Basic Cable Cody
@basiccable.games
// Senior Hard Surface Specialist @ Bungie
// Founder @ Basic Cable Games
// UE Game Dev Generalist
// (Un)professional hot sauce critic
// Founder @ Basic Cable Games
// UE Game Dev Generalist
// (Un)professional hot sauce critic
The feeling you get when you finally remove the last use case of the Unreal Engine mannequins is a profound one. You've been real good to me, Manny & Quinn.
November 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The feeling you get when you finally remove the last use case of the Unreal Engine mannequins is a profound one. You've been real good to me, Manny & Quinn.
I tried my hand at making okonomiyaki for lunch today. 👏🏼✨ Not perfect, but it was delicious all the same.
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I tried my hand at making okonomiyaki for lunch today. 👏🏼✨ Not perfect, but it was delicious all the same.
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Doing some more work with Basic Cable Games on their chef character
I'm excited to get to this point because I'm FINALLY working on the stylized shading for this, and I can already see a ton of ways to improve and push it towards looking like their concept art
I'm excited to get to this point because I'm FINALLY working on the stylized shading for this, and I can already see a ton of ways to improve and push it towards looking like their concept art
November 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Doing some more work with Basic Cable Games on their chef character
I'm excited to get to this point because I'm FINALLY working on the stylized shading for this, and I can already see a ton of ways to improve and push it towards looking like their concept art
I'm excited to get to this point because I'm FINALLY working on the stylized shading for this, and I can already see a ton of ways to improve and push it towards looking like their concept art
It's Halloween. Here's some WIP violence. 🎃🔪 Soul Food will have Doom-style "glory kills" during combat.
October 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It's Halloween. Here's some WIP violence. 🎃🔪 Soul Food will have Doom-style "glory kills" during combat.
To be clear, I do not fuck with 95% of GenAI for all the reasons most artists don't. But saying there's *no* place for it seems misguided. The day there's a good AI driven UV tool, mocap cleanup tool, or anything that removes the tedium from making 3D art and animations.. I'm interested.
October 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
To be clear, I do not fuck with 95% of GenAI for all the reasons most artists don't. But saying there's *no* place for it seems misguided. The day there's a good AI driven UV tool, mocap cleanup tool, or anything that removes the tedium from making 3D art and animations.. I'm interested.
Not out here to try and necessarily defend Embark here, but if you're curious - here's the tech blog they put out in 2020 referencing their internal "scan from video tool"
medium.com/embarkstudio...
medium.com/embarkstudio...
October 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Not out here to try and necessarily defend Embark here, but if you're curious - here's the tech blog they put out in 2020 referencing their internal "scan from video tool"
medium.com/embarkstudio...
medium.com/embarkstudio...
We're switching to lightmaps
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.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 13, 2025 at 4:57 AM
We're switching to lightmaps
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Working on a blockout of the main character for Basic Cable Games on their upcoming izakaya-chef-battling-monsters game, Soul Food!
I knew the pants especially were going to present some sculpting difficulties, so I used a @render-ready.com scan of real chef pants as my starting point
I knew the pants especially were going to present some sculpting difficulties, so I used a @render-ready.com scan of real chef pants as my starting point
October 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Working on a blockout of the main character for Basic Cable Games on their upcoming izakaya-chef-battling-monsters game, Soul Food!
I knew the pants especially were going to present some sculpting difficulties, so I used a @render-ready.com scan of real chef pants as my starting point
I knew the pants especially were going to present some sculpting difficulties, so I used a @render-ready.com scan of real chef pants as my starting point
Now that I'm actively working on a dual-wielding combat system.. I now understand why it's so rarely done anymore.
Good lord.
Good lord.
a black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie with his eyes closed
ALT: a black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie with his eyes closed
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September 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Now that I'm actively working on a dual-wielding combat system.. I now understand why it's so rarely done anymore.
Good lord.
Good lord.
Get in the poly-soup workflow.
MeshBlend is finally here! 🥳
So proud to finally release what I've been working on for 16 months!
MeshBlend brings next generation blending to Unreal. Easy to use, fast and great quality!
Available on Fab for #UE5 now!
#gamedev #unrealengine
So proud to finally release what I've been working on for 16 months!
MeshBlend brings next generation blending to Unreal. Easy to use, fast and great quality!
Available on Fab for #UE5 now!
#gamedev #unrealengine
August 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Get in the poly-soup workflow.
I've been waiting *so long* for this 💙
lights 💡 camera 📸 grand larceny 💰
plan the perfect heist one photo at a time in Snap & Grab, coming to PC, Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 in 2026
https://bit.ly/SnapAndGrab
plan the perfect heist one photo at a time in Snap & Grab, coming to PC, Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 in 2026
https://bit.ly/SnapAndGrab
June 7, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I've been waiting *so long* for this 💙
This is probably a lukewarm take but Andor has the best costuming in sci-fi tv history and it's not even close.
