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Zack Bogucki 🎮🎧
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🔊 Senior Sound Designer - PlayStation Studios 🎮 Making sure the THWIPs sound THWIPPY and the SNIKTs sound SNIKTY 👁‍🗨 Opinions are my own 🔸️He/Him
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Zack Bogucki 🎮🎧 @zbogucki.bsky.social · Nov 26
Introducing...
theunwellkingdom.com ‼️

I've put together a website to document this passion project, a fully homebrew set of Magic cards. Now you can finally browse them all in one place, along with devlog posts that go further in-depth into design, playtesting, and lore!
The homepage of The Unwell Kingdom, a website showcasing D&D-inspired cards in the style of Magic: the Gathering. The site's title rests over art of a gloomy cliffside castle, and several cards are cut off at the bottom of the image.
zbogucki.bsky.social
"Copy my homework, but don't make it obvious", feat. the YouTube AI summary on @bmkibler.bsky.social's latest:
A screenshot of the video description of Brian Kibler's video, "Thoughts on Commander and Hybrid Mana," followed by an automated AI summary with near identical wording. The actual description reads, "Kibler shares his (more passionate than he realized before he started filming) thoughts on recent topics in Commander, most notably the proposed change to the hybrid mana rule..." By comparison, the AI summary reads "Brian Kibler passionately discusses proposed Commander rule changes, particularly regarding hybrid mana. The video explores the impact on deckbuilding and the philosophy behind the..."
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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umby.bsky.social
Plato would have loved bullet time
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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ivysly.com
for the record: I develop games for people who play games to have fun
November 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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santiagomayer.com
Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.

Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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ananthhirsh.bsky.social
we did it babes.... we're the opposite of cooked. what is that. we're ingredients
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
zbogucki.bsky.social
Doing a bit of dungeon crawling today... So sick to see my buddy @uppermindink.bsky.social's art in physical form, alongside a bunch of other sick artists! 🗡️💀🎴
Traumatarium Deckulus, a solitaire dungeon crawler using cards and dice. I managed to defeat the boss! A close-up of some of the cards, including a nasty lil harpy illustrated by Juston McKee. A close-up of the deck itself, alongside the Boss card, illustrated by Alexey Gorboot.
November 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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pillarshine.bsky.social
Best there is
#Xmen #Xmenfanart
October 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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audiogre.bsky.social
Our lead sound designer, Josh Lord, and I are giving a talk at #GameSoundCon this year about the audio system improvements we crafted for Ghost of Yōtei. I'm really excited about this talk and am so proud of these systems that the team built.
bradleymeyer.com/wp-core/2025...
Ghost of Yōtei talk at GameSoundCon 2025
Our lead sound designer, Josh Lord, and I are giving a talk at GameSoundCon this year about some of the audio system improvements we crafted for Ghost of Yōtei
bradleymeyer.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
zbogucki.bsky.social
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to run a public playtest of my custom MtG set for the first time ever! Click through to read the devlog about lessons learned and the decks everyone built:
theunwellkingdom.com/irl-2-the-un...
A thumbnail for the devlog article. It reads "October 2025, Sealed Playtest" A photo of the deckbuilding phase of this playtest. Everyone opened their packs and brewed up decks on a spooky billiards table, before heading back to the main room to play. A photo of the players slinging cards at the event. There were two tables reserved for The Unwell Kingdom, but the event itself had a really great turnout of folks playing their own commander games! Lighting at the venue was.... less than ideal. Here's a pic of a combo one player was delighted to find!
October 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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jackmenhorn.bsky.social
“it shouldnt affect Audio”
impavid.us 🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · Oct 9
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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ultrabrilliant.xyz
The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."
A model of the first level from Mario 64. A model of a snowy level from Mario 64.
October 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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uppermindink.bsky.social
🔥𝓓𝓻𝓪𝓰𝓸𝓷 𝓚𝓷𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽🔥

There is a keep, deep in the mountains, rumored to be protected by fierce warriors that wear dragon wings like armor. Some say they’re dragons in human form, but no one has ever gotten close enough to find out if the rumors hold true.
A knight with a pointy metal hat/face guard, draped in red dragon wings, holding an axe with fire at its top, and a small drake on its paldron. Stands on multicolored rocks, as flames ignite at his feet. Deep shadows contrast the vibrant reds in this dark fantasy inspired character design.
September 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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wendyxu.bsky.social
a spider can fly on a current of air
hornet drifting over clover and grasses
September 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
zbogucki.bsky.social
BETTER GET READY, BUBS!
I don't talk about work much on here, but you better believe we're hard at work making this sound unforgettable. I'm lucky to say Insomniac has entrusted me with hero combat SFX, and this game is gonna have plenty of combat! 🔥
youtu.be/s3pDMUWlA6I
Marvel’s Wolverine - Gameplay Trailer | PS5 Games
YouTube video by PlayStation
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September 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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bynine.bsky.social
dark type drowzee/hypno from greece inspired by kallikantzaros (dex entries in alt text!)
#pokemon #fakemon
Drowzee with dark grey skin and a fuzzy beige lower section. A single yellow eye is open. It looks mischevious. --- At night, it invades people's houses and makes scary noises to give them nightmares to feed on. They nest in large groups underground during the day. Dark grey Hypno with a fuzzy beige lower section and mane. Rather than a pendulum, each of its palms has a red and yellow eye. --- They lurk in caves, only emerging during full moons. They use the eyes on their hands to put their prey in a trance-like state and feast on their terrified imagination.
September 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
zbogucki.bsky.social
Always blown away by the vibrancy of @dirtcupart.bsky.social's art in The Chromatic Fantasy!! (just got my copy of Fugue #2 in the mail!)

The color choices are bold and unexpected, the linework is lively and delightful, and the characters are so so endearing.

