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❓Teacher/mentor/producer. All sorts.
❗️Game design/game dev/filming
🏛️IGDA, Game Dev Union, We In Games

Anything/goes 🏳️‍🌈
This is how I find out that Robert Redford died??

Bloody hell..
We lost a beautiful man.

AFAIK, no controversies, no creepy behaviour, no antivaxx, not a racist bastard. (yeah, the bar is low 😔)
Just wonderful performances & a smile that would melt you.

May the soil be soft for you, Robert. ✌️
Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough
September 17, 2025 at 5:27 AM
These seats in a bus look like a 90s texture, before bump mapping or any of that fancy nonsense.

Nothing but simple optical illusions, just like god intended.

#textures #texturing #gamedev
September 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
One more #gamedev got hit.

#ABZU & #ThePathless are both stunning. Not personally familiar (yet!) with #SwordOfTheSea but based on the trailer, it’s just as gorgeous, with beautiful enviros, views & vistas.

Know someone looking for anything related to environments?
You know what to do.
I don't have the proper words to say more than this now but

I was just laid off. My role at Giant Squid is being eliminated.

If your studio is looking for an environment artist, please let me know ASAP. I have 5+ years of experience.

thank you
August 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Made some “fancy” noodles last night with an untranslated guide. Surely Google Translate would have my back, right?

Google Translate did not, in fact, have my back.

“Stir, stir, add dried water.”

“Separation of powdered powder and powdered powder.”

Truly words to live by.
August 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Ended up trying Forest Shuffle at a local Con (shoutout to #ropecon) & what a delightful game it is!

You get to create a forest!
With animals!
And plants & berries & moss, etc!

Such a feel good game.
Engine-building like Wingspan but a bit simpler & more animals.
And trees! Can’t forget the trees.
July 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Please tell me it’s not just me but this wear a mask-sign I ran into screams more “warning, cyborg ahead” than anything health related, right? Right?

I could be persuaded to see Hannibal Lecter as well, now that I think of it. 🤔
July 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
#IndieDevs in #Finland!
Finishing your first commercial #IndieGame?
New to the industry?

Now's your last week to apply for the IGDA Finland Grant!
💰 10k €
👩‍🏫 Mentorship (design, producing, code, art, writing, etc.)
📣 Visibility within the Finnish game ecosystem

Head to www.igda.fi/grant & apply!
June 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I saw this & I made one of my quickest & strongest double take in a while.

“Friendfarming”?
“Friendslop”?

Sir, we’ve reached levels of terminally online previously thought to be only theoretically possible. I’m afraid to push further because anything beyond this has never felt the touch of grass.
June 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Midsummer came & went, as it does every year.

I hope y’all had a wonderful nightless night, wherever you found yourself. 🙏

On these shores midsummer magic was stamped out a long time ago but on eves like these, it’s easy to see why they came to be.
The nightless night is full of whimsy & mystique.
June 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🎉I’ll always celebrate ppl getting their game out there (a Steam-page with a demo counts def counts)!

👏 Doubly so when it’s their first game!

🪐 Triple-y so when it’s a cool concept (4X space game with a great proc. generated world and surprising anomalies, events & planets is pretty slick)!
🚀 Astro Protocol is now on Steam!

We’ve just launched our announce trailer and a playable demo alongside the store page.

Wishlist & try the demo now:
store.steampowered.com/app/3727420/...

#indiedev #gamedev #godot
June 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
My local video game store (1 of the 2 still standing) is throwing a midnight launch party for the #switch2
Haven’t seen those in a while.

Now wondering
-Am I too old for this?
-Should I take Friday off?

..would younger me be disappointed that I’m even wondering this instead of just doing it? 🤔
May 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Safe to say that Expedtion 33 has broken through when even my non-gaming, boomer dad reaches out to me to froth about the game. 🤔
May 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM
We’ve just become the Todd Howard’s of our own lives.

