Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ Time Zone Era

But I absolutely spent the best part of a decade being tortured by the inner critic that shit fuelled and have only really recently been able to turn that around by finding it genuinely fun to do little studies and kinda flow around it like, notice rocks are a friction point so I go study rocks

conceptart dot org has a lot to answer for 😩.

I think for me I was partly saved by delusion, like I've mostly stuck to my own way of doing things and get rejected for most non-indie concept art jobs as a result, but the skills I learned about composition/shape/etc apply to UI

Yeah I did grab a 'dry robe' style coat in the black friday sales because its TOO COLD here ( compared to London ) and I struggle to find normal coats that fit because I'm a weird shape.

I then have just, not used it to go for walks in the cold lol but, whatever

* Expensible . I know its not a word shut up red wavy line

Or well, I made money this tax year! But I'm only spending it on food and business expansible stuff until I know what the damage is RE tax, yknow? I can write off a switch 2 as a game dev tool, I cant write off, pants

Its too late now the sun has set lol.

But yeah part of the reason I DO overthink it is it's still pretty cold and most of my clothes are summery because I've been poor for so long that I just didnt replace my winter stuff that is full of holes.

Meet me at the Google cloud concussion swings if you want a beating

the neurodivergent gamedev community famously loves loud uncontrollable sound

Goddaammnnnnnnnnnnnn

That JSON is gonna break without a colon and some quotes around GARDEN.

it's ✨covid brain damage ✨

either literal — covid infections — or psychological. pathological risk-taking and self-destructive behaviors can be a symptom of repressed trauma.

and extreme cognitive dissonance ("this is wrong, against my values, but i'm doing it anyway") is self-induced trauma.

I literally had an AD once tell me I should go to the gym so I would be faster at painting??

I always saw that side of concept art as bro-ey like theyre trying to make concept art into even more of a boys only club, like it's not ~artsy fartsy~ its all about RESULTS drop and give me 50 thumbnails!

@coil.bsky.social There's your premium pass then

Holy fuck Nat what the fuck

Seeing "$2500 Picnic Table Reservations" in the same breath as "a bunch of the people who worked on the best-selling game of 2025 just got fired" is kinda breaking me, man.

What the heck does a wormwood taste like

I don’t actually think the war against Iran is a ‘distraction’ but wow it’s hard to maintain the belief

Sprite cucumber is so fucking close to being a Shize variant istg

lmao gottem

Goddamn, a thing of beauty

I regret to inform you all I have the UK eurovision song stuck in my head even though it's playing over and over as ' EIN ZWEI DREI [NOISES NOISES] SOMETHING SALTY! ' because I can't understand his accent 🥲👍

a black and white drawing of two stick figures standing next to each other . Alt: one crude blob person illustration pats the other on the head

You gonna collect some cosmetic ribbons for your pass like a good little gamer eh

oh good i was worried it was white supremacy and capitalism

Surely the $500 GDC ticket is the battle pass

Yerba Buena Park at GDC, fenced up and GDC-branded. The picnic tables are empty.

Another attendee: "it's giving free-to-play" and she's absolutely right. You've got the food vendors for microtransactions, the fencing and tables for carefully structured free time... all they're missing is a battle pass.

Can we let GDC die and build something better and community focused instead.

Sorry guys, this industry isn’t profitable enough for half of you to keep your jobs. We can afford to buy out a public park for a week though -

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i'm sure people will love the bringing of the Zone of Interest to GDC