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Barry Hemans

@overgroundlab.bsky.social

Game Developer (Little Orpheus, Sunless Skies, Access, VTM:Bloodlines 2) Currently at IOI working on James Bond 007: First Light.

137 Followers  |  232 Following  |  123 Posts  |  Joined: 04.10.2023  |  1.9893

Latest posts by overgroundlab.bsky.social on Bluesky

In terms of artstyle or gameplay? I'm into both but feel a little like I'm in the minority! Been playing a lot of Nightreign and the gameplay looking like NR Horizon has got me interested and I think the art style works better with some of those OTT moves

09.02.2026 09:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Just noticed that Remnant 2 (complete with all the DLC, which integrates seamlessly) is at its lowest price yet. ยฃ10/$14. Also the first game going for half that.

Hugely replayable Souls-ish shooters, even better in co-op. Also secretly the closest we've had to a Dark Tower game series.

04.02.2026 16:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 49    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
ASAKUSA: "kanamori... i know it saves COSTS 'n' all... but won't we get in TROUBLE for animating in PIRATED SOFTWARE?"
MIZUSAKI: "i could get my parents to pay for an ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD subscrโ€”"
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KANAMORI: "FOOLISHNESS. don't y'know all the REAL studios just share the same 20-year-old cd of MACROMEDIA FLASH 8 between all the animators?"
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MIZUSAKI: "wait... is THAT how you got..."
KANAMORI: "i threatened to TELL."

ASAKUSA: "kanamori... i know it saves COSTS 'n' all... but won't we get in TROUBLE for animating in PIRATED SOFTWARE?" MIZUSAKI: "i could get my parents to pay for an ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD subscrโ€”" ---- KANAMORI: "FOOLISHNESS. don't y'know all the REAL studios just share the same 20-year-old cd of MACROMEDIA FLASH 8 between all the animators?" ---- MIZUSAKI: "wait... is THAT how you got..." KANAMORI: "i threatened to TELL."

ethical dilemmas with #eizouken ๐Ÿ”Ž

23.10.2024 14:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2251    ๐Ÿ” 840    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

Is this a picture of @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social?

29.01.2026 08:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Harrowing .scene files surely?

29.01.2026 08:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

*fully restores your HP as you scroll past*

27.01.2026 04:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14269    ๐Ÿ” 5474    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 347    ๐Ÿ“Œ 92
Trainline advertising "Powered by AI, it gives fast, accurate answers whenever you need them โ€“ so you can get back on track quickly*."

Trainline advertising "Powered by AI, it gives fast, accurate answers whenever you need them โ€“ so you can get back on track quickly*."

Bottom of email admitting "*Travel Assistant is AI-powered and may occasionally provide inaccurate or unexpected information."

Bottom of email admitting "*Travel Assistant is AI-powered and may occasionally provide inaccurate or unexpected information."

Sums up a lot of these chat bot systems in one email

Our AI is accurate!*

*AI may not be accurate

Maybe I should be looking at alternatives to Trainline

15.01.2026 09:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ah yes. The Death Stranding naming convention

06.01.2026 08:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Love Indies Winter Show and Tell Meet with local game devs and chat about what you're working on!

brighton and south east game devs: we're having a show and tell on friday!

bring your latest build and your notebook, share your work with other devs, eat pastries, profit????

05.01.2026 10:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Vermis III - old curses & buried horrors (PREORDER!) Vermis III - old curses & buried horrorsthe official guideby Plastibooa LORE Game Book (loreGB)*This is a PREORDER. All orders including vermis III or any of the limited Vermis prints will be ship...

VERMIS III PREORDER??? hollow-press.net/collections/...

19.12.2025 14:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿšจ The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright:

- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)

๐Ÿงต 1/2

15.12.2025 11:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 967    ๐Ÿ” 440    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 100

ok well my drawing tablet is packed away but here

08.12.2025 00:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 78    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Taller now for one thing

09.12.2025 17:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A banner hanging from a balcony calling on all of us to โ€˜vote for Martokโ€™, a Klingon general from Star Trek

A banner hanging from a balcony calling on all of us to โ€˜vote for Martokโ€™, a Klingon general from Star Trek

Finally, a unifying voice in British politics

09.12.2025 16:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 44    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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On Saturday December 13th, I will be hosting:
โ€œThe Worst Charity Streamโ€

For every 1000 dollars we raise, I will play Shenmue 3: Enhanced Edition for an additional hour

There will be guests. There Will be a punishment wheel.

