Gold Box releases, Champions of Krynn, is also promoed.

Dragonstrike! The first-person dragon flight combat simulator from Westwood Studios.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 2d

Four adventurers descend to unknown depths,
With sword and spell and measured, cautious steps.
From Waterdeep, a call they did not ignore,
To find the vanished Xanathar once more. 🎶🎻

The first dungeon crawler I ever played. 💜

A photo of Eye of the Beholder, Amiga boxed release with the textured paper map of several sewer levels in the box as a background

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Tinotenda Mabasa @tinotendamabasa.bsky.social · 3d

🎮High-quality pixel art character sprites designed for video games — for smooth animation, unique style, with polishing.

For indie developers & retro projects by Darryn Elle.
⭐ 5.0 79 reviews | From 💲45

Order here: go.fiverr.com/visit/?bta=1...

#PixelArt #GameDev #2DArt #SpriteDesign #IndieGame

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Robert Cadena @robertcadena.bsky.social · 2d

That carriage and everything in that black and white drawing is incredibly detailed. I wish I could see Pepe’s reference files

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 3d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · Jul 6

pitfall!, game of the month, electronic fun with computers & games, magazine (1983) archive.org/details/elec...

a mockup illustration made to look like a screen from pitfall! with the protagonist using a rope to swing over a pool full of alligators. a snake is on the left as is a ladder leading down into a cavern. a scorpion is down in the cavern. on the right is a bar of gold(?). background is green and trees. score and time are shown in the upper left hand corner. upper right hand corner had some diagonal white text that says:
pitfall! game of the month
activion's jungle adventure game combines superb color graphics and excellent game play.

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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙.˚⊹.🎃₊˚𖦹⋆ @dungeonlust.com · 3d

Art by • Steve Crisp

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Robert Cadena @robertcadena.bsky.social · 3d

Aaaah! The controls on this game were so difficult on the c64. I loved the cover art and the pixel art on the PC did it justice. You can see more screenshots here: www.myabandonware.com/game/dragons...

༺ƊǗƝƓĘƠΝƁÏƬƇΗ🌙🦇.𖥔 ݁ ˖ @dungeonbitch.bsky.social · 3d

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