ari velazquez 🌯
@arivelazquez.com
technical designer @sleightofhand.game ◦ pronounced airy ◦ he/him ◦ american gameboy in australia ◦ prev: coreborn, sims 4, dawngate ◦ fka roxaloxa
https://arivelazquez.com ◦ https://clumsywords.blog ◦ discord: roxaloxa
https://arivelazquez.com ◦ https://clumsywords.blog ◦ discord: roxaloxa
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ari velazquez 🌯
@arivelazquez.com
· Oct 18
life's been in the way of shareable work but here's the last thing i was jamming on: recreating Ys Origin in unreal so i can use it as a mechanical base for making my own game on top of it. would really love to come back to this
#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #unrealengine5
#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #unrealengine5
hi new folk, i'm ari! 10 years in gamedev on shit you haven't heard of and one you definitely have, nowadays i'm a technical designer mainly in unreal and doing contract work and a hundred side projects.
one of my fave side things:
one of my fave side things:
somehow only just today saw this performance for the first time and now i want “mark hoppus sings the hits (feat. ben folds)”
December 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
somehow only just today saw this performance for the first time and now i want “mark hoppus sings the hits (feat. ben folds)”
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true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability
December 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability
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while holding my phone i thought i saw my phone light up on the table so i looked over. at the table. while holding my phone. thinking my phone lit up on the table.
December 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
while holding my phone i thought i saw my phone light up on the table so i looked over. at the table. while holding my phone. thinking my phone lit up on the table.
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Playing Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter really makes me want a Wild Arms game that looks like this
December 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Playing Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter really makes me want a Wild Arms game that looks like this
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I’m from Whoville, and I say kill the Grinch!
December 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I’m from Whoville, and I say kill the Grinch!
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The new preface to this great and depressing scholarly book gets into the explosion of sports betting and “prediction markets” since 2012’s 1st edition, plus well-meaning games-for-change types trying to harness dark patterns for good. Everyone within 30 feet of gamedev should read it.
December 26, 2025 at 5:28 AM
The new preface to this great and depressing scholarly book gets into the explosion of sports betting and “prediction markets” since 2012’s 1st edition, plus well-meaning games-for-change types trying to harness dark patterns for good. Everyone within 30 feet of gamedev should read it.
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A frustrated Pedro Pascal asking Neil Druckmann, who was directing Pascal in a Last of Us episode, “do you like art?”
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
A frustrated Pedro Pascal asking Neil Druckmann, who was directing Pascal in a Last of Us episode, “do you like art?”
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BEAUTIFUL WOMAN NEXT TO ME ON PLANE: that music you’re listening to at max volume in your headphones sounds really interesting, what is it?
ME: heh, it’s called “Infinity Rage” and it’s from Hajimari no Kiseki, but you might know it as Trails into Reverie
HER: wow
ME: heh, it’s called “Infinity Rage” and it’s from Hajimari no Kiseki, but you might know it as Trails into Reverie
HER: wow
December 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
BEAUTIFUL WOMAN NEXT TO ME ON PLANE: that music you’re listening to at max volume in your headphones sounds really interesting, what is it?
ME: heh, it’s called “Infinity Rage” and it’s from Hajimari no Kiseki, but you might know it as Trails into Reverie
HER: wow
ME: heh, it’s called “Infinity Rage” and it’s from Hajimari no Kiseki, but you might know it as Trails into Reverie
HER: wow
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probably the funniest missing skybox texture i saw while compiling qbj3
December 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
probably the funniest missing skybox texture i saw while compiling qbj3
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this is deeply ghoulish, but it would also have been possible pre-AI - you could equally lie to elderly relatives using photoshop. the issue isn't just gen AI as a technology but the marketing and cultural trends around bypassing death, AI's universal applicability, deprioritising truth etc
The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
December 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
this is deeply ghoulish, but it would also have been possible pre-AI - you could equally lie to elderly relatives using photoshop. the issue isn't just gen AI as a technology but the marketing and cultural trends around bypassing death, AI's universal applicability, deprioritising truth etc
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Love these shots that make Pee Wee's Big Adventure look like the coolest 70s paranoid mystery
December 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Love these shots that make Pee Wee's Big Adventure look like the coolest 70s paranoid mystery
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twitter: new update, every time you post, elon musk is literally going to break into your house and shit directly into your mouth
users: that sucks but….i mean i HAVE to stay on there…..
users: that sucks but….i mean i HAVE to stay on there…..
December 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
twitter: new update, every time you post, elon musk is literally going to break into your house and shit directly into your mouth
users: that sucks but….i mean i HAVE to stay on there…..
users: that sucks but….i mean i HAVE to stay on there…..
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saying fun things at christmas such as "i would love to see a tech ceo hanged in my lifetime"
December 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
saying fun things at christmas such as "i would love to see a tech ceo hanged in my lifetime"
samus is married to cortana, master chief’s momwife. it’s not that complicated
Saw child the youngest (6yo) re-arranging ornaments on the tree to put these two together "because they're MARRIED".
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
samus is married to cortana, master chief’s momwife. it’s not that complicated
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I will be there every time.
I am thused and slightly nurished.
I am thused and slightly nurished.
December 24, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I will be there every time.
I am thused and slightly nurished.
I am thused and slightly nurished.
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did you know? did you know? pc gamer's immersive sim of the year is on sale until the 6th of january and it is my wholly unbiased opinion that you should play it
store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...
store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...
December 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
did you know? did you know? pc gamer's immersive sim of the year is on sale until the 6th of january and it is my wholly unbiased opinion that you should play it
store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...
store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...
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Just saying, but our Layton-inspired daily puzzles (and all the narrative and art) were created by actual humans. 👀
We're still running our preview at the moment, so you have to solve a puzzle to get in.
thinkygames.com/dailies/
We're still running our preview at the moment, so you have to solve a puzzle to get in.
thinkygames.com/dailies/
December 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Just saying, but our Layton-inspired daily puzzles (and all the narrative and art) were created by actual humans. 👀
We're still running our preview at the moment, so you have to solve a puzzle to get in.
thinkygames.com/dailies/
We're still running our preview at the moment, so you have to solve a puzzle to get in.
thinkygames.com/dailies/
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AAA video game character going to the toilet: "I'll take these stairs." "Ah, there it is, the bathroom." "Better open the door." "The door's open, nice." "Gonna pull my trousers down now." "Sitting down." "Okay, here we go." "I needed that." "Okay, time to fl
December 23, 2025 at 10:26 AM
AAA video game character going to the toilet: "I'll take these stairs." "Ah, there it is, the bathroom." "Better open the door." "The door's open, nice." "Gonna pull my trousers down now." "Sitting down." "Okay, here we go." "I needed that." "Okay, time to fl