This and the Skyblivion and Skywind and Tamriel Rebuilt.
The people, not Bethesda, are rereleasing and remastering the Elder Scroll’s games.
Better hurry up and finish your Oblivion Remastered playthrough 👀

#pcgamer #pcgaming #morrowind #theelderscrolls #oblivion
April 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
This might be a daft question, but what genre is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33?

I don’t think “turn-based RPG” is really a genre, even if that’s what Wikipedia is calling it with a straight face.

Game genres don’t make a lot of sense and I reckon #JRPG is outdated. idk 🤷‍♀️

#clairobscur #expedition33
April 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
More Remedyverse?
More Federal Bureau of Control?

Yea please!
We're so excited to be a part of the FIRST EVER @galaxiesshow.bsky.social on Thursday, just 24 hours from now!

Tune in at 9pm CEST (other time zones available) for a new trailer for FBC: Firebreak, our upcoming paranatural pandemonium, cooperative chaos game.

See you in chat! #FBCFirebreak
April 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Don’t wanna flex but I met this dapper lil’ gent today.
Eino is his name & today is his 9th birthday!

Look at his lil’ booties!
He has them bc his paws are a bit sensitive. 🥹
He was so hyper it was real hard to get a good shot but I think it only adds to the pic, showing the true nature of Eino.
April 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
@remapradio.bsky.social

Yo, this might be a whack question but how does the question bucket work these days?

Is it still to send an email with the topic of “QUESTION” and then praying for any & all gods that it gets picked?
April 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Bada bastu!

Let’s goooo 🇸🇪!
Never been more proud of Sweden than tonight:
Choosing a Finnish band to rep Sweden in #Eurovision. ✌️

The wound Sweden inflicted in the 2023 Eurovision may finally start healing. <3

Fun fact:
In the past 25 years there’s been only 2 acts in Swedish, both by Finns. :D
March 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I’m watching Breaking Bad for the first time (yea yea yea) & I gotta say, great storytelling, compelling characters & delightful cinematography.
Enjoying season 3.

BUT!
I always thought people exaggerated the Mexico-filter but goddamn..! Someone turned the colour correction to straight up lemon. 🍋
March 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
White strawberries?
Has science gone too far? 🤔

That look like
-they’ve had all the juice sucked out of them?
-someone thought “you know what, strawberries _are_ too spicy” & then made an affront to nature.

Made me question this whole “let’s form a civilisation, what’s the worst that can happen?”
March 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Following @pantmonger.bsky.social & @cerberusxt.bsky.social got me into figure painting again.

Been 20+ years since I’ve painted but it was so fun!
Need better glasses tho. :D

Tried painting highlights from a light source for the first time & while it isn’t great (but decent-ish!) I learned heaps.
February 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Repost with the first album you bought with your own money.

Michael Jackson’s Dangerous as a preused cassette. Good times.

The first brand new album with my own money was Offspring’s Americana.
I sang along a *lot*. My parents must’ve loved it.

Yea, I (thought I) was a pretty fly for a white guy.
February 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Need some opinions.
Specifically game devs and game designers but all opinions are welcome. ✌️

We had a looooong discussion at work about jigsaw puzzles.

1️⃣ Are they board games?
2️⃣ Are they games at all?

We’re kinda at a standstill. Need some outside opinions to bring peace to our slack. 🙏
February 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Backed this bad boy earlier today & now it’s on my feed bc of ppl here sharing it?

Coincidence? I think not!
It’s the Kickstarter illumati!
Ooor it’s likeminded ppl interested in similar things?
Who’s really to say? 🤷‍♀️

A nice, easy way to find new, not just AAA, games to play?
Yes pleeease. 🙏
KICKSTARTER IS LIVE! Let's make game discovery work again.

😍Dating app that matches you with games rather than people.
🃏Deck-builder that discerns your next favourite game.
🎓Get recommendations from experts you know and trust.

Share and back to make this real:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud...
February 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Didn't realise I can play Jacob Geller in Saros.

A spiritual successor to Returnal was all I needed to hear.
I was already in, baby.
Seeing the face of Geller?
More than hyped!

Housemarque, are you making this game just for me?
Because I'm here for it. 🙏🏼

@jacobgeller.com
@silliet.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM