Mike Enoch

I've reposted many posts made by folks who were recently laid off from Heart Machine, but here is a thread that highlights them all.

I am also including folks who were previously laid off & are still looking for work. I will be linking their Bsky posts, as well as LinkedIn.

Please, share this. 🖤

YouTube video by william snekspeare Steve, Socks, and Spleen Surgery - An Animated Story

this got recommended to me by YouTube, and it deserves to have one billion views, so I'm showing it to you in the hopes that you will also watch it and share it, because it is so lovely

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An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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YouTube video by harryfhumbert The Password Odyssey: A Northernlion Story

Absolute best edit of a Northernlion video I've ever seen hey @katie.bzky.team check this out

Support Kimimi Videogame archaeologist and explorer: Player of the untranslated. Lifter-upper of the unloved and misunderstood.

Hey everyone. I’ll be honest, I’ve run out of rope on this “being a writer” business, to the point where my site either takes off, now, or I start applying for whatever local shop/cleaning jobs are available. This isn’t a “threat”, just an honest statement of where I am. Sorry.

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If you have a “between levels” or similar point where they should all be freed that’s a good place to dump the data. Initially to figure out these were the source of the leak I did just compare profiler snapshots - so it’s not exactly high tech!

In my projects it’s textures, materials, meshes, and render textures that I need to keep track of - but there may be other types I don’t use. My helper class keeps a list of each and I can tell it to dump a list of which are still in use

You can use the profiler to tell you in raw numbers if you are leaking meshes, materials, etc by comparing snapshots - but I don’t think you can drill down to find out which ones, thus my own class to track runtime assets. This is from years back though, it might have improved

That deals with materials, textures, meshes, etc. I suppose you could be “leaking” objects in C# if you have a life cycle problem (creating into a pool but not releasing for example) but that would be quite specific to your project

Actual leaks or just garbage collection? There’s a limited set of things that can leak (assets mostly), so I found that tracking runtime allocated objects was fairly straightforward, I just add them to a list on creation and based on what was leaking figured it out relatively quickly

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I can’t remember the whole story but Nuclear Blaze was made for the dev’s kid/s first and then released store.steampowered.com/app/1662480/...

screenshot of a linked in post: So Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori is doing quite well on Kickstarter (257% funded right now!) and we're working hard to maintain that momentum and keep reaching new potential players. Do I have any press contacts who would be interested in reporting on this success story? About how we took a big gamble in picking a historical, mostly untouched setting for our horse riding game (several months into pre-production for a more 'classic' horse game idea mind you) and in turn managed to make a whole new space for this """"niche"""" genre? About why the games industry's tendency to not take women's interests seriously is part of why horse games never get the budgets they deserve and how we want to change that? About how I've been annoying about horse accuracy on the internet for several years so now I get paid to give horse-specific consulting on various projects? Now's a really good time to send me interview questions and podcast invitations 😇

so I posted this on LinkedIn already but figure I might as well share it here too: Do I have any press contacts interested in my general Horse Game Shenanigans™ who would be interested in covering the Khiimori kickstarter success? Or just the horse game phenomenon in general 👀

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I've learned (and I am still learning) how to run a game studio for the last seven years doing both creative and biz. Here's a list of guidelines that work for us and might be useful for others that were lessons I've incorporated with our experience and guidance from others. 🧵

Happy to give it a go

A work in progress screen capture of a UFO in isometric view. The roof is cut away so you can see rooms inside. There’s an airlock, a central corridor access, a storage or work room to the right, a lab to the left, and a cockpit with an array of monitors ahead. Overall the UFO is flat and mostly round, but somewhat triangular and pointed towards the front. There are two glowing engines at the back corners. The access door is at the back between the engines. The outer surface is metallic and shiny. The interior is mostly grey for now.

Been working on a UFO interior today, kind of a set dressing approach - using stock assets and kit bashing. It’s felt a lot like playing Happy Home Academy in Animal Crossing! Coming up with a little narrative for what and why things are there, and working within tight spatial constraints

ma’am you are in the way

This is really shocking: and true. I discovered I'd just been upgraded without consent to an AI-enshittified package that was about £30 a year more expensive. Strongly recommend anyone who has an Office 365 follow the below advice to get rid of it

YouTube video by Games Done Quick New Super Mario Bros. Wii While Playing Piano by Wes in 41:20 - Awesome Games Done Quick 2025

This goes even harder.

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Sure: bsky.app/profile/mick...

I should probably dig out some more details about it and repost them now we’re all off Twitter - thanks again for the prompt!

The fur shader worked particularly well in VR. I did a version that supports the Valve Index too, but I think if I went back to it now I’d probably need to overhaul quite a bit to get it working on a current version of Unity (or some other engine)

YouTube video by Mike Enoch Ghost Dentist VR - Success

Aw, thanks for saying so Damian! I’d still like to make a version we could release at some point - we did some updates for A MAZE and Fantastic Arcade after the version you saw, there’s a video here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=oBBA...

Y'all, with all seriousness, we could do with a bit of a morale boost with this one on our anniversary. :c I haven't asked for much over the past year and change of working really hard daily here on BlueSky to share cool stuff, all the bytes of and bits of gaming history on top of everything else.

EXPERIMENTAL GAME WORKSHOP Submissions for 2025 are now open!

Heyyy guess what I’ll tell you! Experimental Game Workshop submissions just opened up. If you've been working on something interesting this year, please submit it to the Experimental Game Workshop to get a chance to show it off at GDC next year. ExperimentalGameWorkshop.org

Doshin The Giant wishes you a great and relaxing weekend!

Doshin The Giant wishes you a great and relaxing weekend!

The single most informative thing nintendo has ever officially posted about game design is this sketch for the zelda 1 map, done in a single session, with miyamoto drawing the right half and tezuka drawing the left half

New games, updates, demos, and more in last week's #TurnBasedThursday showcase!

💀 A dark roguelike deckbuilder
📖A JRPG x Visual Novel Combo
🤖 A turn-based mech game
✏️A charming hand drawn JRPG

& many more! ⤵️
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Welcome to v4 of the Blue Sky Game Dev orientation 🧵!

Let's get you started with the basics of Bluesky, finding other devs, and posting about your games!

Btw, this is based on the artist orientation thread from @purlane.ink; make sure to check it out if you’re also on the art side of game dev!

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?

We don't all have the same number of bones or muscles. There's an average, I guess. We all kind of cluster around it. Some muscles are pretty rare. Some people just invent their own artisanal bones.