Rob McLachlan

Rob McLachlan

@robmc.bsky.social

Lead Technical Level Designer at Half Mermaid on PROJECT D - Prev Lead Designer STILL WAKES THE DEEP at The Chinese Room

229 Followers 177 Following 20 Posts Joined Sep 2023
10 months ago
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On site in Guildford.

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11 months ago

The clip they showed for Alec was hilariously bad, presumably because they had to pick a part of the game when he wasn’t calling something a c***

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11 months ago
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Love and pride to the STILL WAKES THE DEEP team for winning Best New IP at the BAFTA awards, as well as both Best Performer awards. What a night.

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1 year ago

I’ll just go ahead and store our number of noms in a float because there’s a chance we will win 38 quadrillion and a half awards

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1 year ago

I can count up to a point, typical games designer - we actually have 8 nominations, with two in Best Supporting Actor 🍾

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1 year ago

Wait BBC says we have 8 nominations what am I missing?

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1 year ago

Spamming 7 BAFTA Games reposts because we got 7 BAFTA nominations for STILL WAKES THE DEEP 😤

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1 year ago
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Performer in a Supporting Role...

ABBI GREENLAND & HELEN GOALEN Hellblade II
ALDÍS AMAH HAMILTON Hellblade II
JON BLYTH Thank Goodness You're Here!
KAREN DUNBAR Still Wakes the Deep
MATT BERRY Thank Goodness You're Here!
MICHAEL ABUBAKAR Still Wakes the Deep

#BAFTAGamesAwards

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1 year ago
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The nominees for Artistic Achievement are…

ASTRO BOT
BLACK MYTH: WUKONG
HAROLD HALIBUT
NEVA
SENUA’S SAGA: HELLBLADE II
STILL WAKES THE DEEP

#BAFTAGamesAwards

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1 year ago
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The nominees for Audio Achievements are…

ANIMAL WELL
ASTRO BOT
HELLDIVERS 2
SENUA’S SAGA: HELLBLADE II
STAR WARS OUTLAWS
STILL WAKES THE DEEP

#BAFTAGamesAwards

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1 year ago
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The nominees for New Intellectual Property are…

ANIMAL WELL
BALATRO
BLACK MYTH: WUKONG
METAPHOR: REFANTAZIO
STILL WAKES THE DEEP
THANK GOODNESS YOU’RE HERE!

#BAFTAGamesAwards

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1 year ago
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The nominees for Narrative are…

BLACK MYTH: WUKONG
DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD
FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH
METAPHOR: REFANTAZIO
SENUA’S SAGA: HELLBLADE II
STILL WAKES THE DEEP

#BAFTAGamesAwards

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1 year ago
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The British Game nominees are:

A HIGHLAND SONG
LEGO HORIZON ADEVENTURE
PAPER TRAIL
SENUA’S SAGA: HELLBLADE II
STILL WAKES THE DEEP
THANK GOODNESS YOU’RE HERE!

#BAFTAGameAwards

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1 year ago
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The nominees for Performer in a Leading Role are…

ALEC NEWMAN Still Wakes The Deep
HUMBERLY GONZÁLEZ Star Wars Outlaws
ISABELLA INCHBALD Indika
LUKE ROBERTS Silent Hill 2
MELINA JUERGENS Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
Y’LAN NOEL Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

#BAFTAGamesAwards

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1 year ago

Come work with me and @stevelee.bsky.social as a Level Designer on Project D◼️◼️◼️◼️!

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1 year ago
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we are hiring again here at @halfmermaid.co !!

apply at halfmermaid.co/jobs for one of these exciting new roles on Project D :)

➡️ Senior Character Artist
➡️ Cinematic Manager
➡️ Senior Environment Artist (European timezones preferred)
➡️ Level Designer (European timezones preferred)

please share!

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1 year ago

Really gutted to see the news from Sumo. Such a lot of talent and so many great and kind people at all the studios. Thinking especially today of my amazing former colleagues at The Chinese Room.

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1 year ago
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Just what I wanted! All the top brands, oh! even Uiizibvkjz!!!

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1 year ago

Quitting the Skinner Box that is World of Tanks once again. Not sure why I ever went back. Playing well (or having a good game by chance, perhaps a better scenario) is a great dopamine rush but not worth the time investment and obsession.

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1 year ago

There were very regular updates for a long time (I’m on the patreon) though it’s gone a bit quieter recently. Can’t wait to play the finished ver!

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1 year ago

In Germany they call it “dunkelflaute”, the dark doldrums… it’s been awful hasn’t it! The sun!

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1 year ago
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hello blueskiers. i have a discord that is about game dev, but not to the degree that it's necessarily weird if you aren't into game dev and are in there. feel free to join if you are not a fuckhead. link in bio

Here are some nice things people have spontaneously said about my discord

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1 year ago
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Hi, I'm Olly Smith. You may remember me as the Evergreen Editor for Dexerto, and Senior Editor at GameByte.

Due to circumstances out of my control, I am currently out of a job and looking for work. If you're hiring for anything in media, publishing or marketing, let's chat.

www.ollywrites.co.uk

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1 year ago
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Imperium Capital Fleet Moves to UALX YouTube video by Shingly

Mostly detached from EVE nowadays but this is a hypnotic video, showing one of the largest groups of players in the game moving just a fraction of their ships and assets across the game world. Multiple millions of dollars of assets, built up over 20 years.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcHU...

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1 year ago

Pretty sure they used it to generate a bunch of textures - but if I’m wrong about that I fully apologise

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1 year ago

BABBDI is the only worthwhile ethical use of AI art in a game yet demonstrated, and also has the best trumpet in all video games

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1 year ago

Hansol gooP

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1 year ago

was just reminded of rational level design and while i understand why it exists, it's gotta be one of the most rancid and toxic design methodologies to formalize and worm its way into education and smaller teams. this is shit dreamed up by metrics ghouls at AAAA studios, fuckin quit it

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1 year ago

Is that an illustration for that weird space dentist short story by Piers Anthony?

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1 year ago

Wrote a .mel script for the first time in about 12 years - the muscle memory of “space bar = cycle tools” from Unreal was unbreakable, so I had to recreate the behaviour in Maya. And it works! I am invincible!

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