James

@jamesbutlin.bsky.social

Lead Programmer @FuturLab working on PowerWash Simulator 💦. Previously: lead on PWS VR 💧, on a mental health & wellbeing study in PWS 1 with Oxford University 🧑‍🔬 and working on Onward (VR) 🔫 Opinions are my own. ENFJ, He/Him

Tip for level designers: Get one of these, go to a cafe, and relax. Many of my best level design ideas existed on paper first. Tip for notepad manufacturers: Many level designers would be excited about hexagon patterns instead of square grids.

A notepad with 2D platform level design sketches for Rhythm Doggo drawn with a pen

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.

‘Warhammer 40K’ animated series is officially in the works at Amazon • It’s a spin-off of the ‘Secret Level’ episode • Blur Studios is returning to animate • Henry Cavill is exec producing

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the stuff I do that ever does go viral is never my art but always the stupidest, most random stuff. like this video of the me taking off my mocap suit forgetting it was still recording.

Being anti-AI isn't enough. You should be pro-art, pro-artist, pro-writer, pro-worker. Don't expend all your energy tearing people down. Spend it lifting people up instead. Make their voices so loud, their art so visible, it drowns out the slop.