Gavin Young
@gavinyoung.bsky.social
Programming Project Lead - currently on sabbatical
Scottish immigrant, novice cook, maker of puns
he/him
Scottish immigrant, novice cook, maker of puns
he/him
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Gavin Young
@gavinyoung.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Hi new followers! Guess I'll introduce myself 😅
I'm Gavin: currently Project Programming Lead on R6 Mobile at Ubi Montréal. I've also worked on 5 Assassin's Creed titles across gameplay, AI, and mission systems. Before all that I helped develop Blur, which no one played, but I'm proud of!
I'm Gavin: currently Project Programming Lead on R6 Mobile at Ubi Montréal. I've also worked on 5 Assassin's Creed titles across gameplay, AI, and mission systems. Before all that I helped develop Blur, which no one played, but I'm proud of!
I used my Steam Deck almost every day and have been waiting for Valve to get back into gaming hardware. My Quest 2 has been collecting dust for years and I can't wait to get back into VR.
Just...don't destroy my Canadian wallet? 🤞
Just...don't destroy my Canadian wallet? 🤞
Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026:
Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame.
Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame.
Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
Steam Hardware
The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.
steampowered.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I used my Steam Deck almost every day and have been waiting for Valve to get back into gaming hardware. My Quest 2 has been collecting dust for years and I can't wait to get back into VR.
Just...don't destroy my Canadian wallet? 🤞
Just...don't destroy my Canadian wallet? 🤞
Fuuuuuuuuck
Steam Frame
VR and non-VR gaming
store.steampowered.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Fuuuuuuuuck
No part of me believes this can possibly be real
Introducing iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone
ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket, designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items.
www.apple.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
No part of me believes this can possibly be real
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*pointing at screen while the MGS2 scene when the ex president of the US is wearing a robot octopous suit and surfing a harrier flown by a vampire man plays and whispering to my date* Same thing happened to a buddy of mine
October 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
*pointing at screen while the MGS2 scene when the ex president of the US is wearing a robot octopous suit and surfing a harrier flown by a vampire man plays and whispering to my date* Same thing happened to a buddy of mine
He's taxing billionaires to fund the extremely costly Stargate program, which I think we can all agree is better late than never.
November 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
He's taxing billionaires to fund the extremely costly Stargate program, which I think we can all agree is better late than never.
"Don't panic yet, investors say, as high-flying AI stocks tumble"
These grifters also told you to keep holding on to your apes.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
These grifters also told you to keep holding on to your apes.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
November 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
"Don't panic yet, investors say, as high-flying AI stocks tumble"
These grifters also told you to keep holding on to your apes.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
These grifters also told you to keep holding on to your apes.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Reposted by Gavin Young
It’s time for this starship to take flight - Generation Exile has launched in Steam Early Access and is available right now!
store.steampowered.com/app/2963240/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2963240/...
November 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It’s time for this starship to take flight - Generation Exile has launched in Steam Early Access and is available right now!
store.steampowered.com/app/2963240/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2963240/...
Lot of people I know and respect quoted in this piece for @gamedevelopers.bsky.social . Something I appreciate among the doom and gloom is also recognising when I have seen leaders in game dev chart paths around these traps. Great leaders help everyone around them do more with less.
How poor leadership slows down game development
No tool—AI or otherwise—can speed up game development if leaders don't rise to the occasion.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Lot of people I know and respect quoted in this piece for @gamedevelopers.bsky.social . Something I appreciate among the doom and gloom is also recognising when I have seen leaders in game dev chart paths around these traps. Great leaders help everyone around them do more with less.
Very excited for A Profound Waste of Time: Issue 6! I hadn't realised I had missed Issues 4 & 5, so really appreciate @cazwis.bsky.social and the team offering a bundle of this second "trilogy" of the magazine
www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz...
A Profound Waste of Time: Issue 6
The beloved gaming mag returns, with Astro Bot's Nicolas Doucet, Danganronpa's Kazutaka Kodaka, Team Ninja's Fumihiko Yasuda and more!
www.kickstarter.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Very excited for A Profound Waste of Time: Issue 6! I hadn't realised I had missed Issues 4 & 5, so really appreciate @cazwis.bsky.social and the team offering a bundle of this second "trilogy" of the magazine
www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz...
Can't recommend enough listening to the first season of Blowback, especially for non-Americans, to understood just how cruel and evil Cheney was,
It’s truly tragic how many of these US war criminals like Cheney never face justice and die in their peacefully in their homes in their 80s and 90s. I want to be happy he is dead but I am not. The million people he killed didnt get the luxury to die how he did.
