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Sean Noonan

@seannoonan.bsky.social

Lead Designer on SENTRY. Previously responsible for level design on Gears Tactics, Star Citizen, Far Cry & Watch_Dogs among other #gamedev projects.

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Latest posts by seannoonan.bsky.social on Bluesky

Dino Crisis Bundle is $15.29 on GOG buff.ly/cugNstF

29.10.2025 18:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 73    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Featured in Eurogamerโ€™s Skyblivion Video A quick bit of fun news: The Super 1-1 Challenge was featured in a new Eurogamer video about fan projects and modding culture! The video mostly covers the Skyblivion remake project, but also touches o...

Featured in Eurogamerโ€™s Skyblivion Video - The Super 1-1 Challenge
sean-noonan.itch.io/super/devlog...

29.10.2025 17:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A surprising number of people on videogame discussion forums don't actually seem to enjoy playing videogames, and only continue to post there because they vaguely remember liking one before the divorce.

27.10.2025 23:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 51    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Noonan Design Update | October 2025
YouTube video by Sean Noonan Noonan Design Update | October 2025

I've made my previously Discord-only #gamedev updates public. Here's the first one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=La-1...

24.10.2025 00:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They never hired me, I donโ€™t get it ๐Ÿ˜…

25.10.2025 10:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Noonan Design Update | October 2025
YouTube video by Sean Noonan Noonan Design Update | October 2025

I've made my previously Discord-only #gamedev updates public. Here's the first one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=La-1...

24.10.2025 00:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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15.10.2025 10:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The inside story of how Oblivion Remastered caused immense worry, then sublime relief, for the industrious devs behind mod megaproject, Skyblivion

www.eurogamer.net/the-inside-s...

14.10.2025 15:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Didn't have any time to do much art this evening, so I started working on the basement washer room in Something in the Water's midgame... #gamedev

01.10.2025 00:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Aye, age identication/verification is costly, it's just easier to blanket ban (or in some cases for UK companies to just shut down the service). The scary thing is that the badguys could use this to swing public opinion in their favour... ๐Ÿ’€

11.10.2025 14:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good point - I could probably use Proton whenever I need to look up blueprints. What a faff, though.

11.10.2025 10:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Basically...

11.10.2025 00:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Stop Killing Games will become an endless nightmare if we don't wake up A contentious campaign and an industry asleep at the wheel

Stop Killing Games originated from a laudable place but risks becoming a huge disaster if the industry doesn't wake up and deliver some workable proposals.

I've written up my thoughts on this here - please take a look if you care about these issues:

open.substack.com/pub/modecoll...

08.10.2025 18:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Lovely stuff!

10.10.2025 23:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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So I guess this is where I start looking into a VPN. Honestly this country is getting fucking ridiculous. Been a while since I've been annoyed about anything this much.

10.10.2025 18:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 46    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Sad times :(

10.10.2025 01:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SENTRY - Dev Transmission (September 2025) - Steam News Hi everyone, hereโ€™s what the team have been up to in September. Passives becomes โ€œTechโ€!Since the first Early Access version of SENTRY, weโ€™ve been wrapping the original Passive Gear into other systems...

The September Dev Transmission is here, check out what we've been up to... ๐Ÿ‘‡
store.steampowered.com/news/app/125...

01.10.2025 14:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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01.10.2025 08:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Didn't have any time to do much art this evening, so I started working on the basement washer room in Something in the Water's midgame... #gamedev

01.10.2025 00:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s my favourite of your games too!

29.09.2025 23:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Silent Hill f has sold over 1 million units as of Sept 26th

29.09.2025 13:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 680    ๐Ÿ” 137    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 38
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PlayStation: The First 30 Years

โžก๏ธ blog.playstation.com/2025/09/29/c...

Sony is releasing a new photography book with "never-before-seen prototypes, concept sketches, and design models that shaped hardware development at Sony Interactive Entertainment" - coming Spring 2026.

29.09.2025 15:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 63    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Yeah, I pretty much can't use reddit anymore ๐Ÿ’€

24.09.2025 17:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This is still very WIP but a little #gamedev progress on Something in the Water's new starter enemy... what do you think? And yeah, I know it needs a face ๐Ÿ˜…

15.09.2025 23:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bluesky just has a button you can press that hides trends. That's so awesome. Done in a heartbeat.

14.09.2025 12:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hovering over the pre-order button right now ๐Ÿ˜…

12.09.2025 20:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SENTRY - Dev Transmission (August 2025) - Steam News Hi everyone, In case you missed it, we planned out the remaining work for Early Access and posted up our new roadmap here: After the release of Major Update 3 in July, August was about diving into som...

Here's what we've been up to in August:
store.steampowered.com/news/app/125...

02.09.2025 14:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SENTRY - Roadmap Update! - Steam News Hi everyone, Weโ€™ve built out a plan for our remaining work on SENTRY, so we thought weโ€™d create a new Roadmap post. First, if you havenโ€™t been keeping updated on the changes thus far then you can read...

Check out our upcoming plans in the Roadmap Update!
store.steampowered.com/news/app/125...

21.08.2025 12:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Because the Internet :)

02.09.2025 19:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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