Jane Ng
@janeng.com
Director of Operations @ Gardens 🌳. Used to build game worlds and now building a game studio. Prev on Half-Life: Alyx (Valve), Firewatch (Campo Santo). Etc. Immigrant. She/her. Opinions are mine.
🐱 http://www.janeng.com
🌳 http://www.gardens.dev
🐱 http://www.janeng.com
🌳 http://www.gardens.dev
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Jane Ng
@janeng.com
· Nov 19
Hello! I've been a #gamedev for 20+ yrs. I was a Environment Artist for much of it but now I am the Operations Director at @gardens.dev. Prev I was Visual Director at Possibility Space, and worked on various cool stuff like Alyx at Valve. I'm probably most known for my env art work on Firewatch.
A gorgeous winter sunset in Seattle today
December 31, 2025 at 12:29 AM
A gorgeous winter sunset in Seattle today
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went to the austin kinokuniya and the store manager sure is Going Through Some Shit.
also man bro should not be running a bookstore bro should become an artist
also man bro should not be running a bookstore bro should become an artist
December 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
went to the austin kinokuniya and the store manager sure is Going Through Some Shit.
also man bro should not be running a bookstore bro should become an artist
also man bro should not be running a bookstore bro should become an artist
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Akihiro Miwa perfects Moro's laugh in the recording sessions for Princess Mononoke
From: How Princess Mononoke Was Born (1998), dir. Toshiro Uratani, Buena Vista Home Entertainment
From: How Princess Mononoke Was Born (1998), dir. Toshiro Uratani, Buena Vista Home Entertainment
December 30, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Akihiro Miwa perfects Moro's laugh in the recording sessions for Princess Mononoke
From: How Princess Mononoke Was Born (1998), dir. Toshiro Uratani, Buena Vista Home Entertainment
From: How Princess Mononoke Was Born (1998), dir. Toshiro Uratani, Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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Show me what you can do with just a pen!
December 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Show me what you can do with just a pen!
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"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
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This photosynthetic magic trick allows for the big finale: some sacoglossan sea slugs can detach their own heads from their body (which contains the gut!) & live on photosynthesis for a few weeks while the body regrows from the head!
The body, unfortunately, cannot grow a new head.
The body, unfortunately, cannot grow a new head.
This Sea Slug Can Chop Off Its Head and Grow an Entire New Body--Twice
It is one of the “most extreme” examples of regeneration ever seen
www.scientificamerican.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This photosynthetic magic trick allows for the big finale: some sacoglossan sea slugs can detach their own heads from their body (which contains the gut!) & live on photosynthesis for a few weeks while the body regrows from the head!
The body, unfortunately, cannot grow a new head.
The body, unfortunately, cannot grow a new head.
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I sketch almost exclusively in ballpoint pen nowadays, and it's still my medium of choice for plein air studies:
December 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I sketch almost exclusively in ballpoint pen nowadays, and it's still my medium of choice for plein air studies:
Why try to cook any special dinners for Christmas when your kiddo wants plain spaghetti like not even with butter on it and afterwards go “YUMM!!!”
December 26, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Why try to cook any special dinners for Christmas when your kiddo wants plain spaghetti like not even with butter on it and afterwards go “YUMM!!!”
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"people can still download your art from bsky and feed it into AI" if gamer behavior has taught me anything, just one extra button press is more than enough to annoy a MASSIVE amount of people into not making the effort
December 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"people can still download your art from bsky and feed it into AI" if gamer behavior has taught me anything, just one extra button press is more than enough to annoy a MASSIVE amount of people into not making the effort
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looking for a last minute gift at williams sonoma
December 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
looking for a last minute gift at williams sonoma
The best Christmas gift is being left alone to pop this bubble wrap that came with my kids’ gifts ALL BY MYSELF because the kids are distracted by said gifts
December 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The best Christmas gift is being left alone to pop this bubble wrap that came with my kids’ gifts ALL BY MYSELF because the kids are distracted by said gifts
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this stupid menu does absolutely fuck all. useless.