Money raised will be in aid of Palestine

www.twitch.tv/supereyepatc...

03.12.2025 12:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2591    ๐Ÿ” 795    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 45    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

Sunless Skies (2019)

25.11.2025 11:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
cinema_nasties 1d
Al defenders are so embarrassing

j.paulmonter 2h
All you are saying is that you want to gatekeep creativity. That's not good.

drachelbarr & 20h
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Neuroscientist here... creativity is a process. A process. A FUCKING PROCESS. Not an output.
Nobody is gatekeeping the process - Al simply invites you to skip to the end, to the output. Which, as mentioned, is not creativity.
Nobody cares if the output is aesthetically pleasing, because the process, the act itself, the limitation of a single human mind and the resulting creations that capture that one single inimitable human experience... is what makes a creation worth paying attention

cinema_nasties 1d Al defenders are so embarrassing j.paulmonter 2h All you are saying is that you want to gatekeep creativity. That's not good. drachelbarr & 20h โ€ข โ€ขโ€ข Neuroscientist here... creativity is a process. A process. A FUCKING PROCESS. Not an output. Nobody is gatekeeping the process - Al simply invites you to skip to the end, to the output. Which, as mentioned, is not creativity. Nobody cares if the output is aesthetically pleasing, because the process, the act itself, the limitation of a single human mind and the resulting creations that capture that one single inimitable human experience... is what makes a creation worth paying attention

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

19.11.2025 23:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8600    ๐Ÿ” 3360    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 58    ๐Ÿ“Œ 81

Fallen London

20.11.2025 07:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 171    ๐Ÿ” 40    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

C++ is for little worms

18.11.2025 13:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3683    ๐Ÿ” 317    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 132    ๐Ÿ“Œ 46
Still Wakes The Deep - A Workplace Safety Horror
YouTube video by Casey Explosion Still Wakes The Deep - A Workplace Safety Horror

Hey folks, my new video is out now, a review of the 2024 horror game Still Wakes The Deep, set aboard a Scottish oilrig. I'm really proud of this one, and I think it might be my best video yet! Please give it a look, and let me know what you think.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Oq...

22.10.2025 14:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 498    ๐Ÿ” 207    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 35    ๐Ÿ“Œ 32

Inspired?

Everything we do in life is influenced in some way by Mr Blobby, he mentally scarred all British people of a certain age. If you know, you know.

The Dr. Spotty hero card was our homage to our nightmarish OG.

23.10.2025 10:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 123    ๐Ÿ” 35    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Systems design: you have two cows. one of the cows dies; it drops 25 xp, 2x leather, 1x meat.

Narrative design: you have two cows. one of the cows dies; the other cow uses a salience-based storylet system to react with an appropriate bark ("moooo")

3c design: you have two cows. they can airdash

23.10.2025 02:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 503    ๐Ÿ” 120    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

If we make it illegal to steal paintings from the Louvre then the entire industry will be unsustainable

20.10.2025 07:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 669    ๐Ÿ” 230    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

And just like that I want to go put the OST on

20.10.2025 14:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's very cool! Will have to try and find one. Would be the perfect present for my brother

17.10.2025 13:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Unrelated but got to ask where you got the Lord Of The Strings hoodie?

17.10.2025 10:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

+1 to any rolls for not being woken up

13.10.2025 18:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You know how in RPGs an enhanced version of an item is a "+1"?

Well this is six enhanced pairs of earplugs (Probably not)

13.10.2025 16:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This will automatically select your local MP and pre-draft an email for you after entering your name and address in just a few clicks and less than 30 seconds.

My local MP is thankfully one of those actively advocating for trans rights; if one can do it, they all can.

13.10.2025 14:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 76    ๐Ÿ” 55    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Weโ€™re changing game engine.

12.10.2025 18:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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