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Backwards playing records, ancient tombs and candles, funny dice and evil spells, your household is in shambles...

October 31st, 2025, SATANIK PANIK is coming through the darkness to bring our evil forces into your house.

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I worked the Capital City Comic Con this past weekend in Lansing, MI and getting to say the phrase "we have to wait for the batmobile to move before we can load out" certainly solidifies how weird my life is

Some cool stuff I saw walk by our booth:

Winch podium in the Distillery basement

The same winch podium in the Model Viewer

Manufacturing information about the winch podium. It reads "MANUFACTURED BY: MANN CO INTERNATIONAL INC. AUSTRALIA DATE OF MANUFACTURE: 5.1.72, DELL CONAGHER MODEL: WINCH. TYPE: BLU

In the Distillery chapter in Half-Life Alyx. In the part where you turn this valve in the distillery's basement. You can find this sign on the winch podium which contains manufacturing information. It shows that this podium was created by Mann Co International Inc.

YouTube video by UEAKCrash Valve Wants YOUR MvM Map for the first MvM Update in 13 Years!

I made a YouTube short about the newly announced #tf2 MvM update coming out this year!

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Our test run of the priDE MONth shirts are in! If you want to snag one, do it asap as we are only doing preorders for them this month! All proceeds from these shirts are going directly to The Trevor Project!

Don't miss out!

Available on our Big Cartel merch store

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I just published a new Patreon post, showing off a new feature of my Halloween map I'm currently working on, Requiem!

My Patreon starts at just $1 a month, if you want some early peaks at stuff I'm making!

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When we did the Frontline asset pack for TF2 I made the prop zoo and labeled it frontline_tzu.vmf and I have not stopped being amused with myself for it.

Friends, in keeping with our #MichiganMonday celebration (ICYMI, we announced 6 Michigan-centric shows earlier), I took our usual Scheme Radio playlist and culled it down to just Michigan-made tunes. In 21 years of promoting shows, my favorite thing to do is help hometown acts grow.

You did just miss out, I was almost 8 and that shit went so hard

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Somehow our FIFTH annual charity tee?!

Get hooked up with a cool shirt from us and support a good cause!

YouTube video by Game Developers Conference Keeping Level Designers in the Zone Through Level Editor Design

My GDC 2016 talk is live again!! It suddenly went unlinked sometime in the past.

GDC brought it back, thank you!

So much of this talk is still relevant for game editors & engines nowadays: Comparing and contrasting workflows, to keep your level designers in the zone:

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YouTube video by AzelleXD What ACTUALLY Happened to TF2's Saxxy Awards

The truth about what really happened on our TF2 saxxy awards trip
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We had a lot of people from out of the country/ state that it was a novelty for, and that Seattle weed was not playing around.

The only "weed incident" I can think of from the trip that may have ever been referenced at some point was a few of the team, on their own time outside of the Valve visit, trying legal weed for the first time and getting a bit too torched on the zaza. And that was no where near Valve's offices.

Based Bill Burr giving the most based take

level design

The previously mentioned wubwubwub moment:

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I'm sure these same words will be twisted, in the end it's just my own first hand experience and word, but ultimately, I know what happened and nothing can take away from the good times and friendships I've made on that journey.

Ironically, now they are tying people who were victims of the greed of Invasion into it, as if they were the cause, when in reality a bunch of us set off to do better and succeeded, and later got some cool experiences out of building up our collaboration together.

But of course, now 7 years later, we've got drama farming YouTubers looking to taint this experience because there isn't enough to talk about any more that will get them views. They are at the point of making stuff up to get views.

Sadly, Valve stopped doing the Saxxys after that. There was a bit of a gap between the last two, so it seemed to kind of be on the way out anyway, and in general the big official TF2 updates seemed to be fizzling around that time, as well.

The trip was amazing, I had never been to Seattle so it was a cool place to visit, on top of getting to visit the birthplace of a lot of the games I grew up playing. Funny enough, I was at Valve HQ on the 17th anniversary of my Steam account, having been an avid CS 1.6ish era player as a teen.