Ibrahim Boona

Founder of Codeon, Creative Technologist

[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

Built this fully in #threejs. Zero baked clips. whales, sharks, and fish schools are all procedural, turning, swimming, and banking in reaction to the world every frame. Notice how they flee smoothly from the cursor.

Link -> https://t.co/NgFFPSo1Qh

[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

I built an open-source tool to fix something that drives me nuts.

You ask ChatGPT or Gemini for a game asset and get an image with a background baked in. Ask for transparency and you get... a fake checkerboard. Then you hunt for a background remover, then slice each sprite out by hand.

So I built Sprite Lab. Drop a spritesheet → it auto-detects the backdrop (checkerboard, white, magenta, green), removes it cleanly with no halo, and slices every frame for you. Export as PNGs + a strip + manifest.

100% in your browser. No uploads, no AI model, no sign-up. Free and open source.

https://t.co/8isnJ8PpfS

#gamedev #indiegame

[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

what should I build today? any ideas?💡

[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

@AzFlin @nickvrnn haha thanks 🙌

[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

Your GLB is probably way too heavy.

AI models, scans, exports, they often land at 5–60MB+ with millions of tris. Brutal for games, apps, and real-time 3D.

I built GLB Shrink to help the dev community fix this:

drop → preview before/after → download

Real test: 58 MB → 869 KB (−99%)

Draco + WebP. No Blender. No CLI.

Free & open source 🎮

https://t.co/fe3MqDbfNK

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[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

@nickvrnn thanks for sharing

[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

@nickvrnn 🤩 i have been using it for a while now in my game dev so i decided to share it with the community 🙌

[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

Thanks 🙏 The biggest thing is that the art stops being static.

Trees can bend and react to the player. Characters can lose splats when damaged, dissolve, reform, absorb parts of the environment, or morph into other shapes. You can also zoom much closer without the usual sprite blur.

I’m still exploring it, but I think it could open up both new visuals and new gameplay mechanics.

[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

yesterday I turned a 2D character into thousands of living Gaussian splats.

today I built an entire 2D game scene with them.

trees, grass, flowers, particles, atmosphere, all made of splats. the foliage reacts as the character moves through the world.

I haven’t seen anyone build a complete 2D game scene this way yet. maybe there is tho!

tomorrow: rigging the character.
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[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

@hkklaus97 thank you 🙏

[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

what if 2D game art wasn’t pixels or frames but thousands of living Gaussian splats?

characters can melt and reform. lose splats when they take damage. zoom in forever without hitting a blur. animate without rigs or sprite sheets.

we’ve built 2D games on fixed pixels for decades. the next era might be built from light.

still an early demo, but i’m going to turn this into a real tool for 2D game devs and open-source it on GitHub soon.

#gamedev #indiegame

[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

@tokenponyy Appreciate it! I’ll keep sharing the weird experiments as I push it further.

[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

@env_xxxx 对，严格来说这不是 “2D 还是 3D” 的问题。真正让我感兴趣的是把 splat 变成一种可编辑、可变形的 2D 游戏资产格式，而不只是另一种渲染方式。

[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

@PBetitoParker Thank you! More experiments coming soon.

[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

@GMcHorseman Godot support is definitely on my mind. First I want to nail the core pipeline and benchmark it properly.

[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

@cferry322 Thanks! Still experimenting, but I think there’s something interesting here.

[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

@Steve3Chang Haha, not intentionally but now I probably need to make an Agent Smith demo.

[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

@TeeCeeNn Sí, para efectos puntuales ya funciona muy bien. Lo que quiero explorar ahora es si las capas semánticas y la deformación procedural pueden aportar algo real a la animación general.

[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

@Gooboberti “Semi-revolutionary” is the perfect amount of pressure 😂

[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

@jamji_jamaramji Thank you 😄 Just getting started.

[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

@TheSOLhog Thank you! Still very early, but I’m having a lot of fun pushing it further.

[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

@LazyGooooo Exactly. A character made of tiny living parts feels weirdly natural once you see it moving.