Allow me to brighten your day, and more than a little, with this 111th consecutive ScreenshotSaturday Mastodon Musings, a feature of hand-picked posts with comments from yours truly.
This week, the creative coolness of @skyboygames @schottidev @straycloudgame @turbohermit @Anton_Bergman @pondlife @balint and @silver978 was featured!
https://www.wraithkal.com/screenshotsaturday-mastodon-musings-august-2-2025/
My experimental deferred renderer now supports:
Transparency PBR CPU Particles.
I modified Godot a bit to access CPUParticles3D data and made my first PR! The change is minor, and I'm not sure if it will ever be merged, but I'm proud nonetheless 
Forgot to post here, but we released our relaxing city-builder "Let Them Trade" on Steam a little over a week ago :) Really proud of the launch!
Give it a look if you like trading games / city builders!
Game Dev Rule: Once you add a character portrait to your HUD, you are legally mandated to include Doom / Madou Monogatari style facial expressions to convey health status.
Finally got something done with Artificial Rage, I managed to make level change to work.
Excuse the small screen with massive hand, for some reason my video recording tool was creating huge captures, so I had to make the screen smaller so I can upload it here.
Anyway, in the video, I pick up teleporter key, walk into empty spot that works as teleporter and the level I'm in just changes immediately.
Need to make a loading screen probably or something but it was easy to implement in the end.
As always, source code is here: https://codeberg.org/akselmo/artificial-rage (currently in load-next-level branch)
#ScreenshotSaturday #bookstodon A screenshot of the next book I’m reading.
Today's top ten tag trends:
10: #2agosto1980
9: #stragedibologna
8: #sabafoto
7: #insektensamstag
6: #ScreenshotSaturday
5: #cats
4: #CatsOfMastodon
3: #caturday
2: #temptingliterature
1: #KungFuSat
Cleaned up some blob shadow rendering and revised the dash and dive animations to be a bit more readable.
Little bit of graphical changes and rework to the terrain system for Mallows World Adventure.
Blocked out most of the main town now (Market Street is a bit placeholder right now) and got a couple of music tracks in too.
URGENT! $851/3407 OVERDUE
please help a starving #transWoman struggling with parental #abuse to stay housed. she needs to pay off her debts to qualify for safe housing. she hasn't met her goal in 3 months.
- https://ko-fi.com/queeroctopuss/goal?g=33
- https://donate.stripe.com/14k6p1bMg32QfEA6os
More to Lose
The Glossy Ibis is a pretty bird with shiny, dark feathers that look green or purple in light. This is the most widespread ibis species, breeding in scattered sites in warm regions of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Atlantic.
Here's the progress I made this week on my Colony Sim + RPG game! 
Biggest change this week is that activities now leave resource piles behind! Resources are no longer just numbers being manipulated in the background! 
Not a lot shiny new stuff in Knight George to show for this #screenshotsaturday, so have the outside of the Earlyne Olympiad!
5 minigames with 3 difficulty levels each, all with their own score "board" and records to beat! Rewards await the one who manages to break them all...
Summer is sweltering in the Northern hemisphere, and lately I've been craving some Korean red bean shaved ice, AKA patbingsu (팥빙수)!
What’s your go-to Summertime treat? Let me know~ ೀ 
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Uptime of 222 days. Time for an update and reboot. #debian #thinkpad #wmlive #windowmaker #uptime #screenshotsaturday
Sweet Spot
The Crested Caracara is a large bird of prey found in the Americas. It has a black crest, white neck, orange face, and long legs. It eats dead animals, insects, and small prey. Often seen walking on the ground in open fields. Known as the "Mexican eagle."
Walking Away
The Yellow-crowned night heron (Nyctanassa violacea) is a medium-sized wading bird with gray body, black-and-white head, yellow crown, and red eyes. Found in wetlands across Americas, it hunts crabs and fish at night.
So I wanted to recreate (well, kinda, sorta, with my low-end gear) the excellent time lapse from https://www.eso.org/public/videos/uhd-cm-alma-pan2/ with my #SamsungNX camera.
This requires programmatically changing aperture and ISO as it gets darker, for which I need to debug the `di-camera-app` binary blob.
Instead of sensor values, I found DFMS: https://github.com/ottokiksmaler/nx500_nx1_modding/blob/master/DFMS%20Commands.md
And now I have an "Engineering Sample Product, not allowed for the serious quality evaluation."
In The Moment
2 Birds Fighting
The most requested feature is now in: the wizard now audibly shouts his incantations! 
Sound on!
Sternberg 
