Starting packing my font glyphs into multiple channels per texture and the result is hella cyberpunk
Chris Pruett
@cpruett.bsky.social
Director of Games @meta. Thirty years of game dev, incl. Dead Secret, Wind-up Knight, and sick Hypercard stacks. I am a walking encyclopedia of horror games.
I keep coming back to this one, it's got a melancholy vibe all its own. Shame both the animator and musician passed away before it became popular.
If you’re in Seattle this Saturday, you could do worse than to come check out the mini-doc I made about @ekanaut.bsky.social
Chandana Ekanayake@ekanaut.bsky.social · last wk.So @matthewseiji.com a terrific writer, designer, musician, wanted to to learn film making, took a course at UW and made two short films. One of them is a documentary that is debuting at Tasveer Film Festival. It's called Eka. My part was easy, he did the work tffm-2026.eventive.org/films/6a85fb...
I also find it incredibly useful to write a crucial scene with a new character’s dialogue in it to find their voice, or to write phrases that they’d say into their bio. Once you have the flavour of how they speak, it’s so much easier to find them as a person
Mysterious Z (DATE OF BIRTH AUGUST 2ND)@mysteriousz.bsky.social · last wk.The Cartoon Network leak revealed that the team actually wrote fake interviews for the Powerpuff Girls in-house so that the writers could understand them better and honestly this is incredibly useful for learning how to characterize your characters holy shit
Watching Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, and it's literally the western version of Japan's Yo Nimo Kimyouna Kimi Monogatari (Tales of the Unusual)
I was 42 when I decided to learn game development. We shipped The Roottrees Are Dead when I was 45 and it changed my life.
Steven Spohn@stevenspohn.bsky.social · 2w agoNormalize chasing your dreams in your 40's
It is my duty to inform all of you to play The Incident at Galley House. You can thank me later if you remember to.
I can't remember what day of the week it is but at least I'm pretty much guaranteed to survive an Incident at Galley House scenario.
Merging psychological dread with existential inquiry, the Japanese auteur's films use genre trappings to probe the alienation and anxiety underpinning modern life.
Silent Hill Townfall: Really sure you want to pick up this pistol? Might want to think of the ~implications~ of that. Me: I don't have to? I can just play stealth? SHT: You cretin. You fool. You absolute buffoon.
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was "don't save your ideas," and this is the best possible version of that sentiment.
the babahuck@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · last mo.rip annie dillard
Horror game designers, I am once again here to remind you that your goal is to make your player feel constantly under threat, but not actually to have them die and restart. Repetition is the death of tension.
I love the idea of the CRTV in Silent Hill Townfall. It's not as good as Siren's sight jacking but it's pretty good. But the problem is that it makes it clear when enemies are around and when they aren't, which releases a huge amount of the pressure the map is trying to produce.
Orbitals is super impressive. The style is phenomenal and the mixing of low frame rate character animation with a smooth camera works better than it has any right to.
Pile(BUN)ker. I usually don't work on this during the week, but I needed to unwind something fierce and this helps fight the bad brain bullshit. So, I spent time trying out audio for the execute. Made 5 different cam angles for the kill to reduce fatigue. I am pleased. #CherubDev #UE5 #GameDev
I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰
I dunno, it just doesn't seem plausible that stochastic analysis of artifacts produced by human brains will be sufficient to simulate the source. I don't think you get rainbow tables for neurons by parsing the tiny subset of brain output that gets digitized. Your brain is a 50 terabyte private key.
One of Hideo Kojima's real talents is that he would have exactly this idea but the stew would be dropped off by a drone that sings a little jingle which can alert enemies if they're in range. You then get a phone call from a nuclear scientist who warns you not to eat too much starch and dairy.
Crushed@silenttakedown.bsky.social · 2mo agoyeah sure whatever, let lara croft cook potato stew on her phone for 2m0s of damage resistance who gives a shit anymore
Been in games and freelance for ~14 years now. I'm a skilled pixel artist, illustrator, graphic designer, storyboarder, who can also do some animation and simple 3D work. I've got experience in overseeing game projects from beginning to ship. Looking for work! Portfolio..☞ jjsignal.com _:(´ཀ`」 ∠):_
JJSignal Works
Illustration and visual design. Game development and direction. A portfolio of JJSignal's works.
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Flicks & Pics in Eugene, Oregon, aka my introduction to film and also the basis for a lifetime of opinions about how to curate media correctly. I watched everything from A Taxing Lady to Brain Dead. They refused to charge money for Brooke Shields films. Tuesdays were $1 rental days.
Chloe N. Clark@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 2mo agoTell me about the video store of your past please
I co-edited an English-language book, Japanese Game Studies: A Guide to Studying Japanese Games link.springer.com/book/9789819... and it is now out. The project started back in 2021, so it has taken us five years to finally get it published... hiyokoya.hatenadiary.jp/entry/2026/0...
Japanese Game Studies: A Guide to Studying Japanese Games - Critique of Games メモと寸評
I co-edited an English-language book, Japanese Game Studies: A Guide to Studying Japanese Games https://link.springer.com/book/9789819598564 and it is now out. The project started back in 2021, so it ...
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