Dirk Van Welden

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Super uncool news, hope you’ll find an awesome job soon Autumn! Take care

Oh man, so sorry to hear this Nick. Wishing you all the best.

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Perfect, it also literally translates to « shitistocracy » in Dutch…

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After 19 months under wraps, finally able to talk about our upcoming game Modulus. A factory automation game like no other.

Yeah, I’m so glad we’re past that… it’s hard to transfer the same energy through webcams.

We also try to get colleagues in from abroad, every quarter, for a week. And that usually results in the whole team coming to office as well, just because it’s nice to work with them in person.

We do 2/3 days a week at the office now for people that live within reasonable distance (less than 90 minutes of travel).
Works well, we do our do-not-disturb stuff mostly at home, and the energy we get on the two days that everyone is there is great.

New amazing area coming soon as a free update for Shredders. 🤘

Yeah, it would have definitely motivated me more if I would have seen some visual results.
I’ve heard first-year game programming bachelors are now getting the visual versions though!

Hey Bluesky people, here's some footage of a selection of games I've worked on... #shredders #spacepiratetrainer #BAM #Element4l #spacepiratearena

You’re a champion Sos!

Woohoow, this is starting to feel like old twitter again, I might actually post gamedev updates and stuff here again soon. :-p

Ah, could have been the first then, I was just afraid that my mirror image would be doing something different than me. :-D

Haha, true… I was afraid of mirrors for a while! (Second one if I remember correctly?)

Hmm… maybe Bosh? Miele is also an OK brand, but I’m not as familiar with those

Not sure if they are easily available around your area, but in the EU I would definitely say Siemens for quality hardware.

Doing some sculpting for the new season update for Shredders. Level design is my zen moment :-)

Played my first hour of Star Wars Outlaws…
It looks amazing! (gameplay is OK, misses some finesse but I definitely had fun).
Story is bombastic but interesting. I wonder if the open-world gameplay is going to keep its pace.

Like surströmming?

It should do the tiny electroshocks thing that trains your muscles automatically! 😅

Just drove through Death Valley yesterday, the only thing that was really dead there was the phone reception.
With all the rain of the past weeks there are flowers thriving. :-)
Hope to see some of you at GDC next week!

I solely follow you for food suggestions, so not answering that question.

More than 30% of our players on steam
Finished the game (Shredders). Feels like a big number? Anyone knows where to find averages on this?

It’s crazy that SPT is still played so much after all these years (we did do a lot of updates). I still love playing it.

Anyway, Shredders is getting a free update soon, and looks like this from a virtual chalet.

Exactly 8 years ago I took a break from creating a (procedural) snowboard game to do something cool in VR. This was the first screen I posted. I would have never believed that this Space Pirate Trainer game would go so hard it kickstarted a -way better- snowboarding game called Shredders