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Chad Armstrong

@chadarmstrong.bsky.social

aka “Shishka.” Senior technical designer at Gravity Well Games. Previously: Apex Legends, Tomb Raider, Halo. He/Him.

546 Followers  |  383 Following  |  205 Posts  |  Joined: 04.07.2023  |  1.9389

Latest posts by chadarmstrong.bsky.social on Bluesky

That's a helluva list of great games that can GET IN LINE

07.10.2025 18:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

WTF GO PLAY DREDGE

07.10.2025 18:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hot damn, "You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line" is the kind of articulation I wish I was capable of.

06.10.2025 21:23 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Senior QA Analyst Remote

Gravity Well is looking for a Senior QA Analyst to join our team! 🎮👾

If you've got sharp testing skills, a passion for video games, and experience with QA efforts, we want to hear from you!

Apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/...

06.10.2025 18:22 — 👍 30    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 2

Social media peaked at “stuff a message into a bottle and throw it in the ocean.”

03.10.2025 17:47 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve become the meme video of the middle aged guy jumping down a flight of stairs, then cut to an ambulance. 🙃

21.09.2025 04:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Update on this: two fractures! Yaaaaaay. 😑

21.09.2025 03:47 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 5    📌 0
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a black and white cartoon cat is sitting on a red pillow . Alt: a black and white cartoon cat is sitting on a red pillow while crossing its arms to pout.

@alexabkim.bsky.social to me: “Chad I’m gonna need you to stop 40’ing so hard.”

Me: “I’m gonna 40’s ✨even harder✨ now.

(My dumb 43 year old ass just rolled my ankle so hard there was a popping noise)

20.09.2025 22:41 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

I'd argue Halo's control scheme and input handling changed the course of console FPS's, but I suppose that's not what people typically mean when they say 'influential.'

16.09.2025 17:36 — 👍 38    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Yeah he is 100% right.

16.09.2025 17:02 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

I think it was Del Walker that rightly said that AI art makes brands look cheap.

16.09.2025 16:30 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Always good to see women capably climbing the corporate ladder.

🫠

13.09.2025 16:54 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don't think anyone wants to tear Team Cherry down, here. No one worth listening to, anyway.

The bigger concern is the potential for misperception. How will media/consumers/investors/etc perceive OTHER games once they're convinced "only" 3 people made a game that a hundred people made?

09.09.2025 01:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Peter, nobody's really talking about Team Cherry's fulltime headcount, though. The discourse was brought on by the media portraying the game as having been made strictly by those three developers "with support from a few contractors."

THAT is inherently inaccurate, given the size of the credits.

08.09.2025 23:36 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I guess @chadarmstrong.bsky.social keeps up with this app and has told you we go camping a lot, and have rats again. In fact, here's Neeps on my desk right now.

I hope everyone is taking care of themselves, hydrated and staying cool.

05.09.2025 17:58 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Baby rats Whisky and Tattie chilling under my computer monitor while I work

Baby rats Whisky and Tattie chilling under my computer monitor while I work

My new managers Whisky and Tattie making sure I stay productive

05.09.2025 18:07 — 👍 106    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0

"Finally"

03.09.2025 20:56 — 👍 1013    🔁 222    💬 6    📌 0

Wow, that's not a name I've seen in a long time.

I felt like I was the only one that played it back in the day, lol.

03.09.2025 20:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sorry. I thought this was AMERICA.

31.08.2025 02:18 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Rice, kimchi, pork and ssam on a camping table on a cabin deck.

Rice, kimchi, pork and ssam on a camping table on a cabin deck.

We ended up canceling our campsite reservation due to a strict “no fire” policy that included propane stoves, and found a nearby cabin.

We still made samgyeopsal. We’re gonna be ok.

31.08.2025 02:10 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Haboob! At the Orgy Dome

27.08.2025 17:52 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Paging @rayme.bsky.social

25.08.2025 21:36 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Also, like... Did sir in your quote perhaps not take an art history class?

25.08.2025 21:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(I don’t know why I’m winking in every reply like I have a facial tick)

24.08.2025 23:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Before Kojima Productions was an independent company, it was a division of Konami ;)

24.08.2025 23:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Owning the studio helps ;)

24.08.2025 03:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

He beats them when he’s not busy joining them 🙃

15.08.2025 19:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
A picture of a squirrel laying belly down on a concrete tile, legs and head splayed out, tail sticking straight up into the air

A picture of a squirrel laying belly down on a concrete tile, legs and head splayed out, tail sticking straight up into the air

The squirrels are melting again

07.08.2025 19:05 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

8.7 magnitude (!) earthquake off Kamchatka triggers tsunami warning for the Aleutian islands and tsunami watches down the Pacific coast www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...

30.07.2025 01:26 — 👍 477    🔁 125    💬 16    📌 13

Are the most experts in the room with us right now?

29.07.2025 02:26 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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