80 LEVEL·36wLevel Up Your Coding Skills With This Farming Game
The Farmer Was Replaced is a farming game that teaches programming through automation. Players use a Python-like language to program drones that handle repetitive farming tasks. The game offers continuous progression rather than isolated levels, making it beginner-friendly while still challenging experienced programmers. It launches October 10 with features like multiple drone support, expanded tech trees, and multilingual support.
80 LEVEL·49wClean Animation on Glass Buttons
Reijo creates stunning glass-like button animations using Blender, featuring smooth flipping motions and candy-like visual effects. The artist's 3D work includes interactive UI elements like yes/no options and login forms, showcasing advanced motion design techniques for creating realistic glass materials and smooth button interactions.
80 LEVEL·27wDelicious Jelly Switch Made with TypeGPU
Developers Iwo Plaza and Konrad Reczko created interactive jelly-like UI components (a switch and slider) using TypeGPU, a TypeScript library that wraps the WebGPU API. The components leverage signed distance fields (SDFs) to achieve dynamic, jiggly animations, demonstrating creative possibilities for GPU-accelerated web interfaces.
80 LEVEL·34wDeliver Mail on Tiny Planet in This Relaxing Web Game
Studio abeto released Messenger, a free web-based game built with WebGL and Three.js where players deliver mail on a tiny spherical planet. The relaxing experience features character customization, 3D emoji interactions, and a soothing soundtrack, demonstrating how modern web technologies can create engaging browser-based gaming experiences.
80 LEVEL·41wClassic Warcraft Vibes Return in a New Indie RTS
The Scouring is an indie real-time strategy game with action-RPG elements built on a custom C++ engine. It features destructible environments, day-night cycles that affect gameplay, and a unique mechanic allowing players to delegate army control to AI while focusing on hero character development. The game supports single-player and multiplayer modes with Steam Workshop integration for custom content creation. Currently in Early Access for $22.49, it's planned to remain in development for approximately 18 months.
80 LEVEL·27wUbisoft Blames Its Declining Revenue on Gamers Playing Fewer Games
Ubisoft's UK branch attributes declining revenue to changing player behavior, claiming gamers are playing fewer titles for longer periods. The company cites subscription services, live-service games, free-to-play models, and cloud streaming as factors disrupting the traditional £50-60 single-game sales model. With fewer planned releases and market unpredictability, Ubisoft Limited expects continued revenue decline in fiscal year 2026.
80 LEVEL·33wJuicy UI For Pixel Art-Style 4X Game Made With Godot
PLVS VLTRA is a turn-based 4X strategy game built with Godot featuring an economy dashboard that visualizes complex financial data through line graphs, pie charts, and detailed breakdowns. The game integrates UI design with gameplay mechanics, where the dashboard reflects player decisions made through a Laws & Policies system and Imperial Cabinet interactions. The project demonstrates how data visualization can serve as both an informational tool and strategic gameplay element in indie game development.
80 LEVEL·47wStudent Breaks Down Bringing Lifelike Polar Bear To Life In 3D
A Gnomon student created a highly realistic 3D polar bear in just 10 weeks, featuring advanced muscle, fat, and skin simulations, procedural hair grooming, facial rigging with motion capture, and complex anatomical systems. The project showcased innovative procedural workflows in Houdini for muscle activation and automated rigging processes, combined with facial motion capture using MocapX for lifelike expressions.
80 LEVEL·43wPeople Are Using Garry's Mod to Circumvent the UK Censorship Law
Users are exploiting facial recognition systems by using 3D character models from Garry's Mod and other games to bypass age verification requirements imposed by the UK's Online Safety Act. The technique works on platforms like Discord and Reddit, where even heavily distorted game character faces are accepted as valid human verification. This highlights potential vulnerabilities in biometric verification systems and raises questions about the effectiveness of current age verification methods.
80 LEVEL·49wBeautiful Liquid Glass Effect Made with Three.js
Web developer Faraz Shaikh created a liquid glass effect using Three.js JavaScript 3D library. The effect features smooth drop-like shapes using MeshPhysicalMaterial with ray-marched surfaces built from Signed Distance Fields (SDFs). The demo and source code are available online, showcasing advanced 3D rendering techniques for creating realistic glass materials in web browsers.
80 LEVEL·30wAI-Generated "Game Concepts" Become the Laughingstock of the Internet
An AI CEO's demonstration of AI-generated game concepts sparked widespread mockery across the gaming community. The demos featured severe technical issues including inconsistent perspectives, hallucinations, shapeshifting environments, and bizarre physics violations. Despite claims of being work-in-progress, the showcases united gamers of all backgrounds in criticism, highlighting ongoing resistance to AI-generated gaming content following similar controversies with ARK, Minecraft clones, and other projects.
80 LEVEL·41wGoogle Offered $34.5B for Chrome, May Be Forced to Sell
AI startup Perplexity has offered $34.5 billion to acquire Google's Chrome browser, claiming it would benefit users by moving the product to an independent operator. This comes as Google faces potential forced divestiture following a federal judge's ruling that the company violated antitrust laws by maintaining a search monopoly. The DOJ has proposed aggressive remedies including forcing Google to sell Chrome and limit Android's default search arrangements. Perplexity plans to keep Google as the default search engine and continue supporting the open-source Chromium platform if the acquisition proceeds.
