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Game Designer at Lighthouse Games, Magic and Warhammer addict and all round chill dude

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man rolling rock up  hill
how it started how its going

man rolling rock up hill how it started how its going

16.09.2025 07:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8085    ๐Ÿ” 2169    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 50    ๐Ÿ“Œ 96
FBI Deputy Director breaks down on Fox: "I gave up everything for this. I mean, you know, my wife is struggling... I stare at these four walls all day in DC, you know, by myself, divorced from my wife. Not divorced, but l mean, separated. And it's hard."

FBI Deputy Director breaks down on Fox: "I gave up everything for this. I mean, you know, my wife is struggling... I stare at these four walls all day in DC, you know, by myself, divorced from my wife. Not divorced, but l mean, separated. And it's hard."

been very hard to watch a bunch of 50-year-old podcasters come to terms with having a job.

16.09.2025 12:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14138    ๐Ÿ” 2531    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 650    ๐Ÿ“Œ 255

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota werenโ€™t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

11.09.2025 05:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18692    ๐Ÿ” 5175    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 264    ๐Ÿ“Œ 101

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

11.09.2025 03:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8112    ๐Ÿ” 2430    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 49    ๐Ÿ“Œ 43
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Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

04.09.2025 06:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15775    ๐Ÿ” 4840    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 614
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Lil fellas back home ballles

27.08.2025 13:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Dropped the little man off for his nuttering ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ

27.08.2025 07:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wouldn't it be cool if in response to Kpop Demon Hunters being the most successful animated movie of the year/all time/whatever companies paid artists to do cool original projects and more shows and movies and more stability in animation and design. Hahahhahahahahahhaha man. Oh well!

26.08.2025 19:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4598    ๐Ÿ” 1160    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 47    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18

Don't know what you're saying mate this sounds like a million dollar idea, you need to lock in

23.08.2025 07:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

End of Evangelion (1997)

19.08.2025 22:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 158    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A photo of digitally projected Patrick Star at Gamescom. He is not wearing any pants and you can see his butt checks.

A photo of digitally projected Patrick Star at Gamescom. He is not wearing any pants and you can see his butt checks.

Patrick Star is ass out at Gamescom

20.08.2025 08:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 245    ๐Ÿ” 31    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Two years ago everyone bullied us into making this... And now it's real.

We're making a Bubsy 3D Sequel.

19.08.2025 17:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3703    ๐Ÿ” 963    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 173    ๐Ÿ“Œ 138

Hey Game Dev mutuals, I'd love to hear any tips and resources you use to improve your coding skills, I'm wanting to dip my toes back into a personal project but my C# skills are always a snag. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

18.08.2025 20:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I have a lil son now meet Nurgle

18.08.2025 12:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The lion of Caliban

04.02.2025 08:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Was cat sitting this angle over the weekend

20.01.2025 10:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Group Customer Harassment Policy๏ฝœAbout Square Enix Group๏ฝœSQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS CO., LTD. Group Customer Harassment Policy

Nice job, Square Enix.

If individuals think threatening gamedevs is acceptable, likely the only boundary they'll respect is threat of material consequences.

Bungie's old legal team led the industry in this effort; good to see others getting serious about it.

www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/company/...

13.01.2025 16:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 192    ๐Ÿ” 54    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about theย 1948ย Nakba, based onย aย trueย story | LaunchGood A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land

This game stands for so many things: the power of games to tell stories, the ability to make games anywhere, the freedom to discuss big topics in games.

All additional funding helps us reach these goals, so if you still want to support Rasheed's dream, please do!

www.launchgood.com/1948

08.01.2025 16:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 386    ๐Ÿ” 142    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

please, please read this. the employee abuse thats been uncovered here is distressing. this needs to be spread to every corner of the games industry

08.01.2025 15:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1880    ๐Ÿ” 954    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
The video thumbnail for PMG's original documentary, showing a white, American hand clasping cash in exchange for the labour of a Southeast Asian workforce, represented here as being weighed down by their immense workload.