December 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
this stupid menu does absolutely fuck all. useless.
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The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks
December 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks
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Today is the last day you can apply to our GDC scholarship! 📝
Our goal is to improve access to in-person opportunities and provide valuable experiences for anyone trying to advance their careers in the game industry.
www.gamedevsofcolor.org/scholarship
Our goal is to improve access to in-person opportunities and provide valuable experiences for anyone trying to advance their careers in the game industry.
www.gamedevsofcolor.org/scholarship
December 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Today is the last day you can apply to our GDC scholarship! 📝
Our goal is to improve access to in-person opportunities and provide valuable experiences for anyone trying to advance their careers in the game industry.
www.gamedevsofcolor.org/scholarship
Our goal is to improve access to in-person opportunities and provide valuable experiences for anyone trying to advance their careers in the game industry.
www.gamedevsofcolor.org/scholarship
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
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Obviously, this is amazing BUT the thing I love most, is that it's directly poking fun at the desire/fetish to overanimate overlapping action & smears.
Asking someone of James Baxter's calibre to *intentionally* do this (as well as mess up the spacing on a bounce) is funny in the nerdiest way.
Asking someone of James Baxter's calibre to *intentionally* do this (as well as mess up the spacing on a bounce) is funny in the nerdiest way.
James Baxter’s 2D animation in ‘The Wonderfully Weird World Of Gumball’ new episode.
December 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Obviously, this is amazing BUT the thing I love most, is that it's directly poking fun at the desire/fetish to overanimate overlapping action & smears.
Asking someone of James Baxter's calibre to *intentionally* do this (as well as mess up the spacing on a bounce) is funny in the nerdiest way.
Asking someone of James Baxter's calibre to *intentionally* do this (as well as mess up the spacing on a bounce) is funny in the nerdiest way.
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Smol water sausage
December 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Smol water sausage
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quest item ass cat
December 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
quest item ass cat
OMFG I love Princess Maker
what do you mean "the near-complete source code to Princess Maker 1 and 2 was quietly uploaded to GitHub a few months ago and nobody noticed"
github.com/ritsuro/Prin...
github.com/ritsuro/Prin...
github.com/ritsuro/Prin...
github.com/ritsuro/Prin...
GitHub - ritsuro/PrincessMaker2xPC9801
Contribute to ritsuro/PrincessMaker2xPC9801 development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
OMFG I love Princess Maker
An expresso martini feels like the right kind of drink at 3:45p right? I also need coffee!
December 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
An expresso martini feels like the right kind of drink at 3:45p right? I also need coffee!
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Indie Dev discovers the game they're making basically already exists, worried of being deemed a ripoff. Original dev responds.
December 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Indie Dev discovers the game they're making basically already exists, worried of being deemed a ripoff. Original dev responds.
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For our Playdate game based on Firewatch, we wanted some collectible Forrest Byrnes posters with a creepy and threatening 60s-70s Smokey Bear aura. Scaring kids into not starting fires.
So I made these.
So I made these.
December 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
For our Playdate game based on Firewatch, we wanted some collectible Forrest Byrnes posters with a creepy and threatening 60s-70s Smokey Bear aura. Scaring kids into not starting fires.
So I made these.
So I made these.
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This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default.
And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
Anyone who supports this is an embarrassment. "Instead of typing it out they'll generate their idea"? Are you insane?
Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.
Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.
December 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default.
And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
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Zootopia 2 is the highest grossing Hollywood movie of the year & Kpop Demon Hunters was Netflix's most popular movie of all time, but fuck animators, am I right? I hate reading about how huge & beloved this stuff is while knowing how hard creators have it & how it still isn't broadly taken seriously
December 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Zootopia 2 is the highest grossing Hollywood movie of the year & Kpop Demon Hunters was Netflix's most popular movie of all time, but fuck animators, am I right? I hate reading about how huge & beloved this stuff is while knowing how hard creators have it & how it still isn't broadly taken seriously