80 LEVEL·29wHow Coding Sim The Farmer Was Replaced Reached 39,000% Revenue Rise
The Farmer Was Replaced, a programming farming simulator using a Python-like language, achieved a 39,000% revenue increase from early access to full release, selling over 400,000 copies and generating $1.65 million in the first 30 days. The success came from rebuilding the Steam page to emphasize programming aspects, adding 11 languages with full localization, improving game polish, and executing targeted marketing including influencer outreach to 10,000 creators, viral Reddit posts, and expansion into Chinese social media platforms like RedNote, which grew China's market share from 0.3% to 20%.
80 LEVEL·31wAmazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash
AWS experienced a major outage affecting platforms like Snapchat, Roblox, and Fortnite. An unverified report claims Amazon laid off 40% of its DevOps team days before the crash, replacing them with AI systems that handle IAM permissions, VPC configs, and Lambda deployments. While the connection between layoffs and the outage remains speculative, the incident highlights concerns about cloud service provider concentration and automation risks.
80 LEVEL·49wImpressive 3D Tongue Rig Made in Blender
A 3D artist showcased an impressive tongue rigging system for a character created in Blender. The rig demonstrates realistic movement and lighting effects, particularly when compared to the low-poly version. The character is part of an ongoing project that includes detailed facial expressions created using motion capture technology.
80 LEVEL·1yThis One Fab User Has Over 38,000 AI-Generated Assets
Epic Games' Fab marketplace has been criticized for being overrun with AI-generated assets, with one user alone contributing over 38,000. This has led to difficulties in finding quality human-made assets and has raised questions about Fab's approval process. Digital artists and developers are frustrated by the unchecked spread of AI content in this marketplace.
80 LEVEL·36wThis Website Runs on Disposable Vape
A developer successfully hosted a website on a disposable vape's microcontroller using SLIP protocol. The initial implementation was extremely slow with 1.5s pings and 50% packet loss, but optimization with ring buffers improved performance to 20ms pings and 160ms page loads. The project demonstrates creative hardware repurposing and embedded systems programming.
80 LEVEL·29wProgrammer Discovers His Smart Vacuum Was Spying on Him
A programmer discovered his ILIFE A11 smart vacuum was sending unencrypted data including Wi-Fi credentials and home maps to manufacturer servers. When he blocked the data transmission, the device was remotely bricked by the manufacturer. After disassembling it and accessing its unprotected Android Debug Bridge, he found the manufacturer had root access via pre-installed software. The same hardware powers devices from multiple brands including Xiaomi and Wyze, suggesting widespread vulnerability. He successfully restored the device with full local control by removing manufacturer access.
80 LEVEL·1yBeautiful Summoner & Monster Who Loves Her
Soohyeon Kim's new 3D artwork depicts a beautiful summoner and her monster, showcasing their loving relationship. The piece uses several design tools such as 3ds Max and ZBrush. Explore Kim's attention to detail on ArtStation and follow 80 Level for art resources and community engagement.
80 LEVEL·29wDev Accidentally Calling Game "Sh*tty Dungeon" Led to Extra Wishlists
An indie game developer accidentally mistranslated his game's title to 'Sh*tty Dungeon' in Japanese using machine translation tools. The error went viral on Japanese social media, resulting in a significant increase in Steam wishlists. The developer embraced the humor but eventually changed the name to something more appropriate, while the game itself received positive reviews from players who appreciated its nostalgic gameplay and humor.
80 LEVEL·29wPUBG Creator's New Survival Game Will Be Released in November
Prologue: Go Wayback!, a single-player open-world survival roguelike by PUBG's creator, launches in Early Access on November 20 for $20. The game features three modes: the default survival challenge to reach the Weather Tower, an endurance mode with limited resources, and a free exploration mode. Players can customize runs through game settings, use a map editor, and save progress. The creator acknowledges the game's high difficulty may polarize players.
80 LEVEL·40wTry This Free & Open-Source Alternative To Mixamo
Mesh2Motion, a free and open-source web application, offers an alternative to Mixamo for animating 3D models. Creator Scott Petrovic announced upcoming features including dark/light themes, video previews, animation player, and improved navigation. The tool recently added undo/redo functionality, hand variations, and animation filtering. Users can import 3D models and automatically assign and export animations through a straightforward workflow.
80 LEVEL·23wSteam: $16B+ in 2025, Nearly Half of 19,000 Games Got Under 10 Reviews
Steam generated over $16.2 billion in revenue during the first eleven months of 2025, marking its strongest year ever. However, nearly half of the 19,000 games released on the platform received fewer than 10 reviews, indicating severe discoverability challenges. Only 6.2% of releases surpassed 500 reviews, a threshold for broader visibility. The data reveals a platform thriving commercially through a small number of successful titles while the majority of games struggle to gain traction, creating a difficult environment for smaller developers.
80 LEVEL·1yEx-Bethesda Developer Explains Why It Doesn't Move to Unreal
Bethesda's reliance on its proprietary Creation Engine for games like Starfield is rooted in the complexities and unique requirements of their game development process. Former studio lead Dan Nanni explains the difficulties in switching to Unreal Engine, emphasizing the need for custom solutions and highlighting issues such as maintaining open-ended structures and accommodating modding. While Creation Engine 2 offers improvements, common problems like loading screens persist due to engine limitations. A transition to Unreal is seen as inevitable yet challenging, with the potential impact on modders being a significant consideration.
80 LEVEL·31wStunning Magical 3D Illusion in Flat Card
Artist Mingwei 'CMZW' Lim created a portal-like 3D illusion on a flat card surface using Blender. The card reveals holographic stars and new depths when moved, similar to holographic display experiments. The artist has previously created various visual effects including Balatro-style cards, custom post-processing VFX collections, distance-based glitch effects, and pixelated Earth renders.