Samuel Cohen
@samuelcohen.bsky.social
Level Designer, Artist, Lecturer. He/Him. Expect photography and game dev stuff. Etherborn is my baby. Worked on Ritual Tides, After Us, Terracotta, Blues and Bullets and some other secret stuff. 🗣️ 🇪🇸🇺🇸🇯🇵 Photography ig: mind.dispersion
Terminando de redactar la tesina de mi máster, pero quería compartir un adelanto de lo que para mí es el eje central del asunto. #leveldesign #gamestudies #gamedesign
China manufacturing TikTok really has me wanting to buy precision CNC machining.
Come on girls this season we're going full Obelix. To be Gaul is goated actually. Put on your big pants and suck on that magic potion.
Blue Heron Farm@blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 2w agoAbsolutely not.
today's evil is bullshit hey. you spend your life learning to perceive the many guises and subtle ways of evil and then evil just drops all that shit overnight, villains just publicly high five over evil shit now. please, i trained for the other thing
Nobody wants to talk about this, but probably the worst part about autism is how prone you are to digestive problems. Sent from my toilet.
I feel like if you're even cogitating *asking* for 75 variations on one thing you are just so profoundly out of your depth as a director that you really should get the professional equivalent of euthanasia
Corey Brickley@coreybrickley.bsky.social · 2w agolmao it is wild how a CEO can perfectly illustrate why AI placeholders are such a TERRIBLE idea but then not see a need to stop
The primary goal of any lead or director should be: I must not be the bottleneck. Being the bottleneck should mortify you. When you ask for a million variations so you can pick your favorite you are asking to be the bottleneck. You are doing anti-work.
Noki Bay is one of my favorite levels. A real natural wonder of the gaming world
TODAS las autoridades de los Estados miembros de la UE (y de la UE en sí) deben abandonar colectivamente X. Europa no puede tolerar esta humillación. X ha suspendido la cuenta del Consulado UK por publicar una declaración conjunta de las misiones diplomáticas europeas. efe.com/mundo/2026-0...
X bloquea cuenta del consulado británico en Jerusalén tras una publicación crítica con Israel - EFE
X bloqueó la cuenta del consulado de Reino Unido en Jerusalén después de que ésta realizara una publicación crítica con Israel
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I'm currently working on my SECOND GAME. Please support real 100% human-made weird fucking shit! pls share and give us a follow and together with me wonder where this one fucking lands... All the weird is lovingly hallucinated in my human brain!
I'm really fucking sorry for all the headlines the industry has been creating lately, but the one that keeps echoing in my head is the possibility of Arkane shutting down. Whoever makes that decision has zero appreciation for excellence.
Lo bueno de que el nivel cultural en TikTok sea tan bajo es que aunque el sistema te borre comentarios por decir "masturbación", no detecta nada si usas "onanismo".
Kudos to the Steam Support team for actually helping me with the kind of login issue that in any other service would've made me hit an AI wall.
Can't sleep lately. Too many worries about my professional future. Freelancing as a level designer is becoming too heavy on my mental health. Need an opportunity at a studio, but I don't even know where to begin in the current industry.
NEW: Former Xbox president Sarah Bond, former Roblox chief product officer Manuel Bronstein, and Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick have been linked with a secret society called 'Dialog' organised by controversial billionaire and conservative activist Peter Thiel. Strap yourselves in for this one:
Report: Game industry execs linked to Peter Thiel's secret mixer
A series of leaks have tied multiple current and former video game industry execs to the controversial billionaire's invite-only 'Dialog' conference.
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ohhh heck we're live ^^ www.youtube.com/live/-wNXksq...
Dana Nightingale 🏳️⚧️@danaenight.northsky.social · 3mo agoTomorrow I'll be doing a live stream with Warren Spector chatting about immersive sims and being decades into our game dev careers (lol modding counts) while we check out Thick as Thieves with some extra-cool-lovely members of that game's dev team. More detail soon but it'll happen here at 8pm CEST:
happening in four hours We'll also be joined by @gforgannon.bsky.social and Jeff Hickman ^^ will update with a direct link to the stream when it exists
Dana Nightingale 🏳️⚧️@danaenight.northsky.social · 3mo agoTomorrow I'll be doing a live stream with Warren Spector chatting about immersive sims and being decades into our game dev careers (lol modding counts) while we check out Thick as Thieves with some extra-cool-lovely members of that game's dev team. More detail soon but it'll happen here at 8pm CEST:
Thinking about doing a commentary playthrough of #Dishonored with @rafcolantonio.bsky.social. He has not played much since we released the game!
Btw I'm centering my thesis around Level Design and the limitations of spatial navigation among the autistic population. Wrote my first article recently on this and my teachers loved it! Now I need to figure out how to publish it. Any tip is welcome.
Samuel Cohen@samuelcohen.bsky.social · 3mo agoI'm not very active on social media, but I just have to say that I’m very close to graduating from my master’s in Art and Design Research, and I'm super excited!
I'm not very active on social media, but I just have to say that I’m very close to graduating from my master’s in Art and Design Research, and I'm super excited!
Although this post is not addressed to anyone in specific, it's a good reminder. Despite everything, I'm still getting paid to make video games and I can't pretend it's been easy. I'm so thankful.
Mat Piscatella@matpiscatella.bsky.social · 4mo agoLook at you. May of the year 2026 and you're still here doing your thing. I'm proud of ya. Keep it up. It ain't easy out there.
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I had never ever owned a screen drawing tablet because: 1)They used to be expensive 2)I've always hated the experience of drawing digitally But today I'm blown away by my new purchase. Just did a quick sketch to test my configuration and I can't remember the last time I had so much FUN with a pen!
Getting rid of Twitter was the right decision, but I think the ONE regret I have is that Brian Fargo was following me over there and that was pretty cool :___