Big recommend.
Roux, a precious tortoiseshell cat, gives a nonchalant glance toward The Chromatic Fantasy: Fugue #2, by H.A
September 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
zbogucki.bsky.social
Elemental Art Share feat. WATER. If you see this post something watery!
An underwater view of a sailor diving toward three beckoning sirens. The digital illustration features real watercolors for the background sunbeam and foreground kelp.
September 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
zbogucki.bsky.social
Work on The Unwell Kingdom has been slow but steady, with lots of balance tweaks in the past few months. We had a special playtest this month, featuring a mix of new and old players throwing down with some pre-con decks!

Read all the details here: theunwellkingdom.com/patch-notes-...
A thumbnail graphic watermarked with the Unwell Kingdom sigil. It reads: "August 2025 Patch Notes"
August 31, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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sweetjustice.audio
We’re looking for a Junior Sound Editor to join our Linear Cinematics and Marketing team. This is a unique early-career role built around growth, mentorship, and hands-on training, purely creative.
August 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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denshattack.bsky.social
Flip, trick & grind through a vibrant Japanese dystopia in Denshattack! Outsmart rival crews, crush a shady megacorp, and reclaim the rails with pure skill, speed & style. 🚅✨

🎮 Wishlist now: fireshinegames.co.uk/Denshattack/
August 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
zbogucki.bsky.social
Weapons was too much for lil ol me
August 9, 2025 at 6:51 AM
zbogucki.bsky.social
Love sharing laughs (and turns) with my bois 🎴✨
uppermindink.bsky.social ✎𝕵𝖚𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖓⚔️✨ @uppermindink.bsky.social · Aug 9
IT’S MAGIC NIGHT, BABYYY! ⚔️🔮✨

Here’s a little comic celebrating one of my favorite hobbies: Magic the Gathering! We’ve been meeting once a week to play for the past 4 years and it’s been a blast.

Shoutout to my wizard gang: @zenmonkie.bsky.social, @zbogucki.bsky.social, & @thesaltysun.bsky.social!
August 9, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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edzitron.com
I got interviewed by KNPR, the local Vegas NPR affiliate, and they put the interview in their Desert Companion magazine. I'll post the web version when it's out
I’LL NEVER FORGIVE THEM’ Vegas-based tech observer Ed Zitron on the empty hype of AI, clueless tech lords, and what he thinks of Las Vegas By Lissa Townsend Rodgers have heard about artificial intelligence and how it’s In 2025, even those who can barely operate a cell phone going to shape the future. But while many are excited about the promise, tech journalist and podcaster Ed Zitron is suspicious of the hype. “All of these companies are claiming that large language models, OpenAI, ChatGPT, and the like, is the next big thing,” he says. “The problem is, the actual efficacy, the actual abilities of these programs, have been the same for about two years now. These companies keep growing, their stock valuations keep going up. But it’s not coming from any AI sales.” Born in England, Zitron attended college in Pennsylvania and settled in Las Vegas, where he founded a public relations company. In 2020, he began the “Where’s Your Ed At” news- letter, a caustic, clever examination of the ways we’re failed by the tech that’s supposed to improve our lives. Last year, he began the award-winning Better Offline podcast, which has featured guests from former FTC chair Lina Khan to MIT economist Daron Acemoglu to comedian Andy Richter. Zitron spoke to Desert Companion about the AI bubble, the business idiot, and the honesty of Las Vegas. Here’s an edited version of that conversation. What were your early experiences with technology? I was the dumbest kid in private school and did not have friends. So tech really was my lifeline. ... I was fascinated by the fact that you could connect with people all over the world, that you could play games with them. I was actually a games journalist at 16, one of the first people to cover online gaming, MMORPGs like World of Warcraft, in England. Yeah, tech was a big part of my childhood. Is that why you’re so vexed by what’s happening to technology? It’s personal? Absolutely. I hate these bastards. I’ll never forgive them for what they’ve done… complete nonsense. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, claimed that 50 percent of white-collar jobs will be gone in the next one to five years. Complete nonsense based on nothing. … The AI bubble is a hysterical event where these com- panies pretend — and straight-up lie — about what their products can do in the hopes that they can keep boosting their stock valuations. So, you’ve got all of these compa- nies, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and the like, spending hundreds of billions of dollars in capital expen- ditures to build these massive data centers and filling them full of these GPUs sold by one company, Nvidia. But no one’s making any money. In fact, these things are extremely unprofitable. OpenAI in 2024 spent $9 billion to lose $5 billion. Imagine if you or I did that. Would we be able to get more money out of the bank? Of course not. So how are they getting away with it? I have this grander theory called the business idiot. I believe our economy and the large structures behind it, the people in power, are completely disconnected from any kind of production or understanding of their customers. Not just MBAs, also the middle managers that you hate — the people that don’t seem to do anything, but always seem busy. They’re like the people inside the cave that Plato talked about. They see the shadows: “Oh, AI’s big now!” And I think you’re seeing a war between the business idiots and those of us who actually do the work. I’ve heard so many stories about bosses telling people to use AI. Why don’t the bosses use it, if AI is so good? Because it doesn’t work. The main paradigm all of this is built on is large language models. They are probabilistic, which means that they generate the next thing based on how likely it’s the right one. So if you ask it for an image of a cat, these things don’t have con- sciousness. It says, “I’ve been asked for a picture of a cat; based on my training data, this is the thing that approximates cat.” And it’s pretty good at guessing, but it d…
July 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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perpetualraine.bsky.social
Hello! My studio (Wildflower Interactive) had a large layoff today, including myself and others. I am a game designer with 10 years in the industry across every aspect of the discipline: levels, systems, gameplay, puzzles and quests. If anyone knows a lead on an open positon, please send it my way!
July 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM