Olly Skillman-Wilson
@thepixelcrush.com
🖌️ Lead Environment Artist on Blackfrost: The Long Dark II 💼 Currently Hinterland ↪️ Previously Graceful Decay, Big Robot Ltd, Aardman. 🏭 Climate anxieter, 🍺 cider appreciator, 🎹 prog snob, 🏘️ Bristolian. he/him 🌐 www.thepixelcrush.com
people are going to dislike Digger. it's loud, over the top, with a lot of scenery chewing, and it is bleak. but i LOVED it, start to finish. saw it in IMAX. comparisons to Dr. Strangelove are apt, though Digger has a more interesting structure. alejandro, cruise, goodman, hüller, et al are bold.
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 6d agoWe kinda sorta dig Digger aftermath.site/digger-tom-cru...
I'm wrapping up my time with Cardboard Computer on their unannounced game in early November, & I have some capacity again! If you're looking for consultation or longer term support from an expert game director, narrative designer & writer, drop me a line 💖 contact [at] hannahnicklin.com
The beauty of a pre order arriving one day early 🤘🏻👀🤘🏻
I am thrilled beyond words with what Tim and the team have made here. So excited to see it out in the world!
Evil Hat@evilhat.bsky.social · 4w agoIN STORES TODAY! Blades '68 shines a bright, electroplasmic light on the grimy streets of Doskvol and spins the timeline forward 100 years. Enter a technicolor world of bold action, shadow conspiracies, and supernatural twists. Pick it up at your FLGS or directly from us: evilhat.com/product/blad...
Ended up cataloguing my saved streaming albums in Obsidian before the subscription expires, it's going to take some time to rebuild but does feel good that the money will (mostly) go the artists?
bsky.app/profile/jame... legitimately hilarious how unfit for purpose it looks. and i STILL havent seen footage of it being used with rapidly moving cameras
James Westonson@jameswestonson.bsky.social · last mo.DLSS 5 going haywire on GTA 5 Imagine being on shrooms when this happens www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterra...
Found a bug that I might keep? I forgot to add chair occupancy restrictions, and penguin hips are simulated with physics, so you can get in tiny chairs with other penguins and shove them aside. 😆 #gamedev #indiedev #GodotEngine
After a few years of work, I can finally talk about this! I’ve been designing puzzles and levels for Uncanyon. I’m super excited to share what we’ve been working on and to be part of the team at @graceful-decay.bsky.social Wishlist it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3372610/...
Uncanyon on Steam
Uncanyon is a puzzle-first adventure that drops you into a forgotten world, tucked into the seam between unparallel realities.
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Bought an external CD drive like its 2004, life is good.
I was half joking when I said this, turns out it's true. Play it with people you like, and you will have a very special experience. I feel full of love and awe.
Olly Skillman-Wilson@thepixelcrush.com · 2mo agoBig Walk, game of the decade?
Money spent on South of Midnight now supports its developers, not Microsoft aftermath.site/compulsion-sou...
Exclusive: It's official. Compulsion Games has successfully pulled off a management buyout and is no longer part of Microsoft. gamesbeat.com/compulsion-g...
Compulsion Games pulls off management buyout and separates from Xbox | exclusive
Compulsion Games, the maker of compelling gamers like South of Midnight, has pulled off a management buyout and is now separated from Xbox.
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Huge win today getting home assistant to suspend *and wake* my ancient laptop with the homelab stuff on it. Turns out the laptop itself is too old to do things like RTC wake alarms, but MQTT and Wake on LAN have it covered! Been chipping away at that for 3 months just to save 37kwh a year 😅.
📣Audiophile PSA📣 If you have some nice lossless audio and pair of headphones you can crank the bitrate and frequency response waaay up in windows settings. I also found I was getting weird stereo imaging when changing volume recently, and I think turning off audio enhancements in here has fixed it.
This is obscene and we should all be enraged about this all the time.
AFL-CIO@aflcio.org · 2mo agoOur new Executive Paywatch report is here, and - spoiler alert - greedy CEOs are making even MORE. Top CEOs made 312x what workers make and took home an average of $22.8 MILLION per YEAR in total compensation. Read our full Paywatch report here: Aflcio.org/paywatch
🗳️ Norfolk PCC by-election in Norwich: 🟢 Grn: 35% ( +6 ) 🔴 Lab: 20% ( -26 ) ➡️ Ref: 14% ( +14 ) ⚪️ Ind: 12% ( +12 ) 🔵 Con: 8% ( -8 ) 🟠 Lib: 7% ( -3 ) ⚫️ Res: 6% ( +6 ) This marks the first time that Greens have won the popular vote in a local authority in a PCC election. x.com/LeftieStats/...
Very very excited to see Mick Gordon live at Radar next year, once in a lifetime opportunity.
Mick Gordon on stage at The Game Awards
Alt: Mick Gordon on stage at The Game Awards 10 years ago
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I actually polished some noise up a little bit, from a while back, got sidetracked making cover artwork, never posted it, but now I've fixed that! Here it is alongside some fittingly crude imagery: vilejelly.bandcamp.com/track/this-b...
This Bargain No Longer Works, by Vile Jelly
track by Vile Jelly
vilejelly.bandcamp.com
Just discovered the graph heatmap plugin for obsidian. I've been searching for something that could do exactly this for a long time. Its beautiful. Want to make your thoughts look like a virus, a volcano, synapses flickering like the northern lights? community.obsidian.md/plugins/grap... #obsidian
Ubisoft Barcelona goes on strike. The company wants to layoff 51 #ACResynced developers after game success. 🏴 No to ERE (redundancies) in Ubisoft Barcelona!
Develop was a good time, lovely blend of familiar and new faces.
this week's text is about AI art + hallucinating a horse in Palazzo Te thewhitepube.co.uk/texts/2026/p...
Palazzo Te
I'm finally writing about AI are you all happy with yourselves
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And here's some still screenshots cause the video compression is garbagio here.