November 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Can't recommend enough listening to the first season of Blowback, especially for non-Americans, to understood just how cruel and evil Cheney was,
ditto for someone's code, writing, music etc
"brilliant assholes" cost you so many great contributions from other people and are never ever worth it.
"brilliant assholes" cost you so many great contributions from other people and are never ever worth it.
I truly can't stress this enough: No one's art is good enough to justify them being miserable to work with. Almost everyone I've worked with has been wonderful, but the handful of folks that weren't brought the whole team down by being egotistical, sexist, condescending, etc.
November 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
ditto for someone's code, writing, music etc
"brilliant assholes" cost you so many great contributions from other people and are never ever worth it.
"brilliant assholes" cost you so many great contributions from other people and are never ever worth it.
Delighted to see the team have added this reward for players who link their accounts in R6 Mobile 💪
Link your Ubisoft Connect Account to Rainbow Six Mobile to Get a Special Reward
Starting next season with Operation Riptide, get a special reward when linking your Ubisoft Connect account to R6M.
www.ubisoft.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Delighted to see the team have added this reward for players who link their accounts in R6 Mobile 💪
Reposted by Gavin Young
Locked in with @arimelber.bsky.social.
November 4, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Locked in with @arimelber.bsky.social.
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Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
November 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
Proudly cast votes for @transitionmontreal.bsky.social in our municipal elections 🤞
November 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Proudly cast votes for @transitionmontreal.bsky.social in our municipal elections 🤞
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Someone needs to keep that woman away from space
November 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Someone needs to keep that woman away from space
A thing I do every couple of years is get a cold and catch up on Doctor Who. Don't hate it, but it's very silly
October 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
A thing I do every couple of years is get a cold and catch up on Doctor Who. Don't hate it, but it's very silly
Hot take but maybe firing thousands of software engineers, producers and testers and "replacing" them with AI wasn't such a great idea. These corporations have made their beds, and these DNS problems are lurking beneath them.
October 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Hot take but maybe firing thousands of software engineers, producers and testers and "replacing" them with AI wasn't such a great idea. These corporations have made their beds, and these DNS problems are lurking beneath them.
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Hey folks! I hope ya’ll are well! Just a lil reminder that if you like my art (or Echo) you can support me on Ko-Fi as I look for work and try to get back on my feet. All money goes to paying bills. If you’re not in a position to help, sharing means a lot 💙 Thank you! ko-fi.com/belgianboolean
October 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Hey folks! I hope ya’ll are well! Just a lil reminder that if you like my art (or Echo) you can support me on Ko-Fi as I look for work and try to get back on my feet. All money goes to paying bills. If you’re not in a position to help, sharing means a lot 💙 Thank you! ko-fi.com/belgianboolean
Stop putting people in charge of your Games division who don`t know the first thing about the games market and the people who play them.
I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.
October 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Stop putting people in charge of your Games division who don`t know the first thing about the games market and the people who play them.
Something I've noticed with a lot of Steam Next Fest demos is how unpolished the FTUE is: pop-ups that overlap, default volume at a crazy high level, not having any on-screen instructions when you first take control of your character, main menus without a clear "click this to start" button...
October 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Something I've noticed with a lot of Steam Next Fest demos is how unpolished the FTUE is: pop-ups that overlap, default volume at a crazy high level, not having any on-screen instructions when you first take control of your character, main menus without a clear "click this to start" button...
Another thread of #SteamNextFest demos I enjoyed (yes, I'm getting to them after the event finished...):
October 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Another thread of #SteamNextFest demos I enjoyed (yes, I'm getting to them after the event finished...):
Just let us dry up three of the great lakes bro I promise AI will actually produce something any day now.
Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
October 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Just let us dry up three of the great lakes bro I promise AI will actually produce something any day now.
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the only time in my memory make some noise as been won with two words
October 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
the only time in my memory make some noise as been won with two words
11 members of the same family murdered by Israel. Of course if a Palestinian picks up a stone they'll be accused of breaking the ceasefire 🙄
Eleven killed after Israel hits bus in Gaza, Hamas-run civil defence says
The Israeli military said it had fired at a "suspicious vehicle" it said had crossed the line demarcating the area occupied by its forces.
www.bbc.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
11 members of the same family murdered by Israel. Of course if a Palestinian picks up a stone they'll be accused of breaking the ceasefire 🙄