Every drip tells a story. I know exactly where I am in the universe just by looking at the clothing.
Every drip tells a story. I know exactly where I am in the universe just by looking at the clothing.
June 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is probably a lukewarm take but Andor has the best costuming in sci-fi tv history and it's not even close.
Every drip tells a story. I know exactly where I am in the universe just by looking at the clothing.
Every drip tells a story. I know exactly where I am in the universe just by looking at the clothing.
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Sure yeah that stylization is sick but is it *scalable?*
Didn't think so.
Didn't think so.
May 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Sure yeah that stylization is sick but is it *scalable?*
Didn't think so.
Didn't think so.
Hey, your headphones are still on and your music/video stopped playing. You probably didn't notice because of the overwhelming amount of stuff going on in our lives. Just lookin' out for you, fam. Turn it back on and turn it up.
May 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Hey, your headphones are still on and your music/video stopped playing. You probably didn't notice because of the overwhelming amount of stuff going on in our lives. Just lookin' out for you, fam. Turn it back on and turn it up.
I worked in ExDev for over a decade as a vendor in game art. Now that I work on the first-party side of the same coin, let me tell you: the stigma that people have for outsourcing runs DEEP. Even as a US based artist, at a US based vendor, we were constantly relegated to "special thanks" at BEST.
Food for thought. External QA, animators, voice actors, and musicians deserve to be part of the narrative of game makers.
No, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 wasn't "made" by 30 people
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's credits are a lot bigger than "30 developers".
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April 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I worked in ExDev for over a decade as a vendor in game art. Now that I work on the first-party side of the same coin, let me tell you: the stigma that people have for outsourcing runs DEEP. Even as a US based artist, at a US based vendor, we were constantly relegated to "special thanks" at BEST.
Paul was an enormous inspiration for me in my early artist days and I constantly measured myself against him. Incredibly ahead of his time and a true taste maker. I was devastated when we lost him and I still think about him and his work all the time.
I hope you're resting in peace, Paul.
I hope you're resting in peace, Paul.
I am really missing Paul (Pepera) today.
Today is the 8th year since he left and I've had him on my mind all day. Paul was a bonafide trend setter, an actual legend; my muse for many years. And he was a true friend.
There's not a time that passes where I don't wonder about him.
Today is the 8th year since he left and I've had him on my mind all day. Paul was a bonafide trend setter, an actual legend; my muse for many years. And he was a true friend.
There's not a time that passes where I don't wonder about him.
March 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Paul was an enormous inspiration for me in my early artist days and I constantly measured myself against him. Incredibly ahead of his time and a true taste maker. I was devastated when we lost him and I still think about him and his work all the time.
I hope you're resting in peace, Paul.
I hope you're resting in peace, Paul.
related: how can i downvote a bluesky post because i don't want to just block them i need passive aggressive way to let them know what they said was dumb
March 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
related: how can i downvote a bluesky post because i don't want to just block them i need passive aggressive way to let them know what they said was dumb
I don't know why the idea of someone just.. talking to an AI/LLM for hours as a way to learn the nuances of anything fills me with dread. Everything I've learned about game development, music, skating, or any of my other countless interests has always come from engaging with that community.
March 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I don't know why the idea of someone just.. talking to an AI/LLM for hours as a way to learn the nuances of anything fills me with dread. Everything I've learned about game development, music, skating, or any of my other countless interests has always come from engaging with that community.
the validation i needed. deep down in my Sicilian ancestry, i've always known.
March 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
the validation i needed. deep down in my Sicilian ancestry, i've always known.
I do not hear often enough how fucking *diabolical* Klarna, or any BNPL company, is.
This is so fucking bleak
DoorDash and Klarna have signed a deal where customers can choose to pay for food deliveries in interest-free installments or deferred options aligned with payday schedules.
March 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I do not hear often enough how fucking *diabolical* Klarna, or any BNPL company, is.
Thinking about that EA + Dr. Pepper cross-promotion from 2010 for no particular reason at all.
Now you are too. 🖤
Now you are too. 🖤
March 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Thinking about that EA + Dr. Pepper cross-promotion from 2010 for no particular reason at all.
Now you are too. 🖤
Now you are too. 🖤
Just in case ya'll didn't know that there's definitely designers that still have that Splinter Cell fish tank living rent free in their minds.
cool little thing i did on Weird West ages ago: these water tanks, which fill up with water when it rains, leak when you shoot 'em. the water level goes down to the lowest bullethole. when rain fills it up again, it only fills to there, then leaks again
March 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Just in case ya'll didn't know that there's definitely designers that still have that Splinter Cell fish tank living rent free in their minds.
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When someone asks me what I do in tech art.
a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a sign that says the work is mysterious
Alt: a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a sign that says the work is mysterious
media.tenor.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
When someone asks me what I do in tech art.