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Phenry Ewing

@hoverbird.bsky.social

Game designer/developer. Creative Director on Neo Cab (Chance Agency), Design Lead on Cat Burglar (Netflix) and developer/designer on Firewatch (Campo Santo). He/him.

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IMO cool BECAUSE rude

31.01.2026 23:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I can give you more details there

28.01.2026 17:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ahh I didnโ€™t realize! Thanks for reaching out. Iโ€™ve opened them up again

28.01.2026 17:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In my case I already hired a 3rd party studio to automate all of this build/test/deploy to TF/submit stuff and it was the best decision I ever made. My only problem is now that 3rd party was so successful that they got swallowed by a much larger game devops company. DM me if you want to know more!

28.01.2026 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

FWIW I donโ€™t know a single Unity dev who DOESNโ€™T find this kind of setup maddening to set up and maintain. And completely outside of their wheelhouseโ€ฆ itโ€™s a whole-ass big-tech Dev Ops job that most indies (myself included) are wholly unprepared for and uninterested in.

28.01.2026 17:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nothing says โ€œreal personโ€ like mentioning that youโ€™re a real person within the first five seconds of meeting someone.

28.01.2026 16:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m hiring for game dev contract work! Especially those with deep experience in Unity -> Xcode -> App Store build pipelines.

Neo Cabโ€™s build needs serious retooling, and the right person could quite literally save our game from disappearing from iOS forever. DM if interested, and plz RT! ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿš™๐Ÿ’œ

28.01.2026 16:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 54    ๐Ÿ” 57    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.

24.01.2026 16:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2921    ๐Ÿ” 799    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 34

ahoy hoy!

23.01.2026 01:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

24 hours from now we will release the works of Pemberton, Kendrick, Silverton and the rest into the world. We have no idea what the consequences will be.

We have every reason to believe that when this happened before, it was seismic.

Good luck.

20.01.2026 15:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 57    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I think weโ€™ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think weโ€™re really fast and strong before they kill us.

20.01.2026 22:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5224    ๐Ÿ” 1173    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 84    ๐Ÿ“Œ 42

Itโ€™s not just good advice, itโ€™s also quite obviously how the country was designed to run

19.01.2026 23:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:

"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

19.01.2026 16:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35057    ๐Ÿ” 12068    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1732    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1399

And when I still couldnโ€™t get the traction to get out of the rut, went and fetched his brother and elderly father (!) who all pushed together and got me free. All we said to each other was โ€œMerry Christmasโ€ and it meant the most

19.01.2026 00:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Minnesotans are the best neighbors. Flashback to a Christmas Eve in Minneapolis, trying to dig a borrowed car out of snow with no shovel, tires spinning in deep ice ruts. Stuck, fingers frozen. A Somali dude from the church across the street saw me struggle, got a shovel, dug me outโ€ฆ

19.01.2026 00:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 36    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Same & hard agree. I never turned on notifications for sm apps, I never understood why anyone did? Especially if youโ€™re super popular itโ€™d consume your life. Iโ€™ve heard of RuPaul Drag Race queens who spend up to and beyond 5 hours just on their phones dealing w/notificactions. it sounds like hell

18.01.2026 23:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

as someone from the US who now lives in a country with exclusively privatized delivery services, the USPS is one of the greatest institutions of all time and I agree with Terry Pratchett and the US constitution about the necessity of delivering the mail

18.01.2026 22:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 49    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I made a tiny PICO-8 game for @finjico.bsky.socialโ€™s #CorgiJam.

๐Ÿ† Duck and dive like a cheetah!
๐Ÿ‘‚ p.s. Did you know cheetahs chirp?

itch brittspace.itch.io/on-a-dime
bbs www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=154...

#gamedev #pico8

14.01.2026 17:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I read the one book (infinite jest) and am now exempt from ready any other book

14.01.2026 16:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If history cares enough to look back at the nerdzisโ€™ obsessive hatred of Sweet Baby, history will be utterly baffled by such an embarrassing grudge.

It might be the stupidest of all their manufactured outrages, one of the most clear cut examples of them getting mad at their own imaginations.

14.01.2026 12:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1173    ๐Ÿ” 201    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

Haha wait is this an Elsewhere joint? Which project is this from? Now Iโ€™m hella curious!

12.01.2026 18:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What the fresh hell is this?

12.01.2026 00:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Did a quick video/blog post about how Gears of War 1's train level works, which will surprise few but perhaps interest many

www.joewintergreen.com/how-gears-of...

10.01.2026 10:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 129    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."

Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."

Five years ago.

06.01.2026 03:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5882    ๐Ÿ” 3458    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 108    ๐Ÿ“Œ 282
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Whoโ€™s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter A look inside Elon Muskโ€™s big tent

๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ www.ft.com/content/ad94...

06.01.2026 13:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 758    ๐Ÿ” 227    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 52

doooo eeeet, as Greg Pass used to say

05.01.2026 18:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh so you CAN charge presidents with crimes

03.01.2026 14:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 660    ๐Ÿ” 71    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Tweet from @grosdoriane: this is NOT what america is about. America is about *opens history book* uh oh *frantically starts flipping through pages* uh oh. Oh no. No no no. Uh oh

Tweet from @grosdoriane: this is NOT what america is about. America is about *opens history book* uh oh *frantically starts flipping through pages* uh oh. Oh no. No no no. Uh oh

Evergreen tweet

03.01.2026 14:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 276    ๐Ÿ” 76    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I thought Iโ€™d listened to all the radio 4 stuff cookd and bombd had to offer but somehow this snuck past me and dear lord. So good

03.01.2026 02:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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