Chief Smokey
@chiefsmokey.bsky.social
Developer of indie shooter The Last Goodbye | Occasional Artist | Sometimes talks about trash games and 60s TV | https://linktr.ee/chiefsmokey
Putting some final touches on Sherwood Vale, an up-market shopping hub nestled deep in Prava's west end. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame
Reposting this given its the 40th anniversary
Chief Smokey@chiefsmokey.bsky.social · 4mo agoIf you told someone who just watched Alien in 1979 that the sequel ends with Ripley getting in a mech suit and having a punch up with a big momma alien they'd think the film is a camp disaster that jumped the shark.
And here we see the difference between twenty minutes work versus a few hours over a weekend. Small details that the player will blitz past, but I really enjoyed working on these and making them look somewhat official.
Now, 007, your next mission is to go to the newsagents and get me a loaf of bread, a pack of paracetamol, one of those little cartons of milk and a packet of Monster Munch. Q branch has all of your equipment prepared. Try not to make an international incident out of it like you did before.
Testing Citizen chatter. #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday
Restoring power with some questionable technology. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame
New SLE (my fork of Hammer) release, with bugfixes, new displacement tools, and other workflow enhancements. github.com/Cvoxalury/so...
Release SLE 3.129 (Jul 2 2026) · Cvoxalury/source_level_editor
Source Level Editor 3.129. Updated beta release. Changelog: New: SLE now uses .INI file to store settings instead of Windows registry. If you want to keep using registry and not re-configure the e...
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🔥MACK ATTACK🔥 Mack & Agnes uncover what should never be found. Possessions. Conspiracies. Deadly Secrets. Updates here and at mackattack.online
Been a hot minute since I did some illustration. Getting back in the groove with something simple.
Playing HL1 in TLG is a rather offbeat experience. Most NPCs are missing or broken and it crashes occasionally, but gosh doesn't the game look great in black and white?
As the years go by and I see more and more failed attempts at postmodern/subversive storytelling I get more and more at peace with when a story is "predictable". It's a shame because I know that ideally "the writer has followed the bare minimum requirements of storytelling" should be a given.
Films I really need to rewatch after many years: The Long Good Friday Alphaville Streets of Fire The Elephant Man Rear Window La Dolce Vita Hellboy Golden Voyage of Sinbad Blade Runner Magical Mystery Tour Labyrinth Super Mario Bros.
Rewatched the first Tomb Raider film with some friends for the 25th anniversary. Gets messy in the third act and is ground zero for all the family issues guff that plagues future games but on the whole is a glorious romp. Jolie is having a blast and her joy at playing Lara is infectious. Good fun!
Dealing out some pressurized propane punishment. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame
New Map Labs - Mega Mania, themed around megastructures, is available. My map in it is "The Deep Afar". Special, huge thanks to @makkon.bsky.social and @a-shift.bsky.social for the textures, couldn't have done it without them. www.moddb.com/mods/map-lab...
Things aren't looking too dandy in Prava's subterranean network... #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev
I still occasionally tinker away with my little pepperpots in #blender. Some day I'll put them in the Source Engine. #doctorwho #dalek
Between Minecraft and Steven Universe I wonder how many kids in the 2010s got interested in Minerology
