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Jay (Pockets)
@jaylewisartist.bsky.social
42 followers 110 following 86 posts
He/Him, Artist/Writer, Númenórean.
Designer for film & stage, Gamedev, Kiwi
Community Mod for BHVR Interactive - Blight: Survival
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jaylewisartist.bsky.social
Horses is so tame that all of the nudity is censored.

Its worst crime is being weird and uncomfortable. It's not even graphic outside of the general themes present.

The time I spent watching my friend spitefully play it over Discord was spent laughing hysterically at the close up chewing scenes.
aftermath.site Aftermath @aftermath.site · 2d
Despite the controversy, Horses is only shocking if you're unfamiliar with the history movies, theater, literature, or basically any art form that does not have stats. aftermath.site/horses-indie-g...
Horses Is Tame
Horses, the indie game that is too scandalous for either Valve or Epic, is only beyond the pale if you're not familiar with any other art form.
aftermath.site
December 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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adwills.bsky.social
writers artists

🤝

getting our best work
🤝 done at 2am 🤝

🤝

criminals santa claus
March 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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cosmicsoupgames.com
Someone commented on our YouTube channel just a single word: "hacklatro". We didn't set out with Balatro as a goalpost when we were deciding what game to make. We just thought it would be interesting to see what it would be like to layer new gameplay mechanics onto Go Fish! #indiegame #indiedev
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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sssvvv.bsky.social
recent work, let's see how the video compression on here treats it😂
December 17, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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thecreepingmoon.bsky.social
Desecrated Grounds

Acrylic on panel (original sold)
A painting on wood cut in the shape of a cathedral panel. The painting depicts a mausoleum in a dark swampy forest. The mausoleum is surrounded by lit candles, with a pile of small bones at the entrance. The door is slightly cracked open.
November 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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letitmelo.bsky.social
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.
Ethan Evans, former Amazon VP As VP of Prime Gaming at Amazon, we failed multiple times to disrupt the game platform Steam. We were at least 250x bigger, and we tried everything. But ultimately, Goliath lost. Here's why: The 15+ year long attempt to challenge Steam started before I was VP of Prime Gaming, but we never cracked the code. Not under my leadership or anyone else's. The first way we tried to enter the online-game-store market was through acquisition. We acquired Reflexive Entertainment (a small PC game store) and tried to scale it. It went nowhere. Then, after buying Twitch, we created our own PC games store. Our assumption was that gamers would naturally buy from us because they were already using Twitch. Wrong. Finally, we built "Luna," a game streaming service that let people play without a high-end PC. Around the same time, Google tried the same thing with their product "Stadia." Neither gained significant traction. The whole time, Steam dominated despite being a relatively small company (compared to Amazon and Google). The mistake was that we underestimated what made consumers use Steam It was a store, a social network, a library, and a trophy case all in one. And it worked well. At Amazon, we assumed that size and visibility would be enough to attract customers, but we underestimated the power of existing user habits We never validated our core assumptions before investing heavily in solutions. The truth is that gamers already had the solution to their problems and they weren't going to switch platforms just because a new one was available We needed to build something dramatically better, but we failed to do so. And we needed to validate our assumptions about our customers before starting to build. But we never really did that either. Just because you are big enough to build something doesn't mean people will use it
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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malicedafirenze.bsky.social
Good News folks, you CAN now in fact, play this

The free demo for Legend of Khiimori is now available on Steam for everyone. Check it out, give it a try, tell a friend. Show everyone how much you want horse games 💪❤
Screenshot from the game The Legend of Khiimori, showing a horse and rider on a steppe landscape Screenshot of The Legend of Khiimori in a Steam library. It has a "Demo" tag on the top left
October 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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zeobun.bsky.social
There is a brave knight within u ⚔️
A brave mole knight is standing on a molehill, sword and shield in hand. He is framed by a gothic stone frame and in the back, you can see a landscape reminiscent of the rennessance portraits. Underneath, on a piece of paper it says, "There is a brave knight within you", with a painting of a small sword below.
March 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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rajandelman.bsky.social
The bees have discovered Brutalism
killhamster.bsky.social Satanic Manic @killhamster.bsky.social · Sep 28
Nature is healing
September 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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mudnblood.bsky.social
6 more characters
September 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
jaylewisartist.bsky.social
There's still more I want to do on this piece but for now it's done. Here are some better looks at each archway
September 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
jaylewisartist.bsky.social
Arches of the Web - The three realms from a novel I've been toying with for a couple of years.

#art #dnd #fantasy #worldbuilding
September 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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franekk.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 4:44 AM
jaylewisartist.bsky.social
Realms WIP

#art #workinprogress
#fantasyart #noai
September 17, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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yumingart.bsky.social
Resolve
September 13, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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hannahartwork.bsky.social
Hollow Knight costume design
A digital illustration of a figure wearing a long, tatty grey cloak over black plated armour. Based on the Knight in the game, Hollow Knight.
September 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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rascal.news
A Rascal sister site has launched: @roguesite.bsky.social

Former-Polygon writers have gotten together to launch a worker-owned video game journalism outlet (with a little rascally help).

If you mourned the loss of one site, celebrate the birth of another, and support the people making it happen.
Rogue joins the worker-owned journalism crew
Congratulations, it's a website!
www.rascal.news
September 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
jaylewisartist.bsky.social
Aryleth of Wyss, Mythmyra, Lady Light

#noai #fantasyart #dndart #dnd #darkfantasy #darkfantasyart
August 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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cosmicsoupgames.com
We've been working at zhuzhing up some of our UI animation, here's a WIP look at our new hacking boot up animation! What do you think? #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev
July 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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blightsurvival.bhvr.com
Exploring in Blight: Survival isn’t just about the wilderness. Dark, creepy interiors and tight corridors bring a different kind of atmosphere, here’s a first look!
An armored figure holding a torch stands in a dimly lit dungeon corridor, featuring medieval architecture, rubble, and an eerie fog. Promotional image for 'Blight: Survival,' labeled as in development and subject to change.
June 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
jaylewisartist.bsky.social
Little work in progress environment inspired by another Syd Mead artwork. Excited to get this finished, textured and lit like the artwork!
June 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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rachellense.bsky.social
I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖
A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
June 14, 2024 at 2:19 AM
jaylewisartist.bsky.social
Yikes
antire.al N² @antire.al · May 15
the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017.

@bungie.net @marathonthegame.bungie.net
May 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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martyfive.bsky.social
two swords

#MayThe4thBeWithYou
a heavypaint star wars fanart of luke skywalker and darth vader but i made both of them medieval knights. luke is on his knees in full armor with his face to us, leaning on his sword clutching the handle with his right hand in glove. there’s a green stone under his sword’s guard. he’s mostly hidden in shadow with a white spotlight falling onto half of his face and the upper part of the armor. the iris of the eye on the side of the face that’s hidden in shadow is red. there’s a crack on his breastplate, from his heart up towards his head. darth vader is just a red silhouette behind luke. his helmet is intact, but it’s fractured (it was also really easy to turn it into a medieval one). he’s standing in profile, hands in gloves on the handle of his sword with a red stone under the guard.
May 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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devonrubinart.bsky.social
my wonderful friend @falconnights.bsky.social commissioned me to draw her d&d character in that iconic Jinx pose 💕😌 we love Valicia in this house. support womens wrongs
a young half drow woman wearing a decorated gambeson and red skirt is slumped slightly in a large chair, she looks somewhat disheveled and has blood splatters on her.
May 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM