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Byron Aytoun

@baytoun.bsky.social

Game Designer for Stellaris at Paradox Development Studio. he/him

489 Followers  |  366 Following  |  36 Posts  |  Joined: 19.08.2023  |  2.2141

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In this hypothetical world, Iโ€™d ask you for a sequel to โ€œInto the Drowning Deepโ€.

12.05.2025 20:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Today was a good day, we released BioGenesis and @smuray.bsky.social gifted me a deck of cards.

05.05.2025 16:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Haven't gotten there yet, but my notes are ever expanding!

13.04.2025 13:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I see where you learnt the terrible jokes from

29.03.2025 18:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Client Challenge

Wrote a Dev Diary for @stellaris.paradoxinteractive.com today, let me introduce you to Biological Ships!

forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/develo...

27.03.2025 13:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's pretty damn cool, our art team have done an amazing job on the ships! (and I'm still surprised at times that I got to be the systems designer for both cloaking and biological ships in Stellaris)

24.03.2025 16:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Well I can finally talk about what I've been working on for the last year or so - We've announced Stellaris: BioGenesis!

forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/develo...

24.03.2025 16:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Disgusting.

08.02.2025 13:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Time

26.01.2025 18:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™d like to improve the ship designer UX

23.01.2025 12:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Do I have to undo all the changes Iโ€™ve already done?

22.01.2025 17:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hatori thinks there are things I should be doing that aren't playing games...

19.01.2025 16:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Drumroll, please... ๐Ÿฅ

Read Stellaris Dev Diary #366 - Announcing Stellaris 4.0: pdxint.at/4hgjNGC

16.01.2025 12:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 45    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

I'm pretty sure "Alien Cooking Simulator" was the code name used on the Steam backend for one of the DLCs

12.01.2025 08:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I remember implementing You Monster, where the intended route is have the Salvager enclave "scrap" Bubbles the Amoeba.

There's also But at what Cost

02.01.2025 19:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Allow me to present one of the many good reasons to have a split ergonomic keyboard

02.01.2025 09:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What?

24.12.2024 12:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ladder to the Sky - you didnโ€™t specify it had to be a playable origin.

24.12.2024 11:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Four years of working on it and I still discover new things!

19.12.2024 22:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That is worrying, but Iโ€™m glad my guess that it has a fishing mini game was right! ๐Ÿ˜…

12.12.2024 21:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Howโ€™s the mandatory fishing minigame?

12.12.2024 16:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I found a piece of headgear that the property โ€œcannot be unequippedโ€, so I reckon decapitation might be a solution for this.

07.12.2024 22:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Started playing @cavesofqud.com over lunch today, gotta say being able to defend myself from spiders by using psychic mutations to shoot laser beams is not what I expected, but it exactly what I needed.

06.12.2024 19:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Go Cosmogenesis and do both

06.12.2024 16:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Eager Explorers because I like starting with a disadvantage and it forces me to disable science ship automation

22.11.2024 16:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As one of the folks that did QA on the Emperor expansion, the Burgundian Inheritance gives me nightmares.

05.11.2024 18:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Lots of good advice, and here a bit of a joke advice that is actually not a joke advice:

Learn what a howitzer is.

Or more specifically, you will have to talk with a lot of middle aged dudes and being able to engage with their topics of interest (often war related) really helps a lot!

23.10.2024 13:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Someone made Wordle in Fallout: New Vegas
I fucking love mods
www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mod...

19.10.2024 19:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 531    ๐Ÿ” 140    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

@ozone.birb.house can I request the "Game Dev" label please?

19.10.2024 20:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I should have another look at the internal build sometime.

19.10.2024 19:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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