Matthew Blest

@matthewblest.bsky.social

Artist, animation, game design

Hello everyone! Many of you likely saw this image recently with the Apple TV+ 'Neuromancer' promotion. Some know, others don't, but this artwork is mine, created alongside actor & post-production artist Milton Menezes, as a personal project and a homage to the original Neuromancer romance

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This is how awesome L7 was: They hired a plane to fly a banner over Lilith Fair which read: BORED? TIRED? TRY L7" On the same day, they hired another plane to fly over the Warped Tour, saying "WARPED NEEDS MORE BEAVER" They gave zero fucks.

Web development fucked. Design fucked. Freelancing fucked. Content creation fucked. Education fucked Blogging fucked. Dev rel fucked. Hard to find a purpose in this brave new world.

60% drop in reviews if people even smell AI on your game - full supports the investors, developers, and publishers that took a hard "no gen-AI" stance, despite grifters' proclamations that they were "going to be left behind".

Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏@mrhands31.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Someone actually crunched the numbers, and using GenAI can decrease reviews for indie game on Steam (a useful proxy stat for sales) by as much as *58%* 🤖

On the day before Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire, all I can think about is that time in 2021 when the head of the UN World Food Program asked Musk to donate $6 billion to save 42 million people from starvation and he refused.

The latest Heroic Signatures Newsletter has news aplenty: mailchi.mp/heroicsignat... 🔸Marcos Cronander is the new President of the company. 🔸Arnold Schwarzenegger and Christopher McQuarrie officially signed on to develop the KING CONAN movie. 🔸Howard Days this week. 🔸New comics, ebooks and more!

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