The video thumbnail for PMG's original documentary, showing a white, American hand clasping cash in exchange for the labour of a Southeast Asian workforce, represented here as being weighed down by their immense workload.

Back in 2021, PMG reported on the unseen games industry crunch taking place at outsourcing studios in SE Asia.

Since then, the companies we looked at have continued to work on some of the biggest games in the world, without any push to improve the conditions of the artists doing that work. (1/7)

07.01.2025 14:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2781    ๐Ÿ” 1453    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 39    ๐Ÿ“Œ 95

BBC doing a segment on AI Tools for Court proceedings is fucking dystopian as fuck. Framing it as reducing cost and making legalaid accessible to the less fortunate is ghoulish

29.12.2024 13:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sorry what exactly is going on here I was painting minis

28.12.2024 11:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I love the revamping of Game Developer but am tired of all this engineers first - this is what games are - stories.

game != engine (for you nerds)

Also... the every game has to be a totally new thing, that new mechanics are required versus a good version of something is just lazy and exhausting.

28.12.2024 01:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 96    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A blue clad Ork heavily armoured and equipped with 2 spiked fist weapons

A blue clad Ork heavily armoured and equipped with 2 spiked fist weapons

A purple and gold chaos space marine with a purple bolt pistol and gold and purple chain sword

A purple and gold chaos space marine with a purple bolt pistol and gold and purple chain sword

A chaos sorcerer adorned in red armour and skulls with burning skulls and a animal skull staff

A chaos sorcerer adorned in red armour and skulls with burning skulls and a animal skull staff

A medieval looking soldier in yellow heraldry, and metal plate armour with a wood shelf hanging over him contain colourful bottles. He holds a red bottle in his left hand and a flintlock pistol on his right

A medieval looking soldier in yellow heraldry, and metal plate armour with a wood shelf hanging over him contain colourful bottles. He holds a red bottle in his left hand and a flintlock pistol on his right

More holiday painting

27.12.2024 18:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As a designer, I can tell you even if you blatantly tell people how to play a game, many will either ignore it or forget it. If you bug them too often, they'll say the tutorial is too long. If you don't remind them, you'll get dinged for "not explaining".

Teaching game mechanics is hard.

22.12.2024 20:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 123    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Review | โ€˜Mouthwashingโ€™: A repugnant, tragic play that wants to hurt you โ€˜Mouthwashing,โ€™ a brief but brutal video game from studio Wrong Organ, is a sci-fi horror fable about men swaddled in narcissistic delusions.

my interview and review of Mouthwashing is probably the best piece iโ€™ve written in a few years. hereโ€™s a gift link.

the game is a message to โ€œcertain people in the games industry. I hope they see themselves in it.

And I hope it hurts. I hope it hurts, hurts, hurts.โ€

wapo.st/41MLouD

12.12.2024 03:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1194    ๐Ÿ” 316    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 26
A Warhammer Ork in yellow and red armour firing a rocket launcher, stood on a muddy base

A Warhammer Ork in yellow and red armour firing a rocket launcher, stood on a muddy base

An old man in steal plate armour, yellow and purple heraldry equipped with multiple pistols and a sword stood on a rock base source ded bay cracked arrid earth

An old man in steal plate armour, yellow and purple heraldry equipped with multiple pistols and a sword stood on a rock base source ded bay cracked arrid earth

A berserker chaos space marines with chainsaws for hands, in red and gold plate armour

A berserker chaos space marines with chainsaws for hands, in red and gold plate armour

Been painting a bunch on my holiday ๐Ÿ˜

22.12.2024 16:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

European right-wing politicians were so eager to use the example of the attack in Germany as a way to continue justifying their relentlessly evil genocide against Arabs & Muslims, until it turned out the perpetrator was one of them: an Islamophobe right-winger with no qualms about mass violence.

21.12.2024 10:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 527    ๐Ÿ” 99    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

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